Synthasite is a browser based Ajax website creator with an extra collaboration enabling feature. It is a mix between a wiki creators like PBwiki and MindTouch and website creators Weebly, Sampa and SiteKreator. Synthasite lets you create your own website with WYSIWYG editing and drag and drop multimedia features. It offers a “digg this” button for your articles and videos, a flickr search button and a YouTube embedder. There are also drag and drop HTML and plain text fields, labels and images. Synthasite also offers file management, component libraries, …

Google’s mobile application is available for the Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and numerous other mobile phone solutions.
The application supports websearch, directions, maps, business listings, GMail, YouTube, and phone contact search.
Google Mobile also supports an SMS search system, by which users can search by texting search keywords to GOOGLE (466453), and GOOG-411, a free phone business directory.

Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos and music.
Animoto analyzes the provided photos and music, automatically generating a trailer like video. According to Animoto website, its engine analyzes users’ photos and music and takes into consideration music’s genre, rhythm, and tempo to generate a video that takes into the song’s nuances. The site claims no two videos are ever the same.
As of Auguest 2008, 250,000 users in over 200 countries have registered with Animoto.com with 4 million videos and 50 million views.

Cooliris, formerly known as PicLens, is a web browser plugin that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The plugin is available for Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. At present, the software is compatible with Google Image Search, Yahoo! Image Search, Ask.com Images, Live Search Images, AOL Image Search, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, SmugMug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, Friendster, YouTube (for videos), Gallery, and any web site that implements mediaRSS <link> tags in their HTML pages. The software places a small icon in the corner of an …

A collection of Favorite startups and products for 2009 by Michael Arrington, it also shows a list from previous years…
From TechCrunch
At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this – previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners of the Crunchies – this list is all mine…

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends.
Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members’ social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track …

Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. As of January 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular search terms. Mahalo means “thank you” in Hawaiian.
Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as …

Viewzi is a search engine company based in Dallas, Texas that is developing a highly visual experience that tailors the way users look at information based on what they are looking for. The search engine lightens the data overload by filtering and grouping results into several distinct interfaces. Users get over 16 “views” for their search including MP3 view (with a list of streaming audio you can play), album view (cover art and related musicians), plus specialized lenses for images, news, and more.

Google search is a Web search engine owned by Google, Inc., and is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
PageRank
Google’s algorithm uses a patented system called PageRank to help rank web pages that match a given search string.

Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension.
Since February 18, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on an HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5-9 megabits for expected HD quality.