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Monsters Security Breech Larger than Thought
The 1.3 million individuals whose data, including financial information, was stolen from Monster’s database may be larger than initially reported.During the investigation regarding the theft, it was discovered that the website had been previously hacked. The exact number is still unknown, but could reportedly be in the millions. Monster has indicated that users [...]

Slacker Radio Widget Now Available for MySpace
Slacker, the online radio provider, has launched a MySpace widget that lets you insert a radio station onto your profile.With this widget offering, you can choose an existing station or create a custom station to play on your MySpace page. The widget will display artist info for songs it plays. One of [...]

Google & Yahoo Maps Feature to be Available in Mercedes-Benz Cars
Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Yahoo and Google to offer some new features for its S, CL, and C class models, called Search & Send. The features is set to launch next month, on September 5th.The new Search & Send feature will let you send directions from either maps service to the car’s navigation system [...]

Facebooks New APIs Compete With LinkedIn & Slide?
It’s been reported that two new API methods for Facebook are in the works, both revolving around how friends are handled and organized within the Facebook networks.The two API methods are entitled friends.getLists and friends.getListsMembers. While the precise specifications for these new methods have not been revealed, it could be speculated that these [...]

Yahoos Decker Memo Released
A memo from Yahoo’s Sue Decker has been released, and the details include information on the major reorganization Yahoo is doing with many executives within the company. In all, the changes made in Yahoo are meant to be a way to increase accountability, and basically run a tighter ship. The main changes that [...]

MyPlick Creates Interactive & Embeddable Slide Shows
MyPlick is a new site that lets you create slide shows and offer an interactive widget for viewers to navigate your slide show.Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and all sorts of files can be uploaded (at once) to create your slide show. Include audio along with your slide show to make a complete online [...]

Jumpcut Hosting Video Contest: Make Your Own Mitt Romney Ad
Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential candidate, has joined forces with Jumpcut’s video editing site for the Team Mitt contest.For this effort, you get to make the campaign for his official television advertisement. You can use the images, audio and video clips that are provided for use on Jumpcut’s site, and mash them up [...]

Kompoz Music Collaboration Site Optimized for iPhone
Kompoz is the latest to launch an iPhone-optimized service. The community that lets you collaborate on music now grants you optimized access on the iPhone. This won’t officially launch until Friday, but you can still check it out now.The main components of the mobile Kompoz site let you search for music, check [...]

TUC Joins Discussion of Facebooks UK Ban
The battle for office access to Facebook continues, and it getting pretty intense in the UK. The TUC suggests that employers set a guideline for the use of sites such as Facebook, so that both employers and employees know what is expected of them. But employers should not think that [...]

Spruz Offers Simple Website Creation Tools
Srpuz is a new site that lets you create your own website.The manner in which websites are created with the Spruz tool makes the entire process very easy and manageable for non-technical users. Even techies may enjoy the over-simplified instructions presented by Spruz. Select what type of site you’d like to create, and [...]

YouTube Pens Deal with UK Music Royalties Alliance
YouTube has signed a deal with the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which is a music collection society in the UK. This is the first deal of its kind for the video-sharing network, in regards to a music royalties organization.The deal entails the licensing of 10 million pieces of music to YouTube. In exchange, YouTube [...]

SplashCast Player Gets Upgraded
SplashCast is getting ready to launch an upgraded version of its player, which is scheduled to be available tomorrow.With the new version, viewers can now leave audio, video or text comments. You get an email alert for new comments that have been left on your channel items. This comment feature can be [...]

Confirmed: Mark Cuban on Dancing with The Stars
We reported this possibility at the weekend, and now USA Today confirms it: unless he pulls out at the last moment, Internet entrepreneur, HDTV guru and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will appear as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, the celebrity dancing show. Cuban made headlines on tech blogs recently for his [...]

Photobucket Reaches 50 Million Users - Everyone Gets Free Prints
Not to let Slide take all the glory for this week, Photobucket announces its milestone of amassing 50 million users on its site.To celebrate, every user gets ten free prints (4×6 prints) in Photobucket’s online store. Shipping, however, you’ll have to pay for. But man, with 50 million users, that’s a [...]

IBM developerWorks Lets You Build Your Own Info-Sharing Network
IBM has added some new options to its developerWorks platform for developers, with its new Spaces option. You can now create a “micro-site” within your developerWorks in order to make your own network for the sharing of information.The social networking components that we’re all familiar with can now be incorporated into the communities [...]

Last.fm Using Digital Fingerprinting to Fix Misspelled Artist & Track Names
Last.fm is on a mission to clean up the meta data on its site, such as making sure the correct spelling of artists, albums and tracks.This was previously accomplished for artist names with a user-voting moderation system, but the updated system is far more automatic. It will work by utilizing its digital fingerprinting technology, [...]

TellThem Sends Mobile Message Blasts to Your MySpace Friends
TellThem is a new mobile application that aims to make your MySpace account a little bit more mobile.With TellThem, you can send message blasts or private messages to your MySpace friends. Enter your MySpace username and password in order to access a list of your friends. You have the option of getting [...]

CBS Signs Dell as Wallstrip Sponsor
CBS has signed Dell computers up as an advertiser for its recently-acquired web video series, Wallstrip. The series, heralded as “Stock Culture Meets Pop Culture” takes a tongue-in-cheek and sometimes irreverent view of the world of stock traders.During yesterday’s episode (August 28th), cast member Lindsay Campbell announced that nothing about the show had changed [...]

Facebook Defines New App Ranking System
Facebook has cleared up how the new app ranking system for Facebook applications will work and how it differs from the current ranking that is based solely on the total number of users.From midnight to midnight each day, they will now measure how many times an app is “engaged”; that is how many users a [...]

