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aggregator: An aggregator is a tool that allows users to subscribe to and display multiple RSS feeds in a convenient format. These can be desktop or web-based applications. Popular news aggregators (aka news readers) are NetVibes (www.netvibes.com), Bloglines (www.bloglines.com), and Google Blog Reader (www.google.com/reader).
AIR: Short for Adobe Integrated Runtime, AIR is a new Adobe software environment that allows a program to run on multiple operating systems and hardware, much in the way Java does. AIR allows applications to be installed on the local operating system and accessed from the desktop just like the other applications that the desktop user runs. At the same time, AIR applications can access online information. ...
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