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20 Beautiful Bridges From Around the World | AllPropertyManagement.com
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October 16 at 4:44 pm - allpropertymanagement.com - Link
Some good photos there, but no Forth Rail Bridge. That's my favourite - possibly because I see it every day! http://flickr.com/photos/mhowe... - Grant Fitzgerald
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The Forth Rail Bridge is amazing. I wish I was able to see something so cool everyday! - Bryan Clark
Cool! They all go somewhere! - JC unwired
Tower Bridge is still my favorite, though I would love to see both Ponte Vecchio and the Khaju Bridge someday. - JC unwired
One of the most beautiful bridges IMHO is the Zakim Bridge in Boston, MA. It's really pretty at night with all the lights. - LOLMolly
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IRC space for the DNC (Scripting News)
August 25 at 7:15 am - scripting.com - Link
I just set up an IRC space for this year's DNC. Hope you can join us, esp during the speeches. It'll be an interesting place for people who are here in Denver to ping each other too. - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet
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This must be stopped (Scripting News)
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August 21 at 6:46 am - scripting.com - Link
"At some point Obama and the Democrats are going to have to fight back, and it better be soon. McCain's involvement in corruption should be handled in a gloves-off way. Wes Clark's statement that being shot down and imprisoned, while sad is in fact not a qualification for President. The age issue ought to be brought up in a personal way -- related to McCain's stumbles and appearance. Question his mental ability, and how it's not going to get better as McCain ages. Question his health, he's a cancer survivor. Question his education, his honesty, how he treated his first wife, how he cheated on his current wife, and her drug addiction, is she paying taxes on all her property? How many McMansions does McCain need? He's had a government health care program his whole life, how in touch could he be with your life as you deal with medical issues without insurance and face the prospect of losing your home. This guy has 12 homes and a private jet. How out of touch can you get!" - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet
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The negative approach is so lame. Be the change. - Jeff Evans
I can see the placards now... Stop Gezzer on Git LOVE! - Cyndy
Jeff - the negative approach is the only approach that works in America. Americans love winners in street fights. The candidate who displays the higher level of testosterone, aggression, toughness, etc. usually wins. Sad but true. If you look like a pushover, the American public will hold you in contempt. It's probably already too late for Obama, the weird skinny egghead with a slick line of patter and no fixed principles, to go on the attack -- he's already been taken down. - Sean McBride
Here's the thing - Obama never was for "change". Look at his political record in Chicago - the man has used loopholes and smears, done favors for large contributors, made shady financial deals and all the rest of it. Not only is he just a politician, he is a fairly bad example of one. He was always goign to go negative, play the race issue up and so on. Now though he will get a pass on even that from his supporters who will claim he was forced to become what he already was. - Soulhuntre
FOUR MORE YEARS! - tj hanton
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Soulhuntre's assessment of Barack Obama was probably correct all along: a con artist with a glib line of patter who fooled the gullible until they noticed that his positions were all over the map. The friendly face of McCainism and neoconservatism, not a change agent in the slightest. I feel like a moron for having giving him any support at all. - Sean McBride
Dave, those are excellent points. Never thought of the health insurance angle. - Ro (Lilyhill)
Obama is going to lose an all out street brawl. Not because he is to innocent, but because he isn't at all innocent. They shady real estate deals, the huge campaign payments to weird "consultants" at odd addresses, the huge contributions from foreign interests, the huge govt program awards to charities he was part of and so on. He is far from clean handed. - Soulhuntre
Dave: the key to negative campaigning is not to attack too many points (which dilutes your impact), but to concentrate on the very few points on which a candidate is most vulnerable and then bang them like a gong, over and over and over again. The Republicans have understood this simple rule for quite a few years now. The Democrats still don't get it. Go for the candidate's weakest point, focus like a laser beam, and attack, attack, attack. Stay on the hard offensive, and don't bother with a defense. The competitor with the superior firepower usually wins, just like in the movies. Disgusting, but reality-based. - Sean McBride
I'm sorry, what has to be stopped? Don't kid yourself and think that BOTH sides don't pull the same crap. Neither side is below anything. - Kreg Steppe
What is amusing is the pervasive fiction that the Dems are somehow to sweet and innocent to know how to fight dirty. Its an amazing PR job. - Soulhuntre
god that picture never gets old - Ryan
Loserville: How Obama Blew It http://tinyurl.com/5jf2ve (Obama blew it with the help of the neoconservatives who own and control the Democratic Party lock, stock and barrel, and who would prefer to see John McCain win the election than for Obama to take a strong stand against neocon policies of endless warfare against a long list of neocon enemies.) - Sean McBride
Kreg- Are you kidding? The last time a democrat got us into a war, most of us here weren't even born. But you are right, it could be worse. Woodrow Wilson makes GW look like a rank underachiever. And hey at least GW isn't openly racist. - Alex Scoble
LOL the election hasn't even really started and already people are using past tense. Hyperbole FTW! - Alex Scoble
I hate negative campaigning, but as McCain has demonstrated, it works even when it isn't true. Obama has a lot to work with if he goes negative, McCain is partially senile, thirty years behind on foreign policy, and has more connections to failed Bush policies than any Dem could hope for. I'd rather have Obama go negative and win, than stay on the high road and lose - and end up with 4 more years of the same, or possibly worse. - William Harryman
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“After watching this video, I think I want to buy a BlackBerry instead of an iPhone 3G: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - for real?”
