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Yahoo Kickstart: Yahoo Building Rival to Facebook and LinkedIn
Yahoo is building a social network for college students looking for jobs. Named Yahoo Kickstart (and presumably at kickstart.yahoo.com when it goes live), the service connects college students with alumni at the companies they’d like to work for. As CNET explains, users have profile pages in the resume style of LinkedIn, rather than [...]

Is It a Good Deal? Oodle Insights Will Tell You.
Oodle, the online classifieds system, has added a new feature called Oodle Insights.This new feature will give you a bit of extra information for each listing you browse. This extra information is based on the database of classifieds listings, and will give you a point of comparison as you peruse the site. For [...]

QuickInsert: Charge for Your Content
QuickInsert is a hosted solution for storing your private or subscription-based content and selling it to users.With this tool, you store your information with QuickInsert. When a user clicks to access certain content on your site, they’re asked to register or login for access. If you’re selling content or a subscription, users can [...]

Joost Opens Up API for Widgets
Joost has released its latest version of its Internet TV service, and it includes an API allowing developers to create widgets to be installed inside Joost.The goal of allowing third-party widgets inside Joost is to make the application more social and centralizing. Some of the current example widgets include an RSS reader, an [...]

Create Your Own Facebook Direct Profile URL
The Profile Web Address application (it’s actual application name is unnecessarily long) lets you create a direct link to your profile, with any name you choose. This application comes from the same people that created the “Surveys, Petitions, Votes, Polls & Quizes” Facebook app.Just like with MySpace, you can now pick a URL [...]

Wikirage Shows Wikipedia Entries with Most Edits
WikiRage is a site that shows the top 100 pages on Wikipedia that are receiving the most edits per unique editor.The list is based on Wikipedia activity from the previous two days. On the home page you’ll see all 100 entries that are getting the most amount of edits. Click on any of [...]

Google Gadgets Can Talk to Each Other
iGoogle gadgets can now communicate with each other using Google’s PubSub framework, which stands for publish-subscribe. One gadget can essentially be set up to “publish” content to another gadget, which is the “subscriber,” meaning information is being sent from one gadget to the other. This currently only works for gadgets on the same page. [...]

DailyMotion Scores $34 Million in Funding; Acquisition Rumor
We were sent a tip earlier today saying that video sharing site DailyMotion might be headed for a 350 million acquisition. While I’m very skeptical about that one (let us know if you have more info), my digging did deliver some other DailyMotion news: the video sharing site has raised $34 million in VC [...]

BugLabs Offers More Details On Open Source Gadgets Tool
BugLabs has finally offered up some more details about its open source hardware tools for building gadgets, called BUG, with the launching of its website. It aims to do for gadgets what open source has done for the web. We first caught wind of the upcoming product late last month. [...]

TheFanYard Launches Football Prediction Site
TheFanYard is a new community built for predicting the outcomes of football games.Within the community, users can make NFL and NCAAF game predictions, and track their accuracy over the season. The top users are placed on the leaderboard, and every user can see their position against the members of the leaderboard, and the rest [...]

First Book Written as a Wiki: We Are Smarter Than Me
“We Are Smarter than Me” is a collaborative effort to write a book using an online wiki tool.The book will focus on the importance of collaboration within the business community. Initiated by research done at Wharton and MIT, “We Are Smarter than Me” is taking the crowd-wisdom approach to not only discuss how [...]

BlastMyMusic & Cozybug Facebook Applications
BlastMyMusic has launched a Facebook application called MusicBlaster, and is among the first to let you sell your music through your Facebook account. This works just like your BlastMyMusic account, and you’ll need to return to the main site in order to set up your music store, etc. From there, the [...]

Mogads Bookmarking Plug-In Funded
Mogad, a bookmark-sharing community, has raised $500,000 in its first round of financing, led by Felicis Ventures. The service works by letting you bookmark and track various websites. There’s a long list of sites and feeds that you can choose from in your account settings (Mashable is one). You also have the option [...]

Googles Facebook App Is Real, Developers Sworn to Secrecy
Despite a little skepticism from some quarters about its existence, the Google Facebook app is very real, and until a few moments ago you could add it to your account using this link (not the typical apps.facebook.com/google). That page also included links to all the developer’s profiles (there are four in total). However, [...]

Conan OBrien to Stream on NBC.com
NBC Digital Entertainment has begun streaming the show “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on NBC.com.This is the first broadcast late-night program to stream on any broadcast network website, and will be made available the following day at 12 noon (PST). Considering the show’s online fan base, this is a good move by NBC. [...]

CNN Dropping Rueters After 27 Years
In an effort to cut costs, CNN has announced that it will no longer use material from Rueters for its content, starting tomorrow.The decision was made in order that CNN would focus more attention on developing its own new gathering sources, though it will still use content from the Associated Press and Associated Press [...]

