Time For A Silver Bullet

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"MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again."

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AT

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"In a move that's good for consumers everywhere, AT&T has refreshed its DSL pricing and removed the 12-month contracts that used to be standard in order to get the service. Ars has confirmed that it is indeed now possible to sign up for month-to-month DSL service from the telco,"

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How Do Airplanes Avoid Each Other?

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"TCAS System Explained"

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The new Google Groups experience

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"Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy if you ever did but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible for making the current Google Groups better."

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Building eBay 2.0

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"Clobbered by Wall Street. Fierce competition from Google. Meg Whitman's had a rough couple years. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky finds out how she's trying to turn eBay from ultra-hot to built-to-last."

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The New iPod: Ready for Battle?

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"Next month marks the fifth anniversary of one of the most successful products of the digital era, Apple Computer's iPod music player. Since 2001, potential iPod-killers have come and gone like autumn foliage. Apple claims an astonishing 76% market share in the U.S. for the iPod and an equally amazing 88% share of the U.S. legal music d/l market."

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NFL now banning postgame video online

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"Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the NFL is now restricting local news sites from posting video of postgame press conferences or locker room interviews. ?Video from our stadiums on game day is one of our most valuable assets, including video of our people, players, coaches talking about the game,? said the NFL's vice president."

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How to Fix YouTube's Two Greatest Problems

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"YouTube Problem #1: Copyright abuse. Cant live with it (lawsuits), and cant live without it (traffic), and its drowning out the original voices.YouTube Problem #2: Haters. Script-kiddies with bots are "flagging" videos as inappropriate left and right, and causing grief to the community.This video offers workable solutions for both issues."

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What's the world's fastest supercomputer used for?

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"The world's fastest supercomputer will probably never be known at the world's fastest supercomputer. RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world,"

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Study: surfers just as careless on social networking sites

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"Social networking site members are also putting themselves at risk of identity theft, according to the CA/NCSA study. 74 percent have willingly given out personal information on the Internet, which seems high until you consider that the study's definition of personal information includes e-mail addresses."

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20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Nobel Prizes

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"The king who tried to kill the prizes, what goes through the minds of cockroaches as they watch Star Wars, and more."

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A Statistical Debunking of the Madden Curse

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"Guy takes year-by-year look at the players on the cover of Madden, only to find out that there's no such thing as the Madden Curse. Unless you're Shawn Alexander. Or Michael Vick. Anyway, good read."

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External

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"Most notable is the external USB drive they had under glass (pictured), which should be out by the end of this year, bringing plenty of HD DVD good times to all sorts of laptops and desktops that weren't privy to a built-in drive."

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AJAX: Roller skates for the Web

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"AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT consultant credited with coining the term "AJAX.""

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The other Google

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""Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on "popular searches." Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page....""

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Wired: Zune Won't Kill the IPod

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"Microsoft's new MP3 player has a lot going against it, even without the iPod around. It's not cool, the DRM will be a pain and wireless sharing is just another way for people to lie to strangers."

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The WordPress Podcast: Episode 7

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"WordPress users helping other WordPress users. Episode 7 of this Wordpress user-generated podcast includes topics on: Being dugg, WordPress Dashboard, WordPress 2.0.5, Wordpress.com?s VIP hosting, Round 5 of the 9rules Network membership, Digg.fx plug-in, Spamgarden, Flickrss & FAlbum plugins, Democracy survey plug-in and much more!"

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All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize

Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures.

You can read more about it here.