A good book opens a young mind to a world of imagination and knowledge. It can amaze and delight, entertain and inform.  ePub Bud is a non-profit organization dedicated to getting free children’s e-books to the masses. Students and authors, publishers, illustrators, and all of the possibilities that is held within that can now take advantage of the current devices that support the ePub standard. ePubBud.com has made it as simple as the iPad itself.  you can browse thousands of free children’s e-books, convert your existing children’s books and e-books into the ePub format, or publish your own electronic children’s book to share with the world (or just your family).

Excellent childrens books are available for every age group. Whether your child has a wild imagination or prefers to learn about the physical world, there are books to get him or her reading. The site appearance resembles Youtube and shares similar functionality. There is a tools to search for existing works, create your own and download them to your device. The organization will also accept childrens books that you mail to them, which they will then take and digitize.

ePub Bud was founded by Josh Jones, co-founder of DreamHost, and is dedicated to the memory of his son, Wren.

PhotoVisi is a free website that lets you create photo collage online, and then download or print those photo collage effects. Creating a collage is a unique way to represent a set of photos together, such that they integrate with each other without losing their individuality. You can create custom collages in Photoshop but that would take you at least a few hours and a lot of effort.  Photovisi resolves all this. It allows you to build custom photo collages without having to download any software, creating an account, or having any prior knowledge of any image-editing tool. The results are very similar to those of the collage-making feature built into Picasa but it’s an online service. It has eighteen collage templates for groupings of pictures ranging from only a couple up to 30 pictures.

PhotoVsi makes it extremely easy to create collage. The number of photos that you can add (up to 30 photos) depends on which template you select. Once you have selected a template that you want to work with, you start by uploading the photos that you want to go in that collage. PhotoVisi also lets you crop photos to better fit in the collage. To make more edits to your photos, you can use some free image editor, like Paint.Net, or PhotoScape. You can also choose the background color and/or image for your photo collage. Amazingly, if you want to choose a HTML color that isn’t already listed, then you can always enter the code. Once completed the collage can be downloaded on to your computer or forwarded to an email adders.

Sharetivity is s a free service, that allows anyone doing web research to seamlessly, collect, share and discuss content. Sharetivity’s plug-in is geared toward students, collaborative researchers, bloggers, freelance writers, travel planners and other Web surfers who often use a disjointed combination of one-time sharing buttons and copy-and-paste methods.

The startup uses a browser plug-in (which may present a hurdle for new users) that lets people select multiple pages and share them with one click. They can pass content along through as few or as many social channels as they want.

The plug-in also provides both a private discussion area and a public content-streaming feature to share, save, stream and discuss in a single location. The aggregated content is useful for bibliographies, research logs and travel itineraries, among other reasons why people browse and collaborate on the Web. You can install Sharetivity to your browser as a Share+ widget. It supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome.