Sites that help you find hot topics across the Web

The Web is a great place to learn about hot topics, but Internet memes can’t be spotted so easily unless you have some help. On topics ranging from tech to general interest, you can find what’s hot at any moment with the following resources.
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Blogrunner The New York Times’ Blogrunner sifts through all the [...]

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Yahoo rolls up mobile products into single service

Yahoo Mobile
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At the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Yahoo announced a revamping and reorganization of its mobile offerings.
Beginning at the end of March, the company plans to roll out a new test version of its mobile Web start page, along with new smartphone applications that consolidate several of Yahoo’s mobile [...]

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Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 11/01

Natureal

3 columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme
Vegan

Vegan consists of a fluid two column outfit with eight widgetized bars and columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr, Delicious is enabled in the themes options panel.
Clockwork2

Two columns fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme
Misanthropic Realm

6 Column consisting of [...]

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Google promises reliability for Docs, Calendar

Customers paying Google for Gmail are guaranteed the e-mail service will be available 99.9 percent of the time or they get a refund. Now the company has extended the promise to Google Calendar, Google Docs, and all the other elements of its Google Apps service.
Google shows off its lower downtime measurements compared to Radicate Group’s [...]

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LinkedIn’s well-groomed app platform goes live

There’s nary a sheep to be tossed on business network LinkedIn’s new developer platform, which has officially gone live.
The array of internal- and partner-created applications includes a “reading list” app from Amazon, a trip-tracking app from TripIt, file sharing from Box.net, and presentation apps from SlideShare and Google Presentation.
“One of the big differences between LinkedIn [...]

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Yahoo’s Zimbra e-mail service heads to school

Yahoo on Tuesday released a hosted version of its Zimbra e-mail and calendar software for educational customers.
Zimbra is open-source software, which means anybody can install it for free, but Yahoo also offers Zimbra Hosted as a subscription for which customers pay. The education version has a “substantial discount” in pricing over the regular commercial version, [...]

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Search shift gives Google Profiles new prominence

Google’s Profiles page lets people change settings for all their Google services. How socially aware will the site become?
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Google Profiles got its start as a way to centralize users’ settings and self-descriptions. Now Google has now flipped a switch to let search engines discover people’s profiles, giving the service a much greater social [...]

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Study: When it comes to influence, bloggers beat friend lists

Facebook likes to trumpet the value of “trusted referrals“–recommendations and ads with the endorsements of members of your friends list. But a new study from Jupiter Research, commissioned by analytics company BuzzLogic, says that consumer purchases are more likely to be influenced by what they read on a blog versus what their social-networking rosters recommend.
Half [...]

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Clubbyclub: A place for real friends

If you have a MySpace or Facebook account, you know how hard it is to ignore friend requests. And in no time, you end up with a long list of buddies that contains mostly people you’ve never met or even talked to before. The definition for “friend” has never been more blurred.
In reaction to this [...]

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Amazon launches WindowShop: A 3D shopping experience

WindowShop is a new content-viewing layer for Amazon.com. If you’ve ever used Cooliris’ PicLens before, you’ll feel right at home, as WindowShop turns Amazon’s selection of online goods into a giant wall, which you can scroll back and forth across, and zoom in and out of to find things to buy. The tool was built [...]

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