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  • Rolling out my own “Friendster” service

    When I found the link to Ning.com, I was intrigued. The company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, bills itself as a “playground” for building social applications. I immediately applied for an account and requested for beta developer status. Only beta developers can clone applications. It took me a few days to be given…

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  • The future of newspapers

    The Washington Post recently interviewed Russ Wilcox, the chief executive of E Ink Corp., a company that “has created a paper-thin video screen that combines the ease of reading words on paper with the Internet’s access to information.” Wilcox told the Post that we’ll see by 2015 the introduction of newspapers similar to that depicted…

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  • Trying out another web 2.0 personal portal

    I’m trying out Netvibes.com, a personal homepage solution driven by Ajax, the current darling of the web. Netvibes allows you to create a personalized home page containing news feeds (RSS, Atom). Since GMail serves RSS feeds of you e-mail, Netvibes can also display a listing of your messages (by subjects). It’s not really in the…

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  • Flock coming very soon

    The social browser Flock, which has been generating a lot of buzz recently, is coming very soon. One of its developers said in his blog: “Right now, 100% of our energy is being directed to get the browser and the source code available to the public. And we are looking at days not weeks.” I’ve…

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  • Tips for remembering people’s names

    From CNN: tips for remembering people’s names : 1. Be interested, 2. verify it, 3. picture it written on their foreheads, 4. imagine writing the name, 5. use word association, 6. use the names frequently, and 7. record names in new contacts file.

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