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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>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:00:23 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>MagicJack’s Next Act: Femtos, Softphones, and…an IPO?</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:33:48 CEST</pubDate>
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  Amongst all the burning wrecks of the voice over IP startup scene, is it possible that a $40 device hawked on late-night TV may be emerging as one of the biggest VoIP success stories ever? If you believe founder Dan Borislow, that is what is happening with his idea called MagicJack, a simple USB-based VoIP Tweet This  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>10 Useful Tips for Tricking Out FriendFeed</title>
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  via maketecheasier.com    Great primer for newbies and veterans alike. The email notifications, when coupled with lists and Gmail filters, are outstanding and vastly underutilized by many.Permalink | Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>The Big To-Do Over To Do's</title>
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  Years ago, life was simple. You created a to-do list - on paper. You checked boxes. And that was that. Somewhere along the way, as technology unleashed more inputs into our lives, the simple to-do list became glorified. The rising demands on our attention spawned an entire cottage industry of stand-alone to-do apps!Remember the old song Sixty Ways to Leave Your Lover? It seems like there's even more ways to manage and track your tasks on a PC, Mac, mobile device or in the cloud. Here's one list. And here's another. And the market keeps expanding too, a sign of our times,I have tried them many of these - in some cases multiple times: Backpack, Toodledo,&nbsp;Google Docs, Things, Omnifocus, GMail Tasks, Remember the Milk,&nbsp;Evernote&nbsp;and more.My needs are relatively simple: I want to follow the general principles outlined by David Allen in GTD and have all my lists be: a) searchable, b) cross-platform, c) mobile and d) private.I haven't been able to find one that sticks. But now I think I have&nbsp;finally landed on an outstanding combo: Taskpaper, pictured above. This is a Mac app but it also has an nearly identical Windows cousin called ToDoPaper. Both are super. A web service powered by Google Appspot is coming soon to&nbsp;Taskpaper.com&nbsp;as is an iPhone app.What's great about Taskpaper and ToDoPaper is that underneath they are just plain text files. This means I can read/edit my lists anywhere, mark them up in any editor and have the changes sync back everywhere via DropBox.&nbsp;Let's see if this one sticks but so far, I am loving this combo.&nbsp;What do you use?Permalink | Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn’t Care Whether You’re On Wi-Fi Or Not</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:33:50 CEST</pubDate>
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  The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-headed audience. The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new mobile operator that promised to "revolutionize the telecom world". Needless to say, I was as curious as I was skeptical.Then the company's CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn't need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Four short links: 3 July 2009</title>
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  OECD Factbook -- Flash-built impressive data explorer from OECD.  Go to Indicators &gt; Load and, in the words of Ben Goldacre, "prepare for nerdgasm". (via bengoldacre on Twitter)James Boyle is on Twitter -- author of the book The Public Domain.Sewers and Startups (Pete Warden) -- designing to last, reminds me of Saul Griffith's heirloom design riff.  When I joined Apple back in 2003, the central build farm for all projects had both PowerPC and x86 Darwin boxes, and our code had to compile on both. Steve was playing a long game, years before the Intel switch he was obviously planning for it, (though I only caught the significance in retrospect).Open Data Makes Garbage Collection Sexier, Easier, and Cheaper -- pragmatic use for open government data.  For more on the author of this post, see Hello World for Open Data by Tim Bray.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Twitter Approval Matrix - June 2009</title>
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  Last month I posted the first Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of May and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations.  This month I received some help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.net and Dan Zarrella the Social & Viral Marketing Scientist for danzarella.com.  They provided some great 'hard' data that allowed me to better place more items on the grid this month.A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc.  The Y-axis is partly analytical and shows popularity (mostly through scraped numbers) or perceived popularity (in the future nominated by you).  The other part of the grid is more curated and subjective.  The X-axis has been plotted based on my personal opinion.  You may agree or disagree with my placements and that's all good to me.  After all, it is about taste.  The matrix and plots do not represent a thorough analytical treatment, but rather a view of the trends that could be found in data sources allowing me to plot with some sense of relevance. For this post, I've limited the data and activity to the month of June.  Again, I'll continue with this project as long as I get enough feedback/help. So, if you are interested in contributing, you can comment here, or read the original post to figure out the best way for you to submit your plots.I hope you enjoy this and see it as a potentially useful tool to monitor trends that your fellow readers are tracking.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk</title>
