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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Spielberg pops up on Seesmic — Seesmic, the video discussion site, has gone wild this morning as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more big names from Indiana Jones 4 join a Q&A session on the site. — It's a simple enough idea but incredibly exciting …
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas in Seesmic this morning — Pic by sizemore showing the impressive setup in Cannes with Seesmic on the computer, ready to receive the movie stars! — Guardian Journalist Jemima Kiss was one of the Seesmic community members who asked questions …
Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download — Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
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Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Firefox 3 RC 1 full review — A year and a half after the last major Firefox release, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here with a very long list of new features and improvements. — For those who have been following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to What's new in Release Candidate 1.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.0 RC1 early — Beats ‘late May’ schedule, unveils first release candidate for major upgrade — Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. on Friday rolled out the release candidate for Firefox 3.0, bringing the open-source browser one step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months.
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:FIREFOX 3 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 RELEASED Mozilla pushed …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Glass Jaw — Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry users. The only thing Facebook has going for it is that said users don't yet know they're angry.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
MrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the One Pure Man at the Top — Andrew Sorcini lives in Los Angeles, works as an animator for Disney and is the most powerful user that social news site Digg.com has ever seen. Known at Digg and elsewhere as MrBabyMan, Sorcini has submitted …
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
A business model for Twitter: Pay up — The Web spirit of “build an audience and figure out the business model later” is a great filter. It allows products and services into the wild without barriers or the need to sell advertisers on an unproven concept.
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation — Over five years ago I posted Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. Yesterday I watched the video of my Mix Presentation all the way through. It's always very painful to hear one's own voice but it's even worse to watch yourself.
Lisa Zyga / PhysOrg.com:
A baseball cap that reads your mind — The brain-computer interface consists of a baseball with six electrodes (one under the left ear) that detect the wearer's EEG signals. In the current prototype, the system can detect brain activity that corresponds with a person's drowsiness level.
Josh / Redeye VC:
The “Atomization of Conversation” — Last week I was speaking with Lawrence Hooper of Loladex and he used a phrase that's been sticking in my head. When I asked him whether people would be willing to solicit their friends to make a local recommendations via his Facebook application …
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discussions.europe.nokia.com:
Nokia N95 US version (also known as N95-3) — Nokia is aware of consumers' demand for a new software release, and our development teams are working to produce the new software as soon as possible. We estimate that the new software should be available early June.
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Daily Mail:
Obesity experts condemn Nintendo's Wii ‘Fit’ game after it tells 10-year-old girl she's fat — Obesity experts today slammed Nintendo after its Wii Fit game told a 10-year-old girl she was fat. — They fear the game could damage children's body image and called on the company to warn parents it is not suitable for their offspring.
