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Microsoft has just let loose some very interesting notes on what appear to be the final features to be included in the upcoming, and much promised, first update for Windows Phone 7. There are three main elements that are being updated, added, or improved: copy and paste, faster apps and games, and better marketplace search. Each will add to the baseline user experience on the phones, while later updates will increase the mobile line’s total capabilities....

Earlier today evidence wasdiscoveredthat the Calendar portions of MobileMe had already begun being ported over to the iCloud domain and rebranded. We did some digging here after the news and discovered that the Find My iPhone service seems to have been ported over as well. The screenshot above is from the confirmation email that Find My iPhone sends you when you send a message to a lost phone that you’re trying to locate....

This monday weannounced The Next Web Conference 2011. We explained how exited we are and apparently that excitement was contagious. Here is a list of the first 101 companies that have bought a ticket! Want to see your name listed here too?Reserve your tickettoday before tickets are sold out. Early bird tickets arestill available(a 50% discount!) but won’t be for much longer. 24sata digital,6hours Associates BV,Acato,Actinic Software Limited,Adyen BV,Ajourney,Ballou PR,BBC,betteron.com,BlueMind Corporate Finance,Boomerang,BusinessQuests,BUZZ MEDIA,Buzzer,Citywire Financial Publishers Ltd,CommerceCrowds,Creathor Venture Management GmbH,Crossmedia Communicatiegroep,CRP Henri Tudor,de Bibliotheek Haarlem,Deloitte,depers....

Our friends atCheckin.tomade us these awesome infographics to map out the first 12 hours ofSXSWicheck-ins. Using aggregated public checkins fromFoursquareandGowalla,they’ve built a beautiful visualization of activity from 6pm to 6am on Friday night in Austin, TX. Checkin.to is just now on the cusp of transitioning from side project to seed-stage startup. The idea originated over 10 months ago at GoogleIO when hacker Zac Witte was in a taxi with a friend moving from one party to another....

It’s not unlike any other accelerator that you’ve probably seen before, but Nashville, Tennessee’sJumpstart Foundryhas a lot riding on its success. TheTechStars Networkaccelerator is graduating its first 6 startups on today’s Demo Day and they all show signs of being on the path to greatness. I had the chance to sit down with founders from all six yesterday, to talk to them about what they’re doing and the challenges that they’ve faced....