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Zenbe is a new email service that includes a calendar, task lists, an address book, even your Facebook friends, at a glance. Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address. Additionally, the service is currently ad free. Zenbe seems to be a service that is wanting to challenge the likes of Mozillas Thunderbird and Zimbra. Can the service live up to challenging those major players? Let us know.

Zenbe is giving away 500 invites. Claim yours now!

Seesmic which claims to be the Twitter for video has just acquired Twhirl. Although Seesmic is still in Alpha this seems to be a good purchase on the outside. Twhirl is one of the most popular Adobe AIR apps and allows users to post to their Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce accounts. This is the first acquisition ever of a pure AIR application and im sure it wont be the last.

For other coverage on this acquisition take a look at BlogHerald and Mashable. Im also interested to see what Arrington has to say about the acquisition, because he is an investor in Seesmic, however Mark Hendrickson did the review for Techcrunch of the story.

I have been using twitter a lot more recent and ive been looking for an application that can show twitter message in real time and also allow me to interact. I think I have found the perfect client, Spaz. Spaz is the winner of the Adobe AIR Developer Derby Award for Best HTML Community Application, Ed’s desktop client for Twitter provides users the ability to customize the user interface with multiple themes, user CSS overrides, event sounds, and access to extended features of the Twitter API.

Anyways, make sure you head over to Twitter and follow me. Ill be sure to follow you back.

Napster have announced that they are dumping their desktop client and re-launching with a new web-based version. Napster customers will now be able to listen to their music from any computer anywhere in the world. This will hopefully enable Napster to also develop embeddable widgets that can push their products on possible web enabled devices.

Napster is still going to be based as a subscription model, which most industry experts think is holding back the company, because it makes Napster incompatible with the iPod. Consequently Napster has lagged behind Apple’s end to end iTunes system which reportedly controls 70% of the digital music market.

UMG has announced they are now happy with iTunes and the revenue split, so it is only a matter of time before DRM free becomes standard and Napster will really need to gain some market share before Apple.

If you would like to see a slideshow of the new Napster service, please head over to Crave.