The XBIZ Weekly Tech Round-up

CYBERSPACE — Each Thursday, XBIZ offers the latest news from the world of technology and innovation. This week brings news of a new way to contribute to social networking websites through mobile phones, as well as some unethical activity from a prominent photo-sharing site.

• A new startup called Wauwee.com lets users upload photos from their mobile phones directly to a widget on their MySpace or Facebook profiles. In addition, other users can add the same widget to their profiles and instant message with someone using Wauwee on their cell phone.

What's the drawback? It isn't free. It costs 5 Euros per month or 1 Euro per each individual use.

America Online has launched a mobile video game portal called Cellufun.com.

• For adult webmasters who want a more robust way to track the stats on their blogs, there's a new service called Woopra.com that tracks stats in real time and even gives webmasters the option to request to chat with people accessing their blog.

• Webmasters who enjoy keeping track of their social networking with the FriendFeed.com aggregator can now keep an eye on their friends' activities on their desktop thanks to a new desktop widget made with Adobe's AIR application.

• For all those who promote themselves through the social-networking website LinkedIn.com, the site is now offering RSS feeds so users can keep track of their network activity with a simple RSS reader.

• A new website called SniffU.com lets users keep track of their friends’ physical locations, but it only tracks other users who have registered with the site.

• In a belated celebration April Fools' Day, Google and Virgin have teamed up to put a manned colony on Mars.

• Ever wanted to start a wiki website? WetPaint.com gives webmasters the power to add wiki functionality to their site.

• Gmail users now have an easier way to view attachments in their email messages: Xoopit. It's a plugin for Firefox that lets users browse photos and videos from YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Shutterfly in their Gmail display.

• In an odd convergence of mainstream entertainment and Web 2.0, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will guest host an upcoming episode of "Saturday Night Live."

• Busted, part one: Comcast cable got caught degrading the quality of their HD broadcasts so they could squeeze in more channels.

• Busted, part two: Slide.com, the photo-sharing application, got caught posting positive reviews of their own program.

• Dolby and SIM2 Multimedia unveiled a new kind of HD TV.

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