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40+ Free One-Column Website Templates
Finding good website templates is tough. Finding good website templates that are standards compliant (or at least trying to be) is even tougher. Here are more than 40 that are CSS based and standards compliant (or at least with a good head-start on being so). The best part is that they’re all free!See also:50 More [...]

WEB HOSTING TOOLBOX: 130+ Resources for Your Web Hosting Needs
Every website, even your personal blog, has to run on a server somewhere. This list comprises some of the free and paid hosting options open to you, and for the adventurous, links to setting up your own servers!See also ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites and 40+ Free Blog HostsRecommended: Hi5 [...]

Farecasts Facebook App Tells You & Friends When to Buy
Farecast has launched a Facebook application called Fly by Farecast. The service’s flight tracking and prediction tools are included in this application, and a few sharing options have been incorporated in order to make travel and travel planning more social. You can create a trip using the Farecast app, and share items [...]

Jaiku Adds Better Social Networking Features
Jaiku, the micro-blogging Twitter competitor, has a couple of new tweaks that let you better browse the site and manage relationships. There’s now a better way to see your followers, in addition to your contacts. With a new one-click options, followers can become your contacts. If you’re halfway familiar with most [...]

WhoDoes is for Project Managers
GetThingsDone, a company that has created collaboration tools and other web-based applications, has just launched WhoDoes, a project management service.WhoDoes circles around task management, the delegation of tasks, and the record-keeping for a project’s actions. Similar to Basecamp, you have a clear division of labor between admin, project managers, and users. WhoDoes has [...]

MTV Flux Social Network Launches Tonight
Kristen picked up on the buzz earlier today that MTV is launching a social network very soon. That site is actually Flux.com, and it was scheduled to launch tonight.Developed by the folks at Tagworld, the social network Viacom acquired largely for the technology, Flux is a network that aims to tie together your accounts [...]

CubeVoice Is Twitter for the Office
CubeVoice is a simple network for posting updates about your company. As in, your place of employment. The entity that writes your paychecks.This Twitter for companies operates on a very simple premise. Sign up with a company name, and start micro-blogging. Other employees can join in, and everyone at [...]

Can Google Really Lead the World to Global Privacy Standards?
Google’s global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, is making his rounds around the globe is what Google is calling a leading role for the promotion of global standards for privacy. This push for a global standard works with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework, which has already gained the support of many nations involved [...]

Be a Digg Rockstar with Social Media Firefox Extension
Social Media is a new Firefox extension from the company 97th Floor. What this tool does is let you see what stories have been submitted to which social bookmarking and media sites, as well as how many votes the story has received across these networks.The purpose of the Social Media extension is to allow [...]

Twitter Competitor Hictu Adds New Features
Hictu, the Twitter competitor now known for its video micro-blogging capabilities, is getting ready to release a new version of its service, full of new features.There’s now the ability to rate posts and other users, and the top users based on vote will now show on the home page. Nesting comments are also on [...]

Windows Live Messenger Malware Forces Upgrade for Users
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger has noted a security vulnerability in earlier versions, including MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5, and this vulnerability affects Windows Live Messenger 8.0 as well. The security issue pertained to a remote executionable attack that was being used through accepted webcam or video chat invitations from an attacker. This means [...]

Yahoo Series Moving to MTV Next Week
Yahoo and MTV are partnering for the distribution of Yahoo Music’s Nissan Live Sets, which is an original online music performance series featuring several well-known music artists.This particular partnership is somewhat special for two reasons, as Yahoo and MTV rarely join forces, and as Yahoo’s music service is in competition with Rhapsody, which has [...]

MySpace & Seventeen Magazine to Debut Freshman 15 Documentary
Continuing on its trend to provide original video content, MySpace has partnered with Seventeen Magazine to debut a new show that chronicles the lives of freshman girls just starting their college careers. Entitled Freshman 15, the show is named so for the 15 girls it will be following. We’ll see how many [...]

Hopecube, a Community for Emotional Support
Hopecube is a recently launched network that aims to provide a community for support surrounding health issues.Through Hopecube you can find others to help encourage you, and offer the same type of support for other users. This can be done through discussions that go on about various health topics, or in the Q & [...]

HYPERiGo Offers Inefficient (and Non-Social) Bookmarking Site
HyperiGo is a new bookmarking tool that saves an entire screenshot of your bookmarks, instead of just descriptive text. This is slightly similar to StumbleUpon, which also includes screenshots for its bookmarks. With this tool, there are some pre-formatted folders that you can add different bookmarks into. For instance, you can choose to [...]

