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Jun
2010
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Hulu has just launched their new Hulu Plus subscription service, which allows you to stream full seasons of TV shows, full-length movies, and more to the iPhone as well as the iPad. At $9.99/month, users will be able to subscribe to their favorite shows, stream them over 3G, and is unfortunately, invite only for now. Request an invitation now.
 
 
22
Jun
2010
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That's right, Google Voice has stepped out of beta and is now available to the public (US residents), without the need for an invite. For those who don't already know, Google Voice is "a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device or a location -- works with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines."
   
10
May
2010
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Is social media a fad, or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video, titled Social Media Revolution 2, provides us with new and updated social media as well as mobile statistics. Here's just one interesting tidbit: if Facebook were a country, it'd be the third largest in the world.
   
05
May
2010
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In addition to releasing a new Google Chrome beta yesterday, the company also released a video showing just how fast its browser really is, unconventionally and for their browser specifically of course.
   
25
Mar
2010
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Searching Craigslist for something, or even funny ads, just became easier with Craiglook. This website essentially "mashes two great Web 2.0 services [Yahoo Pipes and Google Maps] to load RSS [feeds] from your local Craigslist community." There's currently 3-million plus listings added daily, with a total of 18.3-million in the entire database.

   
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AFP reports that Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited website online, thanks to "a massive 185 percent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009." If the visits of both sites are combined, they account for 14-percent of all internet traffic last week.

   
11
Mar
2010
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 That's right, Google Maps now offers biking directions in the US. Just enter your destination, and you'll get step-by-step directions, complete with outlined trails, biking lanes, and bike-friendly roads.

   
24
Feb
2010
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Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company's social features. With this partnership, users will be able "to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.

   
24
Feb
2010
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That's right, Twitter now processes 50-million tweets per day, and approximately 1.5-billion tweets per month. This data comes from Twitter itself, as "Royal Pindom was measuring 27 million Tweets a day back in November, 2009." Continue reading for a visualization video that "uses Twitter searches for phrases like 'just landed in', 'arrived at' to create a real time trend of movement based on social networking information."