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LinkedIn Gets Profile Photos
This Friday, professional social network LinkedIn will provide the ability to add a photo to your profile page. It’s clearly a move that aims to keep up with Facebook, which increasingly looks set to steal LinkedIn’s audience. But I also think it’s valuable: it’s extremely hard to identify or remember a person based [...]

Live Search Gets Updated
Microsoft’s Live Search is getting several upgrades rolled out over the next few weeks, and if rumors hold true, this could become an annual event around this time of year.Microsoft has announced the major updated components, with one of the biggest being that they have increased the number of indexed documents by four times. [...]

Twitter + Video = Twiddeo
Twiddeo is a new mashup of the Twitter API with the API of the video engine, V:social. It goes live later this week, and we were lucky enough to test it today.After receiving requests from their clients to see about combining video with Twitter, V:social decided to give it a shot, and after only [...]

PodShow Debuts New Channel, PodShowTV
PodShow, the social video site that allows users to create, share, and collect video clips, is debuting a new channel named thePlus, and their first show, Backstage Pass.thePlus is a new 24-hour a day, online, live network that allows millions of viewers in any time zone to watch around-the-clock programming. Users will also be [...]

Uber Quietly Launches Several New Features
Uber, “The Visual Index,” has quietly launched several new features this week, all with an eye towards enhancing the users experience.The Visual Index is a catalog of what is considered to be the best Uber pages of those that have been saved. Add in the newly added voting function and users can influence what [...]

Imeem Reaches Deal with Sony BMG
Imeem, the service that offers a widget for sharing your music playlist, has reached a deal with Sony BMG to legally offer their music to users. In exchange for the ability to let imeem users stream Sony BMG music in their widgets, the record label will get a cut of the advertising revenue. [...]

Yahoo to Update Search Index
A number of changes are in the process of being rolled out to Yahoo’s search engine. According to the company:“We’ve rolled out some changes to our index with fresh web data and updates to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We expect the update will be completed very soon. [...]

Shoutlet Announces Partnerships to Strengthen Social Marketing Platform
Shoutlet, who launched their social media marketing product earlier this week at DEMOfall, has announced partnerships with several companies that extends the breadth of their offering.First, the company has partnered with CozmoTV to allow Shoutlet users to upload videos which can then automatically be embedded on other sites via widgets. Meanwhile, an arrangement with [...]

DesignerPages Offers Social Network for Architects & Suppliers
http://designerpages.com/ is a new B2B social network for architecture and design professionals that offers a central meting place for the tracking of projects, bookmarking products, and promoting products. The site is currently in private beta.There are two types of profiles you can create–one for designers, and one for suppliers. Both are needed in [...]

New Project Aims to Bring Drupal to Facebook
The Facebook ecosystem continues to expand. Weve now learned that there is a project underway that will allow developers to use functionalities from Drupals content management system in their Facebook applications. For users experienced in developing Drupal applications, this means they can use the softwares permission schemes, blocks, and other features in their [...]

Google Book Search Adds New Organization Features
Google Book Search has updated its service to offer more ways to browse their collection. Similar to the way you might browse the book store or local library, Google Book Search now offers navigation options for various genres under the main categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Random Subjects. Additionally, the homepage features [...]

MixGets Mobile Jam Sessions at DEMOfall
RedSquare Ventures is presenting MixGet today at DEMOfall, though the service is not yet available. This is a mobile application that enables collaborative jam sessions for music. A group of users that are in audible range of each other can play downloaded music together, mix tracks, and use the finished product for a [...]

SpaceTimes 3D Search & Browsing
SpaceTime is a downloadable application launching at DEMOfall today, and its primary service is search, which shows up on your desktop in visually appealing 3D fashion. This is a type of desktop display that’s becoming quite popular with several applications, and it lets you sift through “stacks” of information. For search, there are [...]

Two NBC Shows Find Their Way to iTunes
iTunes is apparently selling two new NBC shows, despite the recent split between NBC Universal and Apple. Currently, you can purchase episodes of Chuck and Journeyman, two shows that debuted on NBC earlier this week. However, its important to note that Apple remains under contract to release these shows on iTunes, because they [...]

Bud.tv Gets Another Year to Prove Itself
Anheuser-Busch has announced that they will continue to fund their struggling online video site, Bud.tv, for at least another year.This news comes as a surprise to some as it is estimated that the site is only attracting approximately 50,000 unique visitors a month. With the site already costing the company between $20 - $30 million, [...]

