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G-Maps mobile traffic tracker

Google Maps adds a mobile traffic tracker, as well as allowing users to save routes. Currently only for mobile users (in 30 metro areas, on 100 types of devices), plans are in the works to expand services to online users.

Digg Labs

Digg Labs goes live, unveiling new infosthetic (data visualization) tools: Swarm and Stack—previewed earlier, in the version 3 launch.

Giants don’t do ‘niche’

A great post on BuzzMachine talks about the need for specialized search, and why that means the burgeoning Google is not invincible.”

Microformats

An interview with microformat thought leaders, Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare, at Wharton.

Diigo

An addition to the social bookmarking bandwagon.
Diigo‘s standout feature is that its a sticky-note and highlighter apps. run as an overlay, in situ on webpages.

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