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Slate suggests Obama is a Getting Things Done president, rumors stir of a Netflix app for the iPhone, and Google Voice is open to any of our armed service’s women and men in uniform.

• The Getting-Things-Done President
  Slate thinks that maybe, just maybe, Obama’s agenda chugs along with the power of the cult of GTD. [Slate]
• Rumor: Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone
  We’ll believe it when we see it, naturally. [TechCrunch]
• Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start
  Productivity luminary Merlin Mann sets to doing what he does best—talking candidly and with a healthy dose of humor about getting things done in your life. [43 Folders]
• Audio care packages for service members with Google Voice
  If you or your loved one is a member of the military, Google now offers free, no-wait invites to Google Voice here. [Official Google Blog]
• BusyCal
  Described as iCal Pro, this robust Mac-only Calendar is free during the public beta.
• Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
  Facebook only trails Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo at this point. Yowza. [TechCrunch]
• PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
  PayPal outage yesterday halts PayPal’s $2,000 in transactions per second for a whole hour. [CNET]
• Bing sees slight uptick in July
  Bing’s share of the search market continues to rise, slow and steady. [CNET]
• The Album Is Dead, Long Live the App
  Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk discusses how the music app could someday replace the album. [Wired]

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