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New YouTube API Released
YouTube just announced the release of the new YouTube API: it has been rewritten using the Google data protocol (GData). It maintains the functionality of the the old API, which will continue to work until August 30, 2008. However, developers are advised to switch as soon as they can. The new one [...]

MySpace Launches Music Tour: Kicks Off Next Month
MySpace has officially launched its Music Tour, which is a series of concert events produced by and branded for MySpace.The tour is presented by Extreme Style by VO5, and kicks off next month, on October 16. The concert will be held in Seattle, and will headlines Hellogoodbye and Say Anything. Other [...]

Siphs Adds Public, Personalized Blogging Tool to Service
Siphs, the web content-sharing system, is adding personalized blogs to its service. This new option won’t be live until tomorrow, but I got a chance to check it out. Only launched last month, Siphs introduces a somewhat new concept around sharing links, bookmarking, and tracking all of this information for your own [...]

Sprooses User Voting Technology Finally Applied to Video Search
Sproose, the human-powered search engine, is applying its user voting system to its video search.You may remember that the search company teamed up with blinkx in order to provide video search for its service. Now, Sproose is further integrating its core concepts to its video search as well. This is a welcome [...]

SeatSmarts Ticket Search Funded in Angel Round
SeatSmart, the search engine dedicated to finding tickets for concerts, games and events, has raised a round of angel funding for an undisclosed amount.The company is a ticket search aggregator of sorts, perusing Stubhub, Razorgator, eBay, and other major ticket-selling sites to bring you a variety of search results. Founded in 2006, the New [...]

CollabAndRate Offers Suggestion Box for Companies
CollabAndRate is an upcoming site from the company that brought you PikSpot, and it looks to offer an online space for groups to track ideas. The site is currently in private beta, and I got a chance to check it out.There are several instances in which you could use a CollabAndRate “box.” [...]

Douchebag Wordpress Plugin Helps You Curb Bad Comments
YoungGoGetters has created a Wordpress plug-in that lets blog administrators add a Douchebag icon beside comments that are beyond annoying. The plug-in is easy enough to install. Once you’ve installed the plug-in, you can edit readers’ comments to insert the Douchebag icon. While this may be amusing to most, it’s really [...]

Nsyght Combines Multiple Levels of Social Search to Battle Googles Algorithms
Nsyght is an upcoming search engine that will incorporate a little bit from social networks, a little bit more from social bookmarking sites, and combine it with the concepts of a classic search engine in order to provide more relevant results for your queries. The site is currently in private alpha testing, but the [...]

FilmForay Asks You to Submit Movie Pitches
The filmforay is a new site that’s built a community around the single goal of creating a film.In a time where leveraging communities is a ruling standard for collaboration, filmforay has taken this concept and created a website. You’re invited to join the site, and aid in this collaborative effort to help make [...]

Plaxo Opens Up Social Networking Aggregation Code
Plaxo, the online contact manager, is taking the next step in creating a centralizing service that goes against the limited open platforms of other networks and APIs, such as we’ve seen with Facebook.By opening its source code for the Online Identity Consolidator, Plaxo offers users more control over their web presence in a portable fashion. [...]

Slide Users Add 1 Million Widgets Every Day
Slide, the photo slide show creator, has hit the milestone of 1 million widgets added to the network every day. With Slide’s suite of offerings for social networking profile “bling,” its flash widgets are the heart of its service, from guestbooks to slide shows, SkinFlix and FunPix. Slide also reports that these widgets are [...]

Groovr Has a Circle of Trust. And iPhone Optimization.
Groovr, the mobile social network, has launched a new look and some new features for the fall, including an iPhone-optimized version of its service.The site has been completely re-skinned, with its new design focusing on functionality, but remaining aesthetically appealing. One new feature on Groovr is called the Circle of Trust, which separates [...]

SportsUltra Offers Intuitive and Dynamic Custom News
SportsUltra is a dedicated news resource for all things sports. You can customize the news you receive on your personalized SportsUltra page and go from there.Without the necessity to register for an account, you can play around with SportsUltra, customize as much as you’d like, and register if you’d like the changes saved. [...]

