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Bloglines Launches Beta Start Page for a Personal Feed Reader
Bloglines, the aggregated feed reader, has launched a Bloglines Beta page, which is part of the company’s overall redesign of its service.The Bloglines Beta is a personalized start page with drag’n'drop functionality, and a few other new features, such as the ability to choose between three new feed reading views, and the capability to keep [...]

NoSo is the Anti-MySpace
NoSo is an anti-social networking site where you can go to “temporarily disengage yourself” from the online social networking environment.Short for “No Social Networking,” NoSo operates around the creation of “non-events” for its users. It works by users setting up an event at a local venue (i.e. cafe, bookstore) and meeting other users there. [...]

Yahoo Mail Goes Global, Adds Text Messaging and IM
Yahoo is set to announce two major additions to Yahoo Mail tomorrow: the addition of text messaging to mobile phones and the integration of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Yahoo Mail beta is also going global on Monday, although the free text messaging will be limited to the US, Canada, India and the [...]

Zybs Mobile Content Backup Service Branches Out to Social Networking
Zyb, the service that lets you store your cell phone data for backup, has launched a new version that’s showcasing a few new features that aims to offer some social networking components to its service options.Going to the Zyb homepage, you’ll notice that you can now search for other users that have your contact information [...]

Properazzi to Re-launch Site: Named Worlds Largest Property Search Engine
Properazzi, the European search engine for finding properties for rent or sale, is getting ready to re-launch a new version of its site early next week.Some of the new feature include an improved search interface with several search filters, like property price, type, size, and a bunch of features like balconies, fireplace, air-conditioning, parking included, [...]

Acoonna Withdraws from IPO Filing: Loses on 2nd Attempt
Accoona, the search engine company, has lost on its second attempt to go public. Read our initial write up regarding Accoona’s IPO filing here.The underwriter Maxim Group for the IPO pulled out of the deal, and Accoona withdrew its $80.5 million IPO as a result. The underwriter reportedly indicated it was no longer [...]

HooQs Launches Video Aggregator to Create Mobile Channels
HooQs is a new video aggregation site that lets you create channels to enjoy online as well as your cell phone.With HooQs, you can create your own channels, or browse the site to watch those that have been created by others. You can add other users to your watchlist, and subscribe to each [...]

Veveos Mobile Video Search Funded for $28M: Partnering with Verizon
Veveo, a mobile search company, has raised a total of $28 million–$14 million of which came from a second round earlier this year, though the amount was not disclosed until recently. The funding was provided by Norwest Venture Partners, Matrix and North Bridge Venture Partners.Veveo’s flagship product is Vtap, a mobile search [...]

YouBeQ Launches Football Fantasy League, Backed by Joe Montana
YouBeQB, a social network for football fans, has recently launched. The network lets you participate in site games even if you’re not registered. You’ll need to be a member in order to track your stats, make friends, and participate in leagues. Join existing leagues or create one of your own. The [...]

YouthRoots Launches Realistic Faith-based Network
YouthRoots is a new faith-based social network for teens and young adults.This social network has all the basics of an online community, with a directed goal towards engaging those of Christian and Jewish faiths. There’s a radio service for users to listen to faith-based music, and you can choose whether you’re of “Christian [...]

Create Top 10 Movie Lists with FilmCrave
Filmcrave is a new website that is all about movie reviews.Here you can rate and review a film and share your thoughts about the plot, actors, director, etc. Checking on another user’s profile will display all the films they have reviewed. For each review, you can add your two cents, or leave [...]

LG To Release YouTube Phone with Direct Upload
LG is jumping on the mobile video bandwagon with its own YouTube phone. It hasn’t been released yet, and the prices have not been announced either, but the phone is scheduled to be available soon, across three of the major wireless networks.The LG KU990 Viewty has a 5-megapixel camera, a touchscreen, and YouTube [...]

Federated Media Raises Another $4.5M in Series B Funding
John Battelle’s Federated Media Publishing online ad network has received $4.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Repeat investors include New Enterprise Associates and Omidyar Network. Amounts raised in a previous round have not been disclosed. Other recent developments for ad networks include the funding of OpenAds, the launching of [...]

30+ Mobile Photo Sharing Tools
What do you do with all of those pictures on your camera phone? First you have to get the pictures off of your phone; Take out the card? Email it to yourself? Got bluetooth? USB? IR? You’re probably already annoyed just thinking about it. Here are resources [...]

Microsoft & Yahoo Sign Pact Pushing Blog Censorship in China
Microsoft and Yahoo have both signed an agreement with the Chinese Government, which pushes a desire for the two companies to record the identities of bloggers and censored content. Eighteen other web companies have signed this agreement as well.The Internet Society of China, which is an arm of the Information Industry Ministry, is [...]

Wannago Adds Hot-or-Not for Parties & Attendees
Wannago, formerly known as MatchActivity, has added a new feature to its local events and dating website. Dubbed “Yes or Next” this new feature is like Hot-or-Not for parties and its attendees. To get the party started off right, Wannago is giving away two free tickets to Corteo from Cirque Du Soleil.With Yes [...]

MeeMix Invites
Due to popular demand, we just created a MeeMix invites thread - I’ll invite the first five people, after which you’ll have to help each other out. MeeMix is a pretty cool music recommendations service that came on the scene earlier this month. It’s a lot of fun and delivers a lot of [...]

