What's Going On In The World

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IBCTODAY will give you a better perspective with what's going on on the glob today.
The site is an online broadcast news network that uses its proprietary technology to repackage video news aggregated from global news agencies, broadcasters and users. IBCTODAY adding between 70-90 (over 1.5 hours) global news video clips a day! The site is also produces English subtitles, on most of the videos rather than voice-over to ensure integrity of the original content.

Watch interactive, on-demand content or upload news to the site yourself. While watching a video you can also read it text story or get some other relevant videos/stories - next to the video you're watching.



I've seen lots of video services but I must say, I like this one. It's very easy to understand and navigate through the content, and basically get a good and quick view on things that going on around us.

New Way to Discover Stuff on the Web

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Fichey is a little player that float on top of the page and lets you navigate and discover new sites and links from the Web. Display search results from : Del.icio.us, Digg, Downfly, Reddit and StumbleUpon.

This small, yet powerful tool, allows you to stay updated with the latest hot news on the Web. Definitely one of the coolest things I've saw lately.



More on TCblog.

Be Creative - Take Part in the Biggest Gmail Video Ever

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Google wants you to collaborate in their cool Gmail project that will help them imagine how an email message travels around the world. Check out their explanation and instruction in here (pretty easy), and get some inspiration from their featured clips. (same page-below)

The final video will be featured on the Gmail homepage and seen by users worldwide!



I liked these two: 1 2 :-)

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Perform Powerful Searches Visually with SearchCrystal

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searchCrystal enables you to perform powerful searches visually. Their wonderful platform makes it possible to explore and filter 50 - 500 web pages, images, videos, blogs in a single display that guides people toward relevant info in a structured way. The most relevant information is placed close to the display center.

You can search through Web, Images,Video, News, Blogs or Tags or you can MashUp all the options to one, for a better view of the results:


Also, you can embed the image, video or web search results of your favorite topics into your blog or web page and people can also conduct their own searches directly from your page.

Example:



Display your convenient way to watch the results :


The map results that you get is quite fascinating! I found lots of relevant links that I didn't knew about before. It is a great searching tool that will let you see the big picture of your webpage.

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Go2web20.net on CNET-TV!

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From the latest episode of The Queue:



Here's a link to the original show.

Facebook what the hell..?

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I just found out that I can't confirm friends anymore without to inform the whole world where I know them from. I never liked this stage that you need to confirm everyone, but with the SKIP option, I didn't really care to go over it. Now, it is just annoying.



Bummer!

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Blogger Paintings ASCII Art

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Amit Agarwal created an interesting wall called: Blogger ASCII Art. It's photo-realistic face portraits of 100 popular bloggers done in ASCII Text.



The first public release featuring the most well known bloggers. Includes: aaron brazell, adam pash, amanda congdon, amit gupta, andy beal, andy beard, andy hagans, anil dash, beth kanter, brian clark, chris garrett, chris messina, chris pearson, chris pirillo, danny sullivan, darren rowse, dave winer, david pogue, dawud miracle, duncan riley, eric giguere, eric rice, frank gruber, gabe rivera, gina trapani, guy kawasaki, howard lindzon, hugh macleod, ian kennedy, index, jason kottke, jason mccabe calacanis, jason shellen, jeff jarvis, jennifer slegg, jeremiah owyang, jeremy schoemaker, jeremy wagstaff, jeremy wright, jeremy zawodny, john battelle, jon udell, kristopher tate, leo laporte, leon ho, liz gannes, loic le meur, long zheng, loren baker, marc orchant, mark evans, marshall kirkpatrick, mary jo foley, mathew ingram, matt cutts, matt mullenweg, merlin mann, michael arrington, michael mcdonald, michael parekh, minic rivera, neil patel, niall kennedy, nick denton, nick douglas, nicole simon, om malik, paul kedrosky, paul thurrott, pete cashmore, philipp lenssen, rafat ali, rafe needleman, rand fishkin, randy charles morin, richard macmanus, rick klau, robert scoble, robyn tippins, ross mayfield, ryan stewart, scott beale, scott hanselman, scott rafer, seth godin, shawn hogan, shel israel, steve rubel, tara hunt, thomas hawk, tony hung, tris hussey, vanessa fox, veronica belmont, walt mossberg, wendy boswell, wendy cheng, wendy piersall, yaro starak, zoli erdos and.. Me :-)

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Thanks for the mention Amit.

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New York Subway Map of the Internet

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I wonder how many services listed on this Awesome creation!



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Update! You can download the original here (thank you Ilan)

Explore your Friends Facebook Photos

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TouchGraph releases new service that allows you to explore your friends facebook photos with a great visual mapping tool. The special TouchGraph Facebook Browse lets you see how your friends are connected, and who has the most photos together.

Add this application to your Facebook - Here.

You can also browse through Amazon or Google with the same graphic tool.



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Stream Music to your Wii

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Finetune is a web based application that allows you to create & listen to playlists online. You can also share these playlists with anyone you want. Users can choose from 2 million sound tracks that already listed in Finetune library.



I noticed only today that Finetune lets you to stream music to your Wii. ( if you have one). Which mean It lets you listen to various different artists from around the globe on you're Nintendo Wii for Free.



You can enjoy this service on your computer as well.

Go2 Finetune for Wii. Also check their desktop client. Recommended!

