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Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 04 Jul. 2008
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostas readmore
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Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful
Marshall Kirkpatrick via RSSmeme on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Shared 16 times Tagged Products (385) RSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interface readmore
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Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
RSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interfaces for displaying the feeds of our activities so ugly? Enter Swurl, a visually stunning system for displaying a timeline of your activities on various sites around the web readmore
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WordPress Stays Hip with the Times, Adds Gears and Looks to OAuth
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
Open source blogging platform WordPress may have won most peoples' hearts as the best blogging platform in town, but that doesn't mean its core developers are resting on their laurels. The company made two statements last night about moves its users are sure to love. WordPress announce readmore
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Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblog readmore
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Study Confirms: Personalization Can Backfire
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
A new study from the University of Illinois confirms what many of us may have suspected privately: "personalized" marketing communication online can often make us actively dislike the message's sender. " readmore
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Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Ping, ping, ping! That's the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web... and the machines are getting tired. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language and dreaming they knew which accounts belonged readmore
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Microsoft Releases Interop Docs: Is This What Data Portability Looks Like?
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Microsoft is announcing this morning the release of thousands of pages of technical documents concerning its most prized software, with the readmore
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ScreenSteps: A Beautiful Way to Share Information Online
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Tutorial creation tool ScreenSteps released a new version today and we're excited to discover this very useful looking tool. This desktop app for Windows and Mac lets users create attractive screenshot-based support documents in minutes. You readmore
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Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps (34)
Marshall Kirkpatrick via RSSmeme on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Shared 34 times Tagged Mashups (46) Open standard based user authentication protocol oAuth has now been implemented across all readmore
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Mashups: Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Open standard based user authentication protocol oAuth has now been implemented across all Google Data APIs, quickly offering this young standard for easy mashups more market validation than it's ever had before. Eight months ago we wrote about readmore
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WikiTrust Evaluates Wikipedia Text by Author Reputation
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have built a test extension called WikiTrust that evaluates every word on Wikipedia and highlights text that was added by authors with a less than stellar reputation. readmore
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Microsoft to Acquire Mobicomp: Watch for These Cool Mobile Features
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Microsoft announced this morning that it plans to acquire Portugese mobile application company Mobicomp, makers of some very cool mobile t readmore
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YouTube Continues to Destroy All Competitors in Declining Video Market
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
YouTube's huge lead in market share over other online video sites continues to get bigger, even as the over all video viewing market continues a decline. According to traffic analysts Hitwise, YouTube now sees 75.43% of traffic to the online video category; th readmore
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WikiCafe: MetaCafe Invites Users to Edit Video Metadata
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
Popular video sharing website MetaCafe just announced the launch of a fascinating new experiment it's calling WikiCafe - the ability for any registered user to "edit, enhance, and even translate video tags, description readmore
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The Top 40 Online Video Producers in May - This List Might Surprise You
Marshall Kirkpatrick via Read/WriteWeb News on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
We're watching the media landscape change in real time and one of the most interesting ways that's happening right now is through new online video producers breaking the monopoly of the old TV giants. Who's taking the lead in the new video landscape? Though old media is making a str readmore
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The Top 40 Online Video Producers in May - This List Might Surprise You
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
We're watching the media landscape change in real time and one of the most interesting ways that's happening right now is through new online video producers breaking the monopoly of the old TV giants. Who's taking the lead in the new video landscape? Though old media is making a str readmore
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Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo's fund Bezos Expeditions. The company says the money will be spent on building up its infrastructure and reliabil readmore
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Does Creative Commons Work? Check Out the New Case Studies Database
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
The Creative Commons Foundation launched a much-needed database of case studies today, highlighting CC licensed content from around the world. Creative Commons licenses are built on top of international copyright law but le readmore
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Evernote Opens to All: Fantastic Promise, Disappointing Execution
Marshall Kirkpatrick via RSSmeme on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
Shared 14 times Tagged Products (742) The highly anticipated "memory augmentation" service Evernote o readmore
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