Ajay Shroff

Yourteamonline.ca is a Saint John, New Brunswick based startup that is building an online sports team social network and creating a lot of buzz within the minor sports community. The website currently focuses on hockey but will be launching soccer in the next few weeks. YourTeam Online, which launched in November 2006, allows coaches and teammates to share game plans, schedules, statistics, photos, videos and information with each other in a central place. There are currently 300 + teams using the website, consisting of coaches, players and parents.

YourTeam Online provides teams with web tools to assist in the following key areas:

* Communication
* Fund raising
* Self Improvement
* And Having Fun!

Anybody who has coached, managed or played on a sports team knows how much work is involved. Managing team rosters, stats, raising money, communication and event schedules is a time consuming chore. YourTeam Online aims to simplify the management of the various aspects of running any sort of team by providing an online destination, a social network tool of sorts for amateur sports.

YourTeam Online is completely free and always will be for coaches, parents and players. Revenue is generated by providing targeted sponsorship space to both local and national organizations and charging an activation fee for teams who want to use the fund raising component for their team website.

The entire YourTeam Online team is extremely excited to improve the daily YourTeam Online experience while preserving the reliability and functionality that its users have grown to know and love. In other words, YourTeam Online will only get better.

The next step ahead for YourTeam Online includes a wide array of improvements. We will be ramping up more enhanced features for customization for each team and working on all the great feedback that was provided by our users.

We’re looking forward to a very bright future here at YourTeam Online, and we couldn’t have made it here without our incredible community.

Chris Nadeau is a Guest Writer at The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Technology – Find out more about YourTeam Online at www.yourteamonline.ca or at www.yourteamonline.ca/blog. More on Chris at www.evolvingsolutions.ca and www.evolvingsolutions.ca/blog

The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of
Wikipedia which will intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on Intellipedia.

This is currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17.

Intelligence officials hope that Intellipedia might help avoid errors of the kind that led to the widely criticized 2002 national intelligence estimate that said Saddam Hussein possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Last year, my blog had an entry on how the internet is making us smarter and now its time to write about how the internet saves us from using our brain.

There are many websites online like http://customresearchpapers.us/, http://thepaperexperts.com/ and http://termpaperrelief.com/ that sell term papers for about $15 a page. There are many students who choose this path and there have been reports that most students get caught for plagarism because the papers they buy off these websites have been submitted and published before.

From Yahoo:

Some 37 percent of undergraduates admit to copying portions of their research papers from the Web, up from 10 percent in 1999, according to a 2006 poll of 60,000 U.S. college students by Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey. Three percent admitted to downloading and submitting entire papers and 77 percent of students did not consider copying material off the Internet to be a serious issue.

“It’s so prevalent, it’s so easy, it’s so anonymous,” said McCabe.

How would you fight this?

A consortium of major universities is developing software that would let the U.S. government monitor negative opinions of the United States inpublications overseas. The universities include Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Utah.

A $2.4 million grant from the Homeland Security Department will finance the research over three years. The researchers are using a database of articles published in 2001 and 2002 which will be used to train a computer to recognize, rank and interpret statements.

Claire T. Cardie, a professor of computer science at Cornell, said “The software would need to be able to distinguish between statements like this spaghetti is good – and this spaghetti is not very good – it’s excellent”.

Remember the time when you saw a movie, you liked it and you went out and bought the dvd? Well, nowadays there are so many versions coming out that you dont want to look silly buying a movie only to find out there is another newer (or older), better version that is out. For example, remember Sin City? Well, they released the movie on DVD in August and by September, they were advertising a Recut, Extended, Unrated version.

George Lucas (of Star Wars fame) released the original Star Wars Trilogy as a DVD set when he ………

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