Cellfire and MerchantCircle Team Up for Local Mobile Coupons
If youre tired of cutting out coupons from the newspaper or printing them online, Cellfire and MerchantCircle have partnered so you can get local discounts via your mobile instead. Under the deal, MerchantCircle, which provides services for helping small businesses promote themselves online, will be offering Cellfires mobile coupon tools to their 200,000+ merchants. [...]

Security Vulnerability Found in AOL Instant Messenger
Security vulnerabilities are once again in the news, this time with AOL Instant Messenger. This report comes from Core Security Technologies, and says that users of AIM versions 6.1, 6.2, beta, AIM Pro, and AIM Lite, which allow users to embed HTML code in messages, may be at risk for attack. In theory, [...]

Shockfolio Launches as Home for Artists
From the same people who run Solomodels, Shockfolio is a home for artists, photographers, and musicians to build a dynamic and engaging online portfolio for their work.Solomodels has focused on letting models show off their portfolios and socially network with each other using a very dynamic interface. Shockfolio is running on the same platform [...]

Picnik Leaves Beta, Now Officially Open
Online photo editing site, Picnik, has left their beta test stage, and have officially entered the world of a full-fledged online utility site. And not only that, but they brought some new features along with them for the fun of it.You were already able to open pictures from your accounts on Flickr, Picasa, and [...]

Yahoo to Close Podcast Directory
Yahoo has announced that it will be closing its podcast directory, effective October 31st. There is not much information available yet about the reason; a message on the site simply reads Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007. The service allowed users to [...]

Tubes Launches Developer Program, Announces Two Partnerships
Tubes, a media storage and sharing service, has announced two new deals for customers that will be using the companys new tools for extending Tubes Web functionality to the desktop. First, the company announced that floorplanner.com, which allows people to design floor plans online, will be using Tubes to provide real estate agents, home [...]

Fox News Uses Maven to Expand Online Video Coverage
Fox News and Maven Networks are teaming up to bring the news channel more in to the digital age with far more video content.Maven will be supplying Fox News and the upcoming Fox Business Network, with all of their needed video support. Until now, Fox’s site has been fairly sparse with video implementation, but [...]

Me.dium to Host Live Chat During Edwards MTV/Myspace Appearance
As we’ve already reminded you, the MTV/Myspace John Edwards event is tomorrow at 12:00 PM EST, now we can add that there will be an official location for you to meet-up and chat during the talk. Me.dium, the social surfing service, is a browser add-on that allows you to see where others are that [...]

Is the Apple Re-Entering the PDA Market?
Apple is reportedly working on a new PDA, marking a return to a market the company abandoned in the late 90s with the demise of the Newton. According to reports, a team within Apple is working on a new mobile computer, utilizing the same multi-touch technology as the iPhone. The new device would [...]

Gizmo IM and Calling Features Now Available on Blackberry
The makers of Gizmo, which provides a free p2p calling and IM service for computers, have launched a mobile version of their product for Blackberry users. Through the application, users can chat with buddies on Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk, as well as make calls over VoIP.While most new phones now [...]

Mindtouch Wiki Software Surpasses 100,000 Installs
Since Mindtouch launched their Deki Wiki software in July of 2006 they have seen nothing but steady growth, and that has now paid off in the form of 100,000 installations.Mindtouch’s wiki software has been seeing phenomenal growth of 50% a month, and the trend seems to be continuing upward. The company reports that the [...]

InterviewUp Aims to Help You Prep For Job Interviews
InterviewUp is a new Web 2.0 job site with the idea of helping you prep for that next big interview by getting you ready by reading possible questions your interviewer will have for you.There’s no doubt that going for a job interview can be a nerve-racking experience, and no one in their right mind [...]

Is the Apple Newton Making a Comeback?
The Apple Newton, an early predecessor to the PDAs we know today, may be making a comeback. A team within Apple is reportedly working on a new version of the device, utilizing the same multi-touch technology as the iPhone. The Newton would also use Max OS X Leopard as the operating system.It is [...]

Mintouch Wiki Software Surpasses 100,000 Installs
Since Mindtouch launched their Deki Wiki software in July of 2006 they have seen nothing but steady growth, and that has now paid off in the form of 100,000 installations.Mindtouch’s wiki software has been seeing phenomenal growth of 50% a month, and the trend seems to be continuing upward. The company reports that the software [...]

CollectZing Lets You Create Digital Collections for Everything
collectZing is a new social network for creating collections for any purpose you see fit. There are pre-determined categories to choose from when you add items to your collection, such as antiques, action figures, and more. To add an item to a collection, you select a category, and upload an image. Add [...]