July 13 at 6:10 pm - via Ping.fm - Link
Seriously that is bad - Justin Yost
gawd that was funny - Jeff Evans
possible viral blockbuster - potamus via Alert Thingy
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“I could go wait in line for an iPhone but I know what would happen. I'd get one and be bored before I even unboxed it. I have the 2.0 software and it's boring. What does the phone add? Speed? BFD.”
July 13 at 3:36 pm - Link
Apple hasn't had a product I've wanted to buy all year. The last one I bought was an iMac to replace a G4 mainframe. It's pretty nice, but never gave me a thrill. Leopard was a pain in the ass, and after the pain wore off it was boring. I think there's a theme in here somewhere. :-) - Dave Winer
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I'd like to be able to stream music over 3g but I'll be waiting til I can afford a new one first :p - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
I find all the new apps boring. Who wants to type on that tiny little screen. Except for games they're all things I already have better versions of on my laptop. I'd like to get some games but I don't know, it all seems so boring. - Dave Winer
the extra 8gb (if you get the 16gb) is something...but agreed, not a big enough reason frankly. - Zee.
For some excitement I'm thinking of quitting blogging and starting a mail list. I think I used to do that a long time ago and I got bored with it. Oh well. Fuck that. - Dave Winer
Iphone is the new Facebook? - Brian Sullivan
I phone you phone we all phone for iPhone. - Dave Winer
adding video chat to the iPhone would have been the next WOW factor, but I can only imagine what that would have done to the already crappy battery life. I'll stick with my basic Samsung t209 for now, though I do wish it had a camera.. - Zach Underwood
Wait a minute, if the first 8GB are boring, what's so exciting about the other 8GB? I have a feeeling they'd be just as boring as the first 8GB. Unless they use a different less boring kind of memory. Do you think they might do that? - Dave Winer
Dave - didn't you post that old Doc Searls post here? About Apple products being a work of art? - Hutch Carpenter
I heard you can use the iPhone as a remote for your AppleTV. But I was so bored with the AppleTV I gave it away, so there goes that opportunity for some excitement. - Dave Winer
I'm pretty entertained with the GPS. Want to see how it does for geocaching. - Cyndy
Guess I milked that for all it's worth. - Dave Winer
Dave: it hasn't changed my life. Except I use it a lot more on the Web which drains my battery faster and makes me anxious that I'll be dead soon without a charge. As to excitement, maybe we should all start email mailing lists and take our conversations private. Speaking of which, it's been, what, four months since we've talked on the phone? Maybe that would be exciting. - Robert Scoble
Dave: if you got the black one you could measure how much crap collects on the back. - Robert Scoble
Not sure I could stand the suspense of guessing when the batteries would run out. That might be TOO MUCH excitement. I believe in doing nothing to excess. Just the right amount of excitement please. Not too much not too little. I wouldn't be a very good conversationalist right now I'm afraid. I'd probably just talk about talking, if you get my drift. - Dave Winer
The idea of having a mail list that everyone could talk about might be fun. - Dave Winer
I think I'm going to start one right now. - Dave Winer
I could start a walled garden content-distribution system too with a limited number of subscribers, but I already have one Facebook, why do I need another? - Robert Scoble
LOL Dave...that's a nice long-ass rant. I like it. You don't see a whole lot of Apple bashing, and all that ass kissing (not from you obviously) is annoying. - acedanger via fftogo
A mail list everyone can talk about! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/... - Dave Winer
No matter what I've said about the iPhone, if money was no object, I'd have one. I might treat it like my 9 month-old MacBook and play with it every once in a while, but as time passes, that desire to have the opportunity to play grows. - MiɳiMagɘ is EnderMage via NoiseRiver
Whew, I feel like I'm back in 1999. I'm subscribed to Dave Winer's email newsletter again. :-) Can we party like it's 1999 now too? - Robert Scoble
I don't agree.. the apps themselves change the phone fundamentally and I've been waiting a long time for them. As for the new phone, the speed and improved location are quite useful. While it's tempting to wait for the 32GB version, I'll probably grab one once there's not a line... next week or so... I'm just not standing in a line for anything. What I really want, though, is a replacement for my three year-old MBP. - Anthony Citrano
I am about to write about my own feelings about the iPhone 3G, which I spent 5 hours trying to obtain yesterday and now think is just so-so. I told my daughter to keep her old phone - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
the thing is why iphone v1 came out - everyone screamed for the 3g functionality. Now we've got it - we complain. - Zee.
