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For many of us, our RSS reader - regardless of the particular flavor you prefer - serves as the hub of our daily information consumption, providing a steady stream of news on what's happening in the world. But when it comes to newspaper feeds, that ease of reading "everything in one place" has ofte... (original story)
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The OpenSocial Foundation has announced elections for its Board of Directors, the governing body that helps the non-profit organization "sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications." Thirteen candidates have been nominated to fill two "Community Director" Board seats. Among t... (original story)
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Despite the competition and rumors of its demise, email remains a very prevalent part of our daily lives. (That's one reason why Google continues to pour effort into Gmail.) Yet even with its familiarity, we're still discovering new ways we can use email to control other applications and perform sim... (original story)
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Short of using a specialized application (or phone) of some sort, users of the social networking service MySpace did not have a way to easily upload photos from their mobile phones directly to their profiles until now. According to a recent entry on the MySpace blog, mobile photo uploads are finally... (original story)
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Imagine that one day you are playing a game on a social networking site and the next day you discover that this game has been replaced by a video speed dating application. That is exactly what is going to happen to those who have been playing the Oregon Trail game on Facebook. As Webware's Josh Lowe... (original story)
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"The United States is far behind other countries when it comes to health care," Deb Levine (Founder, ISIS), told the audience this week at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. "One of the United Nations development mandates is to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as much... (original story)
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Remember the charge of Google co-founder Sergey Brin from a few years back, "Features not products"? Clearly, the Gmail team was listening. Following closely on the heels of Google Labs releases like Mail Goggles and Canned Responses, the Gmail team has announced another feature, and it's sure to m... (original story)
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Students competing to get into the nation's most elite colleges and universities have begun to use sneaky, under-handed tactics involving Facebook, according to a new report from the Chicago Tribune. Via anonymous letters mailed to college admission offices, applicants suggest to admission officers ... (original story)
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Yes there are profitable, self-funded SaaS product companies out there. They're the ones we're celebrating in our Gritty Entrepreneur series. To that end, we recently interviewed Timothy Young, CEO of Socialcast, which is in the "enterprise social messaging" market - otherwise known as enterprise mi... (original story)
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It's all about the web apps these days, right? Everything important's in the clouds? Not so fast! Spend some time separated from your physical computer and you'll likely be reminded just how much time and care you've put into setting it up like you want it. Even in this era of web app hype, we st... (original story)
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While separate search boxes have long been a standard feature of every major browser (except for Chrome), their functionality and intelligence has not gone much beyond autocompleting searches. Yahoo is trying to change this with its Inqisitor plugin for Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. This p... (original story)
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Think you've found the best browser to surf the web with? You may be selling yourself short. Mac users with Leopard should check out the latest entrant into the browser world, Cruz. Cruz lets you easily set up multiple panes in your browser, with sophisticated controls. That's just one of the ... (original story)
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Just one day after Rackspace announced its challenger to Amazon's suite of cloud computing services, Amazon announced that it is taking its EC2 cloud computing service out of beta and that EC2 will now feature support for Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. Until today, EC2 only supported ... (original story)
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Yesterday, T-Mobile stocked their stores with G1 handset, the first smartphone to feature Google's mobile operating system "Android." Along with the device itself, the Google Android Market also went live. There, developers are offering a number of applications for installation on the new phone. How... (original story)
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A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, "voting" o... (original story)