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Tuesday, 23rd October 2007

British Police at it Again: OiNK.cd Admin Arrested

Fresh on the heels of yesterday's news about the raid and arrest of the founder of TVLinks.co.uk by British police, comes word that British and Dutch police raided the servers of invite-only public torrent tracker OiNK.cd (formerly OiNK.me.uk) and arrested the site's 24-year-old server admin. According to the BBC, the International Federation of…

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Monday, 22nd October 2007

Web 2.0 Summit 2007

2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years

Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This is the third year running I've attended - I went to the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in October 2005, the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit in November 2006 (it was re-named the "Summit" at that point and took on a more business focus), the 2007 Web 2.0 Expo in April 2007 (more developer…

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AdaptiveBlue Feeds the Top-Down Semantic Web with Automatic SmartLinks

AdaptiveBlue makers of the popular Firefox plugin, BlueOrganizer, has launched a new version of their SmartLinks product that makes it easy for blog and web site publishers to include the links automatically within their pages. Previously, SmartLinks were only accessible via the BlueOrganizer. Now, web site publishers can add SmartLinks to their…

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VoiceThread: A Half-Baked Media Annotation Service That Could Work, Someday

VoiceThread is the kind of application that your parents or grandparents might like. It's an interesting annotation system for photos and video. The company behind it recommends you use it to discuss your memories. I wouldn't recommend using it for much yet, though. The gist of VoiceThread is this: you can upload photos and videos, leave voice…

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How Do Facebook Apps Spread?

Inside Facebook reports that Facebook has added new metrics for app developers to track the spread of their application. The new "Application Adds by Facebook Referrer" displays how many application ads were a result of the app directory, the profile box, the news feed, the mini feed, Facebook search, or requests. These stats will certainly be…

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