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What is Chain Reading?

Chain Reading is designed to cater to those of us who have an addiction to reading.

• Let people know what you are reading, planning on reading, and recommend.
• Suggest books to your friends.
• Browse books recommended by others.
• Write book reviews to share your opinions.
• Keep track of books that your friends suggest.

Chain Reading is completely free. If you do not have an account, you can create one.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google got into the website registry business as the Internet juggernaut set out to add momentum to its free online software offerings.

Google teamed with domain registry firms GoDaddy.com and eNom to create an application that enables people to claim their own .com, .net, .org, or .info realms for a cost of 10 dollars annually.

Google Apps for Your Domain was billed as a streamlined way for people to host Web addresses personalized with their names, hobbies, interests or pithy wordplay.

"Now you've got one-stop shopping ... just find a domain, buy it, and get started," Google software engineer Costin Manolache wrote in a company blog.

"We'll do all the behind-the-scenes configuration work for you."

GoDaddy and eNom are leading domain registration services in a packed market.

The alliance was part of Google's strategy of offering people free online use of software programs for writing, accounting, e-mail and more.

The approach, considered a "Web 2.0" trend, liberates people from having to buy, install and maintain software on their computers.

Google cashes in by selling online advertising targeted at those lured to the website by its host of free applications.

The next time you're at a party and somebody asks you how the BitTorrent protocol works, you could launch into an explanation about seeders, leechers and distributed systems. Or you could run to the nearest computer and fire up this Java applet which illustrates the concept perfectly.

As they say, a Java applet is worth 1000 words. If you still have their attention at the end of your demo, try this cool trick: once you have a full set of seeders, hit "+" to add another empty peer and marvel at the speed with which it fills up.