Robo.to is a new service that lets you integrate popular services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr at one place and an update on your Robo.to is an update everywhere. Simply sign up for the service and update your status from one place or record a video and share it across the numerous networks. Simple and does its job pretty nicely.

They have big plans, inflated bubbles associated to monetizing their acquisition; The Pirate Bay. Global Gaming Factory X’s CEO Hans Pandeya told Paid Content that he plans to make huge profits from TPB and he thinks those profits can well be around $40 Million…a month. How? Well Pandeya plans to monetize the file sharing service by selling user’ unused disk space to firms, the bandwidth to ISPs and he thinks that the ads on the site alone will make the proposed $40 Million a month. I am not sure how soon is this going to happen and how much of that money will be spent fighting lawsuits that The Pirate Bay is caught in more often than not.

The Green Dam, China’s attempts to block access to porn on the Web is definitely a big threat to user privacy. It has already been delayed for some reasons, especially those associated to shortcomings and its inability to work on 64- bit OS. This means it is not supported on the Macs, of course this lack isn’t something that will last forever and will soon have support for it as well. While it may sound offending or interfering with user privacy, many PC manufacturers have agreed to demands by the country, which means Macs will soon follow.

Google’s new layout makes search fast, a smaller log, more space beneath the search box and removing the size of the pages that provided an idea on how long it will take to load one. The results are also indented meaning there is more white space on the sides. Well this isn’t some ground breaking redesign but it definitely means a lot to Google and its revenues. How? It means faster page load times, which in turn makes users happy to have results appear instantly and secondly the revenue it can generate with faster page loads. We will be interested to have user feedback on Google’s new look, is it fast enough?

After having all their previous apps being approved by the App Store, Start Mobile meets rejection. And what exactly is the app that has been rejected? It’s not some porn stuff or an app that makes fart sounds, rather a piece of art having the picture of President Obama with the caption of Hope. Apple says it is found to ridicule public figures…. come again please? How is this picture doing anything of the sort when it more or less defines the change itself? I guess the filtering team at Apple has lost its brains or maybe the filtering is done by some dumb machine that is now infested with bugs. Anyone who has to share an opinion on this?

Tweetmeme is definitely making it big with being the tweet aggregator and more importantly its doing great with its re-tweet. Almost every site nowadays has the re-tweet button. According reports the same button pulls in more than 196 million impressions every week. The service plans to release more features which includes support for URL shortening and will also support custom URL shortening services as well. The improvements will also include analytics services for website owners, this would of course be the very basic of analytics and sits will have to pay for more detailed analysis. This would be helpful to help figure out what links are more popular.

Yesterday it was Google App Engine that went down and today it’s Authorize.net that has gone down. The provider of payment gateway service has been down for more than 8 hours (almost). And those 8 hours means that thousands of sites are also affected, bringing a loss worth millions. We aren’t sure what has caused the issue but some threads state that it’s due to a fire in its Seattle datacenter causing the error. The site is up and running but some sites still remain affected and the team is trying its best to restore full access.

Real time is what almost every service is trying to integrate it in some way. However FriendFeed is running ahead with the idea and it all began with its redesign. Today it also put that real time-ness into its search, meaning that whatever term you search will show results that are updated with the latest updates associated to your search query. What’s more important is that you can also share and embed the search in your blog and it updates in real time as well. You can see one below:

July 1st came and went, no walls were raised, no dams created and we thought that China had given up Green Dam, we were wrong. The government announced that they have only postponed the program for an indefinite period. This means you can enjoy PCs that don’t come fed with what Web sites to block when you buy them as had been proposed by officials in China. However many PC manufacturer, which include Acer, Haier and Benq have accepted the proposal and will build PCs that have Green Dam with the systems. Sooner or later, it’s going to be there filtering content automatically. Is there any John Connor to rise above the Green Dam and actually save it from happening?

We have talked about Evite quite often, today the service announced laying off 9 members of its 38 employees. Along with the layoffs the firm also announced a reorg as it named Hans Woolley, co-founder Pronto as its President. Amongst those laid off are its GM, Rosanna McCollough and VP of Marketing Lariayn Payne.

