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Yesterday, I attended Lifecamp Toronto, a lifehacking event organized and hosted by Sacha Chua, over at a neat little place called Linuxcaffe. The idea behind Lifecamp Toronto (a.k.a. #lifecampTO for those of you on Twitter) was that people could have the opportunity to share what they can provide for others, what help they'd like from others, and network based on those sets of traits.

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Despite all the people who claim it's best to automatically follow everyone who follows you on Twitter, there's still a lot of people, myself included, who find its better to vet each follower and decide whether to follow them or not. Of course, it's not always easy to determine if a follower has been checked out or not. That is, until recently, when a new service, Tweepler, was launched.

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Bailout, bailout, bailout. If you listen to the news, it sounds like the only way to get things moving again is by rescuing big businesses, many of which have been on the ropes even before the recession began. But where's the support for small businesses, or new ventures? If anything is going out to help them, it's certainly not being reported.