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| ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 7:50 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software |
| From sending one document to backing up an entire business, data storage is the key to everything nowadays. Due to popular demand, we’ve put together a list of more than 80 of the leading file hosting services, many of which are completely free. Online Backup Allmydata.com - Unlimited storage and automated backup for $4.99 a month. |
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| Facebook Extreme Stress Test (Image) |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 7:22 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Software |
| How many Facebook applications is too many? With people adding unnecessary apps to their profiles at a blistering pace, we wondered just how far you could push the limits; from the Abe Vigoda dead or alive indicator to Ploppy, the app for sharing the current state of your poop, we added hundreds of ‘em. This screen capture shows what |
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| Web Development Toolbox: 120+ Web Development Resources |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 5:15 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Ajax |
| As rewarding as web development is, it can also be a pain sometimes, especially if you spend half your time looking for the right tools and resources. Well, we’ve done the work for you with this one, and have compiled a list of over 120 web development resources to make your life easier. (more…) Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at |
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| Mister Wong: Not Racist |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 2:21 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software |
| Social bookmarking site Mr Wong attracted some criticism in the Mashable comments a few weeks back, and again this week, for offending Asian Americans. The 8Asians blog was outraged by the site, saying: “But seriously, one of their web badges has the slogan ping pong, king kong, Mister Wong. Which I, of course, interpret as ching |
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| 50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 9:44 pm |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software |
| There’s a lot more to blogging than just writing compelling text. Pictures, video, and audio make your blog more exciting for readers while giving you more ways to express yourself. There are hundreds of plugins available for adding multimedia to your blog and here we take a look at more than 50 of our favorites. Also see the other posts |
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| Chocolate Rain: YouTube Hack, Screw Up, or Something Else? |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 7:42 pm |
| Tags: Social Networking, Social Software, Youtube |
| A bizarre event on YouTube yesterday set off rumors that the site had been hacked: Tay Zonday, a sort of William Hung for the YouTube generation who may or may not be in on the joke, suddenly dominated the Featured Videos list. His song, Chocolate Rain (embedded above) and a number of responses from equally talented individuals were seemingly |
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| RockYou Launches Super Wall API, Facebook Ad Network |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:21 pm |
| Tags: Mashable, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Software |
| a massively high rate in the social media space. Meanwhile, RockYou is also selling ads for 3rd parties, giving developers a 70% share of the ad revenue when ads are bought on their apps. Oodle, MyLot/Interests+, Trendhunter and others have already signed up, they say. Initially, they’ll be focused on Pay Per Install (PPI) - getting paid |
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| CoComment Officially Launches |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:34 pm |
| Tags: Social Software |
| on coComment becoming more social. The company has been working on the version 2.0 coComment service for some time now. Read our review of the private beta coComment community here. With its official launch, there are some tweaks and new features worth mentioning. The new user interface is in the form of a sidebar enabling you to browse items |
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| Clearspring Gets $10M More for Widgets |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 4:37 pm |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software |
| There’s money in them thar widgets: Clearspring, which helps you build, deploy and track widgets around the web, has raised $10 million more from a single investor, according to a regulatory filing. We already covered the $5.5 million second round in March 2007, which included AOL founders Steve Case and Ted Leonsis as investors. That |
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| Profile Builder Launching Centralized & Portable Info Page |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 4:09 pm |
| Tags: Social Software, Web2 0 Startups |
| or blog, or in existing social networks including MySpace, Flickr, Facebook and LinkedIn. Anyone that clicks on the icon will get a pop up window that displays all of your information neatly in this centralized tool. There are several actions that viewers can take while checking out your profile. They can send you coffee by purchasing a |
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| Wikia Acquires SETI-like Crawler from LookSmart |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:05 pm |
| Tags: Social Networking, Social Software |
| effort around his new social search engine (this was originally rumored to be called Wikiasari, but that isn’t the case). That may depend on goodwill from users, something that’s harder to achieve if Wikia Search is for-profit. [via] Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News Site Share This |
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| GTD NINJA: 50+ Websites For the Kickass Control Freak |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:39 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software |
| We admit it: we’re control freaks. We wanna control every single aspect of our lives…and with the latest Web 2.0 tools, we already can. Here are my picks for the 50 or so best new tools to Get Things Done: also check out James Mowery’s recent guide to personal productivity. (more…) Recommended: Piczo Layouts at |
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| Online Swaps: 8 Sites to Swap Your Stuff |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:01 am |
| Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2 0 |
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| 5 Money Making Opportunities on Facebook |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 10:49 pm |
| Tags: Facebook, Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Apis, Web 2 0 |
| recent endeavor in social media presents a unique opportunity for marketers, developers and businesses to tap into the social network's young, active, and viral crowd. However, over the past few weeks there has been a rising concern among developers to uncover ways to monetize their Facebook applications. The curse of instant online |
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| I'm In Like With You Invites |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 10:43 pm |
| Tags: Social Networking, Social Software |
| OK, time to try this one again. Impressive dating site I’m In Like With You has begun to open up, offering 6 invites to each user approximately 6 hours after signup (this may not be a constant, we’ll see). We have at least 10 invites to send to the first 10 people to post a comment here, and should they be lucky enough to get |
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