Feeds shared today: May 15, 2008
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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Finish Line
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
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Best Online File Sharing Services [Hive Five]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 08, 2008
Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service, and over 200 nominations later, we've rounded up the five most popular services. Hit the jump for a look at the top five, and then cast your vote...
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RSSmeme Launches API, Provides Filtering Tools Galore
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 12, 2008
Benjamin Golub has been busy. He runs the site RSSmeme, an RSS aggregator that displays the top Shared Items items from Google Reader users. For a brief time, RSSmeme was the only Google Reader aggregator in town after ReadBurner closed up shop. But not too much later, ReadBurner was purchased and relaunched (our coverage), putting the two sites in competition once again. However, it looks like...
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Get Vista's Best Features in XP [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 13, 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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Zealous Autoconfig
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).See our previous coverage here and here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause...
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