My apologies for a condensed news post today. This week has been hectic, client meetings, software projects and corporate tax preparation. Next week the posts should be more frequent and cover more social news items. Allen

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FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
The concept of FriendFeed is simple enough. You add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services, and Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you’re doing. The interface is clean, not surprising given the company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy. - TechCrunch

PBWiki Rolls Out Beta 2.0
Chris Yeh, investor and executive over at PBWiki, just dropped us a line to let us know of the public release of PBWiki version 2.0:

“As you know, there’s been a lot of activity in the wiki/collaboration space recently, especially with the launch of Google Sites. I thought that PBwiki’s first major overhaul could make for a good story, especially since we’re approaching the 500,000 wiki mark." - Mashable

MyBlogLog Founder To Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million In Funding
MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier sold his company to Yahoo in January 2007 for an estimated $10 million. He left Yahoo in July 2007. He has a new startup coming called gnip. - TechCrunch

Stats: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in Social Networking
This morning, AOL’s Chariman and CEO Randy Falco said of his company’s acquisition, “Bebo is the perfect complement to AOL’s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in social media.” “Leading position” might be a bit of an overstatement, at least in the US, according to some statistics sent our way by Nielsen Online. - Mashable

AOL On A Bender - KickApps May Be Next Acquisition
AOL, a company that is supposedly on the block themselves, seems to be on somewhat of an acquisition bender lately. In addition to a number of smaller purchases like Yedda and Goowy, and not a day after the announced $850 million acquisition of Bebo, rumors are popping up that AOL is preparing. - TechCrunch

MySpace Opens Up The OpenSocial Spigot: App Gallery Goes Live
Today is the first chance most people will get to actually see an OpenSocial app working on MySpace. The MySpace developer platform, which was first rumored waaaay back in October 2007 and announced shortly afterwards, throws its gates open to users today, about five weeks after the social network let developers begin building and testing their apps using OpenSocial. - TechCrunch

AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million
AOL has acquired social networking site Bebo for $850 million in cash. AOL CEO Randy Falco (left in picture) sent an email to all AOL employees this morning. - TechCrunch

Source: Yahoo in informal talks with Microsoft
Microsoft and Yahoo are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the "radio silence" that previously existed between the two companies, according to a source familiar with the talks. A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared with February 1 when Microsoft issued its unsolicited buyout bid for Yahoo, which initially valued the company at $31 a share. - c|net News

Breaking Google Captchas for $3 a Day
In the last two months, several Internet security firms have suggested that spammers had devised a way to bust the “captcha” that is protecting Gmail. This would allow them to use the popular e-mail service to drown the rest of the Internet with e-mails containing links to malware and clumsy Viagra propositions. - New York Times Bits Blog

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