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Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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Zed Shaw’s always on some crazy shit, but here’s some crazy shit.
Utu is a new software package that hopes to “save the internet with hate.”
Here’s the premise:
The internet is overrun by trolls and aggressors who are free to do as they please, using the internet as their spambot, and are able to continue because there […]

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It’s not cool to suck Dave Winer’s dick.
Warning: I’m about to suck Dave Winer’s dick.

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Google’s up to some crazy shit right now, as I’m sure by now you’ve heard.
Instead of talking about all this, I’d like to offer a brief Gmail suggestion.
I run Mail for POP access to my Gmail account and it’s great, obviously.
But when why can’t my mail get marked as read when I read it from […]

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A self-imposed oath, that is, to not discuss anything related to Twitter or Adobe AIR applications for the remainder of the week.But Seesmic buying Twhirl is really huge news for people as obsessed with AIR microblogging as me.
So instead of blogging about it or offering my two cents, I ask you to check out all […]

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I want to glue together two useful open source Adobe AIR applications.
The Spaz Twitter application and The Bee Wordpress/Flickr desktop app, to be specific.
I think gluing these tools together and working it in with something like FlickrFan would make for a really useful app.
Want to beat me to the punch and become an hero?
Here’s the […]

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It’s 2008.
And when one friend sends out a great twit that I think another friend should read, there’s one very important thing I can’t easily do.
Forward twits from one friend to another.
And I think I should be able to.

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As much as my sympathies go out to Bragster for coming in second place at the Plugg conference, I’m going to write about the winner:
Viewdle.
Simply put:
Viewdle is a white label platform that uses facial recognition technology to identify people in videos.

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Friendfeed is an ultrasyndicator.
I’ve been using it with Facebook a little bit.
It’s pretty cool, but its strength and weakness lies fully in just one element:
This page.

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Bragster.com, of course.
…For an audio podcast.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with them quite a bit over the past few months, and I’d like to get Bertrand, Wim, or Brittney on the phone to talk about the site’s new features and direction.
Wim, in this blog post, talks about their new funding. I can’t imagine […]

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