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style="">OPLIN 4Cast #136: <br>
Google Wave, Hunch and Let Simon Decide, Let's read, Nomee<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">June 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;">4casting technologies that could have an
impact on
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<p>1. Google Wave - This open application will be available later this
year. Here's a sneak peek.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2Fview%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwy&feature=player_embedded"
target="_blank">VIDEO: Google Wave Developer Preview</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_wave_our_first_hands-on_impressions.php"
target="_blank">Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10255402-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware"
target="_blank">Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4400.html" target="_blank">A
Curmudgeonly Look at Google Wave </a></li>
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<p>2. Don't trust your gut? Try Hunch or Let Simon Decide.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.hunch.com/fact-sheet/" target="_blank">Hunch Inc.
Fact Sheet </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/28/hunch/" target="_blank">Hunch:
Flickr Founder to Turn Indecision into Profits </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.letsimondecide.com/" target="_blank">Let Somon
Decide: Decisions made easy </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/06/let-simon-decide/" target="_blank">Hand
Off Life’s Big Decisions to Science; Let Simon Decide </a></li>
</ul>
<p>3. Let's read! Besides being able to find info about books and
authors
at <a href="http://aboutbooks.info/">about:books</a>, you can also
check out
these sites.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/" target="_blank">Literary
Tweets: 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/internet/01google.html?ref=media"
target="_blank">Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/03/in-the-era-of-the-espresso-machine-will-bookstores-turn-into-pod-publishers-and-perhaps-try-e-books-too/"
target="_blank">In the era of the Espresso machine, will bookstores
turn into POD publishers? And perhaps try e-books, too?</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/18/scribd/" target="_blank">Scribd
Store: YouTube for Documents Becomes iTunes for Documents </a></li>
</ul>
<p>4. <a href="http://nomee.com/" target="_blank">Nomee</a> is "Not
another social site, nomee is the tool that helps manage them all."</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/nomee-is-an-all-in-one-social-networking-aggregator-and-rss-feed/"
target="_blank">Nomee Is An All-In-One Social Networking Aggregator
And RSS Feed </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nomee_introduces_new_social_aggregation_software.php"
target="_blank">Nomee Introduces New Social Aggregation Software </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,77627-order,3/description.html"
target="_blank">Nomee Beta </a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://blog.mikenimer.com/index.cfm/2009/3/26/Do-you-nomee-or-my-new-job"
target="_blank">Do you nomee? </a></li>
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