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Computer Thief Unknowingly I.D.s Himself on Flickr?
Here’s a funny story I’ll leave you with before heading out to the DEMO conference in sunny San Diego. A computer thief was possibly identified when he uploaded photos of himself onto the stolen computer, as the iMac has the Flickrbooth application installed, which automatically uploads photo booth camera shots to the associated Flickr [...]

Friendsters Bilingual: Chinese Version Coming Soon
Friendster has just announced a traditional Chinese version of its social network. This is obviously a move for global expansion, to a part of the world that is high in population and has a large amount of Internet users in a target demographic. And Friendster’s global expansion won’t provide separate and localized [...]

EchoStar Acquires Sling Media for $380M
EchoStar Communications Corporation, the parent company for DISH Network, has announced its agreement to acquire Sling Media, creator of the Sling suite, which lets you do things like control your television shows at any time, from their computers or mobile phones, or record and watch TV on your PC or Windows-based mobile phone. The acquisition [...]

Gmail Mobile Gets an Update
Google has update the mobile version of their popular email app, Gmail, located at m.gmail.com.The new version includes more of the features you know and love from the full-version. You can now add links to some of your labels and view sections such as Spam and rafts. You can also do more of the actions [...]

Free iTunes at Starbucks
To promote the new partnership with Apple and its wi-fi music store, Starbucks will be handing out 50 million iTunes songs to U.S. customers between October 2 and November 7, 2007. The new wi-fi Music Store features will be debuting at select Starbucks locations. This little bit of funness is free (free [...]

Google Vulnerabilities Reveal Your Gmail Contacts & Messages
I don’t think this is what Google had in mind when it revealed its plans to “go open.” Bedford has just revealed three vulnerabilities on Google, the first of which is in the Blogspot polls feature. The ‘font’ parameter was not being cleaned before being used inside of a STYLE tag, so [...]

MyQuire Launches New Project Collaboration Tool
MyQuire brought their new collaboration tool to DEMOfall to announce its readiness for the marketplace.Part social networking and part collaboration tool, MyQuire lets you set up a page about yourself that makes it easy for everyone to see the progress of projects you are working on together. You can store your files directly so [...]

AnywhereCD Closes Doors after Losing Warner Music Group
AnywhereCD, the online music retailer that sold DRM-free digital music, is closing up shop. It’s contract for selling CDs and mp3s from Warner Music Group expires, leaving the company with little inventory. Founded by Michael Robertson, better known for MP3.com, launched AnywhereCD earlier this year as an alternative to other online retailers. [...]

Facebook Newsfeeds Are Escaping to Bloglines & Beyond
If you’re a Bloglines user, you may have noticed that your Facebook feed activities are showing up in this personal feed reader service. Well, at least some users have experienced this particular situation. A Facebook feed mistakenly on Bloglines? Really?Here’s the deal. Your feeds have a subscription option that lets [...]

Wordpress 2.3 Is Live
We heard last week that Wordpress would be launching a new release today. Well, it’s here. Tagging and tag clouds are now available for Wordpress bloggers. There’s also the new update notification feature that lets you know when there’s a new release for WordPress, or when any other plug-ins you have [...]

NetBooks Adds Payroll System Tool
NetBooks, the web-based system for running your business, is teaming up with PayCycle, an online payroll system. The new combined system is called True Small Businesses (TSBs), which offers an integration of PayCycle’s services into Netbooks. In turn, PayCycle users can now export their data directly into NetBooks. Here’s a few [...]

Ad Network Turn Raises $8 Million
Turn, an online ad network that automates the process of selecting the best ad placements, has raised $8 million in financing. The company is notable for being founded by Jim Barnett, the former CEO of Altavista, which was one of the more popular search engines of the 1990s. Turn hopes to differentiate itself [...]

iPhone Apps Can Void your Apple Warranty
So for all of you that have been debating whether or not to download an iPhone unlock hack, or even adding a third-party native application using Installer.app, know that your Apple warranty may very well be voided. Yup. As in null and void. Permanently. Forever. Why? Because this loosely falls under [...]

MySpace & MTV Presidential Candidate Diaglogues This Week!
Just a friendly reminder that MySpace and MTV will be hosting the one-on-one Presidential Candidate Diaglogues with John Edwards this Thursday, September 27th, at 12 Noon, ET. The event will be streamed live on both MySpace and MTV. Users will be able to submit questions in real-time via MySpaceIM and MTV, [...]

