"Trendong" topics

Shoutitout has introduced a new feature, Trending topics. This is a take of on a Twitter feature that has spread threw sites like Bing, Google, and Yahoo but its still a great idea except for one thing! They made a typo when the added it and posted "Trendong topics" instead of Trending topics it has been fixed now and this new feature will do well with the Shoutitout world. You can accesses it from the bottom navigation bar on Shoutitout.

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Your photos just got a little more fancy

Dailybooth a site similar to Twitter with only one difference, you post photos instead of small messages. Well, they've gone into version 2.0 with not many differences the only major one being the home page as shown in a picture below. This is and insisting upgrade to compete agents sites like Twitpic and Flickr. Dailybooth just went up a level in awesome.

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Google Chrome: FAIL

Google Chrome my favorite browser has just made a major FAIL. When I was on Orkut a few minutes ago trying to get advertising space Google Chrome decided its own page didn't exist. I call that a epic Fail. Have you had these issues with Google Chrome as well? If you have leave a comment and tell us them

Youtube IS HD incase your forgot

Youtube has a new feature, well it's not really a feature but what it is is when you hit "HD" it pops a logo up that says Youtube HD as shown below. Is this there way of reminding us that there the biggest best video site on the web or did they just feel like posting that so you knew it was HD or not HD? What do you think?

Bebo bubble tagging

You can now "Bubble tag" on Bebo. It is a feature that allows you to tag someone in a photo and say something like "I love you" or if your one of those media obsessed people take a picture of someone post it and then bubble tag "will you marry me?" Thats just an idea though. This feature seems quit insisting and we think it will do very well.

Shoutitout down time

Shoutitout is posted an announcement stating a scheduled down time for tomorrow at 12 Eastern time tomorrow. We don't know if its PM or AM but hopefully its AM so there will not be many users on at the time.

Yooskin: Make your Yahoo sexy

Yooskin is a new start up coming out at an un-known date. Like Goovle you can add a skin to the search engine, unlike Groovle in one way. Its Yahoo not Google. We think it will be very popular because Yahoo has never had a feature like this before so Groovle watch out, you just got some tough competition.

The next web gets a makeover... we think

(Update): It was just a glitch the site has returned to normal.

The next web a tech news service got a make over. At lest we think it did. The site is displayed as a fancy RSS feed there is an option at the bottom to "Turn mobile off" but when we try it it refreshed and keeps it on. Since we have never seen Thenextweb mobile we don' know if this is there mobile site or not. All we know is the articles are still no Thenextweb's original pages so if you work for Thenextweb could you explain this to us?

Today isn't a good day to get more followers (Worm)

Just in time for the end of the holiday season: We’ve received multiple reports that a new worm that promises the gift of more followers is spreading quickly on Twitter. Unfortunately, the only thing that the sites involved seem to do is use your account to spam your followers.

One of the sites involved asks for your Twitter username and password and appears to be associated with the Twitter account @GetFreeFollowers, which has been suspended by Twitter. Another that I came across may be far more damaging, as it appears to be spreading malware through what look to be Youtube videos (but actually work like koobface). A similar scam also seems to be fairly widespread in Portuguese.

We’re still digging to get to the bottom of this scam, but with “Twitter Followers” hitting trending topics, it’s clear many people are falling for something today. We’ll update when we know more — in the meantime, be sure to keep your credentials safe and be dubious of video links.

Blogger was just down... right?

Blogger the service we use for our blog and one of the biggest sites was just down for a few minutes. We think. We went on Google Chrome to post something and when we went here it said it was temporally down, then we went to downforeveryoneorjustme and check blogger.com and it said it was down so we went on Safari and entered blogger.com and it worked? Did anyone try to use Blogger and couldn't get on if so comment below and tell us.

