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It was bound to happen. Google loves a big player on the Internet (Youtube, Blogger, etc.) and has plenty of cash in its war chest to spend. Word is that Google and Twitter are currently in the beginning stages of talks about a buyout from Google. The expected value hasn’t been revealed but you can bet it’ll be somewhere between $250-$500 million.

Why does Google want Twitter? Easy: real-time search. Combined with Google’s advertising platform, Twitter could easily become one of the more profitable businesses on the web.

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With the age of Bit Torrent upon us, computer users demand more storage than ever before. I myself am in dire need of a new 1TB hard disk to hold all the movies, applications and other garbage I download. However, I tend to have a problem with most external hard drives. They usually work fine for two years and then clunk out and need to be replaced. Mucho sucko, I know.

That’s where Cucku comes in. You and a trusted friend both install the Cucku application. You’ll then be able to back up your data onto your friend’s brand spankin’ new computer. Sure, your buddy dropped $900 last week on new hard disks but hey, that’s not your problem. All you’re concerned with is moving Season 4 of The Wire off your hard drive. Cucku can do this for you. Right now, it’s Windows-only software, which is fine since Apple offers iDisk. If you want to learn more, hit the link below.

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Did it really take this long for the guys at Mule Design to think of a snarky t-shirt involving Web 2.0? I hope not. For $20, this Kool-Aid Man shirt will be in heavy rotation until the next ‘net bubble bursts. Just ask Jerry Yang or Michael Arrington.

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Probably the smartest move MySpace, as a business and livelihood, has chosen to take so far. News Corp Inc. announced that MySpace.com will be teaming with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to inform the public of Amber Alerts.

For those of you born in a cage, Amber Alerts are the national alert system through law agencies to signal that their is a possibly kidnapped child. Using this system, pictures and last known whereabouts of the child are distributed to all law officials, media outlets, and now, to MySpace.com.

This partnership is somewhat of an odd pairing considering the situations that children get in on MySpace. Though as a business decision, it’s a smart way to get the hawk eyes off of its back for now. Other then the evident selfish reasons why MySpace would make this agreement, having alerts spread through MySpace will be an effective way of spreading the news and identity of the missing child. Increasing the kids chance of a safe recovery.

MySpace has also recently announced it’s development of software that will allow parents to monitor their childs use of MySpace, while also keeping tabs of the age and location the child says they are from. — Andrew Dobrow

MySpace to Distribute Amber Alerts [PhysOrg]

That infamous color pink… it makes guys make sure that they choose a very different color scheme, but it always seems to draw the female crowd in. The leading Web 2.0 instant messaging client Meebo has just added a pink theme to its increasingly popular application. Meebo allows users to make their own Meebo account and tie in each of their AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk together and talk to buddies/friends in each protocol all at once. It sounds a bit like the application Trillian, but Meebo is strictly an online client. So who knows, maybe this new pink color scheme will attract more people to Meebo, maybe it won’t, but it will definitely brighten up some user’s boring blue Meebo screens. — Nik Gomez

Pink IM from Meebo [ShinyShiny]