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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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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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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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Dave Winer explains what a good business model for Twitter could be as everyone keeps asking the question, "How is Twitter going to make money?" Article here.

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I couldn’t resist posting on this subject this morning. When at home I have a Mac & use NetNewsWire for all my RSS feed needs. When at work, however, I prefer Google Reader. I’ve been out on vacation though, since December 14th, which is the day that Google updated Reader with new social networking-like [...]

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This morning Facebook launched a new “Friend Lists” feature that will make the problem of organizing your hundreds of Facebook friends a little easier.
Facebook wants their “social graph” (your friend list) to represent the real-world as accurately as possible. However, previously there had been no robust way to distinguish between your best friend and someone [...]

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