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TechSmith, the folks behind some of my favorite applications — SnagIt, Camtasia, Morae and UserVue — just released a new “project.” All I can say is I’m blown away by it. Ever since moving to the the Mac, TechSmith’s products were the only ones I truly missed. Not anymore. Jing is available to capture images, movies and more; and in a way that’s just so sweet.

Go ahead and download it now: Mac – PC. I promise, you won’t be disappointed.

(Betsy, I want more!!!)

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Amid intense debate and 11th-hour congressional hearings, American webcasters have been spared. As we discussed a few weeks ago, podcasters everywhere united in a day of silence to protest royalty rate hikes that would have crippled Web radio in the United States.

SoundExchange, the performance rights organization that pressured Congress for the rate hikes — and whose site is in desperate need of our services — testified late yesterday that they wouldn’t enforce the new rates, which were to go into effect this…

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Now we know what the “don’t click here” button on SearchEngineLand’s navigation was all about. Behind the closed button Search Engine Land has has just revealed a new social community web site called Sphinn. Will Sphinn be the new Threadwatch?

Want to know more about Sphinn?

Looks interesting. What do you think?

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GrokDotCom is now one of only two blogs to be optimized for iPhone (the other being that of our friends at Bazaarvoice).

Thanks to the good folks over at ContentRobot, we’re the first kids on the block to beta the iWPhone WordPress Plugin:

While the iPhone does an amazing job of displaying web pages the way they were designed to be seen, often visitors want quick access to your website’s content. The “iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme” displays an optimized version of your…

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According to a recent Forbes.com article Technorati seems to be having some serious troubles. We have had our issues with Technorati with them assuming our 7 free resources for Google Website Optimizer as being its own site–not just an extension of GrokDotCom.

The nature of blog search has changed over the past year, and even Technorati’s redesign found them acknowledging some of these changes:

Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface…

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