Googles SocialStream is Here. Its Orkut
Something I didn’t make clear in our Orkut coverage, based on comments: Google’s SocialStream was originally conceived as a way to improve Orkut, and the new Orkut design, which looks a lot like the SocialStream mockups, increases the probability that SocialStream’s features will just be added to Orkut and not launched separately. From the [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for August 25th, 2007
Happy weekend. Some Saturday invites for ya…New TodayMyBoooMyBooo is a Web OS that allows you to share and exchange data with the MyBooo community….MeeMix InvitesMeeMix is a place where you don’t have to WORK to listen to the music you love. It’s a place where y… Hey Nielsen! InvitesPart opinion engine, part social network, [...]

Weekend Open Thread
This is an open thread for the weekend - I’ve also added a voice version thanks to the voice posting tech we’ve still got from HP. (Incidentally, I noticed that Google Apps just signed up as a Mashable advertiser - do you want us to disclose this on every post about Google?). I [...]

A Last.fm For Music Samples - MusicSamplr
Sites like Last.fm, iLike and Pandora caught on quick thanks to their offer of free music. A new launch today is aiming slightly lower: it’s a Last.fm for music samples. MusicSamplr lets you listen to samples of songs you might want to buy, then click through to buy them on Amazon. For [...]

Gapingvoid Facebook App
For those who like the witty, often tech-related cartoons of blogger Hugh Macleod, you’ll be glad to know you can now add them to Facebook. However, Mcleod warns that the app is still a little buggy.Recommended: Piczo Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

Windows Genuine Advantage Crashes: Everyones a Pirate
Microsoft’s servers charged with validating your installs of Windows XP and Vista crashed late Friday night, and for 19 hours, if you needed to validate your install, it informed you that you may have counterfeit software.Though everything seems fine now, this does reveal a problem with Microsoft’s attempts to constantly validate your installs. [...]

Download Facebook Videos
Developer Michael Medley let us know today about his script for embedding Facebook videos outside of Facebook and downloading them to your computer. As you know, Facebook is currently focused on video sharing between friends, and doesn’t supply an embed option: the Facebook Video Greasemonkey Script (requires Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension) adds [...]

Mark Cuban To Appear on Dancing With the Stars?
This story doesn’t score highly in the believability stakes, but it makes for funny weekend reading: one of the gossip blogs reports that web entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner and YouTube’s arch-enemy Mark Cuban is a potential contender for the reality series Dancing with the Stars. The 49 year old is valued at $2.3 billion. [...]

Blogger Adds Video Uploading Feature
Blogger has added a video uploading feature to their post editor which allows users to insert videos directly into their blog entries. The tool is straightforward to use, with a new button in the editor toolbar that allows you to browse your computer for a video, upload it to Blogger, and then insert it [...]

LinkedIn Seeks Warrior to Fend off Facebook
LinkedIn is advertising a job (on LinkedIn, of course) for a Developer Network Manager at the site. The social network, which is known to be under pressure as Facebook’s developer network takes off and Facebook steals professional users, is seeking a multi-talented coding god, it would seem:We are looking for a developer network manager [...]

MSNBC Thought Fake Al Sharpton was Real
Everyone’s a faker these days: in addition to Fake Steve Jobs, the blog parodying the Apple boss, there’s a whole network of blog fakers at NewsGroper. Unfortunately, MSNBC didn’t get the memo, and actually quoted the Fake Al Sharpton, believing this post to be the real deal. In defense of the Atlanta Falcons’ [...]

Pliggs Price: $150K?
A source close to the sale of the Digg clone platform Pligg tells us that the owners are seeking $150K for the site, which is essentially the business side of the open source Pligg platform, including the Pligg.com site and forums but not the open source code.This could be monetized via consulting, Pligg hosting, development [...]

30+ Firefox Themes
Sometimes you just can’t take that plain gray Firefox theme anymore, and who can blame you? Here are more than 30 of Mashable’s favorite themes to spruce up that boring old browser.Update: popular vote is to change this to “30+ Firefox Themes, Some of Which are Kinda Ugly”. All in favor say Aye.Recommended: [...]

Keep Thoughts on your iPhone with PogoNotes
PogoNotes is a web-based note-taking application that’s ideal for your iPhone. Take notes on the go with this Ajax application which works best with Safari and Firefox browsers. For your account, all your notes are nicely organized, and easily accessible. Though they’re not time & date stamped, they are saved in order of [...]

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import
Twitter has finally added the feature they’ve needed from day one: the ability to import your contacts from another service. For now it is limited to just Gmail, which should apply to a large proportion of the service’s early adopter user base. Enter your email address and password to see which of your [...]

Facebook App Marketplace Launches: Appmrkt
Facebook apps have been pulling in money already by being sold off, but how do you find a buyer for your work? Appmrkt looks to help you with this task. Just join the site (they require this to keep fraud to a minimum), and you’re all set to list your app for sale, [...]

Best4c Offers Basic Chart Creation & Whiteboard Tools
Best4c is a new chart design application that provides a variety of options for many of your chart-creation needs.Offering tools for creating flow charts, network charts, nad home and office layout designs. As a basic tool, Best4c works well. Its drag’n'drop capabilities make the creation of a chart or layout easy, and other [...]