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Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)
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The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications. If you haven’t nominated yet – and you can nominate once per category per day – now’s the ti (Read More)
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Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience.In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offe (Read More)
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: DocVerseQuick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of (Read More)
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We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in.Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one, (Read More)
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If you’re a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek, a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won’t surf the web. It won’t ma (Read More)
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As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings.As such (Read More)
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Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists, and last week it rolled out Facebook support. Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding.At the end of this month, Thing Labs will close a $600,000 round which is basically an extension of its Se (Read More)
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America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way).Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion (Read More)
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This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Before I begin, let me start out by saying that all things being equal, I have no problem with the Apple putting Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf into the App Store, as they have today, as both The Next Web and Edible Apple spotted. It’s a book, it’s a rather big part of history, i (Read More)
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Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.Now, to be clear, most users still won’t be able to use this geolocation support just yet, as Twitter has yet to enable (Read More)
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On Monday, Seesmic introduced Twitter Lists to Seesmic Desktop. Today, Team Seesmic is bringing Twitter Lists to the Seesmic Web client, as well as geolocation support and Trending Topics.This brings Seesmic Web closer and closer to parity with the Seemic Desktop app and makes it one of the first web-based Twitter app with (Read More)
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Seesmic Desktop has the distinction of being the first third-party Twitter client to support the new Lists feature, and now web-based social reader Brizzly claims the second slot.Currently in closed beta, Brizzly is a Twitter and Facebook client built by many of the same folks who built Google Reader. Its maker, Thing Labs, (Read More)
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When it was first unveiled at our Realtime Crunchup in July, easily one of the best features of the web-based Twitter client Brizzly was Groups. Basically, it allowed you to sort your Twitter followers into subsections, to make specific groups of users easier to follow. Of course, with Twitter’s new Lists functionality, you (Read More)
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November 6 is an important day for both Verizon and Motorola — and to a somewhat lesser extent, Google. The U.S.’s largest carrier is unleashing its first Android device, and from the swath of reviews already in it looks to be a monster of a phone. Thus far it is being hailed as both the best Android phone to date as well a (Read More)