Facebook Implements Bug Tracking System
In a move sure to be welcome by application developers, Facebook has implemented Bugzilla to allow users to track bugs. This adds some much-needed organization to bug reporting, which previously took place over email and through the developer discussion forums.Utilizing Bugzilla, bugs can now be documented and tracked so developers can easily see the [...]

Naymz Adds Community Interaction for Building Online Reputations
Naymz, the online identity control service, is relaunching its site with more social features and additional tools for helping you improve and maintain your online reputation.The purpose in doing so is to let you improve your online networking capabilities, for whatever reason. Whether you’re hoping to meet more people on LinkedIn, or would simply [...]

Prolify Launches Collaboration and Task Management by Email
Prolify has announced their new collaboration email tools today at DEMOfall.Prolify is aiming to make your email far more than just a way of sending notes like “Racquetball @ 10?” and turning it into a full-fledged project management and collaboration tool. Integrated with Microsoft Outlook, Prolify allows you to keep up-to-date on what the [...]

Vello Looks to End Annoying Conference Calls
Vello announced today at DEMOfall that they have launched a beta version of their new system for conference calling.No one likes having to call into a conference call, enter a pin number, and wait for everyone to arrive, so Vello decided the conference call should call you. A phone call will be placed to [...]

Dimdim Launches Open Source Web Meeting Service
Announced at DEMOfall today, dimdim is the first free, open source web meeting service of its kind.Backed by some of the same money that gave us Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL, dimdim is a 100% free method to hold web meetings of just a few people or a gathering of a few hundred. The features [...]

Yuuguu Launches Free Remote Desktop Access App
Yuuguu is at DEMOfall, launching a service that aims to get everyone sharing their computer screens with each other.Derived from the Japanese word for “fashion,” Yuuguu is a new cross platform collaboration tool that allows people to easily share their computer screens. No download is required and it is all done through a Web [...]

Ideablob is a Place to Grow Your Ideas
Ideablob was announced today at DEMOfall as a site where you can grow your small business ideas.Run by Advanta, one of the largest credit card companies in the US, Ideablob is a place for people to post their ideas for a small business and get feedback from other users. The other users can then [...]

Kannuu Announces New Mobile Search Service
Kannuu took the lid off their new mobile search product at DEMOfall today. Available for immediate use, Kannuu is a new type of interface for searching via mobile devices. All it requires is that the device have four directional buttons and you’re ready to go. The application will show up on a screen [...]

FastCall411 Wants to Help You With Directory Assistance
DEMOlive saw the introduction of an innovative new method to do local business searches with the launch of FastCall411.The idea behind FastCall411 is that using either your mobile phone or their website, you enter what you’re looking for (plumber, locksmith, etc.), enter your zip code, and FastCall411 will start calling around for you. Once [...]

Tubes Announces RC2 and The Hub
Tubes did something today at DEMOfall that seems to be a rarity these days - they came out of beta.With the release of their Release Candidate 2, Tubes is moving forward with interesting ways to synchronize your digital life between your desktop and the web. By placing files into what they refer to as [...]

AgendiZeMe Calls Customers to Action with Shiny Blue Buttons
Agendize is launching its Call-to-Action platform at DEMO, called AgendiZeMe, for small to medium-sized businesses to better monetize ads and content on their site. How does it work? Well, you can choose from 8 customizable buttons that let your readers, consumers and site visitors take further action on your ads or content. [...]

Virgin Digital to Shut Down October 19th
If you have any credits left with Virgin Digital’s online music store, you best get to using them as it is going away October 19th.As of last Friday, the UK branch stopped accepting new customers, and also stopped selling any more songs. Users who were on the subscription plan and have more than a [...]

Virgin Digital to Shut Down October 19th
If you have any credits left with Virgin Digital’s online store, you best get to using them as the store is going away October 19th.As of last Friday, the UK branch stopped accepting new customers, and also stopped selling any more songs. Users who were on the subscription plan, and have more than a month [...]

Facebook Investigated for Safety Practices
Facebook is being investigated by the office of the New York State Attorney General, who accuses the site of failing to keep users safe from sexual predators. The Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has sent a complaint and subpoenaed the company for documents that he believes indicate Facebook is not adequately responding to user complaints. [...]

Tubes Announces RC2 and The Hub
Tubes did something today at DEMOfall that seems to be a rarity anymore… they came out of beta.With the release of their Release Candidate 2, Tubes is moving forward with interesting ways to synchronize your digital life between your desktop and the web. By placing files into what they refer to as a “tube”, [...]

