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 Google+ (https://plus.google.com) - Googles' latest response to Facebook, following their failed Wave product, with video chat (hangout).
-There are potential privacy with Google services as there are with most major search engines.  The IP address, search keywords and sites visited may all be tracked.  Alternatives such as Scroogle (http://www.scroogle.org & https://ssl.scroogle.org) leverage Google to yield search results that preserve privacy and without advertisements.  They do not pass through to external sites search times used and insulate the searcher from logging and local recording of search terms used.   Other search engines such as ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com/) formally assert the privacy of the search process.
+There are potential privacy with Google services as there are with most major search engines.  The IP address, search keywords and sites visited may all be tracked.  Alternatives such as Scroogle (http://www.scroogle.org & https://ssl.scroogle.org) leverage Google to yield search results that preserve privacy and without advertisements.  They do not pass through to external sites search times used and insulate the searcher from logging and local recording of search terms used.   Other search engines such as ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com/) attempt to protect the privacy of the search process.
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 **Standalone software**
   * Mozilla Thunderbird.  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html.  Mozilla Thunderbird supports an RSS feed.  Indeed most modern email clients now have an RSS reader built in. Mozilla Thunderbird is the most popular open source alternative to Microsoft's Outlook.
-  * Tweetdeck.  http://tweetdeck.com|Tweetdeck.  Tweetdeck is a program for organizing and posting to various social media services including Twitter (who now owns Tweetdeck), Facebook, FourSquare, LinkedIn and anything with a Twitter-compatible API (though they haven't integrated Google+ as of this writing). Software like this allows easier monitoring of hashtags and lists as well. It is available for desktop clients as well as mobile devices.
+  * Tweetdeck.  http://tweetdeck.com.  Tweetdeck is a program for organizing and posting to various social media services including Twitter (who now owns Tweetdeck), Facebook, FourSquare, LinkedIn and anything with a Twitter-compatible API (though they haven't integrated Google+ as of this writing). Software like this allows easier monitoring of hashtags and lists as well. It is available for desktop clients as well as mobile devices.
 **Wikis**
   * DokuWiki.  http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki - is a documentation-oriented Wiki tool with no database requirements - quite easy to install.
-  * MediaWiki. http://http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki|MediaWiki.  MediaWiki is similar to DocuWiki - oriented to news and RSS.
+  * MediaWiki. http://http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki.  MediaWiki is similar to DocuWiki - oriented to news and RSS.
 **Google Products**
   * Google Reader.  http://reader.google.com.  Google Reader is web-based RSS reader, with support for organizing and sharing individual articles and RSS feeds. It's useful for accessing RSS feeds away from the desktop.
   * Google Scholar. http://scholar.google.com.au/. Google Scholar indexes research articles, legal patents legal opinions and journals, providing a free vehicle for citation-based searching.
   * Google Books.  http://books.google.com/.  Google Books provides access to books, with reviews, cover art, related works, tag clouds of terms in the work, bibliographic information (including subject relationships) sample pages of scans, links to commercial providers of the work and "find in a library" - linking to WorldCat.
-  * Google Maps.  http://maps.Google.com|Google Maps.  Google Maps provides a search tool for not only location discovery but also for searching about places, people and things,  including an extensible API that allows integration with your own website.
+  * Google Maps.  http://maps.Google.com.  Google Maps provides a search tool for not only location discovery but also for searching about places, people and things,  including an extensible API that allows integration with your own website.
   * Google Blog.  http://blogsearch.google.com/.  Google Blog.  http://blogsearch.google.com/ - provides a search engine indexing blogs specifically.
   * Google News.  http://news.google.com.au/.  Google News provides a search engine and news feed from news sources around the world.
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 **Alternatives**
   * Scroogle.  http://www.scroogle.org.  Scroogle leverages Google to yield search results that preserve privacy and without advertisements.
-  * Ixquick.  http://ixquick.com/|ixquick.   This search engine has protections for the privacy of the search process.
+  * Ixquick.  http://ixquick.com/.   This search engine has protections for the privacy of the search process.
   * Ning.  http://ning.com/.   Ning is a (commercial) tool to create your own social networking site.
   * WorldCat.  http://www.worldcat.org.  WorldCat is OCLC's interlinking catalogue of books.