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MindTouchs Open Source Wiki Releases 100 New Features
MindTouch, the wiki business solution, has just launched nearly 100 new features for its Deki Wiki, the free wiki and application platform for online communities and enterprises. We first mentioned the Deki Wiki solution here, upon its initial launch–you’ll remember that one of its primary point of importance is the ability to allow users [...]

Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Launches, Will Support Linux
ETonline site supposedly launches tonight with Silverlight support, although we’re getting errors).The best introduction to the technology, however, is a demo. You can check out this Halo clip to see Silverlight in action - you’ll see a button to install Silverlight if you don’t have it already. Note that this is high definition.Although [...]

Asterpix Puts Hyperlinks in Videos
With the official launch of Asterpix.com on September 6th, they are aiming to bring “hypervideo” to the masses for anyone to use. The site is already live.Hypervideo is a concept wherein you can make hyperlinks inside a video (see embedded clips below). Say there is a video of a war movie with a [...]

OurStage Launches, Helps Artists Break Through
OurStage, an online talent community where fans vote for the best, is officially launching on Wednesday after a period in beta. To celebrate its official launch, it’s debuting Artist Access, which is a program for top-ranking artists to receive advice from industry vets and even get opportunities to work with them. John Legend [...]

Myrimis Location-Based Network Now Free
Nanomatic, a nanotechnology company, is opening up Myrimis, a location-based network, for free.Myrimis operates on Nanomatic’s nanonavi, which lets you keep track of all the things in your live using GPS. In this way, you can see in real time where your friends and family members are, if your alarm system is activated, where [...]

Rapleaf Changes Questionable Privacy Policy In Response to Recent Inquisition
People reputation search engine Rapleaf has changed its privacy policy in response to issues raised regarding its association with TrustFuse, a company that sells personal data.We mentioned this briefly last week when ZDnet published an article questioning Rapleaf’s privacy policy and its responsibility to its end users. Rapleaf is a site that [...]

Miro Releases Updated Version for Internet TV
Miro, the Internet television community formerly known as Democracy TV, has released some major updates to its Public Preview 2, version 0.9.9.The updates are mostly bug fixes, but some good features are layered in there as well. The big changes include the menus for OPML import and export for sharing your channel lists, as [...]

Kanye West Picks Featured Artists on the MySpace Musice Channel
Kanye West will act as a guest curator for the MySpace Music Channel this week. He’s hand picked the featured artists that are on the MySpace Music homepage, which include Mos Def, Jay Z, Feist, Daft Punk, Justice, and more. The purpose is to offer known and unknown artists face time on the [...]

NBC Universal Shifting from iTunes to Amazon Too
Universal Music Group has already gotten rid of Apple for music downloads, and it’s shifting its NBC Universal television shows away from Apple’s iTunes as well. Episodes of The Office and Heroes will be available on Amazon starting next Monday. The pilot shows for new series Bionic Woman and Chuck will be [...]

Business 2.0 Says Goodbye
We knew there was a good chance that the Business 2.0 magazine would get cut from the Time Inc. family, and now the day has come. Business 2.0 will close next week, after the completion of the October issue. Time Inc. had been debating on whether or not it should close down the [...]

Feedburner Loses Team Member to BuzzFeed
FeedBurner, which was just acquired by Google this past summer, is losing one of its team members already. Eric Olson is leaving Google and the FeedBurner team to join BuzzFeed, an NYC start up that launched late last year and does not yet have funding. BuzzFeed has little to do with feeds, [...]

Flock Releases Minor Upgrades in Response to Users
Flock, the web browser, has released a few minor upgrades today, launching its version 0.9.1. There’s now mouse-over drag’n'drop sizing buttons for photos on the mediabar–this is actually a feature that had been removed, and has been readministered due to user requests. You can also subscribe to Flickr pools from Flock, and a keyboard [...]

