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DEL.ICIO.US TOOLBOX: 180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources
Social bookmarking was one of the earliest trends out on the social web, and del.icio.us quickly took the lead. Today, we outline over 180 of the best tools and resources to get the most out of the number one social bookmarking site.Related: SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: 50+ Social Bookmarking SitesRecommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

29 Coolest Custom Search Apps Built on Google
Google released a Facebook application this week built on the Google AJAX Search API. It didn’t work for long, alas, but there are plenty of developers creating interesting projects using the API, which basically lets you build your own custom search engine. In this article, we take a look at 29 of the [...]

Vcasmo Mashes PowerPoint with Your Videos
Japan-based Vcasmo is an online presentation tool that lets you mash your video and images with audio or webcam video.There are several ways in which you can use this service: combine your PowerPoint presentation with a video of yourself speaking, or mix a voice over with images from your last trip abroad. You [...]

Who Invented FacebookAnd Who Cares?
Aaron Greenspan is so important that at age 24, he has already written an autobiography. In it, he explains how he - not Mark Zuckerberg or the ConnectU founders - was the original creator of Facebook, a site now worth many billions of dollars. “This book is partly a search for justice”, he [...]

EASTER EGG: Flight Simulator Hidden Within Google Earth
Amazing but true: as spotted by Marco, Google has hidden a mini flight simulator within Google Earth. To access it for the first time, hit CTRL+Alt+A in Windows or Command+Option+A on the Mac. You need the latest version of Google Earth, and I needed to be over the US to get the window [...]

Scribd Users To Face Backlash After Mass SFWA Takedown Notice?
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) organization has taken it upon itself to issue a DMCA takedown notice for sci-fi reading lists on Scribd, stepping on a lot of toes.The issue at hand is in regards to the manner in which the SFWA is apparently policing the Scribd community, issuing takedown notices [...]

VisualTwitter Does the Obvious
VisualTwitter is the latest to build on the Twitter API. With this tool you quite simply send an image to your Twitter updates by sending it to me@visualtwitter.com. You’ll need to give VisualTwitter your phone number for validation purposes. You can sign in with your Twitter information. From there, everything is [...]

Buddy University: Attack of the Facebook Clone
Buddy University is the latest in Facebook clones. It’s currently in private beta, but once it launches, you’ll need a .edu email address to register as a member. I got a chance to check it out.The site aims to create a network around your college life, and entices you to sign up and [...]

Adobe Releases Kuler API for User-Gen Color Themes
Adobe Labs has released the API for Kuler, which is a web-based application for creating color themes.With this API offering, developers can request RSS feeds for the highest rated, most popular, and most recent themes that have been posted to Kuler, and integrate them within their own web sites. However, the API does not allow [...]

Tribler P2P Uses Bandwidth as Currency
Tribler, the p2p file sharing system that works on a recommendation system, is getting ready to implement a process that will encourage good file-sharing manners across its networks. See our initial write up on Tribler here.By treating bandwidth as currency, Tribler is hoping to enforce a better way of spreading the burden of file [...]

Scribd (Re)Launches Homework-Sharing App for Facebook
Scribd, the “YouTube for documents”, is trying to ride the back-to-school wave with a useful little Facebook app for sharing homework, notes, papers, and more. Both students and teachers can upload their documents to the “Share Homework” app and start sharing immediately. If the idea sounds familiar, it’s because it was originally launched [...]

Microsoft Buying BlackBerry?
With continued rumors of Microsoft possibly buying out Research In Motion, the company that makes BlackBerries, the company’s stock price has reached an all-time high of $85.The talks between Microsoft and RIM may be heating up, and most are naming the success of the iPhone and the growing potential of smart phones as causes [...]

Amazon Picks Date for Launch of DRM-free Music Store
Amazon’s DRM-free mp3 store is said to be ready for launch the week of September 17th. While this date is still on the tentative side, there’s no doubt that Amazon’s getting closer to its revealing of the online digital music store. See our previous coverage here.With partners EMI and Universal already [...]

