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Google Reader Gets Search!
It was the greatest of ironies that Google Reader, an RSS reader from the leading search company, had no search box. They added one today, allowing you to search your subscriptions and shared items from others. Other tweaks include the ability to hide the side navigation ala Bloglines, and unread counts that go [...]
CollabAndRate Public Beta: 5 Free Accounts For Mashable Readers
CollabAndRate, the service that lets you take suggestions for your company and show the tracking progress of these suggestions, is officially launching today with a special offer for Mashable readers.The first five businesses that set up a CollabAndRate account and let the team know you heard about the service through Mashable will get a custom [...]
DailyCaption: Make Funnies from Flickr Photos
DailyCaption is a new site that takes a new Flickr photo every day and lets the community create their own caption for what they think could be going on. These are done as mini contests, and captions submitted by users are left in the form of a comments thread. As a user, it’s [...]
Hulu vs Lulu: NBC and News Corp Sued Over YouTube Rival
This may be the best story of the year. Possibly the best story ever. Media titans NBC and News Corp are being sued today by Lulu.com for trademark infringement after the announcement of the video site’s official name, “Hulu“. The claim was filed in a US District Court in Raleigh, NC.According to [...]
Social Suggester Officially Launches Facebook Application
Social Suggester, the review and recommendation community, is officially launching its Facebook application. We reviewed the application not too long ago while it was being tested with a limited number of users. You’ll remember that the application lets you recommend media including movies, television shows, books and music. You can [...]
Snitter Twitter on Your Desktop
Snitter is a new Twittering tool that brings your tweets to your desktop, and works on both Macs and PCs.The application runs on Adobe AIR, and you’ll need to download it in order to enjoy all of its features. It very much resembles an instant messaging client. And what are these features that required [...]
MobileChat: Open Source AIM Application for iPhone
Weve received word of a new application for running AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) on iPhone. MobileChat beta loads your full buddy list with statuses, allows you to change to online/away mode, and includes sound/popup notifications for new messages. The projects creators, twenty08, claim the application is lightweight enough that it will run almost [...]
Dont Do It YourselfHire a Helper
Hire A Helper is a new site that has created a Guru-like marketplace for household labor.The purpose of the site is actually to match up college students that need extra cash with home owners that could stand to catch a break. When exploring the site, though, I did find a good amount of businesses [...]
Pix.ie is an Irish Flickr
Pix.ie is a new photo-sharing site based in Ireland. The site aims to offer you a place for storing and sharing photos.In all, the site is almost a dead ringer for Flickr, and many other photo sharing sites. You can browse through the site without logging in or joining, select different images sizes [...]
Whisher Announces Enhancements to Global WiFi Network
Whisher, the WiFi connection sharing application, has announced a number of enhancements to their software. Among the new features are additional connectivity to other networks such as FON, geolocation for finding your Whisher buddies, and integration of Twitter within the company’s desktop application. The software also now includes support for the major IM [...]
Windows Live Integrated Suite Available Today
Today, Windows Live is finally opening up the new suite of Windows Live software that we mentioned here earlier this week.The main changes are the integration of Hotmail, Live Spaces, SkyDrive beta, the Image Gallery, and the Windows Live Homepage beta, which have been designed to work together. You may have noticed [...]
Tipped is Yelp for the UK
Tipped is a new user-generated review site based in the UK. The basic premise of the site is very similar to Yelp.Here you can search for and leave reviews for local venues. There are various categories laid out for the site, from health and beauty to bars and places for retail shopping. [...]
CovertTube: Download YouTube Clips or Buy the Whole Site
ConvertTube is a service that will let you convert and download an online video by simply providing the URL. The options for file conversion let you convert for Windows, Macs, Flash files, audio only, iPhone, iPod, PSP or mobile. Once the conversion is complete, you can download the file to your computer and [...]
On-Demand Streaming for Second Life
Origin Digital, a video applications service provider, will be the first to bring on-demand video and audio capabilities to support virtual worlds. That includes Second Life.This means that users can integrate streaming video and music in their Second Life worlds. Upload streaming video, music or other user generated content, and it will [...]
TripIt Consolidates Your Travel Plans
TripIt is a new online travel organizer that looks to consolidate the various elements of planning a trip into one itinerary. Currently in private beta, TripIt combines the basic information about your trip such as dates and location with additional data such as weather, driving directions, and reservations. For example, in planning my [...]
QuickBooks Creator Launches Web-Based Competitor NetBooks
The creator of the popular QuickBooks accounting software has launched NetBooks, a web-based solution for handling many aspects (including bookkeeping) of running a small-to-mid size business.Much like Salesforce.com, NetBooks touts its software as a service business model that revolves around monthly subscription fees as opposed to licensing. Additionally, the company tackles many areas of [...]
Who Needs Editors? Thoof Adds New Features for Personal News Site.
