StumbleUpon is planning to launch a shortURL service (a online service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr.
The founder of StumbleUpon, Garrett Camp recently announced the new service on Twitter without any description of what it might be on March 3. [...]

Yahoo was planning to bring out a completely new home page to the general public pretty soon, however Yahoo insiders said that the new CEO Carol Bartz wanted to slow things down a bit and conduct more user testing. Testing is currently being conducted in the UK, U.S., India and France to a small group [...]

Google Noticeboard is a service developed by the geniuses in Google Labs in India, which is geared at developing nations where not everyone has a computer. You can think of this new service as village voicemail on a shared computer.
How does Google Noticeboard
An administrator usually sets up a noticeboard on a shared computer in a [...]

Later today Facebook will be rolling out their updated homepage design to their users which basically brings a brand new look, enhanced user experience with filter system, and most importantly, realtime updates of their feeds. Real-time updates are Facebook’s response to Twitter, which has been very successful by allowing its users to receive immediate updates [...]

MeeHive is a brand new service launched that is looking to give users a custom-tailored online newspaper composed of stories from different sources spanning a vast number of blogs and news sites. The site uses the power of Kosmix, a universal search engine that pulls data from a variety of sources to produce comprehensive topic [...]

Global mobile payments network Paymo and social networking service hi5 have partnered to let their users in 24 respective countries to use their mobile phones to purchase hi5 Coins, hi5’s virtual currency etc. Countries where Paymo will be made available to hi5 users include the U.S., Canada, France, Hong Kong, Thailand, Russia and Colombia.
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Jive Software has recently came out with a vert comprehensive Social Business Software application suite, Jive SBS 3.0, which includes the company’s previous social computing applications, Clearspace and Clearspace Community.
The service has been modeled to offer Facebook-like features to any enterprise, which combines computing with social collaboration. The Clearspace app helps businesses hold collaborate [...]

AlertThingy is an Adobe Air application for aggregating social networks, is planning to release an update to its recent version that improves filtering, adds groups and integrates powerful search. The new version – AlertThingy 3.1 will have new filtering options which lets users identify items tagged as ‘very interesting’, as well as messages and comments [...]

Aviary is a startup that offers a suite of online media editing tools, recently announced that it has acquired Digimix, which is a very small company that creates browser-based audio editing software. Aviary is incorporating the technology into its own audio editor, dubbed ‘Myna’, which the company plans to release in the next few weeks. [...]

If you are a heavy user of twitter and find yourself increasingly relying on Twitter and spending way too much time managing your followers, trying to figure out who they are, or responding to their private direct messages etc. then you should really try out Topify Created by former TechCrunch France editor Ouriel Ohayon and [...]