Bebo and AIM have hooked up to offer seamless instant messaging between the two services. Bebo profiles will now show whether or not the respective user is signed onto AIM and allow another user to send them an instant message, even if they don’t have the AIM software. Additionally, Bebo users will be [...]
Price comparison isn’t really a novelty - sites that compare prices of products from several vendors have been around since the late 90ies. Price comparison engine Tjoos boasts an important advantage over the competition: it takes into account the actual price, including tax and shipping charges, volume discounts, coupons, free shipping offers and hidden handling [...]
Sometimes, before you sue someone, you should try out if your lawsuit passes the common sense test. For example, if you’re an early adopter which bought the iPhone for $400, and then Apple reduced that price to $200, you got screwed over for $200. Actually, $100 if you count in the Apple store gifts that [...]
Although every MMO is, in fact, some sort of social network, many companies are trying to find that special niche where gaming and social networking meet. Coobico is, as the founders say, a mix of casual MMO (casual, in the realm of MMOs, usually means that you don’t have to leave your family, quit your [...]
Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks.Related: 20+ Flash Tools, 20+ PHP Tools, 20+ AJAX Tools, 20+ Java Tools, 20+ RoR Tools, 20+ Perl [...]
Yahoo Mail will very soon be rolling out an upgrade in its email system to help block out spam email from those posing as eBay and PayPal. With the new technology, nicknamed “DomainKeys,” Yahoo will be able to verify the domain of the sender of the emails, which allows for ISPs to block those [...]
Veoh has signed a deal with Pixsy, which will now power its search for video and images on the video-sharing network. Real-time search results will now be available for Veoh users, and as Veoh has received quite a bit of funding this year and have seen a significant amount of growth, this is [...]
National Geographic has just launched a widget that can be placed on your blog or personal website. It brings you the incoming top news stories from National Geographic, including video footage and images. This widget was developed by Clearspring, and offers one-click submission to your various social networks, like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and [...]
Bruce Springsteen Tour RehearsalThe Boss himself has taken over MySpace music videos for an entire week to celebrate the launch of his official MySpace profile page. Bruce Springsteen has a MySpaceTV channel that’s playing some of his best music videos, and also features exclusive tour footage of the E-Street Band. But we all [...]
A major crackdown on Internet financial scams has resulted in $2.1 billion in seized fake checks. This was an International effort, with aid from multiple English-speaking countries, including the US, the Netherlands, UK and Nigeria, where most of the scams actually take place. These scams entice people with spam email messages that offer [...]
Amazon, Penguin Group and Hewlett-Packard have teamed up to bring us the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Starting November 5th, authors with an unpublished, English-language novel manuscript can enter their work for consideration. Submissions can be sent through CreateSpace, the self-publishing service which is part of the Amazon online family of properties. [...]
Geezeo, the social site for keeping track of your personal finance, ad added automated aggregation of investment accounts from lots and lots (2,000 +) of brokerage firms, mutual funds and insurance companies. This makes Geezeo the first social finance site to offer account integration and aggregation for checking and savings, investments, credit cards, student [...]
Microsoft is offering a look at its .Net source code to developers. There will be read access available through a stand-alone install, enabling developers to use a text reader of their choice, but no edits can be made to the code. The revelation of the .Net source code is primarily to offer developers [...]
Verizon has unveiled a new phone it thinks “will kill the iPhone” according to one of their executives. Dubbed “The Voyager,” the new device will debut in-time for the holiday season and offer a more traditional keypad, a 2-megapixel camera, 8GB of memory, and of course work on Verizon’s network, which is widely regarded [...]
