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Lots of food for thought in this post on the Internet Stock Blog.

Six Apart, the owner of hosted blogging service TypePad and publisher of blogging software Movable Type, just acquired LiveJournal. Within six months Six Apart itself will be acquired by Yahoo!.

(via Scripting News)

The picturephoning.com blog has an intriguing post on an image-recognition software for mobile phones developed by Hartmut Neven, from the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute: He envisions using the technology to create what sounds like a real killer application and service:

You would send a picture of something to Neven Vision, which in turn would provide you with more information about it. For example, you send a snap of a painting and receive an audio-visual narrative about it. You’re hungry? Just take a shot of a street and a restaurant guide will appear on your phone.

See also this earlier post on hypersurfaces.

(stumbled upon via TechDirt)

oddiophile offers a nifty bookmarklet that lets you add tags to a post in much the same way you do with flickr and del.icio.us - you just write the tags in a text box, separated by spaces.

See also his ShowTags bookmarklet for URLs.

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