If you have a cell phone theirs a 80% chance your screwed

A German software engineer and a Encryption code specialist told a group of hackers they had hacked the call encrypt code for cell phones. However, other security experts disagree, saying the crack now puts mobile interception of the majority of non-3G cellphone calls within reach of “any reasonable well-funded criminal organization.” Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of London-based Cellcrypt, said the net effect of Nohl and the company’s work would likely “reduce the time to break a GSM call from weeks to hours.” The current GSM encryption scheme is known as the A5/1 standard, based on a 64-bit encryption scheme. A newer specification based on more modern and tougher to crack 128-bit encryption called A5/3 has been available since 2007, but few network operators have undertaken the expense to upgrade their networks.
Nohl says the project was meant to point out the vulnerability of the current 64-bit system and “push operators to adopt better security measures for mobile phone calls.” He says his team took precautions to keep the effort within legal boundaries, and “are not recommending people use this information to break the law. What we are doing is trying to goad the world’s wireless operators to use better security.”
You probably don’t have to worry about sniffers on the other end of your next wireless call just yet, but it seems like 64-bit GSM encryption might not be long for this world. Do you think Nohl’s “white hat” efforts will have the desired effect? How do you think carriers should respond to the crack?

Shoutitout: We're music is going to soon be playing

Shoutitout an Lala have struck a deal so that Shoutitout will post a music player instead of a link to any music file URL that has the domain lala.com in it. This might be the edge Lala has been looking for over sites like last.fm and iLike who struck a deal with Myspace. Never the less Lala isn't the only music site getting in on this deal Playlist is in and it is rumored that their have been emails sent between Shoutitout and a music URL shortener called Tinysong witch would mean you could post any song on Shoutitout.

This months site compare (Microblogs)

5. Sweetter

Sweetter is a microblog is its 3rd version it is good to tell what you want to do but is often attacked by spammers and is used by multiple languages but aside from those down sides its a great microblog.

4. Twitter

Twitter is the biggest microblog but it goes down allot and you cant post things like videos and photos without using 3rd party apps. It is a good site to post what your doing but thats about all you can post.

3. FriendFeed

FriendFeed is a great service with no txt limit and a stream update it is create to have conversations on or post what your doing. You can also post photos or just files from your hard drive.

2. Shoutitout

Shoutitout is a startup that has had allot of success it allows you to post pictures locations links and videos. You can also fave and subscribe to other users it goes down occasionally but aside from that its a great service.

1. Plurk

Plurk allows you to pick a start from a list or use freestyle you can also post photos links music and videos. You get a thing called Karma which un-locks you more smilies Plurk is a great service.

Warning: Sweetter get eaten by Spammers

Sweetter a start up microblogging service has been attack by advertising spammers. When we went on the site the home page of the public time line had one normal post the rest, post advertising links to insurance sites or Flickr photos. We didn't check these links because we don't know just how safe they are. However, if your going on Sweetter watch yourself you might get some viruses.

Storms can mess up the internet too

Storms, NATURAL disasters you know those things that have nothing to do with the computer world. Well, they can and are messing up that computer world right now. Due to storms in Tulsa Pingfm and many other sites SMS updates are next to not working so if you use Pingfm and can't update thats why.

Footprintlive is down... already

Update: It appears they have fixed the errors.

The new powerful anylistics system has gone down due to errors in there Mysql. We aren't sure exactly why but one thing is for certain their down.

Shoutitout HACKED

Shoutitout has been hacked today. They have resolved the issues and confirmed that it was hacked. It appears this time that someone hacked into the web space provider account of Shoutitout and was able to change minor things. This is interesting because a few days ago Twitter was hacked.

It was Twitters email security this time

Twitter was hacked yesterday by a group known only as "Iranian cyber army" it has been reported that it was Twitters email security that lead to the hacking. Apparently the hackers were able to change the DNS connection which when you click on Twitter.com redirected you to a different page.

Spotjots status updates

Spotjots and interesting photo/status update site similar to Dailybooth but instead you take a picture of we're you are on the world. Anyway, they have added txt updates so you don't have to take a picture you can just post an txt update although it shows up as a picture and you usually have to click on the picture to see the whole post it is an interesting service. You can also post a mood along with it and it shows a map of we're the post was from.

Sweetter 3.0 now live!

