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TV Guides Upcoming Video Search Filtering Tool
TV Guide will launch an online search service this week, which will offer filtering tools for finding television shows on the Internet. This isn’t entirely different from its existing service.Launched in beta over the summer, TV Guide’s search service will soon be live for anyone. Staying in line with its dedication to television content [...]

LookSmart Trashes WiseNut
LookSmart, the online advertising company, is apparantly scaling down, as its Wisenut search service has been trashed. What started out as a promising acquisition some years ago for powering LookSmart search, has turned into a neglected piece of the LookSmart suite. Over the past few days, WiseNut has been slowly replaced by options [...]

Findory Closing its Doors November 1st
In January of this year, Findory founder Greg Linden published a blog post indicating the slow death of personalized search tool Findory. Launched in January of 2004, the personalized search tool looked to apply an Amazon-like recommendation feature for users in order to help you find content you’d otherwise miss. So with [...]

What Does the Valley Have to Say About Its Own Future?
The San Francisco Chronicle has done a piece featuring a few notables from Silicon Valley, as a way of celebrating the 50th birthday of the Valley, and offering an opportunity to reflect on the changes that have taken place since then. Each person quoted enlightens us on their greatest hopes and fears for the [...]

Prontos Latest Public Beta Launches at Adobe MAX
CommuniGate’s Pronto! is launching the latest version of its desktop email application at Adobe MAX event in Chicago. This application from Pronto is now available in public beta for users to test out. Pronto’s new version runs on Adobe AIR, and can be accessed both online and offline. Your chat, IM, and [...]

Changing the Present Facebook App Launches while I Am Hungry Sells for $20k
A Facebook app called Changing The Present has teamed up with several non-profits in order to appeal to Facebook users, and raise money through gifting. Each gift you buy with this application will send a donation to its associated non-profit. Some of the organizations that have signed up to participate in Changing [...]

Adobes New Media Player Launches with Several Partners
Adobe announces at the MAX event in Chicago that it has teamed up with quite a few major content publishers, who will be using the Adobe Mdia Player for distribution purposes. CBS, PBS, Yahoo Video, Meredith Corporation, Blip.tv, Fora.tv, Motionbox, MyToons and StimTV are the content publishers that are going to be distributing video [...]

Hackers Bringing Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple?
The iPhone hack saga continues. In Apple’s forums, a user going by the name of Myndex has begun a discussion around the idea of bringing a class action lawsuit against Apple. The forum post has since been removed, but a screen capture can be seen at information week. As Apple has strengthened its [...]

FT.com Frees Up Content in Response to Murdochs Announcement
FT.com, the Internet version of the Financial Times, is instituting a new model for free and paid content on its website. Starting tomorrow, users will be able to access content on FT.com for free up to a total of 30 views per month. After 30 days, they will need to purchase a subscription in [...]

Report: Facebook to Launch Non-English Sites
Facebook is reportedly considering launching non-English versions of the site as it expands internationally. There is no word on which languages would be targeted first or when the sites would launch, but according to the company, International growth is one of a few things that we are very focused on right now.” [...]

cre8buzz Wont Get You Any
cre8buzz is an upcoming community that is looking to offer a place where users can share great ideas and talent, and get recognized for it. This is done by giving you the ability to rate every piece of content throughout the site. cre8buzz is not yet live, but is currently in private [...]

Twitter Updates Now Connected to Facebook Status
Facebook adjusted their API last week, which now enables Twitter to directly update online status reporting on Facebook profiles. The application, however, is not automatically updated but is refreshed approximately every 30 minutes. Delayed updates may be bothersome for frequent tweeters but remove some work for users of both Facebook and Twitter. [...]

iWons Relaunch: Does it Need a Social Network?
IAC’s iWon, the portal that managed to survive the dot-com bust in part by its acquisition by Ask.com, is getting ready to add a social network into its service. There are a few other features that have already been implemented with this site relaunch, which include a new focus on casual games, and an [...]

SEO TOOLBOX - 30+ Tools and Services to Improve Your SEO
Search engines: they’re essential for getting your content noticed, but it’s a challenge to optimize your site if you don’t know what you’re doing. Here are 30+ resources to help out - feel free to add more in the comments.Related: SOCIAL SEARCH GUIDE: 40+ Social Search EnginesRecommended: Hi5 Stuff at Mashcodes!Share This

20+ Tools For RoR Development
Ruby on Rails is a popular web application framework for a lot of modern websites. We’ve gathered 20+ tools to help you with your Ruby on Rails coding - feel free to add more in the comments.Related: 20+ Flash Tools, 20+ PHP Tools, 20+ AJAX Tools, 20+ Java ToolsRecommended: Hi5 Layouts at Mashcodes!Share [...]

Shvoong Homework Lets Students Collaborate
Shvoong Homework is a new player on the collaborative homework scene.With an eye towards making sure you stay organized, Shvoong wants to do more than just be a place where you keep notes, but instead be where you keep all your school related work. By setting up a Timetable, you get a notebook for [...]