Well the other thing, to Francine (and Dave's) original point is, the greater the anticipation, the harder it is for the product/service/thing to meet the expectations built up in the imagination. This is why, for example, years of stellar restaurant reviews can sometimes end up hurting a place. It's a tightrope in the marketing sphere, and I think over the last year or so Apple's been erring on the side of anticipation, and it may end up stinging a little. - Anthony Citrano
Ah see, but talking incessantly about the iPhone and how lame it is... that's *not* boring. At least if the behavior of some pundits is any indication. - Eric P
I love the 2.0 software. Bored? Eh, I've already whittled the number of apps installed but they are the ones I have found use for already and a few games I love. It's significantly more useful to me now than 1.0, approaching my uses for my laptop. That said, it reboots after ~30min constant use between multiple apps. Has happened at least 10 times since yesterday and my phone almost never rebooted before 2.0 (but I also didn't use as many apps nor as much either). - ·[▪_▪]·
Dave I will trade you my Windows CE 1.0 PDA for a box of pepperoni pizza, just pay the UPS! Build a phone out of it! Should be more fun than buying iPhone! - Igor The Troll
It's... boring, Dave? Seriously? - l0ckergn0me
I am completely grooving on it and doing all sorts of stuff on it. Totally smooth. It's all about the attitude. What ya put out, ya get back. - Jeff Evans
Dave, you must bore quite easily. The new apps & software have made me even more excited by what was already my favorite device. Multiple streaming audio apps, great social applications (and much more to come), fun to fairly amazing games, loads of useful tools, and a large and growing rapidly developer community points the way toward even better apps in the future - Shannon Clark
In a very real way the iPhone is Apples first "grown up" product that is both complex and attempting to reach outside the fanboy base. So far, Apple has managed to flub it both times. The tool itself is nothing special and the new features are weak this iteration. Basically, by stepping outside their rabid fan bas Apple is having to deliver on the hype - and failing. - Soulhuntre
Sorry you're bored. Surely there's a phone more exciting for you out there? I have the opposite problem. Since I got the 3G I can't sleep! - Greg
Awesome. Feel free not to get one then. - Omar Gallaga
In a year or so, the iphone liek most apple products has managed only to be a niche product for a rabid fanbase. This is what Apple does - what it's good at. That's great, and certainly plays into the elitism / rebellion desires of the owners. It does however show the weakness of the products Apple actually delivers. - Soulhuntre
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In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
July 10 at 11:48 am - thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - Link
For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts. Throughout the day, several news sites have taken steps to disown the photograph that they ran on Wednesday, including LATimes.com and MSNBC.com. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
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photoshop disasters... - Kemal Yaylali
Oh come on - you'd think they would learn that we live in the 21st century by now? - DAVE ID
Idiots. - Shawn Farner
We should have caught this on the desk though. It probably got validated in a hurry and wasn't thoroughly checked - Jon Dillon
Yikes. - l0ckergn0me
That's amazing. lol - justine
I find the enthusiasm of media funny. Media should better direct our country's foreign policy than scoring some brownie points on photoshop disasters. How does it matter if one missile failed. What matters is what we are going to do to stop missile proliferation without using our own missile. Scoring such brownie points are kid's play and not media's. - Krishnan Subramanian
The Iranians should be writing Photoshop tutorials instead of trying to mimic their missle supply! - John Barker
busted by the Lizard Army - Jeff Evans
Great story! - Daan
Nice catch ya'll. Wag the dog indeed! - Mathew A. Koeneker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a... I suck at Photoshop :-( - AJ Batac
Good that AFP caught it. I've been documenting "fauxtography" in the media: theory.isthereason.com/?p=1164 - Kevin Lim
If the photo would have come the Pentagon instead of Iran's Revolutionary Guard the AP would have checked it out. - Robert Hafer
@Robert you mean the AFP - Rubin Sfadj
Animated version http://tinyurl.com/6gg57x - Oldengrey
@RobertHafer, the AFP ran the unedited, doctored satellite photos prior to the war in Iraq. - Prolific Programmer
Looks like one of their missiles didn't fire! - Ben Metcalfe via twhirl
"If you suffer from Ballistic Missile Launch Malfunction, then Misalys may be right for you..." - Live4Soccer
