MapJack: Google Street View For San Francisco

If you live in (or are going to visit) San Francisco, there’s a neat new website for you to use.  If you live anywhere else, well . . . there’s a neat new website for you to look at.  MapJack, which can be compared with Google’s Street View, only works in that one Californian city.

If You Spam Digg, Learn English

Gaming Digg.com has gone international. Or perhaps just retarded, as traffic-minded spammers shuffle in with broken English and a generally poor master plan.

China’s Brief Block On Yahoo Resolved

Google’s had its problems in China, but for a day or so, it seemed like Yahoo had been knocked out of the running entirely - the main site was inaccessible from within that country.  The block has now been removed.

Pownce: Collaboration From & at the Hip

At first glance, Kevin Rose of Digg's new startup Pownce is Yet Another Status Message Service (YASMS) like Twitter, Jaiku or Plazes.  But really, its a collaboration app made for the most modern web.  It's bound for adoption because the founders can drive word of mouth and its inherent virality.  And perhaps what it does is less important than the three trends it represents.