We published about the new travel search site that only focus on deals and sales when it launched a few weeks ago. Yesterday, Voyij added numerous European destinations to its offering. For those of you who did not decide yet what to do for your summer vacation, this site could be super useful and save you some money too.

Opera's goal is to enable users to share content, on every device, to every device. Opera Unite is a web server integrated in your web browser. By doing so, Opera allows its users to share files (an Opera account is required).

Opera has demonstrated how to share media files like photos (it takes a few clicks). Again, that's file sharing. The next demo is about sharing notes. Your friends finds your shared items via your Opera ID, that's why it is required. The next demo streams music over the web. You can make your music private or public (beware of the legal ramifications).

There were a lot of interesting things at Google IO, Google's developer conference held in San Francisco over the past two days. There was something for everyone, from SEO basics to new Widget products to the geeky Google Wave that aims to be a "new" way to communicate.

Google knows that it needs a very strong developer community to be successful outside of search, email and maps. Providing a lot of free stuff, including T-Mobile G1 phones after the keynote (we passed) and APIs is a huge step. Google also showed how one can build a business using its free tools.

No matter how people are raving about the new stuff, some will succeed and many will fail. What's important is the developer enthusiasm - it was great. It feels like the early days of game development when there was something cool at every event. For those who were unable to attend, the keynote video is embedded below. To view more sessions go the Google IO official site videos should arrive soon.

The Skyfire team has been working on polishing its web browser before the 1.0 milestone that just launched now. From the version 0.9, Skyfire has improved the user interface (the zoom+scroll in particular), search and even power consumption. Windows Mobile (5+6) and Symbian users can download the version 1.0 at get.skyfitre.com today. Blackberry users will have to wait as the Blackberry version is still in closed beta.

If you are not familiar with Skyfire, it is a mobile browser where web pages are pulled by a desktop PC in a central server location. The PC runs flash, silverlight and other heavy plug-in, then compresses the image and sends it to your phone. It is like a "remote desktop" in some ways. Check our previous article or go to Skyfire's website.

Related: Skyfire offers VGA support

[Where 2.0] Yesterday, Waze unveiled its free real time driver-generated maps application for the United States. Waze launched a private alpha program for its mobile application, that collects driver-generated data to provide accurate real time information about road conditions, traffic, street closures and more. Installed on drivers' smartphones, Waze automatically communicate GPS point anonymously as they drive, collecting driving speed to determine traffic and road conditions. Drivers can update the maps and report road problems in one click (see picture).

The application is already widely used in Israel by 80,000 commuters who created the entire navigable map from scratch within less than a year. Waze has launched an alpha version of its mobile application in San Francisco, Chicago and Boston and you can sign up at www.waze.com. There are plans to open it to the general public in the coming months, and it will soon be accessible to developers via APIs as well.

Dash Express tried to build a specific two-way connected hardware to create this kind of drivers network that updates maps in real time, and they did not make it, it is obviously easier and faster to only develop the software for existing wirelessly connected mobile devices.

The GMail labs folks have cooked up a new automatic translation feature: if you receive an email that's not in your language, Google will propose an automated translation.

We're all aware that computer translations aren't accurate, but it is a still better than nothing, especially if you don't speak (and/or read) a language at all.

If it is your intention to communicate with someone through this automated translation, we recommend to use simple language that can be easily translated by a computer (they typically aren't very good with context or slang, but do well with word-for-word and simple stuff). Here's how to make it work:

Simply enable "Message Translation" from the Labs tab under Settings, and when you receive an email in a language other than your own, Gmail will help you translate it into a language you can understand. In one click.

Another day, another iPhone app... Gypsii is a social networking app that leverages the iPhone's GPS capabilities, allowing users to create and share their travel diary on the go with geotagged content. Through GyPSii CONNECT, social addicts can access other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and share their status, newly created places and friends there as well.

The application has launched today on Apple app store and it is already available on other phones from Samsung, LG, Nokia and Blackberry, it can be downloaded at www.gypsii.com/m. The application is available in English and Chinese. Check out the video to see how it works, there are plans to add other languages shortly.

