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LinkedIn puts its current user base at about 33 million, and as such, it's easy to believe that the odds of finding professionals with even remotely common names are beyond slim.  The site's trying to keep this from happening, though, with some interesting new search upgrades.

Yesterday Google guaranteed 99.9% reliability for Google Apps like Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Talk. This stemmed from a similar guarantee the company made for Gmail.

Street View launched on May 29, 2007, and for some reason, Google is choosing to celebrate its first birthday today.  Don't complain, though, because the celebration involves putting 37 places on display for the first time.

Flickr launched their widely rumored video service today. Videos are limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size. Only Pro members can upload videos. The video above is one of the first videos on the service from Heather Champ's photostream. More information from the Flickr Blog here.

comScore, a company that “measures the digital world”, has upgraded the way they define searches.

AOL's Truveo video search product should present developers and other users of the platform with better analytics and greater API performance. A trio of new...

It's time to stop clinging to Firefox version 1.5 and move on up to 2.0, as the end of life period has not only arrived, but has been extended a little for late movers. YFirefox Really Wants To See Upgrades Happen

Don't like to get lost? MapQuest has announced upgrades to its "Send to Cell' service that will allows users to create driving directions and maps at their PC and send them to any Web-enabled cell phone.