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Sportingos Blogging Community Funded
Sportingo, a sports fan portal community, has raised just under $6 million in funding from London-based Ingenious Media. Launched early this year in Israel, Sportingo is a site where users can write their own match reviews and commentary, and discuss others’ content. With the type of content that’s created on Sportingo, this [...]

You Can Be on Justin.tv Too!
Justin.tv has opened its network, which means that anyone can now use its platform for broadcasting live video across the web. With its partnership with On2 Technologies, you can create your own Justin.tv experience. As a user you’ll get a personalized channel page, where you can customize the header, background, add widgets, [...]

Zune 2nd Generation Unveiled
Microsoft is that much closer to completely lifting the veil off the second generation of Zune, its mp3 player and iPod competitor. We first mentioned the 2nd generation of Zune here. There are two models: a 40GB for $149 and an 80GB for $249. The new stuff includes a Zune Pad navigation button, [...]

Boing Boing Launches Daily TV Show
Popular blog BoingBoing is launching its own web-based daily tv show. Much like the blog, BoingBoingTV will focus on odd bits from around the Web, but in daily 3-5 minute video segments, five days a week.The show will be hosted by Xeni Jardin and BoingBoing co-creator Mark Frauenfelder, while other BoingBoing contributors will also [...]

Evite Rival MyPunchBowl Gets Funding
MyPunchBowl, the event-planning site that’s joined the new crowd of Evite rivals, has recently been funded. According to VentureBeat, the exact amount of funding has not been disclosed, but it’s less than $1 million, and is enough to keep the team in development for another year. It’s safe to say that MyPunchBowl has [...]

Google Loses Domain Name Battle in Germany
Germany’s got it out for Google. A German court has ordered Google to pay 10,000 euros, which is about $14,000, for using the m.gmail.com domain for mobile search. This has been ruled a violation of a court order in a trademark case. Google is now using the Googlemail name across Germany, as [...]

Google Earth Updates Images
Google Earth has just updated a good amount of 60cm satellite imagery for its mapping service. So far, the updated images are mostly in the US, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Australia, and New Zealand, but 130 countries total have had images updated with this latest publishing release. This serves as [...]

Yahoo Divesting in Shopping Site Kelkoo
Yahoo may soon divest in Kelkoo, the European comparison shopping site. Acquired three years ago for about $575 million, the strategy for comparison shopping sites and other niche sites is being addressed given the changing market we’re currently experiencing. Yahoo’s UK managing director Glen Drury has noted the shift that Scripps has also [...]

New Web Sitcom Break A Leg Syndicated Across Networks
The latest in made-for-Internet-content: BreakALeg.tv. This is a new sitcom produced by Late Again Films, a San Francisco-based company launched by two brothers Vlad and Yuri Baranovsky. The show follows David Penn, a writer who’s just gotten his first sitcom deal as a result of the death of the show’s writer/creator. [...]

Fmail Brings Gmail to your Facebook
Fmail is a new Facebook app that lets you check your Gmail from your Facebook account. Built on Gmail Lite, all of your Gmail messages show up in an iFrame within your Facebook account. It’s somewhat interactive with Facebook, meaning there are tabs for your mailbox actions for this application, like access [...]

EduSims Whiteboards for Interactive Learning
EduSim is a very cool whiteboard tool that incorporates a virtual, 3D learning environment for teachers and students, k-12. Built on the open source virtual world software Croquet, EduSim offers a pretty inclusive way in which communication can take place through the merging of white boards. EduSim whiteboards support images, music, videos [...]

NBC-iTunes Rift Extends to Fox Shows
NBC Universal’s pulling of their shows from iTunes doesn’t only include the programming on the peacock network, but also at least one show on Fox.Although the popular medical drama House airs on the Fox network, it is produced by Universal Media Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, and thus, has been pulled from iTunes. [...]

Ballmers Push for Microsoft Ad Network Dominance
Steve Ballmer’s talks in Paris today continued with his announcement of Microsoft’s plans to increase spending on its online advertising network. In efforts to overtake Google on the advertising front, Microsoft is putting a lot of resources into its own online advertising network and hoping to become the #1 option for businesses out there. [...]

