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A new service called Muxtape takes mixtape creation into the cloud. Simplicity and elegance are the name of the game. Muxtape allows users to upload up to 12 MP3's to create their own custom selection of music. The mixtape can then be shared and listened to by other users. It's just like when I was a teenager, making compilation tapes of my favorite tunes. We didn't call them "mixtapes" ...

There's been A LOT of chatter about FriendFeed lately on the web. I've personally been using the service for about a month or so, and it has indeed become one of the first places I go when I boot up the 'ol browser. So far, I haven't joined the frenzy of adding friends left-and-right. I usually follow someone after I've looked at what they're bringing—often through the friend-of-a-friend feature. ...

Prism, Mozilla Labs' site-specific browser creation tool, launched a major new update on Friday. The most significant new addition is a new extension for the Firefox 3 beta that allows users to create a new application from within the browser. There's now a "Convert Website to Application" menu item in the "Tools" drop-down, which opens a dialogue box just like the one in the stand-alone version of Prism. Newly ...

This week seems to be all about LinkedIn, at least around these parts. This morning they launched a major interface overhaul. It appears that they're going after Facebook with these changes, since the new features add a stronger feeling of community interaction than before. The look of the site, while always clean, looks more like what is expected of a social network. There's a new sidebar navigation that ...

LinkedIn released the mobile version of its site in Beta today. It's available for any WAP enabled mobile device. I tried it out on my Palm T/X this evening, and so far it seems to work great. Naturally, it looks a lot better on devices that don't suck as much, like the iPhone.  With the mobile version, I can check out all my contacts and their connections. I can see updates from ...

One of the coolest things about using web services early in their lifespan is watching them evolve. I was checking out FriendFeed, a service I'm growing more addicted to every day, when a quick refresh automagically brought about...tabs. Tabs for friends, me, and everyone. It's a subtle change that just adds more to the usability and usefulness of an already great product. Is it news? I dunno, but it's what ...