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"link": "http://puppetlabs.com/blog/puppetconf-as-a-service-pcaas-sign-up-for-the-free-live-stream/",
"text": "PuppetConf is but two days away—one and half, if you count our pre-conference social tomorrow night. If you aren’t able to join us in person for the cloud panel, keynote, or any of our fantastic talks, then we’ve got some fantastic news: We are offering free streaming of the entire conference! That’s right, enjoy the entire conference from the comfort of your home or office, and participate in real-time conversations with other conference attendees through our #puppetconf Tweet stream. Almost just like being there! Sign up for Streaming Video Check for your favorite talks on the schedule, and sign up to receive the link to the stream when it goes live. We’ll send a single reminder email on Thursday and Friday morning.",
"title": "PuppetConf as a Service (PCaaS): Sign up for the Free Live Stream",
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"text": "Facebook allows users of its social networking site to comment on its pages without liking them now. This is a step in a direction that might make advertisers, brand managers and marketing people feel a little uneasy, because it means they may have to start thinking deeply for a brand rather than just counting hits. One of the main benchmarks for tracking brand awareness and impact was in being able to track how many \"fans\" or followers to a brand page managed by the company or agency. Facebook pages are now like a revolving door and that means they allow many more people to come into the page and write on it, creating a catalyst for building a brand culture in the social networking site. People can come in and leave a comment and can never be seen again. But the move could mean greater things for marketing, and one social media manager told us that the emphasis on \"Likes\" has really hampered proper brand interaction and conversation on the web. \"If a social media manager is using likes to measure the impact of a Facebook page or brand, they are measuring the wrong thing,\" says Stuart Tracte, Head of Strategy at digital marketing firm Definition6. \"They should be measuring conversions. How is Facebook impacting you overall business goals? THAT'S what I want to know.\" We had already reported that just over 41% of people who \"like\" a brand drop that brand page by \"disliking\" it after any type of marketing or advertising campaign ends. Facebook seems to be throwing a crimp in the traditional marketing behavior assumptions thrown on to the social media layer - that sites like Facebook make it easier to run marketing campaigns because they are social and that numbers alone actually mean something. They do not. Semantics mean something, obviously. Facebooking for a brand and engaging with a brand is now about meaning and resolving issues--it's about quality of posts, tone and managing the creativity of the brand's image and its engagement style. \"A comment requires some level of thought and engagement. Measuring likes is a simple way to measure potential reach, but means very little when it comes to the bottom line of any brand,\" says Tracte, This has angered some. See Also",
"title": "Changes to Facebook Pages \"Likes\" Means Marketers Need to Think",
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"text": "Please start with the introduction page and read how-to-play before making any edits. Introduction This wiki is the central resource of the microformats community. You'll find current versions of published microformat specifications, specification drafts and publishing patterns. The wiki also hosts development resources, such as brainstorming pages for new formats and issue tracking pages for all current and in-development microformats. Get Started To get started with microformats: Definition Microformats are small patterns of HTML to represent commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews and tags in web pages. Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web; the fastest and simplest way to provide feeds and APIs for the information in your website. How to contribute Do you want to help take microformats to the next level? You can: This wiki has a number of enhancements to assist development and contributions to microformats. Before you start editing, see the wiki introduction page for instructions. Specifications The list of current, stable Microformats open standard specifications. If you're tempted to try your hand at writing a microformat please read the process page first! Drafts Drafts are newer microformats, for which the specifications haven't been completed yet. Drafts are somewhat mature in the development process (see exploratory-discussions for additional efforts that are not as far along in the process). The stability of these documents cannot be guaranteed, and implementers should be prepared to keep abreast of future developments and changes. Please watch the wiki pages for updates. adr - for marking up address information geo - for marking up WGS84 geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude) hAtom - syndicating episodic content (e.g. weblog postings) hAudio hListing - open, distributed listings hMedia - A single media publishing format that relates to Images, Video and Audio. hNews hProduct hRecipe - for cooking+baking recipes hResume - for publishing resumes and CVs hReview - hReview creator rel-directory - to indicate that the destination of a hyperlink is a directory listing containing an entry for the current page rel-enclosure - for indicating attachments (e.g. files) to download and cache rel-home - indicate a hyperlink to the homepage of the site rel-payment - indicate a payment mechanism robots exclusion Design Patterns Design patterns are common uses of markup across microformats. Exploratory Discussions See: exploratory-discussions for details of research and analysis of real-world examples, existing formats, and brainstorming of possible new microformats, per the microformats process. Examples Resources See resources. User centric development Shared work areas Tools, test cases, additional research The first place to look for examples, code, and test cases is in the pages for each individual microformat. There are only a few cross-cutting tools and services that need to process more than one microformat. That section is intended for editors, parsers, validators, test cases, and other information relevant across multiple microformats. Microformats wiki translations You may read and edit microformats articles in many other languages: languages with over 100 articles languages with over 10 articles languages with over 2 articles languages just started elsewhere See also other-languages, and how-to-start-a-new-translation. Welcome to the microformats wiki! was last modified: Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Views View source History",
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"link": "http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/quotes-google-senate-committee/",
"text": "A Brief History of the Emoticon",
"title": "10 Quotes From the Google Senate Hearing",
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"link": "http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/21/salesforce-buys-social-customer-service-saas-startup-assistly-for-50m-in-cash/",
"text": "Salesforce has just bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly. The purchase price is $50 million, and the deal is all-cash. Assistly helps companies collect and organize all of their customer conversations into a prioritized actionable list and equips support staff with the tools to respond to customers. The application allows businesses to filter conversations, access customer histories, automate processes and even tap into social media conversations on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. And Assistly provides users with key metrics and analytics, such as case volume, interaction volume by channel, response time, service levels, agent performance and more. Assistly and Salesforce already had a previous relationship. Salesforce made a strategic investment in Assistly. And the startup recently launched an app on the AppExchange that allows sales and support teams see data, like customer contact info and status while working on cases direct from Salesforce. Assistly, which only launched to the public last September, offers companies an option of paying for total usage instead of seats, so people can jump in occasionally and only be billed for time spent on the platform. This is especially ideas for small to medium sized businesses. The company is backed by Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures, Kenny Van Zant, True Ventures and Social Leverage and is used Instagram, Klout, One Kings Lane, Spotify and Square. The startup was founded by Alex Bard, Gary Benitt, Jeremy Suriel, and Brad Birnbaum, each of whom previously worked together in building customer service-based companies back in the 90′s. The first, called eShare, was acquired in 1999; the second, called eAssist Global Solutions, was eventually acquired in 2004 after stumbling through the dot com bubble burst. Following the eAssist acquisition three of the team members left the space to start Goowy, a Flash widget maker. The team reunited to develop Assistly in the customer service space. Salesforce’s CEO and founder Marc Benioff said of the acquisition: Salesforce has spent over a decade democratizing enterprise applications in the cloud…The Assistly acquisition doubles down on that strategy by putting us at the heart of the new trend of customer service help desk applications that have instant sign up and zero-touch onboarding, expanding the potential reach of the Service Cloud to millions of companies around the world. Salesforce already offers the Service Cloud to companies, which helps businesses connect with customers across both traditional and social channels. But Assistly extends this offering to the small business community, and helps Salesforce reach this audience.",
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"text": "Rotate photo    View full size name twitter username @reply to tagged user Hide map and return to photo Thursday's i front page - \"Ministers may have to reveal private emails\" #tomorrowspaperstoday",
