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What Do You Get When You Ask Gmail Fans To Express Email Delivery?
Google asked the question, and found outGoogle received over 1,100 submissions for the collaborative effort.It reminds me a little bit of Ze Frank’s (what ever happened to him BTW?) Video for Ray project earlier this year. The exercise just goes to prove that tapping into passionate users can deliver; over 1,000 people world wide took [...]

Slide Hosting One Million New Widgets Daily: Thats a Lot Of Widgets
San Francisco based social network widget provider Slide has hit new highs, with reports that they are now serving over one million new widgets daily.Slide provides widget based photo slideshows that users can embed in a range of social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Friendster.Slide has impeccable backing, being founded by PayPal co-founder [...]

Sprint Sucks And Their New Website Is Stupid
Sprint has a new website up called My Cell Style that asks you a few questions and then tells you what kind of mobile phone personality you have. I took the quiz and answered the questions honestly.I am not offended that Sprint says I am a Technosexual. No. But I AM offended that they say [...]

Adobe Hires Co-Inventor of Image Resizer Technology
The day before yesterday I showed the above video (it has now been viewed nearly 100,000 times), which shows some jaw dropping examples of next generation image manipulation, and said “I want this in PhotoShop immediately.” Well, that may be happening sooner rather than later. Co-inventor Shai Avidan has now joined Adobe and will work [...]

Lots and Lots of Google Phone Rumors
The pace of rumors and leaks around the fabled Google Phone is picking up, suggesting that Google is making a real push to launch something early next year and and is no longer to keep everyone quiet.Yesterday Crunchgear got confirmation from a senior (and anonymous) HTC exec that they’ve created some twenty devices for Google [...]

The Steve and Woz Lego Set
Get ready for the next mini run specialty lego set from Podbrix - this time it’s the “Young Woz and Jobs Playset” and goes on sale on Wednesday (8/29) at 6 pm PST:Re-creating the early years of Woz and Jobs collaboration the Young Woz and Jobs Playset is a 300 unit limited numbered edition and [...]

Google Lands CNN As Exclusive Adsense User
CNN.com and Google have announced an agreement that will see Google’s AdSense become the exclusive text link advertising provider on CNN.com.The deal will also open up the extensive inventory on CNN.com to Adwords’ advertisers.Senior VP and GM of CNN.com David Payne said the deal would help deliver relevant ads to CNN users, “enhancing their overall [...]

Videohybrid 3.0: I Cant Believe This Hasnt Been Banned Yet
Videohybrid, a site we first linked to in April as part of a broader post on online video piracy, has relaunched with a new version that is just asking for trouble.Videohybrid 3.0 marries Q&A functionality with social voting. Users are now able to submit movies, and TV shows they are looking for online, other users [...]

Amnesty Hypercube Brings Web Widgets To The Desktop
Mesa Dynamics has announced the alpha preview release of Amnesty Hypercube, a desktop platform for web widgets.Amnesty Hypercube allows users to use web widgets, such as those provided by Google Gadgets, Pageflakes, Widgetbox and others on their desktop in a similar fashion to Apple’s Dashboard, Yahoo Widgets, Google Desktop and the Vista Sidebar.The theory goes [...]

MyHeritage Takes 180 Million People Profiles To War With Geni
Israeli startup MyHeritage was a bit of a sleeping giant. Until newcomer Geni came along and shook up the genealogy world with its slick new viral family tree application. Geni quickly reached 5 million people profiles and a monster $100 million valuation just a few months after launching.MyHeritage has been around since 2005. They’ve quietly [...]

Amnesty Hypercube Brings Web Widgets To The Desktop
Mesa Dynamics has announced the alpha preview release of Amnesty Hypercube, a desktop platform for web widgets.Amnesty Hypercube allows users to use web widgets, such as those provided by Google Gadgets, Pageflakes, Widgetbox and others on their desktop in a similar fashion to Apple’s Dashboard, Yahoo Widgets, Google Desktop and the Vista Sidebar.The theory goes [...]

Digg Gets A Major Makeover
Changes to the Digg template and feature set discussed by Kevin Rose August 22 are now live.The biggest change with the new look Digg is the inclusion of video on the front page. Other changes include tweaks to page and story summary layouts, streamlined navigation, and more customization options.Stories are now able to be buried [...]