Mashable is reporting that Buzznet has acquired Qloud for a "little over their last round valuation." Qloud launched in November 2007 and is backed by AOL Founder Steve Case. PaidContent reported that Buzznet picked up $25 million in VC funding last week and was looking at potential acquisitions. Could Qloud be the first one?

Qloud provides a music directory and listening application for Facebook, Friendster, Bebo and hi5.

Here’s a chart of the Qloud application usage from Developer Analytics:

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Online store creator Zlio is in the beginning stages of launching their Version 3 of their application. When we interviewed founder Jeremie Berrebi he described Zlio as, "Zlio helps you start your own online shop in 5 minutes! Even if you don’t have anything to sell! Zlio offers you to choose from an exhaustive catalogue of thousands of products and arrange your own ZlioShop without programming anything!"

Check out the Zlio blog for more details on the upcoming release which appears to launch "soon". They are using the strategy of sharing bits and bits before the full launch. This can have positive and negative buzz effects. If they keep it to a short duration and deliver on the dates they promise, it’s positive. If they miss dates, and/or keep the game going for a long period, their shopkeepers might become frustrated.

The first piece of the upgrade is the management interface split between store promotion and store management. Here is an example of the updated version:

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TripIt, the itinerary planning service, has added some additional functionality over the past month. Restaurants and Rail are now available to add to your itineraries. Check out the service demo.

It’s a very easy service to use - email your bookings to TripIt and then you receive a response email. It handles almost any type of booking information from any service provider. After that you add everything into your TripPlan and then you receive an organized trip plan with lots of info about the location you are going to visit. It’s a great organization tool for keeping track of a trip. They have a social feature whereby you can add other people to view your plan and select users to edit your plan. Great for managers and their assistants. I could see a whitelabel version of this tool for the corporate environment doing very, very well.

We wrote about TripIt at TechCrunch40 and I believe they have seen the most buzz, both online and in print, since their launch.

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Steve Case, the man who founded AOL and more recently RevolutionHealth, has launched the home for the Facebook application "My Music". Currently Qloud is only available on Facebook but they suggest that more services are coming soon. The service allows you to stream music and has social features including top lists, and the ability to check out what your friends are listening too. The app reports over 1 million users - naturally you know what I think of install numbers. Let’s see active users please Steve.

Could they be looking at OpenSocial and the MySpace platform? Adam over at Mashable has more details on the launch.