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socialmedian: The Buzzwords of Web 2.0: RSS Down, Microblogging Up Web Development News (Users: 64). Stories in 24 hours: 26. The top of the funnel (Users: 2). Stories in 24 hours: 7. wireless (Users: 18). Stories in 24 hours: 32. Web 2.0 Summit (Users: 4). Stories in 24 hours: 587 ... [Source: Web 2.0 Summit news (via Google blog search)]

Video: Palm launches new OS, phone Palm is trying to relight its fading star with a brand-new operating system, WebOS, and a new smartphone model, the Pre, launching later this year on Sprint. The combination looks compelling, and if anything can bring Palm back to the front lines in the smartphone market, it's these new products. Rafe Needleman interviews Ina Fried on the Palm lineup in the CNET News Daily Debrief. [Source: CNET.com News]

'Are My Sites Up?' keeps an eye on uptime Check to see if various sites are up (yours or someone else's) with this free Web tool. It checks up to 50 different URLs every 15 minutes, and sends you an e-mail when something goes wrong. [Source: CNET.com News]

Only at Expo: Look foolish, win big Wearing rabbit ears to an Apple store won't get you anything, wearing them at Expo might get you a fabulous prize.


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Expo: Carl Zeiss plans improvements to Cinemizer video eyewear The new Cinemizer plus—slated for release later this year—gives users the ability to individually adjust the focus of the high-resolution LCD screens for clear viewing, even if the user wears glasses.


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Microsoft releases TagReader for iPhone Microsoft's tag technology has come to the iPhone, but we can't tell you if it works.


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More Brains Needed Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that more people need to donate their brains to medical research if cures for diseases like dementia are to be found and are urging healthy people as well as those with brain disorders to become donors. 'For autism, we only have maybe 15 or 20 brains that have been donated that we can do our research on. That is drastically awful,' said Dr Payam Rezaie of the Neuropathology Research Laboratory at the Open University. 'We would need at least 100 cases to get meaningful data. A lot of research is being hindered by this restriction.' Part of the problem, according to Professor Margaret Esiri at the University of Oxford, may be that people are reluctant to donate their brains because they see the organ as the basis of their identity. 'It used to be other parts of the body that we thought were important,' says Esin. 'But now people realize that their brain is the crucial thing that gives them their mind and their self.' Dr Kieran Breen, of the Parkinson's Disease Society, said over 90% of the brains in their bank at Imperial College London were from patients, with the remaining 10% of 'healthy' brains donated by friends or relatives of patients. 'Some people are under the impression that if they sign up for a donor card that will include donating their brain for research. But it won't,' says Breen. 'Donor cards are about donating organs for transplant, not for medical science.'"

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Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."

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Five useful places to find financial data on the Web Want to start researching a stock portfolio? We've compiled a list of five services that will help you do just that. [Source: CNET.com News]

Palm's WebOS app strategy needs more details It's obviously very early in the public life of Palm's new WebOS and Pre smartphone, but developers want to know how the company will manage applications for the device. [Source: CNET.com News]