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Surprise! Google Still King of Search.
According to the latest report from Nielsen, Google tops the charts for search providers in the U.S. Nielsen outlined the top 10 search providers, ranked by the total number of queries conducted for each search engine. With over 50% market share, Google still reigns as the number #1 search engine, with Yahoo coming [...]
The New Digg: A Quick Guide
Editor’s Note: As of 1:09pm EDT, Digg appears to be down and has its standard “Out of Service” message posted. More to follow as soon as we can access the site again.The much talked about new Digg features just launched a few minutes ago. Here is a quick look at the major new [...]
Intuuch is Twitter + Every Other Social Network
Intuuch is kinda like a profile aggregator that feeds you updates from all your friends, in the oh-so-popular Twitter style. Setting up is very simple. Insert the usernames for the supported networks that you’d like to pull updates from. So far, this includes YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Mr. Wong, Pownce, Wevent, Last.fm, [...]
Zillow Raises Another $30 Million
Popular real estate startup Zillow has raised another $30 million in spite of the struggling US housing market. The latest round of financing was lead by Legg Mason Capital Management. Zillow allows users to search for what their home might be worth and explore other houses through visual maps. Buyers can also [...]
Jangl is 1st Application on New Tagged Profiles
Jangl, in its successful tactic of partnering with other companies, has now teamed up with Tagged to offer its VoIP service to users on the social network. This is the first partnership of its kind for Tagged, allowing applications to be included on members’ new homepages.What makes this particular deal even more special is [...]
ABC to Distribute Streaming Video on AOL
Television network ABC has reached a deal to distribute its primetime shows on AOL. Shows will be ad-supported, with revenue being shared by the two companies. Advertising will also include geo-targeted ads, a portion of which will go to local ABC affiliate stations. Videos will be available starting today.The next couple months [...]
TVTonic Unlocks Quicktime Videos for Vista
TVTonic, the Internet television service that provides downloadable video feeds, has just released a new upgrade that allows native playback of QuckTime videos for Windows Vista Media center. This essentially makes all of TVTonic’s offerings available for Windows Vista users, expanding it beyond Quicktime. While some of TVTonic’s content was already available for Vista, [...]
Plan Casual Dates on Facebook with up4
up4 has created a handy little Facebook app that lets you easily create casual events and meet up with friends somewhere offline. With a scheduling calendar, you can pick the day and approximate time for your meet up. Or you can click the “add” button to go directly to the screen for [...]
Creationists vs. Atheists Battle Out DMCA Takedowns on YouTube
There’s an apocalyptic battle going on between an organization called the Creation Science Evangelism, and the Rational Response Squad, and it’s all over a few video clips on YouTube.The Creation Science Evangelism (CSE) has submitted several DMCA takedown notices to YouTube after the Rational Response Squad (RRS) used some of its clips for a [...]
Make Money with Your iPhone. Track Wifi Access Points.
Navizon is a peer-to-peer “virtual GPS” system that triangulates data collected from users with GPS devices, wifi signals and cell phone towers. In this way, those that do not have GPS systems can still benefit from location-mapping and finding services within the Navizon community. With Navizon, you can find nearby stores and other [...]
Check A Restaurants Report Card Before Dining Out
CleanScores is an online resource that displays the “grade” cards of a restaurant based on its most recent inspections.The purpose behind CleanScores is to decrease the number of food-borne illnesses and be a source of information for restaurant-goers. Based on government inspections for a place of dining, a certain number of points are [...]
NoseRubs Confusing Profile Aggregator Service
Noserub is a new social network profile aggregating tool that lets you keep track of all your social networking profiles in one place. With Noserub’s downloadable application, you can create your own mini network of aggregated profiles. The result is something that very much resembles a feed, though there are sadly no subscription [...]
Meez Parent Company Raises $500,000
Donnerwood Media, the parent company of the Meez virtual avatar service, has raised $500,000 from Battery Ventures. Meez allows users to create avatars using a Flash-based design tool that can then be shared in IM and on most social networks. Earlier this week the company announced a partnership with Vringo to create avatar [...]
Geezeo and Finetune Facebook Applications
Geezeo is launching a Facebook application later on tonight that will help you reach your money goals. Called iWant, this application lets you set goals, and help you reach your goals. Some starter goals are saving for spring break, a new car, or getting out of debt. Associate items with [...]
Better Digg Access from your Mobile
diggm8 is a way to get Digg stories on your mobile. While there are already ways to do this, including the Digg version that’s been optimized for the iPhone, diggm8 looks to offer a few different options and a couple additional features in order to broaden the number of people that can actually [...]
Digg Users Not Digging DiggSpace
One day after word surfaced that some major new social networking features are in the works at Digg, many users are voicing displeasure and questioning the priorities the company is setting. Two stories about the changes have hit the Digg homepage today: the BusinessWeek exclusive and Diggs official blog entry. While some users [...]
Moo Your Facebook Photos
Moo, the service that lets you make sticker and postcard prints from your photos, has added Facebook to its repertoire. From your Moo account, you can import your own photos from Facebook in order to make printed products like note cards and business cards. It will cost you just under $10 for [...]
Pirates Had Photo-Sharing?
Flickr has gotten in on the pirate fun today as well. There’s an “Arrr!” language option at the bottom of the page, right alongside English, Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Italiano and Portugues. One click on this “Arrr” language option, and all of Flickr will be converted to Pirate talk. Oodle’s done something [...]
OurLikes Finds Lovers Through Photo Quizzes
OurLikes is a new dating site that matches you based on things you like. There’s an ongoing image questionnaire of sorts that lets you say how much you like something in particular, such as an activity, movie, car, or person, which can be ranked on a 5-choice scale ranging from hate to love. [...]