BatchBook Offers Customizable Contact Management Software
BatchBlue Software, a web-based software provider, is launching a new contact management product called BatchBook at DEMOfall. BatchBook includes features such as communications logs, the ability to create mailing lists, task lists, and also allows users to create custom fields. The idea is that by allowing for more customization, small businesses can better [...]

Google Trends Now Updates Daily
Google Trends, the search engines public tool for monitoring the popularity of different search terms, now updates daily. Previously, Google Trends was only updated once a month, making the data considerably less interesting. On the Official Google Blog, the company has taken a look at the relative hotness of the three major gaming [...]

FastCall411 Wants to Help You With Directory Assistance
DEMOlive saw the introduction of an innovative new method to do local business searches in FastCall411.The idea behind FastCall411 is why should the consumer do all the work in a directory search? Using either your mobile phone on their website, you enter what you’re looking for (plumber, locksmith, and so on), enter the zip [...]

Kannuu Announces New Mobile Search Service
kannuu took the lid off their new mobile search product at DEMOfall today.Available for immediate use, kannuu is a new search engine for your mobile devices. All it requires is that the device have four directional buttons, and you’re set. The app will show up on a screen as a four-point diamond shape, [...]

Phreesia Automates the Patient Check-In Process
Phreesia is launching a new solution at DEMOfall that automates the process of check-in at the doctors office. While perhaps not the sexiest application launching at the conference, Phreesia does sound like its tackling a very common problem: illegible documents back and forth between doctors and patients, and an endless pile of paperwork each [...]

Dimdim Launches Open Source Web Meeting Service
Announced at DEMOfall today, dimdim is the first free, open source, web meeting service of its kind.Backed by some of the same money that gave us Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL, dimdim is a 100% free method to hold web meetings of just a few to a gathering of a few hundred. The features are [...]

Yuuguu Launches Free Remote Desktop Access App
Yuuguu is at DEMOfall with the hope of getting everyone to share their computer screens with each other.Derived from the Japanese word for “fashion”, Yuuguu is a new cross platform collaboration tool that allows people to easily share their computer screens with one another. No download is required and it is all done through [...]

Earthmine Launching Spatially Accurate Mapping Tools
Earthmine is debuting new mapping technology at DEMOfall that aims to let users view street-level images from a human perspective. By combining panoramic imagery that the company has acquired with data such as the latitude and longitude of each pixel, the company aims to provide the most comprehensive and spatially accurate mapping tool to-date. [...]

Ideablob is a Place to Grow Your Ideas
Ideablob was announced today at DEMOfall as a site where you can grow your small business ideas.Run by Advanta, one of the largest credit card companies in the nation, Ideablob is a place for people to post their ideas for a small business and get feedback from other users about it. The other users [...]

Vello Looks to End Annoying Conference Calls
Vello announced today at DEMOfall that they have launched a beta version of their new system of conference calling.No one likes having to call into a conference call and entering pin numbers, so Vello decided the conference call should call you. A phone call will be placed to you at the appropriate time to [...]

Myndnet: Profit from Your Business Acumen
Myndnet has launched what it calls the Information Marketplace at DEMOfall. The service is focused on business users, utilizing a question and answer format where professionals are paid for providing good information. The marketplace features topics such as questions from recruiters, people looking for market research data, and salespeople looking for leads. [...]

Shoutlet Launches Social Media Marketing Suite
Sway Media is launching Shoutlet today at DEMOfall, a new suite of products to help marketers create and analyze initiatives across blogs, social networks, sms, widgets, podcasts, and other forms of social media. The application aims to bring multiple programs into one, allowing marketing professionals to handle tasks such as video distribution, online advertising, [...]

Prolify Launches Collaboration and Task Management by Email
Things are just popping up all over the place today at DEMOfall, and Prolify decided what better place to announce their new collaboration email tools.Prolify is aiming to make your email far more than just a way of sending notes like “Racquetball @ 10?”, and turning it into a full-fledged project management and collaboration tool. [...]

Fixmymovie Brings CSI To Your Cellphone
You know those situations in CSI when some villain is on a killing spree, and all the proof the detectives have is an incredibly blurry movie, but then they “enhance” it and extract unbelievably detailed imagery out of it, like fingerprints on an ashtray? Well a company by the name of MotionDSP presented a somewhat [...]

