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The coolest ID site you’ve never heard of

I discovered DooID  when I saw it being used by the Editor in Chief of London-based blog, TheNextWeb . As you can see from the shot above, the application is cool just to look at, not to mention the fact that it incorporates virtually every social network and blogging platform available. The result is e-mail ready too, so it can readily be added to your existing signature block. Check it out here.

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14

03 2010

Foursquare’s First TV Commercial

See if you can tell who Foursquare is targeting in it’s first TV Spot

By MG Siegler on Feb 24, 2010 for TechCrunch

First Google, now Foursquare. Hot on the heels of Google’s first search-related television ad during the Super Bowl, location-based social network-as-game sensation Foursquare is gearing up to do the same thing tonight on cable network Bravo during the show Sheer Genius from 9 to 10 PM. It’s a 20-second spot in which Foursquare highlights its recently announced partnership with the network. The idea is to show users real-world locations for Bravo’s show.

Now this is hardly a piece of legal or even legal-tech news, except that Foursquare is the embodiment of the casestreaming concept I wrote about in this TechnoLawyer piece over a year ago. Oh, how the times have changed. And now that location-aware apps are all around us, including Twitter of course which got geolocation capabilities last year, we’re all that much closer to being forced into acknowledging colleagues in our vicinity whether we want to or not. I think I just felt a chill run down my spine.

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Halo Reach Team (I’m the Skull Guy)

When Outlook isn’t enough of a memory hog …


Thanks to its new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace, as well as its existing relationship with LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook is now set to eat up even more RAM, thus fulfillingthe Mayan prophesy that Microsoft would destroy the world in 2012. Also, you might remember back in November that Microsoft announced Outlook Social Connector, a feature in Office 2010 (beta) that Injects social network feeds directly into your sparsely-populated inbox for an even more crowded user experience.Your inbox will thank you (not).

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wow.ly

wow.ly is a set of tools to discovery, explore, and extract meaning from our respective social graphs: the Spyrograph of contacts, connections, and relationships that reveals our real interests, relationships, and attention.

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17

02 2010

Buzz Desktop (Is Already Available!)

Talk about your rapid deployment cycles. Google Buzz only went into general release last week (web-only attached to Gmail) and there are already plans to spin it off into its own app and, now, a third-party developer brings us this desktop Buzz monitor. And a very cool one at that. All of which points to the fact that Google has really gotten the hang of identifying creative ideas, bringing ideas to users, then tweaking the product while it is in the field. Not only that, but Google knows enough to make its API freely available so that 3rd party developers can get in on the action. The result with Wave and now Buzz is that changes can be made in real time based on customer comments (not canned feedback or inputs from a few opinionated beta testers). No sir: comments made about Buzz by users of Buzz  were apparently picked up by Google, examined for feasibility, and implemented within hours.

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iPhone OS 3.2 – Video Calls, Downloads, Multitasking

The folks at Engadget say they’ve confirmed that the next iPhone upgrade (operating system 3.2) will support video calling and file downloading. That amounts to limited multitasking capability too. Not as exciting as it could be, but it’s still an interesting indication of things to come. You can read the original post here.

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