Yahoo! Inc. has released Search Pad beta, a search feature that lets people capture, organize, save and share information they find while researching online. Search Pad provides a new search experience that is especially valuable for people conducting extensive research in categories such as academic, health, jobs, travel, or shopping.

Search Pad simplifies the task of capturing information by automatically recognizing when people are conducting research, and allowing them to easily capture information and websites found in their search results. Once activated, Search Pad automatically saves recent items, including links in one integrated notepad that stays with them as they search. People can edit their notes and then print, save, email, or share their Search Pad documents with family, friends, colleagues or anyone else, eliminating the need for others to do the same research.

The new Yahoo! Search Pad feature will be rolling out initially to people by searching at Yahoo.com in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.

Nextgov.com has launched a new Web 2.0 tool which aggregates official Twitter feeds from federal government agencies.

Dubbed “The Feed,” Nextgov’s Twitter page pulls together the official Twitter feeds from dozens of federal agencies, allowing readers to monitor government activities in real time by visiting a single web page at www.nextgov.com/thefeed.

Visitors to The Feed can opt to see all federal tweets in one place or they can select to see only certain categories of tweets, including business and finance, defense and diplomacy, law enforcement, government at work, and the White House.

TinyMassive.com, a social comparison shopping engine catering to quick click shoppers, has launched the first Twitter application to find lowest product pricing. The integrated feature allows users to “tweet” their product search directly to @TinyMassive, the company’s Twitter account. Consumers will receive a reply tweet in under thirty seconds identifying the lowest price available for the product and the link to purchase. One tweet shopping will save consumers money and time.

TinyMassive.com’s social comparison shopping engine integrates and leverages other Web 2.0 opportunities including Facebook Connect and Help Me Choose. Its Twitter application is the first and only to allow one tweet shopping.

Meebo has announced a major product update to its social communications technology. With the addition of multi-network IM access, users can now interact across all of the social graphs that matter individually to them, bringing their friends from major social networks, gaming sites, and IM buddy lists directly into Meebo’s partner sites. Users can further engage with this expanded network by seamlessly sharing content via a new and intuitive sharing interface. Content sites interested in increasing the volume of content sharing, but without their own social graph, can use the multi-network IM feature to expand their reach and drive social interactions.

Partners are expected to benefit from increased social engagement and faster growth through sharing features that let users instantly send links to any of their friends.

RedGage, a new website that pays people for their online content and monetizes their social activity, announced the launch of its public beta. RedGage is a centralized hub where users can earn money for content they create – as well as past activity – on sites like Flickr, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The site aggregates content automatically from popular websites and pays users a dollar value based on the quality of their work, which is measured by page views and popularity.

For those managing several social media accounts, RedGage provides a one-stop destination that will automatically import their new content, so no manual work is required to earn money. Users can create a centralized web identity and a comprehensive portfolio of content that can be searched by them, their friends and others.

Have you been a victim of bad photo tagging on Facebook? Perhaps it was that old prom photo sporting your signature big 80’s hairdo? Or those pictures from the company holiday party you hoped would never resurface? Now, you can have the last laugh, with the launch of the Staples I Shred U! Facebook application from Staples, Inc. I Shred U! allows Facebook users to tell their friends how they really feel about those bad photos, by shredding it to bits via a virtual shredder and sending it back with a personalized message. I Shred U! also lets users “trick” photos by giving friends and family a hilarious new look.

With more than 200 million active users on Facebook uploading over 850 million photos each month, the Staples I Shred U! application will be the first of its kind to allow users to virtually shred bad photos without actually deleting the picture from their friend’s Facebook album. Want to send a clear message to the friend who tagged you in that bad picture? Facebook users can choose a distinct Staples brand shredder to shred those unforgiving photos, and then alert friends of their action. To keep the fun going, users can “trick out” photos from their Facebook albums by adding mullets, mustaches, speech bubbles and more.

Federated Media Publishing (FM) and Apartment Therapy Media, a network of home-oriented social media sites, announced an exclusive partnership.

Founded by author and interior designer, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Apartment Therapy is devoted to helping people make their homes beautiful, organized, and healthy. In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver Ryan, launched the site which has since become one of the most popular and influential design blogs in the country.

Apartment Therapy Media represents more than 3 million unique readers and 20 million pageviews per month.

AP reports that the National American University is suing porn site operated by La Touraine Inc. for its use of Naughty American University and the acronym NAU. The lawsuit is seeking to prevent the use of the school’s trademark and financial damages.

National American University was founded in 1941 in Rapid City. It was first known as the National School of Business. It has since then grown to South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.

Citi has launched CitiFX Pro Mobile, a mobile version of CitiFX Pro, Citi’s online foreign exchange (FX) trading platform for active individual and small institutional traders. CitiFX Pro Mobile is accessible via portable digital devices and mobile phones including the iPod touch and iPhone.

CitiFX Pro offers clients the ability to access state-of-the-art trading capabilities in more than 130 currency pairs in addition to award-winning research and FX market commentary free of charge and 24-hour personal customer support. CitiFX Pro also offers unlimited FDIC coverage on US dollar margin deposits.

CitiFX Pro applicants in the United States who open an account between May 18th and June 18th (and meet certain conditions) will get an Apple Gift Card valued at $300. The gift card can be used towards the purchase of an iPod Touch or iPhone or any other Apple product.

Multiply, Inc. has redesigned its website to enhance the user experience and make it easier than ever to manage and share media, and communicate with a member’s network of real-life friends and family in a safe, secure setting.

In addition to the site’s newly designed look and feel, Multiply now enables its members to do even more, with new tools and features that make it a complete media management and communications tool in the cloud.

Multiply has also added a number of features that will enhance communications. Status updates will enable users to share their latest activities – in popular microblogging format – with their networks. Members can now suggest connections for their contacts, making “virtual introductions” to their other friends and family on Multiply. Multiply’s redesigned inbox makes it easy for a member to decide how much of their network’s content they wish to view, but also easily filter by content type and offering quick access to top friend and group pages.