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Entries from October 2007

Dash Wants To Bring Web Mashups To Your Car

October 20th, 2007 · Comments

Map mashups may be one of the coolest things on the
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Searchles UGC for Total Telecom’s News Page

October 20th, 2007 · Comments

Searchles Groups has teamed up with Total Telecom, a global communications site, to offer user-generated tag clouds for Total Telecom’s TME page, which is the site’s aggregated news page for community use. What happens is that tags are pushed from the TME page and the Total Telecom branded group on Searchles. Clicking on a [...]

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Blog: A Wii bit better in Japan

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

Nintendo’s Wii is winning the game war in Japan - but its cutesy form appeals perfectly to the Japanese market.
 
One thing I noticed on my trip to Tokyo last week was how popular Nintendo’s Wii console appears to be. There was a heck of a lot of joint marketing stuff going on with the [...]

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Hacking in to Rapidshare

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

After a long i decided to blog… i regularly download stuff from RS but the bad thing about it is that it allow limited downloading with free account and the evil thing about it is that you cant download concurrently and have to wait for long if you have recently downloaded stuff. i managed to [...]

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RocketShotz is Pageflakes for your Mobile

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

RocketShotz is a new mobile service that lets you find mobile websites faster. The hope is to help you avoid having to type in websites URLs on your mobile, and generally avoiding the hassle that goes along with mobile web browsing. RocketShotz begins to ease this pain with a start page of sorts, which [...]

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New Zealand Hosts Avatar

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

Director James Cameron has arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, to shoot his 3-D SF epic movie Avatar, the local Dominion Post newspaper reported.
The newspaper reported that 80 fake-gun-toting, camouflage-wearing stuntpeople and actors gathered for days of rehearsals in a secret location in the small Kiwi community.
Cameron is shooting the film using a new 3-D process, [...]

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Rumor: Automattic Valued at $150-300 Million

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, reportedly has its investors on its case, possibly pushing for a sell. Automattic is currently being courted by a few companies, including Velocity Investment Group, but it looks like no decisions have been reached.
Is Automattic holding out Facebook-style? After the recent acquisition of Gravatar, surely the [...]

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BeFunky To Cartoonize Yourself

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

BeFunky, a startup which was founded as a spin off of the more manually artist driven IamCartoon project, offers a few fun little applications to allow users to easily create and customize photos as cartoons and create personal avatars. BeFunky recently showed its stuff at TechCrunch40.
With BeFunky’s Cartoonizer users can simply upload a photo [...]

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Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

When I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited integration of video into the service. That isn’t happening (it will soon, though), but they are making significant upgrades tonight around geotagging and a new area of the site is launching called “Places Pages.”GeoTagging Updates

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Pixoo Fixes Your Face

October 19th, 2007 · Comments

Pixoo is a new service that will edit your images for you, and send them back all prettified. It costs about $20 and takes around 24 hours for them to fix your face. The site is currently in private beta, but I got a chance to check it out.
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