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SearchWiki: make search your own 
(unknown author) via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Shared by Rick Dillon
Awesome. I have wanted the ability to ban certain sites from my results for a while (like swik.net).
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there
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Happy birthday, Joe!
(unknown author) via Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Tr on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Vice-President-elect Joe Biden turned 66 years old today.
To celebrate, President-elect Barack Obama surprised him at the Transition's Chicago headquarters yesterday with cupcakes, candles, and a stirring rendition of Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Joe!
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
(unknown author) via Gmail Blog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Shared by Andrew Meyer
I'm gonna stick w/ original flavor.
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineerGmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching toda
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An End to the “Revolving Door”
(unknown author) via Change.gov | Blog on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
President-elect Barack Obama imposed strict new ethics rules on the transition team yesterday, restricting what work former lobbyists can do for the team and barring registered lobbyists from donating to the transition or to inaugural events. Transition team co-chair John Podesta characterized the policy as "the strictest ethics rules ever applied." Across the country, national
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Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Posted by Justin Uberti, Software EngineerI'm a big use
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Is Your Web Truly World-Wide?
Chrix Finne via Google Reader on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: automatic translation in Reader! Post by 20% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
Believe it or not, the
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Election
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
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LOL
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Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
(unknown author) via The Onion on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected...
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Watch CNN Live and Full-screen with VLC [Streaming Television]
(unknown author) via Lifehacker on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
You can watch a feed of cable network CNN live on the station's web site in a Flash player, but it won't let you watch full-screen. For Windows users, gHacks has published the...
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Google Clarifies Its OpenID Implementation
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
After we wrote about Google becoming an OpenID provider yesterday, a number of reports suggested that Google was not following the OpenID guidelines cl
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How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic a
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Google is Now an OpenID Provider
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 29 Oct. 2008
This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced
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Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Wed, 29 Oct. 2008
You may not know it, but you probably have an OpenID. If you have a Yahoo account, you have an OpenID. If you have a
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Saints Row 2
Yahtzee Croshaw via Zero Punctuation on Wed, 29 Oct. 2008
Zero Punctuation reviews this weeks sandbox crime game, Saints Row 2.
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Google Announces Labs for Google Apps
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
Lately, Google has rolled out new features for it experimental Google Labs functionality in Gmail at a rapid pace. Today, Google announced
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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight versions", but Microsoft told us yesterday that they'll still have rich f
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