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I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source 
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.
Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to
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Nine Recommendation Tools We Wish We Had
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
...And The Best Substitutes We've Come Up With So Far
There's so much content online every day that it's totally overwhelming. That's where good recommendation technologies and media outlets come in handy. As a blog that seeks to share the most interesting we
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my6sense: Pioneering “Digital Intuition” (500 Alpha Invites)
(unknown author) via TechCrunch - PostRank (PostRan on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
With the growing amount of information that is flowing into our lives, there is also a growing need for tools that help focus our attention on what should be the most relevan
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Barack Obama's Change.gov Adds OpenID
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account and to post comments to sections of the website using OpenID. That's big news and is going to introduce a whole lot of peop
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Notify.me Offers Instant Updates On Your Favorite Topics Across The Web
(unknown author) via TechCrunch on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Shared by Brian
I've been using this for a while and find it very useful. I get IMs whenever an alert is triggered
RSS readers may make it easy to quickly browse through all of your favorite news sources, but
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YCombinator Startup Creates A Better Download App Store For Windows (BaseShield)
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
When Microsoft opened up its own online store for software downloads earlier this month, it signaled that packaged software is not long for this world. The problem is
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FileRide: A Different Kind of Social Network
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
FileRide is a Stockholm-based social network with a twist: FileRide creates a social network for you, based around the files that are already on your computer. FileRide, for example, lets you see who else on the services has the same song or image on their comput
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Google Gains U.S. Search Market Share In October, But Growth Slows
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
ComScore released its October search-engine market share figures for the U.S. last night. Overall search volume grew 20.1 percent year-over-year to 12.6 billion queries, a decline in growth from the 25.5 percent pace we saw in
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Online Video Not Killing TV, Says Nielsen
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Earlier this month, we heard how online video was cannibalizing TV consumption, thanks to data coming out of an IBM study that polled people across six different countries worldwide. The study showed that 36% of people watch
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Keyboardr: More Fun Than Google Wiki?
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Are you a fan of keyboard shortcuts? Do you j and k your way through Google Reader? Or Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Return) to add the "www" and the ".com" when you're browsing the web in Firefox? If ditching the mouse is your definition of efficiency, then
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PlaySpan Raises $16.8 Million For Virtual-Goods Marketplace
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Who says raising money is hard these days? PlaySpan makes it look like child’s play. The startup, which was literally founded by a 5th grader, just raised $16.8 million
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YouTube Goes Wide
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
YouTube has apparently changed all videos on its site to play in widescreen format. Because most videos on the site were originally uploaded in a ratio closer to 4:3 (the standard size used on non-HD televisions), it seems that most videos are playing with horizontal black bars on the side. Some videos (like this one) se
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HTC expecting to ship 1 million G1s by the end of 2008
Greg Kumparak via TechCrunch on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Revising their previous target of 600,000 HTC G1s shipped by the end of 2008, HTC CEO Peter Chou has disclosed that the company now expects to ship at least 1 million of the world’s first Android handset by year’s end.
Of course, these numbers may seem a bit low
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Firefox China Edition: Everything A Local Browser Should Be
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Did you know that the way you surf the internet may be influenced by your culture? In the U.S. and Europe, web surfers are leaning forward, one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard, typing and mousing equally. In China, however, the process is much different. Web surfers there tend to lean back from the monitor while kee
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Gmail Exploit May Aid Domain Hijacking
Lidija Davis via ReadWriteWeb on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
A vulnerability in Gmail that lets the bad guys access and manipulate filters in your Gmail account has once again reared its ugly head according to a recent post on GeekCondition.
The exploit, similar to the o
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Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc, a crystal ball-like object from The
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EU Presents Ambitious Open-Source Library Digitization Project, Site Promptly Crashes
Guest Author via TechCrunch on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
This is a guest post by Kathlyn Clore, Associate Editor at the European Journalism Centre who was kind enough to write this report for us after attending the press event.
A cadre of European politicians gathered Thursday at the Museum of the 18th century in Bru
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Meezoog: A Social Network That Cares If You Actually Know Your “Friends”
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Every time I scroll through my list of ‘Friends’ on Facebook, I inevitably come to the same (somewhat depressing) conclusion: I have absolutely no idea who many of these people are. This is mostly my fault - my standards have always been pretty low when it comes to ac
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Poll: Internet Now Considered More Reliable Than TV, Radio News
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Don't trust what you read on the internet? That's no longer the dominant sentiment in the US, according to a new poll by Zogby International. A survey of more than 3000 people performed in the two days after the US Presidential Election found that 37.6% of respondents considered the In
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Zoetrope: New Web Crawler Allows For Searching, Analyzing The Ever-Changing Web
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Does Adobe think they can out-Google Google? Perhaps. The company is involved with Zoetrope, a joint project with researchers at the University of Washington. What they're building is a tool that allows for manipulating the web over time. Instead of the snapsh
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