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Genius was introduced in Apple iTunes 8. It is a feature that enables users to created playlists of music that ‘go together well’.

Since its introduction iTunes Genius has had an unfair amount of criticism. While it is not perfect, Genius is a useful tool which will improved upon given time.

While Genius relies on mass user input to work perhaps Apple should consider joining forces with some software and web-based services that already exist to greatly improve the feature.

Firstly, when I first read about Genius (before the official launch) I thought it would actually analyse the music itself rather than just data about user music collections and playing habits.

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Today del.icio.us became delicious.com as the infamous bookmarking website’s excellent new design went live. The long awaited redesign looks streamlined and incorporates fast loading ajax features that simplifies use.

“The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at.”

Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

A short animation was also published to illustrate the differences between the old del.icio.us and the redesign:

A year in Beta

This redesign has been in the pipeline for over a year and early previews gave a clear indication of what was to be expected of the new site. However the aforementioned blog post by The Delicious Team also indicated that new features are in development and may be added in the near future.

“It has taken us a while to get here, and we really appreciate all the patience and support you’ve shown us. Now that our new platform is in place we expect to release new features more quickly.”

For more information about the changes take a look at the Delicious What’s New page.

Best comment about the redesign so far?

By DrFunke on digg.com:

“Hmm, now I can’t access it from work because the network nannies think delicious.com is a porn site. Anyone else having this problem?”

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delicious.com screenshot, originally uploaded by Marshall24.

The great redesign for the relaunch of what is now delicious.com — cleaner, fresher and more dynamic and a lot faster.

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Step 2—Geek Party!, originally uploaded by bizstone.

This screenshot, uploaded to Flickr by Twitter’s Biz Stone, provides a clue to how certain people have become increasingly ‘popular’ on friendfeed.com.

Allen Stern, of centernetworks.com explains why the likes Loic Le Meur, Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte have so many followers:

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Biz Stone was interviewed on The Byrant Park Project morning show a few days ago. The interview covers many Twitter related topics including the idea behind Twitter and its future, the Fail Whale, and the recent/current problems Twitter is facing.

At some point Twitter will have to make money and become profitable and Biz touched on one idea how this may happen with the introduction of ‘commercial accounts’. While Biz would not discuss how many people have joined Twitter he did reveal that the number of member had increased six fold in the last 12 months.

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