Sweetter the start up microblogging service (well not really) has launched version 3.0 it is not much different just a change around in the page design. However, the users love it they are all praising it on the site. Did Sweetter just start the microblogging roll out war?

Official link shortener of Shout it out

Shoutitout the start up microblogging site has just declared l.pr its official link shortener. Like Twitter saying bit.ly is its link shortener Shoutitout has done the same. There is only two differences. One is Shoutitout doesn't need a link shortener links don't count agents your character count and two l.pr actually can make links longer because they allow you to do things like http://l.pr/hey-bob-come-check-out-this-video which will be great for scammers and spam.

Photobucket Re-designs

Photobucket, one of the biggest photo sharing sites, has re-designed their site. We first noticed the new tab bars then the new bottom portion of site. Plus when you upload a photo the design there is completely different and best of all there is now albums so you can create photo albums to share your photos in on Photobucket!

Plurk gets Ripped

Plurk a microblogging service has been ripped off. A new microblogging service owned by Microsoft stole there codes and design almost exactly. Thus ripping them off. Although the microblogging service is asian only it is still robbing Plurk Asia. Plurk issued a statement saying ["Help them fight"] Microsoft blames it on an outside contractor.

New pro sports sites

All of the pro sports websites have been upgraded majory. We love them all but our favorite is NLL.com.

NBA.com:

NFL.com

MBL.com

And best for last NLL.com

Site compare monthly (Search engines)

This month we will be comparing 5 search engines. We search the web for as many search engines as we could find. These were the ones we liked the best.

5. Cuil

Pro(s)

Cuil is an amazing search its fast and has a huge database we also love its design and speed.

No(s)

It doesn't have searches like Images and Video and its results aren't always what were looking for.

4. Uhhmm

Pro(s)

Uhhmm is GREAT for teens and its fast has many items you can search and an interesting design

No(s)

It has a small database and could use a few tweaks.

3. Dogpile

Pro(s)

It is a fast great search engine that can search all the major search engines for the result you want quickly and easily

No(s)

It has a vulgar name and can sometimes be a bit strange with advertisements.

2. Bing

Pro(s)

Bing is fast search that can search just about anything it has the speed of Google a large index and a great background!

No(s)

Microsoft owns everything!

1. Ask

Pro(s)

Ask is a great way to get answers and search the web for a number of things it is fast and a great design.

No(s)

To many advertisements in search results

Friendster to be sold

Remember that social network called Friendster? The one that was big a few years ago? Google even tried to buy it back in 2003 but even though it declines in the westernized world it still one of the most popular sites in the world being popular in the Asian countries. Well, it is about to finish its Asian take over as it is about to be sold to an Asian buyer for about 100 million its been a privately owned company since 2002 in the original launch but now Friendster goes Asian.

RS @admin #stopaids Everytime you re shout this a penny is donated to one of these charities!

Thats right its #breastcancer all over again every time you shout on Shoutitout A penny is donated to an aids charity so SHOUT THAT SHOUT and make those aids people get a penny richer!

Youtube maintance

Youtube is down for maintenance just thought we'd let you know. Wonder what new feature they have for us this time.

Shoutitout hits 1,000 Shouts!

Shoutitout the new website has hit 1,000 shouts. Like Tweets, Shouts are a small life update there are now 1,038 but the 1,000th Shout was sometimes yesterday.

Uhhmm new skins (Pics)

Uhhmm the growing in popularity search engine has go live with a mob of new skins 3 actually there is "Aqua smile" (the favoriet of about everybody), Jelly fish, and Color dots. They all bring the Uhhmm out and we think there pretty cool.

Color Dots:

Jelly Fish:

And everyones favorite Aqua Smile:

LinkedIn launches API

As rumors continue to swirl around LinkedIn’s possible IPO, the professional social network is steadily adding useful features that help transcend the platform’s technology into other applications.

LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening upits API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn’s social network.

While LinkedIn is releasing 11 different APIs, they fall into three distinct categories. First, developers will be able to let users easily access their information, profiles, connections and messages via oAuth login. The second functionality is to give users the ability to make actionable decisions about information, but letting them message their LinkedIn contacts, post updates, accept contacts and more. And the third piece of the puzzle is search. So developers will now be able to embed LinkedIn search in other applications. The social network’s search engine was re-launched last year and has done over one billion queries in this year alone.

