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Upspring is LinkedIn, Facebook & Google Ads Rolled Up in One
Upspring is a new network for businesses that’s aimed to help you promote your company through social networking with other businesses. The site will go live in the Bay area over the weekend.You bring the products and upspring brings the marketing tools. It’s specifically designed for local businesses looking to leverage the Internet [...]

OReilly Releases Report on Facebooks Developers Platform
O’Reilly has released a report on the Facebook Application platform, reviewing its strategic moves of opening its social network to anyone, and then opening up its developer platform on top of that. The result has been massive growth, and OReilly’s report discusses the point of revenue. Has all this success turned to profit? [...]

Google Desktop Gadgets for Your Startpage
Google Desktop gadgets can now be added to your iGoogle start page. This ability comes with the latest version of Google Desktop, which is 5.5 Beta. From your iGoogle Content Directory, you can find which gadget you’d like to add to your startpage, and click the “add it now” button. If you [...]

Xanga Adds Flare for Your Comments
Xanga is adding a couple of features to its blogging network. First up is Xanga Minis, which are animated figures and icons that you can place in comments you leave for other users. If you don’t want the extra flare on your profile, however, you can opt out of Xanga Minis. These [...]

Smooches for Bookworms, now on BookMooch
BookMooch, the network for exchanging used books, has released a few updates. There is now a secret admirer feature, which lets you send smooches to cuties you’re crushing. There’s also some new widget offerings, which involves a rather extensive list of options. BookMooch has created a text list for all the [...]

StyleFeeder Gets $1M for Social Shopping App
StyleFeeder has raised $1 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital. The social shopping tool is competing with a growing pool of social shopping applications, such as Kaboodle and Jellyfish, both of which have been acquired by Hearst and Microsoft respectively. StyleFeeder is currently focusing on the technology of social [...]

Hi5 Going the Facebook Route (along with everyone else)
Hi5 is the latest in a growing line of social networks with plans to offer a developer platform. While Hi5 already incorporated a widget gallery for select widgets from approved developers consisting of Slide and RockYou, this looks to be an official announcement for its upcoming developer platform. Hi5 had also already announced [...]

Squidoo Launches SquidBids for eBay Addicts
Squidoo has just launched SquidBids. This is a promotional tool for individuals that live and breath eBay, whether they’re regular sellers or have an eBay store. What SquidBids does is establish a sphere of associated information around you and what you do, kind of like having your own website and company blog. [...]

Public Enemy and Luke Bryan Remixing Fun with JamGlue & Gotuit
Public Enemy (remember them?) is holding a contest called “The Amerikan Gangster Remix Contest” which lets all of you remix the group’s latest single from the latest album “How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul.” Chuck D and Gary G-Wiz will be picking the best remix. Jamglue is [...]

StartPix is an Iconic Way to Bookmark Your Sites
StartPix is a new bookmarking tool that offers an online space to save all your links. These are saved on a grid, which operates like a whiteboard, complete with drag’n'drop technology. The site is currently in private beta, and I took it for a test run this morning. Your saved links appear [...]

Spammers Send Emails from YouTube Servers
Spammers have leaped from YouTube-masked links in your email inbox to sending email directly from YouTube’s service. According to security firm Marshal, spammers are sending out emails that look like a YouTube invite, but are filled with spam content and links to spam websites. YouTube has warned users to be cautious of invites [...]

Green Thing Gives You a Reason to Do Good
Green Thing is a very cool site that offers ways in which you can help live a more green lifestyle. There are a lot of these sites cropping up, so Green Thing stands out by making a fun online environment that gives you more encouragement than you may find elsewhere. Suggestions for green [...]

Uncooped is a Blogging Network for Indiana Jones Wannabes
Uncooped is a new social network for people that like adventures. This site was created by the same team that made Curbly, a network for home living and design. The setup is very similar to Curbly, and revolves around the collective stories of the users. Create your own string of articles that [...]

Boing Boing up in the Sky, with Virgin
Virgin Airlines has made a deal with Boing Boing TV to offer inflight daily video reports, which includes a snarky collection of commentary on various pop culture happenings around the world. The show, hosted by Xeni Jardin and BoingBoing co-creator Mark Frauenfelder, will be free and offered to consumers on-demand for Virgin’s America airline. [...]

Lifetime TV Offers Widgets for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Lifetime TV has just released a widget for the promotion of Breast Cancer Awareness month (that would be October). Get the widget here. With this widget, you can create your own avatar, include an inspiring message, and place it on your blog or social networking site. For creating your avatar, you can customize [...]

