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• Web site helps time mid-movie bathroom breaks http://bit.ly/1HTs #
• Ballmer Surprised by Market's Reaction to Microsoft http://bit.ly/3uskps #
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WashingtonWatch.com announced that it has collected and mapped over 7,000 congressional earmarks.

The website uses government predictions about the costs or savings from proposed laws to calculate the significance to average Americans of proposed changes to the nation’s policies.

A new university lecture-note exchange website is helping students nationwide improve their grades and earn money from their old lecture notes.

ShareNotes.com presents students from university and college campuses across the U.S. with the opportunity to share lecture notes and materials, in return for a percentage commission for each download and a variety of rewards for consistent use.

Most students take notes in class anyway, and by uploading them to ShareNotes.com, individuals can give back to the student community and help their peers with much-needed extra study resources.

Eye-Fi Inc. has unveiled Eye-Fi Geo card, a new wireless SD memory card exclusive to Apple that allows users to automatically upload photos from a digital camera to a computer and offers lifetime geotagging service.

The Eye-Fi Geo wirelessly uploads photos straight to a folder on your computer or Apple’s iPhoto gallery where they arrive automatically geotagged with location information about where the image was captured.

The 2GB Eye-Fi Geo card is available exclusively at Apple stores and Apple.com for $59.99.

Disaboom, Inc., the online resource for people with disabilities, has redesigned its DisaboomJobs.com website to position it towards providing more opportunities for job seekers with disabilities and employers.

The new site contains all of the features and functionality of a mainstream job board; provides employers a greater number of job-posting, featured employer and branding opportunities; provides tracking and reporting features that enhance a company’s ability to meet a variety of U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and other compliance requirements; allows job seekers to register and create their individual “personal profile” which contains a variety of robust features and applications; and enables website accessibility compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and other accessibility requirements.

• 12% of Americans Bought Virtual Goods in Past 12 Months http://bit.ly/196rVH #

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Cellufun is launching the world’s first mobile public service announcement campaign with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The campaign will feature free in-game advertising, as well as mobile donation opportunities in which users can donate money to the charities over their mobile phones.

By introducing the world’s first mobile PSA campaign, Cellufun hopes to raise awareness and secure donations from its users for worthwhile charitable endeavors. With a large user base, the company hopes to help non-profits reach a wider audience by bringing them into the mobile medium. The company plans to expand the first-ever mobile PSA campaign to include other charities in the near future.

A groundbreaking resource to help entrepreneurs in the U.K. is currently being supported by Google. Startup Donut combines the advice and experience of dozens of start-up experts and business advisers, and is set to have a positive impact on thousands of new start-ups.

Start Up Donut was developed in response to two a surge in the number of business start-ups in the UK, brought on by large numbers of redundancies and changes in the business climate. Demand for high quality, practical, free advice covering starting up and growing a small business is also a factor for the creation of this resource.

Entrepreneurs can use Start Up Donut absolutely free to access hundreds of pages of practical information and advice, videos and online tools designed especially to give quick, easy to understand help for business start-ups.