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REAL ESTATE TOOLBOX: 65+ Real Estate Resources
The United States real estate market is an upheaval with more new homes than buyers. If you’re looking to sell your house, you need all the help you can get, and buyers need the tools to find the best bargains. We’ve collected 65+ new tools to help you buy or sell your home [...]

Steve Fossett Search: Amazon Mechanical Turk Finds Leads
As we reported previously, Amazon Mechanical Turk service is assisting in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. Using quickly updated satellite imagery of the suspected crash area, people have been searching 256X256 squares for any sign of the aircraft.There has now been an update on how the search is going, and it seems there [...]

Xanga Adds Live Stream Webcams to Blog Platform
We haven’t heard much from Xanga lately, but it’s recently added a new live video streaming feature to its blogging platform called XangaTV. There’s a video module that will be added to the top of your blog, with your live stream and a chat option for other Xanga users to chime in. [...]

Babelgum Film Festival Submissions Open: Win $27,000
Babelgum’s Online Film Festival is opening up submissions at midnight. We first mentioned the Film Festival here.The participating filmmakers have the opportunity to win about $27,000 (20,000) in each category. They’ll get to earn some cash from a rev-share program too. For the festival, Babelgum has added a new music video category since [...]

BuddyLabs Ultra Cute Avatars
BuddyLabs is a recently launched avatar-creation tool. Spruce up your social networking profile, blog or comment with a Flash-based animal of your choice. Right now you can select a T-Rex, pig, fish or cat. They’re highly customizable. For example, the kitten I created gave options for changing everything from the [...]

Microsofts Gatineau to Compete with Google Analytics
Microsoft has offered a sneak peak at its upcoming Gatineau service, which will be a direct competitor to Google Analytics. Gatineau will be offered in an English version first, in countries that have local adCenter support teams. The purpose of Gatineau is to offer more targeted advertising options to marketers, with the provision [...]

Portcard Verifies Users Across Networks
Portcard is a new service that offers authentication for users of social networks. This authentication service lets you know who you can trust on the various social venues in which you participate online. As with most user verification services, only those that have registered with Portcard will have information available to you, [...]

Zannel Offers Multimedia Microblogging
Zannel is a new player in the microblogging and mobile social networking arena. Their service combines mobile status updates ala Twitter with mobile photo and video sharing. Updates of your friends can be viewed either on your phone or on Zannels web site. The company describes its service as Instant Media [...]

BloggerPlay Shows Real Time Images Uploaded to Blogs
Blogger has just released a new little toy of sorts, that shows the photos that are being uploaded to blogger accounts in real time. It’s called BloggerPlay.Google has implemented safety watch on here, so only safe images will show. You’ll need to open a new screen in order to view the slide show, [...]

Imo is Another Multi-IM Chat Tool
Imo.im is a new instant messaging tool that combines multiple IM clients to allow for a unified chat service. Created and funded by an early Google employee, Imo is similar in concept to Meebo and other multi-IM tools out there. The instant messenger clients currently supported by Imo include Yahoo Messenger, AIM, [...]

oSkope Visual Product Search Engine
oSkope is a new visual search engine for finding products. Currently the service allows you to search Amazon, eBay, Flickr, and YouTube and displays relevant images that can be viewed in a variety of ways. I found the most interesting of the displays to be the Graph view on Amazon items. For [...]

Audiofarm: Store and Share MP3s
Audiofarm is a mixture of a lot of things, but all of them relate to music. Whether you want to upload, store, and sort your own music, or you’re a new band wanting to get exposure, there seems to be something for everyone here.Members can upload their music collection and then start sharing tunes with [...]

Google Maps Expands Coverage
Google has added 54 new countries to Google Maps. On the Google Lat Long Blog, a product manager notes that they have doubled coverage in Latin America and now cover three times more countries in Asia. Some of the international maps are much more detailed than others, with the map of Mexico City [...]

