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Yonkly: The Next Twitter Killer?
A new web service aims to bring new functionality to the microblogging space. Yonkly recently launched into public beta and seems similar to Twitter and Tumblr, but with many more features and capabilities. Yonkly was recently mentioned in one of our posts.
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Lifestreams: Yet Another Way to Share Yourself?
Lifestreaming, an idea stemming from the walls of Yale University, is getting more and more attention from the geeks and techies of this world. What’s all the hype about, we wonder.
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Comcast Acquires Plaxo - The End of Data Interoperability?
It’s a secret how much it cost them exactly, but Comcast officially confirmed it has acquired Plaxo, the social content and address book provider.
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Yahoo! Signs up to OpenID
The OpenID initiative garners an enormous boost (to the tune of 248 million identities) as the addition of Yahoo! brings the dream of 'one person, one password' a big step closer.
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Who Owns Your Data on the Web?
Okay, so you've heard the news right? A-List blogger Robert Scoble gets kicked out of Facebook for running a new Plaxo beta script that scrapes his “Friends” (name and email address) from Facebook and inserts them into Plaxo, only to later be let back in.
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Data Portability Gets Boost from Google, Facebook, Plaxo
There have been concerns about privacy and safe management of user data since day one of the social networking phenomenon. Unfortunately, these concerns have been buried underneath the fascination with the exploding popularity of sites like Facebook and MySpace.
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OpenID and Microformats Become Socially Acceptable
Though it's been around since 2002, contact management and social networking site Plaxo was seemingly lost in the shuffle as competitors like MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn have risen to prominence in recent history.
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