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Jumpcut let people upload, combine, and share videos. Now it’s in maintenance mode.
(Credit: Yahoo)

Yahoo’s belt-tightening has led the company to shut down new uploads to its Jumpcut service for sharing and combining videos, steering people instead to its Flickr service.

“We’re sorry to announce that we are no longer accepting uploads to Jumpcut,” a…

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(Credit: MTV)

Once the global leader in youth culture, MTV’s attempts to address the social-networking craze have seemed a little puzzling sometimes (the Twittering Moon Man?) But now we’ve seen another piece of the entertainment brand’s puzzle: Backchannel…, a play-while-you watch game that’s one part chat room, one part Digg, and one part Mystery Science Theater with a Mean Girls twist.
It’s debuting on Monday night with that evening’s episode of wildly popular reality-soap The Hills.
Here’s how Backchannel works: Watch the show (for now, only The Hills is on Backchannel, but later this fall it will

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The meeting time broker TimeDriver, which has been in closed testing since I covered it back in January…, will finally enter its public beta period on Monday. I had a chance to play with the product Thursday. For a lot of people, this service could be a great help.

TimeDriver is designed to help people who need to schedule a lot of one-on-one meetings. If you’re interviewing job candidates, for example, or taking appointments with customers, you can set up either one-time or recurring blocks of time, and send people links that let them grab appointment times

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Twittervision for the iPhone put out a great update over the weekend that does something even the desktop version cannot do. You can now double-tap any foreign-language tweet, and it will convert it into your native language.
Why is this important? If you ever used the previous iteration of the application, you know that it simply jumps around the globe, showing you random Twitter… status updates. Many cannot be read unless you’re fluent in that language, making it cute but fairly useless for most folks.
The translation takes about 10 seconds to work its magic, and you’ve got to

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On Monday Joop Dorresteijn, contributing editor at The Next Web, unveiled a vulnerability in Google-owned feed tracking service Feedburner that lets anyone with some basic copy and paste skills and a Netvibes account pump up their blog subscriber numbers into the hundreds of thousands.
The “hack” is a two step affair, involving first tweaking an OPML file that lists your subscriptions, then subscribing to said feed in a simple feed-aggregation tool like Netvibes or My Yahoo…. The data will then be fed through Feedburner’s counters overnight, with the freshly increased numbers showing up the next morning.
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