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Check out this pic which explains the difference between geek 1.0 and geek 2.0 (and you dont have to be a geek to understand this)

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‘Press It’ Bookmarklet in WordPress 2.6 Makes Tumblelogging Easy

The bookmarklet link can be found on the “Write new post” page on the right.
Just drag it to your browser toolbar and you´re ready to go.

Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we
’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.

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If Google decides to comply with this decision and not appeal to a higher court, then the privacy of all 80 million+ YouTube users are compromised. TechCrunch also pointed out that the decision (pdf) made in the New York court could be in violation of US federal law.

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The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest bit-torrent tracker allegedly claims damages against anti-piracy agencies.

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There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality.

For those of you moving on to FriendFeed’s greener pastures, here are 13 essential tools for an organized, “noise”-free experience.

Read the complete article on TechCrunch

I had already blogged a link to Wordle last week.
It´s a really cool tool to create word clouds from any text or even from you del.icio.us tags.
The latter is what i did and the result is shown above.
They also have a cool gallery with user submitted clouds.