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It's Fantasy Football Time!

It’s that time of year again. Fantasy Football time! I’ve got two drafts going on right now. Which is not helpful because I have plenty of other stuff I’m also working on as well! It looks like this year is going to be another stretched out season for me.

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I’m going to have fantasy football teams on loads of websites.

I’m sure it’s going to be quite a bit to keep up with. I know last year I couldn’t remember what player I had on what team. With this many leagues going I felt like I had every player in the league on one of my teams or another one.

My experience has been that I like ESPN Fantasy Football League interface the best, but I’m probably most familiar with Fox Sports Fantasy Football. CBS Sports Fantasy Football is a new one for me this year, so we’ll see how that goes.

What’s been your experience with the various online fantasy football leagues? Which site gives you the best options and experience while you’re watching the game?

I can tell you one thing, I DO NOT like a snake draft league. I got 2nd pick in one league and felt like I wasn’t picking again until the following day. It was crazy!

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What's Your Favorite Bookmarking Tool

I’ve been spending a little bit of time recently going through the thousands of bookmarks I’ve got saved in my local Firefox browser. I’ve been a happy user of the Google Toolbar for quite some time now and have relied on it for keeping most of my bookmarks.

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I stayed away from del.icio.us for quite awhile, but have recently started using that as well to organize my websites. My thoughts behind using del.icio.us was to export all my existing bookmarks to it, but then also use it as a storage place for all the interesting websites I came across regularly.

I’ve got Firefox bookmarks, I run Internet Explorer because I have a number of clients that have their as their corporate default browser so I have IE favorites as well. Then there’s the Google toolbar bookmarks and my del.icio.us links going too. Although not quite a favorite or bookmark, I’ve also got all my RSS feeds stored in Bloglines. How do you keep everything organized?

There’s a challenge with me of trying to figure out how to effectively use everything as needed without duplicating effort or usefulness. I think the best way to move forward is to really look at each tool and determine how you want to use each one for yourself. As you’re using it, then remember how and when you’ve decided to use each one for it’s own specific task.

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Zopa – Making Low Interest Loans Using the Social Web

I don’t know about you, but I’m not really interested in working with my bank anymore for much. They don’t seem very interested in working with me either with everything going on with the credit industry and the economy.

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I used to think it was just my bank that was annoying to work with and seemed to make their processes so ambiguous they could charge you fees for seemingly nothing. After speaking with more people about their banks though and it appears it’s just status quo.

The Zopa website lets you avoid all the official banking institutions and borrow money from the people you may not know, but you probably trust a little more. The reason you trust them is because they’re just like you. Average people online that have a generous spirit about them.

Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It’s like borrowing and lending with your friends and family – except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with.

Zopa currently is established in four different countries: Zopa Italy, Zopa Japan, Zopa UK and Zopa USA. It looks like most of the other locations are a little bit more established with networks than the Zopa USA site.

Uncover a new way to loan and borrow money and help your fellow man. Visit Zopa and learn more about how it all works and leave those banks behind.