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Remembles Digital Washline is Your Life
Rememble is a new network that lets you track your digital life almost too well. There’s the ability to add membles, which are tiny snippets of your life, to your profile directly from your PC, or from your cell phone. That means you can add text messages and images and videos from your [...]

MeeCard Offers Portable Online Profiles
MeeCard is a personal profile tool that lets you create a portable “snapshot” of yourself which can be promoted to others online. The site is currently in private beta.With MeeCard, you’ll be able to make an online profile, and include the personal information that you want others to know. You can also include [...]

Flip.com Flops?
Conde Naste’s introductory entrant into the online social networking market isn’t looking too good. Flip.com, the site geared towards teenage girls, has seen very little growth since its launch in Feb. of this year. What turned out to be a significant financial investment from the magazine giant, Flip.com has surely disappointed the execs. [...]

Naspers Offering to Acquire IM Company Gadu Gadu
Naspers, the multimedia giant based in South Africa, has announced its plans to make an offer to snatch up 100% Polish IM service Gadu Gadu. The current majority shareholder of Gadu Gadu has agreed to tender its 55% shareholding in the public tender offer. In order to gain 100% acceptance of this tender offer, [...]

Cliq is the Latest Link Love Network
CLIQ is a new blogging tool for bloggers to help each other gain visibility by driving traffic to each other’s sites. Built on the offermatica platform, you join the site and then join a cliq. These are the people you help, and will in turn help you. Cliqs can be private or public, [...]

Social Suggester Launches Search Widget
Social Suggester, the media recommendation service, is launching a widget tomorrow which will let you search for recommendations directly from the widget. Find info on music, movies, television shows and books from this new widget. You can also type in a keyword search. As with Social Suggester’s main service, you can see lesser known [...]

Izimi Gets New Name & Better Sharing Options
We haven’t heard from izimi in a while, and considering the review Pete gave back in March, it’s not entirely surprising. More than a few companies have created some elbow room in the market since then, including Tubes and Box.net. So after being infused with about $3 million in funding, it’s ripe [...]

Yelp Adds Detailed Ratings Graphs for Users
Yelp just added a new recommendation feature last week that’s similar to Amazon, letting you see other items that users have viewed that have also viewed the item you’re looking at. As helpful as this new feature is, Yelp’s latest release could be just as handy. Rating details are now available for users, [...]

eBay Deletes Listings with Jajah VoIP Buttons
One week after Jajah released its new embeddable buttons with a special version for eBay, the auction site deleted all listings that had the click-to-call buttons as an option for contacting the seller. Jajah reports that several thousand eBay sellers added the buttons to their listings, indicating the useful nature of the VoIP option [...]

Tailrank Unleashes Upgraded Spinn3r
Tailrank, the blog buzz tracker, has some major updates for its Tailrank service as well as its subsidiary Spinn3r. There are new releases for both services. Starting with Spinn3r: version 2.0 is now available, and it’s completely free of charge for researchers. It’s new mainstream news crawler indexes top sites, and [...]

imbees Parent Company Gets New Exec
imbee’s parent company, Industrious Kid, is making a few major changes to its internal executive structure. Steve Rogers has been appointed as the new Vice President of Business Development. Rogers comes from Zhone Technoloies, a telecommunications company previously founded by Industrious Kid CEO, Jeanette Symons. The most important announcement here is the [...]

ffwd Finds Videos & Friends Based on a Quiz
ffwd is an upcoming compatibility tool that will determine your television interests based on an initial quiz, and offer recommendations from there. The site is currently in private beta.When you first join the site, you’re offered a comprehensive list of popular tv shows to choose from. The list is in alphabetical order and [...]

iPhone Opening to Third-Party Apps; Not Other Networks
Here’s more reasons why Apple will only increase its control over the ability to unlock iPhones: more “official” third-party applications may be on the way. As allowing phones to be unlocked would prove dire for the licensed use of third-party games and content, its unlikely that Apple will b letting up on this end [...]

Grazr 2.0 is Here, and Less Geeky
Grazr, the tool for custom feeds, has launched a new version this week, called Grazr 2.0. The most important new features are the drag’n'drop capabilities for creating feeds. This functionality is extended to web pages outside of Grazr’s editor, meaning you can drag items from any web page into your Grazr feeds. [...]

Bloggers To Gain Protection Through Free Flow of Information Act
The blurred distinction between journalist and blogger received further confusion during a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday. Representatives supported an amended version of the “Free Flow of Information Act” by a margin of fifteen to two. With a focus on “reporter’s privilege,” the bill could potentially extend bloggers the right to protect [...]

Bloggers To Gain Protection Through Free Flow of Information Act
The blurred distinction between journalist and blogger received further confusion during a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday. Representatives supported an amended version of the “Free Flow of Information Act” by a margin of fifteen to two. With a focus on “reporter’s privilege,” the bill could potentially extend bloggers the right to protect [...]

