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Monday, 31st October 2011

Alternatives to Google Reader? Yeah Right.

Today Google Reader became the latest Google product to have Plus added to it. Now Google Reader users can +1 or share items to Google Plus, from within Reader. Google has made very clear over the past month that Plus will be integrated into all of Google's products over time, so this wasn't a surprising move. However, rather predictably…

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Daily Wrap: The Facebook Timeline

Richard MacManus takes a look at the Facebook Timeline and the lofty inspirations behind it. All of this and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we thought it might be helpful to wrap up some of the most talked about stories. Assuming this goes over well, we're going to give…

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Product Reviews

TweetSheet Will Surface Your Best Self Online

People say everything bad you post online will be found when you grow up - but what if you could use help finding the good things you've posted to the web? Startup company Vizify believes there's a need for that and the company's first product, called Tweetsheet, is already showing me things about my use of Twitter that I didn't know before…

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Anonymous Threatens Mexican Drug Cartel (Updated)

Anonymous has targeted a Mexican drug cartel after that group, Los Zetas, allegedly kidnapped one of its members in Veracruz. In a video released on October 6, the group "claimed that they would release the names of journalists, taxi drivers and others who have worked with Los Zetas in the past" according to Foreign Policy. They also threatened…

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Book Publishers Start Suing Bit Torrent Users

Joining their counterparts in the film industry, large book publishing houses are the latest to take aim at users of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. John Wiley and Sons, the publisher of the popular "For Dummies" how-to book series, is suing 27 Bit Torrent users for downloading PDF files of the books, thereby infringing on Wiley's…

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