Catherine England, an eBay spokeswoman, said the winning bid on Rush Limbaugh’s auction set a record for the most expensive item ever sold for charity on the site. The item in question was a letter from Democratic senators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, blasting Limbaugh for using the phrase “phony soldiers” on the air. [...]

Instabird is the newest project from the Mozilla folks, and it’s a multi-client chat program that allows you to connect to several of the mainstream instant messaging services such as AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!. The project is still in early beta (version .1 beta), but the adventurous user can strike out and attempt to compile [...]

Starting Thursday, October 25th, Facebook will be rolling out what can best be described as a small security update to the notifications system due to some concerns over third party apps. The change enacted by Facebook will show notifications to the user of what has been sent out to their friends, whether the action was [...]

ReverbNation now has a new profile option just for marketing purposes. The new profiles are to be used by Record Labels and Management Companies for the promotion of all the artists on their label. ReverbNation offers tracking and metrics as well, so you can see how the online marketing is going. [...]

David Recordon announced a new service entitled the “Six Apart Relationship Update Stream” today in a blog post shortly after an appearance with Brad Fitzpatrick at the Web 2.0 Summit today. The tool released was aluded to last month in a post Recordon made at Six Apart.Recordon describes this developer platform as an “endless feed [...]

Google News has launched a Facebook app which essentially brings your news feeds into your Facebook profile. There’s nothing terribly significant about the application itself, or the functionality therein, and more than one developer has created ways in which to incorporate your Google feeds from iGoogle into your Facebook profile. Once you add [...]

Radiohead, which offered its latest album as free downloads last week, has seen 1.2 million downloads of “In Rainbows.” With no label, no promotions, and direct access to fans, Radiohead gave up its music for free and asked for donations, whatever fans deemed reasonable, in return. What the band got was an [...]

Squidoo has added another section to its growing list of co-branded services. SquidVids lets you create your own channel of sorts, aggregating videos that are important to you. These are called lenses. The service is generally similar to Me.tv, but incorporates more of the overall Squidoo service. When you sign up, [...]

Searchles Groups has teamed up with Total Telecom, a global communications site, to offer user-generated tag clouds for Total Telecom’s TME page, which is the site’s aggregated news page for community use. What happens is that tags are pushed from the TME page and the Total Telecom branded group on Searchles. Clicking [...]

There’s a zero-day vulnerability in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer that allows malicious code to be installed on users machine. The vulnerability appears to have been first noticed by NASA yesterday.The memo issued to all employees and contractors of NASA stated that they should not use Internet Explorer if Real Player were installed on the [...]