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Meez Avatar Ringtones and Cell Phone Wallpaper
Meez, the virtual avatar creator, and Vringo, the video ringtone network, are partnering to integrate Meez avatars into Vringo’s service.You can now create Meez avatars to show as your video ringtone. Make one for each of your friends, if you’d like, and see their avatar whenever they call you. This partnership also yields [...]

Stanford University Offers Facebook Development Class
In what is sure to cause a flood of questionably usable Facebook apps (because they’re all so useful now), Stanford University is offering a class on the subject of application deployment on the popular social network. There’s a Facebook Group for the course here.Saddled with the unwieldy name of “Create Engaging Web Applications Using [...]

Facebook Platform Down
We’ve got a number of messages from Facebook developers in the Mashable inbox tonight, reporting downtime of the Facebook platform - apps weren’t working for a number of hours, they say. At last check, however, everything seems to be up and running smoothly. Crisis over.I would say, however, that there’s a tendency to [...]

Meebos Breakthrough: File Transfer Between IM Networks
Meebo is adding File Transfer capabilities to its instant messaging service tonight. You can now send and receive files to your friends on or off Meebo, regardless of which instant messaging client your friends use. That’s right: effortless file transfer between different IM networks, all done through the Meebo.com website.While other chat [...]

Tube Toolbox Automates YouTube Features
Tube Toolbox is a new downloadable application for managing your account, extracting videos, and marketing yourself on YouTube. The free version of the software makes functions like messaging and commenting on your friends pages quicker and more efficient. Meanwhile, the paid version automates many tasks, making it a powerful (some might argue spammy) [...]

Technorati Launches Useless Topics Section
Technorati service has launched a new section today: Topics. Topics gives you a new way to find the blogs that are talking about what you’re interested in from the millions of them circulating out there. You can select from Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, Life, and for the very brave, All. The [...]

Ask Launches Embeddable maps
Ask.com has added the ability for users to embed maps from Ask City in their blogs and web pages. The business directory and mapping service will also display movie info, maps, and ticket info. After you’ve got the map you need, simply click “Embed” up in the top right corner, copy the code, [...]

Zimbra: Google Apps Not Ready for the Enterprise
It was announced today that Google Apps will soon be available for enterprise use through Capgemini, a consulting and outsourcing service, in a non-exclusive deal. For about $50 per user per year, companies will be able to use the Google Apps Premier Edition, which includes Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Page Creator, [...]

SideStep Partners with Washington Post for Travel Search
SideStep, the travel search company, has signed a distribution partnership with the Washington Post website, letting readers search for travel information from the newspaper’s online portal. SideStep’s search includes hundreds of thousands of airlines, hotels and car rental locations around the world. This lets the Washington Post offer more travel search tools directly [...]

DigitalLife NYC Event Discount for Mashable Readers
DigitalLife is an annual event for the consumer technology, gaming and entertainment, is coming up on September 27 - 30th at the Javitz Center in NYC. It’s given Mashable readers a 50% discount on tickets. At the registration page they can enter MASH to receive their discount.Hightlights from the event include [...]

Windows Live Launching Niche for Moms
Microsoft has launched a niche vertical called Real Live Moms for its Windows Live service that offers a space for moms to create a personalized space and network with other moms.You can create a scrapbooking slide show, blogs, favorites lists, and more to showcase your growing bundle of joy. Windows Live tools are deeply [...]

Facebook Easter Eggs?
It’s not just Google that plants little surprises in its apps: Facebook does it too. Mashable reader Matt Rogers spotted some hidden text at the bottom of the Friends pages today reading “Only the craftiest of quails survive hunting season”. Highlight the area to see it.The Social Timeline page, meanwhile, carries the message [...]

Webby Award Creators Announce New Conference
The creators of the Webby Awards are announcing a new conference called WebbyConnect that will feature past Webby winners, judges, and guests. Much like the awards the new conference is named after, the focus is on interactive media, entertainment and advertising. Guest speakers include Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, Vinton Cerf who [...]