Break.com Teams Up With Panache for Video Ad Delivery
Break and Panache have announced a new deal to deliver integrated video advertising to Break’s burgeoning user base.The 17,000,000 plus viewers of Break mostly fall in the coveted advertising demographic of 21-34-year old males, and with Panache’s rapid ad deployment technology, it should make it easier than ever for advertisers to reach out [...]

New Jersey Moves to Investigate Facebook Too
What happens when your social network begins to gain on MySpace? Attorneys start to gain on you. New Jersey’s State Attorney General Anne Milgram has subpoenaed Facebook in order to find any sex offenders from the state that may have profiles on the social network. The subpoena was sent to Facebook [...]

Slackers Punk Station for Spin Magazine Cover Story
Spin Magazine and Slacker have teamed up to bring you the “Spin Punk” Slacker Spotlight Station. This is being launched in conjunction with Spin Magazine’s October issue cover story, “1997: The Year Punk Exploded!” With the Spin Punk station, you’ll get access to the influential punk rockers, which have been hand-picked by [...]

NBC-iTunes Rift Extends to Fox Shows
NBC Universal’s pulling of their shows from iTunes doesn’t only include the programming on the peacock network, but also at least one show on Fox.Although the popular medical drama House airs on the Fox network, it is produced by Universal Media Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, and thus, has been pulled from iTunes. [...]

Bloglines Fall Line Up Debuts Today
Bloglines, the personalized feed reader, has been working on several releases as of late, the previous being a new Beta Start Page. Now the most recent addition is the support of OpenID, a mobile version, and new personalization preferences. OpenID is of course gaining support from several web-based services in hopes of pushing [...]

Google Maps Provided for International Clean Up Weekend
Google is spreading the word, and resources, for International Clean Up Weekend, which goes down on October 13th and 14th. To help you help the world, Google Maps can be used for planning and promoting clean ups that you’re holding in your own local areas. Mark your clean up location on a Google [...]

Summer Never Ends at MyCampFriends
MyCampFriends is a new social network for just that. You and your camp friends. The sense of humor you’ll find throughout this social network makes you remember why you cringed at the thought of having to go to summer camp, but always had fun once you got there. You can join [...]

RIAAs Sacrificial Lamb Brought to Trial
The case of Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas began today with the jury selection, opening statements, and testimony from the first witness as brought on by the prosecutor. Jammie Thomas is the first person, of the 20,000 initially named, to be brought to trial regarding copyright infringement and distribution of copyrighted material. [...]

Facebooks French Revelation: Too Little Too Late?
Facebook’s international growth has been garnering a lot of talk in the past few weeks, in part because of Facebook’s overall growth and new, astronomical valuation. With its exploding success in Europe, Facebook has earned its bragging rights. Considering its new UK office, it’s a natural progression to expand globally in the [...]

MOG Relaunch Includes Full-Length Tracks
MOG is gearing up for a complete site redesign, which will include better page load time, a new color scheme, and easier ways to consume music. More importantly however, there will be full-length tracks available on MOG, which will also be available for your music widgets and playlists. Instead of the 30-second [...]

SharedBook Extends API Contest
SharedBook, the reverse publishing service for web content creators, is extending its SharedBook Open API Challenge, which we covered here. The new deadline is October 31, 2007. It’s also sweetened the deal by offering the winners a 20% share of any books sold from their development efforts. In addition, all participants are [...]

Getty Images Does Music Too. Thanks Pump Audio.
Getty Images, the distributor of visual content, has launched Soundtrack, which will do for music what Getty has done for images and videos. Soundtrack is a music licensing service that’s been created as a result of Getty’s acquisition of Pump Audio earlier this summer. It’s got 20,000 + songs available for [...]

Razoo Joins Fight Against Burma Military Oppression
With Jim Carrey and thousands of Facebook members jumping in to raise awareness for the dire situation in Burma, it’s good to see more people joining this bandwagon. Razoo, the community or raising awareness for your project or organization of choice, is now promoting the group called “The Road.” This particular project [...]

Weather Channel Interactive Partners with MySpace
Weather Channel Interactive’s recent wave of acquisitions and announcements continues through a partnership with MySpace. The agreement will result in a weather section powered by weather.com, accessible via both the MySpace homepage and each individual network page.The new weather section - available here - provides traditional 5-day forecasts, national/regional maps, recent weather [...]

