How can Web 2.0 contribute to development?

How can Web2.0 contribute to development? What are your experiences in using Web2.0 tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration in the domain of rural and agricultural development? Do social networks, mashups, blogs, and wikis have an influence on your work? What challenges towards Web2.0 did you experience or do you expect?

Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS

When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday [June 11th] at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years.

Reid Hoffman talks with Mercury News

LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman talks with Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days

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Maestro: Social Music Streaming

Music has been a killer app on the web ever since Napster met mp3 in 1999, and we’ve seen a lot of startups designing new social applications around it. Some startups are creating communities around discovering new music, others are helping you store and remotely access the music you already have. Atlanta-based Maestro is doing both.

How Do Wikis Work?

Here's a creative explanation for those not in the know.

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services

Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real semantic web, is going to change this. What we mean by 'Web 3.0' is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services - and will effectively expose their information to the world.

Foleo


As rumored, the big new device that's Palm's Jeff Hawkins has chosen to announce at the D conference today is the Palm Foleo, which the company is billing as a "mobile companion." Boasting a 10-inch widescreen display and a full-size keyboard, the device is intended to be used in conjunction with your smartphone, with any edits to documents made on one device automatically reflected on the other thanks to the device's Bluetooth connectivity.

See additional pictures of Foleo.

Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven't yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.

eBay confirms StumbleUpon acquisition

eBay released a statement on Wednesday afternoon confirming that, as speculated, it has acquired Web site discovery service StumbleUpon. The price, according to eBay, is approximately $75 million.

eBay's most famous acquisition is arguably Internet tele

Twitter Blog Site


A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web! Check out Twitter's blog.

Note: Twitter is Micro-blogging. Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usualy less than 200 characters) about your life on the go and send them to friends and interested observers via text messaging, instant messaging, email or the web.

Schmap!!

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides is also used by clients, partners and bloggers to power schmapplets – a range of fully customizable map mashups and map widgets. Founded in 2004, Schmap is privately owned and based in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Know Where? Your Phone Does

With WHERE™ GPS widgets, you drag widgets like your local weather forecast, earthquake reports, roadside assistance, local ski reports, store finders and more from the web to your handset, or discover them directly on your phone.

Full Flexible screen by Sony

On May 24, Sony unveiled what it is calling the world’s first flexible, full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED) built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. OLEDs typically use a glass substrate, but Sony researchers developed new technology for forming organic TFT on a plastic substrate, enabling them to create a thin, lightweight and flexible full-color display. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution (80 ppi, .318-mm pixel pitch), is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams without the driver.

According to Sony, which plans to release a new line of miniature TVs this year and is bolstering efforts to develop next-generation flat-panel OLEDs, this new technology will lead to the development of thinner, lighter and softer electronics.

The company is scheduled to present the results of its research at the SID 2007 International Symposium now underway in the US.

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Polymer Vision: Organic based rollable displays

Polymer Vision announced its cooperation with Innos to establish the world’s first production facility for organic semiconductor based rollable displays. Manufacturing will start this year to meet the increasing commercial demand for the unique Polymer Vision display technology.

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What will Web 3.0 look like?

Just in case you missed it, the web now has version numbers. Nearly three years ago, amid continued hand-wringing over the dot-com crash, a man named Dale Dougherty dreamed up something called Web 2.0, and the idea soon took on a life of its own.

• More information regarding Web 3.0.
• Web 3.0 Q & A.
  

Wireless for the Clueless

Wireless, we keep being told, is the wave of the future. It's the next big thing. After all, the San Jose, California research firm Infonetics estimates that the market for WLAN hardware (that's equipment for wireless local-area networks) will grow to approximately $2.3 billion by 2005.

World's Thinnest Laptop

Codenamed the Intel Mobile Metro Notebook, this prototype was designed by Intel along with Ziba Design, and it's a mere .7 inches thick and weighs just 2.25 pounds. See it here.

