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Cross-site activity stream aggregator cum social bookmarking service FriendFeed has answered the loud calls of users and developers and today released the first version of its Application Programming Interface, or API. Good news as this may increase its popularity just like Facebook’s API.

We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It’s designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications.

Today, WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business people on the go, announced several upgrades to WorldMate Live. Enhanced to offer more flexibility to its Mac customers, the WorldMate Live Web site is now optimized for the Apple Safari browser, allowing users full access to travel planning and itinerary sharing. Other new features include greater compatibility with several Web-based email platforms enabling road warriors to manage their itineraries by forwarding booking confirmations directly from their email service of choice.

WorldMate, Inc., the leading provider of mobile travel services for business people on-the-go, announced today several upgrades to WorldMate Live. The www.worldmatelive.com site has been optimized for the Apple(r) SafariTM browser so that Mac(r) users have full access to online travel planning and itinerary sharing. In addition, WorldMate Live can now read travel confirmation emails received in Lotus Notes, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Mail, among others. This makes it possible for road warriors at businesses of any size to manage their complete itineraries by forwarding the booking confirmations directly from their email service of choice.

All PC and Mac WorldMate Live members can forward booking confirmations from over one hundred sources to export@worldmatelive.com, creating a complete itinerary without hand-entering the tedious details. Once the emails are forwarded, the system automatically builds the comprehensive itinerary and then “pushes” it to the member’s BlackBerry device and WorldMate Live Web account Travel agents can also send booking confirmation emails direct to WorldMate Live, making the process completely hands-free for their clients.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton 30th Birthday Bash was sponsored recently by BUrger King and KY jelly. What a joke. It is said his income is at over $800,000 a year from advertising revenue and his appearances on TV shows, TV programs etc. Would you like to earn that much of money blogging ? If yes, please contact me.

Perez Hilton, the swishy, often blue-haired gossip blogger who has as many enemies as he does fans, threw himself a bash for his 30th birthday. Dubbed his “Quinceañera (Part 2),” the party included performances by the Pussycat Dolls and was attended by celebs such as Marc Jacobs, Amanda Bynes and Jerry O’Connell, as well as a gaggle of has-beens and annoying reality show stars.

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I’ve been hosting my own domains for quite some time now at Hostgator. I have never tried bluehost but it seems that Jim Karter does not like them. He tried to add some domains into his account and he was asked for the EPP code. It looks pretty weird to me too……Have you ever had this problem at bluehost ?

Just after registration, when I tried to add my domains as “addon domains” to the account, bluehost started asking for EPP code for the domain. Now, what the hack? Why the hell in this world a hosting provider need the EPP for my domain? EPP is sort of an authorization code which is required to transfer domain from one domain registrar to other domain registrar. Getting EPP for each of my domain is a pain in the ass as all those domains are registered with various different registrar. It is so time consuming to get each of them. And I am not sure why bluehost even need them.

JuicyCampus.com, a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossip about college students has been subpoenaed to reveal records by New Jersey prosecutors. I looked at the JuicyCampus whois records and here is what I found :

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: JUICYCAMPUS.COM
Created on: 07-Jun-07
Expires on: 07-Jun-13
Last Updated on: 14-Mar-08

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration JUICYCAMPUS.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2599

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration JUICYCAMPUS.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2599

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET

Language on the site ranges from catty to hateful and offensive. One thread, for example, on the “most overrated Princeton student” quickly dissolves into name-calling, homophobia and anti-Semitism.

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Man, this guys are totally funny. This week they talk about that new game on Nintendo Wii and also the 10,000 B.C movie which I just saw last weekend. Totally rad!

A release of epic proportions this week on the Wii! Alex, Dan, and Jeff tear into the Nintendo encyclopedia/fighting extravaganza, Super Smash Bros Brawl and decide if it was worth the wait.

“’The Totally Rad Show’ is about the excitement in finding a piece of entertainment you love, or the pain of realizing something isn’t as rad as you had hoped. It is about finding friends who share your interests and get just as excited as you do. If it is out there and it is Rad, it is on The Totally Rad Show,” said Jeff Cannata.

“The Totally Rad Show” brings together Revision3’s Diggnation host Alex Albrecht, former Revision3’s Geekdrome host Dan Trachtenberg and former video game columnist Jeff Cannata. From passionate debates over Star Wars, Heroes and Lost, to the sharing of dog-eared copies of Preacher graphic novels, the show developed around one clear realization: this stuff is totally rad.

Verena Mei puts Porsche’s 520hp 4.5 liter Porshe Cheyenne Turbo S to the test. Darn, I want one…..it costs about $112 K in USA and about Rm 1 million in KL.

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VITshow is an online service that rewards their members who share videos, images and topics with each other. Members can link together by adding other’s contents to their favorite list or become subscribers of other member’s content. VITshow members can view each other’s public profiles and the approved content, post comments on profiles or content, discuss issues on Forums. VITShow members will benefit from sharing videos, images and topics on VITshow.

You will be paid according to the popularity of your shared content and more importantly, you will get extra benefits by displaying your own google adsense or other commercial advertisements on some ad spots allocated by VITShow. They also have a referral program. You can refer others to register at VITShow and you will get 10% of the referred user’s earnings forever.

You get paid via Paypal or E-gold and they allow you to add your own Google Adsense Code to your pages for more handsome earnings.

Jim Barry, spokesman for the Consumer Electronics Association say Americans may spend more on gadgets this year compared to 2007, by about 6 percent. Despite a looming recession in USA, its may not be rosy after all and you can see some evidence like Bear Stearns, an investment bank in USA going bankrupt.

Americans may grasp their wallets a little tighter these days, but the consumer-electronics industry is trying to earn its share of those dollars with smaller, more useful gadgets.

Americans are expected to spend $170 billion on consumer electronics this year, an increase of about 6 percent over 2007 spending, said Jim Barry, spokesman for the Consumer Electronics Association.

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Duncan Riley was my ex boss when he started The Gadget Blog (TGB) way back in 2005. I was his first blogger for that site and I’ve been with TGB ever since. He has sold his stake in TGB to the b5media guys and he continues to brew controversial comments over his FriendFeed post. Louis Gray then hit back at Duncan and this is brewing a big bitchmeme everywhere. This kinda reminds me the time that 9rules guy ( Paul Scrivens ) took a swipe at me and the b5media guys supported me….Hmm….time flies.

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