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Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to better discussion on YouTube. Some Googlers thought that was a pretty fun suggestion, so they did it. YouTube now has an audio [...]

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Obama Campaign launches iPhone app
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. You can learn more about this app at the Obama iPhone app Web site.
The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to [...]

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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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Lots of talk today across the web about Mozilla Labs’ new project, Ubiquity.
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity
Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On
This blog has a nice writeup: Ubiquity In Depth
Quoted from Ars Technica:
Mozilla Labs has released the [...]

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Apple’s MobileMe service has proven to be a horror It’s been a curious thing to watch: Apple makes mistakes all the time, but they are usually small mistakes, easily swept aside in the tide of their own user’s enthusiasm. But MobileMe wasn’t just a cool service with some flaws: it ripped itself out of Apple’s [...]

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Reposted from Read Write Web.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast’s arbitrary throttling of customers’ use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released software that anyone can use to see if their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is engaging in the same [...]

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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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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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A researcher at Trinity College Dublin has software that lets users map the links between Wikipedia pages. His Web site is called “Six Degrees of Wikipedia,” modeled after the trivia game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Instead of the degrees being measured by presence in the same film, degrees are determined by articles that link [...]

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