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Skype is now available on Mac! This is promising! The Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac has some spiffy features, like outward SMS and 10-way conference calling along with all the great features you’ve come to expect from the VoIP giant.
The new user interface is very swish and sleek, doing a great job at blending in with your existing Mac layout and design. The new Skype for Mac is much more efficient and less-resource hungry. A big improvement from the already [...]

 
It’s true. The rumors have been confirmed. Skype is going mobile! But not in quite the way you might have expected it! Skype has been hacked. Officially.

TalkPlus, the startup which raised a whopping $5.5 million in funding from Menlo Ventures has now released a video onto the net, showing how they’ve hacked Skype to make it mobile! You’ve probably read many articles before now, on how Skype are planning to release a mobile version within the next few weeks, but [...]

Here’s an exclusive interview with Jason Bean, writer and updater of 7 b5media blogs. He’s a fairly well-known figure in the Web 2.0 world and this interview highlights how he began blogging, his interests and how he became interested in the Internet. Jason is an internet professional and a web-designer for Bnpositive. He maintains several separate websites for churches and organizations and has an excellent position in the blogosphere, working alongside some of the biggest names out there. Let the [...]

No, this isn’t a joke! Microsoft have just launched their very own MySpace! Or as they put it, ‘MySpace for IT Pros’! This is quite amazing, really quite amazing stuff. The service is brought to you by Microsoft Tech Net and Cluminis, but still has a lower Alexa rank than Profy and my very own website. No doubt, this will change with time, but there’s no telling what new bangs the project will introduce into social networking. To log in [...]

Wink, the Web 2.0 orientated, social search portal, has changed and developed incredibly the past year or so. From the site’s humble beginnings, when they only offered a very simple search that let you tag and rate your results and order them accordingly, to the massive site it is now. The original plan was just for a simple service that let you find what you wanted more accurately, based on the cumulative number of judgments passed by all of Wink’s [...]

Jamglue has a ridiculously good mixing community put together, which can only be destined to get even bigger and even better. What makes Jamglue all that I’m cracking it up to be? Well you can try it for yourself (highly recommended) or just take my word for it. What can you do though? Well, you can quickly and easily upload your tracks with, or without Creative Commons licensing (great for protecting your work), remix and muddle them up using a [...]

It’s not the Google owned YouTube that has been sued, but instead, the Google branded Google Video! After all my speculation last week about possible people who might try and sue YouTube, Google have been caught unawared and slapped on the bum with a fat fine.
BusinessWeek reports that, without providing any further details, other than the nature of the case, Google disclosed the video copyright lawsuit in a filing, just the other day with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The [...]

Stikkit. What the hell? Well, you know them sticky notes that you find lying round the house with annoying little messages like ‘Wash the car, NOW!’ or ‘File Tax-Return’? Well, now painful reminders, and those fun ones that remind you to buy presents have arrived on the net. Hence the name, Stikkit.
Stikkit gives you the ‘digital equivalent of a sticky note’, like I just said, ‘the easiest thing you can grab to jot down an idea or reminder’. What do [...]

When Fox starts to partner with the likes of Feedburner, you know that Web 2.0 is making an impact. The owners of MySpace, Fox Interactive have confirmed a widget development project at the Widgets Live conference. In addition to this, an alliance is to be formed with Feedburner, the highly successful feed creation and management program used by many top names. All of the b5media blogs, Profy, Tech.co.nr and more have their feeds powered by FeedBurner, mainly because of it’s [...]