Ghazali Ridzwan | Web Consultant | BLOG

Trillian Astra has finally, officially replaced Trillian 3. Users who experienced the Astra beta will find the final version to be similar, with the biggest change being the features that are limited to the paid Pro version.

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Trillian Astra is ready to fly

This week, Vlingo , makers of a freemium mobile voice prompt application for BlackBerry and iPhone, released versions of its Vlingo software for the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and Tour. With it, Curve and Tour owners can join their BlackBerry brethren in searching the Web, launching applications, and dialing with their voice. Voice dialing on the BlackBerry already exists, but Vlingo’s ability to begin Web searches and open applications expands those native capabilities

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Vlingo voice app lands on BlackBerry Tour, Curve

As start-up pitches go, “Never run out of toilet paper” isn’t the most compelling I’ve heard. But the new online packaged goods store Alice , which is behind that scintilatting come-on, isn’t quite the loser Pets.com clone I thought it was at first. While Alice appears to the end use to be a reseller much like Drugstore.com or Diapers.com (I’m a Diapers.com customer, it’s great), it’s actually built on a fundamentally different business model.

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The new online toilet paper business: Alice.com

Kevin Marks, formerly of Google. (Credit: Kevin Marks) Google’s Kevin Marks, one of the most public faces of the company’s work on social-networking technology, has decided to leave Google. Marks informed the world of his news Monday morning in a blog post, later telling Techcrunch , “I am due for a small company phase.” He was one of the primary voices evangelizing Google’s work on technologies such as OpenSocial and a promoter of several open standards related to social networking, such as OpenAuth and OpenID

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Google social-tech evangelist leaving company

Memo to Twitter: If you’re really going to be making money with sponsored direct messages, as a New York Times article hints , please make sure it doesn’t get annoying. Twitter investor Todd Chaffee of Institutional Venture Partners told the Times that “e-commerce, including links to products and turnkey payment mechanisms, is a likely revenue stream for Twitter.” That’s not too surprising. Some companies have touted real success with Twitter-only deals: electronics manufacturer Dell, for example, says it’s racked up a few million in sales.

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Twitter will flood you with sponsor offers. Or not

Just days after the news broke that EMI is suing Grooveshark, another contestant popped into my in-box. Today, it’s Fizy , which offers essentially the same features as Grooveshark, Meuzer , and JustHearIt : search for a song name, and Fizy will compile audio and video results from public sources around the Web

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On-demand site Fizy offers huge rock selection

Glue , the popular Firefox extension that lets users discuss content all over the web, is releasing a version of its add-on, built for Internet Explorer, today. This is a big step for Glue for a couple of reasons. The first and most obvious reason is that being compatible with IE expands Glue’s potential audience significantly

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Glue sticks to IE too

In a recent story about how Google creatively destroys markets , I said that only Google will run the servers for Wave, its re-think of e-mail. I was wrong about that, as Google reps took pains to tell me. I want to set the record straight

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Google won’t run all the Wave servers

After almost two years without providing any support, Yahoo has finally decided to shut down its blog-centric social Web site Yahoo 360 Degrees completely on July 13. During its more than four years of existence, the site has never actually been out of the beta stage. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) In an e-mail to its members, the company said, “We will be officially closing Yahoo 360 on July 13, 2009, to focus our efforts on making your new profile on Yahoo the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most

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Yahoo 360 to close on July 13

Mozilla is close to releasing of its near-final version of Firefox 3.5, but the updated browser wasn’t quite ready in time for a planned day of widespread testing. Earlier this month, Mozilla set Friday to be Firefox 3.5 RC1 Test Day . But RC1, the first release candidate designed to be more stable than the earlier Firefox beta versions, wasn’t finished for the occasion.

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Mozilla testing near-final Firefox 3.5