• MySpace is getting ready to follow Facebook's example and offer virtual gifts and payment over the Internet.
• In the iPhone application market, a new gizmo called Ocarina lets users listen to music playing live all around the world.
• Social networking aggregator FriendFeed can now send alerts to users over instant message systems.
• In the wake of Barack Obama's resounding win, pundits ask: Did the Internet make the difference?
• A new application for mobile phones called Friend View lets people micro-blog while keeping an eye on where their friends are located.
• Snapily.com lets users make their own interactive online business cards.
• Here's one of the tackiest conceivable stocking stuffers: a gold-plated phone headset for an iPhone.
• Apple and AT&T are moving toward letting people use their iPhones as makeshift modems for their laptops.
• Is Google's Android operating system "financially unsound"?
• Social-bookmarking website Delicious recently celebrated its fifth birthday.
• LG is about to start offering digital Bluetooth TV.
• A new service called Pluck on Demand will let online publishers quickly and easily add relevant content to websites and blogs.
• Here's the latest bad news about the Web 2.0 bubble: LinkedIn has cut 10 percent of its staff, while Veoh has cut 18 percent.
• Twitter's Japanese counterpart, Twicco, has added groups functionality to its service.
• Version 6.5 of the Windows Mobile operating system is on the way. Also, Windows is returning to a numerical naming convention for the release of Windows 7, which is due midway through 2009.
• Steampunk enthusiasts will appreciate these clockwork motorcycles.
• This one is for hardcore video-gamers only: An XBOX controller that's been retrofitted to maximize efficiency while playing first-person shooting games.
• Adult industry professionals with money to burn might be interested in these egg-shaped chairs, last seen in the movie "Men In Black."
• Duracell is now offering a small generator called the Powerpack 450.