More Bad News for Vonage
VoIP service provider Vonage was ordered to pay $69.5 million in damages to Sprint Nextel on Tuesday, after a jury found the company had infringed on six patents. This news follows an earlier lawsuit in March where a jury awarded $58 million to Verizon, courtesy of three additional patent infringements by Vonage.Vonage shares have [...]

Speak Outloud without Opening Your Mouth
>The panel discussion at DEMO yesterday afternoon showcased three young entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty big things in technology. One guy, Arash Sabet, is working on a brain retractor. Which sounds fun and all, but I thought Michael Callahan’s technology would b the most relevant to discuss on Mashable. Callahan, hailing [...]

Last.fm Launches Campaign for Better Music
Last.fm is launching a new program designed to help independent musicians use the Internet to jump start their careers. The campaign will focus on teaching up-and-coming artists how to produce, promote, and distribute their music on the Web. Last.fm has already established itself as a popular site within the online music world, but [...]

Facebook Adds Remember Me
While not the sexiest of new features, Facebook has quietly added something to make all of our lives a little easier: a Remember Me function when you login. With the addition, Facebook will keep you logged in on the same computer, even if you close the browser window and come back to the site [...]

We Need a Recount: Computation Bug Found in Microsoft Excel
An unusual issue has been discovered in Microsoft Excel 2007 that reports incorrect results for 12 different computations. For example, if you enter in as your formula =77.1*850 into a cell the result should be 65,535. However, Excel 2007 is currently displaying 100,000 as the result of that formula, as well [...]

Coming Soon: Make VoIP Calls Using an iPhone
TruPhone, a VoIP services provider in the UK, is reportedly developing new software that would enable iPhone users to make calls over WiFi. In turn, this means users would be paying to make calls over the Internet as opposed to over their mobile network, which is generally considerably less expensive. When not in range [...]

Facebook Adds Remember Me Function
While not the sexiest of new features, Facebook has quietly added something to make all of our lives a little easier: a Remember Me function when you login. With the addition, Facebook will keep you logged in on the same computer, even if you close the browser window and come back to the site [...]

Coming Soon: Make VoIP Calls Using an iPhone
TruPhone, a VoIP services provider in the UK, is reportedly developing new software that would enable iPhone users to make calls over WiFi. In turn, this means users would be paying to make calls over the Internet as opposed to over their mobile network, which is generally considerably less expensive. When not in range [...]

CoScripter For Firefox: Automate Your Tasks
Known as a company that innovates in many fields, IBM dishes out an interesting Web 2.0-ish gem every now and then. The latest is CoScripter, which launches today; it’s a Firefox plugin that lets you automate various mundane tasks which you regularly do online. These can be checking your email or, for example, doing a [...]

eBay Hacked??
We’re getting reports in our inbox this morning that the names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers and expiry dates, Paypal email addresses, associated eBay user ID and other information about more than 1,200 eBay users was posted to eBay’s Trust and Safety forum on Tuesday. The information, most of which appears to be [...]

New MSN Video Has Time-Based Advertising
MSN Video, Microsoft’s free online video service, has a new version out. The main new features are the redesign of the site, which should make easier to search and discover new videos, as well as the ability to view a video and browse other videos at the same time, using a split-screen format. Advertisers now [...]

20 Great Video Applications For Facebook
With over 3000 available applications, Facebook has become a platform for, well, just about anything. One of the most interesting categories of Facebook applications are videos - whether you can add videos to your profile, create playlists, share videos with friends or even edit them directly in your profile, it’s all there. We’ve chosen 20 [...]

The PHP Toolbox: 20+ PHP Resources
With WordPress 2.3 launching this week, a bunch of themes and plugins needed updating. If you’re not that familiar with PHP, this might present a slight problem. Not to worry, though - we’ve collected together 20+ tools for you to discover the secrets of PHP.Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at Mashcodes!Share This

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 26th, 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 ListingsGoogle service startup seeks funding.Russian software development company seeks funding for its Web 2.0 e-commerce mashup project based o… MP3 Music Community for SaleiSound is an MP3 Community and [...]

Web 2.0 Invites for September 26th, 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 [...]

Huffington Post Raises Another $5 Million
The cool thing to do if you have a famous blog, it seems, is raising funding - and more funding. The Huffington Post, world’s 5th most popular blog according to Technorati, has raised another $5 million in its second round of funding. The investors are the same as in the first round: Softbank Capital, Greycroft [...]

Jessica Biel Gets a LinkedIn Profile
Popular actress Jessica Biel, star of films like Blade:Trinity and Stealth, will soon be joining the millions of users already on LinkedIn to promote her new charity, the Make The Difference Network, which debuts today.Biel will be posting a profile (no link yet - check the MTDN site for more info on the cause) [...]