GigaTribe has launched its U.S. service providing users with a private, encrypted Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment to share entire file folders of photos, videos, music and other files.

The basic version of GigaTribe is free and the “Ultimate” version comes at a price tag (News – Alert) of $29.95/year. The company claims that sharing files from its application is hassle free and free of any security risks.
P2P networks are largely used to share files and other types of content which cannot be sent in an email. A large number of internet users use the P2P networks to share files, search for the content they want and share them with their friends.

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For Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, a full-service financial institution with more than 140,000 members nationwide, finding a balance between safeguarding confidential member information while allowing employees to use the Internet to its fullest potential is essential to business. Recognizing the growing business value of Web 2.0 applications including blogs and social networking sites, Addison Avenue turned to Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) for an integrated solution for real-time Web 2.0 security and data loss prevention.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Social networks MySpace and Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube are being used as powerful new tools by extremist groups to spread a message of hate, participants in a conference on Internet hate speech warned here on Monday.

“MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are the ‘killer apps’ of the Internet today, and they’re used by millions, but the virus of hate certainly has infected those technologies,” Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against CyberHate (INACH), told the Global Summit on Internet Hate Speech.

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The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.

TroopTube, as the new site is called, lets people register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department employees or supporters. Members can upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection, but a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.

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Microsoft this week unveiled a slew of new online services that essentially transforms its Windows Live site into a social network.

The changes, which include updated photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities, have received mostly positive reviews from Web 2.0 industry observers.

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