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German YouTube Clone Acquired by TV Station
Germany’s biggest television broadcaster, ProSiebenSat1 Media, has bought a 70% stake in German video-sharing network MyVideo.de for $26 million. The broadcasting network already owned 30% of MyVideo.de, so this last investment was more of a completion for a buyout than anything else. The German YouTube clone launched last year, and has gained significant [...]

Zoomr Adds People Search to Photo Sharing Site
Zoomr, the photo-sharing site, has just added a people search option to its service.This is a welcome upgrade to the photo network, making it easier to search for other users, and existing friends. You can enter a user name or email address in order to find others. The people search has its own [...]

Bonus.com Offers Games for Parents and Kids
Bonus.com is relaunching its site as an online hub for parents and children to interact around games and activities in this web-based community.The new features that have been added to Bonus.com in order to enhance this multi-faceted community start with The Multiplex. This lets site visitors to watch video clips, movie trailers, and more [...]

U.S. Pentagon Hacked by Chinese Military
The Chinese military has hacked into a computer network at the Pentagon last June, making it the most successful cyber attack on the U.S. defense department.The Pentagon responded to the attack by shutting down part of its computer system from the office of Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary. The network was taken [...]

Napster Investor Settles Last Lawsuit for $130
The National Music Publishers Association has reached a settlement with Bertelsmann, a media company, and Napster for $130 million, making this Bertelsmann’s fourth lawsuit related to Napster, reaching back to 2004.The major record label companies sued Bertelsmann for aiding Napster’s copyright infringement with its investment in Napster. The media company insisted that its [...]

THUNDERBIRD TOOLBOX - 110+ Thunderbird Themes and Extensions
You’re already a Firefox God, so perhaps now is a good time to get acquainted with Mozilla’s equally slick mail client: Thunderbird.In July, Mozilla said it might spin off Thunderbird as a community project and focus instead on Firefox, but for now the excellent email software remains in the Mozilla family. Here we’ve assembled [...]

Clearspring Adds Facebook to Widget Distribution Options
Clearspring, the widget creation and distribution platform, now supports distribution to Facebook.The application wizard lets you create flash widgets for Facebook applications, along with the other networks like MySpace, Netvibes, etc. As Clearspring is a prominent widget platform used by developers, this is an important addition for Clearspring. It also emphasizes the [...]

BooksConnect Aims to Bring Authors & Readers Together
CountryBook, a UK-based online store for local books, has launched a social network for its service, in an effort to connect the various aspects of book buying, selling, recommending, and promotion.With the new network, entitled BooksConnect, you can browse for books by title, author or ISBN number, and add titles to your bookshelf. Similar [...]

PropertyQube Launches Disconnected Real Estate Community
Propertyqube is a new community for people interested in all aspects of property.From contractors to renters, home owners and landlords, propertyqube has created a network for conversations to be started between all of these aspects of property. For your profile, you get a bio page that lets you share your previous experiences with property, [...]

Opera Gears Up to Release Opera 9.5 Alpha, with Several Upgrades
Opera is getting ready to launch its alpha version of Opera 9.5 tomorrow, and some of the new features indicate that this upcoming release will prove to be significant.The rendering engine for Opera 9.5, nicknamed Kestrel, has been greatly improved, giving you better speed, better CSS3 support, and improved Ajax compatibility. This is [...]

Diggs Missing Pictures Can be Found Here
From the guy that brought us Reddit Media, there’s now a similar offering for Digg, called digpicz.Unlike Reddit Media, digpicz’s focus on images only, since Digg already has a dedicated video section. The site is of course an answer for the large Digg community that’s been requesting an image section for some time [...]

Joost Acquires OnTheTube for Custom Show RSS Feeds?
Joost has reportedly acquired OnTheTube, which is a programming guide keeping users up to date on Joost’s Internet television shows.Created by a Joost beta user, there are pre-determined RSS feeds as well as customized channels and RSS feeds for Joost’s 238 channels and 10,000+ programs. It’s speculated that OnTheTube’s deal with Joost [...]

FuelMyBlog Launches Blog Ranking Community
FuelMyBlog is a community for bloggers looking to get more traffic by participating in this UK-based network. Similar to Technorati, FuelMyBlog is a hub for blogs. Adding your blog to the network lets you participate in the community in hopes of increasing interest in your blog and getting more readers. As a visitor [...]

Google To Launch Google Wiki?
Jotspot, the wiki service that was acquired by Google nearly a year ago, looks to be moving towards completion in the process of becoming a Google Application. As of yesterday, JotSpot is a Google Apps service code name, and its help and support pages moved to Google earlier this spring. Google Apps users with [...]

Google Apps Integration of JotSpot Nearing Completion
Jotspot, the wiki service that was acquired by Google nearly a year ago, looks to be moving towards completion in the process of becoming a Google Application. As of yesterday, JotSpot is a Google Apps service code name, and its help and support pages moved to Google earlier this spring. Google Apps users with [...]

ContactOffice Launches New Public Beta
ContactOffice, a web office suite, is announcing that it has upgraded its online office suite to version 2.0 after months of development. It launches at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.The newly upgraded platform is completely powered by AJAX, giving it a more fluid and seamless integration. It was developed using the [...]

Wi-Fi TOOLBOX: 30+ Ways to Find Wi-Fi Hotspots
San Francisco’s Wi-Fi plans may have gone off the rails, but there are plenty of ways to find Wi-Fi hotspots. Here are more than 30 tools that can help.Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News SiteShare This

THE WEB FOOD GUIDE: 50+ Sites to Learn About Food
Whether you’ve just arrived at college, or moved to a new city for your first job, after the dust settles, you need to know how to cook for yourself, make reservations, or even how to pick a nice wine (if you are of legal drinking age). For the Labor Day holiday, Mashable has compiled [...]

Pownce Gets New Features
Pownce announced a series of new features today. Among them, upcoming event notifications (”see the next five upcoming events youve been sent”), automatic video embedding for YouTube, Google, Metacafe, Revver and Vimeo (add a link and an embed will be inserted automatically), auto-thumbnailing when you link to a Zooomr image from your notes, the [...]