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	<title>Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0</title>
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	<description>Orginal Signal aggregates the 17 most popular Web 2.0 sites. The main purpose of the site is to provide 
a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your 
last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey. All credits go to the authors of these weblogs. 
Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. Original Signal was inspired by Popurls and the Web 2.0 Workgroup.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:18:06 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>Art + Intrusive Browser Scripts = web2.0collage</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:03:41 CEST</pubDate>
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  In an attempt to educate the public about just how &#8220;private&#8221; its private data is, Canadian coder Holden Karau built Web2.0collage. The project, an online-art-installation-cum-privacy-busting app, illustrates how easy it is for nefarious web sites to sniff your browser history and see which sites you&#8217;ve visited. With one click, Karau&#8217;s script (which he makes public) Tweet This  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Bing and Google: Users Are Willing to Try New Things</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:03:40 CEST</pubDate>
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  According to the latest data from Compete, Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is still going strong, though even a month after its launch, the majority of Bing's users still switches back and forth between Google and Bing. About 66% of Bing's users also use Google search, and this number has held steady over the last few weeks. 30% of Bing's users also use Yahoo Search, and about 4% use AOL Search. The most interesting aspect of this report, however, is that Google's users seem to be far more interested in trying out a new search engine than users of other services.SponsorUsers are Willing to Experiment, But Don't Switch Completely Maybe this is not a bad thing. Bing clearly excels in some area (travel, health, and shopping, for example) and can easily compete head-to-head with Google when it comes to standard web searches. At the same time, Google's virtual monopoly position in the search arena (even if it's a natural one) wasn't likely to go unchallenged, and wasn't likely to pan out in a positive way for consumers. Now, if we trust these results from Compete's analysis, more users are using a larger variety of search engines instead of just relying solely on Google, which can only be a good thing. As Rich Devine from ZAAZ points out in the Compete post, some of the early curiosity around Bing was surely driven by Microsoft's marketing campaign around the service. The data, however, also shows that quite a few users are willing to look at alternatives to their favorite search engines.Not a Typical Week for SearchWe have to note, though, that the last week of June was not a typical week for search engines, as the death's of Michael Jackson and Sarrah Fawcett drove more users to search engines, and this brought Bing's audience to over 27 million, up from 21 million in the week right after its launch. As of now, Google's users aren't running away from the service and making Bing their exclusive search engine, and neither are Bing's users completely loyal to their service. In terms of its overall audience, Bing is also still small compared to Google, but this data shows that users might be more willing to explore alternatives than we used to think.Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Twitter to Enter the Collins English Dictionary</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:03:39 CEST</pubDate>
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  An important moment, at least symbolically, in the ascent of any hot web startup is when it becomes so mainstream that people start using it as a verb – or a noun, as the case may be.  Sometimes, the startup becomes so successful that it even enters the dictionary, and that’s exactly what Twitter has done today, as we&#8217;ve learned that it will be added to the next edition of the Collins English Dictionary.According to The Telegraph, Twitter the noun will be defined as &#8220;a website where people can post short messages about their current activities&#8221; while the verb’s definition will be &#8220;to write short messages on the Twitter website.”  Interestingly, the term “tweet” doesn’t appear to be included (as it now is in the AP Stylebook), but Twitterati and Twitterverse will be.Rival dictionary Merriam-Webster, for what it’s worth, still defines Twitter the verb as “to utter successive chirping noises” and the noun as “a small tremulous intermittent sound.”  Perhaps the company is saving Twitter for “word of the year” status, as the word “blog” was back in 2004.  Reviews: TwitterTags: Dictionary, twitter  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Marc Andreessen’s Burgeoning Blogging Empire: Invests In Talking Points Memo</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:03:38 CEST</pubDate>
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  More news about Marc Andreessen making venture investments this morning after the launch of his new $300 million fund, Andreessen Horowitz: he is leading a round of financing for TPM Media, better known as the TalkingPointsMemo blog.TPM founder Josh Marshall confirmed the pending investment today by phone. The round is small, between $500k and $1 million. Andreessen is leading the round and a number of other angel investors are participating as well. This comes just a little over a month after Andreessen invested in another blog network, Alley Insider. He clearly likes the format. Both the Alley Insider and Talking Points Memo investments are being done personally by Andreessen, not through the new venture fund.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Andreessen: Facebook revenues will top $500 million in '09</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:33:48 CEST</pubDate>
