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Fox Free on iTunes. Free is In this Season.
Fox is joining ABC and NBC in trying out some new tactics for jump starting the new fall line-up this season. The television network has signed a deal with iTunes to distribute 7 of its Fox Broadcasting season premier programs for free. The shows will be available this week. Some of the [...]

Our Second Facebook App is Here!
FBFactory, the company that develops Facebook applications, has completed 20 to date. That calls for a celebration. And what’s a better way to celebrate than getting your very own Mashable Facebook app? The good guys over at FBFactory have been kind enough to create one for us. Be sure to [...]

Illuminos Upgrades for Social Feeds
Illumino, the social site that connects people based on their feeds and other interests, has released a new upgraded version that includes more social features.Its Q&A section that matches you with others that have the necessary expertise has been streamlined with the addition of cross-group functionality. This helps questions get answered in a more [...]

Habbo to host virtual movie awards
Habbo, a online virtual community for teens, has announced that they will be hosting the Habbowood Digital Movie Awards (HDMA) Gala on Friday, September 21st.The awards are the culmination of a film contest that started when Habbo launched their Habbowood MovieMaker tool on September 4th. Since it’s introduction, more than 230,000 movies have been [...]

Google founders crack the top 5 richest Americans
The annual Forbes Magazine list of the richest Americans has been released, and the Top 5 has two new entrants tied for the 5th position: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google. Worth an estimated $18.5 each, they still have a long way to go if they hope to steal 1st slot away [...]

MooWee Plays Internet TV with Your Wii
MooWee is an application that lets you watch Internet TV content on your television screen using your Nintento Wii game console. You’ll need an Internet broadband connection with a minimum bandwidth of 384kbps as well as an Internet browser on your Wii console in order to hook this up to your television. [...]

Scriblinks Extra Basic Whiteboard Tool
Scriblink is a whiteboard tool that keeps it simple. Pull up the website and start drawing. You can add simple things like shapes, and lines. Pick a color and a thickness to make your drawings more interesting. The drawing tools are pretty basic. There’s no fill color tools, and [...]

Massify is Where Filmmakers Meet Citizen Critics
Massify is an upcoming social network that operates around film production, matching film creatives and movie fans together in order to create new films. Based in New York and created by Brett Icahn and Kenneth Woo, the funded social network will look to replicate and takeover a small piece of the marketplace where supply [...]

LeWeb 3 Needs Start-Ups for Paris Competition
LeWeb 3 is gearing up for its fourth conference in Europe, and as it’s always been a good platform for start-ups to get the ball rolling on presenting their products to high profile people in the industry, the conference has expanded its original program to allow for a stage dedicated to start-ups. That means [...]

Imagini Network: No Words Allowed!
Imagini.net is a social network that collects your visual DNA, and matches you with others accordingly. It’s just launched its beta social network, which already has 4 million users.With this network, learning about yourself and others is based around images. This is almost like a horoscope service based on deductions pulled from the [...]

25+ Ways To Synchronize Your Bookmarks
Despite social bookmarking sites such as Delicious and Diigo, many of us still like to bookmark the old fashioned way - using our browser’s menu bar. But, if we have to use multiple browsers and computers our bookmarks soon get scattered and unorganized. Bookmark synchronizers solve that problem by merging our bookmarks and storing them [...]

Has the StumbleUpon Algorithm Been De-Coded?
A blogger has done extensive research into the StumbleUpon algorithm to see how exactly the service works. According to the researchers, each Stumbler has an audience score that consists of their number of fans, the numbers of thumbs up/down they have given, and bonus points if a user give thumbs up to content that [...]

Steve Jobs Subpoenaed For Backdated Options Case
Steve Jobs will have to appear before federal investigators as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Apple’s former head lawyer, Nancy Heinen. This all goes back to the uproar that was caused by Apple’s backdating of stock options for the company several years ago. While both Apple and Jobs have [...]

