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AOL has redesigned its home page. You may not see it yet, because it’s being gradually rolled out, but it’s accessible at this link (kill the cookies if you’re from outside of the US and it keeps redirecting you to the UK version of the site). You can see a comparison between the new version [...]

It’s that time of the year again – a slow news Friday turns into a Halloween logo design contest. All the web companies will try to show off how cool, funny, and unbusinesslike they are by adorning their logos with cute little pumpkins and ghosts.
Last year I also went Halloween logo hunting (time flies [...]

Last year we did a post on 50+ tools for Web design. A lot has changed in the past year, and there are tons of new tools available to designers. Whether you’re just starting out and need a drag-and-drop builder or you’ve been coding for years and need tools to help you be more efficient, [...]

Want to know what the future for big web portals will look like? Yahoo’s developer team might just have an answer. Using YUI 2.x and YUI 3-based framework, they’re working on a new front page that will enable extensive customization for users; developers, on the other hand, will be able to create third party applications [...]

A day after Yahoo announced what the new front page of Yahoo.com will look like, and a couple of days after AOL redesigned its front page, Microsoft is doing pretty much the same thing, turning WindowsLive.com into a social networking hub of sorts.
It’s impossible to compare the three sites since neither the new WindowsLive [...]

The online image editing space has grown rapidly in the past year, providing great free and subscription-based options for users of all levels. These well-rounded services let you import images from your social networks, touch up photos, promote your work, and more. Here are 20 online image editors that are worth a try.
What are you [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials.
Company Name
Lymabean
20-Word Description
Lymabean injects actual real-life usefulness into college social networking, by bringing students and local businesses into the same interactive environment.
CEO’s Pitch
College students are always looking for events, sales, and job openings [...]

Two bits of interesting news on the Facebook front this evening. Nick O’Neill at All Facebook noticed that the social network has created additional ad inventory for sale on their sidebar, and we received details on the Application Verification Program that was announced earlier this week. 
Both signal a move by Facebook to get serious about [...]

Online music and its controversies are unavoidable, and with no end of hunger for access to tunes, the market has been an evolving battleground. With mavericks (in the non-Palin sense) like the aptly-named Grooveshark seeking to take a bite out of things, it’s refreshing to know that some services are using a lateral [...]