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• It's Time To Make Phone OSes Work On Any Phone Seeing as VMWare is going to start digging into **artphone virtualization, John Herrman makes the case that phone OS makers need to treat cellular devices as computers and let you install whatever you want. [Gizmodo]
• Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone QR codes, the square bar codes that can be scanned by cameraphone apps, are going to be offered as window decals to 10,000 highest-ranked businesses in 9,000 towns and cities. Now you can add barcode scanning to menu perusing on your quest for the perfect lunch spot. It's not a new idea, though, and we still can't imagine using these. [Official Google Blog]
• 10 Proposals for Fixing the E-Mail Glut If the global email system could be rewritten with a few standard interface opti***, Nick Bilton would push these 10 suggesti***. Among them: seriously stern reply-all warnings, Yes/No/Maybe butt*** for ultra-quick replies, and an Auto Filter button for quick filing. [Bits Blog]
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensi*** Next Week Presumably to tie in with the Add-On-Con 09, Google will be opening up the Chrome extensi*** "in the middle of next week." [TechCrunch]
• Torrent Sites Get Feedback from RSS Inventor Dave Winer suggests ways that torrent trackers could make their feed offerings more useful to downloaders and app creators. In short, it's all about standardized formats. [TorrentFreak]
• EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced EtherPad, the as-you-type collaborative text editor, gets bought by Google for integration into Wave (yay!). It shuts down new user registration, pad creation, and puts a March 2010 deadline on total shutdown (boo!). After hearing back how much it will be missed, the company re-opens its doors, promises to stay open "at least" until it goes open source, and apologizes (hooray!). [EtherPad Blog]