Spkyed is a newly launched live stream, search engine site. Basically, when you enter a query on this search engine, it will aggregate mostly tweets posted by the Twitter users to the Twittersphere. As most of the results are in tweet form, but other user-submitted content that found on Digg, Google Blog Search, and Technorati will be generated whenever the content written is relevant to the keyword query.

In short, Spkyed is a search engine solely featuring user-submitted sites. Search results are displayed in a one-page long format. And the most recent result is ranking on top of the others so that you will be noticed of what is the latest thing or thought being written across the aforesaid sites. Frankly, Spkyed is not the best innovative search engine on the Web, with the simple design of the result page (only the heading of the results can be clickable), it might not get enough traction to go up as a mainstream service.

Want to learn new words everyday, check out Addictionary. In fact, all of the new words of Addictionary were all submitted by its users, like a Digg-like sites whereby newly listed words can be voted up and buried down by other users in the Addictionary community.

On Addictionary, you’ll find the so-called “The word of the day” and today’s word is hollydaze. With this “The word of the day,” it definitely gives you the best way you could learn a new word, or a new language everyday, if your mother tongue is not English. Part of the learning process, it also gives the Internet marketers or the domainers to spot the next hip name that could make them million of money if the word is excellent or worthwhile and they manage to grab the new word as the next multi-million domain name.

Honestly, I almost hate to see people that go to this Addictionary and not learning the new English word, but to snag the new English word as the next multi-million virtual real-estate, i.e. the domain name. I know I’m not the one who has thought of this, since the Addictionary’s word of today, i.e. hollydaze.com and hollydaze.net are registered after the word is listed on the site. Another example is Twitterbation, while I saw it on Addictionary five (5) days ago once it is submitted, this Twitterbation.com is available, but now it’s gone.

However, there is one of those rare instances when the word is submitted and it served as a typical example for others to learn a new English lesson. Neva Vu, as a new word submitted eight (8) days ago, supposedly to be the opposite word of Deja Vu, but I learned that the correct word is Jamais Vu from the comment submitted. However, be warned that this wrong word will be grabbed by a domainer who thought of this nevavu.com is much worth than the correct jamaisvu.com. Sigh!

I love programming very much. It’s rare in my country of birth because I did not own a computer science degree and yet a guy who isn’t think that programming is too hard. Maybe I should use the word “scripting” instead of programming because it will makes the word “scripting” sounds like an art and less imposing as well.

For those people who think scripting (programming) are too hard, or they’ve been bogged down when writing large scripts, Stack Overflow offered a fun way for one to look at this art. On the main page, Stack Overflow introduced itself as a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers – regardless of platform or language. And users will find most of the questions and answers related to scripting (programming), albeit that some questions are originally tend to be fun such as “What is the worst code you’ve ever written,” “When did you know it was time to leave your job,” “What is your funniest end user story,” etc. as perceived in my first glance.

Currently, there are 17,790 questions posted on the site, at the time of my writing. Most of them are related to the use of programming languages, and all questions are properly organized with the number of votes, answers, and views. Besides, all the essential content are classified logically so that when users are searching the questions based on newest, hot, week, month, or tags, they can select the tabs and questions will be appeared accordingly. Moreover, users are encouraged to sign-up for an account because this will allows them to edit anything, this include questions that posted to the site, in addition to collect karma, in the form of receiving badges.

In overall, Stack Overflow is a scripting (programming) Q&A Web site, however, this site has performed best at its most important job by providing valuable content with the user goals of wikis, blogs, forums, and Digg/Reddit.

Intel’s cool software platform, like any other Digg clone, the article submitted by registered user with the most votes will always be appeared on the main page. In evaluate how its offering can bring value to the software lovers, it does its founding mission. However, when I pay close attention to the community participation on the site, it still did not generate the same kind of buzz as generated by Digg, not to mention how this site will help Intel to find out “the next Google.” Perhaps all those so-called “the next Google” are still the small and lean ventures, and definitely not that easy be found by the ordinary Internet users, only private investors and venture capitalists will know how to access them in the first place.

This site is said was powered by Pligg, a famous open source content management system. When it is developed using an open source tool, I still curious how it cost around $40,000 to develop.

Update: This site has been closed down.