There are two new openings on the Telligent product team. If you are in the Dallas area and have a passion for building great software, see the listings below.

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I was just reading over some of the documentation on Google App Engine when something very obvious finally set in.

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I am very excited to announce the immediate availability of Community Server 2008 beta 1. The big goal in this release was to improve interactions among community members (Groups, Messages, and Friends). In addition we wanted to enhance on areas such media support and extend our extensibility story (Widgets and Web Services).

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Jason Burns wrote an interesting post, "What does Wordpress have in common with Microsoft Windows? Marketshare…"

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Almost a month ago, in reaction to Google's purchase of Jaiku, I said:

Personally, I think this is end of the road for Twitter.

The logic was correct. Jaiku has a better overall feature set, seems more reliable, and has Google backing it now. However, as of today, users have not followed. I tried using both services (Twitku is a big help), but in the end, it  just isn't worth the effort. There are way more people on Twitter and until Google does something that changes the micro-blogging game, Twitter will continue to be the dominant player for a single powerful reason, they were first.

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For some strange reason, I cannot access port 80 at home. Upon calling Comcast, I am given the following information:

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Brian Clark over on CopyBlogger (great blog btw) has a very interesting post, "Here’s How to Stop Worrying About Google Once and for All".

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I just saw a commercial for the Uniball 207 which claims it can help prevent check fraud by "Helps prevent check washing". I am not big on the pen market (ok, I actually know nothing except Mont Blanc's are expensive), but this is an interesting pen marketing technique (fear). It sounds like a rather...

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