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people search sure is a controversial topic…while some might find a search engine capable of automatically syndicating all available information on a person creepy, to say the least, others welcome the concept, arguing, that all this information has been online & and for the most part indexed anyway. I belong to the latter, so on the occasion of 123 people’s recent public launch, I took the chance and compared it to Spock, another people search service around since mid-2007. subject of matter - the good old vanity search…

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I’ve still got some invitation-codes for french video-startup Seesmic to share (thx, Hugh). Seesmic facilitates video-conversations among its users, similar to a Kyte.tv-channel or the video-reply of YouTube. while there’s currently no mobile client available, it’s quite easy to use Shozu to upload video directly from your cellphone - thx to an open FTP-interface on Seesmic’s side (details here).

If you’re a blogger and want to try out Seesmic, just drop me a backlink to this post and I’ll get you going (sorry, no comments this time).

if you’re a non US-citizen ever wanting to gain detailled insight into your personal genome and have 1.000 USD to spare, now is your chance, as of January 22nd, 23andme.com is available through Europe & Canada. it works pretty simple: order the spit-kit, send in a good portion of your slobber, and few weeks later you can start exploring your genome online.

but don’t forget that 23andme-director Anne Wojcicki is married to Google’s Sergey Brin (Google btw. investing in 23andme), so your genetics might someday be used to target your Google Ads… you’ve been warned!

the fourth instalment of BarCamp Vienna is just around the corner - next saturday, 26th of january @ WerkzeugH. goto barcamp.at for details & list of attendees. see you there!

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Don’t know if this will last for very long, but for now globalPandora allows listeners from all around the world to tune back into music-recommendation service Pandora again.  back in May 2007, Pandora was forced to shutdown its service for users outside the USA due to licensing-issues/-cost. tech-savvy users may have been able to bypass the IP-based restrictions using public proxies, but this approach was mostly unstable or insufficient regarding bandwidth. rock on!

(via TechCrunch)

Despite all the (justified) grieve on breaking MacBook(Pro)s & crashing Leopards, this rumoured, ultramobile, flash-based sub-notebook would probably make me pull out my credit-card immediately… all rumours collected at Mahalo.

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