MySpace & Facebook Cant Touch Skyrock
Skyrock has been named as the largest social network in France, according to the latest comScore World Metrix report on French social networking sites.The popularity has been attributed to its focus on the French language, and its appeal to other French-speaking countries, including Belgium and Switzerland. With 13.2 million unique visitors from within [...]
SeeqPod Builds Playlists for iPhones & iPod Touch
SeeqPod, the media search engine that finds (and plays) playable music and videos, has just launched two new services that are compatible with Apple products.The SeeqPod search services are now available for the iPhone as well as the iPod Touch. We already knew about SeeqPod for the iPhone, but here’s a quick recap, [...]
More Details on Gphone Emerge
Some details on Googles rumored handset are starting to leak out, though the company is reportedly still weighing options for exact specifications that may push its launch into 2008. Google is also still in negotiations over licensing patents for the device, further delaying progress. According to reports gathered from handset makers in Taiwan, [...]
Facebook App for Sale on eBay
Logbook is a Facebook application that’s being sold on an eBay auction. Created by a company called Nothing Original, this looks to be the only application launched by the company so far.With logbook, Facebook users can add movies, books and music to their list of reviewed items. This is built on [...]
Oodle Talks Like A Pirate
Oodle is taking Talk Like a Pirate Day very seriously. It’s completely decked out a classifieds site to fully get you in the spirit. If you’re looking for a date, go to the Beauties & Blackguards section where wenches can find sailors, and vice versa, and every other combination therein. Need [...]
Magento: The Zimbra of Ecommerce?
Magento is a new open source ecommerce platform that aims to handle all aspects of building and maintaining an ecommerce site including shopping carts, shipping, product reviews, and much more. The company looks to play in the professional open source space, offering its code base to developers that want to build their own plugins [...]
20 Great 2-Column Drupal Themes
Drupal has been the free CMS platform for the advanced user for quite some time, and while it might not be popular as Wordpress, it has a devoted army of users as well as developers and themers. This time, we’ve dug up 20 great 2-column themes for Drupal. Enjoy.See also: 30+ WordPress 2-Column ThemesRecommended: [...]
Propeller: Netscape Digg Clone is Live
Netscape’s reb-randed social news site Propeller has finally gone live. We first mentioned it here.The site, you’ll notice, looks a lot like the previous Netscape social news Digg clone. There are a couple new features that are peppered throughout the site, offering a variety of ways in which you can keep [...]
Monetize Facebook Apps with Chitika eMiniMalls
Chitika has created an API for Facebook developers to insert ads into their Facebook applications.These ads are powered by Chitika’s flagship product, the eMiniMalls. These are interactive widgets that display retail listings of your choice. A site visitor can learn additional information about the various products in your eMiniMall, and you [...]
Fotolog Hits 11 Million Members
Photo sharing site Fotolog has hit 11 million members. Given we reported on the site reaching 4 million members a little over a year ago, it would appear that Fotolog is growing incredibly fast. The company also announced it now has more than 300 million photos posted, with nearly half of them being [...]
NBC to Offer Free Downloads of Popular Shows
NBC.com has announced a service called NBC Direct which will allow users to download NBC shows such as The Office, 30 Rock, and Heroes, to their desktop. The NBC Direct software will allow users to view each episode for up to one week, at which point the license will expire. While free to [...]
AOL Music Launches Facebook Application
AOL Music has released a Facebook application for showing off your favourite artists. The application works by first letting you select your 10 favourite artists from their list of 100 (mostly top 40 regulars), selecting a skin, and then inserting a flash widget into your profile. Once inserted into your profile, the widget [...]
Happy 25th Birthday, Emoticon
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first usage of an emoticon, a simple smiley face first used by a Carnegie Mellon professor on an old school bulletin board system. It turns out that the emoticon was not just an afterthought, but a much discussed idea addressing a problem early users of the system [...]
AOL Launches Spanish Web Portal
AOL has launched a portal for Spain offering local content, email, instant messaging, and other standard AOL features. The news follows last weeks announcement that AOL was launching an Italian portal. Todays news is almost identical, and the site AOL.es is laid out exactly the same as its Italian counterpart (AOL.it). [...]
AOL Launches Spanish Web Portal
AOL has launched a portal for Spain offering local content, email, instant messaging, and other standard AOL features. The news follows last weeks announcement that AOL was launching an Italian portal. Todays news is almost identical, and the site AOL.es is laid out exactly the same as its Italian counterpart (AOL.it). [...]
PhotoBucket Launches Bulk Uploader, Privacy Features
Photo and video uploading service Photobucket has just launched several new features. Photobucket Pro users can now set individual photo and video albums to public or private, protecting the latter with a guest password. The company plans to make the feature available to all users by the end of the year.Photobucket has also launched [...]
iPhone to Launch in Germany on T-Mobile
One day after announcing the iPhone would go on sale in the UK on November 9th through O2, Apple announced the device will hit German stores on the same day, but through T-Mobile. The iPhone will sell for euro399 (about $550 USD) in Germany, roughly the same price as in the UK.Deutsche Telekom AG’s [...]
Facebook is Fastest Growing Social Network in Europe
A new report by comScore on social networking in Europe indicates Facebook is also experiencing rapid growth abroad. Total unique visitors to the site rose 422% from July 06-July 07 to 10.8 million. Meanwhile, MySpace remained Europes most visited social network, with comScore reporting 25.1M visitors in July, up 24% over the same [...]
Artists Toolbox: 30+ Places to Promote Your Art
The social web is benefiting all kinds of creative people, including artists. There are now hundreds of places to share your work, get feedback and make money from selling it. Here are Mashable’s favorites.Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at Mashcodes!Share This