Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Gigablast, Open Site, Orgoo, UltraFractal, Wizlite...

Web 2.0 Sites:

• Open Site - Edited by volunteers, its content is freely available for everyone under the GNU Free Documentation License
• Gigablast - High-quality, relevant search results. Period.
• BBS Crawler Search Network - An alliance of Non-Profits who simply seek to make the web a better tool, using technology you're already familar with
• whos.among.us - Want to know who's on your site and where they came from, in real time?
• Orgoo - All your email accounts, all your IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and more, working together

Freeware Feature of the Week: Phantasmagoria - A fun, light-weight image editing application

Shareware Feature of the Week: UltraFractal - Create your own fractals, change the colors, add layers, use masks, and create animations

Wallpaper of the Week: Robot Rock by Kon

The Week in Geek News:

• Adobe adds video, multimedia in Acrobat update - Mercury News
• Apple, Microsoft Feud Over Safari, Internet Explorer Flaws - NewsFactor
• Jack Thompson Walks Out on Hearing - Console Patrol
• Microsoft Plans to 'fix' Its Online Branding - PC World
• Mozilla says Firefox 3.0 bug-free, launches RC2 - Computerworld

Flickr Image of the Week: by C Mariani

Top Blog Picks:

• Tech Observer
• Hand Me Down Recipes
• Grow Your Wiki
• What I See Out My Window
• Found Cameras and Orphaned Photos

Article of the Week: Why BitTorrent causes so much latency and how to fix it - Technology for Mortals

Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: Wizlite - Allows you to highlight text (like on real paper) on any page on the Internet and share it with everybody (or just your friends)

Art Site of the Week: GFXartist

The Weekly Widget: Cellblock - Enables instant multimedia publishing across websites, desktops and mobile devices (i.e., your cell phone)

Free Game of the Week: Slither - Link dots to form lines around the squares to complete a single loop. The numbered squares tell you how many lines must surround them.

Video of the Week: Big Buck Bunny

Geek Weekly: Love Firefox? You need to check out Learn Firefox, a complete site that offers visual guides to help you learn how to use, tweak, enhance and optimize Firefox to best suit your needs.