Download Google Chrome & Download Picasa 3 (Beta)

As many of you have seen....Google has hit again...and for three times in contemporary! practically in the same moment, on various Google Pages (also in google.com), the Mountain View giant has announced the new Google browser named Chrome, the new beta version of its great photo viewer program Picasa 3 (warning: the download link from Picasa's webpage permits you to download the traditional version of the program. Click here to directly download Picasa 3 Beta) and the re-style of Picasa Web. For who is interested, a complete list of All the Google products is available on Wikipedia.

Symbian 9.2 has been hacked!

Do you have a Nokia smart phone? one of the worst problem related to this kind of terminal (particularly the 3rd edition of the symbian s60) is the very limited possibility to install unsigned application. Lot of freeware come unsigned...and the only possibility to obtain a valid install file was to manually "sign" it. This was made with some simple steps using the Symbian Signed website...but from the end of march it is practically impossible to ask for a personal certificate (you must be a developer and pay 200$). This decision was made because too many people was using Symbian Signed for install program "cracked" versions. But, as usual, the cracking world is always running...and the solution is here, just after a week: it is now possible to install unsigned application on Symbian S60: just check the link..and read all the guide provided!

RealSelf

RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging. RealSelf addresses other aspects of anti-aging beyond just products. The two main components of the site are reviews, and the Q&A section. Both are easily accessible from the homepage and nearly every other page throughout the site. This makes for very easy site navigation and a continuous swarm of information on RealSelf. This is a review site and a community, so reviews are made by users, as are the Q&A sections. Any comment or response can be voted on for helpfulness, and these will be ordered accordingly on the site, so whether you’re reading a page of answers to a question, or reviews for a product, the most helpful will show on top. Another unique factor for RealSelf is its algorithm, which will hunt and kill smam reviews. And to put the icing on the cake (sort of) those spam reviews that are created by companies hoping to inflate the recognition of their products will be publically outed, often resulting in the company to acknowledge their wrong doing.

Puzzr

PuzzR is a web aggregating search engine site with the scope to bring you the latest news. Practically, it is a blog news aggretagor, similar to Original Signal. There are several categories that you can search for news, including Health, Canada, US, World, Sports, Technology and Business, to name a few. Click on any of these categories, which are color coordinated, and you’ll get a short list of the latest breaking news. There’s also a search toolbar for you to delve deeper into the particular category, in order to ind the most recent news for your query. Click on any of these search results and the original source will open in a separate window.

Thoof

Thoof is the ultimate news and information service totally different from other similar services: it learns what you like...and what you want to read! Thanks to a proprietary algorithm, Thoof analyzes what you read and what news you have read between the hundreds available on the site (Thoof is a pageless site: every time you are near to the end of the page, new stories and news are added...like in an endless page!)...and from your second visit, you will see your preferred kind of stories at the beginning of the Thoof page! Nice, isn't it? It's not simple to find a personalized news site like this! But there is more: if you want to see a story on Thoof that you have published on your blog, you can submit it in a very simple way...just select a right title, right tags and your post link. If someone is interested in your article and wants to read it entirely, he will click on the title and reach your blog...a nice way to gain some good traffic for free! In the meanwhile, on the post you have submitted, you can add the ThoofRank Badge: a measure of your article popularity. This popularity is expressed as a percentage relative to all the other Thoof stories: a post with a ThoofRank of 50% means that the story has an average interest in Thoof readers. Last but not least, you can help Thoof in improving news and stories: if you don't like a story or simply want to add something to it, just click the improve button: you will be redirected to a page where you will find the list of changes proposed by other users like you. Here you can rate what you find or simply add your own change.

Thoof

Are you searching for a new, freshly site where to find latest news, videos, photos and everything hot on the web? Tired of traditional news site that just show you news without knowing what you really want to read? Do you want to interact with the proposed news? If you answer yes at least at one question, you absolutely need to try Thoof, the just launched personalized news site. Thoof permits, despite similar services (do you know Digg?), users to define the way Thoof proposes news to them: click on the story you prefer...and let Thoof defines all the related news you can like. Users (and not Thoof!) will always control what they are reading! Individual interest are the priority in Thoof. But there is more: in Thoof, if you don't like how a story is described, you can edit it...change it, improve it...a great idea to share always great and complete information! Just click the improve button and write your idea or simply read (and vote) what other users have written. Using Thoof is extremely simple. Once registered, you will be welcomed in your news page, where you will find all the news that match with your interests. News are divided in three colors: blue for new stories, green for old but not read stories and grey for read stories. You don't like one or more of them? Just click the not interesting button and it will be immediately removed. Obviously, you can always submit new stories in Thoof, just click the Submit Story button and insert the right address, a short title, a little news summary and some relevant tags. You can also send the story to a friend...just use the link provided. Last but not least, the ThoofRank Badge: a visual way to determine how a news is important for readers...very useful if you want to see the most rated news.

