A trip is just so hard to plan

When you know not where to go?

Ruba makes it easy for you

By letting guides and locals

Guide you through

So pay a visit to this site

Browse and watch pictures

And decide

What place you visit in holiday’s span?

From America’s to Hindustan

If facts about your country you don’t know

And a book of facts, you can’t afford

Get all those with a single click

At FactBook you learn everything

While Twitter has let you share everything

From what you listen

To pictures you have taken

And today with TwitDoc

Documents you too can share

I bet there isn’t much left to spare

If URL shortners in your country are blocked

Just click here and worry not

Untiny, the short URL you see

To access the page that so needs to be

An official Facebook app

For Windows Mobile users at last

A variety of features for a blast

Send a message, share a pic

Or make a call to people on your list

That’s just a gist and there is more

Download it here

For Facebooking anywhere

[thanks]

A countless out there already

But it wont stop another hatching

And 2pl.us too does URL shortening

A password too you can set

To protect your shared address

[thanks]

NibbleDish is all you wish

If in love with food are you

Click the name, learn, share and browse

With every dish

Your hunger is aroused

Be it Google, Microsoft or Apple

Even if each has to offer cash in ample

$700 million is just to less

Something which Apple should dream of not

And forget

We apologize to turn you too down

Maybe you can create at Twitter

Your own account

Market your iPhone and iPod touch

To boost your sale’s count

If not much

Good enough for books there was Kindle

But for papers too small

Amazon will save the newspapers, too

With a larger Kindle for us all.

And from Kindle 1 to Kindle 2

Now we have DX,

Giving to a wealth of information its users;

All the access

[Amazon Kindle DX]

A part of YouTube video interesting

But to watch it all,

So frustrating.

Just Chop and cut, the part you like

Share and embed on your blog or a site

[TubeChop]

Cut, copy, rotate and resize

You get to create an avatar of your choice

Do with pictures what you like

Personalize and animate

Every effort you put is worth the wait~

[Alpoy]

Back to work after months of hibernating. I guess the Blogosphere might just have a tiny space for the randomness of us starting up again. Please ring our doorbell if we fall asleep again!

Google has now made Google Profiles, a centralized settings for all Google services, searchable by Google’s Search Engine. In a statement acknowledging the move, Google said:

Recently, we added the ability to search all public profiles created by users. If a user has checked the ‘Show full name publicly so people can find you’ box on the profile edit page, their profile is a publicly accessible Web page and is indexed in search results.

Although Google is framing the move as a way to make the search engine more contextual, it also has the potential to turn the search giant into a global social network unlike anything that we have seen till now.

[via CNET]

Dell has announced a partnership with Universal as a result of which the pc maker will pre load its devices with music from Universal. Users will have the option to select from a variety of music bundles starting at $25, each of which includes a curated selection of MP3s for approximately half of current standard per track pricing.

In addition to this, Dell is working on preloading the systems with movies as well in partnership with CinemaNow. The movie bundles will also start at $25.

[via GigaOm]

Legendary Pictures, the makers of titles like 300 and The Dark Knight, is acquiring Epic Games, a game developer that has already shipped 5 million units of Gears of Wars already. Prior to the outright acquisition the two entities had already decided to partner on developing a movie based on Gears of Wars game. One of the prime reason that Legendary has made this move is because most of their upcoming movies are prime candidates for PS3 and XBox based games. See the lineup for a perspective:

• Superman: Man of Steel (2011)
• Clash of the Titans (2010)
• Gears of War (2010) (already an Epic tie-in)
• Untitled 300 Sequel (2010)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• The Hangover (2009)
• Observe and Report (2009)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Kung Fu (2009)
• Ninja Assassin (2009)

[via Silicon Alley Insider]

Reddit, a Digg competitor has announced a new strategy going forward, which would include distribution of its technology across the globe rather than staying a stand-alone destination. As part of this approach, Reddit has partnered with UK’s Independent newspaper and would be installing Reddit’s technology on Independents servers which would allow the newspaper’s readers to vote on online stories by clicking on a prominent button. In addition to this the newspaper will also accept links from across the web.

I personally think that Reddit, has a better chance of going mainstream compared to Digg, specially given the open mentality that its co-founders have adopted.

[via The Social]

Cruz, a smart browser developed by Todd Ditchendorf, allows you to easily set up multiple panes in your browser with sophisticated controls. This enables users to set up separate apps in different panes or just an app in a sidebar, additionally the functionality could be used to comparatively analyze webpages by opening them up side by side. On the down side, the browser lacks bulk-import bookmarks from other browsers and also does not support opening up of multiple Google accounts simultaneously. See the video below to know more about the browser.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

FlyScreen, an Israel based startup, updates your mobile phone from status updates from Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, weather, sports and other such feeds, even while the phone is in sleep mode. The company has found out a way to use the screen even when the phone is sleeping, allowing the app to consume very little battery for updates. The application currently works for Nokia Symbian phones only. See a video demo of the app below.

[via CenterNetworks]

MySpace, which previously had no formal and easy way to upload photos to the social networking site from mobile phones has now overcome that shortcoming. In order to make it work you would have to change your settings, go to “MyAccount” and than to “Mobile” and just enable the "Send Photos From Your Phone”. Once you do this MySpace generates an automatic, unique email address to which you could email your photos from your mobile device and they’ll automatically get uploaded to your account. One shortcoming of this approach is that it deprives you of sending photos to a particular album.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

With its mountain of cash, almost $25 billion with no debt, Apple has the potential to make some serious investments. This is exactly what’s all the chatter about in the blogosphere right now. MG Siegler has come up with a list of companies that Apple could easily buy without a sweat:

Aside from Dell, with $24.5 billion in cash, Apple could now technically afford:

• Yahoo, with its $17.53 billion market cap, and still have about $7 billion in cash left over.
• Sun Microsystems, about seven times over, with its $3.38 billion market cap.
• Sony (at least the part traded on the New York Stock Exchange) with its $21.54 billion market cap.
• Netflix, which arguably competes with the Apple TV — about 20 times over.
• Blockbuster, which arguably competes with no one anymore — nearly 100 times over.
• Xerox, whose early experiments with graphical user interfaces (GUI) and the mouse influenced early Apple, about 4 times over.
• SanDisk, which, like Apple, loves flash memory, over 10 times over.
• PDA maker Palm, about 60 times over
• NVIDIA (which makes Apple’s graphic chips), about 6 times over.
• Chip maker AMD, over 12 times over.
• Texas Instruments, with its $22.14 billion cap.
• It could nearly buy BlackBerry-maker RIMM (one key iPhone competitor) with its $26.13 billion market cap.

More interesting is a shoulda list that ZDNet has come up with:

Apple should use a little of its cash to:

1. Acquire TiVO, the fledgling DVR pioneer has been decimated by flush cable companies giving away DVRs to all their customers. This would allow Apple to turn the Apple TV into the DVR that we all want it to be.
2. Acquire Pandora and re-brand it Genius or somesuch.
3. Acquire Last.fm while they’re at it.
4. Acquire Hulu.com, which may be tough because it has the backing of NBC and Fox (which is owned by the News Corp.)

Do you have any woulda, coulda, shoulda for Apple to buy with its cash ? lets us know.