Craigslist Adds Posting Fees in 4 More Cities
Craigslist is giving in and implementing a $25 fee for job postings on its classifieds site. There were already fees charged for posting jobs in New York and Los Angeles. The four new cities that will now see charges for job postings include Chicago, Orange County, Portland and Sacramento. The two main [...]

RIAA Trial Over: Thomas found Guilty of Infringement
As expected, the RIAA’s case against Jaimmie Thomas ended today. And the jury has found Thomas guilty of “willful” copyright infringement. With a price of over $9,000 per song found in her possession, Thomas’ bill adds up to $222,000. Whether or not the RIAA will actually collect this amount is not yet [...]

Ceehive Brings Contests For All
Ceehive is a new network for contests. You can create your own, submit entries for existing contests, and be a judge for ongoing contests as well. The site is currently in private beta. So what’s th purpose of having a site just for contests? Ceehive is promoting its site as a way to [...]

How Many iPhones are Sold Just to Be Unlocked?
Investment bank Piper Jaffray analysts have indicated that as many at 10% of iPhones sold during the month of September were purchased with the intention of being unlocked and resold. Analyst Gene Munster has taken into account the number of iPhone, iPod and Mac sales in Apple stores across the country, and noted that [...]

Movable Life Shrinks Second Life for Browser Use
3Di, a company based in Japan, offers a browser-based alternative to experiencing Second Life, called Movable Life. It does run the official Second Life client, and gives you the option of enjoying your Second Life account without the 3D imaging. That being said, it’s a pretty basic “view” of Second Life, based on [...]

Mesmo Receives $900,000 Series A Financing
Social video website Mesmo, Inc received a Series A round of $900,000 from Felice Ventures and Maple Investments. The company allows visitors to browse videos in a variety of ways including content, channels, and people. Also available to Mesmo users are share features for distributing and uploading videos from any website featuring [...]

MySpace Offers PayPal Integration for Non-Profits
MySpace has found a way to partner with PayPal. The two companies have teamed up to enable non-profits and political candidates to raise funds through the Impact channel, MySpace’s civic and political section. This is also the official launch of the Impact Channel, which will also have a Volunteer Space segment, which [...]

Googles Stance Against Verizon for 700MHz Auction
The upcoming auction for the 700MHz spectrum has garnered a lot of dispute and discussion from the major players, including Verizon, AT&T, Frontline Wireless, and Google. With the rules for the auction set back in August, we’ve already seen petitions submitted to the FCC from ATT&T, Frontline and Verizon, requesting that the rules be [...]

Ikordos Microsoft Outlook Integration
ikordo, the business meeting planning tool, has just added integration with Microsoft Outlook. This feature is still in private beta, and I got a chance to try it out. This new feature should be officially announced early next week. You may remember that ikordo offers several automated tools for planning meetings [...]

IE7 Update Available for Download
Microsoft has just released an updated version of Internet Explorer 7, with a few new minor features, and broader availability to more users. Windows Genuine Advantage validation is no longer required for the installation of IE 7, and is now accessible to all Windows XP users. Those who are already running IE7 [...]

CloudMade Selects OpenStreetMap for Commercial Mapping Venture
CloudMade, a company founded by London-based entrepreneurs Nick Black and Steve Coast, selected OpenStreetMap to power their community mapping, open data, and open systems platform. Using OpenStreetMap enables CloudMade to crowdsource geo-data collection from approximately 1000 contributors per month. Cloudmade ensures incoming data is regularly added for clients and also verifies the submitted [...]

Microsoft HealthVault: Web-Based Platform for Medical Records
After two years spent building a team, technology, and the attached expertise, Microsoft announced HealthVault today in Washington. HealthVault is a web-based personal health record tracking data such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, surgical procedures, etc. Centralizing medical data for physician access alleviates problems in both personalized care and also insurance.Microsoft [...]

Pandora Remains Blocked to International Users
Internet radio service Pandora doesn’t have any good news for international users yet, five months after being forced to shut off the site to non-US members. According to the company, the royalties that are required to be paid to artists and their labels in the UK and elsewhere make providing an ad-support web radio [...]

Share Personal Memes on Meemi
Meemi is a new social networking blog where users can collect scraps from across the web and share them within this community. For these collections you build, you can add links, quotes, images, events, or just a text note, which is likened to a Twitter update. Meemi, based in Italy, has a bookmarking [...]

