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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
YAY! Twitter Blabber Can Now be Phoned In — Michael Arrington gives Dave Winer a big 'ol pat on the TwitterGram back while wondering what the "media hacker" will "blend up next." — No need to wonder about what Winer was blending yesterday, thanks to the mighty Twitter itself: "Fresh cherries"!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dave Winer's TwitterGram — Dave Winer likes to throw web services and his own software in a blender and see what comes out, and his new TwitterGram project is a perfect example. In this case, he's married the Twitter API to his own service that allows people to upload short audio messages to their Twitter accounts.
Barbara Whitaker / New York Times:
Technology's Untanglers: They Make It Really Work — SOMETIMES there is a huge disconnect between the people who make a product and the people who use it. The creator of a Web site may assume too much knowledge on the part of users, leading to confusion. Software designers …
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Daniel Escapa / Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog:
OneNote Web Exporter - Dave Tse's cool powertoy — I am very happy to announce that one of the coolest powertoys I have seen is available for download! It is the OneNote Web Exporter powertoy which will take a OneNote notebook and convert it into an interactive website. This is what a notebook looks like in IE:
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Microsoft outplays Apple long term — OK, let me set the scene here. Three weeks ago this event didn't exist. 300 developers are here in San Francisco. All voluntarily. All organized themselves. — I've already met a Microsoft employee. A Yahoo employee. A Verisign employee.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Steorn Now Being Openly Mocked — Irish startup Steorn blew the hugely hyped demo of their new perpetual energy machine when "excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area" led them to abort the affair. However, the guys at LouderVoice somehow got access to Steorn's "CEO" and "Machine" for this exclusive demo.
Kara Jesella / New York Times:
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers — ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy's, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gizmoz To Get Mainstream Attention At MTV Music Awards — Gizmoz, an Israeli startup that allows people to create realistic 3D cartoon avatars of themselves and embed them on other websites, will be getting a little mainstream attention at the upcoming MTV Music Awards in September.
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The Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Z9 unveiled! Can ya feel it? Huh, huh? — Motorola has been oh so sneaky with the handsets as of late, and we've hit the jackpot. Motorola's Z9 is apparently a new slider phone which bears resemblance to the RAZR 2 series. Oh, and get this — it's AT&T branded with an AT&T browser key, and even AT&T firmware.
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
So, where are the iPhone games? — It's got a large screen, a wireless Internet connection, and a touch interface a bit like the bestselling Nintendo DS, which you'd think would make it an ideal gaming platform. But for some reason, in all the avalanche of hype, I've read little or nothing about iPhone games.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Funny "no Flash" on iPhone video — This has gotten shown to me a few times already cause developers here know I am a Flash on iPhone advocate.
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Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
Microholography milks 500GB out of DVD-sized discs — A group of scientists working together with the Institute of Optics and Optical Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin claim to have discovered a way to store 500GB worth of data on DVD-sized discs.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pownce Invites For Sale On eBay — Proving that everything has a market, invites to Kevin Rose's P2P service Pownce are up for sale on eBay. — Bidding on Pownce invites start at 1c with buy it now prices at $5. — It wasn't that long ago when Gmail invites were available for sale on eBay …
Phone Scoop:
BlackBerry With Wi-Fi Approved By the FCC — Today the FCC approved the first BlackBerry with Wi-Fi and cellular components together in one device. This BlackBerry, approved for GSM/EDGE 850/1900 in the U.S., looks similar in form to the 8800 and 8830 series from Research in Motion.
