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SpiralFrog Finally Launches Free Music Download Store
SpiralFrog, the free, ad-supported music store, has finally opened its doors with over 770.000 songs and 3.500 music videos from indie labels and UMG.The company has had a long journey, with many speculated that its business model would never work. With more than a few setbacks, SpiralFrog looked like it wasn’t going to [...]

Time Magazines Simple Facebook App
Time Magazine has launched a Facebook application that displays a Quote of the Day. This tiny piece of what we’ve all grown accustomed to from the weekly publication is adorned with an accompanying image. Shown on your profile, this widget has options for scrolling onto the next quote, or grabbing the widget [...]

Freewebs Launches Pagiis Web Design Tool
Freewebs has just launched Pgii, a new web page design tool for users to create their own page with more creativity than what you’ll see on many other social networks.There are several templates to choose from, letting you create various “modules” for your page to show off your concert photos, insert YouTube videos, and [...]

Reuters Choses Attribtor to Protect Content
Reuters has chosen the Attributor Corporation to protect its content. Attributor will now be fingerprinting original Reuters content as well as monitor the vast Internet for analyzing the distribution of Reuters’ content across the web. As Reuters continues to modify and enhance its online distribution and strategy, Attributor will better enable the news [...]

DOMAIN TOOLBOX: 30+ Places to Buy and Sell Domains
The biggest complaint we hear about new companies these days is “what a stupid name”. Even Bill Maher has been taking potshots at the seemingly childish names web companies choose. There are good reasons for that: it’s hard to find a unique name that isn’t trademarked, and even harder to find a short [...]

OrganizedWisdom Health: New Human-Powered Engine
OrganizedWisdom, the online health community, has launched a health search engine that’s human powered, and links only to verified and trusted websites, called OrganizedWisdom Health.These search results as provided by OrganizedWisdom Health is not only credible, but well-organized as well. This makes for a structured page of search results based on your query. [...]

WordHugger Is Looking for Micro-Investors. Just Buy a Keyword.
WordHugger is a newly launched website that’s essentially looking to build a secondary web in an auction-like format. The purpose of WordHugger is to enable micro-investing on your part, giving you a piece of Internet real estate in exchange. Choose a keyword (or keywords) and earn money based off the advertising revenue from Google [...]

Comcast Acquires TV Community BuddyTV
BuddyTV, the community that’s founded around pop culture television, is being acquired by Comcast. The cable network provider plans to incorporate BuddyTV into its recently launched Fancast website, and Fandango. Both are services that revolve around finding programming and purchasing movie tickets online. BuddyTV’s community should be a welcome addition to Comcast’s [...]

Bill Maher Slams Google, Yahoo & iPhone Buyers
Bill Maher went for a web-centric New Rules segment on Friday, slamming Yahoo, Google, Bebo, iPhone buyers, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and “lactivists”. The Vanessa Hudgens scandal even gets a mention.On the Yahoo ad deal: “This week, Yahoo announced a deal with Bebo that will help it compete with Google. I had to wiki [...]

MOVIE TOOLBOX: 85+ Tools and Resources for Movie Fans
Movies have taken over today’s popular culture. Everywhere is a buzz with celebrity news and gossip. Below, we’ve outlined 85+ of the best “Movies 2.0″ sites. Also see our video toolbox for information on creating your own films.Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News SiteShare This

BlogRush: 8 Reasons to Be Waryand Optimistic
The buzz this weekend is focused on BlogRush, a traffic sharing service for bloggers. It’s literally everywhere. But many of us have seen these things before, and it’s worth noting that none have survived very long. Here are some notes we compiled from our Web 1.0 experiences. Please add your own [...]

SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo
Squidoo, the site that pays people to write topic guides, has launched a people search service named SquidWho.While not the first people search engine to come out, SquidWho wants to list every person on the planet. If you’re searching for someone famous, they’ll bring up “the single best fanpage” (an arbitrary statement if I’ve [...]

SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo
Squidoo, the site that pays people to write topic guides, has launched a people search service named SquidWho.While not the first people search engine to come out, SquidWho wants to list every person on the planet. If you’re searching for someone famous, they’ll bring up “the single best fanpage” (an arbitrary statement if I’ve [...]

Blogrush: Traffic Generator or Pyramid Scheme?
Blogrush is at once an ingenious idea and a bit of a throwback to “Web 1.0″ affiliate schemes. Here’s how it works: if you click this link and proceed to use the service yourself, this blog earns credits. Using the service means posting a widget (right) to your sidebar. Every time the [...]