5 to 1 they used a pirated copy...they need to download a few Photoshop Podcasts for some tips on cloning...better yet, download "You Suck at Photoshop"... - Live4Soccer
That is incredibly disturbing; the Photoshop clone tool will prolly be the cause of the button press on the next significant US-involved conflict. - Clay Newton
Photography can be a powerful tool and terribly politically influential. I watched a photography documentary recently that cited the famous photo of a buddhist monk lighting himself on fire as the tipping point on the Vietnam involvement with President Kennedy. - Thomas Hawk
My Dad told me that it was when Cronkite declared the war "unwinnable" after the Tet Offensive that America changed their tune on the war... - Live4Soccer
seems the bbc hasnt noticed. now they are showing footage of the missile launch that matches the AP photo and then also different newspaper front pages which published the photos, some using the AFP and others AP, but no mention of this. interesting. - Katie Ratcliffe
Let's just drop the old one down the memory tubes to get rid of the double-plus-un-true version. - Nicholas Molnar
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Has anybody other than Mike Arrington flashed to the alleged final version of the iPhone 2.0 OS?
July 10 at 11:22 am - appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net - Link
I just did, via instructions from MG - Eric Schlissel via twhirl
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Yeah...like 8 hours ago! :P - Andru Edwards
yeah chris, super simple to do http://venturebeat.com/2008/07... - MG Siegler
Yeah, but how do you KNOW it's final? - l0ckergn0me
well it works without a hitch for everything i've tried. if it isn't final i'm happy enough. - MG Siegler
Better hope you guys don't become early Brickdopters http://friendfeed.com/e/3470d2... - Mark Krynsky
Yep hours ago, works a treat but as some of the apps require better bandwidth than GPRS its obvious that this early release was just Apple's way of guaranteeing that we all queue up for a 3G version tomorrow - Jon Dillon
well, I got it from Apple's server. Have they been putting Betas up there? - Erik S
worked great! even from Vista -- took a bit up doing to upgrade iTunes to 7.7 first, and had to dig around and learn that the Shift key is the Option key in Windoze -- and use Firefox to download that iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw file -- once I had all that, blammo, less than 10 minutes -- off to the App Store! - Jeff Evans
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A really beautiful use of RSS to cause your home machine to start downloading a BitTorrent when you're nowhere near home. All super low-tech, small pieces loosely joined.
July 9 at 6:04 pm - blog.mininova.org - Link
Awesome! However, for some DCMA hawk, a nice way to prove that you SERIALLY stole content. Someone change the laws, please. - Aaron deMello
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July 8 at 2:50 pm - twit.tv - Link
Wow, that is awesome that I can listen to it from right in FriendFeed, absolutely awesome, I try to follow at least one episode of Roz Rows a week, have been very busy but I think what she is doing is amazing - Andrew Fielding
Hey Leo: Where's that dern TWiTLive Air app you were gonna post up? - Mark Sheppard
Hey cool, I didn't know I could listen on here..sweet!! :D - Chris
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“When will be be able to delete dupes or make edits to our post? Thx. ”
July 9 at 5:59 am - Link
with v0.5 http://laconi.ca/PITS/00045 - igor
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Introducing bit.ly: http://bit.ly/2lkCCn
July 8 at 1:06 pm - identi.ca - Link
Hey Dave, are there plans to integrate this into a service like Twhirl. If it is to be truly successful, it could start off on the right foot by insuring integration into these Adobe AIR applications. - James Mowery via twhirl
thanks Dave and all involved - much appreciated - it's on my Firefox browser toolbars on Ubuntu and Windoze Vista now - Jeff Evans
very nice implementation. - Jake Buckley
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“let's see if this Ping.fm postie goes to FriendFeed now -- so that all I figured out over the weekend is happening rightly”
July 7 at 7:04 pm - Link
yep - Jeff Evans
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“one more try to see it land at Facebook -- permissions set there this time :)”
July 7 at 7:13 pm - Link
still waiting....... - Jeff Evans
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“identi.ca gets a Replies tab and becomes a billion percent less shitty”
July 7 at 1:58 am - Link
Totally agree. - Robert Scoble
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Friend import next please and then it might be useful - sam sethi via Alert Thingy
http://www.scripting.com/daven... - Dave Winer
sam, I think the point is that if Twitter et al implement Open Microblogging, importing won't be necessary - klecu
It needs some "recommended friends" to avoid looking really lame to newbies. - Robert Scoble