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  Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. We're going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now.This will be the first Ignite in Los Angeles; it is co-hosted by LA Geek Dinner. The LA G33k dinner was kind enough to let us take over their July dinner to host the first Ignite. LA G33k Dinner, founded by Heathervescent brings people with a passion for technology and the internet together over a meal where conversations happen, friendships form, and collaborations on various projects occur. L.A. Geek Dinner is an inclusive event. Find them on Facebook.The event is free.  We're hosting it at Cinespace on July 21:  6:30pm Geek Dinner starts  8pm-9:30 Ignite talks  10pm Cinespace opens to the eneral public for Dim Mak (you're welcome to stay for the band)  While the event is free, you are responsible for paying for your own food/drinks from Cinespace if you want 'em.  Please RSVP to the Geek Dinner list on Upcoming.If you're working on an interesting project, have an unusual skill, or just some interest that would be fun to share with everyone, please submit a proposal to: http://bit.ly/IgniteLAIgnite LA is being organized by Brady Forrest, Matt Forrest, Dan Gould, and Heathervescent. If you're not familiar with Ignite check out some videos on the Ignite Show.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Four short links: 2 July 2009</title>
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  UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCO's first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter)ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco beast and gives them both barrels.  The whole thing is great--his talk was one of the best overviews of "how we think on the Web" I've seen.  I can only imagine the sound it made as it bounced off the thick dinosaur hides of the attendees. I was reminded of the old, apocryphal quote from a Kodak executive dismissing digital cameras and their poor quality with "people love photos", when in reality it's the taking of photos that people love. Sometimes it's hard for an incumbent with large sunk costs and a vested interest in business as usual to foresee and embrace change. Indeed for a telco or large commercial software vendor the best way to predict the future is to prevent it. (via benjaminblack on Twitter)Asia Pacific FTTH Market Study -- notable for Hong Kong's discovery with fibre-to-the-home customers: Uplink traffic is 3 times of downlink traffic.  That link appears dead, but Google has it cached. (via previous link)Shownar -- tracks blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, finds people talking about BBC television and radio, shows trends in appealing ways.  Made by Schulze and Webb (and Dopplr's delicious Matt Jones), more detail available that you should read.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Web Trend Map 4 Goes Interactive, Beta Version Drops July 14th</title>
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  We were very excited earlier this year when RWW made its way onto the latest edition of the Web Trend Map.  For those of you unfamiliar with this map, it "plots the Internet's leading names and domains onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains and personalities are carefully selected through dialogue with map enthusiasts, and every domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, and character".  Information architecture company iA built this awesome visualization and we have learned that it is about to roll out an interactive version of its map later this month.  SponsorThanks to a tip from RWW reader @CleverClogs, we discovered that Tokyo based iA, who has been working on an interactive version of its Web Trend Map 4 since early June, will launch the beta version on July 14th.  No further details were given at press time about how the interactivity might work but we found a clue on the company's Flicker photostream; "July 14th is the launch day of the interactive Webtrendmap. I hope we can launch the new iA site at the same time...our website might look somewhat like this (WTM spoiler alert)":You can already go to openzoom.org to find a zoomable version or go here to order a full-size printed version.  Be sure to follow @iA on Twitter and check out the notebook on its blog for any breaking news updates about its visualizations.This news tip was submitted by a RWW reader.  If you discover any Web apps, Web technology trends, social media or social networking tips you think might be interesting for us to write about, please send them to us at tips@readwriteweb.com.  Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Cartoon: Search Engine Pessimized</title>
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  It's happening to more and more of the blogs I read: the personality, quirkiness and unique voice that once made them so appealing to me are fading. In their place, an SEO-driven uniformity that puts keyword placement ahead of pretty much everything.That approach has been afflicting newspapers for some time, as clever headlines give way to the kind of blandness that only a machine could love (which is no coincidence, because machines are the target audience). And many pro bloggers who rely on AdSense for their revenue have been doing it for years.SponsorBut now I'm starting to see it trickle into the blogging of friends and loved ones. I understand the desire to rank more highly in search engines, but as SEO goes mainstream, I can't help but feel we're losing something.Maybe that's just me, great cartoon funny social media. What do you think?More Noise to SignalDiscuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>24 Mashups, 24 APIs: Movies, Music, Geo, Sports, and Nukes</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:34:08 CEST</pubDate>
