Google has taken an extra step to make using Google Talk as simple as possible.  They’ve created a Gadget specifically for your Personalized Homepage that enables you to chat with your friends and see who is online.

I just added it to my personalized homepage, and I was actually surprised at how much I like it. One of its’ nicest features is that it will tab your conversations up

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has spoken up on his personal blog what he feels about the recent happenings with Dell, and the possibility that users will be offered the chance to have some distribution of Linux (such as Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, or Fedora) pre-installed on a new PC.

His article explains a lot of things that is important for some people to realize. I’ll recap a

Wired News is reporting that a leaked document from Fox Interactive confirms that MySpace News is in the works. When MySpace was asked about the news site, as expected, they had no comment.

From a PowerPoint slide explaining MySpace News, it says that it will take news to a whole new level.  Much like Digg, users will be able to rate and comment on news that has been aggregated and pulled from blogs and other sites

The video above demonstrates four new videos that Microsoft just posted for use with the Windows Vista DreamScene preview that they made available in the middle of February. If you’re a Vista Ultimate user you can play around with DreamScene and the new videos by performing a Windows Update. After you’ve got it installed you’ll be able to start using videos as your desktop background much the

The rumor is true! Microsoft has confirmed that they will in fact be acquiring Tellme Networks. Everybody knew it was coming (despite both parties denying it), it was just a matter of when. GigaOm is reporting that the deal is worth over $800 million but below 1 Billion which makes it one of Microsoft’s most expensive purchases!

Tellme is known for their voice services for the phone including providing information to callers on businesses, driving directions,

At the end of January Flickr sent out emails to all of their users saying that they had until March 15th, 2007 to setup a Yahoo! account that would be used to manage the Flickr service. This caused quite an uproar in the blog community as well as all over the web. Many people were saying that Flickr was screwing them by forcing such a move, but ever since

If you frequent YouTube, at some point you’ll probably go to watch your favorite video only to find that it’s been removed. Videos can be removed for a variety of reasons, like YouTube removing them because of a copyright issue, or even owners removing their clips.

By using Delutube, you still have a chance of getting those deleted clips back.  Think of it as a Google Cache for your Videos.  Google Cache can pull up