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The Blabber Meter clock measures wasted time

We're not going to expend too many words on this one because it's not worth our time, but let's welcome the Blabber Meter to the holiday gift-gag fray. Yes, it's a desktop clock that "tallies the dollars spent in long meeting, useless conversations, marital sermons, and even never-ending phone calls."

Here's an idea: Dole it out to the senior executive team at your company and watch your salary get reduced to zero. Or perhaps you'd like a divorce. It will only cost you $24.95.

New Tech Meetup: From Talking Llamas to Taming Teamwork

I'm sitting on the exquisitely uncomfortable benches in the San Francisco Metreon, listening to companies at the New Tech Meetup give their pitches. Two of them we've covered recently: AdPerk and Truemors. The news about Truemors: a Facebook port is forthcoming. The other three companies are also worth some bits:

Blabberize is a freaky little product that makes Monty Python-like animated graphics of faces from photos you upload. Then you upload a recording of your (or someone else's) voice. It syncs the audio or recorded speech to the moving mouth. Good for a laugh. Likewise the pitch. … Read more