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By Kelly Faircloth 1/11 3:45pm

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Betaworks and Fictive Kin Team Up To Help with the Fun Part of Your To-Do List

Do you have a Google Doc or an iPhone note where you keep a running list of books, movies and other things you’ve been meaning to check out? Well, today partners Betaworks and Fictive Kin announced a new service meant to help out. Done Not Done, at its simplest level, is a new and Read More

By Ben Popper 4/27/11 2:25pm

Instapaper This

Awaiting a Gimmie Bar and The API of You

Out on the fringes of web idealism, where theories of the near future are being formed, Betabeat came across the musing of Brooklynite Cameron Koczon, aka Fictive Cameron.

Taking as his starting point Instapaper and Readability, two New York apps enjoying growing success, Koczon identifies the notion of content shifting, taking an article or Read More

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