Google has integrated Friend Connect with its weblog publishing service Blogger. Essentially, this enables people to start following (i.e. subscribing to) blogs using their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID accounts and turns Blogger more into a social network than a straightforward blog publishing service.
Blogs that you follow will be listed in your Blogger profile and the integration will also leverage existing relationships, meaning you’ll be able to quickly see if your friends are also following those blogs.
The integration was announced on Google’s new Social Web Blog, and the post promises …

Frankly, I don’t think Slumdog Millionaire deserved the Oscar for best film. And even more frankly, I don’t think Resul Pookutty should have invoked “my country and my civilisation” in his acceptance speech for best sound mixing. India was not up there in the Kodak auditorium for approval. It was a British film financed by the indie subsidiary of an American studio which happened to be set in India and as a result they could not help but involve Indian actors (including Indian-origin Britishers) and shoot it in India. We …

U2, “No Line On The Horizon,” (Interscope Records)
On the title track of U2’s latest album, “No Line On The Horizon,” frontman Bono sings “Every night I have the same dream/I’m hatching some plot, scheming some scheme.”
The Irish rockers’ 12th studio album reflects some heavy scheming on the part of the band, and its longtime producers, to mine wider sonic territory that the band has explored since the 1990s.
The result is an album that feels more compelling in sound and less strident in message than U2’s previous two efforts this decade, …

Chicago (IL) – Safari 4 Beta, which Apple unleashed into the wild yesterday, brings several new features that are not everyone’s cup of tea. Some would like to turn off the flashy features because they eat up a lot of CPU time on an average system. Others are simply annoyed by the eye-candy and want it gone so they can “just browse”. Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t let you turn new features on and off through easy-to-use dialogs. However, with a little hackery you can change hidden preference settings to selectively turn …

Surprisingly, and unlike many other social networks, the average Tweeter is 31. By comparison, MySpace has an average age of 27; Facebook is a little younger at 26; while LinkedIn is the social network of choice for those in their 40s. In the tweetosphere, 25- to 34-year-olds hold a slight majority over 19- to 24-year-olds by about 1 percent. With age comes money in our society, and that litle tidbit of truthiness is reflected among tweeters as well. According to PIAP, 17 percent of adult Internet users who make $30,000 …

The phone is green, despite its blue color, and it’s not just the integrated solar panels that make it so. The Blue Earth is made of recycled plastic, features a pedometer, and even software that reaffirms just how much you’re helping the planet by using it. If Al Gore had one of these mobile devices in hand, it would likely explode.
Besides being handy and eco-friendly, the phone appears to be gorgeous. The solar panels reside on the back, and the front is a full touch screen. Despite the new technologies, …

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