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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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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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So now that the “Vista Capable” lawsuit is a full-blown class action, the judge has unsealed all 158 pages of emails between Microsoft execs trying to sort out what went wrong with the sticker program. While bits and pieces have been blacked out, what remains is still fairly incredible — although Intel’s 915 chipset was [...]

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Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp, has announced to leave Nullsoft in his .plan yesterday.
This seems to be the result of a possible dispute with his employer AOL over the P2P-software “WASTE”, which was released by Justin a few days ago on the Nullsoft website and then taken down one day later. All that is [...]

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