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Google is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker

hopes to have the service up and running by Christmas

iTunes Music Store, which accounts for 70 percent of all U.S. digital music sales.

Good old-fashioned reading is on the rise thanks to the booming popularity of e-readers. In 2007, a study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that half of 18-24-year-old Americans read no books for pleasure. The e-book era may be changing that. A Sony-commissioned survey conducted in May found that 40 percent of e-reader owners report reading more than they did with print books. Amazon says its customers buy roughly three times as many books after getting a Kindle. And finally, smartphone apps have re-popularized classic games and toys. The much-anticipated Scrabble iPad app hit the market this fall after the wide adoption of Newtoy’s Scrabble knockoff, Words With Friends. Electronic Arts has turned the classic Lite Brite into a digital experience.

ABC News Radio and StatusNet, the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, have "unofficially" partnered to unveil a newswire for the radio service. While the partnership may not be "official", it is yet another vote of confidence in the Twitter-alternative and the open Web.

For now, Patterson says the site will be used for news distribution and audience engagement - the typical use of systems like Twitter and StatusNet - and will be available at abcnewsradio.fm. Earlier this summer, StatusNet received a push in the form of $2.3 million and just recently the company introduced an iPhone app. The decision of a major media outlet to use their service is, in our eyes, a major vote of confidence in something other than the norm.

mashup of voice + twitter and google maps combined with real time broadcasting of all the information to a dedicated website and even directly into web banners on sporting portals.

iPhone strapped to their arms and an earphone, then simply by pressing a button, the runners were able to share their experiences with the world in real time. The voice message was turned into a text message that was automatically published

All this was compiled with real time GPS data and overlayed on Google Maps in banners, websites and widgets