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“By far, the biggest crowd pleaser at last week’s TechCrunch50 was a demo by the Japanese startup Tonchidot for a mobile social tagging product it is developing called Sekai Camera . The Japanese CEO Takahito Iguchi overcame a very noticeable language barrier and deflected serious questions from the judges through sheer will of character. He had the audience roaring in laughter and rooting for him, as he answered lengthy questions about how his service would actually work with brief responses …”
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“Sugar Inc , owner of the popular Sugar blog network that includes PopSugar , is launching a free blogging platform called OnSugar . The OnSugar platform is designed to be as simple as possible while still remaining versatile, and already has a proven track record – the Sugar blog network is written using the same technology. Users will be given tools to create special features that have become mainstays on the blogs, including photo galleries and polls, and will also …”
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“Reports are bubbling up that Digg has permanently banned over 80 users for running scripts that help them automatically perform certain tasks on the site. The mostly lengthy account has been published on the Get Smart Blog under the title The Grim Reaper has visited Digg . The post lists 86 usernames that were unceremoniously dropped from the site without forewarning. The tone of the author and his commenters, all apparently Digg users (or ex-Digg users) themselves, is dramatic: “So …”
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“As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift through the junk and find what we’re looking for in all that content. To address that, Google announced Wednesday that it has launched audio indexing in Google Labs. Dubbed GAudi , the new service is designed to work with YouTube, and will catalog all the words uttered during an audio or video clip. …”
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“Once you’re done turning your iPhone photos into works of art that Monet would be envious of, check out iGolf , a minutes-old app created by Palo Alto-based Social Gaming Network . The application uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to detect a golf-swing like motion with the phone. Choose a club and swing the iPhone just like a golf club. Save your high scores and challenge your friends to beat your distance. Our best score with the driver so far is …”
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“Google Cofounder Sergey Brin launched a personal blog today at too.blogspot.com . In his first blog post, he explains the blog name: “Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number – two. It also means “in addition”, as this blog reflects my life outside of work.” In the second blog post, he gets a little more serious. He talks about how DNA startup 23andMe (cofounded by his …”
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“The three new non-Seinfeld commercials, which the New York Times described earlier this week, still don’t talk about Vista features. But they do try to break the stereotype that cool and interesting people use Macs, and everyone else is on a Windows machine. The three new commercials are below:”
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