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Obama on LinkedIn
Sen. Barack Obama now has a LinkedIn account. We all knew that Obama is making the most of Internet culture, launching his own social network, gaining a larger-than-life presence on MySpace, YouTube, and even Twitter. He’s at the top of his game, according to a recent Nielsen study. The only [...]

Propeller: The New Name for Netscapes Digg Clone
Netscape announced last week that its Digg clone would be retired from Netscape.com and move to a new home. That new home, announced today, is Propeller.com, with a snazzy Propeller logo and all the vowels intact. The new site is about “propelling” news to the frontpage, and will be launched “soon”. It’s [...]

Listphile: Collaborative List Directory
Listphile is a new site that lets users collaborate on different types of lists. For example, the Open Surf Atlas (shown below) is a list that hopes to organize all the surf locations in the world and plot them on a map. In the spirit of wikis, anyone can add to the list, [...]

Socializr Raises $1.5M Series B Round of Funding
Socializr, the event-sharing network, has raised $1.5 in a second round of funding. The round was led by Rembrant Venture Partners.The funding from this particular venture capital firm is apparently rather important for Socializr creator, Jonathan Abrams, as it should be. Rembrandt partner Richard Ling knew Abrams before Socializr was launched, and is [...]

MapSkip Combines Blogging with Geo-Tags
MapSkip is a geo-tagging blogging network, if you will, letting you mark your stories on a map.This tool is a good tool for travel blogs, or “life maps,” marking various events on the map. You can add photos to your entries. When you click on a marker that shows on the community map, [...]

FormSpring API Now Live. 3 Google Mashups to Spark Interest.
FormSpring, the online forms-creation tool, has launched an API, which is available to all FormSpring users. With the new API, you can create mashups for forms that have already been created with FormSpring, among other things. The company has created three Google mashups from its API, as examples for what you [...]

Searchles Adds MetaCafe & Veoh to Aggregator TV Service
Social bookmarking site Searchles has added more options for its video indexing capabilities. When Searchles first added video support to its service earlier this year in order to launch its TV search vertical, it included YouTube, Google, MySpace and Blip. Now, Metacafe, LiveLeak, Veoh and CollegeHumor have been added to the [...]

Rembmer 9/11: A Tribute from Magnify.
While we’ve been posting away on stories of companies launching, adding upgrades, and announcing contests, we would like to take a moment to recognize and acknowledge the fact that today is September 11, marking the date 6 years after the terrorist attack in New York City. Steve Rosenbaum, co-founder of Magnify.net, has directed a [...]

Microsoft Live Planet to be Used for Tron Sequel
Microsoft Live Planet is being used for the upcoming sequel of “Tron,” the 1982 film about a video game developer that is sucked into one of his own games, and must battle his way through. The original film was known for its state-of-the-art special effects, and mixing of real life with animation. The director [...]

Google Reader Video Leaked?
A video claiming to be from a Google team has surfaced on a public Google video page. Hailing from the Reactor team, which works on the back-end for Google Reader, the video, which has since been removed, throws out some interesting blurbs on Google.Some of these blurbs say that Google Reader has two kinds [...]

MyDamnChannel on MySpace
MyDamnChannel, an online production company launched by Hollywood veterans Rob Barnett, a former MTV executive, has penned a distribution deal with MySpace.The production company will have a branded channel on MySpace TV, and will feature comedy shorts from the likes of Harry Shearer and David Wain. Beginning tomorrow, September 12, Andy Milonakis of MTV [...]

Polish Google Bomber Found & Tried
A Polish man has been accused of insulting president Lech Kaczynski by way of Google Bombs. An amateur software developer, Marek W. from Ciszyn has created a tool for website positioning. Using this software for a Google search will position a particular website as the first item in your search results page. [...]

Facebook Closing the Gap on MySpace. Proof of Stolen Market Share?
According to a report released by Compete analytics, Facebook has landed the #3 spot for pageviews. This new ranking position still doesn’t come close to MySpace’s figures, but it’s certainly starting to close the gap.With interest in Facebook growing at a rapid pace, MySpace appears to be cooling off a bit, [...]

Be Noot is an Interactive Travel Blog
Be Noot is a new travel blog site. Unlike the recently launched Extravigator, Be Noot is a network for tourists, and focuses on the sharing of media in the form of articles.The France-based community lets you share stories of your travels within its blogging network. You can create sections within your account for each [...]

Micrsoft Xbox Wants BBC Content
Microsoft is trying to work out a content distribution deal with the BBC as the software company is getting ready to launch its digital television and video service in Europe, through the Xbox. Going along the same path as it took in the U.S., Microsoft will be promoting its Xbox 360 as a hub [...]

