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Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
via blog.pmarca.com by Marc Andreessen on May 14, 2008
... for six months now so we're excited to be able to now provide Open Social in production to all of our Network Creators and users. Open Social will be available within all 265,490 social networks already running on Ning, as well as the 10,000+ new social networks being created on Ning every week now. Second, I'd like to discuss Google's new Friend Connect initiative and how we plan...
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Get Things Done Over the Phone with Jott [Feature]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on January 11, 2008
At its most basic level, webapp Jott is a voice to text transcription service: you call Jott, leave a message, and Jott transcribes it and emails you or your contacts the text. That alone can capture the big idea
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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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For the camera buff - MS Pro Photo Tools
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on May 02, 2008
I’m not big on taking photographs - not because I don’t like to but because I don’t have a digital camera - but if I did I’d probably be taking a serious look at this new offering from Microsoft. They sure seem to have gone whole hog on this offering that lets photographers perform a bunch of different things with their photos - including RAW captures. Below is a breakdown of what is...
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Streaming Office vs True Web Apps
via Zoho Blogs by Sridhar on May 02, 2008
Randall Kennedy of ZDNet makes a bold prediction that streaming office will kill cloud based alternatives like Google Apps and Zoho. CenterNetworks has a somewhat different take. Let me first explain what is meant by streaming office: the server splits the code of an existing desktop application like MS Office into chunks, streams the code to the client as needed, which the client executes in a...
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How to setup a live real-time polls using Google Docs
via RB | Recent by (author unknown) on May 02, 2008
... of the responses as people fill out the form.Basically, you have to create a Spreadsheet and then setup a form on the spreadsheet. I’ll go through the steps to do this as it’s pretty easy to do and very cool!How to create a real-time survey/pollFirst step is that you need to log into your Google Docs account and create a new spreadsheet.Now click on the Share tab at the far right of the sc...
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A Twitter postcard
via MSDN Blogs by stevecla01 on May 02, 2008
I was noseying around SomeeCards this week and hadn’t spotted this one until I read Biz Stone’s email on Twitter. Handy card I may need to send to a few folks soon :)
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Architecture astronauts take over
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on May 01, 2008
... on the net, on Microsoft's cloud, and you would log onto everything with Windows Passport and all your stuff would be up there. It turns out: nobody needed this place for all their stuff. And nobody trusted Microsoft with all their stuff. And Hailstorm went away.I tried to coin a term for the kind of people who invented Hailstorm: architecture astronauts. "That's one sure tip-off to t...
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Post to Google Reader
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 06, 2008
You can now add your messages to Google Reader to be seen by your Google friends. To post a note, log-in to Reader and click Your stuff -> Notes to the left. This will open a box where you can type in a note with any thought, Friendfeed/ Twitter-style. To find out who exactly your friends are, check the Friends tab at the Settings page for an overview (or click the Manage Friends links).Next to...
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Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless
via Silicon Alley Insider by Vasanth Sridharan on May 02, 2008
Everyone knows that most Facebook apps are time-wasters, at best. But here's statistical proof: A breakdown of the service's 23,160 applications, via Facebook's self-selected categories.We keep hearing promises that there are developers, somwhere, working on geniunely useful apps for the site, but even if they never materialize, that's not a catastrophe for Facebook (or...
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