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Welcome to the social mess?
via Webware.com by Caroline McCarthy on May 12, 2008
... Web users to have a single social-media identity across the Internet--"data portability," as the general term has come to be known. MySpace.com was first out of the gate with the announcement of Data Availability, a way for members of the News Corp.-owned social network to share their profile data with partner sites including eBay, Yahoo, and Twitter. The next day, Facebook launched Facebook C...
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Eye-Fi adds two new wireless memory cards to their product line-up
via TechCrunch by Greg Kumparak on May 12, 2008
Eye-Fi announced two new wireless memory cards today, and they’ve dubbed their original card with a new name. The new line-up:Eye-Fi Explore: The Explore card can automatically locate nearby WiFi networks and geotag your photos using Skyhook’s global Wi-Fi positioning system. It can also automatically connect to any of Wayport’s 10,000+ hotspots (in other words, pretty much every...
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Control Your TiVo With Your Ubuntu Machine [Software]
via Gizmodo by Jason Chen on May 12, 2008
This Ubuntu app isn't quite as cool as the TiVo remote app for iPhone we saw last week, but the concept of controlling your TiVo over your network is just getting started. By allowing any network device to issue orders, you can essentially make your cellphone, laptop, PC, wall panel, or internet connected dog into a remote for your TiVo. [Zatz Not Funny]
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COFFIN TABLE: Memento Coffee Table Casket
via INHABITAT by Ali Kriscenski on May 12, 2008
Worrying that you don’t think about death enough in your day-to-day life? Pratt student Charles Constantine is looking to change this and inject a bit of morbidity into the daily routine, with his new design for a coffee table coffin. On display in the Pratt Institute student design booth at BKLYN Designs, this ‘Coffin Table’ is a typical coffee table which packs a punch when it comes to...
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Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
via Webware.com by Dan Farber on May 12, 2008
As expected, Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect, whose site is inaccessible Monday morning, as plumbing for the rest of the Web. "The Web is getting better by getting more social. We've baked social features into the infrastructure of the Web,...
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Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 03, 2008
You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves. We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and...
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The Power of Peer Referrals
via Web Worker Daily by Jenneth Orantia on May 12, 2008
Freelancers are always encouraged to ask clients to refer them to others as a means of free advertising, but I don’t read much about cultivating peer referrals. In my experience as a freelance writer, this is a rich source of work leads, especially when you make friends with industry peers that are well-established and have to knock back work on a regular basis. If you play your cards right,...
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Lightning Review: The Plush Super Mario Star's Spiritual Effect [Lightning Review]
via Gizmodo by Brian Lam on May 07, 2008
The Gadget: A plush star from Super Mario Brothers that plays the appropriate music when you touch it. Includes a goomba and a ? block.The Price: $25The Verdict: There's no reason to buy something as frivolous as a plush Super Mario Star that plays the actual theme; no reason unless you have a use for a dependable and non-habit forming instant 15-second boost in joy, endurance, morale and...
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Photoshop Express now Flickrs
via Webware.com by Lori Grunin on May 07, 2008
When Adobe launched Photoshop Express at the end of March, it indicated that Flickr support would be next on the agenda, and today the company can cross that item off its to-do list. With the capability to round-trip photos into PSE for editing and back out to its site, Flickr joins Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa in the ranks of Photoshop Express supporters. Additionally, users of Photoshop...
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Addict-o-matic Thinks Search Needs an Easy Button Too
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by Kristen Nicole on May 07, 2008
Addict-o-matic is a new site that is quite similar to Surchur, a site that Adam O. reviewed just yesterday. In that sense, Addict-o-matic is also quite similar to Alltop, popURLs, Original Signal, and the rest. What makes Addict-o-matic slightly different is its search page, which allows you to search any topic with a particular keyword. The results you’ll get will be quite numerous and...
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