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Eliot Spitzer proposes full "open source" review of AIG emails

The three of us, as experienced investigators and prosecutors of financial fraud, cannot answer these questions now. But we know where the answers are. They are in the trove of e-mail messages still backed up on A.I.G. servers, as well as in the key i [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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TechnoBuffalo - Community written tech blog

To encourage users to create sub blogs, TechnoBuffalo offers a full library of training videos that teach them how to effectively run a tech blog. Videos include tutorials on how to find items to review, how to act confident in front of a camera, and  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Fluther: Crowd-Sourced Answers (they just raised $600K)

Using Fluther is pretty straightforward: you visit the site and ask a question, then wait for other members to answer you in real-time (the site offers a reply system similar to FriendFeed’s that lets you view these responses immediately). Whenever  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza

Google is joining a $5.75 million investment round in Pixazza, a start-up that hopes to profit by overlaying photos on the Web with links that let people buy the products in the images. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company is now launching the t [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Artist got 6 bucks for Twitter Logo

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The bird on Twitter's home page, familiar to millions, is small, cute and fun, and implies communication and anticipation. One might say it's the perfect graphic for Twitter. Yet the company paid its designer at most $6, without attribution.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Patients are reviewing doctors online

Some doctors have started fighting back against ugly Internet reviews by asking patients to abide by what are effectively gag orders that bar them from posting negative comments online. Physicians are taking action as online ratings services such a [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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First Feature Film Created Via The Web

Massify, the online collaboration site for film makers, recently reached its goal of creating the first ever fan-created film with the completion of Perkin's 14, a horror flick scheduled to premier January 9 - 15 during Horrorfest III. Most excitin [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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"I'm a Linux"-Linux to compete with the "I'm a Mac" ad w/ contest

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unlike Microsoft's campaign that paid Jerry Seinfeld $3 million for two commercials and acquired user videos for free, the Linux Foundation plans to compensate the winner of its contest with a free trip to Tokyo to participate in the Linux Foundation  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WeBook: users write books together, vote on the best, publish

(then split the profits) WeBook just raised $5M. A bunch of writers get together online and write a book together, when and if the book sells, they get 50% of the profit, WeBook gets the other half. "Since its April 2008 launch, WEbook has added tho [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Predictify: No dumber than thrive or fail, Predictify its fate

Predictify is a polling service that gets embedded in news stories, or something like that. From the article: "Besides the Washington Post, Predictify is also found on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle’s sites." $4.3M in funding.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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