Six Apart Shares Thoughts on an Open Future
Six Apart has made a rather philosophical posting to their corporate blog about the ways in which you should be able to manage your so-called social graph, providing some insight as to future products we might expect from the company. According to David Recordon of Six Apart: You should own your social graph Privacy must [...]

QuePasa Adds Video News Network with Magnify
QuePasa, one of the largest Latino social networks, has added a News Network onto its site. Here you can get video news clips across several topics, from sports to entertainment. This new News Network is powered by Magnify, so you’ll get to enjoy all of the benefits that are included with a Magnify [...]

Facebook Launches Auto-Complete Feature for Quick Access to Friends
Facebook has added an auto-complete search feature, making it quicker to jump to one of your friends profiles. Just start typing a friends name and the search box will guess the names you are trying to find. This feature definitely saves some time versus going to the Friends page that Facebook offers. [...]

Sosius for Group Workspace & Social Networking
Sosius is a new web-based workspace that lets you handle a variety of tasks and networking features. Everything is centralized on your dashboard. From here you can create a new space, and customize it with modules. Add calendars, blogs, photo galleries, events, projects, tasks, etc. You can also customize your [...]

Google Receives 64% of US Searches in August
Hitwise has published their August report for search engine trends, with Google once again emerging victorious in a landslide. For the month, Google registered 63.98% of searches originating in the US, up from 59.99% in August of last year. Yahoo remained virtually flat year-over-year at 22.87%, while MSN (now Live.com) fell from 11.96% [...]

SocialMarker Is a One-Stop-Shop Bookmarking Site
SocialMarker is a new bookmarking tool that lets you use a singular service for submitting links to more than 2 dozen social bookmarking sites. This is a Firefox plug-in, so you’ll need to be using a Firefox browser in order to enjoy the benefits of SocialMarker. Once you’ve added the SocialMarker submission [...]

Virgin Mobile Offers Reply-All SMS through 3jam
Virgin Mobile has teamed up with 3jam to offer its reply-all text messaging service to its customers. This is one of the first times a mobile service provider has offered a reply-all option for text messaging, and it makes for group conversations to be more conducive within the parameters of mobile text messaging. [...]

Wanobe is UKs Site for Baby Boomers
Wanobe is the latest social network that’s been launched for baby boomers. Based in the UK, Wanobe is a lifestyle portal for the older generation. The bulk of the site revolves around editorial content that’s displayed in the form of articles for a variety of topics, from jobs to fashion. The [...]

Hey Nielsen: Influence the Ratings through Social Networking
Hey Nielsen is a new online community that launches Monday from a somewhat unexpected player The Nielsen Company best known for its research reports and statistics like the Nielsen NetRatings. However, once you take a look at the site, its pretty clear how the service fits into the companys main business, and [...]

Gruvrs Upcoming Bands Widget for Your City
Gruvr is a site that shows you a continuously updated map with upcoming concerts near you. The folks at Gruvr now have an accompanying widget that you can place on your blog or social networking profile. It will provide you with this same list of continuously updating listings of local concerts that [...]

Knibble Offers Free Games for iPhone
Knibble is offering a new service with games designed specifically for the iPhone. Games include sudoku, bejeweled, and tic tac toe. Knibble iPhone requires no downloads and can be accessed by iPhone users by navigating to iphone.knibble.com on their device. The games are free and will be ad-supported.Knibble also operates Knibble.com, an [...]

MySpace & Facebook Are Both Cool
The kids that are visiting both MySpace and Facebook are actually spending more time at each site than those that visit just one or another. This is according to Nielsen/NetRatings, and has been taken from U.S. teens between the ages of 12 and 17 years old. Nielsen points out that they spend an [...]

Slacker Signs Deals with 3 Major Record Labels
Slacker, the free Internet radio service, has penned several major deals with big time labels EMI, Universal, and Warner, lending music content to Slacker users for the site’s Personal Radio Service. Additionally, Slacker has signed agreements with a handful of indie labels and distributors as well, including IODA, The Orchard, Beggars Group, Matador Records, [...]

