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HowCast for iPhone Hits 500k Downloads - It's Awesome

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 29, 2009 9:55 AM / 2 Comments

How-to video aggregator HowCast announced today that it has hit 500,000 downloads of its iPhone app and a quick spin of the service shows why - it's fabulous. Just six Continue reading »

Online Security: White House Establishes New Cyber Czar Position

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 29, 2009 9:12 AM / 4 Comments

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Earlier today, President Obama announced that he plans to create the position of a 'cyber czar' in the White House. No announcement about who will fill this position has been Continue reading »

Pixelpipe Updates Android App

Written by Sarah Perez / May 29, 2009 8:40 AM / 8 Comments

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Pixelpipe, the service that lets you upload your media to multiple sites across the web, has just released a new version of their application for the Android smartphone OS. With Continue reading »

More Browser-as-Website-Editor Fun with TypeRoom Pro

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 28, 2009 9:15 PM / 3 Comments

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On May 19, TypeRoom launched their triple-tiered premium product, TypeRoom Professional. A bit like in-browser website creation and editing app Zimplit, which we reviewed yesterday, TypeRoom allows for simple and Continue reading »

Microsoft Launching Real-Time-Focused IE8 Bundled with OneRiot Search

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 28, 2009 8:06 PM / 1 Comments

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In addition to preparing for the launch of Bing, Microsoft's much-hyped semantic search product slated to replace Live Search, the company has also announced a standalone product optimized for real-time Continue reading »

We Are Hunted Presents the 99 Most Popular Songs on Twitter

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 28, 2009 4:20 PM / 6 Comments

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We Are Hunted, the Billboard of the social web, has launched a new page to show users the 99 most popular tracks as determined by Twitter users. As music and Continue reading »

Has TweetDeck Found a Business Model? Launches Blink-182 Themed Version

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 28, 2009 1:27 PM / 10 Comments

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TweetDeck, the popular desktop Twitter client, launched a Blink-182 themed version of its application today. The Blink-182 version of TweetDeck is based on the current version of the app (0.25). Continue reading »

Hulu Comes to the Desktop

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 28, 2009 11:34 AM / 12 Comments

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Hulu, the popular online destination for streaming TV shows and movies, just opened up its new Labs project and one of the first projects to come out of the Hulu Continue reading »

Google Releases Real-Time Gadget APIs

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 28, 2009 10:26 AM / 3 Comments

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The Google developer conference has been chock-full of announcements, but one that we are particularly excited about is a "20% time" project from software engineer, Moishe Lettvin. The gadgets.realtime is Continue reading »

Google Wave: Google Tries to Reinvent Email

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 28, 2009 10:04 AM / 65 Comments

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Google today announced a new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform; Google Wave. While some of the details are still a bit sketchy, Google Wave looks to be an integrated communications Continue reading »

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