Googles PowerPoint Killer Will Arrive Presently
Google’s PowerPoint killer looks to be on the horizon. Called Presently, the presentation-creation tool will offer a web-based solution for users. This will be a welcome addition to the Google Apps family, and may even be a member of the suite edition that will be sold through Capgemini. Reportedly built in part [...]

College Credits for Watching YouTube
Someone at Pitzer College let Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor, start a course on YouTube. In the class, students work mostly online, watching YouTube content, posting comments, and are encouraged to post their own video clips. The course will cover serious issues surrounding YouTube, such as the role of corporate-sponsored democratic media expression. [...]

Happy 4th Birthday Del.icio.us
Social bookmarking service del.icio.us is four years old today, having first launched on this day in 2003. The site has grown up a lot since then, being acquired by Yahoo in late 2005 and its bookmark icon becoming ubiquitous on blogs and news sites. Original creator Joshua Schachter has commemorated the occasion by [...]

Facebook Flyers Ads Adopts CPC Model
Facebook has modified its flyer’s advertising platform, changing it to an auction-based CPC model, called Flyers Pro. As the Facebook flyers advertising option was arguably the most dismal in terms of click-through rates and ROI, it was high time for a change. Now advertisers can set a max price for what they’re [...]

GMail on Your Desktop Yet?
Rumors of an offline GMail service press on as the Hindustan Times say that the offline version of GMail has already been built and it currently being tested internally.Many have speculated, and definitely expect an offline version of GMail. All the other web-based apps are doing it. From Zoho to ThinkFree, [...]

19 Major Media Companies Sued Over Playlist Technology
Premier International Associates, a patent company, has reportedly filed suit against nineteen technology companies over patent infringement. The companies being sued include Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Viacom, Real, Napster, Samsung, Sandisk, Nokia, Motorola and LG are the companies that have been named in one of the two suits Premier has filed. [...]

Obama Plays to Start-Ups with LinkedIns Q&A Series
LinkedIn has launched a special series for Q&A feature, which focus on start-ups and small businesses. So far a few high profile users have taken advantage of this platform to pose questions and receive feedback.The special series Q&A sessions were kicked off by Sen. Barack Obama, who recently joined LinkedIn (now we [...]

The Village People Threaten To Sue YouTube!
(Credit: Island/Mercury)When copyright violations are happening you should call a cop… and a construction worker… a biker… an Indian chief… you get the idea.It seems that the Village People, yes, they still exist, are upset over a video someone edited together footage of Adolf Hitler so it appears he is dancing to their famous anthem, [...]

Happy 10th Birthday Google! Well, Almost.
Back on September 15th, 1997, who would have thought a new search engine started by two 24-year old Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, would not only become a global powerhouse, but also a verb? However you slice it, Google is the victor in the search engine war, and shows no signs of [...]

Yahoo Acquires BuzzTracker
In an apparent attempt to let the general public know they were not dead yet, Yahoo is on a tear with announcements this week. The old warhorse of search engines already announced an ad deal with social network Bebo this week, and now they will be announcing the acquisition of BuzzTracker.com.BuzzTracker is a news [...]

Admish.com: Social Networking for College Admissions
Admish.com is a new social networking site launching on Monday for everyone involved in the college admissions process. For students, this means the ability to search for information about different schools and connect with admissions officers, guidance counselors, and other students at member institutions. It also lets parents play a more active role [...]

360Gadget: A Mini Netvibes for Facebook
360Gadget has announced the launch of its new personalized start page app for Facebook. The new application will allow you to do a lot more of your Internet activities without ever leaving the social network. The page is fully customizable and allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, search Google and map, take [...]

FireAnt Joining Odeo at SonicMountain
FireAnt, the vlog directory that started out as a desktop application for playing, downloading and subscribing to video podcasts/vlogs, is being acquired by SonicMountain. The purchase price for FireAnt was not disclosed, but has been reported at being a somewhat modest, in the mid six-figures. SonicMountain is the same company that bought the [...]