Microsoft recently released a new version of MSN Messenger for Mac and although the improvements are nice, there is still much that could be worked on.

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Announcing Slackware Linux 11! The first Slackware release more than a year in the making, this edition of Slackware combines Slackware’s legendary simplicity, stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux technology.

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Great pictures of the newly built Googleplex in New York. An insiders look to what it means to be googley ! Looks like a fun place to work. Some Inside Pics…

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Vertical metasearch engine Costumzee relaunched late this summer to offer costume search with all the Web 2.0 trimmings. (You could say it came back from the dead, just in time for Halloween.) Costumzee got a write up over at Search Engine Watch this morning. Search by tag, see related costumes, review costumes, give costume ideas ratings by stars, build your profile - it’s a little hard to find the RSS URL for a search but other than that Costumzee is very 2.0 and the company knows it. You can also view other users’ lists of costume ideas .

The most important part of the site is that users can make their own costume suggestions , this is more than just a one way trip through affiliate links.

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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With Yahoo’s announcement that they will open up their popular email service, this presents a new oppourtunity for web developers to stretch the boundaries of what was once an exclusive application– the web email.

One possible scenario is the emergence of a mashup email service that could include Yahoo’s mail service and other web mail providers, such as Google Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, provided that they too will provide API’s or access to their email service.

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Myspace is getting in the IM game. The social networking giant is now allowing downloads of the BETA version of their new IM client.MySpaceIM integrates several features into the IM.

Currently these are the features included:

• Basic instant messaging to other MySpace users.
• Shortcuts to MySpace.com features and profiles.
• Imports friends from MySpace into your contacts list in MySpaceIM.
• Instant alerts for all requests, messages, and comments.
• skinnable interface.

The real question is do we really need another one?

Heres a list of the top 126 Ajax tutorials out there. They are organized into a wide range of categories from Getting Started to Shopping Carts. Everything you need regarding Ajax is right here. This is one great resource for the web developers !!

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