I just looove these ads. There are lot of Get a Mac ads out there, and this one is a grand collection of all that together. You might have seen it already but this goes out to all those who not have. Must watch ! BTW Any Mac haters out there?

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Now you can talk to multiple people on Google Talk and use emoticons which are very similar to MSN’s.Reports Mashable,

Group chat has finally found its way to gmail’s instant messaging system. So right there while you have your email inbox open, you can chat with multiple people at one time. Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link at the bottom of a conversation window. You’ll now see “Group Chat” as a new option. Once that’s selected, just type in the name of the person you’d like to add to your current conversation. If you don’t see the group chat option yet, try signing out and logging back into your Gmail account.

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Lijit is an exceptionally good tool for bloggers. It helps you to give your readers an option to search ALL your social medias, and I mean ALL. That includes delicious,facebook,digg, stumble upon and quite a lot more. All your bookmarks, all your micro blogs and even all your contacts in those networks along with their social medias (opt in) are searchable with Lijit.

It is a small widget with a search bar that can sit on your sidepanel.

Now it makes more sense to have a lijit widget (wijit as they prefer to call it) on your blog so that your readers can find sites and information that you think are good. It helps you to improve and fulfil that personal commitment to your readers. And readers should find it interesting too.

According to Lijit, it think searching on Lijit is like doing a search in real life.

When your readers search for information in real life, their first step is to typically seek out a friend for the answer. If their friend doesn’t have the answer they need, someone in that friend’s social network may. Eventually, they get an answer they trust, because it came from a source they trust. Your readers can now have that same experience on the web and it all starts with the source they trust. That source is you, the blog publisher.

It’s a very good concept and I totally agree to it. Unfortunately their widget didn’t quite “style” itself to my theme so I had to remove it after placing it the first time. But. I’m contacting them to customize it the way I want it.

You can register for Lijit here.

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MyBlogLog had released some buttons yesterday to help you in your “community building exercise“, hope you read about it already. I thought none of them were really web 2.0 style. They were all 88×31 pixel buttons which could easily get buried into those directory badges of your site, if placed on your sidepanel.

If you were really serious about building your community, you got to use some really cool buttons isn’t it? Well, inspired from Nate Whitehill, I designed some buttons myself for you. I hope you like them.

Feel free to use them at your site, to promote your community at MyBLogLog. If you’d like to credit me, feel free to do so, or if you prefer to steal them, go right ahead.

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Esnips has launched it’s social DNA quiz which is a tool to find out what kind of person you are, and how much you are different from others, or how similar.

Very interesting quiz that I couldn’t resist writing about it. At each question it asked me the favorite among a few things, and “guessed” on my personality based on those. At each level, other people who selected similar choices to you were also shown on the side panel. There was a question on which music I like the most giving me some clips to select from. I found the selection difficult here, if you are stumbled there, click directly on the number, that’s the place to make a selection. And yes, no need to register at all, just visit the page and start the quiz. you wouldn’t regret it.

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Running out of space on your PC or lappy? Worry not. There is a cool service that offers you to store your audio files, videos, office documents or just about anything online, at your personal space and use them online as well, from anywhere in the world (sounds too big eh?).

You can stream the audio and video files, online and the speed and consistency is really good. I also love the drag and drop feature, it’s just like transferring the file to any other storage media on your PC. It’s a very reliable service from my experience. At a standard free registration you get 1GB of storage space, where you can store all your mp3’s, movies and stuff. Another good feature is that you can send the files to your friends, by sending them a download link. They don’t have to register at Steekr to listen to the audio or see the video. So, you no longer have to carry them around on your thumbdrive. That’s too old fashion man!

The service is Steekr and you can register here for a free 1GB storage space, and yes its personal, “The Internet too is personal again”!

Update - I just found another cool service that let’s you upload files and even allow others to have a look at it. I’m unsure if it allows you to stream, but the catch is that the service is quick to register, you don’t have to give even your email id. Just give a name, select the file and select the other users permission settings. Presto! Very good if you are in a hurry and want to share a file with your buddy. Check it out here.

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