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Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on July 03, 2008
... in leveraging the visual to create new interfaces for data, his ListPic application lets users browse Craigslist by images. Just like Listpic creates a whole new experience for Craigslist, Sit hopes that Swurl will make interacting with lifestream data a much more visually enjoyable experience.How it WorksThe most important part of Swurl is the timeline view, where all the messages, b...
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Find New Facebook Friends...With Science!
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 27, 2008
Signal Patterns, makers of scientific-based social web apps, have just released a Facebook app whose goal is to help you find new friends based on an in-depth personality assessment algorithm. This app matches people based on their unique personality traits - not just "rough" personality types. If that sounds a lot like some dating web sites you've heard of...well, you're right. Signal...
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Viacom Gets YouTube User Data
via ReadWriteWeb by Frederic Lardinois on July 03, 2008
In the ongoing copyright litigation between Google and Viacom, a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered Google (PDF) to hand over data on every YouTube user, including username, the associated IP address, and a list of all the the videos that user ever watched. In this lawsuit, Viacom is seeking more than $1 billion in damages because of...
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Mapstraction Takes Map Mashups To A Whole New Level
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on July 03, 2008
If you're a developer who loves to build mashups - especially map mashups - then you have to check out the library provided by Mapstaction. (And if you're end user, wait until you see the demos!) Mapstraction is library that provides a common API for various mapping APIs already in existence. This allows developers to use the Mapstraction API to build a mashup that supports nine of the...
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Indenti.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on July 02, 2008
Indenti.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services.If you've become interested in the paradigm changing model of communication popularized by Twitter but have been frustrated by Twitter's frequent down time or other...
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Schedule Social Network Messages With Sendible
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on July 01, 2008
There are several different social media message-sending apps out there, but arguably, HelloTxt is one of the most well-known and most often utilized thanks to its support for a wide array of the most popular social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, bebo, Pownce, Jaiku, Brightkite, and Plurk. They even support sending updates via SMS and email. However, one area where HelloTxt falls short is...
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Is Email In Danger?
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on July 02, 2008
Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things. It became cheap to send short mail, and delivery was instant. Email became favored for both corporate and personal communication.But email faces increasing competition. Chat, text messages, Twitter,...
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Source of FriendFeed Spam Revealed - Write APIs Can Be Trouble
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on July 02, 2008
An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday's FriendFeed spam has been revealed. If you've been using the social aggregator FriendFeed, then you may have noticed some odd-looking discussions yesterday where the same comment was repeated over and over by numerous different users. The source of this spam has now been identified, but this problem highlights...
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Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom - ReadWriteWeb
via www.readwriteweb.com by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network ...
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WordPress Stays Hip with the Times, Adds Gears and Looks to OAuth
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on July 02, 2008
Open source blogging platform WordPress may have won most peoples' hearts as the best blogging platform in town, but that doesn't mean its core developers are resting on their laurels. The company made two statements last night about moves its users are sure to love. WordPress announced last night on the company blog that WordPress.com users have a new blogging option called "Turbo,"...
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