Magnify.net has created a plugin for all the multimedia junkies out there who use Moveable Type or Wordpress as a blogging platform. The plugin is called Magnify Publisher, and it allows you to easily search and embed media from over a dozen sites like YouTube and Flickr, all from within your blog’s admin panel.

We have a link to an interview with Brad Neuberg, one of the men behind Google Gears. He talks about the next generation of the web, and how he and many others are paving the way to a more interesting future with better integration of our online and offline worlds.

Zoho, the free online office suite, just added the ability to login with your Google or Yahoo ID. Eliminating the need to sign up or create a new account will hopefully encourage more users to try Zoho. When asked why they didn’t just add in support for OpenID and receive even more users and traffic, Zoho evangelist Raju Vagesna said that they plan to do that soon, but wanted to address users’ immediate needs.

Hot on the heels of Google Sky comes Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope. This application bears much resemblance to its Google counterpart, but while Google Sky can be viewed in your web browser, World Wide Telescope needs to be downloaded. It is rumored that the Microsoft application has a better interface, but so far that is unconfirmed due to that fact that it is Windows only.

And finally, for you Javascript programmers out there, we’ve got a cool little library from John Resig, called Processing.js. It’s John’s birthday and he’s giving you a “reverse birthday gift” — it’s a Javascript port of the API for the programming language Processing, complete with its powerful graphical drawing tools. If you have no idea what any of that means, don’t worry, just be thankful there are guys like John Resig out there making the web a better place and pushing the free line for all us non - programmers