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I still haven’t decided if FriendFeed, which aggregates activities from other websites like YouTube, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, etc., is the ultimate walled garden of our personal data or possibly the answer to the Centralized Me problem.I keep pushing FriendFeed to take the lead in the DataPortability wars by allowing users to export all that stuff they gather. For now, their feeds and APIs allow access to that data, but it all links back to FriendFeed in one way or another. Over time I’m hoping they start to release the actual data in a responsible way. From my discussions with them, they seem to want to do that, and I believe them (I generally don’t believe the big social networks when they say the same things).In the meantime though, the service just keeps getting more useful. Tonight they released yet another feature called personalized recommendations. You can now view the items posted by your friends based on how interesting the network thinks each item is. You can view results

Today, Intel Capital announced new investments in eight startups totaling $60 million. Below is each company, along with the size of the round they just raised. (Not all would disclose when I asked during the conference call). And while Intel led most of the investments it was not the sole investor, so the total adds up to more than $60 million.Accertify (fraud management for online transactions): $4 million round.Grid Net (energy management and smart grids for consumers): size not disclosed, but GE Capital and Catamount Ventures also invested.HealthiNation (online health videos): did not disclose.Internet Mall (Czech-based online retailer targeting Central Europe): $45 million (28 million Euros).TOA Technologies (mobile workforce management): $13 millionVeoh Networks (Web video): $30 millionVostu (Ning-like social network for Latin America): $1.3 million seed round.Vriti Infocom (education marketplace in India): did not disclose. Intel was the only investor Crunch Network: CrunchG

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