George Reyes, CFO of Google, Retires
It was announced today that George Reyes, the Chief Financial Officer of Google, would be leaving his post. Reyes said that he’ll remain in his current position until a new CFO has been found and the transition can be an orderly one. Google said they expected this to happen by the end of [...]

Metacafe Adds Digg Section
Metacafe has taken the Digg API and run with it, building a “Digg channel” inside the site that ranks clips by the number of Diggs they received. The end result: it’s that much easier for you to enjoy all the hijinks in one fell swoop.Recommended: Piczo Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

CareerBuilders Facebook App Searches Personal Data
CareerBuilder has launched a Facebook application that’s designed for college students looking for internships and jobs.Called “Find a Better Job,” The application will search your profile information for items like your hometown, your college, network, and major in order to match you up with upcoming jobs and internships. This is really an extension of [...]

iZimbra Will Bring Zimbra to your iPhone
Zimbra, creator of the open source email and calendar apps, has completed its work on the iZimbra application for the iPhone; this will be included with the release of ZCS 5.0. You will be able to get your address books, email, and calendars wherever you are via either WiFi or EDGE using the iPhone’s [...]

Veoh Partners with Las Vegas Film Festival
Veoh, the Internet television company, has teamed up with the CineVegas Film Festival to launch a dedicated channel showcasing filmmakers and Festival promotions.Named the CineVegas Shorts Online, the channel will play shorts that the Festival has shown in the past, as well as content from CineVegas filmmakers. A new video installment will be uploaded [...]

Phoja Debuts a Digg for Your Photos
Fortuitous timing, perhaps, as Digg users become increasingly infuriated about the lack of a photo section…Phoja.com has launched a social photo discussion platform where you can share photos for any number of reasons, and start up a discussion. Whether it be from your camera phone or the web, sharing a picture you found funny, [...]

RIPL Gets Another $4.25M for Facebook Competitor
Seattle-based Ripl has raised $4.25 million in a Series B round of funding, from individual angel investors. The company has already raised $2 million in its first round of funding, covered by Mashable here.Gaining angel investment is a seemingly easy thing to do in Seattle. Ripl, which was started by Classmates.com [...]

Another Sony Rootkit?
Rootkit-like functionality has been discovered on some of Sony’s USB flash drive sticks.As rootkits are hidden folders buried within your computer, difficult to track and even harder to get rid of, and are perfect hiding spots for malware, many are wondering why Sony is including the hidden folder in a USB flash drive stick, and [...]

JamStudio Launches Interactive MySpace Remix Widget
JamStudio has created a music widget for your MySpace page, letting site visitors mix music directly from your profile.With this interactive widget, other users can remix the song you’ve created from your JamStudio account. You can change several levels of instrumentals in the song, including the guitar, piano, bass, drums, and more. Switch [...]

SpaceLift Imports Your MySpace Profile to Facebook
SpaceLift is an upcoming Facebook application that will let you import pieces of your MySpace profile into your Facebook account. The application is not yet launched, but is scheduled to be ready some time today.What SpaceLift does is take parts of your MySpace profile and incorporates it into the structural design of Facebook. [...]

Google Phone Finally Confirmed?
We’ve been hearing more and more about the Google phone in the past couple of days, so there must be some truth to some of it, right?The latest rumors indicate that Google’s mobile phone started as a project with the acquisition of a mobile software company called Android. The team that joined Google along [...]

Search Radar Scopes Out Search Results for You
Webaroo, based out of Bombay, India, has launched a new search service entitled SearchRadar. After a simple extension installation for Firefox or Internet Explorer, you’re on your way to a new way of using Google.The basic premise is that valuable real estate is being lost in your search results on Google to the right [...]

Exponential Launches Tribal Fusion Dynamic Ads
Exponential, the targeted ad distribution company, has added new capabilities to its Tribal Fusion service, entitled Dynamic Ads.Tribal Fusion Dynamic Ads basically generates more personalized target ads based on user behavior, and a slew of other variables. Demographics, geographical location, age, gender, online behavior, etc. Based on all these variables, Dynamic Ads will [...]

BluePulse Makes US Debut
Bluepulse, the mobile social network, is announcing their entrance in to the United States mobile market today with a $6 million dollar round of funding from VantagePoint Venture Partners. To aid in this market expansion, the company has also relocated their headquarters from Sydney, Australia to North America.The mobile social networking company has already [...]

