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This is quite funny actually. Bruce over at Hypebot has been running a poll on which paid download service has the best chance of success - Spiral Frog, We7 or Other. The poll ran for 7 days, after 6 days he only had 100 votes with 80% of the votes going to We7. Then suddenly [...]

Myspace seems to be finally improving their user interface. Today they released a new beta home page which can be selected after sign-in. For so long myspace was just winning the race in social networking by sheer number of users and customizability options. However, since Facebook has opened up, there seems to be much more [...]

 
Joost has announced a deal with Major League Baseball to show the MLB playoffs. Joost also have a lot of other sports content such as the Indy Car Series and the Soccer Channel. They are slowly building a very nice catalog.

Spotplex was touted as a Digg killer by many! It never eventuated! Why do you think it never really grew to be a strong player in the content aggregation market?? Well I know why, CAUSE I CAN NEVER GET IT TO WORK PROPERLY!!
The site itself has very good fundamental and the service could be very [...]

The latest news is the Google has agreed to acquire mobile startup Zingku. There is very little know about the company, but according to Zingku themselves this is what they do:
“Our service is designed from the mobile phone, outward, allowing you to create and exchange things of interest ranging from invitations to “mobile flyers” with [...]

Pindom who measure the uptime of different websites have release the uptime of Google in different countries. As you can see below the uptime on Google users in Brazil is quite amazing. Head over to Techcrunch to see the details.

Imeem, the service that offers a widget for sharing your music playlist, has reached a deal with Sony BMG to legally offer their music to users. In exchange for allowing Imeem users stream Sony BMG music in their widgets, the record label will get a cut of the advertising revenue. Imeem previously signed a similar [...]

Latest news around the blog-o-shere is that Yahoo Podcast is no longer. It has already been reported by RWW, Techcrunch and CenterNetworks.
Yahoo Podcast is a basic podcasting search, directory and listening service, which launched back in October 2005.
Marshall over at RWW notes, “Some would argue that podcasting hasn’t caught on like it was expected to, [...]

Google have been push their Google Web ToolKit recently, mainly demonstrating an iPhone version of Google Reader. The key to Google plugging their Web Toolkit is to show it can be used to create iPhone specific application with the same code base. Thus hopefully providing the best of both worlds, mobile and desktop.

Erick Schonfeld has now officially joined Techcrunch. Last week it was annouced by Michael Arrington that he would join the team as co-editor. Previously Schonfeld was working at Business 2.0 magazine and before that Fortune. As the Techcrunch team keep mentioning they are trying to find a new office in NYC, but still no luck. [...]