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IntenseDebate Goes Public Again

IntenseDebate, the highest reporting system that was recently acquired by the WordPress parent company of Automattic, must reinvigorate the public (the service originally opened its doors in late 2007, but reentered private beta as soon as he be purchased). IntenseDebate also is the public beta of its plug WordPress, which includes a number of features that make it more attractive to owners blog.

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Google Increase US Search Dominance

Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise.

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Twingr.com Offers Micro Blogging Communities

Startups.com Network, Inc., owned by a network of sites focused on business services and content for entrepreneurs and executives of companies, announced the launch of Twingr.com, a Web application that allows people to create their own micro-blogging community.

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Wanted: New Antispam Tactics

The spread of break-CAPTCHA tools has resulted in a sudden increase in the use of blogging sites such as Google BlogSpot for ads receiving spam, the security vendor has MessageLabs Report.

The company, the latest report of intellectual understanding for October notes that the increase in the level of pollution of spam that are either in the free blog sites and Mobileme as designed to exploit high levels of confidence that gives content sites in the brand.

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Yahoo Adds Social Features

Yahoo Inc. this week added new elements to the social beta version of its Yahoo Buzz social news site, which identifies the top news and blog on the basis of votes and search patterns.

On Thursday, Yahoo announced that it has added the ability to include elements of a Yahoo universal profile on the site, emphasizing the connections of his friend. The update expands on the Yahoo Open Strategy which aims at the opening of all platforms from Yahoo and data to third parties, and expanding the availability of social characteristics.

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The American presidential election: Obama Has Won

That was 55 electoral votes in California ensure that Obama crossed the magic line of 270 senators needed to win elections. Shortly thereafter, John McCain acknowledged its defeat.

Nobody doubted that California will vote Democratic. So long before the forecast was broadcast at 11 pm on Tuesday night (5am Norwegian time), U.S. Afro-Americans had begun to celebrate victory in bars and churches, streets and private homes across the country.

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Obama plans transition as Americans Revel in his momentous victory

America and the world continues to Revel Barack Obama in the historic election on Wednesday with emotional tributes and celebrations that transcends race, nationality or political affiliation.

"This was an exercise in American democracy that Americans across the political spectrum are justifiably proud," a tearful Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

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Twitter as a Terrorist’s Tool?

The social networking Web site Twitter could be used by terrorists to communicate as they execute a potentially catastrophic attack, according to a military intelligence report obtained by the Federation of American Scientists .

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McCain and Obama duel on economy

Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama dueled over the economy on Thursday in the last stretch of their fierce fight for the White House, with McCain charging Obama would not do enough to rein in oil company profits.

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Worm Uses Google to Squirm Around Facebook

A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com at the end of July he appeared again, this time with Google in Web pages to sneak around the security filters.

On Tuesday, researchers at a single management vendor Fortinet threat noticed that a program similar to the Koobface worm started using Google Reader and Picasa Web sites to spread. In the attack, criminals that host images look like YouTube videos on Google sites in the hope that fraud victims to download malicious Trojan software.

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