The Telegraph has redesigned it's website and added a daily podcast, hosted by Guy Ruddle, featuring many of their best-known columnists, correspondents and feature writers.

The Observer have a food podcast by Giorgio Locatelli who cooks some of his favourite recipes in his own kitchen at home.

Sphere.com is a new blog search engine which launched on Monday. Although not perfect it seems pretty useful.

News Corporation has bought two more Web 2.0 companies that specialize in user-generated content - Newroo offers users a content aggregator tool and kSolo.com is an online karaoke site.

Mike Davidson, chief executive of Newsvine believes that if MySpace was designed along the lines of Google it would have far less page impressions:

1. Click over to "GoogSpace", or whatever we want to call it. (+1 page view)
2. Click through to read and reply to all mail (0)
3. Visit a few friends' pages (+3)
4. Edit my profile page (+1)

1. Click over to MySpace. (+1 page view)
2. Log in, because MySpace doesn't remember logins very well. (+2)
3. Click through to read and reply to all mail… about three per mail. (+21)
4. Visit a few friends' pages. (+3)
5. Reload a few pages because of server errors. (+3)
5. Edit my profile page. (+10)

eHub has a list of the week's Web 2.0 highlights including:

- BlinkSale
- FeedRinse
- EditGrid
- Teamslide

The Guardian has an interesting view on BBC's announcement that they are going to revamp their website to encourage more "user-generated" content which will take them into directo competition with the likes of Google, Yahoo and MySpace.

Sony is preparing to launch a service that will allow PlayStation Portable (PSP) users to watch live television, play back recorded programmes and set up recordings through their home TV tuners. The upgrade also adds support for Flash website content and podcast streaming, as well as allowing additional music file formats to be played on the console.

Microsoft are jumping onto the social networking bandwagon as they created a new social networking technology company called Wallop which it says will solve some of the problems current social networking technologies sites face and will introduce a new way for consumers to express themselves online. The product will be launched later this year.

Ad Age has reported that Apple are considering including ads in iTunes. Visual ads may be connected to podcasts, perhaps furnishing podcast producers with a revenue stream.

The Mirror has released a podcast interview with Tom Jones in which he discusses his life, his music and, of course, his new single - Stoned In Love.

The Motley Fool has a good look at podcasts and suggests a number of ways in which they may be monetized in the future including:

- sponsorship
- audio spots
- subscription

Jamie Oliver is to launch a podcast which will be give answers, tips, recommendations and advice on a whole manner of culinary and kitchen related issues.

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Baris Karadogan has posted an exhaustive list of Web 2.0 companies. Wonder how many of these will be around in 12 months?

The number of podcasts managed by FeedBurner, a news feed service provider, now exceeds the total number of radio stations in the entire world, according to Rick Klau, FeedBurner's VP of Business Development.

It looks like Facebook will not be sold anytime soon as they have just received $25 Million in venture capital from some Silicon Valley investors.

Following the massive popularity of sites like MySpace and Facebook it was only a matter of time before everyone else started leaping onto the social networking bandwagon. Today's offerings are Sisterwoman.com which caters to women over 21 and JokeBox.com which invites users to share jokes and other funny material. Here are few more social networking communities that I predict will be launched in the next 12 months:

- over 50s
- gardening
- football fans
- pets
- venereal diseases
- etc
- etc

Specialist podcast producers Daisy Media have teamed up with Capital Gold radio presenter Alex Belfield to launch a series of free celebrity audio interviews. The first podcasts include interviews with Jordan, Katie Melua and Piers Morgan.

Visiblepath.com a new social networking site aimed at the corporate world has received $17million in funding. The site aims to do for the business world what MySpace has done for teenagers.

Here is a funny article from gigaom.com comparing web 1.0 with web 2.0. If you are a cynic you will not be suprised to see that there are more similarities than there are differences.