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	<title>Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0</title>
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	<description>Orginal Signal aggregates the 17 most popular Web 2.0 sites. The main purpose of the site is to provide 
a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your 
last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey. All credits go to the authors of these weblogs. 
Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. Original Signal was inspired by Popurls and the Web 2.0 Workgroup.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:04:52 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>TWS2009 Showcases Ten of Israel’s Most Promising Startups</title>
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  This morning is the kickoff of TWS2009, an event organized by Israeli financial newspaper Globes, and leading Israeli startup blog, the.co.ils with its founder Yaron Orenstein. TechCrunch, in its continued support of Israeli startups, is proud to be a media partner.The event is aimed at showcasing ten promising Israeli startups and to serve as a networking platform for the individuals and companies leading Israel's startup scene. All ten companies were chosen by a world-class  panel of judges, ranging from über-Angel investor Ron Conway, to legendary ICQ founder and current founder and CTO of Dotomi, Yair Goldfinger. Here are the official company descriptions for the ten startups chosen by the judges to present their products on stage in front of over 700 private and institutional investors, executives and entrepreneurs:  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Aardvark</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:34:05 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:03:57 CEST</pubDate>
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  At the recent Real-Time CrunchUp 2009, Khris Loux, CEO of one of the web's largest commenting services, announced the tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/comments_dead_twitter_holds_smoking_gun.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';"death of the comment". This declaration was extremely significant as Loux's JS-Kit is currently installed on over 600,000 sites. He blames the death on social media sites like Twitter and Flickr and the rise of "parallel channels away from  product". In essence, dialogue has moved from a singular destination to a series of parallel but separate social networking channels. SponsorLoux took the opportunity to introduce Echo - his new product that allows publishers to embed a simple JavaScript widget and aggregate social media and blog dialogue from across the web. This means that all of the related posts from Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Digg, WordPress and Blogger end up below your post for the world to see. For those who are widely loved, you'll see this as a blessing. For those who are widely loathed, you'll see the full wrath of the internet in colorful cross-platform commentary. Echo further transcends existing commenting systems with the incorporation of HTML, photo and video. This will appears to be a truly amazing tool for mash up contests, political debates and global events. Said Loux, "When Robert Scoble saw this his response was, 'blogging is back'." Scoble's own Building 43 project aggregates comments into the Community 43 page from various social media sources using hashtags. However, where Scoble's community dialogue gets buried as new media comes in, Echo produces a live feed that stays visible with the source material. Said VP Product Strategy and Community, Chris Saad,"We look for links back to the source page inside tweets/FriendFeed etc and bring in the related conversation - in real time." This evolving stream of truth (good and bad) is about to stare us in the face every time we visit our pages. It will be interesting to see how this will affect blogging as we know it. Do you think bloggers will elevate their game to gain accolades or simply become gratuitously extreme in order to stir conversation? To reserve an Echo subscription, visit the JS-Kit site. Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Tumblr Submissions: Create Your Own Community-Powered Blog</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:56 CEST</pubDate>
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  There&#8217;s a common wisdom that personal blogging has slowly given way to microblogging: online sharing through Twitter and Facebook.  Popular blogger Steve Rubel is a prime example: he recently declared that he would switch from blogging to life-streaming on Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook.But while personal blogging may have waned, professional blogs (like this one) have thrived.  There are new, lightweight blogging communities springing up, too &#8211; Tumblr and Posterous being the most prominent examples (see Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head).  These platforms are much less about long-form writing and more about instantly sharing snapshots of life: photos, videos, quotes and audio clips.  But these still require you to update them everyday, and for a single writer, it&#8217;s tough to maintain a flow of new content and ideas.  Enter Tumblr Submissions, a Tumblr feature launched earlier this week that makes the blogging process totally collaborative.  Building upon recent successes with Eat Sleep Draw, This is why you’re fat and Cute Overload, the service has made this form of community blogging available to all.  In short, you can now set up a blog on, say, cute cat pictures, or the best graffiti in Brooklyn, or long-exposure photography, enable submissions on the Customize page and wait for the new content to flood in via the web or email.  With free content from your readers, what&#8217;s your excuse for not updating your blog?Reviews: Facebook, FriendFeed, Posterous, Tumblr, TwitterTags: posterous, steve rubel, tumblr, twitter  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>TeachStreet Launches Payments Platform For Teachers</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:55 CEST</pubDate>
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  TeachStreet, a Yelp-like service for real world classes (cooking, dog obedience, music lessons, ballroom dance, foreign language, golf, yoga, etc.), is launching a marketplace feature for teachers to be able to coordinate payments from students. Teach Street, which serves seven metropolitan areas in the U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors to upload information about classes. Users can look for available classes, and read and write reviews on the course and the instructor. Currently, the site includes a selection of more than 135,000 classes and teachers, across more than 700 subjects and categories.TeachStreet payments enables credit card payments for a portion of teachers/classes, letting teachers who are unfamiliar with e-commerce be able to elicit sales leads from the web. TeachStreet's founder, Amazon and JibJab Alum Dave Schappell, tells us that the site is powered by PayPal Website Payments Pro to make it easy for both students and teachers to use the system. TeachStreet charges students a 5% for booking and charges teachers a 4.9% processing fee. Teachers pay an additional 2.5% first-time-student payment fee to TeachStreet. While adding a listing and profile on TeachStreet is free, teachers only pay out to the site when a sale takes place. Teachers can also op out of the fee-model and pay $30 per month to TeachStreet.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Kicking Reality Up a Notch</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:04:08 CEST</pubDate>
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  The technology, developed by Sportvision and called 1st and Ten, is an early commercial example of a field of computer science called augmented reality, in which the real world is overlaid with virtual information.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Seesmic Launches Web-Based Twitter Client &amp; New Version of Seesmic Desktop</title>
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  <title>Remember Silverlight? Version 3 Launch and Features</title>
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  Microsoft's Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 were released on July 9th to favorable reviews. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/remember_silverlight_version_3_launch_and_features.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';The original Silverlight shipped in Fall 2007 as Microsoft's first programmable web browser plug-in. It's a 4MB Flash/Flex competitor that runs on Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and mobile devices. While Flash definitely holds the market share for machine installs, according to Microsoft, "In less than nine months since its release, more than 1 in 3 Internet devices now have Silverlight 2 installed." SponsorWhile this market penetration may seem high to some, the fact that Silverlight does not have widespread name recognition is perhaps a testament to the seamlessness of the service. In it's third iteration, Silverlight 3 offers some interesting new features including the following improvements:1. Streaming Support: Silverlight changes and adapts the video quality of a media file based on available bandwidth and CPU conditions in order to deliver an optimized viewing experience. This provides support for live and on-demand true HD (720p+) streaming. Video giant Netflix first employed the platform in 2007 to power its instant viewing service. With the new streaming support, the holding back HD video sites is their own limited catalogues. 2. Sketchflow: Expression Studio's SketchFlow allows for rapid user interface prototyping. This means that concepts and projects can evolve seamlessly without the need for lengthy redesigns. Developers are also able to apply their sketches to a 3D plane and add animation and annotations to them. Designers and developers are reporting that Sketchflow cuts down mock up times significantly.  3. Out-of-browser Capabilities: Similar to Adobe's AIR and Mozilla's Prism, Silverlight enables applications to be placed in a restricted store on a users machine. Users are then provided a direct link to the application from their desktop or start menu. Silverlight also tests for a network connection and automatically syncs and stores files depending on that connection. This ensures point back up. One of Silverlight 3's early projects is French-based Eeple's Board. The project was started by a 19-year-old computer science student and is a virtual cork board with pictures, posters and articles. As with a real cork board, messages and notes can be layered to produce a media collage. In this case, the media includes videos, blog posts and music files. A year ago, Silverlight's penetration was 17%, today it's at a third of all users. Compared to the 99% market penetration of Flash 9 and 86% penetration of Flash 10, this is extremely low. It will be interesting to see if Silverlight 3's features will increase the rate of adoption. Partnerships will certainly play a key role in how the market is carved out in the years to come. Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Google Maps Knows Where You Are</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:04:06 CEST</pubDate>
