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AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine, VideoCrawler

AT&T has just a launched a new video search engine called - video crawler. Although it is not quite clear as to why AT&T is venturing into a video search engine, VideoCrawler which was created in cooperation with startup Divvio, is a pretty sleek and robust search engine catering to the video-hungry users like us.

FT Previews its New Home Page, Is it Pink or What?

I just received an email from Financial Times announcing about the sneak preview of their newly redesigned home page. According to the email, the redesigned was aimed at establishing a sophisticated look and feel for the site which is consistent with the Financial Times branding. This branding includes a clean and uncluttered executive briefing on [...]

UpToUs Lets you Connect with Parents in your Trusted Groups

The search for a social networking site that both fit parents and protects their kids continues. This time we have UpToUs, a new social networking site which allows parents to create their own groups of trusted parents to socialize and share their experiences with their respective kids, ages 3-14.

LinkedIn Rolls Out Useful Events Feature

After introducing two new useful features, LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn Groups, here comes the business professionals’ social networking site again with an equally useful and greatful feature - LinkedIn Events. According to the LinkedIn blog, LinkedIn Events complete the triumvirate of useful features that business networking professionals would probably need. And like the previous two [...]

Inspire Change…Just Like Barack Obama

The 2008 presidential election helped shape the apathy dust off of many U.S. citizens.  In record numbers, people became interested in the political process and its outcome.  It remains to be seen how many folks will revert back to their ‘innocent bystander’ ways.  For those who want to carry the torch of ‘change’ a step [...]

FriendFeed Gets Noisier with IM Notification Features

If the real-time update features which was recently rolled out by FriendFeed was not enough to give you updated of your FriendFeed updates, then you might actually like FriendFeed newest feature on making its presence felt to members - FriendFeed IM Notifications. This new feature enables you to receive notification when someone posts a comment [...]

Change.gov Chronicles President Elect Obama’s Road to Presidency

By now, the victory celebration for President-elect Obama’s resounding victory may still not be over. And since we are all aware that the online world has contributed to President-elect Obama’s successful campaign and election, his technology advisors are not resting on their laurels and have launched Change.gov.

Tabbloid: Turn RSS Feeds Into Magazines

As a blogger who lives and dies by the link, I’m not sure how I feel about the Website we’re about to turn you on to. I will say, however, if you’re a fan of printing what you read, rather than staring at it on a screen, Tabbloid might turn you on.
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MySpace Finds a Way to Monetize Uploaded Videos

If YouTube has been trying but failed to monetize its vast collection of user-uploaded video content, MySpace seemed to have found a work-around with it. Through a partnership with MTV Networks and video ad company Auditude, the no. 1 social networking site is rolling out a new program that would allow insertion of advertising units [...]

HobbyThing Lets You Share Your Hobbies and Interests

If there’s Library Thing for book social networking, there has got to be a “thing” for hobbies and personal interests. Of course there is - and its called HobbyThing, a social networking site for sharing your hobbies and interests with the rest of the world.

WorldFriends Lets You Meet Your Neighbors in the Global Scale, and Help You Find Your Match Too

The world, both the real and the virtual one is composed of diverse culture of people, we all know that. And with the geographic distance between people from all countries, one can’t help but wonder if the social networking world could actually create “true friendship” or “real relationship”? WorldFriends hopes to achieve that by providing [...]

FriendFeed Makes Friends with Twitter

This new feature that was just rolled out by FriendFeed may delight either Twitter and FriendFeed users or annoy them instead. FriendFeed has enabled a new function that will let you to automatically posts all your FriendFeed updates in their entirety to your Twitter timeline. How cool or uncool can that be?