It’s been almost five hours since Google App Engine has taken a fall and it quite explains that the issue is a major one. A Google employee has initially stated that the App Engine was going through problems and it is now in an unplanned maintenance mode. While 5 hours is definitely a long period but given that the App Engine is the driving force behind the countless startups. Now we know that the people at Google are trying to get it working real soon but they need to push harder.

Bling Nation the company that lets you purchase real items in stores by letting you pay via your cell phones has raised $8 Million in a new round. The round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Camp Ventures. The payment model works by using an RFID tags attached to their cell phones and is activated much like you activate an ATM. The readers for these tags are also provided to the merchants and once the devices are activated the user can confirm the purchase. With that done an SMS is sent as confirmation and a receipt for your purchase. The idea is pretty nice and takes the burden off the ever problematic credit card system.

Gizmodo and Engadget have joined hands to launch their very own gadget site, Gdgt. The plans to bring this had been voiced for almost a year but its founders Peter Rojas (fonder/editor of Gizmodo) and Ryan Block (editor of Engadget) have finally put the plans to reality. The site is more like a gadget community where visitors can discuss anything that is associated to gadgets. This might seem like an extended version of the gadget blogs but it’s more organized. The site has everything to offer for tech geeks and they can become a part part of it by creating profiles just like they do on the numerous social networks out there.

YouTube has extended that video upload size from 1GB to 2GB making it easier to up load bigger HD videos by users. Along with that you can also link an HD directly as well as embed the same. Although this could be done already but users had to take a turn around method, the update makes that easier and direct. However when it comes to linking the HD users still have to make an effort and add &hd=1 at the end of the video’s link. If you have got those HD’s that had been waiting to be uploaded on YouTube, now is the time you begin sharing them with the web.

Microsoft is definitely enjoying Bing, publicity, positive feedback and now it puts in Twitter results. Let me be more specific, the search now includes Tweets in results, meaning there is some sort of real time-ness coming to it. The feature is not out fully but Microsoft is testing it with a few Twitterers presently and search results will be updated every minute. However Microsoft is quite sanely not taking the task to crawl past every Tweet sent and will focus only on accounts that are considered important.

It had to happen, changes I mean, ever since MySpace lost its battle with Facebook to be the leading social network. First layoffs and now the change in its logo. From being a place for friends it is now simply MySpace and expect nothing more. I find it utterly useless to do so or wait maybe they fired the person who was gaga about MySpace being  a place for friends, though it could have been useful had they changed the logo and not laid off employees in numbers. Reports also state that MySpace will be shedding weight on the site as well by removing the big ad units that decorate the entire page.

Apart from putting updates on the Privacy settings, Facebook is working on improving its iPhone App with the addition of numerous features. Though the new loaded app isn’t out as yet and we aren’t sure when exactly is it coming out but developer Joe Hewitt states that its almost ready. Some of the new features include:

• Create new albums
• Upload photo to any album
• Notes
• Pages
• Improved notifications
• Easy tagging of photos

Those are but just a few of more than a dozen feature improvements. You can read about them here.

If you are looking for an easy way to build websites Moogo has expanded its service from Finland to everyone around the world. You don’t need to be an expert with creating a website to create one with Moogo. The sites you create with it are easy to update and is really helpful for individuals who have a;ways wanted to have a site of their own. You can try the service for free and if you find it useful enough, simply confirm your order by paying for if you don’t your site will be pulled off. A pretty easy to use service for all the novices out there.

We talked about Firefox 3.5 getting past a million downloads in just a couple of hours of its release and thought it might break the record set by Firefox 3.0. Well that hasn’t happened and Firefox 3.5 was downloaded more than 5 Million times in 24 hours. This isn’t a small feat and with these downloads estimates state that the latest version has already got a 2.4% share in the browser market and al its version are just a fraction shy of 30% share behind IE’s 63% and ahead of Chrome’s 3.17%.

Cognitive Match that matches users with content in real time has scored a guessed £1 Million as reports state. The round was provided by Dawn Capital and Cognitive Match will use the funds to boost the development of their product. The company  uses artificial intelligence, semantics and mathematics to do so in real time. The content can be products, etc and helps maximize profits and is already providing the same to many industries.