I'm a 15-year-old teen and I'm no different from any of my fellow friends who are also hooked up to the computer these days just as teens were hooked on watching television just a decade ago. In today's advanced world, it's a common sight to see teens surfing the web, chatting with their friends on IMs, watching videos on YouTube, and interacting with their peers on Facebook and MySpace. Teens' active presence on the World Wide Web is indeed very crucial in determining the success of most social websites. Even though teens are heavily obsessed with social websites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, but there are still some sites out there which are unpopular amongst teens. Today, I'll share with you guys 5 social platforms whereby only a small percentage of the total teenage population on the World Wide Web uses the following websites.

It's pretty amazing that Wikipedia exists at all, let alone that it has over 17.8 million articles in more than two hundred languages. Millions of people around the world use the free web-based encyclopedia daily, be it bloggers researching on a particular software, students working on their projects, teachers using it as an educational tool and the list goes on. Gradually, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit has become a household name. It's not just its size or popularity, but also the way Wikipedia has evolved that makes it simple. Thousands of Web users volunteer their time and knowledge to help fulfill the community's goal of providing every person in the world with a high-quality encyclopedia in their native language. The non-commercial online encyclopedia which was launched on January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, has just surpassed the 10 million registered users mark, hitting a milestone. One of the world's most visited sites on the Web, Wikipedia represents the future of publishing, and every company that produces information - from publishers to data providers - should be scared.

Building on years of industry leadership in desktop virtualization technology, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of the industry's first public desktop cloud service. Cloud computing can give end-users easy access to the critical information they need remotely, from various devices, virtually anywhere. IBM helps organizations benefit from this model with desktop services that are designed to enable end-users with network-attached PCs and certain other devices the ability to access applications and data through a centrally managed computing environment.

Below are 5 awesome and nicely-done tweet stitches created by Julie Zidel, a professional designer and stitcher. Her embroideries are indeed really amazing! Check them out!

Twitter's trending topics was implemented by the folks at the San-Francisco-based micro-blogging platform on September 18, 2008. Trending topics are keywords that happen to be popping up in a whole bunch of tweets. The clever search system measures these topics and adjusts them in real-time throughout the day. It's indeed a great way of finding out what's happening right now. But what if you would like to find out what are the local Twitter trends of a particular city. This is when Mapmash's Twitter Local comes in really handy. Twitter Local is a mashup of both Google Maps and Happn.in. Created by Rakshith Krishnappa, the map shows the top 10 trending phrases in over 80+ major cities around the world. With this simple but useful map, you're able to find out what people are tweeting in your city by selecting a city and clicking on the green arrowhead on the map.

Anonymous tweeting has already been on the web for quite a while with a few apps out there enabling Twitter users to publish tweets anonymously. ShhTwitter is a new service which offers the same feature too. It allows you to send a message via the micro-blogging website without having to have an account, or use your account. Basically, in short, the main objective is to help users to publish tweets of which they are afraid that the messages might affect their reputation on the Twitterverse. Let's say you would like to voice out repugnant comments of your boss. However, most probably you would keep your mouth shut, lest your indignant employer will hit the roof if he or she were to find out you were against him or her.

Color Stream is a newly-launched iPhone app which enables users to store and create palettes and colors using a variety of methods. It's suitable for those who works with colors on a frequent basis or even if you just enjoy looking at and creating colors all by yourself. This beautiful color tool is pretty impressive as it offers some really cool and useful features that helps you generate the perfect palettes. Users can make use of its built-in color schemes to help them select a unique and sweet palette. What's more is that the elegant app automatically generates a combination of colors from your device's photo library or camera. Other features include editing your palettes by way of a name and rating, as well as saving a palette as a picture to your photo library and much more. After you're satisfied with your perfect palette, you can then export it out of your device either by saving the palette as an image in your photo library and upload it to an external entity or email the palette directly from the palette details page. The email will contain all of your colors, complete with hexidecimal codes and sample HTML code. As simple as that.

While pencil and paper are always essential for learning, good software will help ease the woes of school. Here are some the top software I use on my own computer at home: 1. Microsoft Office 2007 - Whether is making a presentation or doing those difficult essays, Office 2007 should be on the top of any college or high school student's list. With great features like footnotes and source manager in Word, or creating vivid charts in Excel, it's worth the price. And good news for college students: If you provide your college ID, you can buy the Ultimate version of Office online for $60 ($600 value), as well as other free software and discounts.