Floobs Free Broadcasting Tools for Your Own TV Channel
Floobs is an upcoming company that will let you create a free television channel for broadcasting live, or prerecorded shows. This Finland-based start-up is currently testing its service, and has a pretty tight wrap on the company so far, but an English version is expected to be available in November.While the base service [...]

Yahoos Playing with our Mashing Emotions Today
Yahoo has prematurely sent out some invites to a Yahoo Mash service at Mash.Yahoo.com, which lured recipients with the phrase “It’s good to be loved,” but redirected to a Yahoo Guesthouse corporate single login page. So we’re all left to wonder what this Yahoo Mash was going to be, or what it will [...]

My YouTube is Cooler than Your iPod
According to a YouGov poll in the UK, Aston Martin is the coolest brand. What’s more is that both YouTube and Google top the iPod.So one must wonder, what makes a brand cool? I can see why one would think the Aston Martin is cool. Cooler even than YouTube and Google. [...]

A Social Network for MTV? Why?
There are some pretty big and vague rumors going around that Viacom’s MTV Networks is looking to launch a social network, though nothing even close to details have been released (or even rumored, for that matter) about a project of this sort.Doesn’t MTV already have enough social activity going on in the web world? [...]

PureVideo Gets Another $2.85 in Funding
PureVideo, the online video & search search hub, has received another $2.85 million in funding from Softbank.The company’s previous funding, which was for $5.6 million in 2005, was also from Softbank. PureVideo is an online video search and distribution service that has several partners along with its own niche video sites, like StupidVideos [...]

Kosmix Launches Health Search Vertical
Kosmix, the search engine, has launched a consumer site with a focus on health, called RightHealth. This is the one in a growing list of search verticals Kosmix is launching, after RightAutos and RightTrips consumer sites. The purpose is to create a home landing page for niche searches, all powered by Kosmix. Each [...]

RSSBrief Summarizes RSS Feeds
From the creators of the controversial PayPerPost comes RSSBrief, a new service that attempts to summarize the high points of blog entries automatically. For now, the service works by allowing you to enter in the feed you would like summarized and then presenting you with a short recap. Each summary includes a few [...]

Google Moon Upgrades with Street Views
Google has launched an updated version of their Google Moon maps. You’ll note that there are new astronaut icons that offer information bubbles for landing sites. There’s also a new offering of panoramas of the moon’s surface, which have been taken by the Apollo astronauts. For those of you that knew about [...]

AOL Launches Italian Web Portal: AOL.it
AOL Europe has launched a free portal targeted to Italian users. The site, AOL.it, includes many of the same features as its American counterpart, including options for unlimited email storage, photo and video sharing tools, and instant messaging. Search on the site is powered by Google. According to an AOL spokesperson, the online [...]

Googles $30M Lunar X Prize for Cheaper Space Exploration
Google has teamed up with several partners to sponsor the Google Lunar X Prize, calling on inventors, entrepreneurs , engineers and scientists to send a robotic rover to the moon. An official announcement of these plans is expected soon.With a $30 million sponsorship, Google’s involvement with the X Prize non-profit is substantial. A [...]

Prince Gears Up to Battle YouTube, Pirate Bay and eBay too
Prince may be among the first major artists to take legal action against Google. He’s indicated an intent to file suits against YouTube, eBay, and PirateBay for encouraging the illegal behavior surrounding copyright infringement.He’s reportedly signed on top law firms in the UK and in Sweeden to take on YouTube and PirateBay. [...]

VibeAgent Now Shares Travel Plans
VibeAgent, the travel search and planning tool that’s still in private beta, has added another layer of social networking into its service.Entitled My Trips, this new feature lets you keep track of your planned trips, and keep up with the trips of your friends. You can let your friends and family know of your [...]

WinAmp to Release 10th Anniversary Edition
Popular media player WinAmp is set to turn 10 years old and is celebrating with a new edition (v5.5). The beta is currently available for download and will be officially released on October 10th at 10pm (10-10-10). New features include a more like this feature for generating playlists based on the music you [...]