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"text": "Microsoft is trying to lock down system firmware to prevent malware and pirated copies of Windows. Unfortunately, this may have some undesirable side effects for Linux users and anyone else that wants to boot an operating system not officially blessed by Microsoft and OEMs. This poses a problem for hobbyists and large organizations alike. This was discovered by Linux developer Matthew Garrett, who's been doing a lot of work with EFI booting in general for his day job. Recent UEFI specifications have allowed for \"secure boot\" that requires an OS to have a signed key in system firmware to work. Microsoft is requiring (PowerPoint) that OEMs ship client systems with the secure boot enabled to get the Windows 8 logo. Of course, all major OEMs are going to want the Windows 8 logo. In short, a vendor like Dell would ship systems that recognize the OSes that Dell offers. That would mean whatever Windows versions that are offered by Dell would be properly signed. Other OSes – even retail versions of Windows 8 – wouldn't necessarily be signed to run on the systems. Impact The positive to this system is that malware that affects OS might not be able to boot. According to the presentation by Arie van der Hoeven of Microsoft, if the boot process detects a unsigned boot manager, it would drop to a recovery system managed in firmware. Presumably OEMs would include recovery media to fall back to. The downside is that users have a lot less control over their hardware with this feature enabled. Much like mobile devices that prevent unsigned ROMs from loading, this would mean desktop systems with Windows 8 would not run unsigned OSes without rooting the computer. If you have malware on your system, you're stuck with the OEM recovery media instead of being able to use your own recovery software. This presents a bit of a headache for vendors like Acronis that provide backup software that boots systems to make images of hard drives. Garrett notes that vendors could choose to provide firmware support to disable this, but \"experience indicates that many firmware vendors and OEMs are interested in providing only the minimum of firmware functionality required for their market.\" Loosely translated? Many vendors aren't going to spend the money to give users this feature. The secure boot requirement is already raising eyebrows in the Linux community. As planned, machines that would conform to the logo requirements for Windows 8 (read: virtually any system you would buy from Dell, Asus and so on) would not boot Linux. Though Microsoft has not shown a great deal of love for Linux, I doubt that this is a just a scheme to thwart desktop Linux. At best, Linux commands a few percent of the desktop market. It's hardly worth Microsoft's time to go out of its way to prevent a small percentage of users from installing Linux on machines they've already paid \"the Windows tax\" for. I suspect Microsoft's primary aim is to further curtail \"pirate\" versions of Windows. But it has the potential to do collateral damage to Linux users and distributors. It also affects anybody else that might want to load a different OS onto the system, and even to users who want to install third-party graphics cards onto the system. Secure boot means that the small but enthusiastic Hackintosh community would be out of luck too. While you might find Linux vendors willing to jump through the technical and administrative hoops to get signed copies of Linux that would work with UEFI, there's little chance of getting boot media for OS X that would have an approved CA signature. Dedicated users could still build their own machines, of course. However, if the Win 8 Logo program goes to market as proposed it would severely limit the options for many OEM-built machines. Want to reuse that old Windows 8 machine with a Linux distribution or something like FreeNAS? No dice. It's also unclear how this would affect resale of systems that go off-lease. There's a pretty big aftermarket for desktop systems that would be affected by this as well. Time for Concern? Garrett says that \"it's probably not worth panicking yet. But it is worth being concerned.\" I agree with this – it's going to be quite a while before Windows 8 ships. There's a lot of time to give Microsoft feedback on this feature, and the company might back off the stance on its own. But it is a concern. One of the things that's always been a given for me is that I can repurpose any PC hardware by installing Linux on it. Losing this much control over hardware that I've purchased concerns me – and it should concern enterprise buyers as well. What do you think? Is this an acceptable feature, or should Microsoft go back to the drawing board? See Also",
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"text": "Help articles &rsaquo; My site and Google &rsaquo; Creating Google-friendly sites &rsaquo; Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, RDFa) &rsaquo; Software applications&nbsp; Software applications When you mark up software application information in the body of a web page, Google can identify it and, when users search for apps, use this information to better display your app details in search results. Here's an example of a rich snippet for a mobile application: Properties An application can have a number of different properties which you can label using the following extension to the schema.org vocabulary. For each app, you can include nested Things (types of information supported by the schema.org vocabulary—for example, Review or Offer . More information about schema.org). Properties in bold are required. Properties in plural indicate that the markup can contain multiple instances for each properties (e.g. reviews or offers implies that more than one review or offer can be included in the markup). Thing > CreativeWork > SoftwareApplication For mobile applications and web applications, Google also supports the following property extensions: Thing > CreativeWork > SoftwareApplication > MobileSoftwareApplication Property Expected type Description countriesSupported Text A list of countries where the app is available for sale or download. countriesNotSupported Text A text list of countries where the app is not available for sale or download. Thing > CreativeWork > SoftwareApplication >WebApplication Property Expected type Description browsers Text One or more browsers required to run the app. Marking up code The following HTML code identifies a mobile software app and lists several of its features. &<div itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication\"> <img itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/android/market/com.zeptolab.ctr.paid/hi-124-11\" /> <span itemprop=\"name\">Angry Birds</span> - by <div itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Organization\"> by <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http://zeptolab.com\"><span itemprop=”name”>Zeptolab</span></a> </div> <span itemprop=\"description\">Cut the Rope, catch a star, and feed Om Nom candy in this award-winning game! The long-awaited hit game has finally arrived at Android! </span> CONTENT RATING: <span itemprop=\"contentRating\">Low Maturity</span> UPDATED: <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" datetime=\"2011-06-30\">June 30, 2011</time> REQUIRES <span itemprop=\"operatingSystems\">ANDROID</span>: <span itemprop=\"operatingSystemVersion\">1.6</span> and up <link itemprop=\"SoftwareApplicationCategory\" href=\"http://schema.org/GameApplication\"/> CATEGORY: <span itemprop=\"SoftwareApplicationSubCategory\">Brain & Puzzle</span> SIZE: 14M <meta itemprop=\"fileSize\" content=\"14680064\"/> INSTALLS: <meta itemprop=\"interactionCount\" content=”UserDownloads:100000\"/>100,000 - 500,000 RATING: <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/AggregateRating\"> <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">4.6</span>( <span itemprop=\"ratingCount\">8864</span>) <meta itemprop=\"reviewCount\" content=\"3317\" /> </div> <div itemprop=\"offers\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Offer\"> Price: <span itemprop=\"price\">$1.00</span> <meta itemprop=\"priceCurrency\" content=\"USD\" /> <link itemprop=\"availability\" href=\"http://schema.org/InStock\" />INSTALL </div> Reviews: <div itemprop=\"reviews\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"> <span itemprop=\"reviewRating\">3</span> stars - <b>\"<span itemprop=\"name\">A masterpiece</span>\" </b> by <span itemprop=\"author\">Winston</span>, Written on <time itemprop=\"publishDate\" datetime=\"2011-07-13\">July 13, 2011</time> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">Finally this amazing game has come to Android! Outstanding game and very cheap for how awesome it is. </span> </div> <div itemprop=\"reviews\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"> <span itemprop=\"reviewRating\">5</span> stars - <b>\"<span itemprop=\"name\">Love this game!</span>\" </b> by <span itemprop=\"author\">Winston</span>, Written on <time itemprop=\"publishDate\" datetime=\"2011-08-22\">August 22, 2011</time> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">I have three starred every box in this game cuz I can't get enough of it. !</span></div> … THIS APPLICATION HAS ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING: <span itemprop=\"permissions\">YOUR LOCATION. COARSE (NETWORK-BASED) LOCATION Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate&nbsp; device location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.</span> <span itemprop=\"permissions\">NETWORK COMMUNICATION FULL INTERNET ACCESS Allows an application to create network sockets. </span> <span itemprop=\"permissions\">PHONE CALLS READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like. </span> </div> Here's how this sample works: Typically, Google won't display content that is not visible to the user. In other words, you generally shouldn't show content to users in one way, and use hidden text to mark up information separately for search engines and web applications. However, in some situations it can be valuable to provide search engines with more detailed information, even if you don't want that information to be seen by visitors to your page. In this case, you can use the meta tag to display this information, like this: <meta itemprop=\"reviewCount\" content=\"11116\" /> This tells the rich snippets parser that it should use the value in the content attribute to find the count of reviews the app has received. You can also use the datetime attribute to specify dates in a machine-friendly format, like this: <time itemprop=\"publishDate\" datetime=\"2011-06-09\">June 9, 2011</time> Once you've marked up your site's content, you can test it using the rich snippets testing tool . Google will discover it the next time we crawl your site (although it may take some time for rich snippets to appear in search results). If rich snippets aren't appearing for your site, see possible reasons why. You can also let us know about your content . Google won't be able to individually reply to your message, but we may use the information you supply to improve our detection and display of information in search results. updated 09/15/2011",
