Reposted from Wired
It didn’t ignite the crowd at the Pepsi Center in Denver Tuesday night in the same way as Hillary Clinton’s speech did, but the 2008 Democratic National Convention keynoter of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner lit up the micro-blogging service Twitter as its geek community celebrated a throwaway line in Warner’s speech.
Warner, a [...]

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Yesterday I made a post about how the new iPhone application, Loopt, was causing a lot of angst amongst some top bloggers, and people I admire, about their completely idiotic way in which they handle user invites. The main issue dealt with privacy concerns stemming people getting invites from people they didn’t know - people [...]

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As many of you may or may not not no, Loopt the social networking “service” stalks your location wherever you go, and broadcasts it to your friends, but beware of the “invite friends” screen. Apparently a “bug” (yeah right) causes you to invite everyone through SMS spam, and there’s no way to unsubscribe either.
Notable bloggers [...]

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A twitter clone that is open source?
Could it be possible?
It could and it is.
Read/Write Web did an article on it.
Marshall Kilpatrick is there already.
Dave Winer is there too.
I’m there as well.

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Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign’s finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker’s team had raised money faster than [...]

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Courtesy of Mashable:

Have you, like so many other users, experienced problems with Twitter in the last couple of days? Not getting updates from all the people you’re following, but only a handful? The problem seems to be lying with Twitter cache.
Here’s a quick fix for the problem. Simply find some person you’re not already following, [...]

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It has been a good while since twitter has had serious uptime issues. The last time it happened was…well….since this. Well - Twitter is up to its old tricks again. It isn’t offline per say, but it might as well be. As others have pointed out Twitter has been having serious issues since Saturday, April [...]

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Larry Lessig found himself on a panel with Andrew Keen, whose “Cult of the Amateur” excoriates the Internet for breeding sloppiness and errors, so Larry went through a list of the errors Keen made in his book. First off, Keen’s description of Lessig as someone who “laud[s] the appropriation of intellectual property.” Lessig pointed out [...]

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