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  The world's most popular map service can now tell you where you are. Google Maps has now added a feature that uses JavaScript to geolocate your current whereabouts.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>HOW TO: Experience the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Realtime</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:03:58 CEST</pubDate>
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  Did you know that in just 8 days, it will be the 40th anniversary of one of mankind&#8217;s greatest achievements?  It was on July 20th, 1969 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to set foot on a celestial body beyond the earth.  And while astronauts now make regular trips to space (although not today, due to mother nature), the Apollo 11 mission and the famous Armstrong line still live on as turning points in human history.Now a new project aims to recreate the entire Apollo 11 mission, from the time of launch until the Americans set foot on the lunar surface.  This website, We Choose the Moon, is using history, Flash, and social media to let us all relive the key moments of that great mission.The project, spearheaded by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and made possible by AOL, goes through 11 stages of the original Apollo 11 mission.  It is a full-featured Flash website that recreates the mission.  It provides information on the astronauts, has mission countdown timers, displays the current status of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and even updates you on the mission status via Twitter.  Clicking on the pulsating icons will provide image galleries, videos, and more.The beauty of the project is that it all occurs in realtime.  So when 9:32 AM ET on July 16th rolls around, Saturn V will launch on the website, corresponding to the exact times and dates of the original mission. We Choose the Moon makes it incredibly easy to follow the mission &#8211; you can install a desktop widget or a widget for your Facebook or MySpace page (although the Facebook one seems to be broken at the moment).And don&#8217;t forget about Twitter.  There&#8217;s not one, but three different accounts to follow the Apollo mission: Houston Mission Control, the Eagle Lunar Module, and the Apollo 11 Spacecraft.  On top of that, there&#8217;s a broadcast by Shoutcast radio with audio of the mission.The result is a one-of-a-kind retelling and tribute to one of the most important events in history.  The JFK Presidential library and AOL really outdid themselves in building this website, and we are eager to relive this event with the rest of the world through We Choose The Moon, which, by the way, is named after a line in President Kennedy&#8217;s famous speech that launched the moon initiative.  One suggestion though: please provide a way for people to discuss the landing together.  A chat feed, a feed of recent tweets, something.The next step: the Mashable Moon News Channel.  Just give us a hundred years or so, we&#8217;ll eventually get there.Reviews: Facebook, MySpace, TwitterTags: aol, moon, we choose the moon  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Photos From 2009 Techcrunch Crunchup and August Capital Party</title>
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  Thanks again to all of you who came out to our Real Time Stream CrunchUp and August Capital Summer Party.  We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots more of you at the August Capital outing. We had an amazing group of CrunchUp speakers to talk about new trends, boundaries and your passions. And we fit in 22 new product highlights from start-ups and big internet companies alike. It was a blast, and we've got the photos to prove it.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>What Will Carriers Do When the Data Gravy Train Derails?</title>
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  In the U.S., which has a population of 304 million, there are about 270 million cell phone subscriptions. With a market this saturated, the conventional wisdom is that there&#8217;s not much room for growth, especially as the amount paid for voice declines. And this is why mobile data has loomed so large for carriers in Tweet This  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Endeavour's Journey: Shuttle Launch and Outer Space Resources</title>