Over the past year, LinkedIn has made select business development partnerships with technology companies for integrations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Research In Motion, and Twitter. While these partnerships created additional channels for LinkedIn’s platform, the opening up of the social network’s API is no doubt going to expand its presence across the web, perhaps representing a new level of growth for the social network.

LinkedIn has already tested the API with several developers and applications are already going to be launching in the near future. Twitter, MySpace and Facebook client TweetDeck will be integrated with LinkedIn in its next version. From the client, you’ll be able to see a stream of updates from your contacts, view profiles of contacts and comment and message contacts directly from TweetDeck. Posterous, Box.net, and Ribbit will all launch LinkedIn integrations in the near future as well.

LinkedIn’s VP of search and platform products, Adam Nash, told me that over the past year, the network has received 4,000 requests from developers to integrate LinkedIn with their applications. Nash says that this is the first step for LinkedIn to become an open ecosystem and there are future plans for additional APIs to be released down the line.

50 million users strong, LinkedIn could expand its already powerful growth with development of third-party applications. It’s a no-brainer for LinkedIn to open up its API. As Twitter’s platform has shown, an open ecosystem produces innovative and sometimes, extremely popular, products around a product. And it doesn’t hurt to have a loyal developer community as well.

Toontown search launched

Toontownsearch a new search engine that lets you search "All things Toontown" Has gone live. It is a search made by Uhhmm and Disney and is designed to search videos and web pages that have to do with Toontown online. Heres a video to show you how to use it.

Myspace gets a new homepage (Photos)

Myspace the popular social network has re done its homepage and we think its AWESOME!!

Picture of it

Now you have to be a user of Myspace to see this homepage aside from pictures but trust us its wroth joining just for it

Wikipedia going bankrupt?

Is Wikipedia going bankrupt? They've started advertising on their site for people to donate to them. Also with the falling economy and no other way to make money it is highly possible. If they are going bankrupt what will happen when they collapse threw? Will someone like Google, Yahoo, Uhhmm, or Microsoft buy them? If they do fall threw one thing is for sure we will have a bidding war on our hands. But then its also possible its just there new board member creator a Craigslist being his normal strange self.

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What I want for Christmas is my corporate Twitter account

Thats right Twitter is launching accounts... that cost money... by the end of the year! Now don't worry you can still get your free account OR you can get your new and improved "corporate account" This is taking advantage of corporate advertisement and use of Twitter by some corporate companies such as Coke and Star bucks but the question is will people by theses accounts or stick to the old ones? They must think everyone will switch over... or at-lest the business will but still I think there getting to pushy for money... Gosh, the economy these days.

Twitter now in French

Twitter the monster micro-blogging site has now opened a French version of their site, thats right you can now view Twitter in French. Its just in time for Le web to.

Myspace to buy iMeem

Myspace the large social network has bough iMeem a music social network and most of its assets for a rumored somewhere around 1 million dollars. About half of iMeems employes will be working for Myspace the other half will be "let go." The one question is will their service live on or will it fade into nothingness like it was thought Myspace was turning into and FreindFeed is showing the first signs of doing. Well, according to sources thats up to the record labels. As far as we know none of the deals with the record labels are being terminated and Myspace intends to push iMeem on so it will still stay live and busy.

Farmville.com launched

Farmville the popular Facebook game app has launched its own website portal at farmville.com it has a forum links to there Twitter videos from Youtube an About section to tell you what the point of Farmville is and other things with the Facebook interference.

Preview:

Last.fm to charge to listen to songs more than 3 times

Last.fm is beta testing a feature that charges you to listen to a song more than 3 times. We're 100% this will kill them because people will just go to sites like Youtube and Project playlist not last.fm we don't like it either we like our music listening free!

Now they do let you listen to the middle 30 seconds of the song but thats not the same. I vote we go on strike! No but i'm not using last.fm nearly as much for sure!

