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An interesting service that has just premiered, Yonkly is a solution that will let you come up with your very own social network. Not only that, you can also fully customize it and have absolute control over aspects such as monetization and so forth.

It must be said that the service is quite well put together, as users can personalize the whole process as much as they want, and share information in the way one expects from a resource that is self-touted as a “Microblog Network Creator”. That is, in addition to the 140-character posts we all know and love/hate, it is possible to share multimedia contents of every denomination such as videos and pictures.

Moreover, upon signing up you can integrate your current Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo accounts with ease, saving time and becoming instantly reachable in the process.

Yonkly can be freely tried by everybody for a set period of time, after which the user can choose one of the available plans. Note that full control over monetization is only available to those who sign up for the premium plan. This plan also comes complete with 50 GB of storage - the basic plan comes with 1 GB, and the medium one (entitled “Power”) has 8 GB to go with it.

Only time will tell the fate that will befall this new endeavor, but it is a very refreshing take that might garner a significant following. Consider paying it a visit if you have a soft spot for micro-blogging and wish to have an experience as personalized as possible.

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Fuzzmail is an online messaging solution that serves a specific function, namely recording the act of writing and making it the integral part of this application. That is, whenever you send a message through the site, the other person will be able to see how you typed it and which corrections and deletions were made.

In a certain sense, it can be said that Fuzzmail is a more expressive and emotional alternative to traditional e-mail communications. The site clearly spells out that an e-mailed love letter does not have to look the same way as a business or commercial letter.

This solution is provided at no cost at all, and it is entirely web-based – no need to download or install anything, nor engage into update process later on. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, and any of the major web browsers that are currently doing the rounds.

At the end of the day, if you are on the lookout for a more personalized method of getting a message across, then this site stands as a suitable resource. Try it out for yourself and see if it resonates with you the way it is meant to or not.

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Microsoft has arrived in the iPhone App Store.

The company’s first official app, released today, has been a fun distraction for us this evening: SeaDragon Mobile lets you “View thousands of images over the air, quickly view massive gigapixel images, explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own, add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom Composer content [and] subscribe to Deep Zoom RSS feeds.”

The aim is to highlight Microsoft’s photo-display tech on mobile devices, explains TechFlash, and we place it firmly in the “cool but not so useful” category. And yet, Microsoft has many, many useful applications: will we see those in the App Store soon?

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If you receive a message that includes a PDF attachment, Gmail has a new option that lets you view the file without installing a PDF viewer like Adobe Reader.
Until now, Gmail converted PDF files to HTML and removed images, so they didn’t look very well. The new option uses the PDF viewer from Google Docs, which lets you zoom and search inside the (first 100 pages of the) file.

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Are you looking for a way of funding a revolutionary project of your own? If that is the case - and provided it is an open source project – a visit to this website is the order of the day.

Essentially, the site makes it possible to post ideas for projects to which people can contribute. That is: someone posts the project, others make contributions, and a developer is chosen to write the code. After this, the contributors vote to pay the developer, and if they decide to do so the code is then posted for everybody to download and use.

Contributions are kept for a 30-day period, after which any amount of money that was put forwards for a project which did not materialize can be retrieved. Alternatively, the contributor can choose to leave it there if he has faith in the project.

As you can see, this site offers an interesting take on the funding and development of open source projects over the web. If this sounds like the potential key to the success you are after, drop by the site and have a look for yourself.

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If you happen to have memory like a sieve, a service like this one is probably going to make your day. In general terms, Remindr is a service that will send you automatic notifications when a date you have set down beforehand comes around.

The implementation of this service is quite simple in itself, and it is certain not to get in the way. Basically, you have to fill in a “Please remind me to…” field followed by a “On…” and “At…” boxes that will let you specify the date and time. After you have supplied this information, you have to set down your preferred communication channel. In this particular case, you can have your pick from Twitter, Jabber (or Gtalk), e-mail and/or phone number.

Such a solution can come in more than handy right now, given the rush of activities that characterizes the close of each year. If you want to make sure nothing will be overlooked, this site might just provide you with the wherewithal to do so, and at no cost whatsoever.

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Microsoft released an alpha version of its own open source content management system, Oxite.
The source code for the software is available under the Microsoft Public License.
While Microsoft mostly describes Oxite as a blogging platform, the Oxite team also points out that you could use it as a content management system to develop more or less any type of site.

Channel 9 has a short interview with the developers that describes some more of the software’s features and the history of its development.

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Android just got stronger. The industry consortium behind the Google-developed mobile operating system, the Open Handset Alliance, just added 14 new members, including ARM, Garmin International, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone.

The other new members are AKM Semiconductor, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile, Teleca AB, and Toshiba.

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last100 editor Steve O’Hear remarked that the bundled browser is “fast, renders the full web flawlessly (aside from the lack of Flash support), and does a fantastic job of re-flowing text when you zoom in on a specific part of a web page, therefore eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling despite browsing on such a small screen.”
Check out Steve’s short video review below.

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Mozilla has just launched Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 for download. The most notable new feature is probably private browsing mode, which lets you browse without having any of your Web history stored locally.

The developer who designed private browsing for Firefox has shared some details about how it works and how to use it.

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