Waiting for Obama & Clinton to Go Head to Head? Do it Yourself with a Yahoo Mashup.
Yahoo has teamed up with the Huffintgon Post and Slate to offer a Democratic presidential candidate debate mashup. A similar version for Republicans is hopefully in the works.Moderated by Charlie Rose, these debates are really a collection of video clips that you can pose together for comparison purposes. Users can submit questions to [...]

Dangerous Malware Detected through Flash Advertisements
A Trojan has been detected within advertisements that are being displayed on sites including Bebo, MySpace and Photobucket. Ads from Right Media online ad exchange where reportedly unknowingly infected with the Downloader.VBS.Agent.n Trojan. What’s more, is the malwware doesn’t require any user interaction in order to infect one’s computer. One of the [...]

IILWY - New Design, Unlimited Invites
The slick dating site I’m In Like With You has now gone live with the redesign preview we mentioned last week. You can access the new site via a button at the top right of the existing version. It also seems that you’re no longer limited in the number of invites you can [...]

Weather Channel Acquires Weather Bonk
The Weather Channel Interactive has acquired Weather Bonk, a weather mashup of sorts that includes Google Maps combined with current conditions, forecasts from various providers, and webcams from selected locations. The company also operates Ski Bonk, a weather site geared towards skiers with special features like snow depth. Finally, Weather Bonk also owns [...]

TripCarts Planning Maps Among the Most Useful
TripCart is a new trip planning tool, similar to TripTie, that lets you remix the trips of others, see on a map the various attractions within a given area, and easily incorporate nearly every aspect of a trip you can think of for creating your own personalized experience.The best aspect of this site’s trip planning [...]

Photagr: Social Bookmarking for Images
Photagr is a new social bookmarking site for images trying to capitalize on Diggs lack of a similar though much-requested feature. In typical social bookmarking fashion, users can submit photos through installable bookmarklets or a Firefox plugin. Rather than votes determining what is popular, Photagr uses the del.icio.us approach of featuring items with [...]

Ruler for Your iPhone Replaces the Breadbox Standard
When I was younger, I used to love playing the game 20 Questions. You know, “Person, place or thing?” If you’d chosen the category “thing” then my first question would always be “Is it bigger than a breadbox?” Now you can replace “breadbox” with “iPhone.” Billy Chasen has created a digital [...]

TalkShoe Launches ShoePhone: Cross Platform VoIP for Unlimited Conference Calls
TalkShoe, the service that lets you create your own interactive podcasts, has launched ShoePhone, a free VoIP service allowing for unlimited group calling and simultaneous podcasting.With ShoePhone, up to 250 people can participate in a live call, and thousands more can listen to the Internet audio stream. This service also supports simultaneous text-chat, and [...]

Facebook Costing UK Companies $250M+ Daily in Lost Productivity
Another study on social networking eating up employee time is out and once again the numbers are huge. According to employment law firm Peninsula, UK workers are costing their companies more than 130m (about $260M USD) daily as a result of using Facebook an estimated 233 million hours each month while on the job. [...]

News Corp. Vocal Against iTunes Pricing
News Corp. is becoming more vocal in the mini revolt the major studios are forming against Apple, stating that they would like more control over the pricing of content sold on iTunes, and flexibility for selling content through other venues. NBC Universal and the Universal Music Group have pulled content from iTunes, opting to [...]

FotoFlexer API Now Available for Developers
FotoFlexer, the web-based image editing tool, is now offering its API for developers. We first covered its launch here, about two weeks ago.With this API, websites can offer image editing tools directly within their service. The company reports that in the two weeks its service has been available to the public, it’s gained [...]

Facebook Looking to Raise More Money
Facebook is looking to raise yet more money to support growth and possibly acquisitions, says Kara Swisher of Boomtown. Existing investors include Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners, and Microsoft could potentially be part of the next round based on the existing deal they have with Facebook to serve ads. The [...]

Bargain Hunting: 100+ Places to Find a Great Deal
Everyone’s obsessed with socially networked shopping now, but whatever happened to good old fashioned deal-finding sites? There are plenty still around, in fact, and lots of new ones launching everyday. We’ve assembled a monster collection of our favorite places to find deals - please add your own suggestions in the comments.Recommended: Hi5 [...]

FITNESS TOOLBOX: 60+ Health & Fitness Sites
All college freshman fear “the freshman 15″ - those 15 lbs you gain in the first month of college. Or you’ve just moved to a new city and you need a new doctor or gym. Everyone needs to consider dieting, exercising, finding a new doctor, or even determining if that pain in their [...]

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 [...]