Strata Launches Web Browser for Numbers Freaks
Strata is a new browser that lets you easily and quickly pull data from the web, manipulate it, and use it for your purposes.This tool is really for people that work with data on a regular basis, and often find their data on the web. What started out as a desktop application for large [...]

Greystripe Offers Hands-On Mobile Games for Free
Greystripe, the mobile ad network, has partnered with Hands-On Mobile to deliver new titles from the company for free.The included games are “Call of Duty 2,” “True Crime: Streets of LA,” “LEGO Bricks” and more. With Greystripe’s ad network, mobile games and applications are provided for free and supported by advertisements that are [...]

Graphita Parters with Webshots
Graphita, the web-based image editing tool, has teamed up with the Webshots photo-sharing community. This enables webshots users to use Graphita’s editing tools on their images.Graphita Live Studio lets you add graphics and effects to your online photos. We first reviewed the service here when it launched earlier this year. [...]

TMZ Gets a Real TV Show. Debuts Tonight.
TMZ, the snarky epicenter for online entertainment and celebrity news, is getting its own TV show.Debuting tonight (check your local listings), the show aims to be a real look at Hollywood. Many of the stories from the popular website will be “fleshed out” on the small screen, highlighting the celebrities we love to hate [...]

Lemonade Launches Facebook App for Making Money
Lemonade, which launches today, is also releasing the first Facebook application that allows users to make money. The app, called Lemonade Stand, allows users to recommend different products for sale from companies like Apple and EBGames and earn referral fees when people buy products via their stand. In addition to being able to [...]

PoweredByDanger Links Software Users For No Reason
Kadium, a creative interactive agency, has partnerd with Danger.com to develop a network for users of Danger.com software products. The new community is called PoweredByDanger.com.Danger.com creates mobile software that’s used in a wide variety of devices, including the T-Mobile Sidekick hand-held. In an attempt to offer a central “landing ground” for all the [...]

TypePad Blogging from your iPhone
The TypePad blogging service has been optimized for the iPhone. You can now create and edit posts, manage comments, and configure mobile settings for posting photos from your iPhone. If you have an iPhone but don’t have a TypePad account, you can sign up for a free 2-week trial. TypePad already [...]

National Lampoon Launches YouTube Channel
National Lampoon, best known for its series of comedy films, is launching a video channel on YouTube. The channel features National Lampoons webisopdes and other originally programming from the company. The content on the channel is very much the same type of material you expect in National Lampoons movies, with titles such as [...]

SharedBook Offers Service to 3 Sports Sites
SharedBook, the reverse publishing platform, has partnered with three companies to provide its service for a variety of web content.JumpTV, YAVarsity and Sportography will be using SharedBook’s service to extend more options to their users. Site visitors will now be able to create personalized season record books from game scores, message board [...]

OSoYou Launches Womens Shopping Network
OSoYou, the Britain-based shopping network for women, has officially launched.The company raised $2 million in funding earlier this year, an was scheduled to go live at the end of this summer. Right on time, OSoYou has released its network for a public beta. There are shops for you to check out on [...]

Linga Combines Bookmarking with Wikis and Comment Threads
Linga is a new service that combines bookmarking with a wiki and a comments stream.With this tool, you can add a browser plug-in and bookmark pages you find interesting as you surf the web. From there, you have the option of starting a wiki for the webpage, or participating in the existing wiki for [...]

Skype Malware Detected
Another bout of complications has plagued Skype. A worm has been detected, and it’s only affecting Windows Skype users. The virus is being spread by a link that appears in a chat message, asking you to click on a web link. This directs to a page that asks you to run an [...]

Unlock Your iPhone, Like, Right Now
Remember those guys from iPhoneSimFree who claimed that they have software which can unlock any iPhone? The actual application was first given to chosen media publications, but now it’s available to the public, for a not-that-modest fee of $100 (or less, depending on where you live and which retailer are you buying it from). The [...]

