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Wednesday, 26th November 2008

EarthCam Live Streaming Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

In the United States, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - now in its 82nd year - is a traditional Thanksgiving morning activity. And while everybody loves a parade, few people love the so-called "witty repartee" of the anchors hosting the parade coverage. If only there were some way to see all of the inflated commercial icons and marching bands…

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Nine Recommendation Tools We Wish We Had

...And The Best Substitutes We've Come Up With So Far There's so much content online every day that it's totally overwhelming. That's where good recommendation technologies and media outlets come in handy. As a blog that seeks to share the most interesting web technology and trends with readers, automated help with the discovery process is of…

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MyMedLab: Are You Qualified to Interpret Your Lab Tests?

On Monday we reviewed the state of health 2.0 and it was also the topic of this week's RWW Live, our live podcast show. At the end of the podcast, I asked all the panelists to list their favorite health 2.0 app (about the 58:30 mark if you want to listen to it). I've listed all the apps the panelists chose at the end of this post, but I wanted to…

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Barack Obama's Change.gov Adds OpenID

OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account and to post comments to sections of the website using OpenID. That's big news and is going to introduce a whole lot of people to the concept of federated identity. Every other major player…

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WikiLeaks Calls for Help in Taking Whistle Blower Site to Next Level

Wikileaks.org, a website that publishes classified, confidential, censored or otherwise secret documents for anyone to see, put out a call last night for help in advancing the site beyond its remarkable early success. Just a week after publishing one of its most high profile documents yet, the organization sent an email to subscribers last night…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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