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Knewtrino Inc., parent company of NootMobile™ and a leading innovator of mobile instant messaging and information delivery services, has announced support of MSN™ Messenger for NootMobile™ Beta, the mobile instant messaging service for next generation smartphones and mobile devices.

NootMobile™ is a mobile instant messaging service that provides mobile access to the most popular instant messaging communities including AOL(TM) Messenger, Yahoo!(TM) Messenger, MSN(TM) Messenger and in the following weeks other popular messaging networks. Unlike other mobile instant messaging services, the NootMobile™ Beta instant messaging service is accessed through a mobile web browser and requires no software download. Read the rest of this entry »

Now People Can Share All Their Digital Media Any Way They Choose

Twango launched a next generation media-sharing service offering a comprehensive, integrated solution for people seeking to organize, share and republish all their media online. Unlike previous generations of media-sharing services, Twango enables people to share all media types such as pictures, video, audio, Microsoft Office documents and PDFs — more than 110 file types in all. Plus, people can share their media in a wide variety of ways, without being locked into a “one way fits all” style of sharing.

Twango is uniquely designed to appeal to the broad market of people who are eager to share their media, but want a more versatile and sophisticated service than Flickr, YouTube or Photobucket. Twango is a free service with unlimited storage and no required software downloads. Read the rest of this entry »

Seattle online real estate broker Redfin has added new tools to Redfin.com to help home buyers find good deals, including those which need a little love and care. Now Redfin.com visitors can search across an entire market for fixer-uppers and distressed listings, and compare prices against Zillow’s home-valuation estimates. Read the rest of this entry »

Founded in 2004 by Matias Pelenur, the Seattle Wiki is being built, brick by brick. into a fine community resource.  All are invited to make their neighborhood, school, community, local business or favorite Seattle pastime a part of recorded history by taking part.

On the Wiki, you can read and write about places to go, things to do, community, organizations, happenings and events, resources, politics, and anything else related to the greater Seattle area.

The Puget Sound has welcomed yet another new real estate brokerage that leverages technology like Redfin and Zillow while maintaining a high level of customer interaction and service. Ezdigs.com was created as a hybrid between the newly emerging Internet brokerages and traditional brick-and-mortar real estate companies. The company will initially focus its service on the Greater Puget Sound area, including properties in King and south Snohomish counties.

“The Internet has changed the way consumers buy and sell real estate, putting the power of information in the hands of the consumer — shifting the role of the real estate agent from purveyor of information to provider of services,” says Mike Satterlee, ezdigs.com founder, president and chief executive officer.

EZdigs will allow sellers to pay a 1 percent commission on home sales, instead of the 3 percent commission charged by traditional real estate brokers.

A posting on Seattle’s CraigsList from the professed owner of the domain name GooTube.com is seeking to cash in on Google’s announced $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube this week. Headlined “GooTube.com web design SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY” the post declares it is looking for “the most qualified team of web designers and developers in the Seattle area to create a robust site, in an extremely short amount of time.”

The owner proclaims, “I am the owner of GooTube.com, and we currently have plans to sell our rights to the name at live auction at the end of this month. Although it might be prudent to wait and see what happens, we have decided to attempt to fetch one of the largest amounts ever for a domain name sale now, to give hungry and forward-thinking domain investors the opportunity to purchase, and/or to strengthen our selling position for a potential offer from one of the “Big Three.” We don’t know whether to say “Good Luck!” on the domain sale when “GooLuck!” may be more appropriate.

Blogs have long been a home for personal essays and observations, but they’re also a key tool for citizen journalists. “What’s powerful about what the Web has done is it allowed a lot more voices and information to make it to the surface than ever before,” said Jeff Reifman, a Seattle software developer who worked at Microsoft for eight years. Reifman recently redesigned his news-aggregator site and changed its name from CommonTimes to NewsCloud. Now Newscloud has announced the release of the NewsCloud Service and APIs as part of its effort to make NewsCloud a fully open platform for
media distribution. Read the rest of this entry »

A new solution designed to assist IT managers in troubleshooting their neworks draws upon the technologies employed by consumer applications like Google, Flickr, Wikipedia and NetFlix. Klir Analytics 3.0 employs tags, user ratings, commenting and Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) to provide a personalized and intuitive point-and-click IT management solution serves as a Wikipedia of sorts. Read the rest of this entry »