Podobo Offers Linear Mind Mapping for the Twitter Crowd
Podobo is a new community that lets you post your thoughts, and trail them through tag words.Similar to Twitter, you can post a quick thought about anything that crosses your mind. All of your mini-posts will be accessible from your profile page. For the best effect, you should add as many relevant tag [...]

30+ 1-Column WordPress Themes
Sometimes you just want simple, and how much simpler can you get than a one-column theme? After all, sidebars can get cluttered and crowded if you’re not careful, but when you have no sidebars, you have nothing to worry about!In a follow up to our articles on 2 column themes, 3 column themes and 4 [...]

Orkut Adds 5 Indian Languages
Orkut is now available in five new languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. This marks Orkut’s global efforts to create a local service, and offering these new Indian languages brings more personalization to more communities around the world. This is important as a large amount of Orkut users are of course [...]

Imagekind Photo Printing Tools Now Available with HPs Snapfish
Imagekind has teamed up with Snapfish to offer more printing options for photos.Snapfish users now have the printing options that are provided by Imagekind, which revolve around framing on a variety of papers and styles. There are options for tabletops, collage frames, custom frames and more. This seems to be more of [...]

AD FRENZY: Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium
Proving that the online ad frenzy isn’t over yet, Yahoo has acquired BlueLithium, reported to be the 5th largest ad server by Comscore. From their site:The acquisition of BlueLithium enables Yahoo! to accelerate its advertising, product, and engineering roadmaps, and gives the company increased capabilities to sell and measure performance-based campaigns both on and [...]

HBO Buys Rights to Second Life Documentary
HBO has acquired the rights to a short film that was shot entirely within virtual world Second Life.Entitled “My Second Life: The video diaries of Molotov Alta,” the film is about a man who disappeared from his home in California, but sent video messages from Second Life. It’s been reported that HBO paid six [...]

Wikipedia Interest Shows Support for Ron Paul. Why?
According to an analysis on Wikipedia by Compete’s Matt Pace, Ron Paul is the candidate most likely to win the presidential race for 2008.According to a few factors, including the number of people who read a candidate’s article, time spent on an article, and the percentage of Wikipedia users who also visited a candidate’s [...]

Palm Foleo Dies After 3 Months
A few months after its introduction, the Palm Foleo has been canceled in its first generation.With the amount of software-related bug fixes that were to delay the launching of the Foleo until September or October, Palm CEO Ed Colligan decided to cancel the entire project instead. You’ll remember that the Foleo was met with a [...]

Me.dium Holding 5-Day Online Music Festival
Me.dium is holding a music festival online called RockMe, in conjunction with Rose Hill Drive.This five-day online music festival kicks off on September 18, and goes to the 22nd. Featuring five bands, including Rose Hill Drive, The Fiery Furnaces, Jeffrey Lewis, Gosling and The Willowz, fans will get a chance to better engage with [...]

Iotum Offers Free Conference Calls through Facebook
Iotum, the phone conferencing service, has launched a Facebook application letting you hold free conference calls with those in your network. There is a good amount of Facebook integration for this application, which mimics the Events portion of your Facebook account. This makes it easier to create an event around a phone [...]

Wikipedia Bans Overstock.com
Overstock, the secondary market retail website, has been blocked by Wikipedia. Due to the spammy nature of Overstock on the user-generated encyclopedia, the company’s IP range has been blocked, meaning edits and entries can no longer be made to Wikipedia from this range of IP addresses. Also noted as undesirable behavior from the folks [...]

GDrive for Google Apps Closer to Reality?
More evidence has been presented in the case of the existence of GDrive for public use and/or for integration with Google Apps. What one blogger came up with is the option to disable the GDrive service by changing the service parameter on a Google service name query. This suggests that GDrive is [...]

Jim Carreys YouTube Video: Free Southeast Asias Nelson Mandella
Jim Carrey is following in the footsteps of George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio by creating a video in order to raise awareness for a particular cause.In the case of Carrey, he’s posted a video on YouTube in a public service announcement for the Human Rights Action Center and the U.S. Campaign for Burma in [...]

