BlackBerry-maker RIM’s house-made BlackBerry Twitter app will start appearing in the BlackBerry App World market as soon as Tuesday night.
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Sick of installing bookmarklets or browser plug-ins to save and share links with other people? Or do you simply want to keep a record of all the text, links, or pictures you’ve copied to your computer’s clipboard? Check out ControlC…, a new service that’s halfway between a social bookmarking tool, and an archive utility.
Mac, Linux, and PC users can install a small app that will keep a record of their computer’s clipboard and automatically upload it to a feed. Uploaded items remain private until the user manually “unlocks” them for public viewing. Other users can then befriend
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If you’re trying to keep up with U.S. politics today, be prepared for an onslaught. There’s an all-day mudslide of information, and no end of sources to get it from. Google’s decided to join the fray and, with the help of microblogging service Twitter, has created a live, moving mapplet… to track people’s tweets that are related to politics. All the tweets are geotagged with the Twitter user’s city and state, so you can see where they posted from, right down to the county.
While a good deal of the tweets are useless (see example