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  Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, who just launched a new venture fund, said in an interview with Reuters (published Monday) that he expects the company's revenues to be in excess of $500 million in 2009, and that in five years it'll be well into the billions."Generally speaking, people who are selling their stock in Facebook now are making a mistake," he told Reuters regarding the fact that since an initial public offering is still a ways off, Facebook is permitting some employee stock sales to Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian firm that invested $200 million in the site in May. Andreessen himself is not a personal investor in Facebook, and said that "I probably could have if I had tried hard but I didn't."If Facebook worked the ad-sales front a bit harder, Andreessen added in the interview, revenues could already be over a billion.But Facebook has never taken kindly to traditional display advertisements, choosing instead to experiment with "engagement ads" integrated into the social-networking experience--a product it may potentially extend into Facebook Connect's participating sites, which now number over 10,000.Additionally, Facebook has been working toward an alternate revenue stream with its "credits" system, a virtual currency that's currently restricted to its in-house "Gifts" application. Sometime in the not-so-distant future, the Facebook currency system will be made available to developers using the social network's API, which could produce a significant new source of revenue for Facebook as it takes a cut of transactions.Andreessen, the Netscape founder and Silicon Valley mainstay whose current project is social-network builder Ning, has been on Facebook's board for just over a year. He joined at the personal request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said at the time that "Marc is an industry leader, and we're fortunate to have him join our board."     ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Twittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use Twitter</title>
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  How do you really use Twitter?  Do you retweet a lot of other peoples' content, share a lot of links and respond to direct messages?  A new service called Twittruth will tell you the cold, hard facts about your own use of Twitter.  It might sound trivial, but you could also say this service is an example of the kind of conversation data mining that will define some of the most exciting innovation in the future of the web.Once someone has given Twittruth access to their account, you can learn a few things about how they use Twitter, too.  Today I learned that I'm bad at replying to direct messages, I tweet a lot of things other than links and I only reference Twitter rock stars in about one out of 20 messages I post.  How about you?SponsorI can tell you that Tim O'Reilly retweets other peoples' content more than I do and he's more likely to be sharing a link when he tweets - but neither of us respond to more than about 1 out of 10 direct messages we receive!   (We learned about this service because O'Reilly twittered a link!) PR star Steve Rubel?  He's twice as likely to mention one of the top 1000 most followed Twitter messages in his tweets as Tim or I are and he responds to more than half the direct messages he gets!We've seen a lot of tools that analyze publicly available Twitter messages, something that other social networks like Facebook can only dream of doing because of privacy settings, but this is one of the first times we've seen an app ask for access to your private practices for aggregate analysis of those.  The fact that the analysis is then made publicly available is a touch disconcerting, but it's probably not that big a deal.  Some of the statistics Twittruth comes up with are pretty silly ("how long does it take this person to read all their direct messages")  and there's limited information available about people who haven't added themselves to the service, but it's fun and interesting to try out.  The front page of Twittruth says that Chris Brogan almost always replies to messages he gets in under one minute!  Whoa!  That's awesome, but get back to work, buddy!  Even the site's own disclaimer says that some of these numbers may not be accurate for users who haven't given Twittruth access to their account yet.  None the less, I feel like I learned a little something about myself today - and I'm comfortable with what I learned.If you like this kind of thing, check out this even more useful collection of bookmarklets for analysis of Twitter users that we wrote about last month.We'll tell you the truth: we usually Twitter about our blog posts and our thoughts about the meaning of life.  You can find ReadWriteWeb on Twitter, as well as the entire RWW Team: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Bernard Lunn, Alex Iskold, Sarah Perez, Frederic Lardinois, Doug Coleman, Jolie O'Dell, Dana Oshiro , Lidija Davis and Steven Walling.Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:33:38 CEST</pubDate>
