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Facebook Connect Goes Live: Let the Identity Wars Begin

Facebook announced the general availability of its single sign-on technology Thursday, presenting a clear challenge to OpenID. Facebook Connect allows users of the massive social network to log in to and interact on participating websites using their Facebook IDs. ...

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Wired Software — 1 hour ago

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Flickr Updates Mobile Site, Adds Video Playback for iPhones

Yahoo's photo-sharing service debuts a new user interface for its mobile site, adding video playback capability for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Support for watching videos on other handsets will be rolled out in the near future. ...

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Wired Software — 3 hours ago

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Opera Mini Brings the Mobile Browser War to Android

The latest version of Opera's web browser for mobile phones works with Google's Android operating system, bringing the first alternative browser to the open-source OS for smartphones. ...

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Wired Software — November 26

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Handbrake, Still the Best DVD Converter, Now Handles Any Video Format

Our favorite app for putting videos on your iPhone and iPod receives a long-awaited upgrade and now supports almost every video format. Curiously, the makers of Handbrake have removed the app's ability to natively decrypt DVDs, citing law-infringement concerns. ...

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Wired Software — November 26

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YouTube Goes Widescreen, Paves the Way for Hollywood Features

The grand-daddy of video sharing sites has finally moved to a default widescreen player with an HD-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio, a feature most other video sharing sites have had for many moons. The move to widescreen playback comes just after YouTube's announcement that it will soon begin hosting ...

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Wired Software — November 25

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Google's SearchWiki Lets You Customize Your Search Results

If Google's algorithms weren't giving you what you wanted, you now have the power to customize search results pages, as well as post, view and rank comments. The changes you make to results are seen only by you, but comments are public. ...

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Wired Software — November 21