Robert, you just want to get recommended there too. Come on, admit it. - klecu
klecu: nice try, but I've been talking about this before I was on recommended systems here: http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/... - Robert Scoble
I'm still trying to figure out a reason to use identi.ca. Playing around with it. We'll see. - Dennis Jackson
I don't understand why it was launched WITHOUT a Replies tab in the first place... - Mark Douglass
I agree with Dennis Jackson, minus the "playing around with it" part. - ChaCha Fance
Yes, it lacks some basic features, especially if people are looking at it who are coming from twitter. Not having replies really annoys me, enough not to use it. - jjprojects
GOOD, that is an essential feature... neat to see it growing so quickly - not only with users, but also features - Susan Beebe
big feature - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Yep - looks like identi.ca has been built correctly so far too. It *appears* to be scaleing up nicely after a few slow days early on. - Jonathan Beckett
@critics: Identi.ca is worth supporting, because it is open source. The very reason means that it has the potential of attracting third-party developers that create plug-ins, improve the platform or simply host their own Identi.ca-installations. That's a huge thing. Think about Firefox: It is based on Mozilla/Netscape's code, which was created. AOL didn't do anything with it, but others came and created Firefox (and Flock, Sunbird, Songbird, etc.) because it is open. That's Identi.ca's biggest feature. - sebmos
Next step must be API. - Sergey Petrenko
sebmos: I'm still learning about Identi.ca. Your comment kind of pushed me back on the site to research it a bit. I can see this going somewhere. :) - Dennis Jackson
Replies tab on Indenti.ca is big. I'd also like to be able to export my subscription lists. Edit/delete would be nice too. - Jeff Evans
Nice to see this feature already. I was talking to the dev yesterday and was asking if I can jump in and provide a solution for it. Cool to see that the guy already did it himself :-). - Alex Popescu via feedalizr
Mark Douglass - Twitter launched without a replies function as well, you know. And it took a lot longer than a few days for it to arrive. - Earle Martin ☃
So if we wildly extrapolate identi.ca's usability increase, it could potentially surpass Twitter in 3 months and Friendfeed in 6. The question then is: will users migrate and become critical mass on the new service? By now we know that critical mass is more important than QoS, as evidenced by the bird and the whale. - Ignace Rodriguez
http://identi.ca/your_nickname... --- for output of your identi.ca subscriptions -- thanks evan - Jeff Evans
this is so effing awesome! - Sarah Perez
(s_dance) - Hao Chen
identi.ca is irrelevant. It's a step backwards from FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
Whoa, that must of been some seriously shitty software before now, but still shitty I see? - Andrew Baron
This still is not the distributed version you wanted Dave. And I -with all the respect I owe to its makers- don't think that it will success if all the twitter crowd come in. I hope I'm wrong - directeur via NoiseRiver
I think Replies is a setup in the right direction. In fact. it might be the main step. Awesome. - Andrew Ruess via twhirl
For me, it's still just idont.ca.re - Alan Le
Agree with Alan Le. identi.ca doesn't seem like much of an upgrade. It's a distraction from a better solution - getting everyone over to FriendFeed. - Jon Galloway
Yep, i'm with Jon there... I really don't see the fuss Identi.ca . Why are we getting excited over replies...ridiculous. - Zee.
These products are all so new. There's plenty or room for experimentation. - Harry Myhre
Thanks, Dave! And thanks to everyone who had comments and critiques. I know that people have a choice in which service to use. I'd like to make sure that a) the software has features equal or better to other µblog sites b) the architecture is truly scalable -- from small commodity web hosting to >1M user megaservices. - Evan Prodromou
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New blog post: How to think about identi.ca. http://bit.ly/qE5CX
July 7 at 2:58 am - identi.ca - Link
The point is though that it's not just about Laconica either (though I don't want to distract from what Evan has done). It's about developing microblogging platforms that can speak to each other. Laconica is the first of those, but because it implements an open standard (that will no doubt mature faster now) there will be others /that can speak to Laconica too/. I've written about this recently, http://pastoid.com/y0+. - Michael C. Harris
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[The Inquisitr]: Identi.ca gets replies tab, clones already appearing
July 7 at 4:53 am - x.techwheat.com - via Reshare - Link
via http://friendfeed.com/e/289a97... - LouCypher
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