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US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have released their technology policies, differing on whether "Net neutrality" rules should be imposed on telecommunications companies and on the breadth ...

If you are looking for web-based collaboration tools to manage your team projects, share your screen with other people or have web-conferencing sessions, I have picked some really cool new online collaboration apps for this issue of the Sharewood Guide. Photo credit: Erik Reis Here the full set of online collaboration tools for this week:

1. Scribblar: Engage in web-conferences with your team, featuring audio calls, text-chat and whiteboarding
2. Mikogo Skype: Select one or more Skype contacts and share your screen, remote control and share files with them
3. TeamTexting: Send emails and text messages to your group
4. ShareYourBrain: Submit an idea for your project and see what other people can suggest to you
5. Convos: Organize your team by assigning tasks, sharing files and more
6. Kadoo: Create your personal page to share images, videos and documents with 10GB of total storage space
7. MatchBoxCalendar: Schedule all of your appointments and let people see them
8. PokeTalk: Call any mobile or landline for free using your phone and Internet

Here all the details:

Staff at a hospital have been banned from using social networking websites after a picture of a nurse baring her breasts appeared on Facebook.

One of two remaining at-large suspects in the double homicide on Plymouth Street was last seen robbing and pimping in the southern state of Georgia, Mountain View police said.

Journalists attend a condolence meeting to pay homage to Soumya Vishwanathan, who died under mysterious circumstances earlier this week, in New Delhi yesterday NEW DELHI: A television journalist murdered ...

Hi Social Bloggers,

I want to let you in on a cool contest my buddy Russell Brunson is doing. It’s a contest where you get training at no cost…and you can win a New Corvette!

It’s called the $100 Million Dollar Challenge. Russell’s going to personally train you to make money online, and he wants everyone to make a collective $100 Million Dollars!

Check it out by going here:
http://contest.dotcomsecrets.com/rbenvin

If you’ve been struggling with your online business, then you need to check out what Russell has to say in the video. Plus you can’t beat the price.

Take care,
Rich

P.S. Russell’s also donating proceeds from the contest to World Teacher Aid–which helps to bring education to children in third-world countries.

http://contest.dotcomsecrets.com/rbenvin

Some of Britain's biggest music stars announced Saturday they are banding together to demand greater control over their music in the digital age.

Radiohead, Robbie Williams and Kaiser Chiefs are among more than 60 founding members of the Featured Artists' Coalition.

The group says it wants musicians rather than record labels to retain control over the rights to their music. It says new technology is rapidly changing the music industry, and artists are often left out when their songs are distributed over the Internet or mobile phone networks.

The Durham NDP candidate who called an anti-war activist a "fascist bitch" and other derogatory names has called it quits.

COLUMBIA, S.C. A South Carolina middle school math teacher has been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online.

How do you know whether the information you are searching for online has been verified and comes from reliable sources? Are you getting into the mass-media habit of taking for granted whatever you read online? Is your critical evaluation attitude miserably fading? Photo credit: Stephen Downes George Siemens, MasterNewMedia official guide to education technologies and media literacy, scouts and reports from his ongoing research key future scenarios where the increased adoption of collaborative approaches and more effective learning styles unveil a new way of managing, and living successfully during these fast changing times. Here all the details:

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz said today he's leaving the company along with engineering manager Justin Rosenstein to start a new software business.

The Orange County Business Journal today ranked BandCon as the 8th Fastest Growing Private Company in Orange County, CA.

Noel Gallagher has claimed that he did not know Oasis's new album was being streamed on MySpace.

Music site Imeem has undergone a redesign that premiered yesterday evening, streamlining the service as its OpenSocial comrade MySpace chews up headlines with MySpace Music.

Friendster to deploy both the OpenSocial and Facebook de facto industry standards for the benefit of Friendster users and the developer community SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Friendster, Inc., has announced that it has ...