Sunday, June 6, 2010

Web Guide

On the internet, there are a lot of amazing web sites that we still don't know. Here are some interesting and useful ones:

bbc.co.uk
BBC (The British Broadcasting Company) is one of the most important broadcasting companies in the world. At bbc.co.uk, you can find news from all over the world, listen to BBC radio, watch TV programs, check the weather, and even learn other languages in the web site.

Sometimes, while surfing the internet, we get really bored. At StumbleUpon, you tell your age, and the topics you want, like science, or drawing, and then you'll get to a recommended web page. If you like it, you can click on an icon in the StumbleUpon toolbar. If you get tired of that web page, you click on the icon "stumbleupon" and you'll go to another one. It's really nice, and you can find many cool web pages.




YouTube is an online video communit, where people can send their videos and watch others. It has a search engine, so that you can find the video you're looking for. If you have an account, you can also save your favourites, post comments on people's videos and subscribe a channel, to receive information about the updates. 
Yahoo Answers is a website where people ask and answer questions about anything. You register for free at Yahoo, and then you participate in it.

maps.google.com
Google maps is web site that has a map with the roads all over the world. You can find addresses, find ways to get there from where you are, see photos of the streets you'll pass by and check if the traffic is good or not.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia with lots of files, written by its own public. You can get information about any topic, and also write about anything.

newseum.org
Newseum is a museum about the newspaper history, in Washington D.C., USA. At the web site, you can plan your visit, make a virtual tour, and check the front pages of newspapers from all over the world. There are more then 700 front pages from about 70 countries, including Brazil.


howstuffworks.com
At HowStuffWorks there lots of files that explain things. So if you have any doubt about how something works, it's the perfect web site.

livemocha.com
Livemocha is an interesting web site that helps you learning any language. You register for free, and the only information you have to give is your email, your country, the language you speak, and the one you want to learn. After that, you can enter a course, talk to people that speak the language you want to learn, do some exercises and even become a teacher and earn some money.

dominiopublico.gov.br
For free, at Dominio Publico, you can download books and songs provided by Brazil's government. You can also help them translating and typing the books they want to make available for everyone.

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