| 8:47 PM: | Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses. Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs. TechCrunch. | |
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| 7:34 PM: | Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans. A company called Meraki is quietly moving forward with its plans to blanket the entire city in free WiFi. In fact, the company just crossed a big threshold -- Meraki says more than 100,000 people have used its Free the Net service. VentureBeat. | |
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| 5:25 PM: | Disqus Updates WordPress API Plugin, Now Supports Seesmic. Commenting service Disqus has updated their API WordPress plugin, adding support for Seesmic commenting. The API version of the plugin, unlike the more commonly used Javascript version, renders text on a blog so that it can be seen by search engines. The Inquisitr. | |
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| 5:24 PM: | Matias Duarte, designer behind Sidekick and Helio, now developing Palm's next-gen UI. We heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte -- who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences -- left Helio late last year to join up with Palm. Engadget. | |
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| 4:05 PM: | Canon Pixma iP100 Photo Printer. In the Pixma iP100 Photo Printer, Canon's latest version of its mobile printer, Canon makes surprisingly few compromises for the sake of portability. PC Mag. | |
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| 4:05 PM: | Tune out co-workers, other sounds with SimplyNoise. If you're at work and your co-workers won't stop chatting, there are two options: either tell them to go talk elsewhere or get a good pair of earplugs and/or headphones. If you've gone for the latter and can't seem to get over the concentration hump of focusing with music blaring, there's SimplyNoise, a white noise generator that runs right in your browser. Webware. | |
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| 4:04 PM: | Weekend project: Sync your .Mac bookmarks one last time. Are you a .Mac subscriber who's been using the built-in bookmark syncing app? Come Sunday that service will no longer exist as part of the MobileMe transition, so if you want to do one last sync you've got to get it done this weekend. Webware. | |
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| 4:03 PM: | Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful. RSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interfaces for displaying the feeds of our activities so ugly? Enter Swurl, a visually stunning system for displaying a timeline of your activities on various sites around the web. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 3:09 PM: | Review: Dell's Vista Dock Pretty But Lifeless. Problem one is right when you boot it up. Windows started, and I thought they had accidentally given me a drive without the dock. The dock appeared a full minute after I started wondering WTF it was. Gizmodo. | |
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| 2:43 PM: | Regator: Mainstreaming RSS Aggregators. Regator, which released a private beta today, is courting mainstream users by giving them a very straightforward and easy way to browse RSS feeds while keeping the layout of more traditional RSS aggregators. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 2:37 PM: | Federating identi.ca? If they're successful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can communicate even if we're using different hosts), then we're getting somewhere. Scripting News. | |
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| 11:32 AM: | MacBook Air SSD option gets slightly more affordable. While some of the benefits of SSDs may be in question these days, it looks like those still itching to take the plunge on an SSD-equipped Macbook Air can now at least save a few bucks, as the premium add-on has just received a much needed price cut. Engadget. | |
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| 11:29 AM: | Google Talk for the iPhone. Google is making its Google Talk instant messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Webware. | |
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| 11:26 AM: | Swurl lets you blog without writing anything. Swurl is a service for people who want to create a blog made from their activity on various social services. Like FriendFeed, SocialThing, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon and Yelp. Webware. | |
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| 11:25 AM: | Liberate, Sync and Share Your Media With DoubleTwist. DoubleTwist is a Windows-only desktop application which liberates your media from the Digital Rights Management (DRM) labels and lets you share it with your friends and also synchronizes it with various other devices including external devices such as Blackberry, Nokia N Series and Sony Ericsson Walkman Series phones. MakeUseOf. | |
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| 6:13 AM: | iPhone 2.0 Software Trickles Out, 'Very Good' So Far, Exchange Email A Bit Flaky. Apple's iPhone 2.0 software update won't roll out until next Friday, July 11, when the new iPhone 3G goes on sale. But it's already starting to leak -- a not-quite-finished version, perhaps -- and some iPhone owners are testing it on their older, first-generation phones. Silicon Alley. | |
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| 12:02 AM: | Seesmic Starts Adding Features. After focusing on making sure the service scales, the company is now ready to add features including private groups, the option to block individual users from your Seesmic player, and letting users flag offensive content (e.g. porn). O'Reilly. | |
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