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Habbo Hotel Heist Lands Teen in Slammer
Written by Josh Catone / November 14, 2007 1:01 PM / 4 Comments
A 17-year-old Dutch teenager was arrested by very real police for allegedly stealing over $5800 worth of virtual furniture to trick out his pad in online world Habbo Hotel. Five Continue reading »


Clever Hippo Launches Web-Wide Application Search Engine
Written by Josh Catone / November 14, 2007 11:26 AM / 1 Comments
As more and more sites launch their own development platforms, we've been slowly starting to see a trend of applications trying to make the jump outside of the platform to Continue reading »


Lifestrea.ms Is Attempting to Build the Future of Life Online
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 14, 2007 10:12 AM / 13 Comments
Lifestrea.ms is a powerful new lifestreaming service from Germany that you'll want to keep an eye on. It is a real testimony to the potential of the new web Continue reading »


VibeAgent Makes Strong Entry Into Social Travel Market
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 14, 2007 8:30 AM / 2 Comments
VibeAgent is a just-launched hotel search site based in Charlottesville, Virginia. There's a number of things worth noting about this startup; travel search may be a crowded space but Continue reading »


A Look at Mugr's Facial Recognition Platform - 100 Invites to Private Beta
Written by Josh Catone / November 14, 2007 5:11 AM / 4 Comments
Arizona-based img surf, LLC is an angel-funded startup that was formed in July 2007 to develop Mugr, a facial recognition search site designed to show off their developer platform that Continue reading »


Surprise: eSnips May Monetize Better Than Digg
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 13, 2007 10:57 PM / 1 Comments
Israeli digital crafts social network eSnips launched a new feature tonight that could change the social networking game. Called Social DNA, it's essentially a collection of personality quizzes that can


Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 13, 2007 5:53 PM / 17 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Says_the_Future_Will_be_Modeled_on_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Saul Hansell at the New York Times gets some people talking at Google and Yahoo! for a write up today Continue reading »


Joyent Announces Free Hosting For Facebook App Developers
Written by Josh Catone / November 13, 2007 11:53 AM / 4 Comments
Cloud computing platform service provider Joyent is today announcing the availability of 3500 free hosting accounts for Facebook application developers. Joyent has partnered with Dell to offer Facebook developers the Continue reading »


Hyped New Platforms: Explaining the Difference Between One and the Other
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 13, 2007 10:31 AM / 13 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Hyped_New_Platforms_Explaining_the_Difference_Between_One_and_the_Other'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Platforms here, platforms there - everyone's launching a platform it seems. Today's newest platforms, a content storage platform from Box.net Continue reading »


Wisdom of Crowds on the Pitch: 50,000 Fans Acquire English Football Club
Written by Josh Catone / November 13, 2007 9:54 AM / 5 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/soccer/50_000_Fans_Acquire_English_Football_Club'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this year MyFootballClub.co.uk was launched with the intent to gather together a crowd of football-obsessed Internet users to pool Continue reading »


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