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“What is Zuda Comics? That’s a great question. The short answer is that it’s an all-new line of Web Comics. The longer answer is that Zuda Comics are whatever you make of them.” DC Comics

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Zuda Comics is DC Comics’ webcomics division. The creation of this division was announced in press release on July 9 2007 and the first line-up went live October 30th. Anyone can submit an eight screen sample and each month 10 of these are picked and put up for a vote. The monthly vote winners and up to six “instant winners” will each get a year’s contract to produce webcomics for Zuda.

High Moon author, David Gallaher, in an interview with Comics Worth Reading gave the following advice to future Zuda creators, “with only eight screens to tell your story, you need to be ready to be awesome right out of the gate. So, give it your all and make sure your submission is the best that you can make it. And whether you win or lose, you’ll already be in better shape than you were before you submitted, because you’ve cultivated an audience that you didn’t have before.”

Although creators were solicited for the first round of the competition due to the desire to have content available on the day of the site’s launch, the later competitors and Instant Winners were all chosen from user submitted comics.

Nipping at the heels of the big social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook is the social networking website HI5.com. Hi5 was one of the 25 most visited sites on the web in 2007. The company was founded in 2002 and as of December 2007, hi5.com had over 98 million members.

At hi5, users create a profile in order to show information such as interests, age and location. They can have user pictures where other users can post comments. hi5 also allows the user to create a photo albums and have a music player in the profile. Friend request are done via email. When a person receives a request, they may accept, decline or block the user altogether. If accepted, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person’s friend list and vice-versa. Some users opt to make their profiles available for everyone on hi5 to view. Other users exercise the option to make their profile viewable only to those people who are in their network. The network of friends consists of a user’s direct friends (1st degree), the friends of those direct friends (2nd degree) and the friends of the friends of direct friends (3rd degree).

Just like the big boys of social networking, HI5 has caused the creation of a many websites looking to cash in on the popularity of theirsite by offering free HI5 layouts and HI5 tools.

Official site hi5.com

The Tata Nano is a city car launched by India’s Tata Motors. The model was unveiled at the New Delhi Auto Expo on January 10, 2008 in New Delhi, India. The Nano is a 33 hp car with a 623 cc rear engine and rear wheel drive, and has a fuel economy of 51.7 mpg (US), 62 mpg (UK)) under city road conditions, and on highways 61.1 mpg (US), 73.3 mpg (UK)). It is the first time a two-cylinder gas engine will be used in a car with a single balancer shaft. Tata Motors has reportedly filed multiple patents related to the innovations in the design of Nano, with powertrain design alone having 34 patents. The head of Tata Motors’ Engineering Research Centre, Girish Wagh has been credited with being one of the brains behind Nano’s design

Tata Motors Official site with the Nano & Tata’s very popular Mini trucks.