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Yahoo 360 (beta)

Although blogging is a major part of this service, Yahoo 360 is more of a social networking tool that bundles, perhaps, too many services together.

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Spore

As Spore finally reaches the end of its long gestation period, the developers went to London to show a nearly finished build.

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Windows Live Favorites

Windows Live Favorites lets you save, import, and arrange bookmarks in subject folders, then view saved links without leaving the page -- but it doesn't hook you up with other users' favourite URLs the way Del.icio.us does.

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Rojo RSS reader

Rojo is a respectable newsreader, but it's not our favourite. We like its community-oriented features, but competitors such as Bloglines are easier to learn.

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Flock's 'social browser' set to fly

Date is set for first release of a browser designed to closely link up with Web services for photo sharing, news and blogging.

Twitter targeted by malware attacks

Microblogging service Twitter has started to be targeted by online criminals with malware.

Wikia search goes live, fails to find a match

An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative.

Aussie blog search goes online

Melbourne-based tech startup Feedcorp today launched a new search engine with a distinct focus on providing access to Australian content.

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Six ways to improve Twitter

Twitter has recently gotten a lot of buzz. As cool as it is, there are several ways to improve the experience. You can make viewing posts faster, read "tweets" through RSS, and more.

Camera phone buying guide

Digital cameras have become an inseparable component of mobile phone technology. With the quality of these cameras continually improving, CNET.com.au is here to guide you through the various pitfalls of separating the gems from the junk.

Newbie's guide to Twitter

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into it. So, here's a quick newbie's guide to this new platform. This guide doesn't cover every feature of Twitter, but it should help to get you started.

Newbie's guide to Flickr

Want your grandma to start using Flickr but don't feel like explaining it to her? This handy guide will have her tagging photos with 'Lasertag Sake-bombs' before you can shake a stick at your beer.

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Online image editors for blogging

We head out across the Web to find out whether these online image editors are picture perfect.

Software that's ready for takeoff in 2008

Keep your eye on these apps as 2008 ticks by. Either stuck in development or newly released, this bushel of newbies is poised to make this year their year.

Browser battle: IE 8 vs Opera 9.5 vs Safari vs Firefox 3

A rundown on the latest versions of all the main browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Oh, and don't forget Flock!

10 links to shorten your links

There are literally hundreds of these link shortening services out there, but we've decided to break it down to 10 that we like the most.

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Flock Browser 1.2.4

Share photos, stay up to date with news from your favorite sites, meet people, and search the Web.

Omniserve365 1.07.25

Share information with your friends using a social networking browser.

Illumio 3.0.120

Find and view RSS feeds of your choice.

Runner+

Join an online community for runners and gain access to the latest news and information.

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