7 Ways to Send Huge Files: 25X Bigger than Gmail

Gmail users can now send up to 20MB of attachments to each other. But we want more! Here are 7 awesome services that let you send files of more than 500MB.

One more Web 2.0 and what it means

Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools.

What is Web 2.0?

What exactly does it mean? Andy Gutmans of Zend defines Web 2.0 and explains how it's changing the face of the Internet.

Yugma is a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and ideas using any application or software. Whether you are on a Windows, Mac or Linux, you can connect on-demand and real-time with friends, family, clients, or employees whether they are across the city, nation or even the globe.

Diggnation

Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.

Companies Think of Clever Ways To Draw Young Talent

Justin Wong, an aerospace engineering student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was schmoozing on Facebook.com last fall when he came across a sleek Boeing job ad.

Campaigns Tread Carefully Into Web 2.0

Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.

Cisco Steps Up Consumer Push

CEO Chambers is readying a souped-up set-top box as part of the networking company's deepest push yet into the living room.

Online Video Gets Real

Not all video is good video—that's why editors were created. But a good video-editing package can cost hundreds of dollars and take weeks to master. Fortunately, there's a new generation of video-sharing sites that include free video-editing tools.

Here are a few:

Eyespot beta (www.eyespot.com)
Not only does Eyespot let you upload and edit your video online, it also encourages the use of free public-domain and open-license material. To edit a video, you simply drag and drop clips into a timeline. To trim a sequence, Eyespot indicates start points with a bright-green arrow and end points with a red arrow, a method so simple it puts every other video editor to shame.

Grouper (www.grouper.com)
Notable primarily because it was purchased by Sony last summer, Grouper takes a unique approach to helping users edit their efforts. Rather than having them perform edits online through a browser application, Grouper offers a free editing program for download. Unfortunately, the Windows program leaves a lot to be desired.

Jumpcut (www.jumpcut.com)
Recently acquired by Yahoo!, Jumpcut was clearly designed with bloggers in mind. Its lucid online video-editing program is useful and trouble-free, and the site offers lots of options for getting your message online.

Motionbox (www.motionbox.com)
Taking a no-muss, no-fuss approach to editing videos, Motionbox emphasizes sharing "the good stuff." In other words, it lets people cut out the dead, dull, and dopey parts of their videos quickly online so that the audience doesn't get bored.

YouTube founders unfazed by challenges

The media's recent legal and competitive challenges to Internet video pioneer YouTube haven't fazed co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who have diligently sought to make money for new owner Google Inc., as well as the creators of the content that fuels their Web site's whirlwind growth.

Web 2.0 is led by technology geeks

Web 2.0. So what does it mean? Basically it is a new way of designing websites based on new ways of coding (like Ajax), new designing techniques that use advanced CSS and “pure” layouts (more spaces, nice logos, brand oriented) and also probably on the feeling of community.

Top Tools to build a web 2.0 app from scratch: the ultimate guide

You have a brilliant idea and want to bring it to life through a nice web 2.0 application on the web. In this guide, we suppose you already have access to a dedicated or shared server.

The Digital Incubator program, now in its second year, was developed jointly by mtvU and Cisco to discover talented college students to create new media and entertainment concepts. Together, they provide the monetary, creative and technical resources for students to bring their digital media ideas into reality…as well as a national platform for the finished products to be showcased. The Digital Incubator program wants to encourage the next generation of talent to experiment with new forms of story telling made possible because of video and broadband coming together and mtvU reaches a college audience that is consuming media in new and exciting ways. mtvU and Cisco are happy to announce our 2007 grant awards.

Build online applications by dragging and dropping


A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere! Coghead is the one do-it-yourself web application platform that can handle all of your projects from beginning to end.

Amazon opens a music store

Amazon dropped the bomb today by announcing its DRM-free music store.

Digg, Reddit, Netscape: The Wisdom of Crowds or Mob Rule?

