Even though Time Warner has put AOL up for sale it looks like the web giant still has some power left in its punch. It announced the acquisition of Bebo, the United Kingdom’s premier Social Network, for a reported $850 million in cash. This will allow AOL to tap Bebo’s 40 million customers for money using web advertisement, a common tactic these days for web companies.

Rumors are flying that Yahoo plans on finally adding video to Flickr in the next three weeks. In order to compete in the very busy and very flooded web video battle field Flickr has been taking it’s time, planning on how to make their contribution unique and different from the rest. It seems like some design decisions have finally been made, and we should expect an announcement saying exactly what it’s going to offer users sometime later this week.

Evernote plans on taking all the data in your life and stores it in an online library, making it easy to search and retrieve every aspect of your existence with a click of the mouse. No matter how trivial or how important, Evernote wants to store it all, making their services like a backup for your own brain, stored conveniently on the web.

The executives from both Microsoft and Yahoo finally met last Monday to discuss the Microsoft’s bid on Yahoo. No banker’s attended the meeting, and raising of the original offer was not discussed. The whole plan of the meeting was to reason with Yahoo, to accept the current bid it had rejected. It seems like the meeting did not work, and Yahoo is still shopping around for ways to get around the Microsoft bid.

FlickrVision is a really addicting, free web application that gives you a map and image of the latest Flickr uploads in real time. Each second the page reloads, showing you where in the world the picture was uploaded and by who. Lots of fun, and completely free!

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首先，尽管美国在线已经挂牌出售，不过这个网络巨人依然存有自己的影响力。他刚刚宣布购买了Bebo，这个英国最大的社交网络，而且8亿5千万元全部为现金支付。这项交易将使AOL迅速获得Bebo的4000万用户以投放它的广告。

最近有消息说Yahoo将在三周之后为美国领先的图片共享网站Flickr，加入视频功能。为了和大量的视频网站竞争，Flickr花了很长的时间去考虑如何使他们的服务变得与众不同。显然的，一些设计上的问题已经被敲定，我们也应该期待Flickr将在下周给我带来什么样新鲜的东西。

另外有消息说，Flickr视觉足以使人上瘾。这个免费的网络程序会实时更新被最新上传的图片。这个页面大约每秒会刷新一次，并显示出最新被上传的相片和图片的作者。非常有趣，而且完全免费！

Evernote希望能记录你一生所有的信息并储存到网上，并它能把追溯你过去故事变得和轻点鼠标一样简单。无论事情的大小，Evernote都想把它记录下来，就好像对大脑的备份。你可以上传相片，文字，笔记或者更多，你需要做的只是把evernote发到你的特定邮箱里面去，并且通过视觉识别系统你的全部东西都可以被搜索到，甚至是照片上的手写笔记。目前他正在内测阶段，不如点击下面的链接注册一下。和往常一样，你需要每天在2.0分钟内了解Web2.0的最新咨资讯，欢迎访问Freelinereport.com。

Even though OpenID has made some major headway into being the one stop log in for the internet, it still has some drawbacks.  Some find it difficult to log on, others forget their Open ID URL.  This will change soon, though, with the advent of a new program called Click Pass. With Click Pass users can log in with one click, and are not required to remember their OpenID URL.

The European Commission has given the okay for Google’s acquisition of the online advertising company Double Click. Microsoft and ATT tried to block the deal, citing it as monopoly on the online advertising revenue.

Searchme goes into private beta today, allowing users to sign up for a test at their web page. The flashy web design is the main stand out function of this search engine,  contrasting nicely with Google’s minimalistic interface. This search engine is not just flashy graphics, however, it brings back relevant results for most of the searches queried, and even does a Wikipedia style disambiguation.

Time Warner has made it official- AOL is up for sale.  The web company is still considered a big deal, even if it is past its glory days. Now the question simply remains- who will buy it?  And for how much?

Firefox 3 has gone into beta 4 this week, bringing the new version of the web browser closer to it’s final look and feel.  One of the main things to note is the look and feel- it matches the operating system you are using almost exactly now.  The other thing is the speed- FireFox 3 is fast. Much faster than the competitors.

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尽管OpenID已经在互联网上取得了很多不错的进展，但是它还是有很多弊病。有些人发现它登陆很困难，还有人会忘记自己的OpenID地址。这些都将有所改变，随着一个新的叫做Click Pass的软件，用户们可以实现一键登陆，而不必记住他们的OpenID地址。

欧盟委员会最终还是批准了Google对在线广告公司Double Click的收购。微软与ATT曾试图阻止这项交易，认为这是对网络广告收入的垄断行为。

Searchme今天进入了内测阶段，用户可以在他们的网站上进行注册测试。基于Flash的网页设计是这个搜索引擎的亮点，与Google极度简约的风格形成了对比。而它吸引人的不光是flash界面，另外，它会返回与搜索内容最相关的结果，甚至提供了与Wikipedia类似的排歧页面。

时代华纳正式宣布将出售美国在线。虽然美国在线已经风光不在，但它的影响依然很大。现在问题很简单，谁会买它？和价格是多少？

火狐3本周发布了beta4版，带来了更接近最终版本的外观和体验。值得关注的是新的界面和感觉，它将与你正在所使用的操作系统相吻合。另外一点是速度，火狐3确实很快。领先于其他的竞争者

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On Super Tuesday, Apple’s iPod released an Easter Egg for hard core geeks to descramble- Lincoln’s second inaugural address in base64 encoding. Funny.The FCC is auctioning off the 700mhz broadcast spectrum to prospective buyers. This week, the bidding hit an all time high — at $20 billion. Currently in the running for the largest block of the spectrum are Verizon, AT&T and … Google.

Time-Warner is considering a de-merger with the aged 800-pound gorilla of the Internet, AOL. Or they might just sell it off to another company. AOL chief executive, Jonathan Miller, said if they were separated, they’d be bought “as fast as they drew could draw up the papers.”

The WordPress podcast is back online after a hiatus, with a brand new episode, just in time for the release of the 2.3.3 version of WordPress.

And speaking of blogs, just when you thought there was a chance that traditional businesses were starting to get internet marketing, Business Week says, not so fast — we still don’t have a clue. In an article this week, one business week writer lists 10 Tech solutions your Small Biz Can’t Use. Among them? Spam filters, blogs, search engine optimization, AdWords, and online video. To save you time, I already checked the date of the article — it’s January 4th, not April first, so this February foolishness is not an April Fool’s joke. Hmmm.