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Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and its company advisory board was stocked with some of the biggest names in social media. Apparently that hasn't been enough, though. (Read More)
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Fair use laws, which, among other things, allow for people to take clips from broadcast TV and add their own commentary, have been an important part of the development of the political blogopshere. Alas, Fox News doesn’t find it amusing, and has forced the shutdown of ProgressIllinois’ YouTube channel, claiming copyright v (Read More)
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FlyCast is a nifty little iPhone application that lets you stream over 1200 radio channels, with a little twist: it can preload music while you have an internet connection and then play it even while you’re offline. Today at CES the company has unveiled several major upgrades to the product. First, there’s Andro (Read More)
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MySpace, Yahoo, and Intel have unveiled a joint plan on CES to offer consumers a way to use their favorite social network directly on the TV. Imagine a tiny application that shows up on TVs and other devices equipped with Intel’s special chipset that enables consumers to access MySpace and interact with their buddies (Read More)
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Brian Wallace is a social media consultant. He authors a blog at nowsourcing.com/blog.With the economy showing no signs of bouncing back in 2009, consumers will inevitably be searching for channels of escapism, means to momentarily forget their everyday woes, financial and otherwise. Although most e-businesses are bracing f (Read More)
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In a post earlier this week, we mentioned the concept of “Tweetbacks” – essentially the idea of showing Twitter activity relating to blog posts in the same way that comments are displayed on most blogs today. Much to our delight, this feature has already arrived, via Dan Zarrella, who has built exactly what Mashable guest (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Google Chrome team keeps releasing updates to Google's browser on an almost weekly basis, but it is interesting that the latest version in the developer channel is now already being called 2.0. This comes just about four months after Google first released its browser to the public. This new version (2.0.156.1) is only a (Read More)