Go Where is a new Facebook application that let’s you virtually send your friends and various celebrities to different locations. There are two uses the developers see for the application: the entertaining aspect of sending Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton to jail, or the “meet up” angle of using Go Where to get your [...]
MyBuys has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The company provides software to ecommerce stores that allows them to serve up ads and products based on your behavior – for example, tracking what you search for and showing related items during a future visit. The funding comes from Palomar Ventures and Lightspeed [...]
Google is teaming up with IBM on an initiative to teach “cloud computing” at six different universities in the US. The two companies will be investing $30 million to build data centers that the institutions will be able to use for teaching and research. The schools that will be a part of the [...]
Mixx, the new social news site we reviewed last month, will move to public beta tomorrow. The site, which combines the social news elements of Digg with personalization options based on your preferences, has signed a number of content partnerships to aid in the launch, including USA Today, Reuters, and the LA Times. [...]
Many of us prefer to manage our appointments, social events, and to-do lists with online calendars. The list below contains over 65 calendars, tools & resources, which should be a good starting point for all your online calendar needs.Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News SiteShare This
YouTube is the most popular site for viewing online videos. We’ve already found a number of ways to download YouTube videos, and now we’ve gathered a list of 30+ general YouTube tools and resources for you. Simply embed them in your website or blog, search YouTube videos with them or use them for converting video [...]
Music Plus Television, an Internet Television broadcasting and social network, is undergoing a major change, as it’s being renamed and re-branded. It’s changing its name to Vlaze, which is not only a shorter name, but is easier to remember. Considering the number of years that the development team has put into Vlaze, along [...]
CallDigits has just launched a new service called Ring-To-Number, which is a tool that lets you offer tool free ways for people to call you, without you giving out your real phone number. This product is being promoted as a way to protect your identity from people online, but this can be used for [...]
Snocap and CD Baby have announced the ending of their partnership, which allowed CD Baby users to distribute content through Snocap widgets on their MySpace profiles. The reason for termination has been stated by Snocap as the CD Baby middleman approach having been unnecessary for end users, insisting that artists can better manage [...]
Corank, the site that lets you create your own Digg, has just released a few new features. Among the most notable are the options to store local copies of submissions and collaborative editing. The local copy feature allows you to store local “cached” copies of any content that’s submitted, which essentially lets you create [...]
The latest of citizen journalism sites to be acquired by a traditional media group is Newsvine, which was snatched up by MSNBC.com for an undisclosed amount. This says a lot towards MSNBC’s growing online presence and the quality of Newsvine as a user-generated network. This is MSNBC’s first acquisition since its inception [...]
Yahoo, which apparently began selling ads for sponsored search results without labeling them as such, has changed its policy regarding these sponsored ad sections. Ads that were clearly sponsored displayed at the top of search results, with a company logo, and were not included in the organic search results. While Yahoo did not [...]
SceneCaster, the 3D room creation tool that just launched last month, now has a Facebook application. You can create rooms and share them with your Facebook network of friends.You’ll still need to install the application required for any SceneCaster creation. Once that’s complete, you can start making your own 3D rooms. [...]
MeVu is a free website tool that essentially offers a place for you to provide links to all the social networks and websites you’re member to. This acts in a somewhat similar manner to a profile aggregator, but as MeVu isn’t a social network in and of itself, it’s more of a [...]
