martinstabe.com/blog -The idea of a website that is not merely a destination, but a “platform” or a set of tools on which users can build additional services, is nothing new — it’s a key feature of many of the thinking underlying many of the current “2.0″ startups, and has been a fundamental part of the success [...] more »
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scobleizer.com -Mozilla just ensured I won’t use IE8 because it released Ubiquity. What is it? It’s a box that lets you ask different questions and get answers. It’s sort of like search. But far more powerful. It’s not for non-passionate Internet users. They won’t get it. It takes some time to learn how to use this feature. [...] more »
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paul.kedrosky.com -Here are the top twenty countries in terms of GDP/gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. In other words, this is the list of countries that spent, loosely speaking, the most for the least. more »
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michaelgeist.ca -Several people have written to say that Telus has begun to exercise a clause in their consumer contracts cancelling "unlimited" data plans for those consumers that are viewed as heavy bandwidth users. More here and here. more »
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randyh.wordpress.com -TechCrunch: “A team of Microsoft Researchers have released a Facebook application designed to explore metadata and the logic related to tagging. The app, called Collabio (a combination of collaboration and biography) is a basic game that asks users to tag each other with descriptive keywords.” Here’s more from MSR and the location of the app on [...] more »
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english.martinvarsavsky.net -As I have mentioned several times, Japanese love FON – and we at FON love Japan. So I am happy to announce another exciting collaboration in Japan with Sony PSP. As of now, all PSP users in Japan will be able to seamlessly access and enjoy videos, wallpapers and custom themes of PSP software as [...] more »
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davidcrow.ca - Xobni is pretty gosh darn cool, it makes Outlook better. Most new programs you use, ask you to enter more information for tracking purposes. Applications like Xobni are the way of the future my friends! I can’t believe more people are not jumping all over ideas like this. Instead of asking users to track [...] more »
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davidcrow.ca - Xobni is pretty gosh darn cool, it makes Outlook better. Most new programs you use, ask you to enter more information for tracking purposes. Applications like Xobni are the way of the future my friends! I can’t believe more people are not jumping all over ideas like this. Instead of asking users to track [...] more »
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mathewingram.com/work -After a year or so of invite-only alpha testing, NewsCred launched as a public beta service this morning. The site, founded by Shafqat Islam and Iraj Islam, is trying to create a kind of outsourced reputation system for news websites and blogs, in which users vote on the credibility and accuracy of specific news stories [...] more »
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saunderslog.com -Today Palringo is unveiling their “vocal instant messaging” on iPhone. It lets users send the equivalent of a text message, but by voice. Sound familiar? Of course. It’s the service we’ve all come to know and love as “push to talk”. But unlike traditional push to talk services, this one spans handsets from Apple, Nokia, [...] more »
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