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The Future of Web Apps (Miami, Feb 28 - Mar 1 2008), is offering a 25% discount for registering early. The discount will run out when a preset amount tickets have been sold, so don’t delay. This is FOWA’s first time on the East Coast of the United States.
FOWA brings together web visionaries to discuss […]

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LinkedIn is resembling Facebook now in more ways than one. As most social networks have done in the past year, LinkedIn has recently added Network Updates in chronological arrangement (aka news feeds). This should make it a bit easier to see what’s going on in your LinkedIn network, based on whatever updates are […]

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The company that got first dibs at implementing OpenSocial gadgets has seen its service grow more than tenfold in the 3 weeks since roll out. Plaxo Pulse, the service that lets you receive live updates on activity going on across your social networks based on the contacts you have in Plaxo, was quick to […]

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Remember when Facebook decided to open itself up so that third-party developers could build applications that work on the social networking site? Earlier this month, Google out-opened Facebook by introducing OpenSocial, a system that lets developers build applications for Google’s Orkut and all of the other partners in the initiative. What can we expect next? […]

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I really like the idea behind this new web app Shift Space (http://www.shiftspace.com) but the model seems to be really similar to a couple of other recent companies, BlipNut (http://www.blipnut.com/) and Me.Dium (http://me.dium.com/). Lets take a quick look at the similarities and differences
All three of the services allow you to connect to users on […]

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