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  It looks like PayPal is rolling out a more flexible payments API called Adaptive Payments. We've obtained a confidential document, which is embedded below, explaining the details of the new system.  Basically the API is designed to give developers full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot more freedom in building applications which include the ability to accept and distribute payments.Very similar to Amazon's Flexible Payments Service (FPS), the Adaptive Payments API handles payments between a sender of a payment and one or more receivers of the payment.   Adaptive Payments allows almost the same functionality as FPS. The new API lets developers become a payment aggregator, which we are told is something against PayPal’s current Terms of Service. Amazon's FPS also lets developers aggregate payments. Moreover, Paypal's Adaptive Payments has built in micropayments support, another feature of FPS.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>The TechCrunch Europas Awards: The Nominees Are…</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:03:39 CEST</pubDate>
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  The Europas, the Tecrunch Europe Awards 2009 for European and EMEA tech companies, will be held on July 9 in London and with over 300 people coming from across Europe's startup scene,it should be pretty fun. Over 400 entrants were voted on by the industry - we had over 50,000 votes in aggregate - and these results were merged with those from 19 expert advisors. Thanks to our sponsors for supporting these inaugural awards. The shortlisted nominees in each category are...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Facebook’s ‘09 Revenue to Top $500 Million</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:33:41 CEST</pubDate>
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  In April, Facebook publicly announced that they had passed a fairly significant milestone: 200 million active users worldwide.  That number has since passed 225 million, according to Facebook board member Mark Andreessen.Additionally, Andreessen told Reuters that Facebook will have revenue of more than $500 million for 2009, and that he expects the company to be doing billions of dollars in sales within the next five years.  The Netscape and Ning founder (who also just launched a new venture capital firm) also seems to share the Facebook philosophy that for now, adding users is more important than rapidly increasing ad sales.And considering that it’s been only three months since Facebook passed the 200 million member milestone, Andreessen’s report makes it safe to say that the social network is still adding hundreds of thousands of new users daily. With what appears to remain incredibly robust growth at Facebook, it’s a bit surprising to see the company continue to push such dramatic changes to the core of its service; in other words, some would say, if it&#8217;s not broke, don&#8217;t fix it (See: Facebook’s Twitterification: Is it the Right Move?). Nonetheless, risk taking and constant innovation seem to be what’s put the company at the top of the social networking heap.  And while users might openly oppose changes with their comments, groups, and status updates, the numbers show they certainly aren’t yet abandoning Facebook for someplace else because of them.  Tags: facebook, marc andreessen  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Four short links: 7 July 2009</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:46 CEST</pubDate>
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  Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them -- Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.  Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you&#8217;re less motivated to do the hard work needed. I have noticed this myself. It must be balanced against the other finding that public commitment increases probability of followthrough, which might work in sales but seems to fail miserably in getting me to do anything productive. (via migurski on Delicious)Rseek -- search engine for info on R.  Necessary because of the non-unique project name. (via Benjamin Mako Hill)Treasure World (Offworld) -- Nintendo DS game that turns wifi spots into collectible treasure.  You have to explore the real world as you play the game, another of these games that mix the online and offline worlds. (via waxy)50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine -- notice the large number of electronic health record (EHR) suites.  What are the chances of any of them getting a slice of Obama's EHR money? (via timoreilly on Twitter)     ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi Jumps to Index Ventures</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:44 CEST</pubDate>
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  Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi won&#8217;t be waiting in line at the unemployment office. He&#8217;s landed at Index Ventures &#8212; which invested in Joost two years ago. It seems they still believe in Volpi, even if his company did implode. Volpi will work out of Index&#8217;s London office, where, according to a press release, &#8220;he Tweet This  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Terabytes Missing From The National Archives: Would the Cloud Be Safer?</title>