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals" - "K," Men In Black

Welcome to Inside Silicon Valley

Welcome to a new weekly podcast from the Mercury News and PodTech.net. Each week, they’ll help you understand what makes Silicon Valley tick, with news and interviews with entrepreneurs and established tech companies.

For their first show, they visited Brickhouse, the new idea incubator that Yahoo recently opened in the trendy South Park neighborhood of San Francisco. Yahoo is hoping that this new campus will evoke a start-up vibe and spur innovation within the company. Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz explains how it will work.

Pew Research on tagging

Pew Research Center: Tagging Play is a short report looking at who tags content on sites like Flickr, YouTube, Del.Icio.Us and the others.

I’d strongly recommend reading the brief report. There are some basic demographics in the report and short piece on what tagging means.

A December 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 28% of internet users — and 7% on any typical day — have tagged or categorized online content such as photos, news stories or blog posts.

Grouptivity Pulls Social Bookmarking Card



Grouptivity launched an updated version of its content-sharing tool on Monday. Blog posters can now add a "discuss this" button on the bottom of any post, which will pull up the Grouptivity sharing dialogue to send off the post or article to others. This dialogue allows you to pick from various pieces of media (photos and videos) that you want to share, along with a full text copy of the content. There's also the option to send it off to multiple e-mail addresses, set up read confirmations, and author explanatory messages to your recipients.

Firefox Does Twitter: Twitbin

Twitbin is a small Firefox extension that puts a Twitter sidebar inside your browser. Once you've logged in with your Twitter credentials, it keeps tabs on your friends or public Tweets. You can also write new posts right from the sidebar.

To toggle the Twitbin sidebar on and off, there's a bird logo that shows up on your browser next to the home button. The sidebar has its own links, for switching back and forth between friends and public feeds, and a refresh button to update posts. If you're not interested in manually hitting the refresh button, Twitbin can be set to automatically refresh all the posts every 1, 5, or 10 minutes.

To toggle Twitbin on and off, there's a handy button installed on your browser.

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Twitbin is not without its snags. For example, when typing there's no character limit warning to let you know how much room is left; instead, it just cuts off once you've hit 140 characters. Likewise, the typing interface only gives you a single line, so you can't see what you've written about without scrolling back and forth.

Twitbin is free and maintains that no-cost aspect with advertisements; you'll see a small ad on the bottom of the sidebar. It's fairly unobtrusive, and in place to pay for the development team's server costs.

Compared to some of the other Twittering solutions out there, Twitbin is very similar to Tweetbar in its use and integration with Firefox. Tweetbar also works with the Flock browser. For other ways to use Twitter, check out our Newbie's guide or our post on six ways to improve Twitter.

Web 3.0 and SEO

Phil Wainewright first used the term “Web 3.0” nearly a year ago, and to date the concept has been even more difficult to pin down than Web 2.0 was when it was first coined. Already the term attracts controversy, with Wikipedia barely mentioning it except to say that there is not “sufficient consensus from the community of Web designers to justify the creation of a new term to describe the next generation of the Web.” Is it real, and what does it mean for SEO?

Wiki

What is it? A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.
A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for masa collaborative authoring.

One that I like is Jotspot. Below are links that provide information about Jotspot.

• Getting Started
• Watch Tutorials
• View FAQ
• Ask a Question

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices What does Web 2.0 mean for your company?

Additional information about Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly.

Comparing 5 Ways to Tag Videos

There's so many videos flying around online these days and both the sheer number and impact of those videos are only going to increase with time. Video tagging tools let you archive and share favorites, subscribe to video tag feeds in iTunes or display tagged videos on a webpage using SplashCast.

Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom

Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.

The company has not previously disclosed any financings. Joost was started by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström in 2006; presumably seed funding came directly from them.