Google Earth Takes Classified Military Data in Israel. Oops.
Google Earth’s satellite images may just get Google in trouble. Google’s recently updated images, which are of improved quality, expose key military and security sites, according to Israeli officials. Some of these sites include the Israel Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, major Air Force bases and Israel’s controversial (and classified) nuclear reactor [...]

Revyrs Anonymous Company Review Site
Revyr is a workplace review site were you can search for data on different companies, and leave reviews of your own. The site is currently in private beta, and I got the chance to check it out today. Modeled after product review sites, Revyr wants to be a place where you go to find information [...]

EA Acquires PlayLinc Creator SCI
Electronic Arts (EA) is buying Atlanta-based Super Computer International (SCI), which is a provider of gaming client apps and software tools for PCs. SCI may be best known for its PlayLinc application, which is an online game browsing and messaging platform that includes social networking components like instant messaging, buddy tracking, team management and [...]

Mobispine & Telephone Facebook Apps
Mobispine, the mobile feed reader, has launched a Facebook application that allows you to send articles from your cell phone to all of your Facebook friends, who will in turn get a message on their cell phone as well. In order for anyone to get the content on their mobile phones, they’ll need to [...]

Friendvox Launches Instant Messaging App for Facebook
FriendVox, the Facebook IM application that we have previously covered, has officially launched. It delivers most of the functionality we anticipated buddy lists with presence indicators, online/offline messaging capabilities, and integration with other Facebook features such as status and friend requests. To use the application, you simply go to Friendvoxs site and click [...]

Yahoo Adds Wikipedia to oneSearch Mobile Results
Yahoo, which is doing a lot right now to improve its mobile search, is adding Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia content to its oneSearch results. Yahoo has also launched mobile flight information search today, which has a few shortcode options like “UA 90″ for United Airlines 90, that will give you an overview of information [...]

Sonys Pirates of the Caribbean MMG
Sony has announced an MMO game for Pirate lovers called Pirates of the Burning Sea. This online game is scheduled to launch on Jan. 22 2008, so you have some time yet to anxiously await its arrival. Sony missed the mark on “Talk Like a Pirate” day, eh? You can pre-order the [...]

Yahoos Parts Worth More than its Whole?
A research report from a Wall Street analyst suggests that Yahoo should break up its company into three separate divisions: display advertising, search, and subscription services. According to the Jeffrey Lindsay, who is with Sanford C. Bernstein, the three companies would be worth a combined $54.3 billion, versus the current $37 billion valuation that [...]

Facebook Taps Yahoo Exec to Lead UK Expansion
Facebook has hired Blake Chandlee to lead the companys UK sales team. Chandlee will be leaving his post at Yahoo, where he was serving as Category Development Officer, focused on growing the companys advertising business with consumer goods companies. Facebook recently passed MySpace for the social networking lead in the UK, and has [...]

Online Ad Revenues Set New Record
Revenue for online advertising hit $5.1 billion in the second quarter of 2007 according to the Internet Advertising Bureau, a 25% increase from last year. As for where all that money is going, 91% of it went to the top 50 web publishers, with 41% going to advertising in search engines. For the [...]

A Study We Can Relate To: Millions Shop Online During Conference Calls
Do you find yourself drifting off during conference calls and comparing airfares to Miami instead of paying attention? Apparently, youre far from alone. A new survey from Bill Me Later and Ipsos Insight reports that more than 12 million Americans admit to shopping online during conference calls at least once in the [...]

Rumor: Facebook to Launch MP3 Store?
Facebook is reportedly readying to launch an iTunes competitor and is actively pursuing deals with a number of record labels. All Facebook reports that the company is also looking to hire a CEO to head the new division, and has been working on the project since March. Launching a music store would make [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for October 5th, 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.Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News SiteShare This

Web 2.0 Invites for October 5th, 2007
The weekend is ahead, and what better time to try out a bunch of new Web 2.0 services? We provide the free invites; all you need to do is take them.Recommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

China Blocks RSS Feeds
In the latest its latest move to censor the Internet, China has apparently blocked RSS feeds originating from FeedBurner. According to reports, China is also blocking URLs that contain feeds, rss, and blog. Previously, web-based RSS readers had been a way for Chinese Internet users to get around the blocks that the country [...]

JAVASCRIPT TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools & Tutorials For JavaScript
JavaScript is one of the most often used languages on the web, and it seems to be gaining in popularity each day. We’ve gathered 25+ tools and tutorials which will be useful to any JavaScript programmer - novice or pro.Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at Mashcodes!Share This

WiseMapping Offers Basic Diagram Collaboration
WiseMapping is a new mind mapping tool that lets you easily create and share mind maps. Now, I have to admit, there are a ton of these mind mapping tools out there. And there’s only so much you can do with an actual mind-mapping tool. It’s a diagram that you create for [...]