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On January 27th, Google released another feature called "Social Search" which allows you to plugin your social networks and get reviews from friends and contacts. You have to be logged into your Google account to use this feature and have your social networks set up under your Google profile.

The feature works by searching on a search term, say "France" and results come combined with public updates from your social networks.

Google will have a hard time using Facebook status updates due to the privacy restrictions as much of Facebook requires a user to login to most content.

As we come upon the holiday seasons, more and more local food pantries are faced with a supply shortage and an increased need for food to help needy families. Here in Eldon, Missouri there are dozens of drives for our food pantries but the epidemic is nationwide mainly due to the economy.

You can find your local pantries by going to an online yellow pages (such as SuperPages.com) and typing in "food pantry" with your city, state. Strangely enough when looking up local listings in Tampa, Florida, I saw a "Pet Pantry". So let's not forget the animals, too.

I just noticed Paypal has a Virtual Terminal service for phone, fax and mail orders. I am not sure how long they've had this in place but it's a nice alternative than going through the expense of a merchant account anywhere else. The Paypal Virtual Terminal is for business accounts only.

The domain chosen as the demo site for the next development product for domainers is:

TalkingSports.com

I chose this name because it reflected a general category without being too niche and it was the closest name to what I was looking for. Thank you all for the submissions. There were many great names to chose from.

NEXT CONTEST: I have coordinated with Arbel Arif to bring you another development contest. This one will include a domain name in addition to development. He has a few interesting ideas in place that I'm sure you will all like. Details coming soon.