Apple Filing reveals multi-sided iPod with Touch Screen Interface

Apple Inc. is looking to patent a design for a handheld device (or iPod) that displays its output on a small front-side display screen but receives input through a larger touch- and force-sensitive back-side interface, AppleInsider has discovered.

How to Get Started using RSS

RSS has become a valuable technology for everything from casual web users to webmasters. According to a recent Yahoo survey only 12% of internet users are aware of RSS and a mere 4% have knowingly used RSS. RSS exists as a means to gather and display information quickly and easily. By the end of this article, you should know what RSS is and how to use it to make your life easier.

Digg This

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Kevin Rose, second from left, the founder of Digg.com, a Web site that lets users submit links to news accounts, on the set with Alex Albrecht, Jay Adelson and David Prager.

10 Emerging Technologies 2007

This year, as every year, there are 10 technologies that most likely will alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live.

Wheelman 2005 BushPig

The Bushpig cruises at up to 20 miles per hour. Measuring 3 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 2 in., it has a low center of gravity, high strength construction, and a 30-mile range. Weighing 45 lbs., it is powered by a high performance 43cc 2 cycle engine. Seven colors are available.

Steve Jobs on Nightline [1/10/07]

UMPC Future

Mobile devices of the future look pretty cool. Run time: 5:59 min.

Climate Change

Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson at the site of the Carbon Rock project at Hengill, Iceland, on March 19, 2007.

eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon

High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we’ve heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired. The price is somewhere between $40 - $75 million. (update: GigaOm is now reporting the price at a $40 - $45 million).

Announcing The Webware 100 Awards

Which Web 2.0 sites and service set the bar this year? Vote for your favorite here.

The Scoop on the Coop

An early prototype of The Coop, Mozilla's new social networking component for Firefox, is now available for user testing. Announced earlier this week, The Coop is designed to integrate support for social networking features directly into the Firefox browser interface.

How To Create Icons Without Text

Have you seen the textless icons on the Dock in Apple’s Mac OSX? For many programs, the text was unnecessary and it really made the icons stand out. Now you can have the same effect in Windows XP and Vista.

Google Earth Maps Out Darfur Atrocities

As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves. More…

Google Fails Integration 101

This just in from Royal Pingdom (via TechCrunch): Of the top 20 most trafficked web sites, Blogger and YouTube have far and away the worst downtime track record in 2007. So much for Google’s (GOOG) vast server farms and vaunted geek cred.

But who can blame the chaos-embracing engineers at the Googleplex? Why take on the thankless job of integrating someone else’s messy code when you can spend your time working up brilliant April Fools jokes?

Use Your Mug as a Password

Bioscrypt's new 3D cam sounds like something from the future. Capable of detecting and reading your face, it's the first 3D face recognition camera, relying on 40,000 different ID points (like your forehead, eye sockets and nose) to ID you and log you onto your computer.

EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free music

The music label makes its entire catalog available through iTunes sans copy protection--but those downloads will cost you more.

Google Gadgets

Gadgets powered by Google are miniature objects made by Google users like you that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web.

Widgets Gone Wireless

Microsoft's first wireless software spin-off wants to help companies deliver personalized marketing messages to cell phones.

The High-Tech Home of Tomorrow

Living Tomorrow plans a permanent museum of cutting-edge product development in San Jose.

Is Google Too Powerful?

As the Web giant tears through media, software, and telecom, rivals fear its growing influence. Now they're fighting back.

Creating a 3D effect with image editing software (GIMP or Photoshop)

Here's how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.

Virgin American's Airplanes Play Doom

The screens are 9-inch and touchscreen, which are powered by an actual individual PC running Linux. The best part? They ported a bunch of Linux games—including Doom

These Back seat Drivers Are Moving Up Front

How's your driving? If you’re ready for a blunt, detailed answer to that question, computer-based gadgets selling for $200 or less will provide it.

