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     About just over a year ago, I wrote a review for the V-Moda Duo EarBuds.  In that article I went into great detail about the superiority of these earbuds.  Well V-Moda is back again and continues to impress.  Now new, hot out of the casts come the V-Moda Vibe II. To say these are a step up would be a slight understatement.  Now as you read this you are probably saying, “Look, they’re earbuds, Hilty.  I got a pair with my iPhone, they came stock. They play music and let me take calls and serve me fine…”  I say to you…

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The University of Texas system has added Second Life to the curriculum across all 16 of their campuses. The U of T is experimenting with using Second Life to find out how to lower the cost of undergraduate interactions between faculty and students. The initiative was funded by The Transforming Undergraduate Education Program at the U of T.

Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life made the announcement on their blog. The University of Texas has 9 university campuses and several medical and health campuses. The University will collect data on how Second Life is used by students and faculty.

The last time I recall Second Life being used by a college is when Bryant & Stratton hosted their commencement ceremony on the virtual world.

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Lissn is a service that launched at the TechCrunch50 conference. Lissn is basically a fancy chat room. Lissn is a service that starts with someone starting a conversation. Anyone can join the conversation thread and the administrator can select whether contributors can publish their comments. On the homepage is the most popular Lissn conversations. Conversations are automatically converted to your language of preference using Google Translate APIs.

Contextual advertising appears as conversations are made. For example, if you are talking about a specific book, an ad will show where to buy the book on Amazon.com. This is how Lissn would make money. You can find out what conversations are taking place near you using the IP address detection.

Lissn launched this month and was founded by Myke Armstrong.

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Jim Schinella is currently the SVP for Corporate Sponsorships at Yahoo! Schinella plans to remain at the company for the rest of the year but will be stepping down after. Schinella works out of the Yahoo! New York office and has worked on several major partnerships such as a Verizon deal. Schinella joined Yahoo! in 2003, left in 2005 after becoming Global VP of Business Development, and then returned in 2007. The announcement was made internally according to AllThingsD.

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Thoora is a new service that is currently in private beta that aims to one up Google News and Techmeme. The service will take popular news articles shared on Twitter, blogs, and traditional media, and then arranges it in a tag cloud format. Instead of paying attention to the authority that a blog or news source has, it will focus on how unique the content is.

Thoora will find the links from news that had just been broken, assuming it is interesting and then feature those posts. Then users can find out how many people are linking to it. The categories will be broken down by Business, Lifestyle, Entertainment, etc.

The company was founded in March 2008 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Thoora has $4.1 million Canadian in funding from Rogers Corporation. The company is run by Mike Lee, Chul Lee, and Nyla Ahmad. Thoora indexes content from 4,500 mainstream media companies and 80 million blogs. Thoora demonstrated their product at the TechCrunch50 conference.

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