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Microsoft has confirmed that two Xbox 360 Kinect bundles will be available on November 4.

The bundles now include both of the new Xbox 360 slim models. The 250GB Xbox 360 Kinect bundle will set you back $399. Those looking for a more casual gaming experience can probably get by on the 4GB bundle that will be priced at $299.

Formerly codenamed Project Natal, Kinect is Microsoft’s answer to the motion-controlled gaming experience found in Nintendo Wii. Unlike Wii, Kinect uses a single sensor bar, which is mounted near the TV, to track body movements without controllers.

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Kevin Bachus, best known as one of the co-creators of Microsoft’s Xbox, has joined Bebo as its new Chief Product Officer. The move comes just three months after AOL sold Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners at a fraction of its original value.

Bachus has a long history in the entertainment and gaming space. He was with Windows software and game developer Mindscape before joining Microsoft in 1997 as a product manager for DirectX. However, he made his name as one of the four men that came up with original concept for the Xbox console, as well as Xbox’s first director (...)

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According to a recent post from Twitter infrastructure employee John Kalucki, the highly anticipated User Streams API product will be moved from a closed beta to an open beta testing period quite soon.

Twitter first announced User Streams at Chirp, where Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver told a crowd of eager developers about a new feature and API that would get data in real time and without rate limits. Onstage at the conference, Sarver pinged content from Twitter.com onto TweetDeck in real time. The API was made available to devs for a brief period during the conference, but (...)

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The warm weather is beginning to cool just a bit, kids are heading back to school. We hate to admit it, but summer’s over, and with it have gone our wonderful, leisurely vacations.

If you’re not quite ready to readjust to the not-so-lazy days of the rest of the year, you might want to give YouTube’s latest channel a spin.

On the official YouTube blog, YouTuber Mark Day wrote, “There’s no shortage of videos on YouTube to inspire travel plans, and our new program Vacationer… brings the best of our partners’ travel content into a single destination.”

The Vacationer (...)

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Yoink

Quick Pitch: Yoink makes it simple to give away your unwanted items and find free goods near you.

Genius Idea: For years, savvy Internet denizens have used the Freecycle network group in their city to give away stuff they don’t want and to find free items for pickup. The only problem with Freecycle is that (...)

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