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October 2008 marked the “official bursting of Web 2.0 bubble” in many people’s eyes. Ironically, this video (pulled by YouTube and Vimeo several times) :

So why the use of the word ignoble in the title? Well, all this went down at an unfortunate time for a score of Silicon Valley posterboys and girls as they partied 1999 style “the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in October of 2008 for a week of reflections on life, love, and the Internet.” They leave behind an absurd video that would have gone unnoticed a month ago. But this week, with the walls tumbling down, they look like a bunch of jackasses who have no idea what’s going on back at home. And this video will always be associated with the end of Web 2.0.

[Link to original story @ TechCrunch]
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Liverpool Street station takeover:

This looked like a lot of fun, if not very original.

Enter the password “aollover” (AOL lover) in the box below, and you’ll be able to see it.

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Edit Day in Final Cut Pro from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

This tool may help in some way to getting you out: compresses the hell out of those bloated .PPTs that kill email servers.

NXPowerLite

Interesting reading:

Scott Goodstein, a D.C.-based campaign manager, ran all of the text-messaging and mobile communications for the president-elect’s campaign.

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