What could better fit Facebook than a face recognition application developed by Face.com?

Facebook has recently become the first photo sharing website in the world, hosting over 15 billion photos and adding 850 million more each month; so, helping people retrieve photos of themselves and their friends makes perfect sense. Trying Photo Finder was also a fun and addictive activity, I almost forgot to write my article... I was amazed how fast my unknown (untagged) photos were retrieved although the lighting condition and the quality were so bad in some of them. According to Face.com, a few thousand people have used the application in closed alpha for only 30 days, and just from that group, 400 million photos have been scanned and more than 700,000 people have been identified.

Instead of having to search manually numerous sites to find the best travel deals for your next vacation, use Voyij.com, it automatically crawls the web to find the best deals across hundreds of suppliers. The user interface is well done, so searching for deals is fast, you can either choose from a list of destinations or select a date range and find the best prices for flights departing from your city. Voyij.com currently has 14,473 sales and specials to offer.

I did not test it that much against other sites, I tried the deals section of Expedia and Kayak and they were much more complicated to navigate and slower to provide a result than Voyij.com. Although the deals were not comparable regarding hotel quality and vacation duration, they seemed to be in the same price range on Kayak. The site covers North America and the Caribbean, however other international destinations will be added this summer.

Another day, another tool to prevent "Social Networking fatigue". Gizapage lets users manage their multiple online profiles from more than 40 social sites under a single customizable URL. (i.e name.gizapage.com). Gizapages provides a main personal profile, users can add all their social networking profiles as separate tabs and discover faster their friends's social profiles line up without having to browse several websites. This new services offers also a good control of privacy and access to social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, WordPress, Last.fm and Digg. Gizapage was founded in 2008 by Amit Jaipura,(profile in picture) and the beta opens to the public today.

While we are all (aka the Nokia users) awaiting the Ovi Store grand opening, Nokia will discontinue the development of Ovi share, its photo sharing website. Competing in the same space with leaders like Facebook and Flickr, Nokia is selecting its media sharing platform to address its recently announced cost efficiency effort across its services. That's a smart move, knowing that the upcoming handsets such as the N97 will promote direct access to Facebook and Youtube. The service is planned to be "maintained in its current state", so current users can still manage their pictures there.

By Karsten Lemm

Leave it to one of the biggest names in news to launch a major upgrade of its digital service in stealth mode: The New York Times just released the second version of its "Times Reader", a stand-alone application that automatically downloads the paper's news content, checks for updates, and displays articles in a way that's nicer looking and more readable than on the NYT website. But it's easy to miss the upgrade, as the Times has so far done little to promote it.

That's a shame, as version 2.0 is definitely an improvement. The Times dropped Microsoft's Silverlight in favor of Adobe's AIR (Flash on steroids, so to speak), meaning the Reader runs on all major platforms – Windows, Mac and Linux – and is easy to install within seconds. You can then read the news online or offline, as the application caches all articles for the current day as well as the previous six days. So in effect, you get a week's worth of news. And yes, the crossword puzzle is there as well, in fully interactive form.

Google has a new video ad campaign for its Chrome web browser that looks pretty cool. It's not meant to teach you what Chrome is, but in essence people should get away with the idea that Chrome is simpler, "less messy" and fun. Most importantly, Google hopes that the audience will simply check it out and try it. Best for Arkanoid fans

Nielsen has published a report that shows that 60% of Twitter users quit using the service after one month. This will of course make the day of Twitter's critics that will be quick to point out that Twitter is facing an "uphill battle", especially after the quick growth initiated by famous users like Oprah.

Even if the numbers are accurate, is this really a big problem? Sure some users are quitting, but it was true for blogging, so why wouldn't it be for micro-blogging? It would be more interesting to measure the number of tweets or even pageviews, rather than measuring "only" the number of active users. While we don't expect Twitter's retention rate to ever equal Facebook's, we think that the retention rate alone doesn't tell the whole story.