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The Global Syndicator is an experimental web 2.0-type aggregation service, featuring automatic tagging. It's born out of my frustration with mainstream feed readers.
It has been set it up to manage incoming feeds more immediately and efficiently, and keep a history of interesting articles so that you can search incoming feed content.

Street Fighter IV iPhone Hands-on Impressions

Released tonight at GDC 2010, the iPhone version of Street Fighter IV is extremely impressive. The game features 8 fighters: Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Abel, and M. Bison. The fighters can be used for head-to-head multiplayer over Bluetooth or for solo play modes including Dojo mode, which challenges the player to complete increasingly difficult trials while teaching the basics of the port.

Twitter Support Confirmed For Blur

As is becoming the trend, Twitter has found its way into yet another product with Bizarre Creations and Activision Blizzard including the social network in Blur (PC, PS3, Xbox 360). Here is an example of something you might see on your Twitter feed when the game is released within the next few months:

IGDA Responds to Allegations of Poor Working Conditions at Rockstar San Diego

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a nonprofit membership organization that supports videogame makers, recently weighed-in regarding claims leveled by "wives of Rockstar employees" at developer Rockstar.

Joojoo - $499 web tablet, born of controversy.

The joojoo looks hot. Look at the side/back view here .

Wave interface across all Google apps

My last post suggested that Google really needed to integrate its Wave technology across all of its product line. I suggested it might be too tough a goal for Google given the dramatic re-building of its apps that it would require. However, maybe, this is exactly what Google is doing. Engadget today published screenshots that show [...]

Home Prices Higher in August. Will Housing Continue to Stabilize?

This month, the S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index continued to improve as prices in 17 of 20 metro cities increased in August, albeit at a slower pace than July. Overall, the 20-city index rose 1.2%, better than economist expectations for a read of +0.7% and the 10-city home price index increased at a rate of 1.3%.

The Week Ahead: Treasury Auctions, Housing Data, Durable Goods, GDP

Eight trading days have passed since the Dow crossed 10,000 for the first time in over a year. Yet mixed data and third-quarter earnings since then have caused equities to dance around the psychological threshold.

Chemicals Found In Fruit And Vegetables Offer Dementia Hope

A group of chemicals found in many fruits and vegetables, as well as tea, cocoa and red wine, could protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease, a  dementia expert will tell scientists at a conference July 11.

Researchers identify genetic markers for metastasis formation in colorectal cancer

Previously, only a few genes had been associated with the formation of metastases in colorectal cancer. Now, researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany, have identified 115 genes that are disregulated both in the primary tumor and in its metastases.