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Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo)

When we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, demoing at D: Dive Into Media, offers a little more interactivity.
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Khush’s Songify Live Gives the Tone-Deaf an Auto-Tune-Up (Demo)

Songify Live, a new app from the Gregory Brothers and app makers Khush, can Auto-Tune your voice into a viral pop song. Use with care.
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Start-Up Scribr Wants to Help Your Twitter Feed Survive the Coming Web-pocalypse

Scribr is trying to keep your Facebook profile from becoming like the lost GeoCities of Atlantis.
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oBaz Wants to Rebuild the Online Deal Site, With Help From Groupon’s Founders

The rise of limited-stock daily deal sites has brought the stress of holiday shopping to the Web. But oBaz, a new online boutique start-up, is trying to quiet the storm with a little help from you.
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Jetpac Transports Friends’ Photos to the iPad for a Truly Personal Travel Magazine (Video)

Jetpac is building an iPad app that’s part travel magazine, part photo-sharing platform. It’s either very creepy, or it’s the bright future of personalized media apps.
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Start-Up Slader Looks to Solve the Math Homework Problem

Slader, a quiet New York-based education start-up, is picking away at what the school-attending population would probably list as the biggest pain point in their young lives: Homework.
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CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.
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Openmargin Hopes to Be More Than Social E-Reading (Video)

Notes in the margins of e-books could be the next platform for social interaction. At least that’s what Amsterdam-based start-up Openmargin is hoping.
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Isaac Asimov on Education and Our Robot Overlords (Video)

He was right, of course.

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22-Year-Old Founder of Open Social Network Diaspora Ilya Zhitomirskiy Has Died

Social network co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy has died. Zhitomirskiy, along with Maxwell Salzberg and Daniel Grippi were preparing to launch Diaspora, a social network designed to be open and decentralized. He was 22.

Another Googley “Acqhire” — Contextual Search Start-Up Apture to Join the Chrome Team

Fetchnotes Wants to Get Your “To Do” List Out of Your Head

Image2Play Connects Images to the Videos They Came From (Demo at AsiaD)

Lytro Comes Into Focus (AsiaD Demo)

Lytro Light Field Camera Revealed

Guitar Teaching App Instinct Rocks Your Browser (Video)

Exclusive: Aviary Launches iPad Extensions Today, Keeps on Pivoting

Apple’s iPhone 4S Event in Photos

In-Depth With Siri: The Full Demo From the D7 Conference (Plus an Old-School Bonus)

Qwhisper Is Looking to Solve Social Search With a Dose of Uber-Geek

Loku Wants to Beat Yelp and Google at Local Search With Some Help From Big Data

Snapette Aims at Women Shoppers With Social Photo and Shopping App

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Twitter’s still in its honeymoon period, but that won’t last forever. At some point, it’s going to be less of a wunderkammer, and more of a regrettable necessity.

— Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon, in an article entitled “Why Twitter will get more annoying”