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Congressional Democrats Aim to Censor Twitter and Qik

22 minutes ago

This isn’t a knee-jerk post. I’ve seen some discussion around the blogosphere that has correlated with an email I got this morning from the office of Representative John Culberson (the US House GOP leader) talking about …

Tagged: news, opinion, washington dc, censorship, political, congress, twitter, qik, san francisco san jose, culberson

LinkedIn Adding Search Feature to Groups Directory

5 hours ago

LinkedIn Groups seemed like a great idea when it was introduced, except for one big problem: finding interesting and relevant groups to join is virtually impossible unless you received an invite. That will change on …

Tagged: news, networking, linkedin

Google Launches Lively to Create a Virtual World Across Social Networks

5 hours ago

Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to …

Tagged: web 2 0, google, social networking, virtual worlds, avatar, lively, san francisco san jose

Browzmi Social Browsing: How it Compares to FriendFeed, Flock and Yoono

5 hours ago

Earlier today I reviewed a desktop chat client called Skabble, which had potential as a bookmarking and browser-integrated service, but fell short. Shortly after I was introduced to another new chat service, Browzmi …

Tagged: chat, news, web 2 0, social networking, opinion, flock, social software, yoono, web apps, browzmi, social browsing, skabble

Skabble’s Desktop Chat Enables Social Web Browsing

7 hours ago

Skabble’s new desktop chat tool has a lot of potential, but not many practical features just yet. If you’re going to launch a new chat client, you’re going to have to consider the fact that there are established chat …

Tagged: chat, news, web 2 0, web, facebook, myspace, web2 0 startups, social browsing, skabble