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Mike Arrington of Techcrunch gives a clear video demo of the new social search functionality which Google is testing quietly on random people who are using its search engine. Technorati Tags: Google, search, social media

Hubdub is a news prediction site which aims to use crowdsourcing to predict the outcome of events. The site uses Hubdub dollars (every registered user starts with H$1,000) to reward those who are correct and penalise those who aren't and this mechanism is meant to…

Interesting moves by Yahoo! to crowdsource (definition) search. This from the announcement on the site: So what is BOSS? BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of…

It's not every day you get an email from Apple like this one: We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped. Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac,…

Getty, one of the world's biggest image libraries, has struck a deal whereby it will offer hand-picked Flickr images via it's iStockphoto service. According to a post on Thomas Hawk's Flickr page the deal will initially be limited to 2,500 images. Technorati Tags: photos Flickr…