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What a week! We have a bunch of new and exciting stuff to announce this week, but we'll start off the day by announcing our transition to Drupal. UX Magazine is now running on Drupal 6. The design has been left intact, although most of our frequent visitors will notice a dramatic upgrade regarding the sites' speed. We've also moved all out stuff over to the Rackspace cloud. We might still have some unresolved issues in the backend, and we might have to double up on some feeds but please bare bear with us, this is all part of the transition...

We have lot's of exciting announcements coming this week. Stay tuned by following us on twitter or by subscribing to one of our feeds

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Google I/O 2009’s big announcement could be the open-source – e-mail – chat – wiki – social network – file share – Twitter hybrid: Google Wave. While it won’t be out for another several months Mashable offers a pretty good recap of what to expect.

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Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing! It’s expected to go live in the next few days, so keep a close eye on it. We will…

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We’re pretty excited about the imminent launch of the Palm Pre. but until we officially get our hands on one we’ve been enjoying these screencasts taken via the WebOS emulator. While it’s hard to get a good feel of the phone without multitouch the videos go into quite a lot of detail on most features.

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Nice little product page for the new 2010 Toyota Prius. Still not sure about the car’s stylings but I love the animated infographics. I hear it also made The FWA’s site of the day.

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Looks like Google is cleaning up its act and getting their product logos standardized. While I love the fact that Google has fun with its brand the previous format of having a small product name applied wherever it fit below the logo always felt a bit random. No big change but an important one.

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Having fun trying out random queries on PicFog (such as this one) — as always, services built around Twitter’s real-time content are a great fun but can also be used for useful research or insight into what’s happening around you. But let’s face, most will probably use it for stuff like this.

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Interesting article and accompanying quotes from Google’s co-founders on how Twitter is winning the real-time game. Partnership vs buy-out might be in Google’s plans:

Eric Schmidt says, “We do not have to buy everybody to work with them, the whole principle of the Web is people can talk to each other.” — especially when people don’t want to sell.

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Mogulus, the oddly named web streaming service has relaunched with a new brand (LiveStream) and more importantly a cleaned-up, updated UI for its broadcasting tool. More coverage on Mashable.

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Great article and accompanying visualization detailing how we consume information over the years. One can argue over the predictions but it’s a fantastic read.

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