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 - Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application.
 - PEAR Services_oEmbed. Used for some multimedia integration.
 - PEAR HTTP_Request is an oEmbed dependency.
-- PEAR Validat is an oEmbed dependency.e
-- PEAR Net_URL is an oEmbed dependency.2
+- PEAR Validate is an oEmbed dependency.
+- PEAR Net_URL2 is an oEmbed dependency.
 
 A design goal of Laconica is that the basic Web functionality should
 work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.