As we all know Google has been fighting for sometime with other social networks such as facebook.

Tomorrow, Google will launch its new social network site, called OpenSocial, with a some social networking players already at the party. The most significant of these players are LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Orkut, who’ve all been around quite a while and have substantialy high popularity: LinkedIn in the business work, Salesforce in CRM applications, and Orkut as a South-American Myspace. Even Friendster has joined the party. Maybe these social networks see Google as their guide to competing with MySpace and Facebook.

Like Facebook, Google’s API will offer users options for customizing profiles. But unlike Facebook, OpenSocial will rely on commonplace JavaScript to do the API’s bidding. Google’s intention is to get as many third-party social nets supporting OpenSocial as possible. And developers will go to anything that saves them from having to re-develop their widgets for different social networks.

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TokBox’s goal is to change communication between humans by making it easy to video call online. TokBox has been launched today, making it the first voice and video calling product to be made available for the meebo Platform. One great thing about TokBox is it does not require any form of registration, download, installation or configuration since it has been seamlessly integrated into millions of meebo conversations.

According to Seth Sternberg, CEO and co-founder, meebo, “At meebo, our mission is to connect people live on the Web. The integration of TokBox into the meebo Platform will help connect millions of people in live, face-to-face voice and video contact every day. TokBox’s video calling application inside of meebo brings us one large step closer to becoming the Web’s live interaction destination.”

Nielsen and NetRatings have done a study on meebo and has shown it to be the fastest growing IM destination in the US. TokBox aims to take advantage of this massive userbase by making communication much more personal, allowing you to view your family members, friends, co-workers or even new acquaintances no matter which part of the world you’re currently at right now.

Some other interesting features of TokBox include the ability to send videomail to anyone with an email address, as well as embedding video communication into any website.

Ubuntu comes in all kinds. There is a Ubuntu that is made for slower systems, Edubuntu for kids and teachers, and Kubuntu with those who prefer Windows-like interface.

At its core, Mythbuntu is Ubuntu without many add-ons like OpenOffice.org, Evolution, or desktop effects. Mythbuntu is all about media. The application ships with the XFCE4 lightweight desktop, because you’ll never see the desktop.

Mythbuntu includes everything you need to set up a MythTV frontend or backend. That means you can watch and record live TV, with a TV tuner, watch videos, listen to music, or browse pictures, all by using a 10-foot user interface. You could just add the MythTV packages to your current Ubuntu system, but Mythbuntu works right out of the box.

Because Mythbuntu comes works as a LiveCD, you can test out hardware compatibility before installing any software. The LiveCD works as a MythTV frontend, letting you mount shared network drives to play audio or video.

Samsung has just introduced its fastest DVD burner yet, burning speeds top at 20x for DVD±R discs, 16x for dual layer DVD+R variants, and 12x for DVD-RAM. One cool feature is support for LightScribe burning. Samsung says this is the fastest dual layer DVD burner available to consumers. Price is $79.99.

Before Mac Leopard, it was not easy to install Mac software on a PC. Mac operating system is not made to run on Intel processors. But now that Apple is releasing Intel-based Macs, you can install Windows on a Mac, and with a little bit of hard work and license-breaking, you can install OS X 10.5 on a PC with an Intel processor.

Don’t expect everything to work properly. Most will experience some missing drivers for graphics cards, audio, or even WiFi. But the installation process doesn’t look too complicated. All you have to do is, download an illegal disc image, patch it, install the operating system from a DVD and then install another patch.

The best bet is to buy an Apple computer.

Many windows users are waiting for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 before upgrading from Windows XP to Vista, it looks like Microsoft has managed to sell a few copies of its latest operating system. In fact, Microsoft reports that it’s sold 88 million copies since launching Vista in January.

Microsoft has apparently seen a 20 percent growth in Vista sales for the last three quarters. Microsoft made known its quarterly earnings yesterday, showing that the company made $13.76 billion. Microsoft is projecting revenue of around $59 billion next year.

It sure has been a while since GIMP 2.2 was released. It’s actually been three years since the GIMP team has released a major update to the open source Photoshop program. This week, GIMP 2.4 was released, with a new icon set, and a whole bunch of other features:

• Redesigned crop, selection, and align tools
• Scalable bitmap brushes
• Reorganized menu layout
• Improved display when zooming in or out
• Support for more file formats
• Full support for color profiles
• Improved printing
• Auto red eye removal tool

Mozilla’s calendar programs Sunbird and Lightning have some how become even better. Sunbird is a standalone application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and Lightning is a calendar plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Sunbird and Lightning 0.7 were both released today, and they feature a new event/task dialog, a new event summary dialog, and many other new features and bug fixes.

There is also a new version of the Google Calendar plugin for Sunbird and Lightning. The add-on allows you to write data to a Google Calender using your desktop calendar client.

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Many known websites and blogs have been slapped with Pagerank decreases in the last days. Most went down two points (10 Maximum)  from one day to the other. The Pagerank drop does not affect SERP.

The reason for page rankings dropping is because of selling text links which is against googles terms of service.

Here’s a smart way to get people to buy or rent movies from your website. Let them send clips from popular films as custom video greeting cards.

blinkBox is an online video site with a small selection of popular movies and TV shows available for users to download. But the site’s most useful feature is the ability to take clips from selected videos, add a message to the beginning, and share the clip with your friends.

It also lets you embed clips on your blog or website.