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Photosynth Launches 
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Two years after the first technology preview, Microsoft officially launched Photosynth, an interesting way to combine overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles. "Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape
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The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done 
J.D. via Get Rich Slowly on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Multitasking has killed my productivity. At this moment, on this computer, I have:
Five open browser windows with a total of 59 open tabs (in Safari)
79 open text documents (in BBEdit) — I am not joking
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Photosynth is Released and Moves to Virtual Earth 
Brady Forrest via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Live Labs has released Photosynth, the 3D-esque photo collection viewer that it first tech-previewed in 2006 (
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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business 
chrisbrogan via chrisbrogan.com on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including
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Make an iPhone Ringtone with iTunes in Windows [How To] 
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
We've shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBan
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Say goodbye to suburbia: California moves to cut urban sprawl 
Chris Morrison via VentureBeat on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
I hate Los Angeles. If you live there and love it, my apologies, but I’m hardly alone. If its movie business is what LA is known best for, its toxic combination of sprawl, smog and blighted urban landscape certainly comes in second. But t
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See Tiger Woods actually make the Jesus Shot 
(author unknown) via Joystiq on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Shared by Alex
Bravo, EA. I bet Tiger had fun with that.
Filed under: Sports, Video
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21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content 
(author unknown) via RSSmeme on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
Shared by Alex
Great list.
Shared eight times
Written on 8/20/2008 by
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The Microsoft Sphere 
Sarah Perez via sarahintampa on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
By now, you probably have heard the news about the Microsoft Sphere. From the same researchers who developed Surface, the Sphere is a similar multi-touch device except instead of being a table, it’s shaped like a globe. The sphere was built as a collaborative effort between Global Imagination, makers of a digital globe known as the “Magic Plane
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The ZEN of Blogging 
Alexander van Elsas via Alexander van Elsas's Webl on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
Yesterday I was invited to what turned out to be an excellent dinner with some of the best Dutch bloggers around. A few of them have an ambitious plan to organize an international blogging conference in the Netherlands and they wanted our feedback on their plans. It was an interesting evening altogether. I noticed that if you bring some 20 experienced and well known bloggers together i
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Photosynth Opens for User-Created 3D Panoramas [Digital Photos] 
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Photosynth, a Microsoft Live Labs project previously available as a view-only tech preview, now lets those signed up with Windows
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Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 
Om Malik via GigaOM on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Amazon has announced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), persistent storage offering that can be used in tandem with applications using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With this move, they are the heat on everyone from storage area network vendors, server companies and
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Subdownloader Grabs Subtitles For All Your Movies [Featured Download] 
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: Cross platform application Subdownloader makes short work of locating subtitles for your movies. Subdownloader uses a fast hashing algorithm, which, according to the developers, tears through about 4G
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Iterasi Launches Mac Version, Scheduler 
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Iterasi, the dynamic bookmarking tool we told you about earlier this year, has just announced a new release that finally brings their service to the Mac. Previously, Iteras
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Switching to Twteet Scan! 
Orli Yakuel via GO2WEB20 Blog on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
With all do respect to Twitter Search: Summize, it's not working good, certainly not as good as Tweet Scan! If I have to choose between replies or ALL replies, I choose the second one (comparison).The screenshot below speaks for its
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Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company 
Jason Calacanis via Silicon Alley Insider on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
For over ten years I've been in the unique position of being both a CEO and a journalist in the technology space. My first company produced Silicon Alley Reporter maga
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Best way to upload photos from an iPhone, and preserve location information (or: review of Flickup for iPhone) 
Josh Bancroft via Josh Bancroft's TinyScreen on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
I use Flickr to store my photos online. You can “geotag” your photos on Flickr, to show where, exactly, they were taken (on a map). I’ve geotagged most of the 4000+ photos I have on Flickr. By hand, dragging them to the correct location on the map. What a pain.
The iPhone, with the new 2
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