Bebo Adds RSS
Bebo has finally gotten RSS feeds for blogs on the site (example), as spotted by Joseph Johnson. Bebo, like most mainstream social networks, didn’t seem to place a high priority on RSS since members rarely know what it is or make use of it. While we confirmed the addition of RSS, Bebo is [...]

TheFind Acquires the Glimpse Fashion Search Site
TheFind, a shopping search engine specializing in lifestyle products like clothes, etc., has acquired Glimpse, a fashion shopping website.The search technology from TheFind will be integrated into Glimpse, and it appears that the fashion website will remain a stand-alone service. With search filtering options, the Glimpse experience will be enhanced by the ability to [...]

ProfileBuilder Launches Profil.es with More Control Options for Your Online Presense
ProfileBuilder, the tool that lets you create a “portable profile” to be placed across the web, has officially launched its public beta of Profil.es today. You may remember ProfileBuilder from our initial review earlier this summer. I got a chance to check it out again, and there appear to be some minor [...]

Second Life Gets Identity Verification
Second Life is going to be adding Identity Verification to add a sense of trust to the community. While the system is voluntary, it will assist both residents and land owners in making sure who they are dealing with. The system is currently in beta, but is open to all land owners as [...]

IDC Says Advertisers Still Dont Like Social Networks
A report released by the IDC suggests that popular social networks aren’t necessarily on the right track to monetization.The IDC states that online social networks will most likely require a mix of business models in order to financially successful, including advertising, e-commerce, and subscription services. However, advertising is the only model that can [...]

Viagogo is Official Secondary Ticketer for NBA Europe Live
Viagogo, the European secondary ticketing company that recently launched in the US, has been named the official secondary ticketing partner for the NBA Europe Live.This year, the NBA Europe Live will feature the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Boston Celtics on October 10, in London. As this is Kevin Garnett’s first match against his old [...]

Hulu: News Corps YouTube Rival Gets a Name
Finally, News Corp has named its widely derided attempt to take on YouTube. It’s called Hulu and enters private beta in October, according to a press release today. It’s located at Hulu.com. From the About page:Why Hulu? Objectively, Hulu is short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself. Subjectively, [...]

BROWSER TOOLBOX : 30+ Web Browsers To Try
Firefox. Yes, most of us have already settled for the arguably best browser out there - those that haven’t have mostly stuck with Internet Explorer. However, there’s a whole wide world of browsers out there, some of which are quite interesting, and some are great for some specific purposes. Flock is great for social interaction; [...]

Open Friend Format Moves Forward
We can sit around and dream up stuff like an Open Friend Format for social networks, but some people have the guts to go out and get things done. Tabber founder Anthony Romano has created a site for the standard - OpenFriendFormat.com - and explains how it fits in with Brad Fitzpatrick’s Social Networking [...]

King.com Offers Games for Cash with MumboJumbo Deal
King.com, a skill games site, has teamed up with MumboJumbo, a developer and publisher of premium (meaning not free) casual games, to offer cash games on MumboJumbo’s website.Now players can participate in games to win money directly from MumboJumbo, including LUXOR. This deal also lets MumboJumbo users get access to King.com’s exclusive games like [...]

FIREFOX GOD: 300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox
As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. This list collects over 300 of them in one place for you.Recommended: Piczo Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

Zoho Launches Zoho Start: Netvibes for Documents
Zoho, a web office suite that’s pretty impressive, will launch a start page today. Immediately available at start.zoho.com, Zoho Start offers an iGoogle-style startpage from which to manage all your documents across Zoho properties. You can also get a Google Documents-style list view.Features include a single login to access all your docs; integration [...]

Nokia Takes on iTunes
Nokia is announcing its music store today, which will target Apple’s iTunes in the downloads space. It’s a transition you could call “Nokia 2.0″ - along with 4 new mobile phones (some of which are iPhone-like), it’s launching the “Ovi” brand to tie together Nokia’s web efforts. Ovi will include the Nokia Music [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for August 29th, 2007
We found these free beta invites lying around. Thought you might like them. New TodayBitMeTV InvitesBitMeTV is a P2P torrent site for e-learning.Recently AddedMyBooo InvitesMyBooo is a Web OS that allows you to share and exchange data with the MyBooo community. Not only th… MeeMix InvitesMeeMix is a place where you don’t [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for August 29th, 2007
The latest action from the Web 2.0 Marketplace. Listings cost $50/month.NewestHiring Director of Business DevelopmentAbout ImageChef:ImageChef runs imagechef.com, a leading web site for user-expression with millions… Exclusive offer for Mashable Readers (App Related)Readers of Mashable already know that websites like Facebook and devices like the iPhone are opening… Tech Lead/Architect for Web 2.0 marketing [...]

Hi5 API
I just learned, via an announcement on the hi5 blog today, that the international social network hi5 has an API. It appears to have gone live quietly in mid-August. For those who want another social network to mash up, it offers some basic hooks: * REST endpoints for Widgets, Feeds, [...]

Stardolls Virtual World Reaches 10 Million Members
Stardoll, the virtual paper doll social network, has reached a milestone with the registration of 10 million members.Reported by comScore as being the number one site for girls age 9 to 17, Stardoll has definitely become a hub for teenage activity online. To celebrate this achievement, Hilary Duff is welcoming the 10 millionth [...]

Seekler to Offer Community-Driven Reviews Site
It’s already been quite a week for online search, and Seekler is the latest to tout their upcoming service for social search, as a community driven review site. The site has not been launched yet, and the alpha version of Seekler is being kept under tight wraps.Considering itself a Wikipedia for opinions, Seekler [...]