The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch

A survey of new technology is on tap in this week's Tech Watch, including a look at a slew of new startups and exciting new gadgets.

Seesmic.com is a new video chat community that combines the embeddable-video technology of YouTube with a public chat community.

• For adult professionals who like to promote themselves using social networking sites, take note that Facebook has passed MySpace in global visitors, though MySpace still gets more visitors from the USA.

• Review community Yelp.com has a new competitor in RateItAll.com. On both sites, users can rate and review various businesses.

StartForce is one of a few companies that's trying to provide a full operating system inside a web browser.

Powerset is a new search engine designed to make searching Wikipedia easier and more productive.

• For some reason, someone thought it was a good idea to combine a four-gigabyte jump drive with a mountain-climbing hook.

• Text-messaging addicts with carpal tunnel have a new option: 3Jam.com, which let users engage in text-message chats from their computers.

Covestor.com has joined the ranks of networking websites for people looking to pool their investments into one interactive stock portfolio.

• Here's an interesting new way to look at time.

• For the adult webmaster who has a high-maintenance significant other, there are these new diamond-encrusted earphones.

• Here's an intersting new startup: Twitterurly.com searches through millions of Twitter messages to find the most popular URLs being discussed and then aggregates them.

• Tired of Evite.com? Centerd.com has entered the online invitation game.

• For adult indsutry professionals who also love Legos and "Star Wars," there's a new 3,800-piece Lego Death Star.

• For climate-minded adult pros, there's Greenopolis.com, a green social networking site.

• Flash is coming to the Apple iPhone! Someday. When cars fly.

• The new site SimsCarnival.com lets enterprising users build their own online video games.

• In a similar vein, MightyQuiz.com lets users build thier own embeddable quizzes.

Hakia.com is one of the newer semantic search engines, and they've released a new gizmo that lets users build their own semantic search engines, which are based on meaning, rather than the popularity of search terms.

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