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"text": "Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation are excited to get day three of the annual Social Good Summit underway. Day two featured Elie Wiesel, Geena Davis, Lance Armstrong, Mandy Moore, Serena Williams and Randi Zuckerberg, among other moving speakers. As UN Week continues in New York, we can’t wait for day three. Today we’ll hear from global leaders and media figures, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kate James, chief communications officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Tony Bates, chief executive officer of Skype. A sold-out crowd of 3,000 will attend the event in New York and thousands more will tune in online. Join us by watching the live stream of the summit above. You can find today’s itinerary below. Day Three Lineup 1:00 – 1:05 p.m. OPENING REMARKS 1:05 – 1:15 p.m. SOCIAL GOOD AWARD PRESENTED BY THE UN FOUNDATION An award presented to President Kikwete’s commitment to further technology and new media solutions in Tanzania 1:15 – 1:25 p.m. FIRST LADIES, FIRST TWEETS Madam Tobeka Zuma, Founder and Patron of the Tobeka Madiba Zuma Foundation and Dr. Ida Odinga, Managing Director of East Africa Spectre 1:30 – 1:52 p.m. HOW MICRO-FINANCING IS ENABLING SOCIAL CHANGE – PRESENTED BY ERICSSON Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank (@Yunus_Centre), and Matthew Bishop, American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist (@MattBish) 1:52 – 2:00 p.m. INVENTING THE FUTURE WITH LITTLE BETS: NEW WAYS TO SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS Peter Sims, author, speaker and entrepreneur (@PeterSims) 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF SKYPE IN THE CLASSROOM Tony Bates, Chief Executive Officer of Skype (@Skype) and (@SkypeClassroom) 2:20 – 2:30 p.m. ONE DAY ON EARTH – THE WORLD’S STORY IS YOURS TO TELL Brandon Litman, Co-founder and Executive Producer, One Day on Earth (@OneDayonEarth) and Boaz Paldi, Head of Video Unit United Nations Development Programme (@UNDP) 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. HOW CLEAN COOKING TECHNOLOGIES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD José Andrés, Chef/Owner, ThinkFoodGroup (@chefjoseandres) and Radha Muthiah Executive Director, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. BREAK 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. SPARKING A GLOBAL CONVERSATION BETWEEN MOMS ONLINE Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News’ Chief Health and Medical Editor (@DrRichardBesser), David Muir, Weekend Anchor, ABC World News (@DavidMuirABC), and Juju Chang, Correspondent for 20/20 and Nightline (@JuJuChangeABC) 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF HUMAN CONNECTION – THE ELDERS (@THEELDERS) Archbishop Desmond Tutu (@TheElders), Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and moderated by Lisa Witter, Chief Strategy Officer of Fenton (@lisamwitter) 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND PEACE-BUILDING IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT Ronit Avni, Founder and Executive Just Vision (@JustVisionMedia), Helga Tawil-Souri, Assistant Professor in Media, New York University and Liel Leibovitz, Assistant Professor of Communications, New York University (@Liel) 4:15 – 4:25 p.m. SOCIAL MEDIA FOR GLOBAL GOOD: IT’S NOT JUST WHO YOU KNOW Kate James, Chief Communications Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. VACCINES AND A MOVEMENT TO SAVE LIVES Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta, Senior Fellow, Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation and Chrysula Winegar, Mother and Entrepreneur (@chrysula) Event Details </center> Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, through Thursday, September 22, 2011 Time: 1:00-5:00 p.m. ET Livestream: Join us online for the Livestream Hashtag: Follow the hashtag #socialgood to keep up with the latest developments at the Social Good Summit. Sponsored by Ericsson For over a century, Ericsson has seen communications as a fundamental human right. Today, it is the leading provider of technology and services to network operators. Its networks connect 2 billion people and almost half of the world’s 5.5 billion mobile subscriptions. Now, Ericsson intends to do for broadband what it did for the telephone; make it mobile, available and affordable for all. Ericsson’s vision is to be the prime driver of an all-communicating world, where Information and Communications technologies (ICT) come together to create a Networked Society. A Networked Society will bring many opportunities and challenges. As Ericsson works in the world, it aims to apply innovative solutions together with partners to make a real difference to peoples’ lives, to business and to the economy, enabling change towards a more sustainable world. We call this Technology for Good.",
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"text": "&laquo; Seesmic Profiles: Now Live for Seesmic WP7 Users | Main | Going Metro: Seesmic’s CTO, Marco Kaiser, Explains the Windows 8 Tablet and OS Written by: Liza Sperling on September 21, 2011. &nbsp; Seesmic‘s CTO, Marco Kaiser, and Director, John Yamasaki, spent last week at Microsoft’s BUILD Conference and were among the first developers to get their hands on the Windows 8 tablet and OS. During our team meeting, we sized up the device and were slightly confused - this tablet does not look like an iPad or Android tablet. As Marco pointed out, that is the point. In the video below, Loic Le Meur, Seesmic’s CEO, interviews Marco to make sense of the Microsoft news and to understand how a developer sizes up the Windows 8 tablet and OS: As Marco points out in the video, the Windows 8 tablet offers developers features that iPad and Android currently do not offer: the ability to code in many different languages, the Metro UI and intra-application capabilities on a single device. It is not really a tablet, but a device with the convenience of a touch screen and mobility coupled with the features of a PC, like the keyboard, mouse, and stylus included with the tablet. As Marco explains, this “multi-purpose device” will make coding or number-crunching on a tablet a different experience. What’s more, the Metro apps for the tablet blur the line between mobile apps and computers apps. It will take time for developers to explore the device and OS and form their opinions. Unlike consumers, developers have a more systematic approach to evaluating news, and a lot of in-depth analysis is sure to follow.",
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"text": "The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding Antitrust hearings on Google today and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is in the hot seat taking questions under oath. The hearing is under way right now (you can watch it live here). The main question the Senate hearing is trying to answer, says committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), is whether “Google is in a position to determine who will succeed and fail on the Internet.” Google’s dominance in search and search advertising (with estimated market shares of 65% to 70% in search, 75% in search advertising, and 95% in mobile search) puts it in the antitrust crosshairs. Schmidt opened his remarks by assuring the Senators, “We get it.” He cautioned them not to confuse Google for its historical predecessor, Microsoft. “Not all companies are cut from the same cloth,” he said. Nevertheless, the hearing set out to determine whether Google is using its dominance in search to favor its other products (such as Google Places, Shopping, Maps, Android) over those of its competitors. During the hearing, some of the most gotcha questioning came from Senator Michael Lee (R-Utah). He put up a chart from a study comparing Google Product Search result rankings to those from product-comparison sites including NextTag and PriceGrabber. While the results from the competing sites were all over the map, Google Product Search results consistently came up as the No. 3 result in all cases. “You’ve cooked it so you are always third,” Lee accused Schmidt. “Senator, I can assure you we have not cooked anything,” Schmidt responded. Schmidt tried to explain that Google Product search is different than a product comparison search in that it brings up results which link directly to those products rather than to page comparing that product to others. The bigger point Schmidt was trying to get across is that Google is different now than it was ten years ago when all it was trying to do was send people away from Google by providing the best ten links to other sites. For instance, Google puts up universal search results at the top of the page for a variety of searches where it thinks consumers want a particular answer such as a stock price, a map, or place information. The best answer “ten years ago might have been the ten links,” says Schmidt. “But today it might be to algorithmically compute an answer. Speed matters. If we can calculate an answer more quickly, that might be better for the consumer.” But is Google discriminating against other sites when it points people to its own products instead of elsewhere on the Net? Schmidt says that it is not. However, he was not as convincing as he could have been. After listening to his answers, Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) stated, “I am skeptical of big companies that control both information and distribution to that information. Your incentives shift and people have reason to worry that you won’t play fair.” Noting a slight hesitation from Schmidt before answering a previous question about whether all of Google’s results reflect an unbiased algorithm, Franken railed against him, “We are trying to have hearing here about whether you favor your own stuff, and you admittedly don’t know the answer.” Google google.com July 9, 1998 NASDAQ:GOOG Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.... Learn more Eric Schmidt Google, Apple, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Innovation Endeavors Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company’s strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google’s rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations. Eric’s Novell... Learn more",