Stats: Facebook Traffic Up 117%, Veoh Soars 346%
Nielsen//NetRatings has released its August traffic report for social networking, blogs, and video sites. In the report, Facebook shows 117% growth since August of last year to 19 million unique visitors, while MySpace still grew at a healthy 23% pace to 60 million uniques. On the video side of things, Veoh was the [...]

iPhone. Europe. Still on Track for September Launch.
Apple is closing in on details regarding the launch of the iPhone in Europe. You may remember (or have probably marked your calendar) that Apple’s initial plans have always been to launch the iPhone in Europe this month.Many expect the iPhones sales for the UK to go through Telefonica’s O2 UK [...]

Yahoo Presidential Debate Mashup Cancelled. Bummer.
Earlier this week, we heard of Yahoo’s plans to offer presidential debate videos to be made available for mashups. In doing so, any user could create their own debate, from candidates they wanted to hear from, and utilize Jumpcut’s video editing tools for re-purposing the clips. Since then, Yahoo has changed its mind. [...]

deliGoo: Custom Google Search for del.icio.us
deliGoo is a new add-on for Firefox 2.0+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+ that allows you to search for specific content within a specific user’s del.icio.us bookmarks or within a specific del.icio.us tag. The service then uses Google Custom Search to deliver the results. The idea makes sense for highly active del.icio.us users, as [...]

Brightcove.TVs New Home for Videos
Brightcove, the online video network, has launched Brightcove.TV. All video content, user-generated or otherwise, is being moved to the new URL, which is pretty much a mirror of the old Brightcove.com. Fortunately for you, this move requires absolutely no action on your part.The new URL has been created in order that Brightcove.com can [...]

Salesforce.com Launches Facebook Application
Web-based CRM software provider Salesforce.com has launched a Facebook application for connecting data from the two services. Appropriately named Faceforce, the application allows you to see things like your contact record (which is kept in your Salesforce.com account) side-by-side with a users Facebook profile, assuming they are list as a friend. In theory, [...]

Twitter from Your SplashCast Player
Splashcast has teamed up with Columbia Records, and some new features for the media player are being debuted with this announcement, in conjunction with a newly branded Columbia Records player.Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia Records band to have an artist channel from SplashCast, and it will debut the new features. One [...]

Google Founders Wife Wants Your DNA
Illumina, a company that makes tools for the study of human genes (and the genes of other animals and plants) has gotten a lot of attention as a result of its new partner, 23andMe.23andMe is a well-funded ($10 million) start-up that was co-founded by none other than Sergey Brin’s wife herself, Anne Wojcicki. It [...]

Joost Partners with Paramount Pictures
Joost has signed a partnership agreement with Paramount Pictures, for movie distribution. The movies will be launched in the UK, France, Germany and Spain to start off with, and more countries to come in the near future.So I’m sure you’d like to know what kind of movies you’ll actually get. Not the [...]

Dictionary Toolbox: 50+ Dictionary & Reference Sites
Dictionary, reference and encyclopedia sites are thriving; Dictionary.com was recently acquired for $100 million. Today, we take a look at the best reference sites on the web.Recommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

50 More Beautiful Blogger Templates
Are you tired of looking at the default 16 templates that Blogger provides? We decided to search for some of the different-looking Blogger templates and found dozens of pretty creations, many inspired by themes from Wordpress and other blog hosts. Below is a list of some select 2,3 and 4 column Blogger templates and themes [...]

25+ Recommended Tools For Movable Type
Wordpress gets all the love, but the other popular blogging platform, Movable Type, offers a wealth of extensions and add-ons. Here we round up more than 25 of our favorites.See also WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress BlogRecommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News SiteShare This

AirTalkr - Instant Messenger That Runs On AIR
Remember AIR, Adobe’s cross operating system environment that enables developers to combine Flash, Flex, Ajax and HTML to create rich internet applications? Well, AirTalkr is a desktop based instant messaging software that runs on AIR. On one hand, it’s pretty much your standard multi-protocol supporting IM application, with support for MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Yahoo and [...]

Eons Lays Off 24 Employees
Eons, the social network for baby boomers, has just reportedly undergone a major layoff for its staff of about 72, losing a third of its total number of employees. The site, which launched last year, has been unable to produce impressive results, despite its $32 million in funding and CEO Jeff Taylor, who also founded [...]

Cellitys New Mobile Software for International & Group Calls
Cellity, the Germany-based company that has created the mobile application for using Twitter on the go, has launched two new applications in the U.S. for making calls abroad, and holding conference group calls as well.Named worldCALL and groupCALL, these two new offerings are built on the same underlying technology. These two services differ [...]