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Google Wave’s Public Beta Release will be opened up on the 30th of September, according to Wave API Tech Lead Douwe Osinga.
Before the Beta is released to the public, Osinga has released a document outlining it’s features. Probably the most important one is the ‘automated expressions’ function that can be displayed on a web page, [...]

After 6 years of noble service to those who could not afford the amazing Photoshop, Photoshop Album Starter Edition has been axed by Adobe, with the company nudging users to its online image editing suite, (Photoshop.com).
From its release in 2003, Photoshop Album Starter Edition has been the lowest tier of Adobe’s photoshopping hierarchy, being nothing [...]

As you may have heard, Facebook acquired Friendfeed a few days ago for $50 million. That is $15m in cash and the rest in Facebook stock. FriendFeed will continue to operate normally for the time being while the two companies figure out the long-term plans.
A number of Frienfeed user’s first reactions aren’t so positive. Users [...]

FriendFeed has added a themes feature. It allows you to dress up your account with six new designs (7 including the default one). Unlike Twitter, when you select a theme, your FriendFeed web experience will always be in that theme. FriendFeed says that it plans offer further customization options later on. If you’d like to [...]

Friendfeed has just added a share files feature. Previously, you could only share pictures but now you are able to upload a variety of files such as mp3 and PDF (except videos). You attach files via the web interface or by emailing file attachments to share@friendfeed.com.

There also seems to be an upload limit.Here’s what Taylor [...]

It’s been awhile since Web 2.0 came out. As a matter of fact,? 5 years ago (O’Reilly explains).? So what is Web 3.0 and technology going to be like? There are many things going on nowadays, and my best explanation would be:
“Engaging people around the world with WWW. One Place, One Love”
We have seen cell [...]

Tonight while I was at the local meeting #dmjuiceup I talked to @nathantwright and he said something about how top followers twitter accounts got 20-30.000 + followers overnight.
I knew I heard the rumor about that before,? but did not interest me that much. Now when I found out what the problem is I thought I [...]

If you are a Twitter user who likes talking about or following certain topics and keywords, take a look at TweetGrid Trending Topics. The Trending topics feature takes advantage of TweetGrid’s ability to split your web browser window into grids. In each grid, you can type in a keyword and it will return will tweets [...]

Just a few days ago,?Loic Le Meur?wrote?a blog post asking for an authority-based Twitter search site that would allow users to only find search results from Twitter users with a large number of followers. With in 12 hours, a small team of developers led by?Jon Wheatley?launched Twitority.?
The next day, another?Authority-Based Twitter Search Sites called?Twithority launched. [...]

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Twitter’s rapidshare growth was given a boost in October mainly becuase of all?those?election Tweets. They?brought a 25 percent increase in US visitors (1.45 million unique visitors). The actually number of users is far greater becuase the 1.45 figure only represents people who visit Twitter.com. There is a huge percent of people?who send and read Tweets [...]