Google News enables stars to help users track breaking stories
If you read your news in feed form, you're likely familiar with Google Reader's "star" feature. You can click a star to save a story for later, and use your star list for quick reference. Google News has finally added something similar for those who read their news the old-fashioned way. Starring a story adds it to your "starred" menu, accessible via the sidebar, and causes any updates to appear ...
Care for a little celebrity time waster? Famousr has a database of over 8000 actors where you as the viewer are presented with two famous people and have to guess which one is viewed as the more popular star. Users are awarded points, given a title and can save and view high scores. The Famousr database has a unique calculation that determines a "fame rank" from combining statistics through ...