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"text": "Google CEO Eric Schmidt testified before a Senate panel today investigating whether Google is violating antitrust law. Eight members of the Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee quizzed Schmidt about its business practices and how its search engine works. Google has come under fire for using its unique position as a popular search engine to steer consumers toward its own products. The Federal Trade Commission has already opened an antitrust investigation into Google practices. This is the second time Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee, has asked Schmidt to appear before the committee, but Schmidt declined earlier this year. Kohl wants to know if Google's impact on consumers is harmful or disrupts competition, espcially as Google expands into developing additional consumer products and operating systems. Some of the witnesses on the second panel have been critical of Google’s dominance. Witnesses include Jeff Katz of Nextag, Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp, Thomas Barnett of Covington &Burling, a law firm specializing in antitrust, and Susan Creighton of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati, PC, which also works on antitrust issues. Updated: 13 min. ago",
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"text": "After months of speculation and rumors, the iPhone 5 will be unveiled two weeks from today. The device is expected to launch at Apple's next media event, which will be held on October 4, according to AllThingsD. With so many supposed leaks and rumors flying around everyday for the last few months, it can be dizzying to keep track of, let alone know for sure which features the device will include. A complete, accurate picture of the iPhone 5 hasn't yet emerged, but a few details are nearly certain to be true. Others are less certain, but can't be ruled out. A Faster Processor and Better Antenna The iPhone 5 is widely expected to have a faster processor on the inside. Rumors and purported photo leaks point to the same A5 processor that powers the iPad 2. Either way, an increase in computing power is to be expected with a signficant hardware upgrade such as this. After all the commotion over the iPhone 4's flawed antenna design, which eventually resulted in the company issuing free \"bumper\" cases to customers, we can reasonably expect the next iPhone to have an improved approach to its antenna design. New Hardware Design: Thinner and Sleeker Unlike the iPhone 4, the new iPhone's physical appearance has not been leaked to the public. That's because even though an iPhone 5 got lost in a San Francisco bar (like its predecessor), the missing handset was never found and sold to a tech blog. While we don't know exactly what the new device will look like, a few hints have emerged, based largely on the design of protective cases. Despite earlier reports that the iPhone 5 would resemble the iPhone 4, new information points to a different visual appearance. It will most likely be thinner than its predecessor, and may have a wider screen. From the looks of some of the protective cases purportedly manufactured for the device, it looks sleeker than the iPhone 4, with rounded edges more akin to the iPhone 3G and 3GS. All the Features of iOS 5 The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 5, was first unvieled by the company in June. Its in the final stages of beta development now and should be available to all iOS device users by the time the new iPhone reaches shelves. As far as iOS updates go, this one's a biggie. It will include wireless syncing of calendars, contacts and content across devices, an overhauled notification system, deep Twitter integration, an SMS-style messaging protocol and a number of other features. A Better Camera, Probably With 8 Megapixels Another feature that would be shocking for Apple to leave out would be an upgraded camera. Most of the rumors circulating around the Web suggest it will be an 8-megapixel camera. Sony CEO Howard Stringer (accidentally) confirmed in April that the company is selling camera sensors to Apple for the iPhone, and additional evidence points to those sensors packing 8 megapixels. An upgraded camera wouldn't come as much of a surprise, since its such a commonly-used feature. The iPhone 4 is now the most popular camera across all of Flickr and of course mobile photo-sharing apps like Instagram have exploded since the last iPhone was released. One of the new features in iOS 5 will be the ability to snap photos using a physical button on the phone, which serves as further evidence that Apple is paying attention to the camera feature on its mobile devices. The Maybes: iPhone 4S, an NFC Chip and More In addition to the iPhone 5, Apple is expected by many to launch the so-called iPhone 4S, an entry-level smartphone intended as the next iPhone 3GS. The device would be a sort of 'iPhone lite' intended to be sold at a lower price point than the iPhone 4 and 5. One feature that's often speculated about is the inclusion of an NFC chip for things like mobile payments and wireless data transfer. Early reports suggested the iPhone 5 would not include NFC, but a recent story in the New York Times points to the device's use of a chip from Qualcomm that supports the technology. There is not yet overwhelming consumer demand for NFC, but many of Apple's competitors in the smartphone space, most notably RIM and Google's Android, have already made the technology available in new handsets. There's no doubt that Apple's presentation will reveal many more details pertaining to the iPhone, if not also other product lines like the iPod Touch and iPod Nano. It remains to be seen what those details will be, but the rumor mill will inevitably churn on for the next two weeks. What else do you think the iPhone 5 will bring? Are there any features you're dying to see in the device? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. See Also",
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"text": "9/21/11 | 11:00:00 AM Searches can become stories. Some are inspiring, some change the way we see the world, and some just put a smile on our face. This is the first in a series of posts about people who have used Google to discover or do something extraordinary. Have a story? Share it. - Ed. Discovering stories about amazing people who use our products to do interesting (and often entertaining) things is one of the best parts of working on search at Google. Sometimes what people find changes their lives - and sometimes it changes their community or the world. It’s always fun to hear these stories, so we decided to share a few of our favorites with you. Up first: Dave Strenski, whose curiosity about solar energy has driven the transformation of a small Michigan town. Dave is an engineer in Ypsilanti, near Detroit, who didn’t know a thing about solar technology six years ago. What began as a search for solar grants, turned into a search for ways to help his hometown turn increasingly solar and become the place to come for solar information. Now, Ypsilanti is a model for other communities and Dave has become a “solar guru.” Dave began searching online when the manager of the Ypsilanti Food Cooperative expressed interest in putting solar panels on the roof of her store. Dave quickly found that all the information he needed was already on the Internet: grants available for solar installations, how to design a system, where to buy panels and the best way to put it all together. As soon as they won their first grant, volunteers and friends rallied to help, and four solar panels were quickly mounted on the Coop’s roof. Since then, Dave has designed installations for Ypsilanti’s City Hall, River Street Bakery and the Adams School. To help monitor the economic impact of these installations, Dave and his volunteers invented an open-sourced program to track and visualize energy patterns. Dave also began giving talks to educate the public on how solar power works, how it compares to other energy sources, metering, and the importance of efficiency. At every talk, he would be asked questions about topics he hadn’t yet explored. He would note them, go back to find the answers online, and be more knowledgeable for his next presentation. When Dave began searching for all topics solar, the content he needed was spread across various sites. He has since collated and shared much of this information on SolarYpsi.com - creating a single source for others to discover and use. His wildest dream is to have a hundred locations in Ypsilanti running on solar power - all connected to SolarYpsi where their energy consumption is visualized in real-time. Because of Dave’s curiosity and determination to help his town, a snowy, cloudy corner of Michigan is becoming a solar destination. &nbsp; Posted by Kevin Proudfoot, Creative Director, Creative Lab",
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"text": "\"Our ambition is to up-level the model of social networking. We want to support asymmetric relationships with brands and celebrities - but we also wanted to support intimate communication with real life friends and family. But could we do both of those things? Being all things to all people is the path to hell - but could we do it?\" -Bradley Horowitz of Google </em> Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management and a leader of the Google Plus social network, said a lot of very interesting things today in an interview with Tim O'Reilly at the Strata Summit on Big Data. One of the most interesting though was to quietly introduce the Data Scientist behind Google Plus and its future development. Dr. Andrew Tomkins used to be the Chief Scientist of Search at Yahoo but two years ago left and joined Google. No one noticed. At least no one indexed by Google News. Today we learned what Tomkins has been doing since joining Google. He's nerding-out on social network user activity data and gathering observations to help Google Plus aim to be all things to all people. Andrew Tomkins is charting the path to hell. Plus as Data-Driven \"We have a complex service that contains a lot of components and we want to do it in a data-driven way,\" Horowitz told O'Reilly on stage this afternoon. \"You'll begin to see data driven insights come out into the light of day soon, based on a bleeding edge understanding of how people are using social networks. We have a research team lead by Andrew Tomkins, who is one of the great data scientists and who is coming up with insights that are informing the development of our service.