Hop over to CrunchGear to join their “The Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge“. The person who sends in the worse looking workplace stands to win a $900 Think Chair or a Leap Chair. 4 runner-ups will get a gift card from iFrogz. The Challenge will run for 7 days starting today.

+ Dell launches Ideastorm, a suggestion board for their products and services with a digg like voting system.

+ Adobe Labs introduces Myfeedz beta, a new “RSS Social Newspaper” that intelligently finds and tracks news according to you preferences and interests. Is this the next generation RSS reader?

+ Happy Birthday AJAX, you are two years old today and look forward to seeing you for many years to come.

+ Hong Kong Startup TnC has launched EditGrid, a new online spreadsheet was launched yesterday. Likened to Google Spreadsheets, it boasts real-time editing and extensive collaboration.

+ Digital Inspiration shows you how to burn YouTube Videos to DVDs.

+ Inside Google’s New York Headquarters. A look at the Googleplex for the curious mind.

+ Peekface.com, enables you to rate companies related to your job experience and allows job seekers to get the inside scoop on any company.

+ Joost (formerly the Venice Project) has just released a beta version of its client for Mac OS X. Joost? is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds.

+ Lockheed Martin and Supersonic Aerospace International has joined forces to make the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST), a high speed luxury jet that flies coast to coast in 2 hours at Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approx. 1,056 mph to 1,188 mph) quietly without the eardrum-blistering sonic booms.

Yahoo had launched it’s own version of Digg’s like site two days ago. Called Yahoo Suggestion Board, it does in fact look very much like Digg, causing annoyance to the loyal Digg community. Over at the Yahoo blog where the announcement was made, it had attracted a total of 289 comments at the time of my writing, a lot of them posted by disgruntled Digg’s loyalists.

Here are some of the comments:

“Shame on Yahoo! Auto for copying Digg?s interface completely. Where?s your originality? Oh wait! You guys have no originality what so ever!”

“Wow, ripping off Digg UI? How low can Yahoo and it?s employees get? Grow a back bone and design something original.”

“Aren’t you afraid of being sued by DIGG.com regarding your blatant and admitted copying of their site? Hell, your user interface graphics are almost identical. Me personally if I was to plagiarized, I wouldn?t mention the source and I surely wouldn?t boast about it.”

“You literally stole the design from Digg.com. How is that even remotely okay? If another company stole Yahoo!?s design, you?d file a lawsuit to protect your intellectual property (and you have!). Why is it okay for you to not just steal the visual design of another site, but their voting system as well? This is disgusting.”

It is interesting to see what would happen next. How would Yahoo defend itself against the accusations? How would Digg respond to Yahoo’s latest site? Over at Digg’s blog, I found no mention of Yahoo’s Suggestion Board yet by any of the bloggers but it’s probably a matter of time before that it would be discussed there. It certainly takes two to tango.

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Performancing.com was acquired by SplashPress Media and David Krug (of 901am) today. SplashPress Media, who owns several sites including the popular site The Blog Herald will be acquiring the bloggers’ community and Performancing Metrics. ScribeFire (their Firefox plugin) and the Performancing Partners Network, has not been sold. Performancing will run as a separate division of SplashPress and will be headed by David Krug.

You can hear the full Performancing podcast interview below. (Courtesy of Technosailor)

Performancing has been been in chaos in the last couple of months with server problems, the failed acquisition by PayPerPost, leading to them closing their advertising network and metrics tools, rebranding their Performancing tool (now names ScribeFire) and CEO Nick Wilson resigning.

Background

Performancing.com is a site that gives information and bloggers a change to read more about the subject of blogging professionally. It had an advertising network (Performancing Partners Network) that allowed blogs to sell advertisements, the perfomancing metrics tool (a free blog analytics service), Performancing Exchange (an online classifieds for bloggers) and the ever popular Firefox Perfomancing tool (a blog editor plugin for Firefox). At its high, Performancing had a community of over 28,000 professionals since it launched in 2005.

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Podcast Interview Source [Technosailor]

Ajaxian has posted a way of hacking Digg with two tools i.e. jQuerify and a Fix Digg script. This would allow you to build a reusable “bookmarklet” that can manipulate digg Posts and Comments like remove all buried comments from a Digg post. This screencast shows you how to do it.

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