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A web application aimed at translators and designed by a translator, featuring a translation editor, versioning and tagging, document management, dictionary management and social features. URL: Ebiwrite.

A fun way to share Flickr photos in real time. Invite your friends, search together, chat and comment all at once. [Limited beta] URL: Photophlow.

A free service which allows you to catalogue your favorite films. The service uses the Amazon.com database - while you browse Amazon DVD, you can easily add a film you are viewing to your collection of favorites. You can assign tags and comment on the entry. Your film collection is publicly available, and you can search your collection by tags, actors, directors and title. URL: FilmSuggestions.

A user-generated content site for travelers, by travelers. It allows you to keep track of your travels, share your trip photos, reviews, and blogs with friends and family, as well as research destinations before you book a trip. [Private alpha] URL: Driftr.

A web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, the site provides interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself. Costs $999.00 per kit. (Disclosure: 23andMe was a client of eHub founder, Emily Chang) URL: 23andMe.

A volunteer local tour guide exchange network that aims to connect people from all over the world. URL: Hi Everywhere!.

A free global messaging service allowing you to take your online social life where you go on your phone. You can send group messages, SMS, email, chat with your friends on IM (e.g. MSN) and post to blogs, photo-sharing accounts and social networks - all from your mobile phone. [Beta] URL: trutap.

A simple way to show a little appreciation to a friend on the microblogging service Twitter. URL: tweetgift.

A "conversation community" built around the U.S. 2008 elections that features community voting around user's political opinions, profiles to track user commentary and ratings, and more. URL: Why08.

Download pictures, music, videos, docs or any other file to your cellphone in three steps. 1) Upload your file 2) choose the compression settings and 3) Enter the mobile device number to send in an SMS/text message with the download link. URL: Beam it up Scotty.

A social network for architects and interior designers to find products and collaborate. URL: Designer Pages.

Track flight status, airport delays and other flight and airport information. URL: FlightStats.

Wake up to messages from your friends, family, or even your boss! Sleep.FM is the first social network that you'll wake up to. Creative individuals can record messages in their own voice, while the less creative, or those afraid of what their friends might say to wake them, can choose from pre-recorded sounds instead. If you're wondering about Sleep.FM's practical applications, check out the tear-jerking demo video by following the blog link. [In closed beta at the time of writing] URL: Sleep.FM.

An open source gallery that makes it easier than ever to try the latest and greatest versions of popular open source software. Install, play with the software, and uninstall when you are done. The stacks are pre-configured, self contained, and will not interfere with the rest of your system. [Beta-ish] URL: BitNami.

Travel is a necessary fact of life. We travel to visit far-away families and friends, or we travel for business. Most people, if you ask them, will say "We love to travel", but if you press further, they will admit that it's not exactly the act of traveling they love, but the end result - being away from home or escaping the stresses of their personal or professional lives. The romance of travel is often obscured by the stresses of hunting down the cheapest airfares, researching hotels, and looking for the best experiences while avoiding the tourist traps.

A social networking site devoted to alternative fuel sources, AlternativeEnergy.com has all the features you could want from a well designed niche community portal. The site boasts a clean unassuming design,easy navigation, and the ability to quickly customize your content. Aside from the usual community features like photos, videos, and groups, you'll find jobs, coaches, and even a list of recommended OpenSocial gadgets. URL: AlternativeEnergy.

It's a week before the Christmas holiday, you're tech-savvy enough to have ordered all your gifts online, but now you've got an email box full of package tracking numbers from a dozen companies and you need to know they'll reach their destinations in time. You need TrackThePack. Now you can go to one website to track packages from more than one shipping company. But, like the website says, TrackThePack is in beta, so be nice! URL: TrackThePack.

The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw using the left and right edges on the dashboard provided on their site then copy the generated code to your website. Its a great shortcut for wrapping header text around curvy logos. URL: CSS Text Wrapper.

"Mozilla and Last.fm cordially invite you to celebrate Creative Commons' 5th birthday at a community celebration.

Connects internet shoppers directly with independent designers, artists, and entrepreneurs. The goal is to make it super-easy to find (and buy) great products straight from the source. URL: Supermarket.

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Emily Chang is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of ideacodes.com, a web design consultancy in San Francisco. Emily writes about strategic design and web at her professional blog emilychang.com and is the creator of eHub, a popular resource list that focuses on next generation web applications. She also has an artblog at artcodes.com [This is Emily Chang's experimental SuprGlu page, pulling in feeds from her various sites and web activity.]

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