Is participating in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook just a “phase” that people seem to go through? A new video by user “Super Josh” on Current.com claims just that. In his satirical animated short “Networking Wars,” cartoon representatives of MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and Second Life vie for the attention of an average user. Very funny, and perhaps, very true.

Sometimes, running a brand new, top-of-the-line operating system isn’t possible. Systems made to run Windows 2000, for example, will not be able to properly support Firefox 3.0, as one of our commenters has already figured out. But fear not. Don’t let those old legacy systems die in the basement. Get WattOS instead. Based on Ubuntu Linux, WattOS is designed to get the best out of older, more “time tested” machines. It can do almost anything that its bigger brother can do, just in a smaller package. WattOS is completely free to use and is covered under the GNU public license.

Moving to the world of telecommunication devices for a moment, there’s TokBox. Powered by Adobe’s innovative “Air” development platform, TokBox is a Skype-esque way to keep in touch with family and friends. TokBox can be used from a variety of diverse places, from their website to Facebook. While the little upstart might not have the features of Skype at the moment, it is definitely one program to keep your eye on.

Those who own an iPhone are no doubt familiar with Apple’s MobileMe, a handy little service that syncs up all of your media devices. If you like the idea of everything working together, but don’t think that perfect harmony is worth $100, give Mail2Web LIVE a try. Mail2Web does everything that MobileMe does, from playing nice with your Blackberry to updating Outlook on your PC, only it’s free. And the kicker? The service is built upon Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange Platform. So give Mail2Web LIVE a try. We promise not to tell Steve Jobs.

These days, staying mobile doesn’t mean that you have to leave your social networking habits at home. For example, check out Moblog. It works kind of like Twitter, except it allows you to post pictures and video you’ve taken with your phone as well as text. And the best part? The Moblog team builds your private space for you. All you need to do is send a text message. Moblog makes networking on the road simple and easy.

Quick quiz: which insanely popular social networking browser is on top right now? Well, that is all depends on who you are asking. At the end of May, it’s Facebook. The scrappy little fighter in the blue and white trunks has officially surpassed MySpace in the number of unique visitors worldwide - 123.9 million to MySpace’s 114.6 million. Facebook detractors, however, are quick to point out that while they are in the lead worldwide, MySpace still has the edge in the United States. Roughly 73.7 million Americans visited MySpace last May, compared to the 35.6 million that stopped by Facebook. The US is still considered to be the number one advertising market. So who is on top right now? We’re not really sure, but it will definitely be interesting to find out.

So what could possibly be better than being number one in the world? Changing the Internet, of course. According to the people at Take Back the Web, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is one of the Top 15 people who changed the Internet. Zuckerberg placed number three, ahead of such luminaries as Shawn Fanning (Napster), Kevin Rose (Digg), and Bram Cohen (BitTorrent). Two notable absentees are Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, the creators of MySpace.

Controversial site stats and an oddball snubbing aside, there is plenty for the MySpace faithful to get excited about, like the movie. Yes, that’s right. Many MySpacers are in the midst of making their own movie. Called Faintheart, the movie is a comedy taking place in a battle reneactment club. The director, actors and much of the music were chosen via MySpace, all pulled directly from the producer’s Friend List.

Moving “off line” for a moment, we’ve got news that Google Docs has Gears support. This means you don’t have to be connected to the internet to get all the functionality of Google Docs. This puts it in direct competition with Adobe’s Buzz Word Processor, which has the same technology, as well as all the other offline Word Processors (Word, AbiWord) and Office suites (Office, OpenOffice) that clog our desktops.

And of course, if you want to take that web 2.0 feel offline, no one is currently doing it better than Adobe. The multimedia giant’s development platform Adobe Air is currently taking the Flash Development community by storm, and it’s time for the end user to reap the benefits. Productivity blog Lifehacker has a list of ten Air-based applications that are definitely worth looking at. Give it a shot. You’ll be glad that you did.

Hulu, the free hi-def streaming website for many television shows is now going to let countries other than the US view their videos, starting with Australia, The United Kingdom and Canada.

Check out our list for the top 25 video games for Linux. Even if you don’t use Linux you can still play most of these games on Windows or Mac.

Jiffle is a new web application that makes scheduling appointments a snap.

AlertThingy is a new Adobe Air application that hooks into FriendFeed. It can run on any operating system and pulls in a constant stream of your FriendFeed data.

There is a new free application called CommentKahuna that lets you find any WordPress blog that is relevant to your website that doesn’t use the NoFollow attribute.