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  This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 24 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Glue , Google Gears Geolocation, Netflix, and SoundCloud. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter. The most common categories of APIs used are: eCommerce (3 APIs, 4 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 10 mashups), and Mapping (3 APIs, 8 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Independence Day Logos Around the Web</title>
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  It&#8217;s Independence Day weekend, and as people all across the US enjoy barbecues and fireworks, the top web companies are marking the occasion in their own ways: through custom logos and themes.  While Google frequently changes its logo to mark specific events &#8211; both in the US and internationally &#8211; the Independence Day celebration was also marked by custom logos from web goliaths AOL and Yahoo.  MSN changed its entire header to include the Stars and Stripes plus a fireworks display, while Ask.com was in the rare position of being able to customize its entire site design; a piece of July 4th artwork was chosen.Other sites getting in on the custom logo trend were gaming site iWon and the social network for moms, CafeMom.  Did you spot any Independence Day logos around the web?  Let us know in the comments. Google, Yahoo and AOLMSNiWon and CafeMomAsk.comReviews: Google, Yahoo!Tags: independence day, logos  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:03:31 CEST</pubDate>
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  One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a startup was the AOL/Netscape merger), but we were only brought in at the very end to paper everything. We fought over the fine print in the contracts after the meat of the deal was ironed out by CEOs. Skinning and dressing whatever the hunters bring back to the cave is fine for some people. But it's not exactly being in the middle of the action.PR firms today aren't much different than corporate lawyers. They are paid to perform a service. They like to think of themselves as core to the strategic action of their clients. But more often, they're just there to spin whatever happened in the most favorable light possible. Then they smile and dial and pray for coverage. Occasionally they are called in to smother a story, which is mildly more exciting, I imagine. But when a CEO is wondering what she should do next to drive her business forward, she generally doesn't call her PR firm for advice. Or at least I hope she doesn't.PR firms are apparently just as frustrated by always being in the back seat as the law firms are.I'm fascinated by Clair Cain Miller's article in the New York Times today about PR in general and the birth of a startup, Wordnik, specifically.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  Sarah Palin yesterday announced her plans to resign from the role of Governor of Alaska, leaving the press clueless as to why.  Does she plan to retire from politics completely, or is she preparing to make a 2012 presidential bid?  Palin is talking to no one&#8230;except Twitter and Facebook.The press appears somewhat frustrated by the decision, with the AP producing a full-length article today discussing the governor&#8217;s most recent Tweets, including:  &#8220;Lots of celebration of Independence &#038; Alaska&#8217;s 50th Anniversary of Statehood.&#8221;   It was only thanks to Twitter that the press knows where Palin was today, the Associated Press adds &#8211; she was at the Juneau Fourth of July parade.  Her spokesman wasn&#8217;t aware of her plans, say reports. Another Tweet republished by the AP reads: &#8220;Most special July 4 shout-out to you! Spouses, kids, parents, families of troops &#8211; THANKS for supporting our true heroes.&#8221;  The press, it seems, has little to go on.Statement on Facebook, Critical of Mainstream MediaBut Palin is speaking to her Facebook fans at least: what appears to be her first statement since the announcement was posted on Palin&#8217;s official Facebook page.  With little more to go in the Palin story, the Washington Post posted the statement in full.  Interestingly, Palin uses the platform to express her frustration at mainstream media&#8217;s approach, perhaps offering some insight into why she might take matters into her own hands: For months now, I have consulted with friends and family, and with the Lieutenant Governor, about what is best for our wonderful state. I even made a few administrative changes over that course in time in preparation for yesterday. We have accomplished so much and there&#8217;s much more to do, but my family and I determined after prayerful consideration that sacrificing my title helps Alaska most. And once I decided not to run for re-election, my decision was that much easier &#8211; I&#8217;ve never been one to waste time or resources. Those who know me know this is the right decision and obvious decision at that, including Senator John McCain. I thank him for his kind, insightful comments.The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the &#8220;politics of personal destruction&#8221;. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it&#8217;s about country. And though it&#8217;s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it&#8217;s right for all, including your family.I shared with you yesterday my heartfelt and candid reasons for this change; I&#8217;ve never thought I needed a title before one&#8217;s name to forge progress in America. I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint. I hope you will join me. Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!The statement gives us little insight into Palin&#8217;s future direction, but the strategy is remarkable: with no press release on Palin&#8217;s site, a Facebook statement and some Tweets are all the press has to go on.  A sign of the times, perhaps?Reviews: Facebook, TwitterTags: facebook, twitter  ]]></content:encoded>
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