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• Walk-through: Google Fast Flip Brings 'Magazine' Metaphor to News Browsing Google's news reader uses static page images to display news articles instantly. Whether it's really a faster way to read news is open to debate. Here's a short guided tour of the new approach.
• Top 10 Blowhards of the Web Arrington! Scoble! Cuban! Huffington! After much debate, we've rounded up our ten favorite blogging blowhards, the most notable offenders in a vast rogues' gallery of Web windbags.
• 19 Free Web Services That Keep Saving You Money You can find lots of freebies on the Web, but these offerings provide useful services--at no cost--that you would otherwise have to pay for every time.
• Yikes, Yelp is Gaining on Citysearch Citysearch is getting some competition from rising star Yelp in the battle online local directories.
• Helpful Web Sites: Regator, Snopes.com, and More Browse blog posts, research e-mail claims, find DIY projects, get cleaning tips, and send anonymous tips--all for free on the Web.
• 9 Web-Based Office Productivity Suites As netbooks proliferate, the talk about cloud computing buzzes on. And as Microsoft and Google ready their cloud-based app suites, a bevy of lesser-known 'Webtops' are available now. We take a look at the main ones, and pick the winners.
• 40 Fantastic Time-Wasting Web Sites Sure, you should probably be working. But why bother when you can vaporize hours by checking out these engaging Web sites?
• Road Warriors: TripIt, TripIt Pro Keep Tabs on Your Every Move Analysis: Travel planning and support is now super easy -- ending at least a few headaches for business travelers.
• Picture Apple on the Web -- 26 Years Ago Analysis: If the Web as we know it today had been around in 1983, here's how Jobs & Co. might have chosen to represent their current wares.
• Restored Apollo 11 Video Offers Clearer View of Mankind's 'Giant Leap' Take a trip back in time and view the restored video of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.
• Performance Issues Plague Cloud-Based Applications Analysis: Despite browser improvements, Web apps still suffer from network bottlenecks and scripting problems.
• New Flood of Top-Level Domains Could Spell Chaos Analysis: Wolfgang Puck wants his .food network, Al Gore wants .eco -- and everyone else wants a vanity top-level domain.
• YouTube Hit With Service Outage Glitch is another in a recent string of service hiccups that have plagued Google-owned sites.
• Google's Wave Consolidates Core Online Features in One Tool Google unveils an ambitious product called Wave, which meshes functionality from e-mail, IM and other online services.
• 5 Things I Want to Know about Bing There are plenty of unanswered questions about 'Bing.' Here are the five that top our list.
• 7 Savvy Tips for the Web Video Underground The latest on Internet download caps, plus ways to save online video streams, automate TV-show torrents, avoid common peer-to-peer dangers, and more.
• Jimmy Fallon Wins Top Webby: And the Winners Are . . . Jimmy Fallon, Trent Reznor, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Kudrow, Seth MacFarlane and Twitter take top Webby honors.
• Why Most Twitter Users Give Up Bored with Twitter? You aren't alone and you shouldn't feel bad about it.
• Amazon Acquires Lexcycle Amazon.com nabs makers of electronic book reader Stanza.
• It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums Discussion forums are magnets for some of the jerkiest people on the 'Interwebs'. We profile a dozen of the most common and annoying forum jerks--from 'The Antagonist' to 'The Conspiracy Theorist'.
• 10 Top Overlooked Features of Google Maps Get the most out of Google Maps with the help of these pointers.
• As CEO Exits, MySpace Needs a Makeover With Facebook eclipsing the social networking pioneer, analysts say it's time for change.
• These Free Sites Help You Manage Your Money These personal financial management sites will help you manage your finances, set a budget and get out of debt.
• Amazon's Gay Book 'Glitch': What Really Happened The truth comes out (so to speak) about the zapping of sales ranks for LGBT books on Amazon.
• The 10 Lamest Facebook Apps Do you really need to know about your friends' bowel movements? Or what sandal they'd be? It was a tough competition, but we chose the 10 lamest apps on Facebook.