Facebook Boasts About its International Growth
Facebook has shared some stats about their international growth, and the results are (not surprisingly) very impressive. The company reports more than 5.5 billion page views in UK in August, with the average user viewing around 1,100 pages. The company has also officially announced the opening of an office in London.As you can [...]

RadiusIM Passes 100,000 Users
RadiusIM, a tool that combines web-based IM with Google Maps, has passed 100,000 registered users. According to the company, more than 40,000 of these users have signed up in the last month, thanks in part to the Facebook application the company recently launched. RadiusIM also says that new email invite features they have [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for October 2nd, 2007
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and New Media websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.New ListingsWikis, Blogs, and File SharingNear-Time is a leading Web2.0 based SaaS collaboration platform. Thousands of organizations in over… askany.info for saleAskany.info is an ideal domain for web 2.0 [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for October 2nd, 2007
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! Yahoo Mash InvitesYahoo Mash is a new social network from Yahoo. … Delicious InvitesInvites for the new private beta version of the Delicious social bookmarking site.Cre8Buzz InvitesShowcase yourself, showoff, post your pictures, blog your opinions, and [...]

Jalbums Photo Album Site Now has Free Hosting
JAlbum, the photo album service, is now offering a free hosting alternative for you to save your images and create online photo albums. This adds to Jalbum’s existing photo album service by giving you free space to host your images. The free account gives you 30MB, which will fit about 200 images to [...]

Ballmer Comments on Facebook
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks there is value in the community Facebook has created, but apparently isnt so sure it deserves the $10 billion valuation that has been widely reported. Ballmer told Times Online that there cant be any more deep technology in Facebook than what dozens of people could write in a couple [...]

Yahoo Rolls Out New Search Features
Yahoo has made a number of enhancements to their core search engine. The first major change is that a search now shows related terms that you might want to try. For example, searching for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will ask you if you want to also try a search for gisele [...]

New Show to Debut on MySpace Before TV in the UK
A new comedy on BBC2 in the UK will hit MySpace before airing on TV. Three 10 minute minisodes of The Peter Serafinowicz Show will be shown on MySpace this week before debuting on TV on Thursday. The first video will go live later today on the social network in the UK. [...]

Mochila Adds Citizen Image to its Repertoire
Mochila, the content syndication marketplace, has signed a new deal with Citizen Image, the citizen photojournalist agency. With this deal, photos from Citizen Image will be made available to web publishers that syndicate content from Mochila. Citizen Image will be participating on Mochila’s AdMatch program, where web publishers can buy and syndicate [...]

Eurekster Adds Blinkx Video Search to Swicki Widgets
Eurekster, the social search engine and company behind Swicki’s customizable search widget, is partnering with blinkx to create a video swicki widget. There will be a custom video search and video buzzcloud widget that will feature video content from blinkx, the niche search engine that specializes in video content. Users can choose a [...]

PYTHON TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools For Taming Python
Python is one of the most popular languages out there, and some say the easiest. We’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with the language no matter what your skill level.Related: 20+ Flash Tools, 20+ PHP Tools, 20+ AJAX Tools, 20+ Java Tools, 20+ RoR Tools, 20+ Perl ToolsRecommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!Share [...]

Top 10 Free E-books For Bloggers
E-books aren’t as great to read as old school hard-bound books that you can cuddle up with in your bed. But, with some topics, like blogging, you’ll find more useful e-books than regular books. That’s why we checked out all the e-books for bloggers and handpicked ten contemporary ones that we think are the best [...]

40+ Media Players That Arent iTunes
iTunes is arguably the most popular media player for Mac & Windows, with a recent update for the iPhone…but is it the best? Check out the competition: 40 other popular media players.Feel free to add more media players in the comments. And dont forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and [...]

20+ Tools For Perl Development
Even in this day-and-age of Java and Ajax, Perl still has a role to play in the world of coding. To make sure you don’t forget it, we’ve collected over 20 tools and tutorials to help you with all of your Perl programming needs.Related: 20+ Flash Tools, 20+ PHP Tools, 20+ AJAX Tools, 20+ Java [...]

WidgetBucks Giving You $25 to Register
WidgetBucks is a shopping widget that you can place on your website or blog. You earn money every time someone clicks on it. Launched through mpire’s affiliate widget program, the widgets’ content is contextually based according to your site’s content. From there, readers and site visitors can see various information regarding [...]