\" What kinds of data is the Tomkin's Plus research team surfacing so far? Horowitz noted several in his interview. Users of Plus are two to three times as likely to post content to private circles than they are to post it publicly. In other words, the numbers say the Circles metaphor is working so far. The new Search functionality will in the future identify topic experts, based on algorithmic analysis of the things they discuss and other signals. Automatic prioritization of social contacts: \"We have great data to determine who you really care about. The phone contacts list is key. The data belongs to the users though and we need to find the best way to serve it up to them.\" Horowitz and O'Reilly talked dreamily about a sensor-rich future where almost unimaginable technologies were built on tidal waves of data. \"Imagine we all opted-in and donated our microphone sensors in this room to capture an aggregate of data,\" he imagined. \"There will be sensors like dust everywhere and it will be [technologists' job] to harvest that data and return it as killer apps.\" Who's Andrew Tomkins? Andrew Tomkins, whose time at Yahoo overlapped with Horowitz and who's worked at IBM as well, is quoted in Steven Levy's deep dive coverage of Plus at launch regarding Sparks, the persistent search feature that sounded today like it was going to get a refresh as part of the launch of search. Horowitz said today that Tomkins leads the Plus research team, is one of the best in the business and that research is going to drive future development and publicly shared insights in the near term future. Tomkins got a Computer Science undergrad degree from MIT in the late 80's, then a CS PhD from Carnegie Mellon in the 90's. He's co-authored 12 research papers about data mining published across 9 different publications in the past 10 years. But he has only shared one post publicly, outside of Circles, on Google Plus - ever. He's followed by two hundred people on that service and not a single journalist (until this afternoon, at least). He seems quite open to talking to press, though, so hopefully I'll follow up with him after today and offer a more detailed discussion of his thinking. None the less, if Paul Adams, former Googler turned Facebook employee and author of the widely-read presentation that inspired the Circles metaphor, is the philosophical granddaddy of the hot new social network - it sounds like Andrew Tomkins could be the man who is leading the young service into a data-driven future. Good luck, Dr. Tomkins, may you build something that is all things to all people. And if \"don't be evil\" seems an antiquated Google slogan, then perhaps we should say...may it not in fact be a path to hell. See Also",
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"text": "\"I don't have a whole lot of experience in Python,\" writes Jakob, \"in fact, when I was hired, the only thing I knew about the language was that whitespace was important.\" \"Fortunately &mdash; actually, unfortunately &mdash; it doesn't take a whole lot of experience in Python to recognize that my company's codebase is... well... sub-optimal. Submitted for your approval is a method used to generate a password, found in our network security library.\" def genpassword(wlc,maxchar,txt,List,verbose): word = \"\" i1 = i2 = i3 = i4 = i5 = i6 = i6 = i7 = i8 = i9 = i10 = i11 = i12 = i13 = i14 = i15 = 0 txtfile = open(txt,'w') i = 0 mc = int(maxchar) - 1 lword = [0] for i in range(mc): lword += [0] for i1 in range(len(wlc)): for i2 in range(len(wlc)): for i3 in range(len(wlc)): for i4 in range(len(wlc)): for i5 in range(len(wlc)): for i6 in range(len(wlc)): for i7 in range(len(wlc)): for i8 in range(len(wlc)): for i9 in range(len(wlc)): for i10 in range(len(wlc)): for i11 in range(len(wlc)): for i12 in range(len(wlc)): for i13 in range(len(wlc)): for i14 in range(len(wlc)): for i15 in range(len(wlc)): if int(maxchar) == 1 : word = wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 2 : word = wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 3 : word = wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 4 : word = wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 5 : word = wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] \\ + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 6 : word = wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 7 : word = wlc[i9] + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] \\ + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 8 : word = wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] \\ + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 9 : word = wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10] \\ + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 10 : word = wlc[i6] + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] \\ + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] + wlc[i14] \\ + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 11 : word = wlc[i5] + wlc[i6] + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] \\ + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 12 : word = wlc[i4] + wlc[i5] + wlc[i6] + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] \\ + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 13 : word = wlc[i3] + wlc[i4] + wlc[i5] + wlc[i6] \\ + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10]\\ + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 14 : word = wlc[i2] +wlc[i3] + wlc[i4] + wlc[i5] + wlc[i6] \\ + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] + wlc[i10]\\ + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(maxchar) == 15 : word = wlc[i1] + wlc[i2] + wlc[i3] + wlc[i4] \\ + wlc[i5] + wlc[i6] + wlc[i7] + wlc[i8] + wlc[i9] \\ + wlc[i10] + wlc[i11] + wlc[i12] + wlc[i13] \\ + wlc[i14] + wlc[i15] if int(verbose) == 1: print word txtfile.writelines(word + \"\\n\") i = 0 end = 0 if int(List) == 1 : for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"9\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 elif (int(List) == 2): for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"z\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 elif (int(List) == 3): for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"Z\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 elif (int(List) == 4): for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"z\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 elif (int(List) == 5): for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"Z\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 elif (int(List) == 6): for i in range(len(word)): lword[i] = \"Z\" if str(lword) == str(list(word)): end = 1 if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break if end == 1 : break txtfile.close() Jakob continues, \"I can only hope this language doesn't have a goto statement...\"",
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"text": "September 21, 2011 by Deborah Braconnier (Medical Xpress) -- A new study presented at the British Science Festival by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg from the University of Oxford shows that the application of small electrical currents to specific parts of the brain can increase activity and make learning easier. The research began looking at the changes in the brain as an individual enters adulthood and what changes occur after a stroke. Researchers monitored brain activity through a functional MRI while stroke patients were re-learning motor skills. They wanted to look into whether invasive electric brain stimulation could improve recovery, however, in looking into this possibility, they discovered that the same stimulation in healthy adults increased the speed of learning. Researchers used an experiment where individuals were told to memorize a sequence of buttons to press in an action similar to playing a piano. The individuals were fitted with a trans-cranial current stimulation device where small electrical currents were sent between two electrodes placed on specific areas of the brain. The electrodes were placed just above the left ear and above the right eye. After only 10 minutes of this stimulation, known as transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS), the participants showed a significant increase in the speed of their performance compared to those participants under placebo conditions. Their research shows that electrical stimulation to areas of the brain responsible for motor skills could allow for these skills being learned more quickly. They hope that the same effect will occur when the stimulation is applied in other areas of the brain to increase educational learning. In terms of stroke patients, Johansen-Berg believes this electrical stimulation could be used to complement current physiotherapy and increase the chances of patients relearning motor skills. Her team also sees the potential for this treatment in the training of athletes. While ethical questions could arise on the use of this treatment for athletes and for increased educational performance, the benefits for stroke patients could mean the ability to walk or speak again. � 2011 PhysOrg.com",
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"text": "Congrats to WeGame on Acquisition by TAGGED Posted On Sep 21, 2011 | by tony Today, WeGame announced they’ve been acquired by TAGGED . This acquisition is a great outcome for Founder Jared Kim, his team and investors. Personally, I couldn’t be more thrilled for the whole team. In addition, we’ve known Greg Tseng (TAGGED Co-Founder) for a long time and are super impressed with his vision and the company’s rapid growth. Bringing WeGame under the TAGGED umbrella is a natural fit and a great opportunity to support TAGGED’s ascension as a social network. A little history. I first met Jared in early 2007 via an introduction from Om Malik. At the time, Jared was just 19 years old and a student at Berkeley. Despite his young age, Jared had already started two companies – the first was a matchmaking tool for gamers based in China and the second was a check-in service built on top of SMS. Despite just recently being accepted into University, Jared was ready to jump back into the start-up world with a new idea around building “YouTube for Gaming.” Impressed by Jared and his vision, we backed him in October 2007 as part of a $500,000 round led by Naval Ravikant. True subsequently led a $3M Series A round that also included Naval and Jeff Clavier’s SoftTechVC fund. With a small team based in his work/ live loft in SOMA, Jared and his team built out a free downloadable tool for gamers to easily record their PC game play and share that content with fellow gamers. Today, gamers can seamlessly build their gamer social and interest graphs, which then can recommend additional games that users can purchase and play directly from the site. As part of the acquisition, the team will move into TAGGED’s San Francisco office – joining the rapidly growing startup and supporting new initiatives within the company. We are extraordinarily proud of the WeGame team for their efforts and dedication over the past five years, and we look forward to supporting Jared and the rest of the WeGame team on the next leg of their journey as part of the TAGGED family. &nbsp; Tagged Leave a Comment Your name Email address Your Message",
