Equals is a social networking utility distributed through Facebook that enables users to initiate an instantaneous group phone chat*, adding voice to social networking. Party Line™ allows up to five people to talk for free**, simultaneously with no complex set-up, dial-ins or pass-codes. Instead of having to call multiple people at different numbers, you can [...]

In a few months from now the trial of The Pirate Bay four will start. The “Free The Pirate Bay” group on Facebook has proclaimed Friday February 8th to be “wear yellow for sharing day”, so everyone can show their support for the Pirate Bay team, and file-sharing in general.
More on this topic can be [...]

Pownce has opened their up their messenger-like service to the public this week. Similar to Twitter, Pownce allows you to send micro-blog style messages to your friends, but that is just the start. Pownce is more widely used for sending files to your friend over the internet. Files such as music, photos, messages, links, events, [...]

YouTorrent is relatively new to the torrent search engine space, but they have had resoundingly good reviews across the internet.
The premise is simple: YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers each torrent has.
As [...]

The Library of Congress has launched its pilot project with Flickr. What began last year as a joint effort to bring the public library’s images to the web in a more organized and shareable fashion has finally become a reality. In conjunction with Flickr’s new program called The Commons, the Library of Congress has added [...]

The source code for the front page of the widely used social networking site Facebook.com has been leaked. If you want to see more take a look at the following post at http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/2007/08/facebook-home-page-code.html
It seems there are people already getting Cease & Desist letters from Facebook as they attempt to use this newly released information.
UPDATE: [...]

Ever wondered how Digg works? What technologies have they put to use and how do they handle so many request each and everyday. Well, they have put together a short and concise slideshow to help answer those questions and more. The slideshow is appropriately called, “Technology at Digg”, and here it is:

Sweet!

We’re not sure if this is directly related to the Ajax exploit we posted about, but interesting to see the point proven that security shouldn’t be forgotten in the name of “Web 2.0”
Apparently it was a simple as them not validating any input on their posts/comments as reported here. This is a similar [...]

One of the newest additions to the social networking sites is Frappr, a mash-up of Google maps, Del.icio.us & Myspace. This site is pretty interesting and fun to browse as you can find people of like interests in your area or across the globe. Frappr has become quite popular with the podcasters in the last [...]