Pligg is a popular Digg clone. This week has been a stressful week for many Pliggers due to a security vulnerability discovered and exploited by a few hackers. Pliggers should update to the latest latest version (9.9.5) asap. This release takes care of many security vulnerabilities that the hackers are exploiting.

Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content. However it fails in several ways, the most prominent of which is its aggresive backlinking policy.

An ex-Google employee and her husband has taken on the task of creating a good competition for Google by the name cuil (pronounced cool). Cuil is a search engine with a difference.

I am on to create a cool (really really cool) application with Java back-end, distributed processing and all . Expect to see lots of Java tech tips and articles in the coming days.

You can read popular magazines like Reader's Digest, PlayBoy, Popular Photography, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review, Viv, Car & Driver, Penthouse, PC Magazine, MacWorld, Esquire and more (total 20 high quality magazines) for free online. You can read the full magazines without any restrictions on any web browser. Here is how you can easily configure Firefox to read them: