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Quechup is a new social network (do we really need another one??) If you aren’t careful you’ll end up spamming everyone in your address book when you sign up. This is bad mojo and I suggest we just say now to this and go back to the established networks we are already using.
Just say no [...]

Twitter now has People Search. This new Twitter feature lets you find people by searching profile information such as name, location, bio, and url. The search field is on the right side of Twitter when you sign in.

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A couple months ago Twitter took a habit of users and turned it into a feature. When people wanted to reply to someone else they would start their tweet something like “@yourtwitterusername I completely agree with you!”. Posts like that get grabbed by the system and put into your replies tab in twitter.
The [...]

IBM has a new article/tutorial on their DeveloperWorks site covering Yahoo! Pipes.
Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the [...]

Going somewhere? Like to travel? Try out my new Travel Robot Yahoo! Pipe. This Pipe includes all travel related tips from lifehacker.com and lifehack.org. Additionally it will filter some of the major on-line sources of travel infromation such as frommers.com, away.com, orbitz.com, and smartertravel.com. Build your filter by entering 1 keyword in each of the [...]

If you haven’t logged in to Feedburner lately you may have missed the notice. They let you opt-out if you don’t want to be part of Google.
Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. You will have a 14-day interim period ending June 15, 2007 to [...]

One feature users created on their own is to respond to each other by starting their post with @username. The folks at Twitter have added a Reply tab to help users manage these replies
- The Replies Tab will display an archive of @replies- @Replies are followed by an ‘in reply to’ link for context- @username [...]

More on Google Gears from the 2007 Google Developers Conference in San Jose, California.
AP Video:

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CNet: Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for–Web applications that work offline.
Google Gears is meant to be a standardized way of adding offline capability to web apps.
 
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New Web sites are making air travel more affordable.
News video:

 
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