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GitHub Personalizes Gists for Easier Code Sharing
This is not an Octocat. Image: GitHub.GitHub has personalized the code sharing site’s “Gists” feature, changing the URL to include your GitHub username, rather than just a random, anonymous number....
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Docracy Builds a GitHub for Service Agreements
Image: Mark Rain/FlickrFor most of us, terms of service (ToS) are just a speed bump on the way to signing up for internet services. Terms of service agreements are often monumentally long and are...
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Catch a Nostalgic Glimpse of Geocities on Tumblr
Under Construction. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey.The digital remnants of the long since deleted world of Geocities are slowly being reborn, page by page, on Tumblr. One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age may be...
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New ‘Sign-Ins’ Offer Developers a Facebook Connect for Google+
Google+ Sign-In on Fitbit.com. Image: Google. Google has announced a new feature for Google+ — third-party websites and applications can now offer sign ins through Google+. The new Google+ Sign-Ins are...
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Google Expands Universal Search to Include Your Calendar
Your calendar, now part of your search results. Image: GoogleGoogle has expanded the personalized search “field trial” it initiated last year, pulling in additional results from Google Calendar. Your...
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Amazon Takes on Dropbox With New Desktop File Syncing
Amazon’s desktop-centric Cloud Drive syncing. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey Amazon has quietly joined the ranks of cloud-based file syncing services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s SkyDrive....
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Mozilla Wants to Eliminate Passwords With ‘Persona’
Signing in with Persona. Image: Mozilla.Mozilla has released a second beta of its distributed online identity system, Mozilla Persona. The Persona project is Mozilla’s effort to tackle online identity...
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Mozilla’s ‘TowTruck’ Brings Real-Time Collaboration to Any Website
Image: Screenshot/WebmonkeyMozilla’s TowTruck is a new project aimed at making it easy to collaborate on the web in real time — think real-time screensharing and co-authoring on any webpage. TowTruck...
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Watch OpenStreetMap Improve in Real Time
OpenStreetMap is improving all the time. Now you can watch it happen. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey.OpenStreetMap isn’t just a powerful, open alternative to Google Maps — used in everything from Apple’s...
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Yahoo Kills Upcoming, Archive Team Saves the Day
Somewhere around here you’ll find the Archive Team. Image: JOPHIELsmiles/Flickr. Yahoo has finally decided to shutdown its long-neglected Upcoming.org, a social event calendar website. Under Yahoo’s...
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