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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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Sweet Twitter Visualizations (Seriously)

Below find one of 4 visualizations of Twitter influence and interaction put forth by the Harvard Business Review (HBR).  Props to Steve Rubel for this post and HBR for doing all the work. In case you’re wondering what this all means …. I don’t know yet. But I do know what it’s better to have information than not, and the unexamined Twitter feed is not worth reading. So there you go.

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Litigation Software to the Rescue!

43% of litigators who participated in a recent ABA survey say that they use litigation support software. As for the 57% of you wondering what exactly litigation software is, this is your lucky day. The term litigation support software refers to an entire subgenre of database software for storing, searching, and reviewing discovery and evidentiary material. Way better than manually going through a physical file, that’s for sure! Here’s a helpful chart produced by the ABA of the different litigation software out there. For more information on the respective companies and how their software can facilitate your your litigation practice, take a look at the websites below and decide for yourself (this applies to both the 43% of you already familiar with the systems as well as the 57% of you who may be interested in making the switch):

1. Anacomp CaseLogistix
2. Lexis Nexis Concordance
3. ILS Edge
4. iCONECT
5. ImageDepot
6. IPRO eReview
7. Lexbe
8. MasterFile
9. Nextpoint
10. CT Summation iBlaze

The Precogs Saw It Coming …

This news item from the future courtesy of TechCrunch (founded by lawyer Michael Arrington – see lawyers can do something useful) …

In 2008 Oblong Industries revealed itself [and] people are starting to talk about it. [Oblong was]… at the TED conference this year. Apparently it wowed the crowd. If you saw Minority Report you’ve seen the system they’re building. The co-founder of Oblong, John Underkoffler, came up with the gesture-based interface seen in the Steven Spielberg movie. The demo was stunning, but it was a video. Apparently the TED audience got to see it in action. NYT’s Bits blog detailed some of it in a post. For those not at TED, Oblong has also made a few demo videos in the past, embedded below.

To clarify, this really is Minority Report <<Read the whole Article>>

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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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Halo Reach

Halo Reach drops Fall 2010.
Feel the burn.

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