Sony Battling Apple for Video Download Market
Word is getting around that Sony is looking to battle Apple, not on music downloads, but on video downloads for television shows and movies.At the forefront of this effort is the PS3, which faced dismal sales this past year, but could still be leveraged for the foundation upon which Sony hopes to beat Apple. [...]

Clickbooq is a Web Design & Hosting Service for Creatives
Clickbooq is a new website design and hosting service for creative professionals to showcase their work in an online portfolio.Built on Adobe’s Flex Builder 2, the service offers highly customized website design options, from color combinations for background, shadowing, etc. Clickbooq also has some preloaded patterns that you can use to create your own [...]

MyStrands Launches YouTube-Powered Custom TV
MyStrands, the music search and discovery site, has launched MyStrandsTV, which lets you create and enjoy customized music channels.of your computer screen, which gives it a good TV feel. Recommended video thumbnails will display to the right of the player, and sponsored videos will show beside these. Based on your interaction with MyStrandsTV, [...]

Online Ads Surpass Radio Ads in a Historical First
eMarketer reports that spending for online advertising has surpassed ad dollars spent on radio advertising for the first time in 2007, with online marketing reaching $21.7 billion while radio reached $20.4 billion.This would indicate the dominance of online marketing, and make some speculate that radio is a dying part of our culture. eMarketer [...]

Haystacks Widget iPhone Giveaway
Haystack, the music sharing and discovery site, has launched its first widget, and it’s doing things up right.Coinciding with an iPhone Giveaway, the widget will be used as your way of entering the contest. To celebrate the release of Killswitch Engage’s Special Edition of “As Daylight Dies” the giveaway will promote the band and [...]

Jott Integrates with More Networks from your Mobile
Jott, the voice-to-text service to be used with your cell phone, has added some useful new features, making good on its funding from back in May. Its new Jott Links give you quick, integrated access to productivity and networking sites including 30 Boxes, Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, LiveJournal, Yahoo Groups, Twitter, Jaiku, and Zillow. This [...]

ScreamingSports Salary Cap Fantasy Football on Facebook
ScreamingSports, a fantasy sports network that lets you manage all your network fantasy teams from a central location, has launched a Facebook Application for Fantasy Football. This is in conjunction with the RockYou and My Fantasy League fantasy sports service. With the ScreamingSports Fantasy Football game, you can use you $100 [...]

Microsoft Suffers Setback in Open XML Standards Fight
Microsoft suffered a setback today in attempts to get its Office Open XML file format accepted as an international standard for office documents by the International Organization for Standardization.When attempting to get anything adopted by the ISO, the proposal must go through two voting tests. The first is to win support of two-thirds of [...]

17 Wordpress Plugins For AdSense
Like it or not, many blogs survive thanks to Google AdSense - a fact that’s leading some to debate the use of ad blocking software. However, implementing and tweaking AdSense ads on a Wordpress blog can be tedious. We’ve gathered 17 Wordpress plugins which help you implement, control and overview AdSense ads on your [...]

Zooomr Adds People Search to Photo Sharing Site
Zooomr, 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 [...]

ArmchairGM Releases Major Updates to Sports Wiki
ArmchairGM, the sports community acquired by Wikia late last year, is releasing a few new features today.First up there’s “foe-ing” which is a way for sports fans to have a hate-hate relationship with those guys from the other team. It’s a way of adding friends, except they’re really enemies. This should help [...]

Dopplr Funded for Travel Social Network
Dopplr, which is building a travel social network, is announcing early stage funding today. The undisclosed amount comes from Martin Varsavsky, Joi Ito, Reid Hoffman and The Accelerator Group (led by Saul Klein). The idea is one that should appeal to high-flying geeks hopping between conferences and world businessmen: it lets you log your [...]

Facebook Banned In Iran?
Facebook can add Iran to the growing list of entities that have banned the social networking site. The ban reportedly coincides with the existence of a Facebook group aimed at ending censorship in Iran, but there appears to be no correlation between the two events. It’s also been reported that some [...]