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There are a number of online companies where you can post software projects you want coded and freelance workers from around the world will bid the price of the project down to the minimum level they will do it for. You can get software made very quickly and cheaply using these services. If you have had a project in mind for awhile now but have not had the time or money to get it done check out these sources and see how easily you can bring your project to life.

1) E-Lance

2) Rent A Coder

3) Script Lance

4) FX-Web Solution

Google has recently announced a new contest/program called 10^100 were they are looking to invest millions of dollars in ideas that have the potential to change the world..for the better. Basically if you have a great idea but no way to implement it you can enter it into the contest. People will vote on which ideas they like the best and the final winners will be determined by a panel of Google employees.
There are a number of different categories ideas can fall under.

Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures?
Opportunity: How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families?
Energy: How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy?
Environment: How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem?
Health: How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives?
Education: How can we help more people get more access to better education?
Shelter: How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live?
Everything else: Sometimes the best ideas don’t fit into any category at all.

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The New York Times ran an article From Snapshots, a 3-D View that looked at Microsofts latest photo software called Photosynth. The Photosynth software is available now as a free download from Microsofts live labs program. Bascially what the Photosynth software does is stitch together severl dozen or several thousands photos of something and creates a 3D model that you can zoom in and out of and rotate 360′. There are many great applications for the software and it provides a much more interactive feel to photos. 

The more photos you take of your target (from all angles, and all zooms) the more detailed the Photosynth image will be. Some of the photosynth photos are so detailed you feel like your viewing a proffesional 3D mock up. Its an amazing peice of software and the price is definitly right.

I rad about an interesting new software that translates instant messaging conversations in real time. You type in your native language and SpeakLike will translate it into whatever language the person your speaking to uses and vise versa. I am not sure if it will work very well, I have not had a chance to try it out yet first hand. Its a great concept, all the software needs to do to be successful is work better then Bable Fish currently does.

The service claims to use cutting edge machine translation combined with human translation to provide real time translation. I don’t see how it can be real time with a human assisting in the translation, but maybe there translators are really fast. Each translated message will cost .10 cents so its not something you want to use casually while chatting with 12 people simultaneously like you did in high school.

When I first read about SpaceTime’s 3D web browser I was a little skeptical and until I have had a decent trial period I am still cautionary, but it looks like one of the first decent attempts at advancing traditional web browsing. The easiest way to describe SpaceTime’s 3D web browser is by pointing out the parallels to the iPod Touch interface. Similar to the way you can flip through album covers the 3D browser takes a snap shot of its search results and displays them as pictures. You can even zoom in or zoom out on a web page.

I still have not gotten to see how much this graphic intense web browser will slow down my computer, but the idea sounds like it has some great possibilities. For one I will be able to judge a site without opening it, so unless I am really digging for obscure information I wont need to click on any sites with a sloppy experience, although I might miss a few gemes in judging sites by their covers I think in the long run avoiding tacky sites that look like their full of spam will save everyone time.

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