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  tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/endeavours_journey_shuttle_launch_and_outer_space_resources.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';In the early hours of the morning, Commander Mark Polansky sat watching the Tour de France when he got the call that they'd be fueling NASA Endeavour's external tank. Nearly 30,000 of his Twitter followers woke up and rejoiced at the news. Today we're going to see lift off. The NASA Endeavour was set to launch to the International Space Station today at 7:13PM EDT from Cape Canaveral, Florida after a 24 hour lightning-induced delay. The mission was delayed several times and while Commander Mark Polansky's Twitter account and NASA's official account announced that the launch was likely to happen, online viewers watched via NASA TV as the mission was scrubbed with only minutes to spare. The launch has been rescheduled for 6:51PM EDT tomorrow. Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Tim Kopra and Canadian astronaut Julie Payette are set to replace Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. The 16-day effort will complete construction of the laboratory and astronauts will attempt 5 space walks to create an exposed experiment platform.SponsorThe live broadcast as well as additional resources are available on NASA's Multimedia Page.  Below are some additional space-related resources you might want to check out before tomorrow's scheduled launch:NASA Collaborate:Those interested in joining NASA's online groups can connect via Facebook, Ustream, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace. Rather than waiting for press releases, fans can get their updates straight from astronauts, scientists and NASA executive. Google Sky and Hubble's KML plug-in files: Google Sky allows users to view high resolution images of the night-sky. Hubble image plug-ins make for an extremely crisp intergalactic travel experience. You can search for planets, galaxies, nebulae and stars and zoom into them with great precision. NASA Satellite Tracking & Heavens Above NASA Satellite Tracking offers users a number of options to track more than 2,500 satellites, the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. Meanwhile, Heavens Above offers satellite predictions, sky charts and info on a number of comets. Discuss        ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Push Notifications On The iPhone Are Great, But…</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:04:04 CEST</pubDate>
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  After being scarce for the first couple of weeks following the new iPhone 3.0 software rolling out, apps with Push Notifications are now rolling out at a healthy clip. And that's great, because the feature is really useful. To a point.The issue I'm noticing now is that if you have too many apps with Push Notifications turned on, the whole system becomes a lot less useful. You see, Push Notifications are basically Apple's way to get around allowing third-party apps to run in the background of the iPhone. So apps can now send these push messages to your phone to let you know if there's some kind of message or update that you should open an app for. But if you have a lot of push messages coming in, I'm finding that you either have to pull out your phone every couple minutes, or risk still missing notifications that you probably want to see.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Location-Based Services: Are You Using Them?</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:34:02 CEST</pubDate>
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  In an increasingly mobile world, location-based services (or LBS for short) have undergone rapid growth.  Whether it&#8217;s new players like Zhiing making their entrance or big players like Google creating LBS social networks like Google Latitude, everyone seems to realize that the location market is a high potential industry.Numbers earlier this week from research firm Gartner agree with this assessment: the number of users of location-based services is set to double to 95.7 million this year, up from 41 million a year ago, which should result in over $2 billion in revenue.  With more and more iPhone, Android, and mobile apps taking advantage of more readily available GPS and LBS technology, we have to ask: what&#8217;s next for location-based services?According to Gartner, the only way is up.  According to the firm, the greater availability of GPS phones, reduced prices, and app stores have all contributed to the rapid growth of location tools.  For example, with the iPhone 3G now priced at $99 (with service agreement), GPS-enabled phones are within the reach of many consumers.  Gartner also predicts that free location-based services (i.e. free iPhone apps) will gain further traction, with 40 to 50 percent of all users in North America and Western Europe using these tools in the next four years.Why location is importantWe&#8217;ve been witness to several trends in social media and information technology in general.  Demand for faster or real-time information, usability, and an increasing reliance on the mobile web are just three emerging trends.Apps are responding in kind.  Zhiing is a new mobile app for sending friends your location as quickly as possible, Yowza sends you coupons based on what stores are nearby, and Google Latitude helps map out where you and all of your friends are.  This type of information helps get the most relevant information to you as quickly as possible.  Weather forecasts, nearby friends, and local train schedules are automatic.This is why we need to be watching the evolution of location-based services over the next few years.  It&#8217;s directly correlated with the rising popularity of GPS-enabled smartphones, particularly the ones with app stores.  As long as these phones grow in popularity (they will), then location-based services will spread until, one day, they become as common as the cellphone itself.Are you using location-based services?  Tell us your favorites in the comments.Location-based Services (LBS): Are You Using Them?(polling)Reviews: Android, GoogleTags: android, google latittude, gps, iphone, lbs, location-based service, Yowza, Zhiing  ]]></content:encoded>
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