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Blog Catalog has a new Social Stream Widget. I'm using it in the sidebar of this blog under, "My News Feed." It tracks my activity on 27 different social networking sites. Very Powerful.

Yahoo Answers for Creativity...and Answers

Sometimes I forget how valuable Q&A sites can be and specifically Yahoo Answers.

Visiting their site this morning, I noticed an interesting question under the Other - Business and Finance category, "How many uses can you think of for a Briefcase?" I thought it was a clever question, but there were only two answers - one was funny (use as a boss-bopper) and one was professionally valuable (camera installed).

I checked out the asker, tomisdabombsothere, and he had another even more clever question, "Who can think of 10+ uses for a banana?"

There were a total of 10 answers to this question, and overall they provided important medical information, food ideas, and a bit of humor.

The asker voted the following the Best Answer, by chakrinox:

1- Food
2- Hilarious Physical Comedy Gag
3- Marital Aid
4- Impromptu Self Defense
5- Banana Shakes
6- Bait in a monkey trap
7- The mouth in a fruit-face
8- Inspiration for a personal fragrance
9- Temporary prosthetic nose
10- Plugging an exhaust pipe

The Internet now has quite a few Q&A sites (some fee-based and some free) and their social networking systems have greatly improved. I'll try not to forget their potential value for providing quick, creative and useful answers.

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