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  Cloud computing might strike fear in the hearts of some, but at least your employees can't walk off with your hard drives. Since May, the National Archives and Records Administration has offered a $50,000 reward for a missing Clinton-era hard drive. As of Sunday, it's been revealed that thousands of electronic devices containing sensitive and historically important data are missing from the nation's most important public repository. While IT tends to have a knee-jerk reaction in favor of traditional data centers, the situation at the National Archives shows the sense of false security they impart. SponsorThe Back StoryIn May of this year, the National Archives issued a press release that admitted an external hard drive with two terabytes of data had gone missing. Within days of the disappearance, the agency was offering $50,000 dollars for its return. Months later the money is unclaimed and the hard drive is still missing. Now, a criminal investigation by the inspector general of the Archives has revealed that thousands of electronic storage devices have been lost or stolen. From external hard drives to entire servers, exactly how many devices and how much data has been compromised is unknown. Conclusion: It's Hard to Steal A CloudWhat is clear is that if the most important archival system in the country can't protect its data centers, it's likely that the enterprise is going to have problems too. The similarities between enterprise data management and the agency run deep. With facilities in 20 states, the National Archives deal with the entire spectrum of nightmare situations when it comes to data security.What if, instead of a chaotic jumble of devices and data centers, the Archives simply put everything in the cloud? True, it would be vulnerable in many ways. But they'd be different ways than what plagues them now. It's hard to steal the server holding someone's social security number when you have no real idea where it is. At this point, it might be ludicrous for anyone to put their most sensitve data in the cloud as a security measure. But the dire straits at the National Archives should stand as a warning for those who think traditional data security measures are without vulnerability. Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>14 iPhone Apps With Push Notification for Productivity</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:41 CEST</pubDate>
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  Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com, a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter.With iPhone 3.0 OS upon us, we&#8217;ve finally seen the delivery of much-needed push notifications from Apple.  Applications that take advantage of this new feature continue to trickle in, and though the selection is slim right now, there are a handful of apps (some on their way) that should allow you to become more productive throughout your day.With push notifications, you can now stop checking news for breaking stories, or forget opening your IM app to see if someone is looking for you &#8211; rather, you can get instantly notified instead.  Let&#8217;s take a look at a handful of useful apps that can get you the information you crave even more quickly.iPhone Apps with push notificationChat and Instant Message AppsBeejiveIM: Web &#8211; iTunes: By far, my favorite instant messaging app for the iPhone, BeejiveIM ($9.99) combines Google Talk, Yahoo!, MSN, AIM and more all under one program for your iPhone.  Now you&#8217;ll receive IM notifications even when you have the app closed.YoFrog: Web - iTunes: YoFrog ($.99) is a mobile group chat application that allows you to chat with all your friends or business associates (who also need YoFrog) at once.  No more SMS mayhem!  With version 1.1 (sent to the App Store last week and waiting for approval), you&#8217;ll now be instantly notified when your contacts are trying to chat with you.  They also have a free, Lite version.Textfree Unlimited: Web &#8211; iTunes: Textfree ($5.99) allows for unlimited text messages (for one year) to any other US mobile phone.  You&#8217;ll need to set up a username for people to text you directly, so it&#8217;s not ideal for your contacts &#8211; but probably not a bad deal for anyone who sends a ton of text messages and doesn&#8217;t want to upgrade to their carrier&#8217;s unlimited plan.  Push notifications for Textfree will now notify users as soon as a new message comes in (imagine that!).  They also have a Lite version that limits you to 15 messages per day and is ad-supported.IM+ with Push: Web &#8211; iTunes: A popular instant messaging app, IM+ ($9.99) can now update you in real time when you receive an IM.  You can manage IM with all of your contacts from any of the instant messaging platforms, including Skype.To-do List AppsRememberTheMilk: Web &#8211; iTunes: One of the most popular web-based to do list managers (and my go-to web app), RTM will now instantly notify you when you have a list item that&#8217;s due. The RTM iPhone App is free, but requires a Pro account with Remember The Milk for $25 per year.ToodleDo: Web &#8211; iTunes: Another solid to do list manager, you can purchase their iPhone app ($2.99) to use with your free or paid subscription to Toodledo.  Push notifications will let you know when an item with a due-date is coming up.ReQall: Web &#8211; iTunes:  ReQall (Free) is a unique information manager for to do items and other reminders.  If you haven&#8217;t used it, I&#8217;d suggest trying it for a week to see if it makes sense for you.  Open the app, speak, and let their system convert your speech into a to do item.  The app now supports push notifications to instantly notify you of upcoming events.Reminder AppsBillMinder: Web &#8211; iTunes:  ($.99 on sale) The next update of this bill reminder application promises push notifications.  Just set your due dates and make sure notifications are turned on.  Now you&#8217;ll never forget to pay a bill again&#8230; accidentally, at least.NotifyMe: Web: Not to be confused with Notify.me, the IM notifier app, NotifyMe (price unkown) is yet to be approved by the app store, but promises notification for anything you can think of.  Set it to notify you when your favorite TV show is about to start, when you are supposed to call back a client, or when you need to change the cat box!  You&#8217;ll need to set up each alert, but the developer promises you can set up a new alert in as little as two taps.  The free version (with some limitations) is in iTunes now.Occasions: Web &#8211; iTunes:  Occasions ($.99 on sale) notifies you of the birthdays and anniversaries of your iPhone contacts.  