It’s been a hectic week. There were tons of techie stuff to cover. Here’s all of them in one blog post. Link, digg, sphinn, bookmarks, will be highly appreciated. Search engine news:

• Top Search Based Facebook Apps to Help You Find Anything
• Can Yahoo Deliver with its Detailed Financial Plan for 2008?
• Google Wants to Heal the World through Non-Profit Organizations
• Yahoo Turns to Radio Ads to Attract Search Engine Users
• Google Loses Some Search Numbers in February
• Learning About Locations through Wikinear

Social networks and online communications:

• Create a Wiki, Socialize and Share at Wetpaint
• Give More Depth to your Social Networking via M3 Mobile Social Networking Site
• Access MySpace on Your Mobile Phone
• Locate Friends using your mobile devices, tag them on their Facebook profiles through FindMe
• Get Your Geek On! Track Concerts and Tour Dates of Your Favorite Bands at Songkick
• Liven up Your Blog’s Commenting System using Disqus
• I Want a Venti Cappuccino to Go with My Starbucks Idea
• Highlight, Annotate and Share Your Documents at Bookgoo
• Create Your Online Store in a Snap with Zlio
• Create Your Band of eBay Sellers at Seller Circle
• Got more room for a new social network that goes by the name Zarpie?
• 11 Things To Do at CraftBuddy, Social Network for Crafters

Technology news at Gadgetell:

• Napster brings digital music to O2 mobile subscribers
• Flickr Video coming soon, do we need another YouTube?
• Microsoft to bring Adobe Flash Lite, Reader into Windows Mobile
• Roxio releases Toast 9 Titanium with Blu-ray disc authoring, remote video streaming software
• Limewire launches digital music store
• BenQ launches the V2400W, world’s slimmest 24-inch widescreen LCD
• Panasonic releases the D-Snap; sweet looks from a candybar styled player
• Genius intro’s the GHP-05 Live headphones, offering 3D surround sound
• Alienware re-launches the Area 51 gaming desktop
• Sanyo unveils the Xacti CG9 handheld camcorder
• Panasonic announces the Lumix FX500, first touchscreen Lumix camera
• Panasonic intro’s the Lumix TZ50, an upgraded Lumix TZ5 with Wi-Fi
• Sony intro’s the DPP-FP75, DPP-FP95 Compact photo printers with HDMI support
• SanDisk to promote DRM-free music, Sansa Fuze by offering free music on microSD card
• AT&T announces Media Mall 2.0 with “try-before-you-buy” feature
• N-Gage soon leaving beta, offering up free game for testers
• Averatec releases the 2575, a 12-inch ultra-portable
• Asus intro’s the M50 notebook, Blu-ray capable with Dolby Theater, Altec Lansing Speakers
• Who says snail mail is dead? USPS offering electronics recycling free by mail
• Transcend releases the rugged, shock-resistant StoreJet 25 portable hard drive
• Mozilla calls Apple’s Safari automatic update a malware distribution practice
• Radiohead’s In Rainbows music video contest begins

Cellphone news:

• SE releases two full colored phones – W580 Jungle Green and W380 Tangerine Black
• Motorola Brings the MOTO Z6x to Verizon Wireless
• Nokia N82 now available in black
• Samsung SGH-D880, a versatile dual sim phone
• Nokia 3555 – Small Flip Phone with 3G
• Alltel releases the Samsung Muse to the US mobile market

Get a load of Asus Eee PC stuff:

• Asus Eee PC modded to run on Pentium M processor
• Is Samsung Joining the “Let’s Bring Down the Asus Eee” Movement?
• Audit your Asus Eee PC’s disk usage regularly
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Get an Asus Eee PC
• Intel Classmate PC aka Neo eXplore X1?
• Rockpod 8 Video Encoder now supports the Asus Eee PC
  

Digital camera goodies:

• Canon unveils Powershot SD890 IS with “longest optical zoom of any ELPH”
• Sony intros high-end Alpha 350 DSLR, with “Quick AF live view”
• Nikon Coolpix P60 sharpens the cutting edge of point-and-shoot cameras

iPods, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii:

• iJailbreak 0.6 now supports 1.1.4 iPod Touch and iPhones
• Nintendo Wii tops gaming consoles’ sales for February, again
• PS3 software upgrade adds Blu-ray Disc profile 2.0 capabilities

58 blogs posts in 5 days…Wow, I’m a lean mean writing machine!

I noticed the Image Wall link at the bottom left portion of the Bloglines windows and was curious enough to click on it since it was tagged as a new features When I clicked on the link, lo and behold the right window pane displayed a graffiti of images with pop-up windows displaying various images that ranges from the artistic to the erotic. I found an interesting image and decided to click on the link.

That, in a nutshell is what the bloglines image wall is all about. From the zillions of pages that Bloglines indexes which includes images, the people behind Bloglines decided to gather these images together and present it via the image wall. I’d like to see it as technorati with images instead of tags. Pretty cool feature except for the fact that some lewd (relative to your personal outlook) images are included in the image wall. Since this is a machine generated feature with no human intervention involved, the images that the wall captures are not screened before they are posted on the wall. Thus, you’d see some lewd and explicit images that were posted somewhere on the web popping out of the Bloglines image wall.

To counter this unavoidable circumstances, Bloglines included the following disclaimer page before users can access the image wall:

The Image Wall is comprised of dynamically generated images from user feeds and may contain material of an explicit sexual nature or other adult content.
By clicking “I Agree” below, you agree to the following terms:

1. You are over the age of 18 and understand that the material included in the Image Wall may involve language, content, images, and themes of an adult or controversial nature.
2. You understand that the content on the Image Wall does not reflect the views of Bloglines, IAC Search & Media, or its affiliates, and that Bloglines has no obligation to delete content that you may find offensive.
3. You agree that you will not hold Bloglines, IAC Search & Media, or its affiliates responsible for any materials located on the Image Wall.

Overall, the Bloglines Image Wall is a pretty interesting feature that could serve as a refereshing alternative to other traditional social bookmarking sites.

Technorati Tags: Bloglines, image wall, images, blogs

Everybody’s favorite “social information diggers”, social bookmarking tool, or simply Digg sports a new widescreen look to give its readers better reading pleasure.Along with the Digg look are some nifty features such as:

• top 10 stories/videos
• videos enhancement
• podcasting
• profile enhancements

Watch the video to learn more about these new Digg features.

Technorati Tags: digg