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a free tool that provides a focused, rational method for adversarial discussion that overcomes the limitations of standard message boards, e-mail and even conversation; it is a site for persons who believe that reasoning should be at the heart of more...

A team of researchers from Cornell and Microsoft have created a BitTorrent plugin called Cubit that hopes to eliminate the need for big index sites like The Pirate Bay. The future of torrent search may soon be truly decentralized.

“The RESTful API serves as a common protocol understood by all OpenSocial 0.8-compliant clients and servers. It replaces the November 2007 OpenSocial Data API proposal (which was based on the Google Data APIs).”

NewsVisual graphically displays the key aspects of a news story. It's easier to parse a diagram than a page of prose. Downside: IE recommended.

You'd think that Facebook would be the perfect tool for handling all this. It's not. For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there's a guy who beat me up on a weekly basis through the whole more...