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EventsPad is a Lackluster User-Generated Event Blog
eventsPad is a new site that lets you search and post events going on in your neck of the woods. The site is live, but will not officially launch until later this week.The blog-like simplicity of this network may be appealing to those that don’t need the major networking aspects of local event [...]

DimeTracker Helps You Buget from Your Phone
DimeTracker is a mobile service that helps you track your spending, and stay on budget.Using text messages, you can chart your spending while you’re out. Instead of retaining receipts and creating an Excel file later, you can enter in the price you paid right when you’ve spent it. Provide the total amount, a short [...]

Apple Movie Rentals On its Way?
An iTunes mishap hints at a possible upcoming movie rental service that may become a part of the iTunes store. An error for the options regarding the requesting of a refund shows an option for non-delivery of rental movies. That’s not the only indication that Apple iTunes movie rentals are on the way. [...]

TrustPlus Lets You Rate People as You Surf the Net
TrustPlus, the reputation-building and tracking service, is launching its public beta preview today.With a TrustPlust browser plug-in, you can see the reputation rating of users as you surf the net. Supported sites currently include eBay, MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Craigslist, and many more. Other services you can get someone’s reputation rating for include email [...]

Buy or Swap Clothes with OurThreads
OurThreads is a new community for buying and trading clothing items, as well as sharing your personal style.Your profile revolves around your closet. Add items to your closet, and they will be displayed on your profile page. From there, you can move items to your store, or to your trades, so items can [...]

Dilbert Does Web 2.0
An amusing weekend distraction. You can see the full-sized strip or even buy it on a t-shirt over at Dilbert.com.Recommended: Hi5 Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

Apples 3G iPhone on its Way?
Apple has signed a $56 million deal with InterDigital, a wireless technology company that has made contributions to 2G and 3G technology. It’s this 3G technology that most are speculating is the reason for Apple’s partnership with InterDigital, indicating the company’s impending release of a 3G iPhone. The deal, however, covers 2G and [...]

Tila Tequila Coming Out on MTV Reality Show
Tila Tequila, the most popular MySpace user, is getting her own MTV dating show called “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila.” Cute. The show premiers October 9, at 10 p.m.On this show, 16 men and 16 women will compete for Tila Tequila, and neither group knows about the other. They [...]

200 Million MySpace Accounts
Some are even real people.Thanks to Michael for the tip via email.Recommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

SclipoLive Uses Webcam for Online Tutoring Network
Sclipo, the European, how-to video network, has launched a new service for online teaching and learning.The new service is called SclipoLive, and it connects students and teachers via webcam. You don’t need a webcam as a student in order to utilize this new offering from Sclipo, but it could enhance the teaching/learning experience if [...]

Microsoft Launches Online Translation Service
Windows Live Translator is the name of Microsoft’s new free service (currently in beta) which lets you translate text from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, and vice versa in some cases. You can either have a text of up to 500 words translated or you can translate [...]

Extravigator Is Haute for Travelers
Extravigator is an upcoming travel network that’s designed to offer a place for haute travel talk. The site is currently in private beta, and I got a chance to peek behind the curtain.The site is set up as one large discussion board. You can start your own topics for discussion, or join an [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 9th, 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. Just added: ability to list companies in search of VC funding! New ListingsLooking for PartnershipsWe’re currently looking for companies that may have products for our platform. We [...]

Mashable Facebook App, and 50 Invites to Dappers AppMaker
Thanks to the folks at Dapper, the data mashing service, Mashable has a Facebook app. This allows you to not only add Mashable’s latest news to your page, but to conduct searches of Mashable content. The app can optionally be displayed on your profile, or you can just retain it for personal use. [...]

Top 10 Safari Plugins
Safari, now available on both the Mac and PC, is the best Mac browser in my opinion. Better, in fact, than Mozilla’s highly extensible Firefox offering. With Firefox plugins getting all the coverage, we thought we’d restore the balance and bring you a selection of the best Safari add-ons.SafariStand - This just may [...]

One Web Day: September 22
So apparently there’s this thing called the “web” that’s changing lives worldwide. Thank goodness we’ve got One Web Day coming on September 22nd to remind us: I would have forgotten otherwise. Non-cynics wishing to take action can check out the One Web Day site, and view the intro video above, which was [...]

Mashup Challenge Launches October 1st
Launching on October 1st, and created by MashupAwards.com, mashup enthusiasts have a whole new competition to start on in MashupChallenge.com.There are several angles to keep the competition fresh and exciting. First up is the quarterly nature of the game with everything resetting at the beginning of each quarter. The big twist comes in [...]

Amazon Helps in Search for Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer, has been missing for days and now Amazon Mechanical Turk is being used to aid in the search. You can find all the details on the Amazon Web Services blog.Several organizations have pulled together satellite imagery of the suspected crash zone and are asking people to look over the [...]