High-Tech Ski Gear

How much of the powdery slopes you'll be seeing depends on where you live or where you get to travel this year. But whether you're in your armchair or on the moguls, there's always the dream of new gear. Here's some of the coolest ski gear this year, and it's way high tech.

20 Hottest Gadgets From the Consumer Electronics Show

This year's Consumer Electronics Show included plenty that was new, significant, or just plain bizarre--here's a list of some of the best of what CES had to offer.

Controlling How search engines access and index your website

Ever wonder how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.

Can't Touch This

Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him.

Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...

“Web 2.0” is a much discussed and debated phrase. It was in Time Magazines Top 10 Buzz Words of 2006. Apparently (according to wikipedia - so this must be right), the phrase was coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 and “refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users”.

Welcome to Wi-Fi-Ville Pop. 300 towns and growing

As municipal wireless pops up, so do questions: Who pays for it? Who runs it? Who's looking over your shoulder?

Make

MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

High-Tech Dream House

PopSci has built a house in California equipped with the most advanced materials, cutting-edge technologies and incredible household gadgets available today. Take a look inside with their virtual tour...very impressive.

Winning-And Losing-The first Wired War

U.S. forces in Iraq are waging a pivotal campaign in modern warfare—combat on the first “networked” battlefield. One problem: the enemy has a few networks of its own.

Hacker's Delight

Make the open-source Nokia 770 Internet tablet do anything.

A New Internet Radio Browser

Musicovery is a new Internet radio browser service that combines streaming music with some really neat visual navigation for discovering new (to you) music.

Musicovery is controlled with a sidebar and a song list that's strung together by genre in small clusters. Each color represents a different genre, and you can dig even deeper by selecting your mood. The playback controls are shown on each individual song, along with the title and the artist.

Joseph Vella: Passionate Podcasting

All hardcore fans dream of meeting their musical heroes. “What is more beautiful than being able to listen to the behind-the-scenes workings of your favorite artist?” asks Joseph Vella.

Search Engine Room

Search Engine Room is a website, along with associated entities, exist is to deliver high-quality information on the new economy industries of search engines and online publishing to curious individuals and businesses.

Getting close to the iPhone: how it will go down

Apple Computer (AAPL) is more determined than any other company in Silicon Valley to use secrecy to its advantage – and the result is that product announcements from its CEO awaken a glee in the tech press that can be compared only to a kid under the tree on Christmas morning.

Continue reading "One month to the iPhone: how it will go down" »

Location-Based Services Heading in the Right Direction

Turn-by-turn directions on mobile are hot. Hotter than stand-alone GPS-enabled devices, and definitely hotter than rolling down the window to ask for directions. Just look at the flurry of recent announcements — from Cingular to Sprint, everyone's launching location-based services (LBS). And, actually, I'm not talking just turn-by-turn directions. GPS chipsets, an increasingly common component of cell phones, are enabling a host of other features, like family finder services for kids and seniors (haven't seen granny in a week? Buy her a cell phone, and you'll never again have to worry about her whereabouts).

Continue reading "Location-Based Services Heading in the Right Direction" »

Does Microsoft Own RSS?

If you've added headlines from a news site to My Yahoo, or subscribe to blogs on a site like Bloglines, you've used RSS, a technology that's growing increasingly popular for distributing headlines and articles from blogs, news websites, and more. But now, two recently published patent applications reveal, Microsoft (MSFT) is claiming it invented RSS.

The applications, filed last June but just made public yesterday, cover subscribing and discovering what Microsoft calls "Web feeds." That comes as a bit of a shock to anyone who's been working on RSS, which has its origins in a format developed seven years ago at Netscape Communications.

Continue reading "Does Microsoft Own RSS?" »

Nokia E62 for Cingular

Are smart phones ready for the masses?

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Browsers go head-to-head

The top two browsing programs of net users got a big update this month as Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla unleashed Firefox 2.0. Here we take a quick spin through some of the features to be seen in the new versions.