Mobiseer is Digg for Mobile Websites
Mobiseer is a new site launched by the creators of Zinadoo, which lets you create and share a mobile website.What you can do with mobiseer is bookmark mobile websites and share them with the community. Save the ones you’d like to keep track of, and make a customized mobile website for easy and [...]

KoolIM Launches iCal Channel, Email Notifications and More
Koolim, the web-based IM service, has launched several new features effective immediately, and more are coming soon.The ones available today include the addition of the Gadu-Gadu Network for Polish users, XFire for gaming users, a weather content channel and iCal Content Channel. And several user requested features have been added such as sounds, email [...]

Thailands Ban on YouTube Fully Lifted
The Thai government has finally fully lifted its ban on YouTube after a deal was made between the video-sharing network and local Thai officials.With YouTube in agreement to block any clips that are offensive to Thai people or violate Thai law, the Thai government has fully lifted its ban. Initiated earlier this [...]

Opera Mini Beta Release 2 Now Live
Opera Mini Beta 4 has just launched the latest version of its mobile web browsing service.Included in the set of new features is exclusive Blackberry support, which basically offers an optimized version of its service for Blackberry users, complete with better menus and an improved user interface. There’s also a new landscape mode for [...]

Viacom: Its Not Copyright Infringement When We Do it to You
It’s the same old story: Viacom runs clip on TV without permission. Creator takes his clip from Viacom to post on YouTube. Viacom issues cease and desist letter to creator claiming that they own the clip.A filmmaker named Christopher Knight created a quirky ad campaign when he ran for the elected position on [...]

Blogger Hacked
Google’s Blogger platform has been hacked.These hackers are going around posting fake entries to some hundreds of users’ blogs, containing weblinks that will redirect you to malware that, if downloaded, can infect a Windows PC. The malware will find personal data that can be sold, or used for additional attacks. This malware takes [...]

Last.fm Holding 1st Live Concert in London
Last.fm is holding a live concert in partnership with Hot Chip and five other UK bands in an effort to raise money for Spitz.The Spitz venue is a live music, gallery, bar and bistro: a place for up-and-coming underground artists to build a fan base and perform live gigs. Sadly, it’s getting ready to close. [...]

Sony Connect Music Service Shutting Down
The Sony CONNECT music service is closing down in the US and Canada, as Sony is moving to the open Windows Media platform for North America.This means that pretty soon, you’ll no longer be able to purchase music from this service. The service is scheduled to shut down in March 2008, but Sony is [...]

VersionTracker Acquired by CNET
VersionTracker, an online publication for software updates, has been acquired by CNET. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.With this integration deal, VersionTracker and its sister sites iPhone Atlas and MacFixIt will be incorporated into the CNET family as well. This gives VersionTracker a larger audience and access to more resources, while CNET [...]

Seedcamps 20 Startups Revealed
Financial Times has got the scoop on all the 20 web startups that will be presented at Seedcamp, a European version of Y Combinator which hopes to find (and fund) the Europe’s answer to Google. The 20 finalists have been chosen from over 270 young startups from 40 countries, and the five winning teams will [...]

40+ Tools For Google Calendar
The new Yahoo Mail rolled out to everyone this week with, among other things, better integration with Yahoo Calendar. But don’t forget what we think is the simplest calendar out there: Google Calendar. We’ve thrown together a series of programs, browser add-ons, Greasemonkey scripts, and Stylish user styles for Google’s calendar service.Recommended: MySpace [...]

PHOTOSHOP TOOLBOX - 80+ Photoshop Tools and Resources
Almost exactly 6 months ago (February 28th 2007), Adobe promised an online edition of Photoshop “within 6 months”. That hasn’t materialized yet, but in the meantime we thought we’d take a look at the desktop version, which is an irreplaceable tool for every photographer and web designer out there…even most bloggers can’t live without [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for August 30th, 2007
New Web 2.0 sites for sale, jobs, events, services and more from the Web 2.0 Marketplace.Latest ListingsPBS Interactive DepartmentPBS Interactive has a number of key positions open which require not only web/broadband development experience, but also offer the opportunity to play a key role in overall strategy and content decision-making…Director, Content ManagementPBS seeks talented candidates [...]

Mashable is a Top Undiscovered Site
I’m not sure whether you’re supposed to be flattered or offended when featured on PCWorld’s Top 100 Undiscovered Websites of 2007. But Mashable did get a place, while Zoho, Meebo, Piknik and lots of other social sites also get some coverage.Recommended: Piczo Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

Liberated Films 2.0 Launches
Liberated Films, the online film resource, has launched a new version 2.0 and has added a slew of new features to go along with it.You now can enjoy the benefits of free video encoding software, which should make the upload submissions process easier for content owners, and will no doubt go nicely with Liberated Films’ [...]