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Getting sick of all those Facebook application requests?  Get ready to see a cut down on all that clutter — Facebook released a new initiative that will reward Facebook Apps that people like, and punish those that get a poor response, by limiting how many notices and invitations they send out.  Nice. The more people use an application, not spam with it — the more power it gets. But with MySpace putting out its own application framework last week, get ready to see more pokes – and more pushy friends.

Mac users need to check out the beta version of the new Safari browser.  This thing is blazing fast; it leaves FireFox in the dust, and it just might get Apple into the browser wars. Of course, it doesn’t have the add-on’s and plug-in’s that Firefox does, but you need to see the speed to believe it.

Yahoo keeps pushing out new toys for people to use, even while fending off hostile takeovers.  Their latest web application is Yahoo Live — a live streaming website that allows you to broadcast video in real time over the internet, like uStream. Very cool.

OpenID, a system for allowing users to log into any website with a single username and password, has rocketed forward this week with plans for support announced from web giants Microsoft, Google, and Verisign.  Combined with the support from big movers like LiveJournal, Yahoo and many others, this standard for world wide login’s may be catching on.

Intel’s looking to put the internet in the palm of your hands by making a cheap, fast chip called SilverThorne.  It will be the smallest and most affordable chip of its speed on the market, and will be used in tiny, palm sized computers used to give an online experience identical to the one on a desktop.