Custom Icons for Google Maps
Google Maps now lets you insert your own icons for marking various things on a map. With new support for custom icons, you can use any image from the web for your placemarks. A link entitled “add an icon” from the icon menu pulls up a box where you can insert the [...]

Trading Sex for the Web. Who Doesnt?
A survey conducted by JWT, an advertising company, reported that 15% of adults can go a day or less without getting online. Of those 1,011 people surveyed, 21% said they could go a couple of days while 19% can go a few days without the web. One-fifth of adults indicated they could go [...]

Confirmed: iPhone to be on Orange in France
Apple’s European tour continues, with the company today confirming Orange as the carrier of choice for the iPhones launch in France. Earlier this week the company announced that O2 would be the carrier in Britain, while T-Mobile scooped up the deal to carry the device in Germany.Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at Mashcodes!Share This

Web 2.0 Invites for September 20th, 2007
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! Yahoo Mash InvitesYahoo Mash is a new social network from Yahoo. … Delicious InvitesInvites for the new private beta version of the Delicious social bookmarking site.Cre8Buzz InvitesShowcase yourself, showoff, post your pictures, blog your opinions, and [...]

MeeVee Adds $3.5 Million in Funding
MeeVee, a personalized tv guide of sorts, has raised $3.5 million in additional funding. The service allows you to create your own TV viewing schedule and then recommends both shows and online videos. MeeVee also offers a widget to share what youre watching with your social networking friends.This round of funding includes Bay [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 20th, 2007
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and New Media websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.New ListingsMP3 Music Community for SaleiSound is an MP3 Community and Social Network. Bands create profiles/sell/share music and users fin… Senior User Experience / Interaction DesignerJaxtr is a social [...]

Social Networking with StreetCred
StreetCred is a new social network targeting the hip hop culture with some high profile support. Prominent hip hop figures such as T.I., Common, and Snoop Dogg have setup profiles and endorsements on the site. The company also has deals in place with Warner Music Group and Sony/BMG to provide music and videos.Beyond [...]

Think MTV: Activism Community Powered by Viacom Flux
MTV is launching a new social networking site later today, Think MTV. While most notable for being the first major initiative launched by Viacom using Flux (the platform technology the company acquired from TagWorld), the network itself will feature tools for users to rally behind major causes, such as improving education and AIDS research.Currently, [...]

Shared Stuff: Googles Social Bookmarking Play?
Google has quietly launched a new service called Shared Stuff which is a bookmarklet for sharing Web pages. Once installed, a simple Email / Share button appears in your bookmarks toolbar, that when clicked allows you to email the Web page you are currently browsing to a friend. The service also includes options [...]

Music News Toolbox: 50+ Links For Discovering New Music
Is your music collection getting a bit stale? Have you run out of places where you can get fresh info about new artists, releases and concert dates? If so, you’re in luck, because we’ve assembled a list of 50 sites which will keep you up to speed with what’s happening in the world of music.Recommended: [...]

Piracy Toolbox: 30+ Ways to Support or Fight Internet Piracy
It’s time to quit Talking Like a Pirate and start acting like one. Or against one, depending on which side you fall on. While we’d never advocate copyright infringement, there’s no doubt that plenty of modern web services are being used to access content without permission. Whether you want to support your [...]

Fiql TV: Create Video Playlists from Your Songs
Fiql, the music search and discovery network, has added a major new feature onto its service. While you could already leverage the Fiql community and service to find songs and create playlists, now you can use Fiql to automatically create accompanying video playlists as well.Based on songs selected for the creation of a particular [...]

MySpace Optimized for T-Mobile Sidekick
MySpace and T-Mobile have teamed up to offer a customized social networking experience for the Sidekick mobile phone. Powered by Danger, the new custom MySpace features include a new user interface that offers a centralized location for accessing new messages, friend requests and comments on the home page. Navigation has been [...]