| 8:04 PM: | First look at the new version of Genwi: Social RSS. Social RSS aggregator service Genwi will relaunch Tuesday with a range of new features. The Inquisitr. | |
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| 7:51 PM: | Taking Kindle To The Pool. Pegoraro says that while a few drops won't hurt the device, you probably won't want to bring Kindle on the raft with you. NPR. | |
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| 6:24 PM: | Find Who Has Access to Your Gmail Account. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you'll be able to see the list of locations where your account can still be accessed. Google OS. | |
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| 6:20 PM: | How Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News. In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently). ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 6:07 PM: | Get Started With Movable Type. Movable Type contains pretty much everything you need to get your own site up and running, plus the flexibility to get really obsessive over the details. Also, with a little creativity and some community-created plugins, you can power much more than just a reverse-chronological list of blog posts. WebMonkey. | |
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| 1:17 PM: | Can Lifestream.fm Compete With FriendFeed? At the time of their launch, Lifestream.fm looked like just another attempt to compete with social media darling FriendFeed, but now that the service is under new ownership, they've been busy recoding, adding features, and fixing bugs. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 10:44 AM: | Better Amazon Firefox Extension Upgrades Amazon.com. Firefox only: Save time shopping at Amazon.com with the new Better Amazon Firefox extension, which adds helpful tweaks and features to Amazon's pages. Lifehacker. | |
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| 8:20 AM: | Scrabble on Facebook: too little, too late. Electronic Arts, the video game giant that owns the rights to digital versions of the board game Scrabble, has announced that later this month it will launch a Facebook-app version of the game in conjunction with Hasbro. Webware. | |
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| 6:13 AM: | Packard Bell reveals gargantuan ipower X2.0 gaming desktop. Are absurdly large, overdecorated gaming desktops making a comeback? Engadget. | |
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| 6:12 AM: | Acer introduces monitor with 50,000:1 contrast ratio. Acer recently announced a 24-inch flat panel monitor with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. CrunchGear. | |
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| 5:19 AM: | Firefox's screenshots extension: FireShot. FireShot is a Firefox plugin that offers a number of editing tools that let users modify the captured screen shots and add text and graphical annotations. Startup Meme. | |
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| 3:38 AM: | The Strange Disappearance Of A Chinese YouTube. 56.com, a site that raised $30 million and recently announced a partnership with the National Basketball Association, shut down without explanation on June 3. A message in Mandarin says the site is undergoing an unspecified server upgrade. Silicon Alley. | |
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| 3:36 AM: | Identi.ca gets replies tab, clones already appearing. Open source microblogging platform Identi.ca, which launched 5 days ago to a big splash, is already evolving with the addition of a replies tab. The Inquisitr. | |
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