AOL and Time warner break up

After a decade AOL will once again be a independent company on December 9th when Time Warner will spin off shares. The shares will be spun using this formula: one share of AOL will be distributed for every 11 shares held in Time Warner. AOL will be worth about 3.4 billon so thats a decrees from when Google gave back its 5% share and even more a decrees since the original merger between AOL and Time Warner.

Project Playlist beta (Pictures)

Project Playlist a popular music social network has gone into its beta mode here are a few pictures.

The new profile pages:

New Playlist though they only show up this way on there site:Pretty neat guys they've also added new features like top 10 Playlist today but we'll let you see them for yourself!

Twitters new HQ (Pictures)

Today Twitter moved into a new HQ here are some pictures taken by employes

Cars like to swim too! (Video)

Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar Bugatti Veyron sports car into a salt marsh.

WWW Awards

The WWW awards started at midnight today and they have gone off with a blast the voting goes on till the 31st of December you can vote once a day till then. What comes after that we don't know.

Facebook group Hijack attack

The hacker wars continues another group as been hacked on Facebook.

The Hijackers sent this message.

"Hello, we hereby announce that we have officially hijacked your Facebook group.

"This means we control a certain part of the information about you on Facebook. If we wanted we could make you appear in a bad way which could damage your image severly [sic].

Is it just us or are the hijacking and hack attacks increasing recently? Twitter, Facebook, Shoutitout? Weird isn't it.

The roll out continues Uhhmmgames V.2 now live

Uhhmmgames a not very popular branch of Uhhmm was manly used by the users of Teenspace V.2 a site for the teens to hang out on has upgraded. It used to only have one link in the entire Uhhmm data base to it, that link was from the Teenspace home page. It has now upgraded and has links on all the Uhhmm home pages and other skins. The reason for this is because of this V.2 it is now a search engine and an arcade you can search for games on any game site or play games right there on the Uhhmm arcade.

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It appears that Uhhmm has no plans as to losing the roll out fight.

Shoutitout is fixed FINALLY!

Shoutitout the small but growing microblogging site has finally been fixed. For the last 12 days it has been having issues were replies to shouts end up on-top of the original shout or new shouts end up underneath the shout that should be moving down. These issues have finally been fixed and users are happy because these issues have been pestering people for the past 12 days. Lets just hope next time they have issues they can fix them faster.

Bing adds wolfframalpha.com

Bing the new Microsoft search engine has come out with yet another feature. You can now search the popular mathematical site Wolfframalpha to get your math answers on Bing this is a good deal for the slowly growing mathematical search engine. It seems all the search engines are rolling out there new features this month.

Webs is down... again

Update: Webs is back up again but in maintenance mode.

Webs a popular site builder is down... again. After going down yesterday because of a proxy error it is down today due to an internet server company having issues. The estimated up time is 2pm eastern time. They have been down for about all day. This is the key to other popular site builders such as Wix and Yola to push there way to the top.

Tweetglide is now open LIVE

Tweetglide the new Twitter app has officialy gone live and is already being used by many people. It is a downloadable app. that lets you add tweets look at other peoples tweet or there profiles also you can read privet messages we have one here is what it looks like

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We like it very much our biggest problem with it so far is WE CAN'T GET IT TO OPEN!

We have several windows open so thats probably why.

Google launches "Go" a website programing language

Google has launched its own website programing language. Such as HTML and PHP Google has launched "Go" they hope it will combine new software development with speed never the less sites like Yahoo and Ask have something to say to you Google STOP MAKING THINGS THAT ARE SO GOOD WE CAN'T KEEP UP!! Google has bought two companies come out with a music search AND made their own coding language. What next they come out with there own air plain line?

Shoutitout still messed up after 10 days

Shoutitout the new microblogging world has been having some moderate issues for the past 10! Days and there still giving Safari, Ophera, And Chrome browser users issues. So heres some pictures of the issues so if you're on there site and see them you know that everyone is seeing them...

Uhhmm to Google: WE CAN MAKE GOOD PARTNERSHIPS TO!!

