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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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New tool from Electric Rain due out this summer. It is designed to help you convert your legacy Flash SWF files to Microsoft WPF and Silverlight based XAML.
Harmony v1.0 goes beyond frame-by-frame conversion by converting complete Flash SWF files focused on graphical shape definitions and simple animations into native XAML animations. Note that Harmony does [...]

Skype has been updated. You can now import address books from the likes of MSN Hotmail, GMail and Yahoo Mail. Also included is the ability to send money via PayPal. eBay owns Skype and PayPal so that makes sense.
Don’t forget you can also get Skype as part of the Google Pack of programs.
 
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If you are into ecommerce and all it’s various nuances have a look at the Ecommerce Checkout Report. 23 tactics were evaluated during the study of the checkout process of the Internet’s Top 100 Online Retailers. There is a PDF report available on the site.
 
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I didn’t blog about the Digg riot last week. I’ve never seen techmeme fill up so fast over one item. Either a serious cord was struck or we are, regrettably, in the proverbial echo chamber.
Some have posted that the string of hex digits is just a string of numbers. They are correct, as long as [...]

Twitterites (is that a word?) save SMS charges. Use your phone to browse over to m.twitter.com. Good news for those that could never get the SMS version working.
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I received word from Randy Morin via IM earlier today that Rmail is now property of NBC Universal. This is really cool. Definitely a case of the Internet allowing an after-hours project to move into a main stream app that people rely on. Then moving it on to a group who is excited about the [...]