Thoof, the personalized news discovery service, is keepin’ it movin’ with more updates this month. The changes made throughout the site should help a lot with the enrichment of shared news stories, and site navigation. Images can now be added to Thoof stories, and the new Recent Activity tab lets you see what [...]
Vzaar Launches Video Listings for eBay Sellers
Following a decision by eBay to permit video listings on its UK site, Vzaar has officially launched its service that allows users to upload and insert videos into their eBay listings. Vzaar is completely focused around eBay, even requiring users to login to the site using their eBay credentials. Once youve uploaded a [...]
mtvU & Ciscos $100k Grant for College Developers
mtvU and Cisco are teaming up for the second year in a row in order to award a team of college student developers $100,000 for the best creation through its Digital Incubator initiative. Already given $30,000 in funding from the program, teams have submitted business plans for their projects and gotten them off the [...]
Ringtones Available on iTunes. Make your iPhone Ring the Hard Way.
iTunes will now sell ringtones for the iPhone. The price is exactly what you’d expect– 99 cents. What might come as a slight inconvenience is the fact that you’ll need to purchase the song first, and then pay an extra 99 cents to convert it into a ringtone. Even with this extra [...]
BookSwim is Netflix for Books
BookSwim is a book rental company that aims to be Netflix for books.For about $20 per month, you’ll get three books mailed directly to your house. There are other plans available if you’re ambitious and would like more books sent to you on a monthly basis. Just like Netflix, there are no late [...]
Universal Music Sues Veoh: The Next Online Video Roadkill?
Universal Music Group has sued video sharing site Veoh for “massive copyright infringement”. You’ll remember that UMG threatened Veoh with a lawsuit in August, and Veoh pre-emptively filed against the music label claiming that it hadn’t infringed any copyrights. UMG provides its reasoning in the documents filed in a Los Angeles court on [...]
Pyro.tv Now Available as Netvibes Application
Netvibes has partnered with Pyro.tv to offer its service for your personal start page. You now have the option of adding the pyro.tv widget to your Netvibes start page and watch pyro.tv channels. You can also select pyro.tv for your default video search for your Netvibes video search widget. Pyro.tv joins [...]
Virtual Karaoke & Mashups with Sims On Stage
EA Games has just launched The Sims On Stage, which is an online community for creatives looking for another reason to upload videos of themselves.The community has been built on SingShot, which EA acquired earlier this year in February. There are several different sections to participate in, including karaoke, stories, poetry, comedy, and mashups. [...]
EditGrid Launches iPhone Optimized Spreadsheets
EditGrid, the online spreadsheet service, has launched its iPhone Edition at the Office 2.0 Conference today in San Francisco.You’ll now be able to access and use your EditGrid spreadsheets from your mobile phone. One particular feature that stands out for EditGrid’s iPhone optimization is the real-time updates, which lets users get information right away [...]
Orkut: Facebook News Feeds Are Good Enough to Clone
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Orkut is launching news feeds this week to keep you updated on what your friends are doing. The feature isn’t live for everyone yet, but will be rolled out over the next few days. Orkut explains:Starting today you may see a “Updates from your friends” box on [...]
Amazon S3: 16 Sites and Resources
Nirvanix, a competitor to Amazon’s S3 storage service, launches today. But S3 itself is already a huge hit with developers: we’ve put together a collection of sites that use S3 for their hosting and storage needs, plus some tools to help you manage S3. Feel free to add more suggestions in the comments.Recommended: [...]
ImageLoop Offers Slide Show Creation Tool for Webmasters
ImageLoop (formerly ImageLooop, with 3 o’s), the European rival to Slide, has just launched a free slide show creation tool kit for webmasters to offer their end users.With this kit, all of ImageLoop ’s slide show creation tools are available for integration with an existing website or community. The Partner Tool is integrated into [...]
Hot Air Alert: Social Webs Bill of Rights
Robert Scoble is promoting a “Bill of Rights” today for the Social Web: a number of rules which social web companies can choose to adhere to. The Bill of Rights consists of a blog post laying down the following rules:We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental [...]
Japan Challenges Google with Project Seeking Innovative Search Technology
Japan’s Ministry of Trade is initiating a project to create new search technologies specifically for electronic devices.This project, which consists of ten partnerships with existing companies like Toyota, NEC, Hitachi and Sony, is said to have been started as a direct challenge to the dominance of Google and other Internet services coming from outside [...]
Dinner Keynote at Web 2.0 Summit: Rupert Murdoch and Chris DeWolfe
The folks at MySpace just tipped us off that the media mogul himself, Rupert Murdoch, will deliver the dinner keynote at the Web 2.0 Summit on October 17 along with MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe. With MySpace facing a challenge from Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg also in attendance that day, it should deliver some interesting [...]
Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month
Facebook, formerly a very private network, is dropping that game plan, albeit by tiny steps. If you thought the news feed was pushing it, be warned: Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. As of tomorrow, [...]