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Link Round-Up: August 31, 2009

31 Aug 2009  Links

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18 Cool Things Windows 7 Does That Vista Doesn’t – There aren’t many changes to the overall look of Windows 7. Microsoft seems to have spent its time on the feedback it received from Vista, but there are 18 features that are impressive.

Midomi – a musical search engine powered by your voice. All you have to do is sing or hum the song that’s stuck in your head.

Olark.com – This service inserts a tiny window on top of your website that allows users to chat live. It’s quick, simple, and it looks a lot better than a shoutbox.

PDFPirate – An online tool that strips .PDF files of all copy restrictions, so that it can freely be duplicated and manipulated.

Wikispeedia – Yet another Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon type game where users are present with two articles to travel between as quickly as possible.

Discussion

Five Features We Want to See in Firefox

Entertainment

Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage

Tech News

STUDY: Social Media Is for Narcissists
Tax authorities using social networks to find tax cheats
Tim Hwang has just announced ROFLCon II, a follow-up to the infamous conference on Internet culture and memes held at MIT.
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text



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