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ToolbarsController::$cacheAction = false ToolbarsController::$persistModel = false ToolbarsController::$passedArgs = array ToolbarsController::$scaffold = false ToolbarsController::$methods = array ToolbarsController::$modelClass = \"User\" ToolbarsController::$modelKey = \"toolbar\" ToolbarsController::$validationErrors = NULL ToolbarsController::$__httpCodes = NULL ToolbarsController::$Acl = AclComponent object ToolbarsController::$Auth = AuthComponent object ToolbarsController::$Cookie = CookieComponent object ToolbarsController::$Session = SessionComponent object ToolbarsController::$RequestHandler = RequestHandlerComponent object ToolbarsController::$ToolbarCommunication = ToolbarCommunicationComponent object ToolbarsController::$User = User object ToolbarsController::$Toolbar = Toolbar object ToolbarsController::$ToolbarWidget = ToolbarWidget object ToolbarsController::$Widget = Widget object ToolbarsController::$WidgetCategory = WidgetCategory object 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"text": "Skype in the Classroom has signed up more than 16,000 teachers to its social network for educators, since launching a beta version in December. Its goal is to connect 1 million of them. “Skype has been going on for many, many years, and teachers have been finding each other and they’ve been finding ways to use the power of Skype in the educational process for a long time,” said Skype CEO Tony Bates on Wednesday at the Social Good Summit. “We really felt that it was time to take this to the next level…moving from grassroots Skype in the classroom to an initiative driven by Skype.” What has long been accomplished between teachers using Wikis and individual project websites is now getting some organizational help from Skype. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student age range, language and subject. What is perhaps Skype in the Classroom’s most useful feature is a “project” tab that helps teachers find partner classrooms for projects and ideas. One teacher, for instance, used the platform to coordinate a “weather around the world” unit. A middle school in Massachusetts regularly chats with an Afghan youth peace volunteer group. Another was able to host a virtual visit from Barbara Bush. “It doesn’t have to be a famous person,” Bates said. “A busy parent could share their skills from their office in the middle of the day.” About 900 similar projects have been posted on Skype in the Classroom so far. </center> Bates announced the 1 million classroom goal on stage after using Skype to video call a sixth grade class in New Jersey. In a recent small effort to reach it, Skype hosted a virtual panel with five teachers in conjunction with Clorox, which it is partnering with for its “Power a Bright Future” school grant program. It asked them about how they use Skype in the classroom and what kind of features they’d like to see. Some of the suggestions, such as a Skype in the Classroom widget, are features Skype had already started to work on. The company announced a handful of additional improvements to the platform on Wednesday, including email notifications for projects, a Skype in the Classroom “badge” that can be displayed on a blog, an “I’d like to do this” button on projects that adds the teacher’s avatar to the project page, and an “I’ve done this” button for leaving feedback. The discussion will continue through two more panels that will be open to about 15 teachers each. “If Skype can have 170 million connected users in eight years,” Bates said, “can’t we have 1 million connected classrooms?” </center>",
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"text": "We’ve had a controversial week here at SMC, with both danah and Bernie jumping into the fray over Real Names (TM) and social network sites. I’m not engaging with that mess, but I am interested in the response to it. Over, and over, and over again, when anyone– academic, pundit, journalist, blogger, regular person without a fancy appellation– criticizes social media, you’ll see a plethora of comments like the following (real comments from various things we’ve written with names removed): “How dare you write software and give it to me for free under terms with which I disagree? That’s an abuse of power!” No, it isn’t. Get your sense of entitlement under control. The solution is rather simple – don’t join Facebook. The internet is a big place. There’s room for all kinds of social networks. You don’t have to join every one of them. It’s common, and easy, to say “just don’t use it.” There’s actually a term for this– technology refusal– meaning people who strategically “opt out” of using overwhelmingly prevalent technologies. This includes teens who’ve committed Facebook suicide because it causes too much drama; off-the-grid types who worry about the surveillance potentials of GPS-enabled smartphones; older people who think computers are just too much trouble; and, of course, privacy-concerned types who choose not to use Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, websites with cookies, or any other technology that could potentially compromise their privacy. (This does not include people who can’t afford internet access or computers, or who live in areas without cell towers or broadband access.) Of course, we’ve heard this argument before. Worried that heavy metal is satanic? Don’t listen to it. Don’t like abortions? Don’t have one. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get gay married. Think gonzo porn is misogynist? Don’t watch it. What these statements have in common is the idea that refusal is the only legitimate way to protest something one thinks is problematic, unconscionable, unethical, or immoral. While I like some of the things on this list and don’t like others, I generally do not buy this idea. Here are three reasons why. The Cost of Opting Out Opting-out of watching The Bachelorette because I think it romanticizes sexism doesn’t impact me the same way that choosing not to have a cellphone does. If I choose not to have a cellphone, I am choosing to exist in a world where social norms have adapted to cellphones without adapting myself. Face it, someone without a cellphone requires everyone who interacts with that person to make special accommodations for them, whether it’s contacting them for job interviews, scheduling meetings, or sending information. You could argue that expecting such accommodation reflects a sense of entitlement. But more importantly, not having a cellphone puts one at a serious disadvantage– that’s why programs like Safelink provide mobile telephony to people on government assistance. Cellphones have gone from luxury product to necessary object in a decade. (I would like anyone reading this who scoffs at this to imagine how much more difficult life would be without their mobile.) The “opt out” argument suggests that refusing to use social media has similar costs. I think this is true in some communities and not others. The type of people who post on HackerNews or on this blog are probably connected to their colleagues and friends in so many ways that choosing, say, Diaspora over Google Plus wouldn’t create too much of a disadvantage. But in many of the communities that danah & I have encountered in our fieldwork, Facebook is an absolute necessity. Like a teen told danah back in 2006, “if you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.” A very, very significant percentage of teen socializing goes on over Facebook. While us adults may scoff at the teen practices of flirting, joking, making friends, chatting, gossiping, etc. that go on over Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, this is what makes many teens’ lives bearable: connecting to their friends. Without Facebook, they have no way of reinforcing the friendships that are established in adult-sanctioned spaces like school and church. Or, at least, without expecting their friends to accommodate this idiosyncrasy. And this isn’t at all limited to teenagers. While I have zero love for Facebook, I stay on it because otherwise I’d miss out on 75% of the invitations in my friends group. And I don’t think it’s for anyone else to say that I should expect my friends to cater to my socially abnormal preference, or that I should prioritize my own personal irritation at Facebook over the very human impulses to connect and socialize. The Civic Responsibility to Critique I’m a serious feminist and I spend a lot of time running my mouth about the sexist portrayals of women in the media. I teach media criticism to undergraduates. I think that each individual has the right– nay, the responsibility– to criticize the media environment in which he or she lives, whether that be movies, advertising, internet sites, or big honking Kenny Rogers Roasters signs that turn their apartments orange. This is because media both reflects and determines the values of society. If the vast majority of portrayals of women in the media are of skinny, white, vapid, boy-crazy sex objects with fake breasts, this contributes to a social environment in which women’s worth is determined by their attractiveness to men. It influences young girls looking for role models, it affects how older women feel about themselves, and it justifies pretty rancid behavior towards real, non-fictional women. I am totally into empowerment and whatnot, but it’s hard to buck a trend that’s pervasive, constant, and rewarded. Because I think these portrayals are socially damaging, I think it is my responsibility to call out sexist images when I see them, and ask for them to be changed, whether or not I am consuming the media in which they appear. I think the same principle applies to internet sites. Members of a community (nation, state, book group, dining club, whatever) have a responsibility to criticize and suggest alternatives to things they find problematic, whether those are government principles, media representations, website policies, or laws. In fact, this is such a cultural norm that the right to protest is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the US Constitution. Yes, websites (and media products in general) are run by private companies rather than civic institutions, but they influence society just as laws and government policies do. And there’s a very long history of