Myspace has been a source of traffic for various social start ups such as Photobucket, Slide and even Youtube. The video sharing site gained millions of visitors from their embeded videos on Myspace’s user profiles. If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether it�s Flickr, whether it�s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace.

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Skype recently releashed the latest update for their popular VOIP chat client. So far its the best video conferencing software I have come across. Although I’m still not 100% happy with the quality of the video and audio. I guess our local pipes are to blame. For those of you who have been in a cave for the last five years read below, tech savvy readers click the link below.

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, this uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends. The technology is extremely advanced – but super simple to use. You’ll be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends in no time.

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If your feeling brave take the very latest features in the Skype beta for a spin and tell them what you think. Beta Program

Facebook has created a group called “Facebook Sneak Preview”, where they’ve posted screenshots of the upcoming changes to the social networking site’s layout. Last year a set of privacy chages to the site sparked international outrage with some saying that the “drastic new change to our Facebook home page crosses the line between quiet stalking and outright invasion of privacy.”

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Fortune Magazine recently named Google the #1 company to work for, a ranking based largely on Google’s well-publicized employee perks: free meals in its gourmet cafeteria; on-site doctors, dry cleaners, and gym facilities; and even a policy that allows employees to bring their pets to work. But the benefits of “Googlers” don’t end there. The following list of lesser-heralded employee perks should provide an idea of just how far Google goes to keep the human pistons of its search engine pumping contentedly.

1. Google provides free custom detailing on all employee-owned Segways, motorized scooters, recumbent bicycles, and other widely-derided modes of transportation.

2. For recent computer science grads accepting an engineering position with Google, a popular social event is Google’s “New Employee Orientation and Arranged Virginity-Loss Night.”

3. Google employees who are about to become mothers receive 12 weeks of maternity leave; aging female engineers now coming to terms with the fact they will likely never be mothers receive two weeks of “Crushing Sense of Incompleteness Leave.” (It is 50% paid.)

4. Googlers enjoy an Employee Referral Program � meaning, they receive a cash bonus if they refer management to any employee even thinking about leaving Google.

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According to Google, the new Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) technology provides in-home wireless access by connecting “your commode-based TiSP” router to “one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber optic cables strung through your municipal sewage lines.” For those who have just installed TiSP, Google suggests washing your hands before surfing the Net.

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