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Wednesday, 30th November 2011

Daily Wrap: Path Is Awesome

Jon says the version 2 do-over of the life-streaming app, Path, is like a slicker, more elegant Facebook Timeline. Is that a good or bad thing? Either way, Path is live and ready to play with, and Timeline's launch continues to slip. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day…

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DIY Electronics Hacking: Bigger, Better & Smarter Than Ever

Arduino, the open source electronics platform with the adorable name, announced the beta availability of its version 1.0 today, 6 years since it was forked from the nearly 10 year old Wiring platform. Wiring released its 1.0 just three weeks ago. As these platforms, which turn consumers into creators, reach this important milestone, are people…

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Big Answer: Siri Search Mistake

Yesterday Raw Story noticed that Siri will find you many things, including Viagra, the meaning of life, and even give you a good place to stash a body, but ask for help locating some reproductive services and Siri will serve you abortion alternatives. In New York, for example, Siri finds no abortion clinics. Alicia Eler makes the case that…

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Foursquare Adds "Save To Foursquare" Button For Venues

Our friends aren't the only ones who tell us where we should go. Publications that we read online often times provide us with tips about cool places we want to check out offline. Today Foursquare announced that users read about new places online can easily add those location to their Foursquare to-do list by clicking the new "save to Foursquare…

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Appirio Makes Salesforce Chatter + Twitter Integration into a Contest

To a rapidly increasing degree, Salesforce Chatter is becoming the communications platform for essentially all classes of business, in both the public and private sectors. There was a time when Salesforce tools were considered to be leveraged against Twitter and Facebook as social platforms, but for certain segments of the user base, that leverage…

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