Xing Reaches 4 Million Members
Business social network Xing is doing well. They’re reporting 4 million registered members, but this number includes members from the two Spanish networks they’ve acquired - eConozco and Neurona. The numbers are divided as follows: eConzco has over 360.000 members, and Neurona over 1 million members, which leaves Xing with approximately 2.7 million registered members. [...]

Meebo Hyping Kanye West Listening Party Tonight
Meebo has partnered with Kanye West an Roc-A-Fella Records to help spread buzz about tonight’s online listening party for West’s new album “Graduation.”The album will be in stores tomorrow, and an online listening party for “Graduation” start tonight at 12:00 a.m. EST. This listening party will be at Roc-A-Fella’s website, and visitors will [...]

1 Million iPhones. 74 Days.
Apple has announced the sale of the one millionth iPhone. 74 days after its release on June 29th, Apple has reached a major milestone. The mobile device that was two years in the making has changed to path of handhelds, spurred development in the industry, and garnered interest from nearly every corner of [...]

TravBuddy Now Has a Million Members
TravBuddy, a social network for travelers, has reached 1.000.000 registered members; according to them, they’re the fastest growing online network for travelers. TravBuddy was started 2 years ago, but it experienced a big popularity boost approximately 6 months ago, increasing a hundredfold since then, and doesn’t show signs of stopping. TravBuddy lets you create travel [...]

BLOGGER.COM TOOLBOX: 30+ Templates & Tools for Blogger
While Blogger may not be the most advanced blogging platform out there, it sure has plenty going for it. Its intuitive interface simplicity, and ease-of-use continually appeal to new bloggers, and even more experienced ones, who can’t seem to leave the platform. We’ve compiled over 30 Blogger templates, tools, and resources.See also: Blogging Toolbox: 120+ [...]

Lost Bloggers
Sorry to hear that one of Weblogs Inc’s bloggers, Adam Finley of TV Squad, died on Thursday. The 30-year old was hit by a bus while riding his bike in Minneapolis. He was identified when authorities contacted Apple, who checked the serial number of the iPod he was carrying.[via Des Moines Register]Recommended: [...]

25+ Ways to Manage Your Online Identity
There is nothing more important online than your identity, and nothing more annoying than when someone finds a way to steal it. This list comprises 25+ tools to manage your reputation, officially sign documents, aggregate your social network IDs and more.And yes, there’s some irony that there are so many sites to manage your [...]

eBay Gets Sued For Selling Counterfeit Goods
French cosmetics company L’Oreal is suing eBay in 5 European countries - Belgium, France, Germany, UK and Spain - for selling counterfeit bottles of perfume. L’Oreal claims they’ve tried to reach an agreement with eBay on this matter, but in the end had no choice but to sue them. This is definitely not the first [...]

Crackles New Channel is a SNL Wannabe
Crackle, Sony’s video-sharing network, is launching Moving Targets, which is a new channel for funny sketches, shorts, and animation.The site has teamed up with some comedy vets in order to provide this channel of premium, produced content. Jerry Zucker’s National Banana, Brian Dalton’s Mr. Deity and Jennifer Shiman’s 30-Second Bunnies Theatre will all be [...]

Veveo Launches vTap Mobile Video Search
Veveo is officially launching its flagship product today, vTap. This product is a mobile search engine for video results, and is now available on the iPhone and phones that support Microsoft Windows Mobile.We first covered Veveo here, when we learned of its funding to the tune of $28 million, as well as its [...]

Anti-Islam Facebook Group Removed After User Complaints
What exactly is the line that divides hate speech and freedom of speech? Tough to answer, that one. A Facebook group with, as NYTimes describes, a “crude title”, was made inaccessible by Facebook after a petition asking for removal of the group was signed by over 58,000 members of the site. The group contained claims [...]