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Google Maps In NZ Gets Business Listings

A service’s ability to provide driving directions is valuable only if you know where you’re going.  So New Zealand’s version of Google Maps is stepping up and providing something new: business listings.

Tuesday? New Technorati Strategy

As you can read in a number of different places this morning, Technorati — the ailing blog-search engine that recently lost its CEO, Dave Sifry — has come out with a new offering known as Technorati Topics, which appears to be a scrolling list of blogosphere posts chosen by the team at Technorati, based on a bunch of criteria that we aren’t really told a lot about.

Skype Outage Dials Up Conspiracy Theories

That 36-hour blank spot where Skype's login and authentication systems used to be may have been down for reasons beyond the official party line...but you have to believe the *truth* is out there.

Technorati Acquires Personal Bee

Mashable is reporting Technorati has acquired citizen journalism site The Personal Bee. Not familiar with The Personal Bee, me neither, so let’s take a look at what they say they do…

Text Messaging = Price Gouging? OMG! WTF?

In comparison to the other ways in which consumers spend money, sending a text message seems relatively cheap. The truth, however, is that mobile users pay 7314% more to send a text message than they actually should.

Social Networking Attracts Big Iron Boys

I suppose it was inevitable that the whole “social networking” phenomenon — which until now has been pretty much a grassroots effort, aside from Google’s purchase of YouTube and News Corp. buying MySpace — would eventually attract the attention of the Big Iron boys.

Where's The Fire? It's On Technorati

Our favorite three-letter acronym has been adopted by Dave Sifry as the newest feature on his blog search site, giving it a little social media flavor by allowing people to write about current topics and others to vote on the best commentary.

Walla Launches Free 1 Gig Email Service

Following up to a story that appeared on WPN in April, Walla! Communications has launched their new free email service, Walla!Mail, featuring 1 gigabyte of storage. This makes WallaMail the second fully operational email service that offers such a capacity, with Spymac being the first.