citizens protesting immoral or unethical corporate behavior, from The Jungle to the DRM protests. It sounds a bit silly to argue “if you don’t like canned food that may or may not be full of botulism or e-coli, don’t eat it.” It’s Not Free Social software is not free. Like television, social software sells a product– users, or “eyeballs”– to third parties. Sure, lots of social media companies are focused on building up usage rather than monetizing, but they will need to make money at some point. And unless they make a premium subscription model work, they will most likely rely on monetizing user information, whether providing analytics to businesses, selling advertising, selling user data to data-mining and profiling companies, or engaging in behavioral targeting. Google Plus isn’t free; Facebook isn’t free; 2 and a Half Men isn’t free (although I don’t know who would actually fork over cash for it). The exchange is personal information for media product. Only the most staunch pro-market capitalist would argue that a customer has no right to complain about a product or service that she is paying for, either directly or through the exchange of personal information. Our Role And finally: as humanist and social science scholars of software and social media, our overall mission is to analyze the underlying values and presuppositions enshrined in technological objects. Technological artifacts are not neutral. They reflect the culture in which they were made and the society in which they are used. They have all sorts of embedded ideologies and cultural artifacts. (A nice example is the metaphor of the “file cabinet” and “file folders” that runs through Microsoft Windows, a paradigm restricted primarily to 20th century Western office culture. Incidentally, it might make you feel very old to realize that the “save” icon in most word processors means nothing to most young people. They’ve never seen a floppy disc and if they had they wouldn’t understand the association with “Saving.”) Our job is to point out these things, and to engage proactively and positively with users and technologists, not just other academics. After all, given that values are embedded within technologies, it is to be hoped that these are values we agree with, that benefit society, that encourage exploration and learning and positive engagement, and that don’t unfairly target marginalized communities. Given this larger social mission, “if you don’t like it, don’t use it” is not really simple at all. Like this: 11 bloggers like this post.",
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"text": "If Hewlett-Packard actually ousts CEO Leo Apotheker barely a year into his tenure, no one can say the move—however drastic–was unexpected. Bloomberg News reported today that the HP board will meet to consider this dramatic action in the wake of widespread unhappiness over how Apotheker—and the board itself—has managed the computing giant over the past year. Since he joined as CEO in September 2010, Apotheker has infuriated analysts by perhaps being too forthcoming about the company’s prospects. His predecessor Mark Hurd was known for managing the company expertly for Wall Street and for stock price. (That he also gutted HP R&D and wounded morale inside the company are less-noted facts about his tenure.) But that was just the beginning. Apotheker’s plan to morph HP into an enterprise software and cloud company discounted the company’s heritage as a hardware manufacturer. Then, things really went haywire in August when word leaked that HP might sell or spin off its $40-billion-a-year PC business—a leak that Apotheker confirmed on the third-quarter earnings call. At that time, he also nuked the company’s highly-touted but light-selling TouchPad tablet business, just a year or so after HP spent $1.2 billion to buy Palm Computing and a few months after the TouchPads hit the shelves. Critics said if HP had priced the slick devices aggressively against Apple iPads, they would have done well, especially among business users who lamented iPad’s lack of Flash support. His decision, announced at the same time, to pony up $10 billion for Autonomy PLC, a British search vendor, further inflamed former HP loyalists. Taken together, the PC, tablet and Autonomy news lopped $12.5 billion off HP’s market cap within a day. “There was a lot of push back on Autonomy,” a source close to the HP board told me. “That was too much money for too little.” None of this helped Apotheker’s reputation in or outside of HP, but Apotheker came into this mess late after the board fired Hurd for indiscretions and expense account abuse. Many HP watchers said the board, headed by VC giant Ray Lane, should come in for its share of the blame over the whole fiasco. “Both Leo and the board should be fired, no question,” one long-time HP partner with tight ties to other HP execs told me. “This transition has been mishandled from the beginning.” HP could not be reached for comment on the Bloomberg report, which further stated that the board is looking for a possible interim replacement, possibly former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.",
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"text": "Posted by James Altucher on September 21st, 2011 I had just turned 18 so of course I went to a video store and asked for an X-rated movie. I was old enough. I’m an adult. But…I told the guy…”it had to be something with a good story”. There’s a shame factor. A story somehow was an antibiotic that would cleanse the stigma of porn of all its bad and dirty bacteria. The porn industry is bigger than traditional Hollywood for a reason. Because we are basic animals at heart. We enjoy sex. We enjoy thinking about it (supposedly a man thinks about it every 1.2 seconds on average. Not sure what magician of science came up with that statistic.). We objectify, and we then fantasize across the entire spectrum over what is considered “normal” and what only stays in the realm of fantasy. (there's a reason for this image. wait for it). What the heck am I writing about here? I wake up the other day and got a nice first email to start the day: Ben wrote: I like your recent posts. You seem like a smart guy. Keep at it. Website: http://benbanksart.com – I wrote back, “thanks, it’s nice to start the day with an email like this.” Then, like I almost always do, I checked out his website. I don’t make the assumption that everyone who is smart enough to reach out to me has a great website but I’m always curious. It takes a lot to send an email to a random person on the web whose material you like. I think it shows good character. So it makes me curious what they do, how they exhibit their character on the web. And perhaps I can return the favor of the compliment. So I went to benbanksart.com and I really liked a lot of the paintings. I have no eye for anything. I barely have an eye. But I’ve written about art before: (See, “Is Burton Silverman Dead Yet”) or photographs (See “The Tooth”) or even more cartoonish stuff (See “The Ugliest Painting in my House”) and Ben’s paintings appealed to me as well and I wanted to find out more. I wrote him that I liked the paintings and asked if he painted them (having some experience with forgery). He wrote back: “Ex-porn star, Steven St. Croix. 18 years. From Connectictu, started painting in 2006 on a whim and quit porn. Moved to France, met a girl, fell in love and stayed. I sell mostly to people who I meet here in the Cannes and Monaco area. I have a atelier/gallery in Grasse. 3 expos so far, one coming up in London during Frieze Week in October, trying to get into the corporate art market.” WHOAH! Back it up a second! (all of these paintings are by Ben Banks. If you can't see the images then go to jamesaltucher.com) “Ex porn star”…. “started painting in 2006 on a whim”….”quit porn..Moved to France.” I looked him up on IMDB. He’s been in over 792 movies. Probably 790 of them were porn movies with titles like “Eight is Never Enough” and “Deep Throat 6″. He was also in the mainstream movie “The Girl Next Door” (starring Elisha Cuthbert, see image above) which is ABOUT a porn star. Now I was beginning to be envious. A theme of this blog since last October is “transformation” - how we survive as humans through the travesties that wreck our ships and barely take us to shore. Life squashes us. It mashes our faces. It makes us do things that only the lowest prisoners would do. How do we survive that? Move on? Transform? So, of course I had to know more, using my typical hard-edged interview style: “I have to ask: was it fun being a porn star? Did you ever get performance anxiety? What made you even think you could paint? How did you start trying?” He wrote back: “It was fun! Lots of woman, getting recognized, drugs, easy life, travel. Eventually though, I grew out of it and wanted more in my life. I did get performance anxiety. Will this chick OD during the scene? Will my mother find out what I do? Is my dick big enough? Can they smell the scotch on my breath? Will there be meatloaf for lunch today? That sort of thing…. I knew a guy who was an artist who knew Pollock, Picasso, Clavé, and some other big painters.I sketched some things on a placemat in a restaurant in Nice, he looked at them,looked at me in the eye and said “You need to paint. You have a good eye.” A year later I picked up a canvas and paint and started on my living room floor. I just did it. I didn’t have the fear of not being good. My early work was cool , but I’m much better now I think. It’s very nice here but I’d like to expand to larger markets like Berlin NY and London. I’ve sold 18 of my latest series of 35 paintings. They average around €1600 for I meter square size. Now I’m doing 2 meter x 1.5 meter paintings. I like large paintings and I think there is a market there for me and a chance to get recognized in a few years.” So, of course, this really did not answer nearly enough questions. So I went back for more. Below is the Q&A presented in interview format. Sorry for the questions but I’m fascinated. How did you first getinto the porn industry? Were you nervous on the first film? Were you excited with that very first actress the very first time? I was a production assistant on a movie where an actor didn’t show up. I volunteered to do the scene as we had yet to finish the film. My next role was 3 days later and the lead role in “The Sex Connection”. I did a pretty good impression of Chuck Woolery. How did you meet your wife? Did she mind that you were in the porn industry? Does she ever get jealous you might want to go back to it? Do you tell people you meet at cocktail parties that you used to be in that industry? I met her thru some people