Search engine use on cell phones is on the rise. According to a new poll conducted by comScore, 25.3 million people in America and Europe used their mobile phones to search the web last June, a 68% increase from the previous year. Google is by far the most used out these engines, clocking in at a 60% market share. Yahoo comes in second with a 34% share in the US.

In video news, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has written a great piece about the future of online video. According to Hurley, services such as YouTube have taken the multimedia power away from major studios and given it to the users. As personal recording devices get smaller and video services become more mainstream, the easier it will be for average users to both disseminate and receive new content. The result, he predicts, will be a one-size-fits-all video hub for everyone.

In other news, we have plaYce. Thanks in part to the wonder that is geo-tagging, you can now see accurate, three-dimensional models of nearly anywhere in the world. Despite the high frame rate, the plaYce 3D models do not put a strain on your browser or your system. The ultimate goal for the technology, says the development team, is to add realistic believable, realistic environments to games. At press time, plaYce is still in closed, early-alpha state.

One of the biggest problems facing software engineers these days is portability. Each new platform usually needs new code for it to work. Mytopia plans on changing this with their new API, RUGS. Free to use, RUGS moves across cell phones, web browsers and just about everything. Although currently featured in a series of online games, Mytopia believes that RUGS is ready for more mainstream recognition.

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