Copying own CD's should be legal

A think-tank has called for outdated copyright laws to be rewritten to take account of new ways people listen to music, watch films and read books.

Wallflower at the Web Party

Did Friendster miss out by not taking Google's offer. Judge for yourself here.

Google in talks to buy Web video site YouTube

The WSJ reports that Google's in talks to buy up YouTube, most likely to supplement or replace their flailing Google Video.

Podcasting's Reluctant Evangelist

Even if he's not excited by the responsibility, Leo LaPorte is the face of podcasting. His fans say he can do no wrong. By Steve Friess.

Browse Craigslist Photos with Listpic

Listpic is a cool mashup that lets you browse classified listings on Craigslist by just looking at the photos. The service works for the For Sale, Housing and Personals sections of the classifieds site. There's a slider near the top that adjusts the size of the thumbnails on the page.

The Battle Over YouTube


The video-sharing site is the hottest start-up since Google. Is it worth a billion dollars, or is it just another company in need of a business model?

Widgetbox

Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. They work with Typepad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace and most other blog, sidebar or website. No plugins needed...and they're free.

IBM Warms Up to Social Networking

Can MySpace show IBM how to sell collaboration software? Lotus GM Michael Rhodin thinks so.

Logitech's diNovo Edge Looks Like Hig Art

Logitech's diNovo Edge keyboard looks like it belongs in a museum of modern art, what with its glossy finish and illuminated keys. Due this November, the keyboard's letters and numbers are blank until activated, at which point they light up, revealing the letter or number. Fancy techno-art cannot be constrained with wires, so the Bluetooth is not only appreciated, but pretty much expected. One of the more unique features on the keyboard is the inclusion of a touch disc, which frees users from having to stretch six inches and reach for the mouse.

The diNovo Edge comes with a stand that doubles as a recharging dock of sorts. It should be available in the U.S. this November for a retail price of $199.99. – Nicholas Deleon

Logitech Introduces DiNovo Edge Bluetooth Keyboard [Geekzone]

A New gen of peer-to-peer file sharing services

Below is a list of new commers that will allow you to easily share webpages, photos, videos, and movies.

Startup Watch: Weblo (A Social Network For Speculators)

It's official. The domainers have taken over the asylum. Next week, a new social network/ virtual world called Weblo will launch where members can buy digital real estate (including cities and states), manage celebrity fan pages, and own Weblo domains (that only exist within the social network). Each piece of real estate is tied to an actual property in the real world—Buckingham Palace, the Taj Mahal, your house.

Rumor Mill: Apple iPhone-Cingular Deal?

Will the much lusted-after Apple iPhone finally show it's pretty little face in early 2007? ThinkSecret predicts an exclusive launch with Cingular after the holidays. (Note: image on right is just a fake mockup).

BTW, Apple launching an iPhone by January 12, 2007 is one of the events we are trading at BizPredict. Last time I checked, the crowd was giving that a 62.5 percent probability of happening. If you think the probability is higher, register for a free account and buy that event at $62.50 a share. It pays out at $100 if it turns out to be true. It's all play money, but you can build your reputation as a business prognosticator.

Yahoo Buys Web Video Editing Startup

Adding to its arsenal of Web 2.0 startups, Yahoo just bought Jumpcut. This gives Yahoo a whole new Web-based set of video remixing tools.

Gizmo Project for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

GizmoProject is like Skype, in that you can call other Gizmo users for free and their PC client has instant messenger functionality, but it gets better.

Viliv P2 Hands-On

Navigadget gives us a hands-on preview of the Viliv P2. Just to recap, this player supports MPEG-1/2/4, H.264, DivX, WMV 7/8/9, XviD, MP3, WMA, OGG, AC-3, and WAV formats. It’s powered by an AMD processor (400MHz) and offers 60GB of storage space. Other features include a 4.3-inch widescreen LCD display, GPS receiver (optional), and USB 2.0 connectivity. Video after the jump.