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Google and Microsoft may have been edging each other to go ahead and close the twitter deal. Facebook offered $500 Million and were denied. There are rumors that Apple is involved in the race and might be keen on closing the deal June 8 (Apple worldwide Developer Conference). While the Cupertino giant might be have plans, Twitter Co founder Biz Stone, announces that “We are not for sale”!!

Mozilla has launched the prototype of a new web developer framework called mozilla bespin, which collaborates the speed and ease of a desktop based development and compounds the editor with cloud computing. Give it a try, its good!!

There are many online backup websites popping up on the internet as more and more people realize the importance of off-site backups. Kabooza is one such website that offer unlimited space for a mere 14c a day.

Social networking services are currently showing explosive growth and the number of different services are exploding at the moment. Brightkite is one of these new services and they have an interesting mix of micro blogging a la Twitter and a strong location based focus. This gives a social networking service with great potential.

WRT54G2 is a very popular wireless device from Linksys, following on the WRT54G model. Setting up wireless networking, sharing and multi player gaming is very easy with Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps). Extremely stylish and handy with internal antenna, the price is very lucrative.

After Google, Yahoo and Apple, Microsoft is all geared to cloud computing, and is working on services which could help windows mobile platform users to sync their data. Skybox and Skyline will be two services, to be launched soon, possibly at the Mobile World Congress

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has a very small workforce of 23 people and is a non-profit organization. Wikipedia is ranked 8th most visited website on the internet, you should be able to imagine the workload of the servers. It takes huge effort and $6 million dollars to keep wikipedia accessible to every user on the internet, for free. Its time the community gives something back to wikipedia

Digg is among the top 100 sites on the internet and is obvious from the 30 million visitors per month. This traffic slapped digg with a $4 million loss in 2008, with a quarter to be taken into account. With a $28 million funding and continuing losses, Is digg burying itself down?

Will you pay to use twitter? – A couple of years ago, blogging was fancy. Come twitter, and the life style of millions of people have changed. Micro blogging or tweets is the way people communicate and the twitter community is proliferating multi fold every month. It is quite obvious that twitter will be monetized soon. What can be expected in the prototype operations? Will twitters have to pay?