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There’s another new search tool hitting the Intertubes. This one is called Spezify and it’s out of Stockholm, Sweden. The search is straight forward, put in your search term or phrase and hit enter. The change is how the information is displayed to you visually.

As you can see from the screen shot above after searching for my online persona, "Bnpositive" the results are hitting from my twitter updates, Tumblr, blog posts, flickr images and a variety of other sources. It’s all presented in a flowing collage of data that you can either use the scroll bars at the bottom and right of the screen, or you can click in the screen and drag the screen around to see more results.

The other nice feature is that along the top of the search there’s a list of related words or terms related to your search. You can quickly expand your search and find a variety of outlets for finding more and more things of interest to you based on your original search.

You can also fine tune your search results by turning off/on various sites and content types within your search. For instance if twitter overwhelms your results, you can turn twitter off in the search to suppress those results from your visual display.

Sometimes you need to see data in a different perspective and Spezify provides a great and visually appealing presentation of search results.

A friend of mine from college is fighting for her sister that’s fighting her own epic battle with cancer. She recently sent an email out to friends and family requesting they help in the battle by doing a simple little task.

The email was a simple statement of what it would take to save someone’s life. Here’s some of the email. I don’t think I could say it any more clearly myself.

Most people hesitate to become a donor because they think either–

• it’s painful (No pain involved–it’s a simple cheek swab.)
• it’s complicated (It’s 30 seconds on the internet. We easily spend 30 minutes just here on Facebook.)

Here is the SIMPLE process:

1. Go to www.marrow.org
2. Click on "Join Registry"
3. It will ask you to agree to terms, give your name, email address, create a password, and give your mailing address.
4. They will mail you a cheek swab kit. You collect the cells and mail it back in.

Once they receive and test your sample. It AUTOMATICALLY goes into the system, and is checked to see if it is a match. If you have any questions at all, call 1-800- Marrow2. They are very kind and helpful there.

The registration process usually costs $50 for that initial testing, but is FREE now until June 22nd. There will never be any other cost for you. If you are a match for my sister, her insurance will cover it.

Please take a moment to do this for my sister…
for her husband who is so in love with her…
for her 3 small kids who need their mommy…
for the rest of us as her family and friends who would like to have years yet with her.

What do you do with a request like that? I’ll tell you what you do, you go visit www.marrow.org and follow the 4 steps mentioned above and you realize that your simple effort very well could save someone’s life.