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FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon. Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now. Everyone, including Google and Microsoft, recognizes the value of using trusted contacts as filters. What was once called social search is now called real-time search, but this time it will really happen. First, it will be applied to streams and then to the Web in general. What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank. Whenever you search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social graph. That is, people who matter more to you will bubble up. How does this work? Well, there will be a formula, just as there is a formula for Page Rank.

Later this summer, Facebook will launch its app for the iPhone's OS 3.0 and rest assured it contains plenty of new additions.

Google Voice a service by Google that allow you have a single number for all your phones, SMS and voicemail. Place & take calls without sitting beside computer.

Windows Marketplace plans to launch with 600 applications available for download. While it's an uphill battle to challenge the App Store, this is certainly a great start.

Newton Software has debuted the Newton® Affiliate Program, a third-party sales program for its smart, easy-to-use, recruiting technology, Newton®. The program allows qualified individuals to refer Newton® to friends, contacts, and companies and earn a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale.

Topic of this second issue of AVR TV is ATMEL's launch of new 32-bit microcontroller, the UC3

Launched May 2006 in BETA version, WIWIH is a social networking site that connects hospitality professionals with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

Breaking out simultaneously throughout the world on Sept/19/01, a mass-mailing email worm began actively launching a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack across the Internet. Dubbed W32/Nimda.a@mm by most antivirus vendors (the exception is McAfee who refers to it as W32/Minda@mm) the worm spreads itself via email, taking advantage of security vulnerabilities to automatically execute on the user's system.

With 300 million active users, it is definitely an advertising channel worth considering; but advertisers need more confidence. Nielsen, a leading market research company will bring Facebook another step closer to perfecting its advertising platform.

Welcome to Monopoly City Streets. You versus the world in the biggest live game of MONOPOLY in history! On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence. Own any street in the world. Build humble houses, crazy castles and stupendous skyscrapers to collect rent. Use MONOPOLY Chance Cards to sabotage your mates by building Hazards on their streets.

Have you become addicted to telling the world what you're up to in 140 characters or less? If so, say three cheers for wordpress. Wordpress recently launched a cool new feature that all bloggers will love to use : a Twitter widget for your wordpress sidebar.

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

"To be hit by one cross-site scripting worm may be regarded as a misfortune, to be struck three or four times over a weekend looks like carelessness." This 3 years after the services was launched. How many other trendy web apps are vulnerable to this kind of childish but criminal nonsense

New design brings updated look and feel, open web video, and a brand new icon.If you've happened across the GetFirebug.com web site recently, you'll notice everything has a rather pleasant freshly painted smell. After a much-too-long delay, we've finally updated the design and layout for the official Firebug web site, and introduced a lovely new icon by our resident Iconmaster General Sean Martell.

Cranberry Communications, India based web design and Development Company has launched its Wordpress based website content management system which also integrates with e-commerce modules.

I was wondering how everyone kept posting their stuff on Twitter!

Google has recently launched their latest experimental playground for online marketers to get updated on their release of new ad initiatives for search advertising. These includes new ad extensions and ad models which can possibly help you reach out to more targeted audiences that potentially give better success to meet advertising goals.

kids launch page...middlespot plus "With a middlespot.com mashtab you can collect webpages, images, music, videos, web widgets, files, documents, code, and more in one central spot. You can add, annotate, cluster, layer, pan, resize, tweet, embed and share the content you've collected. "The real uniqueness to middlespot is the flexibility of the interface. middlespot's user interface is based on a borderless work surface that you can populate with anything you like. You'll recognize similarities in navigating this work surface just like you magnify, pan, and improve resolution when using programs like google maps."