Blern

Blern is a content-based recommendation news and blog recommendation engine. Blern analyzes thousands of news and blog articles every day. When you click our 'Show more' button or 'Show less' button we learn what you want to read more of and what you're not interested in. This allows us to make highly accurate and personalized recommendations of new articles for you to read.

LouderVoice

LouderVoice is all about reviews but with a big difference.LouderVoice provide the tools that enable you to publish structured reviews to your blog and then help everyone else to find your reviews, read them on your blog and then rate them and relate them to reviews by other bloggers. http://www.loudervoice.com

Tangler

Tangler is an innovative group interaction and communication platform. It's fun, interesting and really useful. It's an instant messaging and communication app that is based around a concept they call ‘instant grouping’. http://www.tangler.com

Hugg

Hugg is a source for user-generated green news. It's simple-how many times have you found an article, a video or a website that you’ve wanted to share with all your green friends? Well, Hugg lets you to share this stuff with everyone. Plus, it lets other users rate shared stories by Hugging them. http://www.hugg.com

Similicio.us

similicio.us If you find a really good article, try copying and pasting the full URL to above. Often times you will be able to find related articles.

MacMeter

Macmeter is an Apple/Mac focused social-news website that allows its member community to submit and PowerUP the hottest industry news. The site is based on the concept of user submitted and ranked content. Just as the slashdot-model for sites became popular in the late 90's, the digg-model now seems to be the latest trend. http://www.macmeter.com/

Flektor

Flektor was designed to change that, and bring quality to the user generated content world, even for people who don't have great artistic skills. Flektor allows you to quickly and easily create, remix, and share your photos, videos, with others via email, on mySpace, or in your blog. Easy to use tool to "mashup" media. Hence the Flektor Quickstart Wizards and simple to use, drag and drop interface. http://www.flektor.com

27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience

Today, is very difficult to find someone on the net that doesn't have a blog...it's very simple to start one (platform like blogger are very simple) and it needs not so much time to maintain it. But after a little while, most part of bloggers try to make profitable the "creature" (do you know Google Ads? lol). And now the problem is hard. You know, if you want to gain from ads you need readers...and to have readers you need to make your blog "popular". But how to reach this state? on the net you can find tons of "how to"....but most of them are incomplete, or non exact. Sailing in the net, last day, i've read an interesting how to guide. 28 tips for building and maintinig an audience is a nice guide from sponsoredreview. You can find basic information to start a blog, to create an audience and to maintain it. One example? why don't buy review on others blog? with a little cost you shound gain a great audience. Read the whole article here.

Coworkers

Coworkers to give people the freedom to share their honest opinions about coworkers. Coworkers gives you real, balanced, detailed feedback about your professional reputation, and lets you share the truth about your coworkers - positive, negative, and in between. And because you can remain anonymous, you need not fear retribution. Coworkers acts as a central repository of peer review from throughout your career, and it is trusted by employers as a legitimate source of information. http://www.coworkers.com

Topix

http://www.topix.com Topix is the world’s largest community news website. You can read, talk about and even edit the news on over 360,000 of our news pages. Whatever your interests are, Topix have a news page for you. Topix is also a place for you to post your own news stories, as well as comment about stories you’ve seen on the Topix site. Each story and every Topix page comes with the ability to add your voice to the conversation.

idio

http://www.idiomag.com idio is a personalised digital magazine that matches quality content with the interests of the individual, delivering quality design and music articles within an immersive Flash magazine environment.

BallHype

http://ballhype.com Ballhype pulls in content from thousands of sports blogs. If other writers are linking to a story, it gets surfaced to the top of the list as newsworthy. If enough Ballhype users hype it up, the story will make it to the home page. You can also write your own post or submit a story that you think should be required reading. You can also write your own post or submit a story that you think should be required reading.

BallHype

Ballhype pulls in content from thousands of sports blogs. If other writers are linking to a story, it gets surfaced to the top of the list as newsworthy. If enough Ballhype users hype it up, the story will make it to the home page. You can also write your own post or submit a story that you think should be required reading. You can also write your own post or submit a story that you think should be required reading. http://ballhype.com

SparkMeter

Sparkmeter is a site that brings together the entire spectrum of political thought and ideology. It provides a platform for users to react to political punditry and identify news as leaning-left, leaning-right, and objective. Rather than simply reading the same like-minded websites/blogs everyday, it gives users the opportunity to easily explore other viewpoints. User's comments are also rated by other users as leaning-left, leaning-right, and objective and aggregated into each user's overall profile statistics.