TECH BUZZ: Peter Gabriel has launched a new site that acts as your “little friend” online, aggregating recommendations in entertainment based on your taste. Early reviews are mixed, but we’re pressed to believe that with his taste in mix tapes, Lloyd Dobler would be a fan.

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1. Visit The Filter, Find Your Own “Internet Ally”
2. Peter Gabriel Will Save the Internet (And He Says So On Video)
3. The Filter Allows for “The Attraction of Being Still in Touch With Interesting and New Things Without Having to Make the Effort to Research Them All the Time.”
4. The Black Eyed Peas? Thanks, But No Thanks, The Filter.
5. …Oh, and One of the Dudes from Genesis Invested in The Filter, Too
6. Peter Gabriel: Leader of the Digital Music Revoltion (No, Seriously, He Sold His First Site for $38 Million)

TECH BUZZ: The omnipresent video site has debuted a new feature, which allows for interactive commentary layered directly into the clips. It’s like Choose Your Own Adventure , but without the requirement of turning pages! Kids get it so easy these days…

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1. Example: An Interactive Card Trick
2. The New Beta Feature: Video Annotations
3. YouTube Begins to Pimp Its Player
4. Brilliant Questions: What Are Video Annotations?
5. An Annotated Skydive

TECH BUZZ: Scientists have pioneered a new internet 2.0 with download speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection. Back in our 14.4bps dial-up modem and AOL days, we never thought we’d be where we are now. So it’s pretty hard to imagine holographic video conferencing and five-second movie downloads.

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1. How This Superfast Web Replacement Might Change the World’s Vocabulary
2. A Technical Look at Distributive Computing
3. Coming Soon: Superfast Internet
4. It Won’t Be Available to the Mass Market for Years to Come
5. We’ll Be Seeing Aspects of the Grid Within 12 to 18 Months
6. The Grid is an Over-Used/Abused Term

TECH BUZZ: The first mainstream semantic web application will organize your online life, sort of like a much more profound and elaborate version of del.icio.us. Enter web 3.0, or rather the “semantic web,” where artificial intelligence analyzes and organizes all the data you use. We’re one step closer to Blade Runner .

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1. Video: A First look at Semantic Web App “Twine”
2. An Impressive Preview Demo - See Screenshots
3. Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life by Creating Social Semantic Graphs
4. An Incredibly Deep, Incredibly Smart App That Could Be Overwhelming
5. Twine’s Automatic Tagging System Would Be Great for, say, Planning a Vacation
6. Semantic Web on Wikipedia
7. Radar Networks - The Creators of the Twine App
8. Twine’s Artificial Intelligence Sets It Apart from Web 2.0
9. Internet Startup Receives $13M for Twine
10. Register for the Beta at Twine’s Official Website