Interesting way to visualize what it would be like if you lived in another country. IfItWereMyHome compares your part of the world with another to see how you life would differ. (EXAMPLE: If you lived in Afghanistan you would 4x more likely to be unemployed.)
Google works with engineers from Twitter and their new acquisition, SayNow, to allow Egyptians, who don't currently have Internet access, to tweet by speaking into their mobile phone.