Windows Live Spaces Launches New Photo Features
Starting today, Windows Live Spaces has added two new photo features.First is the upload of high resolution photos; you can not only make your gallery look nicer, but you can also optimize them for printing during upload.And it’s a good thing you can optimize for printing during upload, because you can now do exactly that [...]

Today is BlogDay. Spread Love!
Today is BlogDay. With the advent of BlogDay three years ago, the premise is to spur bloggers to get to know one another. Become better acquainted with bloggers from other countries, and other areas of interest. So today, bloggers are encouraged to post recommendations of 5 new blogs, so readers can find [...]

Facebook Campaign Forces Bank to Reverse Charges
The International bank HSBC has reversed its policy and has refunded student customers as a direct result of a student campaign on Facebook.With the plans to charge graduating students 9.9% APR on their overdrafts, many students were infuriated with the bank’s decision, stating that having a free overdraft to help them establish themselves with graduation [...]

Jacked Online Interactive TV Platform Gets $6.5M in Series A Round
Jacked, an online video platform for interactive television programming, has raised $6.5 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners, and Gabriel Venture Partners.Getting its first deal with NBC Sports for powering the NBCSports Play Action, which was an online game application for in-game participation [...]

Google News Signs Licensing Deal for Hosted Wire Content
Google News has struck a licensing agreement with several wire content distributors in order to provide hosted content through Google News.This means that you’ll be able to read a news story in Google News instead of following a link to the original source. This also means that the publications get in on the action, [...]

Razoo is a Community for Causes
Razoo is an online community that lets you create goals and groups for raising awareness and taking action for various causes. The site is currently in public beta.With Razoo you can join causes that have been posted by other users, or create some causes of your own. Each cause acts as an individual [...]

Eventant to Offer Hub for Event Planners and Goers
Eventat is an upcoming site that is looking to create a full-circle marketplace for events. The site is currently under wraps, but expects to launch a beta version this winter.The service will basically let you list, find, buy and rate events, on one centralizing site. There will be aspects of Eventat directed towards [...]

Groundbreaking Social Networking Patent at Auction
Ocean Tomo Auctions will offer the “Jaipuria Patent” for sale, U.S. Patent 7,047,202 which was filed back in 2001 and is considered one of the most important patents related to social networking. It will be offered as Lot 54 at the Ocean Tomo Fall 2007 Live IP Auction on October 25th at the Palmer [...]

LinkedIn Competitor Viadeo Raises 5 Million
Viadeo, a European social network for business contacts which is quite similar in idea and execution to LinkedIn, has raised a further 5 million in funding from its existing investors, AGF Private Equity and Ventech. The extra cash will be used to fuel the growth of Viadeo in Asia; so far, the network has been [...]

Socialistics Helps You Understand Your Social Network
Ever wanted to have an in-depth analysis of the people in your Facebook network? Now you can. A Facebook app called Socialistics gives you more data about your online friends that you can shake a stick at: clouds, statistics, graphs - it’s all there. And it’s not just the basics: Socialistics scratches quite deep beneath [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for August 31st, 2007
If you’re looking for a job at PBS, there are positions on the Web 2.0 Marketplace. Listings are $50, and we’re getting extremely positive feedback from sellers - may post some of those messages soon.Recent ListingsPBS Interactive DepartmentPBS Interactive has a number of key positions open which require not only web/broadband development experience, but [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for August 31st, 2007
Not much happening on the invites scene today. If you have a private beta site you’d like an invite to, hop over to Mashable Invites and click “request a site”.Recent InvitesBitMeTV InvitesBitMeTV is a P2P torrent site for e-learning. … MyBooo InvitesMyBooo is a Web OS that allows you to share and exchange [...]

30+ Skins For Opera
With the latest version of Opera Mini coming out this week, we were reminded to take another look at the popular and very usable browser that’s too often considered a runner up to Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. So for the Opera fans, here are 30+ Opera skins (some pretty, some not so much) [...]