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Our first Web Ascent Event went very well. We had a great time, and we appreciate all the folks that came out, as well as the sponsors that made the event possible. Eleven companies came to present and demo, and some took the opportunity make some big announcements about their products. ChaCha announced that [...]

coComment, the comment and reply tracking service, has launched a few new features today. Here’s something wonderful: publishers can offer the coComment service on their sites, relieving other users from having to download the software to see and track comments. These users can go to the publisher’s site on coComment to track threads. [...]

Try the Mashable Universe, which puts Mashable content all on one page Personalized portal Netvibes recently announced Netvibes Universes, a feature which gives a chance to users to customize/rebrand their Netvibes page and use it as a public promotional tool. Initially, a number of Netvibes Universes appeared, but users were unable to create their own Universes [...]

Widget marketplace Widgetbox, together with Sugar Publishing, has launched Widgetbox Showcase for Bebo, a collection of interactive gossip widgets. The showcase includes a number of widgets pulling content from various gossip related sites, for example PopSugar, FabSugar and Perez Hilton. There’s also a completely new widget here, called MySugar, which allows Bebo users to create [...]

Being unproductive on the web is easy: click over to YouTube, surf Facebook profiles or go on a Wikipedia binge for a couple of hours. But thanks to the many free and useful new applications on the web, it’s also getting easier to keep your life in order. For the next installment of [...]

The Pirate Bay, which bills itself as the world’s largest bittorrent tracker, has launched a completely uncensored image hosting service called BayImg. The service promises in the words of Voltaire, “[We may] disapprove of what you say, but [we] will defend to the death your right to say it.” The site is dirt [...]

Twitter competitor Jaiku has launched a Channels feature which allows users to setup messaging groups revolving around specific topics of interest. For example, at posting time 218 people belong to the Second Life channel where users can share text messages relating to the virtual world game. Currently all channels are public and each user is [...]

Google Maps added user-generated local business reviews this week, leading us to wonder how many local business review services would come under threat. The bigger irony: many of the existing local review sites use Google Maps for their mapping. Another case of Google killing off those sites that built legitimate businesses on their APIs? Yelp, [...]

News Corp, you may remember, is looking to buy Dow Jones. Now Brad Greenspan, taking the title of MySpace founder (he controlled Intermix Media, which owned MySpace until its sale to News Corp), is trying to counter that bid with a supposedly grassroots effort. Greenspan’s “JournalInvestmentGroup” has written an open letter to Dow [...]

Just launched MobIncentive automates the timeless tradition of motivating people to action by offering cold hard cash. The service allows users to post challenges and invite people to pledge funds towards the cause. For example, the site currently features a challenge someone has setup to try and motivate their brother in law to [...]