TechCrunch20 - Special Discount for Israeli Startups!

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Spacial Announcement to Israeli Startups Only:

TechCrunch20 is a new conference celebrating product innovation on the Internet.
Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. The event will include exciting panels with an impressive line up of speakers and a committee of expert analysts, entrepreneurs and journalists to spark meaningful discussion and debate during the conference. Needless to say this conference is excellent opportunity for startups to showcase their innovations and a great chance to enjoy some good networking for everyone.

I'm happy to announce that TC20 offers a special discounted ticket price to help and make this trip more affordable for Israeli startups to attend to!

For more information, click here:


The conference will take place on Monday, September 17, 2007 - Tuesday, September 18, 2007. San Francisco, CA

Be sure to join the TechCrunch20 group on Facebook

A moment of satisfaction..

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Always nice to find out that people care about our application. It definitely fills us with motivation to keep working hard on it.



I just wanted to say thank you to whomever made this video.

Facebook Flyers – A Self Service Advertising Solution

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A Great new service from Facebook : Facebook Flyers.
The service allows you to create relevant advertisements for universities or regional locations.

Facebook Flyers start at $5 to display your Flyer 2,500 times. The cost will change as you increase the run times.

I really like the idea, I think it is the easiest and smartest way today to promote your site/blog/company or whatever it is you want people to discover.
For example


Create your own flyer in here.

If Myspace Were A Country

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It would be the 8th largest in the world!

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I'm Addicted to Pownce But..

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The good about Pownce:

• Very easy to use (yeah I know, twitter too)
  
• Users can send links and files (10 MB max/100 MB pro users)
• Easily send events invitations
• Better view of your community
  
• Killer design!
• Lovely Facebook application
• Works with Netvibes and iGoogle (get module here)
  
• You can use Pownce from your desktop (AdobeAir desktop software)
• You can find all your Digg friends there.. which is kinda cool
  

The bad:

• Not enough invitations (per user)
  
• No widget for your blog/webpage
• There is no option to link from a comment
  
• Private and Public messages are in the same color (that's confusing)
• No alert on your page when someone sending you a private massage (I totally missed some of them because of that)
• No mobile integration
  

The Ugly:



Pownce me

FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs

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Attention Blogger users (blogspot.com), you can now redirect your native Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed. Just go to your Blog Settings - Choose the label Site Feed and enter your FeedBurner feed address.

Blogger will redirect all post feed traffic to this address. Now you can get a true picture of how many subscribers you have.

Wishood Can Make Wishes Come True

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There are services that I like to pay more attention to, since I know they are more then just Web applications. Wishood is one of them.
I wrote about this company back in January but now they re-launched and there is a nice story behind it that's worth a post.

Wishood is a place where people can share and grant each other's wishes. Publicize all your heart's desires with friends, family, the world. Once a wish has been made, people can offer to grant it for you.

Wishood run the new version on a small scale for only a few weeks but the good vibes are already felt. Check out this unique wish:

“I wish I could drive a train. I'd love to ride for fun but I also long to be a real train engineer. I want to show my son that I can be somebody...that wishes really can come true.”

After reading comments and offers to grant this wish, I can honestly say - I'm touched. I do hope to see this wish granted soon. Check it out here.



A member's profile at Wishood is based on one's wishes and granting activities. Referring to wishes of others draws more attention to and appreciations of your very own wishes – by granting others you can make your own wishes come true.

Wishood hopes to make this platform useful for people all over the world as well as for organizations and sponsors who would choose to join the wishing and granting community.

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iPhone: The Musical

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Just in case you thought no one was excited about the iPhone..



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TechCrunch20 Award - $50,000 for Top Startup

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TechCrunch20 conference will take place at the Palace Hotel in SF, on September 17-18, 2007.

Over the span of these two days, twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products.

Mike just announced on his blog that the startup judged as "best in show" will get a $50,000 prize!! (That sure makes me want to have a startup ;-))

If you haven't sent your application in yet, you have only one day left since the deadline is tomorrow, July 6th!

More information at TechCrunch blog.

Good Luck.

FoxyTunes New Major Addition - Signatunes

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FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser. Tomorrow they are releasing a new FoxyTunes version with major new addition called "Signatunes". It allows you to sign your email messages, blog posts and so on with your currently playing music.

Signatunes currently supports:
Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress, AOL Mail, Gmail (weee), Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Horde Webmail and SquirrelMail.
Gmail

Facebook


If you use one of the services mentioned above, you'll find the FoxyTunes icon in the corner of the note or email you're about to send. Click on it to add a special signature with the song you are listening to right now - for your friends to see.

Also, FoxyTunes has an awesome extension (Firefox only) that allows you to twitter right from your browser. It's called TwittyTunes and it lets you post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click.

Moreover, inside TwittyTunes there is a great feature called the Twitter DJ which is a twitter channel with music recommendations from a selected group of "FoxyTunes DJs" and the rest of Twitter community. Check it out here.


Your Twitter post will link to Depeche Mode FoxyTunes Planet page:
http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/depeche_mode

iZoho on iPhone - Video Explanation

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Here's a quick video that explains how iZoho works on iPhone

Update: I just noticed that gOffice also allows you to create word documents on your Apple iPhone. (looks a bit like an Alpha though..)