Web 2.0 & SEO Tools

Netvibes quietly released an updated look and feel this evening. Read about the release on the Netvibes blog here

Key additions to the service include:

• Module search
• New web/blog /video search with results within netvibes
• Customization of look and feel
• MySpace module

Netvibes says in their blog entry that the new release “will change the way you use and view the web” and includes user interface enhancements as well as a bunch of new modules. Putting the question of whether or not this update is as significant as the blog post suggests aside, Netvibes has certainly had a big impact on its users. They have collected over 5 million passionate users and $15 million in venture capital during its brief year of existence.

With the new update in Google Pagerank, here is an article from Matt Cutts that give more insights into Google Pagerank.

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Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening), 54 projects were demo’d to the crowd of about 400 people. Over 3,000 pictures from the event tagged (’HackDay06″) are on Flickr here.

Black Box Nation, a team of three fashion designers turned hardware hackers, unanimously swept our first open Hack Day event by mashing together a purse fitted with a Nokia camera phone, Bluetooth GPS, a pedometer and Flickr’s Zonetag API. Every few steps, the purse snaps a photo and moblogs it, creating a photo diary of the day. Creators Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy all get to fight over the 32″ plasma TV they won. And if Diana looks familiar to you, she was the nerdy aspiring fashion designer on Project Runway.

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Yahoo has Acquired Jumpcut, a San Francisco video-sharing start-up that offers consumers the ability to not only upload clips, but also to edit them online. Jumpcut is similar to Yahoo Video (and YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Revver, etc…) in that it is a social video sharing site. The part that’s different than any other offer out there is the ability for users to edit their videos right on the web - or Remix others’. Yahoo’s plans likely involve integrating Jumpcut’s editing and Remix software with their own Yahoo Video. Yahoo said San Francisco-based Jumpcut, which will retain its brand name, will become “bunk-mates” with its other Web 2.0 services Flickr, del.icio.us, and Upcoming. Jumpcut also makes out well, gaining access to Yahoo’s 500 million monthly visitors. “As part of Yahoo, we’ll be working on bringing video editing and remixing to everyone with an Internet connection, ” Jumpcut said on its blog today.

Yesterday just surfing I came at this bookmarking site Lounge  belonging to some Ron , you may argue that there are many like this, whts so special abt it? but wht I just liked in the site was its simple design & looks.. It supports all http://del.icio.us/help/api/ & it has mostly all the features of Del.icio.us/ .

So I feel as time goes by more & more greeks are going to ride on this never ending social Bookmaking merry go round

Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted in the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user.

 

Moreover he confirms it’s more than triple the number of users it had just nine months ago. Maybe acquired by Yahoo! may have brought some more users to Del.icio.us. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005. I am quite used to use it for my bookmarking & I must say it’s quite a nice bookmarking tool . Nway congratulations to Schachter, del.cio.us and Yahoo! for passing this milestone in social bookmarking.. Infact I also feel excited to be one of the users… They were going to celebrate it’s 3rd birthday bash on October 3 at Yahoo!HQ at Sunnyvale & now I hope the party will be much bigger after crossing this milestone

As the popularity of YouTube grows, many sites are jumping on the video content bandwagon, after Google & Yahoo now it’s the turn of Yahoo .It announced a joint venture Wednesday with Current TV, the cable network co-founded by Gore. The two companies are launching the Yahoo! Current Network, an online video site featuring user-generated content as well as professional videos from the staffs of the two companies. So the big question is YouTube will continue to dominate the market position or people are going to try out many of the clone sites after being fed up with the poor video quality of the videos. read more …

Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online. Google has acquired Writely and gives it for free but it’s in Beta version .

Features :

• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice & other text documents .
• Invite others to share your documents .
• Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
• Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
• Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
• Post your documents to your blog.

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