Update: They let us use the Toontown search (Shown in picture below) search since we already new about it its very fast and god the video search thought... that is just amazing. We are however not allowed to post photos of the site. Sorry

(Rumor) The small USA large German search engine Uhhmm has had rumors leak out of its staff that Uhhmm and Disney's game section have come to a partnership and are creating a search engine designed to focus on each of these games. Toontown online, Club Penguin, Pixie Hallow, and other games such as those this is not confirmed but we have confirmed that the search is being built by Uhhmm at lest because our source gave us this photo.We know its hard to see but trust us its what it shorta looks like. So Uhhmm comes out with a msuic AND lyrics search that is realesed the day before the buying of Admob by Google and a week or two after Googles music search reales plus this new search do we smell a rivalry gonig on here?

Google buys Admob

Google announced today that it was buying a mobile add site admob for 750 million this is Googles biggest buy since they bought Double Click for 3.1 billon and there 3rd biggest EVER leader of course being the one and only Youtube which they bought for 1.65 billion my only question is... IS THERE ANYTHING GOOGLE DOSNT OWN PPART OF?

Webs is down

Update: " Outage Update - Sites are restoring back up and the slowness should clear up in another few minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience everyone!" -Webs

Update: "Outage Update - We have restored back the ability for you to log in and edit sites on Webs.com (although you might still see some issues). Working to restore back the member sites & bring things back to normal." Webs just announced this.

Webs the popular site builder is down and offline all the sites they host on a .webs server are down as well if you try and go on one of them it will says

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

Reason: Error reading from remote serve

Or something like that. So webs users your sites down but they have announced they are aware of the issue and working fast to track and fix the problem.

Iphone Worm

If you have a jailbreak iphone you could be in trouble. Thats right there is an intristing worm out it goes on phones that havn't cahnged tehre password after a SSH and changes the background into a picture of Rick Astley then goes to find other people to infect

Uhhmm music ANd lyrics search

Yahoo: We're coming out with a music search! Google: We now have a music search Uhhmm: We are having a MUSIC AND LYRICS search what now Google and Yahoo.

Thats right after 2 of the major search engines come out with a music search a smaller search engine comes out with a music AND lyrics search they posted some preview pics nothing fancy yet but our sources say they just started the project yesterday so we might not see it in testing for a while.

We know there hard to see, but they have labels that separate the lyrics and music from each other or you can just click one or the other and it will only search sites labeled with that one.

Shoutiout fixed... Oh really?

Shoutiout announced yesterday that after 6 days of fighting site issues they repaired there site and put that as a update on there blog well guess what! There having issues again well atlest issues have been reported they have not accnoleged yet that they are working onfixing these issues but trust me there gonig on when we posted our link to our recent blog entrie this happened

en less they've decided to just put pictures behind the shouts that happened erler? Why does every microblogging site have issues like these?

Google Music search

Last week rumors got out that Google Lastfm Myspace and other sites were teaming up to make a search engine to enrich the Google experience but it does more than just find music it offers audio streaming one click buying and many more things. Here is something that will happen once this comes out to the open web.

1. Itunes store popularity will decrees

With Google allowing you to buy music from almost any music site the apple itunes store will seem like its small.

2. Myspace is back

This will most likely incress myspace users and gives myspace a BIG help that is needed they have been falling this might be their break threw to get back to the top.

3. Google will crush Yahoo even more

Besides the fact that Yahoo came out with a music search a few days ago it will smash Yahoo into the ground even more as if Yahoo can't make something then days later Google comes out with the same thing.

4. Drop in users by sties like Playlist?

So heres the question with this new amazing search engine will sites who didn't get in on this deal like Playlist lose there newly found popularity from this search engine and other sites like lastfm take over. Or will they still continue to grow?

Shoutitout UN official launch of #subscribesaturday

Shoutitout users have decided to lucnch there own specail day simular to the #candycrazahthrusday and #temperaturetuesday it will be #subscribesaturday liek #followfriday on twitter the main shoutitout account has not yet confirmed that they will advertise this new day but knowing them as soon as they see it they will start advertising it