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Hulu，这个免费的高清晰流媒体电视节目网站现在正打算对世界敞开大门！目前为止它只允许美国用户浏览，不过不久之后他们就会对其他国家开放，并先从澳大利亚，英国和加拿大开始。

对于那些游戏玩家，我们今天为你们准备了25个热门Linux游戏。就算你不用Linux，好消息是，你仍然可以在Windows或Mac上玩这些游戏，因为他们都是被设计可以在任何平台运行的。

Jiffle是一个新的时间计划在线程序，它为安排会议时间解决了难题。它允许你与Outlook日程表进行同步并协助网络视频会议。Jiffle使安排时间变得容易起来这样你就可以花更多的时间在改善工作上了。当然它是免费的它的连接也就在FreeLineReport.com

AlertThinky是一个新的与FriendFeed联通的Adobe Air程序。它可以运行在任何操作系统并持续从你的FriendFeed中提取数据。你还可以直接在程序中进行回复，加入书签和添加新朋友。

我们的一个朋友，Jason Potash，发布了一个新的叫做Comment Kahuna免费程序。 Comment Kahuna可以帮助你找到那些跟你的网站相关却没有使用NoFollow属性的WordPress博客。这个强大工具会大幅度提高你网站的搜索排名。

Google released a storm of pranks for April Fool’s day, some funny and some not. The most memorable was a joke about a new feature on email that almost started a flame war on Wikipedia.

Google is taking Google Docs offline with Google Gears. This is in an attempt to compete with Microsoft Office Live and Adobe Air’s new Buzz word processors, who both have offline and online capabilities.

Adobe Air, the programming language that can take Flash offline, will see a release soon for the free operating system, Linux. This is a huge thing for Linux users. And for an example of a cool program using Adobe Air, check out Stompernet Scrutinizer.

Amazon launched TextBuyIt last Thursday. It allows any user to order something from Amazon directly from their cellphones.

This week’s award for Pushing the Free Line goes to Scribd, who will now take any book you have and scan it to text for free. You send it to them, they scan it in and then store it in their iPaper format.

Google发布了一系列愚人节恶作剧，有些很好玩有些则不是。最有争议的是那个关于Gmail新功能的玩笑，它也几乎引起了在Wikipedia上的一场论战。

Google发布了Google Docs的离线版本Google Gears。此举是为了与微软的Office Live和Adobe Air的新Buzz word进行竞争。

Adobe Air，这个可以离线使用Flash的程序语言，即将为免费的操作系统Linux发布一个新的版本。这对Linux用户来说可是个大新闻。如果你想找到一个超酷的Adobe Air应用程序的话，别错过了Stompernet Scrutinizer.

亚马逊发于上周四发布了TextBuyIt。它将允许用户直接通过他们的手机在亚马逊上进行购物。
本周获得最佳免费工具奖的是Scribd，它是一个可以把扫描过书籍免费识别成文本的程序。你可以把书发给他们，他们则会在进行扫描之后把它存成iPaper格式。

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The online image editing tool Picnik is letting users have full access to their image editing software completely for free. You can edit images in all the major browsers and operating systems, and it integrates seamlessly with all your favorite social networks, including Flickr and Photobucket. You can even download a Firefox plugin that will let you edit any image on any webpage just with a single click.

Last week we covered the launch of Adobe Air. This week we’re covering the top 6 Adobe Air applications that will rock your world. A Twitter client, a Flash editor and on and offline storage using XDrive.

Facebook is planning on doing a massive redesign of their website- planning to make the main webpages identical to it’s iPhone version, slimming it down and removing clutter. There is some bad news for application developers, the new layout removes application lists that used to be on everyone’s profile page.

Squidoo has released a new tool for lensmasters- Squidaholic. With a quick search you can find out who has been talking about your lens, discussing it and linking to it.

Social networking is now in the nursery with the release of Totspot, the social networking site for moms and their newborn babies. Like all other social networking sites, you create a profile and then make friends and extend your network. Since Totspot is targeted at mothers, they can also make profiles for their children as well. What’s next? A social networking site for cat owners?

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You might be surprised to learn that Google’s pay per click advertising revenue is not growing as much as expected the last two years. In fact, the growth last year was flat, and it dropped 7% in the month of December alone.

In the internet marketing world, Brand for Power is doing a free teleseminar series with marketing experts on branding for your business. I’ll be one of the speakers and there are many others who worked on online branding for companies like Apple, Pizza Hut and Staples.

Digg has released a new Firefox extension that will allow you to see the current number of Diggs for every web page you visit. You can also see the last ten comments and the first sentence of the description. And it will also show any previous stories submitted to Digg from the same Domain.

Adobe is trying to bridge the gap between your online and offline data with the new release of Adobe AIR. The idea is to no longer have data available only online by making a copy on your hard drive. Like, if you need to check your Google Calendar, but you don’t have an internet connection right then. Adobe AIR will make things like that possible.

Cake Financial has just released its very own Facebook app that lets you view the stock portfolios of your friends. And these are real portfolios by the way- not examples, or ones used in a virtual stock market- it’s the real thing, done in real time. Kind of cool for investing clubs – but it makes you remember where they’re going to draw the line at too much information.