The video streaming website Hulu, a joint project created by Fox and NBC, plans to lift its veil of secrecy this month and let the world see the future of television, online. The videos will be television shows aired previously, supported completely by ads. A sneak preview last October left a big impression on users, wowing even the most skeptical pundits.

Well it looks like Yahoo isn’t the only website that Microsoft wants to buy. Apparently, both Microsoft and Google are making bids for the user generated news site, Digg.com. The founder of Digg says these claims are not true, but Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says his inside source still stands behind his earlier statement.

Thunderbird, a free email client, is getting its third release next month. This email application will get a major overhaul, including the addition of calendar support, instant messaging, and better searching.

Google Operating System is a great blog that gives you lots of tips and tricks for using all of Google’s web applications. Do you need to add page numbers to Google Docs? Want to create filters for Google Reader? Well, Google Operating System shows you how, and does so in a way that’s easy to follow and fun to read.

Do you have a great idea and want to raise some money to fund it? Fundable might be right up your alley. In about a minute or so you can create a Fundable collection that allows you to gather money simply and easily to finance any project — from a short film to a snowboarding trip. Check it out at fundable.com.

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Fox跟Abc合做创建的流媒体视频网站Hulu，计划在这个月向公众揭开它的神秘面纱并向世人展示网络电视的未来。视频内容为首先在电视上播出过的节目，完全通过广告来运营。它去年10月的泄露版给用户留下了十分深刻的印象，甚至征服了那些最苛刻的观众。

看起来微软并不是只对雅虎的收购感兴趣。显然的，微软跟Google正在争夺那个由用户产生新闻的网站，Digg.com。Digg的创立者否认了这一传言，但TechCrunch的Michael Arrington说来自内部的消息仍然能够证实他的说法。

雷鸟，这个免费的email客户端，将要下个月放出它的第三代产品。这个email程序被进行了彻底的翻新，包括日程表，即时通讯和更好的搜索功能。

Google操作系统，是一个可以提供丰富的Google网络程序使用技巧的博客。你想知道在Google文件里如何加入页码吗？想知道如何在Google Reader里加入过滤器吗？喔，Google操作系统会用一种简单有趣的方式告诉你。

你是不是有一个伟大的想法并希望有人资助你去实现呢？Fundable也许是正适合你。你可以在1分钟左右的时间创建一个项目意向，它能使你找钱去资助任何项目变得简单容易，不论是一个小短片或是一次滑板旅行。一定浏览fundable.com。

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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.

Last week my friend John Reese, the guy who brought us Blog Rush, released his new Traffic Jam software. This cool new utility allows you to speed-read your way through thousands of blogs for quick and easy access to the most popular topics in the blogosphere. Using Traffic Jam you can title your next blog post using the most popular themes and get more traffic to your blog. You can even share links to big blogs, and discover new ones — all in a few seconds. Very cool idea — thanks, John!

Paul Graham released a new essay this week — it’s pretty thought provoking. It’s called Six Principals for Making New Things. He explains what made the VC funding website, Y Combinator, such a success. I won’t spoil any of the details here, but as usual - Paul Graham gives some great advice to both Startup Businesses and Venture Capitalists, too.

Social Blade is a new program that launched in Public beta this week. This cool new web app collects data from Digg and displays interesting stats on the articles that hit the front page, INCLUDING how many BURIES a post receives and the friend voting percentages. Really fascinating stuff at a glance.

Flickr has added nofollow tags to their image descriptions, which makes it harder to use Flickr for SEO purposes. Bummer. But as of yet, these nofollow tags are only for IMAGE descriptions — so you can still put links into your Set and Collective descriptions and there’s no nofollow tags on those links.

SheerSEO is a tool that lets you monitor up to 200 keywords at a time so you can get up to the minute results for any website. It tracks your progress over time, and you can see not only where your page ranks for a bunch of keywords in Google and Yahoo, but you can also see how much TRAFFIC the keywords are generating. Very slick.

And a quick reminder — if you want to stay up to speed on Web 2.0 in just 2.0 minutes a day, join our email list or grab the RSS feed.

Yahoo is about to roll out yet another web application this summer, a Digg competitor aptly titled Buzz. Just like Digg users get to vote for websites they think are important, and then those sites get ranked and listed on the main page. It doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the table, and according to some is an act of desperation on Yahoo’s behalf.

Some developers are speculating a cool new program for the iPod touch and the iPhone, enabling users to order their favorite Starbucks coffee directly from their iPhone. Currently Starbucks has already integrated all of its music with Apple’s iTunes, allowing customers to buy the music they hear over the speakers at any Starbucks and have it piped directly to their Apple device.

Web 2.0 is being leveraged to mourn those murdered in Thursday’s shootings at Northern Illinois University. As of last Friday, more than 55,000 people have joined the Facebook tribute group called Pray for Northern Illinois University Students and Family. The pages contain vigils, links to news reports and words of support for families and friends.

In lighter news, we have a link to the top five digg applications that the internet has to offer. Each of these is free and fun, and one of them even adds special effects to the digg’s homepage, giving the whole thing a new experience.

CookThink is a new website that allows users to upload and then search for recipes. The key to this whole thing is the cookthink search engine, which allows people to give ingredients and get a recipe returned with each of the ingredients used.

Hey Mac users — still missing Camtasia? We hear that the they are working on a version for the Mac — finally! Until then, pure-mac.com has a page with about every screen capture program for the Mac, and many of them are free.

From Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com and Andy Hagans: a great free resource on 71 good ways to build links to your web site — and 30 ways NOT to get links. That’s 101 Link Building Tips — for Free. You’re bound to see some good tactics you’re not doing right now.

One of the best free resources for business searches is the Northern Light search engine. This bot wades through business news sites, blogs, newspapers and business media. You can even save your searches as RSS feeds to get streamed to you in real time.

Tank is a new web site service that makes creating a new website as simple as starting a blog. The free version may have all you need, including photo handling and other things that get difficult if you only have a blog.

The Distilled started a badge campaign to get RipOffReport taken off of Google. Many SEO and SERM (Search Engine Reputation Management) bloggers report that RipOffReport is taking consumer feedback reporting and community feedback to a level that seems like extortion, requiring large payments to remove libelous postings from their site. But Google loves them so far, so companies have been paying to get the scandalous postings removed from RipOffReport’s web pages.