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Alltop is a news aggregation site that has been launched by Guy Kawasaki, in which displays the most recent headlines from a preselected set of “top” sources. They have numerous categories including celebrities, gaming, and politics. The company is basically Guy Kawasaki, but he has also received a minor investment from the guys over [...]

The BBC has launched their web 2.0 version of there home page and personally I think it is a great improvement on what they had before.  The new BBC home page allows each user to create there own personalised home page, thus making it quite similar in a way to Netvibes and what they are [...]

I thought this article was quite interesting, it came from Our Digital Music and it talks about a website called PiraBoogle.com.  PiraBoogle is a quite interesting mashup of Google and PirateBay, as you can also tell from the name and logo. PiraBoogle uses Googles own in house tools to provide results on finding easy-to-use Torrent [...]

Gigablast seems to have relaunched their product without any talk from the blogosphere. If you are unaware, Gigablast is a search engine, which competes directly with Google, Yahoo, Ask and more. This market is ultra-competitive with billions of dollars at stake.
The previous version of Gigablast had a completely different design, but more importantly the algorithm [...]

The new version of Live Messenger is out today and I just upgraded this morning. I havent had a full chance to go through the program and see what has been added and upgraded compared to the last version. However, on first glance the header bar and chat windows has completely change complexion and now [...]

Voting is now open for the Webware 100. This is one of web awards that actually means something. You can head here and cast your votes. There are 10 categories looking for votes:

Audio: Music, podcasts, audiobooks.
Browsing: Browsers, start pages, RSS readers, widgets, runtime engines.
Commerce and events: Retail, auctions, travel, real estate, concerts, conferences.
Communications: E-mail, chat, [...]

It has been reported over at 901am that Adconion, an online advertising network, has secured the largest financial funding of an online media venture in European history. The investment of $80 million was led by Index Ventures, who were joined by existing investor Wellington Partners, and represents the first investment made from Index’s recently announced [...]

Amie Street have just announced today that they have signed the Beggars Group to their service. The Beggars Group consists of labels such as XL, Rough Trade, 4AD, Matador Records and Polyvinyl Recording Co. This means a further 15,000 tracks to the Amie Street catalog.
As most of you already know Amie Street is a music [...]

It is rumoured that Faces.com will be shortly closing their doors. The Australian social network seems to be currently offline. Faces previously raised $2 million in funding, so im sure we will see all of their assets up for sale very shortly.

It has been reported by the WSJ and Techcrunch that Glam Media has just taken $85 million in financing. To-date Glam has raised over $115 million over four rounds. Investors included Hubert Burda Media, GLG Partners, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Accel, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Information Capital. The valuation, as expected, [...]