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Current, the edgy news and culture channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has come up with a new way to broadcast the presidential debates: show Twitter commentary on what people are saying.

Through an official partnership with the microblogging service, Current will broadcast “Hack the Debate,” which will live-stream on Current.com as well as air on the network. Twitter updates, or “tweets,” will be shown in real time for all four debates (three with the presidential candidates and one with the vice presidential candidates), which begin on September 26. It makes a whole lot of sense, given Current’s slant toward young and tech-savvy news hounds (i.e., the people who use Twitter) and heavy focus on user-submitted content.

“The debate stage is only set for two candidates, but Current was founded to make room for millions of participants,” Current CEO Joel Hyatt said in a release. “We’re thrilled to work with Twitter and take advantage of their extremely powerful communication platform, giving people a chance to speak directly to Current’s nationwide television audience.”

Last year, MTV featured Twitter as a promotion platform for the Video Music Awards, and featured some popular tweets on-air, but did not incorporate them into a live broadcast.

Current has not said how the tweets will be selected for on-air display, but it’s likely that they will be hand-picked to provide a range of perspectives and serious commentary. So expect more about the candidates’ differing views on the economy…and less about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s hair.

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Twitter will come to Current TV for debate chitchat

Acquia, the commercialization entity that resulted from the Drupal project, has finally released a private beta of Carbon — its commercial Drupal distribution. They’ve only been talking about the project since the end of April.

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Acquia’s Carbon has Launched in Private Beta

Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, recently announced the company’s financial results for the first half of 2008. Overall, things are going well for the company, but there is still room for improvement.

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It’s a Good Day for Financial Reporting

Alterian, a leader in providing marketing services and system integrations, is possibly making progress with its recent acquisition of Mediasurface. Recently, the company made strides with the integration of Dynamic Messenger with Immediacy and Morello.

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Alterian Integrates Web Content Management with Email Marketing

Mozilla, the same entity that is responsible for providing us with the Firefox Web browser, is expanding Firefox’s wide appeal by offering users the ability to interact and control the browser with a linguistic user interface project called Ubiquity. The point of this project is to allow users to create on-the-fly mashups.

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Mozilla Labs Releases Ubquity Mashup Solution