Plus-size teen litSource: dailyfreeman.com
Like never before, teen lit is alive with plus-size characters who take on their school tormenters and get the guy, soaking up self-esteem as football heroes and big-girl models.
VOTE NOW! New Country Star Source: http://www.newcountrystar.com/Music.php
VOTE NOW for Country's Newest Star!
"It's My Lie" is climbing up Music Row and Billboard/Indiacator charts! Recently featured on WKCN and WSTH in Columbus, GA
Auto-Played Out: MySpace Music Streaming Drops 20%Source: Fast Company
In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as much as $10 million a month.
Report: Are iPhones Really Exploding All Over the World?Source: Gizmodo
We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—"world" as in "France, UK, and Belgium"—are greatly exaggerated. Here are all the known cases, and Apple's official answer.
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the livingSource: CNET.com
Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the user-written online encyclopedia.
Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter, Which Its Founder HatesSource: TechCrunch
Delicious was once one of the hottest social sites on the Internet. That's why Yahoo bought it in 2005. But it's weird now to even think about it as a social site, I get more of the utilitarian vibe from it these days. People still use it, but it's more of a repository.
AdWords Gets More LocalSource: TechCrunch
Google has made AdWords a little bit more local for businesses by allowing them to run location extensions on ads. According to Google, location extensions allow you to "extend" your AdWords campaigns by attaching your business address to your ads.
Plot Multiple Searches On Google MapsSource: TechCrunch
Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool for searching for pretty much anything in a specific geographic area, but I used to find it annoying that I would have to conduct multiple, separate searches in Google Maps for various items along a route or point of interest.
Google Health Now Lets You Upload Scanned Medical DocumentsSource: TechCrunch
Whether it be bills, insurance forms, medical records or prescriptions, patients are often inundated with vast quantities of paper. Google Health is now trying to help you organize all of this paperwork in its platform.
Bing Comes To HotmailSource: TechCrunch
Microsoft has upgraded it's Quick Add feature in Hotmail, first announced earlier this year, with a number of features from their new Bing search engine.
When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind BingSource: TechCrunch
As Microsoft tries to take away market share from Google with its new search engine, Bing, it is battling Google feature by feature. One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends.

I just upgraded to the new OS with it's new search feature, forward/deleting individual text messages, landscape format in the mail and SMS apps is also a big boost. I will probably post later this week or early next week on my initial impressions but so far, it is good.
Google Similar Images First LookSource: TechCrunch
A new 20% time Google project has just launched called, Google Similar Images. It's pretty self-explanatory, you search for an image and Google will find ones that it believes to be the same, or similar.
Gmail Gets A Panic ButtonSource: TechCrunch
Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. This happens to me a lot on Gmail because sending an email is not always instant.
Is YouTube Bringing Back The Upload Status Bar?Source: TechCrunch
Some things are so basic, there is just no excuse not to have them. For video-sharing sites, you'd think that a video upload status bar would be a standard feature—a progress bar that shows how much time you have left before your video is uploaded and ready for viewing.