You can also add more information about each contact or add reminders for people not on your phone&#8217;s contact list.  For me, this is great.  I manage all of my contacts in GMail and they&#8217;re synced to my phone automatically, so now I can get notified of the events in their lives,  without having to do much extra work.  Other Apps with PushAP Mobile: Web &#8211; iTunes: The popular free news app now supports push notifications of breaking news.  However, it seems like it might not be working properly (serious lag time and not all notifications coming through).  If this gets fixed, it could be very useful for those of us who can&#8217;t stand missing the latest North Korean missile launch.AreMySitesUp: Web &#8211; iTunes: While push notifications are not yet available for this app, they promise that it&#8217;s coming.  For an app that is built to &#8220;notify&#8221; you when your web site goes down &#8211; push would be ideal, of course.  Their app is a free companion to the Premium membership on their site (starts at $25 per year).  There is also a Lite version of the app that works with their free plan.Zillow Real Estate: Web &#8211; iTunes:  If you&#8217;re looking for a home, it doesn&#8217;t get much better than Zillow (Free).  While you could always find houses for sale near your location (no need to enter an address), you can now get push-notified of new listings that match any of your saved searches.E*Trade Mobile Pro: Web &#8211; iTunes:  For the investors out there, you probably know you can already manage your E*Trade account with their iPhone App (Free), but now they&#8217;ve introduced push notifications.  You&#8217;ll get stock and account alerts pushed directly to your phone&#8217;s screen.  Next time you miss that big opportunity, it won&#8217;t be E*Trade&#8217;s fault!Will Innovators Rise to Push?While the apps that currently use push notifications are handy, I hope that developers will take this opportunity to do some things above and beyond your typical &#8220;message waiting&#8221; notifiers.  E*Trade, Zillow and a few others get the idea.  I&#8217;m waiting for the app that allows me to get notified of anything I decide I need to be notified about.  With all the open APIs out there today, it&#8217;s bound to come along.Things I want pushed:1. Allow me to be notified when my car or house alarm goes off.2. Google, let me be notified of a new Google Alert I have set up.3. How about instead of giving me a big vibrating brick of plastic at the restaurant while I wait for a table, let my phone connect to your system and you can ping me instead.4. I&#8217;d also like to know immediately when Albert Pujols hits another grand slam &#8211; or when any other sporting event I&#8217;m interested in occurs.5. What about when I need two days of rain-free weather, within specific degrees, in order to paint a fence or deck.  Should I really have to check the weather forecast every day?  I&#8217;d rather have an app that did the work for me.Sooner or later, push notification of almost anything will be a reality, making our digital lives even more real-time.  What type of alerts would you like pushed to your iPhone?Elliott Kosmicki is a web developer and marketing specialist for an Internet Retailer Hot 100 company in Madison, WI. When he’s not absorbing marketing strategy and personal development material, you can find him writing for Good Plum – a productivity and personal development blog focused on the thoughts of home business owners, freelancers, and dreamers. You can also find Elliott on his personal summary page, and on Twitter.More iPhone resources from Mashable:- A Guide to Better Web Working From Your iPhone- 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared- 11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip- 15 iPhone Apps to Tame the Kids- Data Visualizations: 5 Amazing iPhone Visualization VideosReviews: Gmail, Google, Skype, Toodledo, Twitter, iTunesTags: App, iphone, Lists, productivity, push notification  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:33:47 CEST</pubDate>
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  Offline Mapping App for iPhone -- carry Open Street Maps maps with you even when you're not in 3G/wifi range. (via Elisabeth)My dentist used an in-office CAD &amp; CNC mill to produce a new tooth for me today (Nat Friedman) -- hello, future!New version of Scratch released -- Scratch is an excellent way to teach kids how to program (I've had success with lots of 7 and 8 year olds).  The new version includes keyboard entry, webcams, and support for Lego WeDo. The user interface has also been changed to work on a Netbook's 800x600 screen.  Kudos to the Scratch team! (via scratchteam on Twitter)Newspaper Club - a Work in Progress -- blog for the Newspaper Club project.  "We're building a service to help people make their own newspapers. This is the blog where we're alarmingly honest about where it's all going wrong."  I can't figure out whether this is a brilliant decentralisation move that will disrupt the newspaper industry, or a paper form of steampunk. (via Simon Willison)  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi Jumps to Index Ventures</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:33:45 CEST</pubDate>
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  Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi won&#8217;t be waiting in line at the unemployment office. He&#8217;s landed at Index Ventures &#8212; which invested in Joost two years ago. It seems they still believe in Volpi, even if his company did implode. Volpi will work out of Index&#8217;s London office, where, according to a press release, &#8220;he Tweet This  ]]></content:encoded>
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