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TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

One scenario where TinEye can be used is if you are a photographer and want to know if your photos are being used without your permission.

Unfortunately, TinEye is still in private beta but you can request an invite.
I have 3 invites to give away so get cracking if you want one. Just leave a comment on this post and please include you email address!

On last thing, Amber Mac has done well in explaining the service!

Catch the 2008 Beijing Summer Games online for free! No registration required. This is especially useful if you live in an area where the games are only available on paid television.

Ever wondered how big the web is? I’m sure you have. Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers at Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team posted an interesting entry on the Official Google Blog.

The answer? 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs.

Live Mesh is a data synchronization system from Microsoft that allows files and folders to be shared and synchronized across multiple devices. Live Mesh consists of a software component that allows synchronization relationships to be created among different devices. Once a folder is set for synchronization, it will be available in all devices, and any changes made to the content of the folder will be reflected across all devices. Live Mesh uses FeedSync to convey the changes made in each device so that the changes can be synchronized. The information about devices and folders participating in a synchronization relationship is not stored locally but at the service-end. Devices in a sync relationship are collectively referred to as a Mesh.

Via Live Mesh - Wikipedia

Live Mesh has been in the news lately for being a very promising tool to sync your data to the cloud. James Kendrick & Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun pulled some strings and managed to get a sneak preview at the Live Mesh client for Mac OS X.

On another note, I have been using Dropbox religiously for the past month or so and I just love it! With Dropbox, I’m able to keep a backup of my files online, as well as share them with friends and colleagues.

You might remember me giving away a whole bunch of invites to Dropbox in May / June. It was hugely popular and the kind folks at Dropbox increased my limit, allowing me to invite over 100 people.

This time, I can only invite 15 of you so get cracking if you want one! Just leave a comment on this post and make sure you enter a valid email address. One last thing, please do not give your email address away in the comment area unless you want more SPAM!

We’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.

Summize is a popular service for searching Twitter and keeping up with emerging trends in real-time. Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand.

It’s official! Twitter has acquired over one of my favourite tool, Summize. Read more about the acquisition here.