The XBIZ Weekly Tech Round-up

CYBERSPACE – This week's Tech Round-up brings news about new ways to plan trips, avoid traffic, build websites and communicate with friends and colleagues.

• Webmasters who need help organizing their travel itineraries can now use TripIt.com, a service that uses confirmation emails from airlines and travel agencies to build a master list of plans.

• Adult webmasters, producers and stars who promote themselves with Facebook will soon have another way to communicate with fans and colleagues: Facebook Chat, which has soft-launched in a few Facebook networks.

• Webmasters looking for hosted, online solutions for forums and content-management systems now have two more options: Lefora.com, a free hosted forum solution, DimDim.com, a free hosted web conferencing solution, and CushyCMS.com, a free hosted content manager.

• Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has some great thoughts on the future of social networking. (Hint: start with the iPhone.)

Adobe launched Adobe TV and unveiled their new media player.

• Busted: Network Solutions has been been hijacking unassigned subdomains.

• For adult professionals who don't have time to tap out text messages on tiny cell phone key pads, SMS Officer lets users send text messages from Microsoft Outlook.

• Microsoft has unveiled a new service designed to help people avoid traffic jams: Windows Live Maps.

• For all adult webmasters who are also Twitter addicts and iPhone enthusiasts, there's a new way to combine them: Twinkle.

• A new, smaller and slimmer Bluetooth headset just hit the market: Aliph Jawbone 2.

• MediaForge has launched a new ad platform that combines banner advertisements with desktop widgets.

• Blockbuster is trying to get into the Hollywood-movies-on-demand game with Vudu.com.

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