Digg is planning for expansion, Kevin Rose spoke via video link at the TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam. He said that Digg site will have some changes in the next 6 to 12 months. They plan to include images, product reviews and restaurants etc.
Rose also hinted that Digg will become personalized for the users, the [...]

Orkut added RSS feed sharing feature in profiles. Now you can share your flickr, picasa albums, blog feed, fotolog or any other RSS feed. Orkut recognizes Picasa web albums if you use the same email ID. This is one more way to increase your RSS subscription by exposing it to your Orkut friends.

It’s difficult for the new bloggers to get traffic how great their content may be, all the bloggers will face this problem. Peopleized is a new German startup which aims to help bloggers to get visibility through interviews. The site is getting ready to be launched soon.
Steve interviewed one of the founders Halil to get [...]

Mahalo is a new search engine launched yesterday at allthingsD conference. Mahalo is a human powered search engine meaning humans organize the results displayed for search queries. Its staff called “Guides” organize search results for search terms filtering out spam pages and pages not interesting to them.
Mahalo’s search results are displayed as categories, for [...]

Gizmoz is a new service for creating 3D talking avatars quite easily. Voki is another site operating in this space. The unique feature of gizmoz is that it creates a 3D image of your photo. You can place these avatars as widgets in your MySpace profiles or blogs.
Gizmoz is built on flash platform and [...]

Music social network Last.fm has been acquired by CBS corporation for $280 million. Last.fm was founded five years ago and has 15 million active user following. This is the leading online network in this space, other include Pandora, Mog and iLike.
As part of the deal Last.fm will remain independent with its management staying in place. [...]

PlayMyGame is another site like Pictogame for creating flash games with your pictures. You can upload your picture and select the game from the 4 game options and create the game. These games can be embedded to Myspace or blogs.
What is different from Pictogame is it allows to create eCards and Clips also along with [...]

Twitbin is a Firefox Add-on to send and receive messages easily from your Firefox sidebar. You can take twitter with you where ever you go on the web.
Once you login with your account you can start sending messages to twitter. You can set the refresh times for getting messages as 1, 5 or 10 [...]