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Aviary, an impressive suite of online image editing tools, just launched after an extensive private beta test. The suite consists of the Phoenix image editor, the Peacock image laboratory, which allows you to create very nifty special effects through a Yahoo Pipes-like interface, and the Toucan colo... (original story)
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Login standard OpenID has gotten a huge boost today from Microsoft, as the company has announced that users will soon be able to login to any OpenID site using their Windows Live IDs. With over 400 million Windows Live accounts (many of which see frequent use on the Live's Mail and Messenger serv... (original story)
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OpenID - the "free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet" - has rapidly gained traction as a login credential for Web 2.0 apps and sites. Its adoption by more mainstream technology properties, however, has occurred at a slower rate. But all of that could be changing wit... (original story)
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We have surely seen our fair share of Digg-style social news sites over the last few years. The latest entrant into this market is Vanno, which puts an interesting and novel spin onto the social news experience. Unlike other social news sites, Vanno's focus is exclusively on news stories about compa... (original story)
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What makes a great Android app? One that melds the virtual world with the real world in a fun or informative way. One app that does that in an impressive fashion is called JOYity and it comes from Zelfi, a German mobile gaming startup. JOYity uses the GPS in the Android phone to let you play ga... (original story)
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Color me impressed: Google has released a custom Google Earth application for the iPhone, and it's stunning. The Google Earth geographical software has been altered to make maximum use of the iPhone's screen and functionality. You're able to tilt the device to adjust your view when browsing moun... (original story)
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The founders of Joongel which presented at the TC50 DemoPit are announcing a $100K investment from Israeli uber-Angel Dr. Yossi Vardi. Vardi pledged the investment on the spot at TC50 and the parties have since worked on finalizing the terms and paperwork. Interestingly, the investment will go into... (original story)
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Today Amazon has launched a new storefront called WindowShop, which presents some of the store's newest and most popular movies, books, and video games in a way that makes browsing the online megastore actually fun. Each product is displayed as a tile on a large grid, which users can pan across u... (original story)
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I don't remember what I did last Monday, do you? I'd have to think pretty hard to remember what I did even on my last birthday, and that was only two weeks ago. That's depressing. Enter Memiary, a startlingly simple diary service that prompts you to enter up to five sentence fragments about what ... (original story)
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Bootstrapped by Pete Field and based out of Whistler, B.C., Canada, HearWhere is a search engine for live music which was launched in May 2008 but has managed to stay largely under the radar. The live-performance search engine claims to list over one million music shows. The service tells you who... (original story)
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Seattle-based user-generated review site Judy's Book is back from the dead. You read that correctly - while other startups are biting the dust, previously-deadpooled Judy's Book is back online and under new ownership. The site was originally launched in July 2005 and was shut down in 2007 after bu... (original story)
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If you'd like to find out what it's like to live behind a paranoid regime's wall of silence download the China Channel plug-in for Firefox. This delightful product recreates the surfing experience of someone at a standard Internet-connected computer in China where searching for "Free Tibet" and "T... (original story)
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The bomb-shelter mentality among startups is now so severe that even companies raising money are announcing layoffs in response to diminished economic prospects. Boston-based Helium just closed a $17 million series A financing about ten days ago, and then cut 30 percent of the organization (18 pe... (original story)
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Massachusetts based MatchMine, which raised $10 million a year ago, has shut down operations. The company created media recommendations that categorizes and analyzes your media likes and dislikes in order to serve you content that is more to your taste. In a blog post today CEO Michael Troiano tal... (original story)
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I'm at the Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles, where I was among a small group of bloggers and analysts who had a roundtable today with Microsoft executives Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect), Bob Muglia (Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business) and Amitabh Srivastava (Corporate Vice Pres... (original story)