Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Photography is an art and one way or the other, a lot of people seems to have some taste of it. Picasa Web Albums provides you an opportunity to upload your snaps and share them. There are a lot of people who don’t want others to see their photos at any other place until they are given credit which they deserve, but once they are given proper credit, they happily allow their snaps to be re-used.

These are the things which Google already knew. In order to give users proper credit of their photos, Picasa Web Albums now allows an option of ‘Creative Commons Licensing’. The license is provided by the company called Creative Commons which is a non-profit group associated with Google.

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comScore Inc., a global leader in measuring the digital world, has released the Metrics reports that unveils the Mobile Search growth in the U.S and Western Europe. The stats shows an abrupt growth both in frequency of use and popularity of mobile Search in the past year.

According to a report, in the month of June 2008, 20.8 million U.S mobile subscribers accessed the search that leads to an increase of 68% in the mobile search activity as compared to last year (June 2007) with the 9.2 percent of the mobile subscribers penetration. While the European’s 4.5 million mobile subscribers accessed the search that contributes to 38 percent increase in the mobile search. The highest penetration of mobile subscription is from UK i-e 9.5 percent.

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The problem with finding information over the Internet, despite all the ease with which one can is that it shows a bulk of it for every related item you are looking for. The problem with staying updated with the latest appears to be pretty difficult given the large number sites and the address to memorize; it’s almost next to impossible. And being up to date is far more essential to those who base their daily decisions on the financial market.

Streetread comes offering users with a pretty comprehensive and easy to use interface to enable users muster daily updates on the financial news.

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SightSpeed is a provider of quality, rich and easy to use Internet video communications services for both businesses and consumers. SightSpeed services include: multi-party video conferencing, integrated video mail, rich and innovative voice and text features (both outbound & inbound calling).

SightSpeed based in Berkele, California, is a privately held company funded by The Roda Group. The investor’s known also for launching Ask Jeeves and PolyServe. Aiming to capture a wider market of users, the company is going to announce a Linux-version of its video chat later this week.

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Google Gears has announced the official release of its service for the Safari on OS X. Gears is an open source web browser plug-in that allows users to access the online data when they are offline. The incorporation of gears on OS X platform will allow users to access all the Gear supported sites such as Zoho office, WordPress, YouTube Uploader, Google Docs offline and Google reader in Safari.

The gears for Safari was out for the beta test last month with an alarming caution. It was displaying a warning to wait for the official release as a beta download could break your browser.  Mac users can now enjoy the service without any fear of system crash.

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Zemanta, a revolutionary new platform, accelerates online content production for any web user. A user-created text like a blog post, article or web page can be directly read through the Zemanta tool, as it recognizes all contextual content. It then searches the web for the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text. Thus instantly serving results for the user to enrich and inform their content. The service can also be deployed on all major content publishing platforms & browsers, through its simple plug-in.

Zemanta, the London, UK-based service claims it can make a bloggers demanding job easier, as it suggests relevant content worth linking to or including in your posts. Popular blogger and venture capitalist, Fred Wilson, has been making quite a good use of the tool. His firm, Union Square Ventures, just recently announced investing $ 750,000 worth of financing in the startup. It previously raised $1.5 million in venture backing, although Union Square is its first US investor.

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The idea of whizzing past a number of screens at a time has really cut off the burden of scrolling top down and vice versa from our lives. Offering us an alternative to have a quick look at something before we decide whether we want to peak into it or not. SearchMe launched in March (reviewed here)came out with the same aim; it now works on an extension to its existing platform.

Reports have it that SearchMe is now up with its visual search application for the iPhone.

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Best Buy, a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products/services has acquired Napster for $121 million. Being the pioneer of digital music, Napster has recently launched one of the world’s largest MP3 stores with a positive fiscal year closing with a revenue of $127.5 million.

The two companies are merging together under a definite agreement according to which Best Buy will pay Napster $2.65 per share in cash that makes the aggregate cost of $121 million. The deal will be a boon to Napster’s shareholders as they will be paid twice Fridays’s closing price by the company.

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It appears Google plans at hitting three major concerns with the latest development set to step up into a working phase as Times Online reports. Google currently plans at expanding its domination from land and air to the frontiers of sea with their own computer navy.

The idea is set to take shape when Google puts barges and deploys supercomputers; necessary for its search engine operation. These barges will be anchored around seven miles off the shores.

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If you want to share your snaps of the latest tour or send an important file to your colleagues, what is the best way to do it? Email attachments, right. And what if you send the message and forget to attach the file? You feel awkward. To solve this problem, a new feature has been launched i.e. ‘Forgotten Attachment Detector’.

There are a lot of features which are being worked out within the domain of Google and when the feature is ready to go, it is launched. The new feature also lies in such category.

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