LinkBIGGER has officially launched it's public BETA testing phase. While the system is able to easily offer you the ability to find, and trade links within minutes of signing up to the service, there remains many tweaks, fixes, and features to be added. That being said, the development team still works ridiculous long hours daily to bring these updates to the site for you to take advantage of.

We are extremely proud to have had Xbiz pickup the news of our public beta testing, and want to thank them for their show of support! And all of you for beginning to use the system, and many of you adopting it into your daily working routine, which really is the goal. We want LinkBIGGER to take care of all your linking needs!

We have received many suggestions, and have implemented a number of them already, the biggest probably being the switch from javascript includes to PHP includes, which was done in under 24 hours after the request by several users was made. We are molding the site into a tool designed for the webmaster daily workflow, with your needs in mind.

We ask for your patience as the system rounds itself out and becomes an even better tool for you!

The Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder webapp displays free wireless internet hotspots in your area on a Google Maps mashup. To use it, just give it your address, city, or zip and it''ll display many of the nearby hotspots. This sort of tool isn''t new by any means, but it is returning better results in my area than previously mentioned webapps like Hotspotr.

If you give it a try, let''s hear how the hotspot finder measures up in your area in the comments. While you''re there, you may want to download wiPod, which stores all that hotspot information in note form for easy browsing on your iPod.

[Free Wi-Fi/Hotspot Finder] via [Lifehacker]

Inspired by Gizmodo's Addy's post on a man and his "love" of robots, the guy at SlashDong decided to take a Fleshlight and make it into an input device for his computer. The whole setup costs about $100ish, and consists of a cap replacement for the Fleshlight, a control box, a rubber tube, and a USB cable. Oh, and an actual sex game to use it with. You didn''t think you could use this to Photoshop, did you?

The end result, after programming the computer to think that this makeshift device is a mouse, is that you can use your wang to simulate having sex with a woman on screen. Of course, it''s an incredibly ugly woman with 1995-era graphics, but it corresponds to your penile motions. Is this a revolution in sexual computing? Are we going to see more of these devices in the future? We think yes

[Slashdong (NSFW)] via [Gizmodo]

A select few of the LinkBIGGER.com development team will be present at the Cybernet tradeshow in San Francisco from June 10th to the 12th! We are very much looking forward to meeting many of you face-to-face, aswell as the oppurtunity to show you many of the features and advantages LinkBIGGER has to offer.

The LinkBIGGER.com crew also has some very exciting news, that every webmaster both big and small will be very interested in hearing. We plan to make this announcement at the Cybernet show - but those of you not able to attend the show will also find out very shortly thereafter!

We look forward to seeing you at the show!