Google is so into this look and feel thing lately. They first roll out themes for Gmail, making checking email more fun than ever with colorful backgrounds and cool graphics. Now they have Google Reader redesigned. Nothing major, just tidying up and de-cluttering the interface, simplifying features and giving everything a bit more breathing room. [...]

Who visited your website? Who is your blog’s loyal reader? With questions like these in mind, MyBlogLog and other variations services had launched, hoping to bring blog readers together, connect and social with each other. MyBlogLog had achieve this, especially with their ability to automatic add reader to a blog community which he frequent.

After acquiring AdEngage for less than 2 months, Technorati had started an advertising network for bloggers called Technorati Engage and it is now live at beta.technoratimedia.com. Like most other advertising network, all blogs will be reviewed manually before it is approved to be listed in the marketplace.

Pownce, a microblogging and social networking website founded by Digg founder Kevin Rose, had been acquired by Six Apart, the company behind blogging platform Movable Type, TypePad and Vox—and will be shutting down on December 15, 2008. The announcement blog post mention very little about the shutting down, but just some notes about the Pownce [...]

3.5″ touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 32GB internal memory which can go up to 48GB with a 16GB microSD, 5 megapixels camera with Carl Zeiss lens, Wi-Fi, built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support, Symbian OS v9.4 — all powered by a Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery that will last up to 430 hours of standby, or 6 hours [...]