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You don’t have to go to different speed test sites to test your download/upload speed at different test servers anymore. SpeedTest.net is a Ajax/Flash hybrid web application that measures download and upload bandwidth of your Internet connection to and from global locations including cities in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, East Asia and South East Asia. It has an appealing visualization of a dashboard and a map in Flash that integrates with your results and sharing those results via AJAX. The coolest part is, it keeps records of your results with time and date. Even after you close your browser, the next time you go in there, the records will still be there!

WebORB has come up with a cool implementation of AJAX and Google Map in their web chat application…

Viruses that attack Instant Messengers have started to appear frequently lately. And Meebo just came out at the right time! Being a web based IMs client, it pretty much eliminates the threats from IM-viruses (even though that wasn’t the objective of Meebo). Meebo is a website that let you connect to the major IMs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Jabber and Google Talk, directly from their website…

The image above is actually a photomosaic of the famous painting ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh. It is made with over 210,000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1,500,000,000 points. In other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Go to it’s web page, and zoom in the image until you start to see the tiny images. It’s cool, isn’t it?

I’ve blogged about Kastner’s “Spell with Flickr” before. Since I used it again, for the website’s header image this time, I guess I would mention this free cool tool again…