Reports: Microsoft Considering Facebook Investment
CNBC just reported that Microsoft is considering an investment in Facebook that would value the social network at more than $10 billion. CNBC names the Wall Street Journal as the source of the report. Here’s the lowdown from the WSJ:Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the [...]

ClipBlasts Video Search Widget is Personalized Too
ClipBlast, the video search platform, is launching its new Video Widget at DEMO today. This widget lets you search for online videos from the widget, and view it in the widget without having to launch a browser window or tab. Alerts will let users know when updates are available, and save clips to [...]

PeerMeta Raises $6 Million for Wireless Web Platform
PeerMeta, which provides a platform for distributing Web content over mobile phones, has announced $6 million in new financing. The company is co-founded by Cheng Wu, who was formerly a VP of Content Networking at Cisco Systems. The investors in the companys Series A are Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners.[via]Recommended: MySpace News [...]

Mig33 Brings Mobile Community Service to US
Mig33 is announcing the launch of its mobile messaging solution in the US at the DEMOfall conference. The service, which already claims more than 7 million users in Europe and Asia, offers a variety of community and messaging features, including user profiles, photo sharing, chat, and access to popular instant messaging programs. The [...]

iForem Launches a Pay Once, Store Forver Service
iForem announced at DEMOfall today that is has launched a consumer-level digital storage service that works as a pay once store forever digital vault.It is said that the average home has 322GB of digital files in storage currently, and by 2010 that number is expected to soar to 1,933GB. Once you have all these [...]

Apprema Launches StarMail to Build Customer Relations
Apprema announced today that they have been in private beta, and moving quickly to full release, of their new product, StarMail.StarMail is a new form of online mail system with the foal of strengthening your relationship with your existing customers and attracting new ones. You simply log in to the service, choose the template [...]

Graspr Launches Instructional Video Community
Graspr is launching a new community today at DEMOfall where users can share their expertise through instructional videos. Videos are organized into categories such as home & garden, cooking, and crafts. The site will boast more than 10,000 videos from 1,100 producers when it launches officially on Tuesday.In addition to the instructional videos, [...]

CashViews Money Managing Tools for Home & Business
CashView is a new money management tool launching at DEMO. It simplifies the process of payables and receivables so you can free up some of your time to do other stuff.The basics of CashView are the automated billing processes and tracking tools. Approvals for payments can be automated, and information coming from [...]

CornerWorld Gives Content Creators a Home and Freedom
CornerWorld, a Dallas based technology company, announced their new social networking platform today that allows original content creators to distribute and profit from their creations.The creators have total control over how their creations are priced, sold, and distributed, CornerWorld merely facilitates everything and helps you with all the little things an independent producer might [...]

Push-It Alert Delivers Real-Time Web Content to Mobile Phones
Push-It Alert is a new service launching today at DEMOfall that looks to solve a big problem dynamically formatting Web content for mobile phone screens. Rather than re-write Web pages in WAP or XML, Push-It uses what it calls click through and call through capabilities. This is made possible in part because [...]

Virtual Ventures Launches Fantasy Technology Investing Game
Virtual Ventures is a new game launching at DEMOfall that lets players predict the future success of new technologies. According to the company, the game takes the entertainment aspects of fantasy football social networking and good-natured competition and applies them to the technology commercialization market.However, while Virtual Ventures is a game in [...]

Spigit Launches Social Networking for Organizations
Spigit, a provider of social software for businesses, is launching a new product at DEMOfall that looks to make employees participation in social networks useful, as opposed to a time sink. The idea is essentially that by making social networking a part of business (that big brother can control), you can actually benefit your [...]

Sketchcast Introduces Drawn Blog Posts
Ever wished you could do a quick drawing of something while blogging to save yourself a lot of explaining? The new web app Sketchcast is exactly what you need then.A simple idea in that you login to the site, start a new “sketch”, and after you click the record button, you start drawing on [...]

Kanevas Virtual Dance Party Starts Tonight
Kaneva, the online virtual world, is launching Dance Party 3D, which is an MMO dance game where players can compete on the dance floor. It’s free to join, and to play, but if you want to look your coolest, you can buy dance gear and more. This seems rather similar to EA Games‘ recently [...]

MetaRADAR Launches Universal Media Application
MetaRADAR has launched what it calls the worlds first MediaMasher application, aiming to combine all of a users rich media content on a single platform. The idea is that content from hundreds of different sources, ranging from videos to news to social networks, can all be access from one application with a set of [...]

Mochila Gets Funding and a Client in Belo
Belo has not only signed up to participate in Mochila’s syndication and AdMatch program, but has also made an investment in Mochila as well. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of Mochila’s AdMatch program, Belo will be able to offer its content for Mochila’s marketplace, and be distributed through [...]

Facebook Jumps Into Gladiator Fights
MyGladiator is a new app for Facebook that was announced today by the company behind it, Ncursion.The premise is simple in that you will battle against other gladiators inside of Facebook itself, and be able to see your enemies profile while also having access to all the normal features. Other users will be able [...]

PeopleJam Launches Purpose-Driven Social Network
PeopleJam is launching a new social network with the goal of helping people get more out of their lives. The idea is to combine issues like career, personal finance, and relationships with social networking features. The site features a variety of experts on various topics, and lets users create profiles, blogs, and videos [...]

MetaRADAR - mashups on your Desktop and more
Even when far fewer people are downloading and even lesser writing about Desktop/downloadable apps, DEMO conference has not really given up hope. New app getting launched at the conference is - MetaRADAR. Concept is pretty straightforward - simpler and more effective way to navigate and explore rich media content across multiple platforms, from mobile devices [...]

Trovixs Personalized Job Search
Trovix is launching a new job search service at DEMO today, which aims to provide a personalized engine that acts more like a recruiter or head hunter, depending on your needs individually or as an employer.Using human-like search technology, Trovix wants to offer the best job opportunities to each user. You won’t [...]

FeedHubs Personalized TechMeme
mSpoke is launching FeedHub at DEMO today. This will be a personalized feed reader that learns your behavior and gives you the articles you’re most likely to find interesting. Using mSpoke’s patent-pending mPower technology, FeedHub will pull info from feed readers to bring you what you’re looking for. In addition, it [...]

LiveMochas Online Language Immersion Program
LiveMocha is a new online tool for learning a new foreign language, within a helpful network that addresses the issue of remote learning on two ends.Centering around a social network, LiveMocha lets people help other users for the purpose of learning a new language. By providing this network alongside a set of tools [...]

Pownce Co-Founder Upset Over New Digg Features
Pownce co-founder Leah Culver has made a post to Digg suggesting that she feels the new social networking features that the site added last week were copied from Pownce. In the posting, which links to a now deleted Flickr photo, Culver writes:Since I originally came up with the Pownce gender list, I’m somewhat miffed [...]

Diigo to Launch Social Annotation Tool
Diigo, which bills itself as a social annotation tool (previous coverage here), will present its platform at DEMOfall. Rather than just compiling interesting data found online, the platform allows you to organize by bookmarking, highlighting, and clipping only the most relevant elements of sites, including videos, and then adding sticky notes with annotations. These can [...]

Steve Case Launches Free Money Transfer Service
Steve Case has launched his latest startup, Revolution Money, which looks to completely overhaul the online payments industry. The service starts with Revolution MoneyExchange, a free money transfer service that competes with PayPal. Additionally, the company will be launching a credit card called RevolutionCard, that users will be able to link to their [...]

Glam Launches Distributed Media Platform
Glam Media is announcing the launch of the Glam Distributed Media Platform, which pushes content via widgets to the companys network of web sites. The platform, which will be debuted today at DEMOfall, allows publishers to choose from four separate offerings: (1) Glam Edge, which will distribute stories from around the companys network (2) [...]

Visible Technologies Raises $12 Million
Visible Technologies, which provides software to companies looking to monitor their brands reputation across social media, has closed a $12 million round of funding. The company offers two products, TruCast and TrueView, which allow companies to easily find what is written about them online in blogs and other social media. This round of [...]

Rocketboom Joins Blip.tv Lineup
Video podcast Rocketboom will be moving to Blip.tv, where it will now be sponsored by The Sarah Silverman Program. The sponsorship will include the first ever clickable overlay ads on Quicktime versions of the show, and also feature post-roll advertising. Blip.tv is home to a variety of other successful video podcasts, including Wallstrip, [...]

3Guppies Mobile Blogging Widget
3guppies is launching its new moblog widget today for mobile bloggers to update content on their various social networks like MySpace, hi5 and Piczo. As with many other mobile blogging tools for social media-sharing, 3guppies enables you to take a picture with your camera phone, and send it to your 3guppies account, instantly syndicating [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 24th, 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… 150k+ User Blog and Social Networking CommunityMindSay is a [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for September 24th, 2007
It’s Monday, and what better way to start the week than trying out a couple of brand new Web 2.0 services?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, [...]

