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Book Clubs launches in Facebook

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The world’s largest social network is home to millions of avid readers, many of whom are discovering the advantages of online book groups. Book Clubs, a new social media application on Facebook, offers proof that the era of online reading groups has arrived.

Launched in late 2008, Book Clubs features more than 6,000 book lovers and several hundred online book groups, both public and private in nature. Book Clubs makes it easy for Facebook members to instantly create or join a reading group devoted to any category, region, interest or author. The application is free to any Facebook member.

In Book Clubs you can post comments about a book or author, rate or review books, build or search a library of titles, entirely at your convenience. If you choose, you can arrange meetings in person, too, and use book clubs as a place to chat or post club news between meetings.

Originally posted on April 19, 2009 @ 10:37 am

Lunchtaker.com launches to promote healthy eating

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Knight Rose Productions has launched Lunchtaker.com, a site dedicated to helping promote healthy eating. Lunchtaker offers hundreds of ideas for healthy lunch foods, which registered users can combine into their own lunch combinations. In addition to suggested lunch combinations, the site contains an innovative lunch food “lottery” that provides users with entertaining random combinations. It also contains articles and discussion groups to help users connect with each other and share their ideas about healthful eating.

Lunchtaker can help people get more creative in planning their lunches, for themselves or for their school-age children. You can register for free, and then create and save different lunch combinations. The community will grow over time, too, as registered users can add their own lunch items to the site and opt to share them with other users.

Originally posted on April 23, 2009 @ 9:20 am

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TheDailyPuppy.com application now available on iPhone

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TheDailyPuppy.com is releasing an application for the iPhone that delivers users their daily fix of puppies with the touch of a button.

The Daily Puppy application, available for $.99, features a new puppy every day, fully stocked with their biography and picture. The application enables users to add favorite puppies to their library, as well as share puppies with friends and family via email and Facebook. Users can also browse by past featured pups and grown up dogs, and even shake the device to view a new random puppy.

The Daily Puppy Application also serves as gateway to the unique website where users can access articles on everything from how to train your puppy to how to treat tapeworms. Additionally, users can view instructional puppy videos on house breaking, training and grooming, or participate in forum discussions with other dog owners.

Originally posted on April 22, 2009 @ 11:30 am

GVdialer releases app for Google Voice

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15MobileMax has launched the GVdialer, the first mobile application for Google Voice supporting iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian mobile phones.

The new GVdialer application enables users to make calls using their Google Voice account directly from their mobile phone’s native contacts, call log and keypad.

Users can download the application to their mobile phones from the GVdialer.com or from the iTunes app store.

Originally posted on April 14, 2009 @ 11:13 am

Generation Cures launches first online game-a-thon for pediatric research

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Children’s Hospital Boston’s Generation Cures movement, (www.generationcures.kid.org), where kids change the world through fun and games, launched the country’s first “Game for Good” game-a-thon. The groundbreaking two-month competition lets tweens use their gaming powers for good to fuel the discovery of cures and treatments for serious childhood diseases.

As more and more kids turn to the Web to make a difference, the Generation Cures “Game for Good/Make it Better” Challenge puts tweens in the giving driver’s seat. Just like they do in traditional fundraising initiatives like walk-a-thons, kids raise money by securing sponsors to reward their efforts in support of a good cause. However, with the game-a-thon model, kids can change the world right from their own homes as adult sponsors support their progress in an educational-adventure game on the Generation Cures site. While they have fun and learn, tweens are making a big difference for peers who are facing serious health issues.

Kids can enter the Generation Cures Game for Good challenge by registering for free on the Generation Cures site. Once registered, kids can reach out to parents, relatives and family friends, asking them to sponsor their game play by making a “Game for Good” pledge of any dollar amount.

Originally posted on April 21, 2009 @ 8:24 am