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Between Google Video and Google’s hold in YouTube there are many small video streaming sites holding minuscule portions of the market. Yahoo, the content and services behemoth, doesn’t offer any worthy alternative to Google’s video services, and that’s exactly where the Flickr brand comes into the picture.
The word is that Flickr Video is coming
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So you have a hotmail or live.com e-mail account and you just found out about this great social news site called digg, you go on through the registration page and wait for the registration verification email. Where did it go?

To the junk folder of course!!!

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We’ve heard about the Gmail 2.0 interface a few weeks ago, than it was introduced to a selective group of users, now it seems to slowly open up to the masses.
I really like the new features in Gmail, seems like they were introduced to the masses quietly so far, I don’t see any official
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It started slowly, A gossipy item there, a gossipy story there, but now it turned into a full blown rainstorm. More and more items on TechCrunch are of the slimy slander type, not the web 2.0 centric news feed we got used to.
The last two from TechCrunch, the Pownce vs. Digg one and
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Another spam wave just passed by.
I’m sure many blog owners noticed the nature of spam waves. For several days the blog get hit by hundreds or thousands of spam comments and trackbacks a day and a few days later it’s all over, things relax and go back to normal, which usually means only 10-40
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So a few short weeks ago, I set myself to try the Ask Sponsored Listings offered by Ask.com. A service similar to Google’s Adwords, only on the Ask.com network of sites.
The registration process was pretty straight forward, that is until I had to key in my credit card, for some undisclosed reason the system
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I found a few false positives in my Gmail spam folder lately, and these were no dubious emails or one of those standard forum confirmation request emails. I started to worry when Western Union emails started landing in the spam folder, not a good sign.
Still it didn’t prepare me to what I found there
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Today the Live team rolled out some major improvements and new features to the Windows Live Hotmail service. These changes/fixes were due since the new interface came out.
Using Hotmail has become excruciating, it was slow, clunky and buggy most of the times and sometimes it bluntly get stuck. Now things seems to work differently,
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There’s a lot of hype around the blogsphere about Technorati’s new look and features, and about the extended downtime during the site’s relaunch.
Technorati has incorporated improved support for tagging, meaning it can better assemble collections of media (blogs, images, video) based users interests. It also eliminated the search silos, a concept casual users never managed
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Google advertised their toolbar on Google’s main page many times in the past. This time, it’s no simple text line under the search box, they are going for bigger and for more exposure. An you can’t miss at the upper right side of your age. Can’t miss it, can’t ignore it.

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The online spreadsheet market broke into public eyes with the launch of Google Docs and spreadsheet. But Google’s launch wasn’t the first to market, by far. Other companies already built sleek web 2.0 online spreadsheet applications. One of prominent one’s was iRows, based in Israel. iRows was bought and shutdown by Google, while the
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For some reason, Gmail is not working on my wifi enabled UX50. Not surprising, but disapointing. Maybe I should dig into it more and see if somehting can be done. Considering I never upgrade the original browser, I’m not that surprised. Than again, I’m not using the UX50 for browsing, even though it was one
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We all know that the social network market is booming. This is simply the place to be. And this is exactly the reason I haven’t decided if I should be shocked or amazed by the emerging of YoungFeds.org. Yes, the Feds have their own MySpace clone. Launched today, the new federal social network features profiles,
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I’ve been browsing around SoapBox for a while and found it interesting, though lacking at one of the crucial features it claims to do better. Just in case you are not familir with SoapBox, it’s Microsoft’s answer to YouTube.
Microsoft says its viewing experience will be better with a support for tagging, RSS, higher quality video
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