Leave Britney Alone Guy Eyes Reality TV Career
Chris Crocker, whose YouTube video Leave Britney Alone has now been viewed in excess of 9 million times, is apparently eying a career in reality television. The video, which was a response to Britney Spears much maligned performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, has earned both Internet fame and appearances on numerous late [...]

Attendi Puts New Spin on Social Search
Attendi, which launches today at Demo, is a new type of search engine that combines conversation with results. The service includes relevant live chat with its results, so you can have discussions about the topic you are searching for information about. Conversations are all indexed, so the idea is that over time, someone [...]

360desktop Reorganizes Windows PCs
360desktop is another company launching at DEMO today. It’s essentially a new way to organize and experience your Windows Desktop. What it does is give you a panoramic view of your desktop, which scrolls around in a circular manner. This gives you the illusion of having more space on your desktop, as [...]

MuseStorm Launches Widget Syndication & Analytics Platform
MuseStorm is known for its distribution of content widgets for companies like the Washington Post, and other publications and businesses with an online presence. At Demo today, MuseStorm is launching its Content Engagement Platform, which is a way for publishers and marketers to author and syndicate MuseStorm’s multimedia widgets across the web, mobile [...]

Your Truman Shows Portable Video-Blogging Network
Your Truman Show, the video-blogging network currently in beta, is launching a VideoMap Widget at DEMO today, which lets video producers and viewers share content on their various social networks and blogs. What makes this particular widget stand out from the crowd is its interactive capabilities, along with its connectivity to other Your Truman [...]

SceneCasters 3D Virtual Community
SceneCaster, debuting today at DEMO, is a community for 3D Web. With this tool you can create your own 3D web experience, or modify another’s in order to create a virtual space for yourself. This network is for creative professionals and those that enjoy media-sharing. It’s an interesting way of taking pieces of [...]

RelevantMinds New Social Search for Product Reviews
RelevantMind, which is launching at DEMO this week, is offering a new way to leverage existing social networks for finding product reviews and information.This search engine will be digging for information from forums, blogs, wikis, podcasts, review and aggregator sites as well as other social networks in order to bring a conglomerate for Wisdom of [...]

coComment Version 2.0 with More Social Features
coComment is launching its 2.0 version live to the public. With this latest version, more social networking features are being included in the product for better tracking and communication options for users. Version 2.0 came rather soon after its initial social coComments service being launched, which already had a directed goal [...]

CHESS TOOLBOX: 30+ Online Chess Resources
One of the best ways to kill time when you’ve got nothing else to do online is still a game of good old chess. The choice, however, between the dozens of available live games and other resources is not an easy one. We’ve assembled a list of 30 chess-related resources for easy reference.Recommended: MySpace [...]

TAKE STOCK: 30+ Background & Stock Image Sites
One of the roughest parts of web design, or even writing a daily personal blog, is finding quality images you can use without fear of copyright violation. We’ve gathered together 30+ sources for backgrounds and stock photo sites for you. Now, you can concentrate on design and writing without fear that the image you’re using [...]

GETaBUZ Launches Voice Messaging for MySpace
GETaBUZ, which is not one of our DEMO announcements today (though the company was at DEMO last year), is launching a Voice Messager tool for your social network profiles or websites. With this tool you can leave a personal voice message greeting, which will play automatically when people arrive at your site. In [...]

$100 Laptop: Get Your Own!
On November 12, you’ll be able to buy your own “$100″ laptop… for $399. Why the price? Because you’re actually buying two laptops: one for you, and one for a child in a developing country. The scheme, called G1G1 (give one get one) has been launched by the One Laptop Per Child [...]

Win Prizes At Iloho With Images Of World Landmarks
Travel community site Iloho is today launching a competition for the best and most innovative picture of world landmarks.Participants are free to upload as many images of landmarks as they want. Also, there are no fixed rules on the type of landmark you should take a picture of - natural, constructed, big or small, anything [...]

Google Earths Social Network, Complete with Avatars?
Is Google using Arizona State University students to test out a new social network that could be part of Google Earth? Rumor has it that several students have been granted the opportunity to test a new product that will be launched by a major Internet company later this year. The application for participation [...]