Microsoft Announces HealthVault, a Platform for Medical Records
After two years spent building a team, technology, and the attached expertise, Microsoft announced HealthVault today in Washington. HealthVault is a web-based personal health record tracking data such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, surgical procedures, etc. Centralizing medical data for physician access alleviates problems in both personalized care and also insurance.Microsoft [...]

iLike Launches New Tools for Artists
iLike, the music service that has exploded thanks to their Facebook app, is launching a tool to let musicians manage their social network marketing. The new software, called the “Artist Services Platform” allows artists to upload songs, add events, and communicate with fans. Additionally, the tool includes statistics so artists can see how [...]

CloudMade Selects OpenStreetMap for Commercial Mapping Venture
CloudMade, a company founded by London-based entrepreneurs Nick Black and Steve Coast, selected OpenStreetMap to power their community mapping, open data, and open systems platform. Using OpenStreetMap enables CloudMade to crowdsource geo-data collection from approximately 1000 contributors per month. Cloudmade ensures incoming data is regularly added for clients and also verifies the submitted [...]

eBay Purchases German Auction Tool Site After Buy
eBay has purchased a German site, After Buy, that automates much of the sales process for auction sellers.While no purchase price was disclosed, eBay gobbled up the German-based auction management site to aid in their communication with users of their site servicing German customers, eBay.de. The management site does also allow users to sell [...]

Super Wall Worth $10 Million+? RockYous CEO Thinks So
The CEO of RockYou believes the company’s “Super Wall” Facebook application is worth more than $10 million. Lance Tokuda told the New York Times If you told me you were going to write me a check for $10 million, Id say, Forget it.’Super Wall is one of Facebook’s most popular applications with more than [...]

20 Great 3-Column Drupal Themes
After our recent overview of 2-column themes for Drupal, it’s now time to switch to almost equally popular 3-column themes, which give the user a lot more maneuver space. We’ve chosen 20 fine themes for you; hope you’ll enjoy them.Recommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

Google Gaining on Baidu in China
Google improved its market share in China about 4 percent in the most recent quarter to 22.8% according to Analysys International. Baidu.com dominates the Chinese search market with 58.1 percent share, but is growing slower than Google with only a 1 percent improvement in the same time period.Google has recently bolstered their efforts in [...]

Justin.tv Raises VC Funding
Lifecasting company Justin.tv has taken an undisclosed amount of financing from Alsop Louie Partners. This comes on the heals of the company announcing that they are opening up their platform so that anyone can broadcast their life to the world. For those not in the know, Justin.tv launched earlier this year, initially just [...]

News Corp Calls Out Google on Piracy
News Corp. COO Peter Chernin thinks Google could do a better job of preventing pirated video from appearing on YouTube according to statements the executive made to the Financial Times. Of course, the comments come as Chernins company prepares to launch its joint venture with NBC Universal later this month to make the their [...]

Turner and Kaneva Partner on Virtual World Technology
Turner Broadcasting (the parent company of CNN, Court TV, Cartoon Network, and several other channels) and Kaneva have signed a one year deal to extend Turner’s broadcasting capabilities to the virtual realm. With this new deal, Turner will have access to Kaneva’s tools, creating the capability to build communities and spaces centered around their different [...]

Live Search Maps to Introduce New Features
Microsoft is set to debut some enhancements to Live Search Maps. Aside from some layout changes to create more room on the map, there are two new features coming that actually make a lot of sense for helping you get from Point A to Point B.First, there will be a new option for compressing [...]

Bebo and AIM Partner to Offer Instant Messaging on Profiles
Bebo and AIM have hooked up to offer seamless instant messaging between the two services. Bebo profiles will now show whether or not the respective user is signed onto AIM and allow another user to send them an instant message, even if they dont have the AIM software. Additionally, Bebo users will be [...]

Tjoos Compares Store To Door Prices
Price comparison isn’t really a novelty - sites that compare prices of products from several vendors have been around since the late 90ies. Price comparison engine Tjoos boasts an important advantage over the competition: it takes into account the actual price, including tax and shipping charges, volume discounts, coupons, free shipping offers and hidden handling [...]

Woman Sues Apple For $1 Million - Over $200 Price Cut
Sometimes, before you sue someone, you should try out if your lawsuit passes the common sense test. For example, if you’re an early adopter which bought the iPhone for $400, and then Apple reduced that price to $200, you got screwed over for $200. Actually, $100 if you count in the Apple store gifts that [...]

Coobico Mixes MMO With Social Networking
Although every MMO is, in fact, some sort of social network, many companies are trying to find that special niche where gaming and social networking meet. Coobico is, as the founders say, a mix of casual MMO (casual, in the realm of MMOs, usually means that you don’t have to leave your family, quit your [...]

.NET TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools and Tips For Working With .NET
Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks.Related: 20+ Flash Tools, 20+ PHP Tools, 20+ AJAX Tools, 20+ Java Tools, 20+ RoR Tools, 20+ Perl [...]