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Tuesday, 30th October 2007

Intense Debate: A Very Sweet Comment Management Plug-in

Colorado based Intense Debate, the sophisticated blog comment system with the silly name, launched its public beta this morning. There are some definite kinks in the service still, but there's also quite a lot to take note of. The service offers a powerful combination of ease of use and feature richness; I'm impressed. Intense Debate lets…

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Cofundos.org Crowdsources Open Source Software Funding

Recently launched Cofundos.org, from the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is a community funding site for open source software. The site allows non-coders to join forces to fund open source programming projects that might otherwise not get made. Software made as a result of these…

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DocStoc Takes Its Long Shot Vision to the Public

Document sharing site DocStoc opened to the public today after months of a high-profile private beta. Similar to the already launched and funded Scribd, DocStoc aims to provide a place for you to post and discover professional documents on a wide variety of topics. Think sample contracts, sample press releases, proposals, etc. If DocStoc can keep…

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Facebook: Have Data, Will Travel? Rumored Ad Product for Third-Party Sites

According to Lee Lorenzen, of Altura Ventures, and AllFacebook, the "Social Ads" advertising service Facebook is supposedly set to launch next week will take Facebook ads outside the social network. The rumored technology would work like this: Facebook would place a cookie on your computer (the site already requires users to have cookies enabled…

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Whois May Be Retired, Says ICANN

The Associated Press is reporting that ICANN may consider shutting down the Whois system, which lets Internet users search for domain name registration information, because of disagreements over how it works. Privacy advocates in favor of shutting down the database feel that individuals should not be forced to give out private information -- which…

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