Yahoo Pens Deal with R.H. Donnelley for Ad Distribution Across Local & Maps Search
Yahoo has expanded its partnership with R.H. Donnelley, the print and local search company, for advertising distribution on Yahoo Local and Yahoo Maps.The financials of the deal were not disclosed, but R.H. Donnelley will be distributing local advertiser content across its own platforms, other local search sites, and Yahoo as well. Included in [...]

HP Ramps Up Print 2.0 Efforts
HP is adding some upgrades to its overall Print 2.0 strategy, which includes the Tabblo Print Toolkit, and the CloudPrint options, along with some blogging tools for both bloggers and readers.One upgrade is an HP Tabblo integration with Flickr, scheduled to launch later this fall, that will enable users to create photo books and [...]

BoingBoing Gets a Gadget Blog, Comments and Redesign
BoingBoing, a blog about all kinds of miscellany, is rolling out a major overhaul that will bring with it several changes to the site.Besides a redesign, new logo, and new mascots, they will also be bringing back user comments after an absence of several years. While they felt they couldn’t handle the amount of [...]

SnagIt Image Editing Tool Offers One-Click Wordpress Plugin
TechSmith, the software provider for screen capture and recording services, is launching a free trial version of SnagIt blogging-output accessories.SnagIt can be used to capture screen shots, add text, and post directly to a host of blogging services including LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type or Wordpress. The purpose is to enable the procedure of taking [...]

Google Signs Exclusive AdSense Deal with CNN
CNN is the latest to sign an exclusive contract with Google for its AdSense program. The deal means that businesses will now be able to target ads for the CNN crowd, and CNN gets to earn revenue from ads. The news provider seems generally interested in enhancing its online presence, and has [...]

MySpace Fashion Launches Officially
Launching officially today after a trial period, it’s all about the clothes at MySpace Fashion. The brand that seems to know no-limits is now in your closet and on the runaway, as they bring news from the fashion industry to the world’s largest social network.The community features an all new look, and a host [...]

Soundcrank: iTunes, Meet MySpace
Soundcrank, a site for sharing the music you’re listening to in iTunes with others, announced a new widget for MySpace, blogs and other social networks today that works in conjunction with their iTunes plug-in. Users can install the widget in their profile and set it to display information such as their most recently played [...]

Get the Mashable Conduit Toolbar
Conduit, a maker of community browser toolbars, is set to announce 12 million community toolbar users today. They made one for Mashable readers at Mashable.OurToolbar.com - it includes the Mashable feed, the Mashable Invites feed, quicklinks to areas of the site and more. What’s good about this is that our improvements and changes [...]

NewsGator Brings Feed Reading to Facebook
NewsGator is launching a Facebook application called NewsFriends. This works as a way to share feeds with your networks on Facebook.You basically add feeds of your own that you’d like to share, and pick the feeds from your friends that you’d like to keep up with as well. All of this is integrated [...]

FIREFOX MUSIC: Top 7 Ways to Enjoy Music in Firefox
Last week Firefox announced a special edition for college students that includes the Foxytunes plugin, allowing you to listen to music while you browse the web. Inspired, we went on a hunt for more ways to play, learn about and share your favorite tracks while you surf: here are 7 of the best. [...]

SOCIAL SEARCH GUIDE: 40+ Social Search Engines
Google got Facebook application today, allowing you to share search results with friends. In fact, search is becoming increasingly social, with both the top search engines and startups incorporating users into the process of generating the best possible results. In our social search guide, we look at more than 40 search engines that [...]

SideSteps FareTracker Follows Flight Prices Over Time
SideStep, the travel search company, has launched FareTracker, which helps you find the best prices based on historical behavior of ticket prices.By tracking one or more flight routes over time and monitoring price changes, FareTracker incorporates ongoing fluctuations into its tracking tools. You have the option of receiving weekly updates for these price changes, [...]

Hypercube Makes Your Web Widgets Available on Your Desktop
Mesa Dynamics, a software development company specializing in desktop applications, has launched the alpha preview release of its Amnesty Hypercube, which is a Universal widget platform.This platform enables you to import and collect widgets from across the web, and use them independently of your web browser. With one click, a web widget can be [...]