The 1 millionth blog has been created this week on Wordpress.com. Launched 4 years ago, Wordpress is now the 4th most popular blog platform after Blogger, SixApart and MySpace.
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The one year old french startup Vpod.tv has launched a new feature called myTV that allows users to create their own Internet TV chanel. Vpod.tv looks like a mix between Joost and YouTube.
Users can upload their own videos directly through an application installed on their computer directly into their Vpot account. They can create […]

TechCrunch has been offering Joost invites on its forum for a while. Now they have set up a page on the Joost website to allow people to get invite easier.
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Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multi-media access […]

After two years of development, Google has launched the Universal Search on their .com page. The search engine will look into every Google databases to offer the users as much information as possible.
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This website is a nice exemple on how web 2.0 turns websites into nice web application. Trullia is a real estate search engine that helps users find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level. Here are some nice functionnalities.
Google Map - All locations are located on a Google map so […]

Amazon’s Customer Communities team has rolled out much broader support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds, says Ian McAllister from Amazon. This new functionality has been soft-launched and will be available on all the tag pages in the coming weeks. The option allows subscription to feeds with specific interest to the users […]

LinkedIn has launched a new feature that allows user to see who has viewed his profile. The feature displays the 20 latest people who visited your page, with their name and professional information. I am currently not able to view it, but you can get more info on the LinkedIn blog.
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Google has released a new version of Google Analytics. The new interface has been completely simplified and is more user-friendly. New features appears, such as the dashboard with main figures for the last 30 days. Google Analytics looks now completly integrated with Google Adwords. Users can also schedule reports to be send them to any […]

I have been talking about Loopster earlier and they now changed their name to SocialSnips.com to reflect more closely their focus and activities. The functionality of Loopster.com has been improved.
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