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If you do any social networking with your friends or colleagues online, then you know what a pain it is to check all the sites to monitor their activity. You have to go to each site, sign into your account, check the updates. This gets more and more tedious as you connect with more people using different social networks. You’ve got friends on YouTube, and some are on Facebook, your colleagues are on LinkedIn, he uses Digg, she uses Flickr, you get the idea. It’s getting to be a big distraction just to keep up, and your CPA (constant partial attention) is getting stretched to its limit.

Enter FriendFeed, a social media aggregator that combines activity from all of your social networks into a single stream. While FriendFeed does not currently have a mobile-friendly version of the service, there are other ways of using it on mobile Safari and we’ll tell you how after the jump.
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This is an idea that is difficult to describe because there’s nothing quite like it. However, shortly after you start begin exploring it you realize how practical and obvious it actually is and wonder why it hasn’t been done already. Imagine hosting your own audioblog, chatting with hundreds of listeners in real-time, then posting a recored version of your show on your blog and podcast directories, and doing it all from your iPhone while driving home from work! Okay, so maybe that’s a bad idea, the driving part, that is. But if you want to broadcast your own audio show, listen to, or participate in other shows all from the mobility of your iPhone, then this is for you. Welcome to TalkShoe, the conference calling, community podcasting thingy that’s totally cool and highly addictive. Read on and find out why we think the quirky TalkShoe site has the potential to rival YouTube for your online attention.
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Macworld recently ran a story about hackers and the iPhone. Up until now, most of the iPhone hacks in the news have focused on unlocking and adding third party applications, with almost no coverage given to the potential security holes in the iPhone platform. No doubt that hackers are already working on damaging iPhone attacks just for bragging rights, if no other reason. This threat is compounded by consumer demand that Apple open the iPhone to allow the installation of third party apps, a demand which Steve Jobs has yielded to by promising an SDK early next year.

As iPhone owners, what should we look forward to in 2008? An endless series of firmware updates containing security patches? Or will the iPhone enjoy the same safety record that the Mac desktop has had as compared to the numbers of attacks on Windows computers?

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