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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The official Iranian news agency reports that the bill is intended to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society."...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today announced the release of Street View for the route of the Tour de France , but privacy activists in England are anything but amused by the prospect of Google starting to photograph the streets of London. England's Privacy International doesn't...
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As Twitter began to fail on a regular basis, many of its users turned to other micro-blogging services to continue on with their 140-character lifestyle. Some returned to Jaiku or Pownce , others starting plurking , and just recently, an open source Twitter clone launched called identi.ca which has people "denting" (Yes, really - it won the vote ). And then there are the true social media addicts...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Polymeme is a new memetracker that bills itself as "a polymath's guide to news." Polymeme is the brainchild of Evgeny Morozov who started the project because of his frustration with most current memetrackers and the echo chamber effect often associated with them. Polymeme is based on Drupal and uses Reuter's OpenCalais to tag and index the 25,000 blogs it tracks. Polymeme is trying to create what...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
For users of the Windows Mobile platform, visiting Facebook while on the go meant loading up the mobile web page in their device's browser. Meanwhile, Blackberry users have had their own downloadable app since late 2007. But now, as of today, there is at long last a downloadable application just for Windows Mobile users, FriendMobilizer . Today Macrospecs, Inc. has launched FriendMobilizer , a new...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
2008 has seen a big change in the way the blogging community communicates with each other. In a nutshell, discussions have become very fragmented . There are two main reasons for this: firstly Twitter and its 140 character soundbites has become very popular among bloggers, and secondly FriendFeed has tipped as the lifestreaming aggregator of choice for many people. The upshot is that there are now...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
2008 has seen a big change in the way the blogging community communicates with each other. In a nutshell, discussions have become very fragmented . There are two main reasons for this: firstly Twitter and its 140 character soundbites has become very popular among bloggers, and secondly FriendFeed has tipped as the lifestreaming aggregator of choice for many people. The upshot is that there are now...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Hitwise Intelligence took an interesting look at the breakdown of Yahoo's properties today. They come to the conclusion that, even if Yahoo sells off its search division, Yahoo's other properties probably wouldn't be too affected by this, as they get most of their traffic from Google's search anyway. Only Yahoo Image Search, Games, Maps, and News get most of their traffic from Yahoo Search. Looking...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
RSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interfaces for displaying the feeds of our activities so ugly? Enter Swurl , a visually stunning system for displaying a timeline of your activities on various sites around the web. Developer Ryan Sit specializes in leveraging the visual to create new interfaces for data, his ListPic application lets users browse Craigslist...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
While quite a few mainstream users use RSS daily on their personalized homepages without ever knowing it, more traditional RSS aggregators are only slowly expanding beyond the early adopter crowd. Regator , which released a private beta today, is courting these mainstream users by giving them a very straightforward and easy way to browse RSS feeds while keeping the layout of more traditional RSS aggregators....
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 major mapping...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 the lawsuit, Viacom is seeking more than $1 billion in damages because of copyright...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: "PodLists." Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service - 12 million at the moment and ever-growing - it can be difficult to find music that you like. Sites like Last.fm rely on social recommendations to help you find new artists, but SeeqPod's take is a bit different. Instead...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
What can the plan be with Microsoft's purchase of hot startup Powerset? The 3-year old company, founded by Dr Barney Pell , recently launched a semantic search experience for Wikipedia. It is doubtful that Microsoft bought the company just to enhance Live Search. Possibly the plan is to replicate the Wikipedia solution, then incorporate Powerset into Internet Explorer. In this post we look at what...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
We already knew that Mozilla had a record breaking day on June 17th when Firefox 3 was downloaded close to 8 million times, despite the download site not working for at least part of the morning. Now, Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3 has indeed made it into the Guinness Book of World Records with 8,002,530 downloads. Mozilla had set itself a goal of only 5 million downloads. If you participated...
