The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch

This week's tech watch brings word that the iPhone black market continues to expand, along with other news from around the world of emerging technology.

• Here's this week's iPhone update: The company behind an iPhone jailbreaking app called Cydia plans to build its own black market online. Cydia's app store will provide off-market apps for jailbroken iPhones in much the same way Apple's own App Store does. Users will be able to buy and install apps directly through the store. Yahoo has made inroads into search on the device with a new app called Inquisitor.

• Google has rolled out a new online service called Tip Jar to help users share ideas on how to save money in the weak economy.

• Facebook app developers can now integrate their products with Facebook's chat service.

• Twitter power users may want to try Topify, which lets users manage their Twitter accounts over email.

• Online promoters may want to try out Wildfire, a new miltiplatform app that lets users build interactive promotional campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Its terms of service make no mention of adult content, but as always, industry professionals should proceed carefully.

• Here's an interesting new social-networking aggregator: Lifeblob, which promises to compile photos, blogs and information from many social networking sites into one, unified chronological gizmo they're naturally calling a timeline. That focus on when events happened is what the site's developers hope will distinguish Lifeblob.

• This new power strip lets users turn anything on or off with a unified remote control.

• Adult industry professionals who still have the occasional bit of disposable income may want to buy this high-end new PC tower.

• Gizmodo has a review of the new Apple iMac, but could Steve Jobs' empire learn a thing or two from the PC world?

• Video-delivery website Joost has teamed up with the social-networking website Netlog to expand their audience, but they still don't offer a portal for adult content.

• In the ongoing battle to generate new top-level domains, there's a new player who wants to launch the eco-friendly .ECO TLD.

• Avid gamers might enjoy this new cell phone that flips out into a portable video game system that plays old Nintendo Entertainment System games.

• CrunchGear has information on how to link Hulu videos with the Boxee-brand set-top cable box.

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