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Ask dear Siri for a beer and she'll probably just show you some local beer options for you to go and buy a pint for yourself. The folks at RedPepper have a different scenario in mind though, with their automated Siri hack. All of this and more in today's Daily Wrap.

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It's done. The battle between Facebook and Myspace is finally over. Yesterday, the two companies made a joint announcement introducing "Mashup with Facebook", a feature that brings all of your Facebook "likes" and interests to Myspace by way of Facebook Connect.

We can't help but wonder if this announcement marks the end of an era or the beginning of a new one for the once-dominant social network, and we're looking to you, our readers, to find out.

Nearby Friends is a new Facebook application which taps into the recently launched Facebook Places check-in service to locate all your Facebook friends plotted on a Google Maps interface. The app, a simple tool that places Facebook profile photos as a pin on the map, doesn't limit itself to where your friends are right now, it actually displays their entire Facebook check-in history, as lines traversing the map. With the app installed, you can actually track a friend's travels, easily identifying their favorite hangouts, daily treks, their workplace and more. Is this the first Facebook Places cyber-stalking tool? Or just a handy way to see what your friends are up to?

If you like your Internet rammed into things - lighting systems, automobiles, art, books, crookedneck squash - you'll light-up like a Japanese robot when you lurch into the mashup Internet of Things conference in London.

To refer to the conference by its full name (my hand to God), "Internet of things: Rise of the machines" takes place off the Strand at the headquarters of the British Computer Society on Southampton Street. It runs from May 4 through May 6, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Earlier this month, developer and mashup extraordinaire John Herren released Reading Radar, a mashup that combines the New York Times Bestseller's API with Amazon's API, and created a simple, purposeful site dedicated to listing the popular books on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Using various open source technologies such as jQuery, the Yahoo! User Interface Library and the Maintainable Framework, Reading Radar lets you scan the New York Times top sellers and read reviews and related book information from Amazon; all without the distractions of other content on both the New York Times and Amazon sites.

Nota is a new collaboration tool from the same company that brought you PhotoPeach, an easy-to-use photo slideshow service and C-Shirt, a tool for making remixable clothing. Like PhotoPeach, Nota also has a similar minimalistic feel to it which makes it easy for anyone to use - even those with little computer experience. With Nota, you can create web pages by grabbing content like flickr photos, YouTube movies, Google maps, and more, and mashing them up into one page which can then be embedded anywhere.

Netflix subscribers, here's a mashup just for you: the new Netflix InstantWatcher, an application built using the Netflix API, helps you find the titles marked "Watch Instantly" without having to browse or search through Netflix's vast online catalog. Instead, all the titles that are available for instant streaming are categorized for easy browsing right on the InstantWatcher web site.