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GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has unveiled a synchronization tool that allows the group administrators on Yahoo Groups to sync with GROU.PS. So Yahoo Groups admins can incorporate functionality such as, location-based services and chat, into their platforms from GROU.PS.
The new tool doesn’t require the Yahoo Group owners [...]

Interruptions are a natural part of any workflow in any workplace. How big of a disturbance they create is often a consequence of how you handle them. Minimise the impact of interruptions with these tricks. (more…)

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[Austria/France] According to investir.fi and various other sources, the world’s leading people search engine 123people, which strives from Austria, has been acquired  by the leading french yellow pages company PagesJaunes. The company was incubated by i5invest and received VC money from Austrian Gamma Capital Partners.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
It’s rather obvious that this [...]

Ubuntu: Want to try out the latest build of the next Ubuntu release with almost no hassle at all? TestDrive is a one-shot tool that downloads, virtualises and keeps daily Ubuntu builds up to date. (more…)

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We haven’t heard all that much from Siri, the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones.
Still well below most people’s radar, the company raised $24 million in venture capital and recently released its first app for the iPhone after nearly a year of development.
But that doesn’t mean the startup has a [...]

Shared Playlists is a site for music lovers to share playlists and discover new music. Music streaming services such as Spotify enable free sharing of playlists but there’s no built-in interface in Spotify to discover other users playlists.
At Shared Playlists users can submit their playlists into genres and time periods making it easy for others [...]

A few days ago, we noted that Facebook was testing putting links to QR codes on their main profile pages. Now we know why. Apparently, Facebook is doing some testing ahead of their location feature roll-out, which will use these codes.
A source with knowledge of Facebook’s plans tells us that the QR codes will be [...]

Look, I’m all for privacy, liberty, rights, etc. But this video (embedded below) is pretty ridiculous. Listening to this, you’d think Google was born of a desire to trick everyone on the planet. Does Google make almost all of its money off of ad revenues? Yes. But does that mean they’re out to screw you [...]

Google may have hired Plaxo’s Chief Technology Officer Joseph Smarr late last year, but it’s Yahoo that’s finally adding the 8-year old idea of turning the address book model upside down and letting people subscribe to it rather than keep their own quickly outdated lists. They’ve launched a new feature called “Share my info” in [...]

Microsoft has announced the launch of its three new webcams – Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000, LifeCam HD-5001 and LifeCam HD-6000 for notebooks, which feature a 720p HD sensors, Auto Focus technology, and TrueColor image processing technology that automatically adjusts the image quality to deliver a more colorful, brighter video in even the worst lighting conditions.
“Color quality [...]