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  FledgeWing Allows Student Entrepreneurs to Find Mentors, Capital, Collaborators

  No ambitious young person wants to wait until graduation to start working on projects, developing ideas, and building teams. As a case in point, consider how many success stories from the dotcom and Web 2.0 eras have begun with brilliant twenty-somethings dropping out of college to pursue their passions.Speaking directly...

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  Slife’s Killer Productivity App Now Integrates With FreshBooks

  On top of the 3.0 release of their time management software, Slife Labs now integrates with the financial services of FreshBooks. Alone, Slife was a fantastic tool for personal and enterprise productivity. By integrating smoothly with a Web-based application for invoicing, its value proposition is increased tenfold. Slife 3.0 Slife...

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  Atlas Ventures: Successes in Europe’s Mature Markets (RWS Interview)

  Today, we spoke with Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Ventures in London. This interview has some great perspective on the success stories in Europe's e-commerce and video markets. Here are the basics of Atlas Ventures:Has helped build over 300 companies,Is in more than 16 different countries,47 of its investments...

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  In Soviet Russia (or Iran), Multi-Language Chat App Simultaneously Translates YOU

  Yesterday, Google Translate announced the addition of Persian into their roster of supported languages in order to facilitate online communication within and from Iran.Now, at least one team - the minds behind BabelWith.me - has developed the functionality into a cool, useful chat application that capably (if not perfectly) translates...

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  Study says 85% Online Canucks have Facebook Profiles

  According to research group Ipsos Reid's "Social Networking: 2009" poll, Canadians are flocking to social networking sites. In the last 18 months, the percentage of Canucks with a social networking profile has increased from 39% to 56%. This rapid rise in social networking users has Canadian marketers scratching their heads...

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  For NASA Employees, It’s “Spacebook” Not Facebook

  At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, employees can now log on to their own intranet portal designed for group collaboration, social bookmarking, and general employee-to-employee interaction. The site, which mimics the social networking phenomenon Facebook, is cleverly called...you guessed it: "Spacebook." Of course, when implementing a social networking...

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  Dear Wanna-bes, Your Twitter Stardom is Coming to an End

  One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension, according to a message on the Twitter developers email list from a company support team member.Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day,...

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  Flickr’s Mobile Site Gets Smarter: Shows Photos Taken Nearby

  Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing site, just released a nice update of its mobile site. If you have an Android phone or an iPhone (updated to the 3.0 firmware), you can now see images that were taken close to your current location. The new mobile site makes good use of...

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  Final Verdict in Jammie Thomas Retrial: $1.92 Million

  As we reported earlier this week, the retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was accused of illegally sharing 24 songs on Kazaa, was about to come to an end this week. In an earlier trial, Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $220,000 to the music companies, but today, a different judge and...

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  Wikipedia Getting Video within Months

  Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter of months. When the new system launches, you'll find a new button labeled "Add Media" on Wikipedia articles. Upon clicking this, you'll be prompted to search through three online repositories for relevant...

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  Weebiz: A Social Network for Companies Is Born

  Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to...

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  Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn’t It About Time?

  Tonight, the bored and lonely segment of Twitter users banded together to push three sexy, raunchy, and totally inappropriate terms into the trending topics leaderboard.Within minutes (as far as we could tell), both terms were removed from the list on the web interface at Twitter.com. However, they still showed up...

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  Facebook Does Too Little, Too Late With A Persian Version for Iranians

  As of tonight, Facebook has launched a new beta version of the site in Persian, in order to further enable the flood of news that has poured out of Iran in the wake of that country's contested election last week. As Twitter became the star platform for Iranians to convey...

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  Lotus Symphony 1.3 Adds Microsoft Office Support

  Today's 1.3 release of IBM's free Lotus Symphony productivity suite may not be the most innovative of improvements, but it's a product that addresses core needs of the enterprise as it exists today. The flagship addition is full support for importing Microsoft Office 2007 documents. Other new features include the...

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  How Not to Get Screwed by VCs

  This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.Fear of VCs is a common problem for first time entrepreneurs. It is a natural fear. You are going to be negotiating with somebody who is older, richer, and way...

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  ZenDesk Offers iPhone App Customer Support

  Don't you hate it when someone attractive asks you for an imaginary light, and your iPhone Zippo crashes? ZenDesk is offering a new embeddable drop box solution to give iPhone and Android developers customer support directly in their apps. With the current influx of application development, and the need to...

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  OneRiot Updates Algorithm, Releases Factors for Link Indexing

  Real-time search outfit OneRiotannounced today some updates to their search algorithm, which parses data in real-time social streams to index and rank links.Although results based on freshness alone are available through the search engine's real-time firehose setting, the results returned through the Pulse Rank setting are weighted based on several...

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  Tags as Far as the Eye Can See: New York Times to Publish Index as Linked Data

  Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference, Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced together that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Data.The Times' data will join content from Project Gutenberg, a vast online library of text from public domain books, data...

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  How Urban Airship Saved Tapulous’s Bacon on iPhone 3.0 Day

  Three weeks ago M.T. Richardson's job disappeared, his employer ran so far out of money that it said no one was getting paid and offered computers from the office as compensation instead. Yesterday, M.T. had one of the best days of his life. He's the junior-most developer in a still...

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  Songbird releases iPhone Sync Workaround

  Open-source Mozilla-based music player Songbird just announced a slew of new features including the long anticipated ability to get music onto the iPhone. But there's a catch. In the past, Songbird was unable to export to the iPhone, as Apple purposely encrypted the device to keep music files within their...