I had met while vacationing in Cannes. She isn’t jealous but sometimes worries that someone might throw it in her face. But I’ve had no problems. People here don’t gawk. And the fact I have salt and pepper hair now throws people off….”Where do I know you from?” Had you had prior training in painting or art? I think a lot of people would be inspired at such a drastic change in careers. None whatsoever. I think art schools are for the unimaginative. Why were you tired of the states? I was tired of being pigeonholed where ever I went. I was trying to transition to serious non porn acting roles but nobody wanted to cast me for fear of networks and studios nixing it. My last role was in The Girl Next Door….as a porn star. I was done. Why do you have confidence there is a market for you? What separates out your paintings? As in publishing, the art isn’t what sells. It’s the story behind it ( or the artist). I don’t I’m any better or worse than artists making a lot of money. They just have the right people buying their art. What are you going to do today? What’s daily life like? A far cry from waking at 10am to go to the set and fuck 2 eighteen year old girls in the ass for a thousand bucks. But I’m happier because I’m doing what I like and no one can tell me I can’t. – After years of routine, when we start to realize the horror that is happened to us, the gaps that were once filled with reverie get filled first with melancholy, then depression, then worse. In those moments, a person has to gather his life up, his years, and make sure he can keep going further, because the life gathered up seems too heavy to go further with the little vitality he has left…the lousy bit of poetry that once filled his soul that has now diminished. The challenge is to take that poetry and make a poem. Ben Banks has done that. I hope I can do it. – &nbsp; &nbsp; blog comments powered by",
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"text": "Wyse Technology, the developers of cloud storage app PocketCloud, is launching a new version of its service today, which turning smartphones and tablets into virtual desktops byt letting you control anything on your PC from a mobile device. PocketCloud utilizes customers’ existing storage on their Mac, PC and virtual desktops rather than storing files on third-party servers. Wyse’s personal cloud costs $1 per month for unlimited storage. With other services once a user’s files are uploaded to the cloud, control of the privacy and security of this data becomes the responsibility of a third party. Wyse provides remote access to files securely stored on users’ devices and does not limit either the number or type of files that can be shared between personal devices. The new version of PocketCloud allows unlimited file sharing, of any file type between your iPhone or iPad for only just $1 a month. So you can link devices, and share music and other files between these devices. PocketCloud also includes support for OS X (Lion) user account authentication, and support for iPad 2 video mirroring. Wyse claims that they are able to give you much of the same functionality as Amazon, DropBox and others at a fraction of the cost. But with Apple’s upcoming iCloud launch soon, we’ll see if PocketCloud can retain users, especially for iOS.",
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"text": "Last week, I&nbsp;met with Aryeh Gregor (the editor of the HTML&nbsp;Editing APIs specification, among other specs), Ryosuke Niwa and Annie Sullivan (both of WebKit editing fame) and Jonas Sicking (prolific Gecko hacker) to discuss the future of HTML&nbsp;editing APIs on the web, and also exchange ideas on how Gecko and WebKit handle editing.&nbsp; The meetings were extremely productive, and we managed to discuss a lot of stuff.&nbsp; I'm trying to provide a summary of everything we discussed.&nbsp; You can see the meeting agenda and minutes for more information. HTML Editing Specification We all agreed that Aryeh has been doing a great job in specifying how web browsers should behave in response to editing APIs.&nbsp; The current situation is less than ideal.&nbsp; Currently, every browser engine behaves differently when those APIs are invoked, and because of the complexity of handling editing commands, in a lot of situations, no browser engine gets it right.&nbsp; Aryeh has been doing black-box testing on how browser engines behave, and he's been designing generic algorithms which behave sanely.&nbsp; Gecko and WebKit are planning to gradually move towards implementing the newly specified behavior for these APIs.&nbsp; This can be tricky in some cases where modifying the engine's behvior would break web compatibility, but we are planning to try to handle the safer cases first and watch closely for web content which make the wrong assumption about how things are supposed to behave. The spec itself is not finished yet, but it's generally in a good shape.&nbsp; We discussed some future improvements to the spec, and we'll reiterate on the spec to improve it even more as we move ahead. Mutation Events Replacement, and New Editing Events Mutation events in their current form behave very badly.&nbsp; They are usually a reason for bad performance, and they are extremely painful to handle correctly, so they are always responsible for a lot of the stability problems that we face in Gecko (and I'm sure other browser engines have been experiencing the same types of problems).&nbsp; Jonas has proposed a replacement for these events.&nbsp; There has been lots of feedback on the proposal, and it's not yet in a final form, but the discussions seem to be proceeding quite well. Traditionally one of the reasons that people have needed mutation events have been modifying how browsers handle editing commands.&nbsp; We discussed a possible better alternative for this use case.&nbsp; We could provide two new events, the beforeeditaction and aftereditaction events (note that I'm just using these names as placeholders for better names that we will hopefully think of in the future!).&nbsp; The beforeeditaction event would fire before the browser initiates handling of an editing command.&nbsp; It would be cancelable, so that web applications which do not want certain commands enabled can just cancel the respective events.&nbsp; The aftereditaction event would fire when the browser is done performing the editing action.&nbsp; This event will provide semantic information about the editing operation performed, and will allow web content to alter the DOM&nbsp;generated as a result of the editing action.&nbsp; Think of a web application which wants to use strong tags instead of b tags for bold text generated by the bold command.&nbsp; With aftereditaction, the web application can just fix up the DOM&nbsp;after the browser has modified it to use strong tags. This idea can even be taken one step further.&nbsp; The browser can fire beforeeditaction and aftereditaction events even for commands which it does not support natively.&nbsp; Handling these events will give web applications a new way of providing custom editing commands!&nbsp; The more we talked about these two events, the more we thought that they are going to be useful! UndoManager Specification Ryosuke has been working on the UndoManager specification.&nbsp; It is a new interface which allows web applications to hook into browser's native undo/redo transaction manager.&nbsp; It is an awesome way to enable web applications to put custom transactions into the browser's undo/redo stack, and also enable undo/redo for a host of new applications on the web (think of having undo/redo working for a drawing tool built on top of the HTML5 canvas, for example!).&nbsp; We discussed some of the details of the spec, and managed to agree on everything that we discussed. The good news here is that this is something which is going to come to a browser engine near you really soon! &nbsp;William Chen, an awesome intern at Mozilla is working on implementing it for Gecko, and Ryosuke told me that he's planning to implement it for WebKit too once he finishes some of the refactoring that needs to be done before this can happen. Selection APIs We talked about the Selection specification, which is currently part of the DOM Range specification.&nbsp; We agreed that we need a way for web developers to create new selection objects, with the hope that some day we would allow editing commands to operate on parts of the web page that are not visually selected by the user.&nbsp; The selection story is really complicated for Gecko, because we allow multi-range selections, but we fail to handle them correctly everywhere, especially in the case of editable content.&nbsp; I&nbsp;have some plans to address this problem, but those plans probably deserve their own blog/mailing-list post. Collaborative Editing Collaborative editing seems to be one of the topics which is currently hot among web developers.&nbsp; Think of web applications like Etherpad which allow several users to edit the same document at the same time.&nbsp; Annie gave us an overview of some of the challenges in developing collaborative editing applications.&nbsp; We then discussed some of the ideas which might make the lives of people developing such applications easier.&nbsp; These ideas included the beforeeditaction and aftereditaction events, an event to fire when the selection changes in a document, and adding a helper method to change the tag for an element in the DOM (which is now being discussed here). Clipboard APIs We discussed possible ways to provide clipboard access to web applications.&nbsp; Opera has proposed a Clipboard API specification, which seems like a good starting point.&nbsp; We talked about some of the security implications of allowing web pages to put data on the clipboard (which might be an annoyance, or worse, if the web page puts code to run a malicious command on the terminal hoping that the user would paste it in the terminal), and read data from the clipboard (the possibility of reading important data related to the user from the clipboard).&nbsp; WebKit currently fires the clipboard events for user initiated copy/paste operations, providing access to the clipboard contents to the web application.&nbsp; We would want to support this in Gecko too.&nbsp; But the general problem of how to handle the security implications is mostly a UX&nbsp;issue, and we decided to ask our UX&nbsp;teams for feedback on this. We also discussed how we could prevent potentially bad content from being pasted into an editable area.&nbsp; One notable example is absolutely positioned elements.&nbsp; There is no good way for us to determine what styles would apply to an element before the actual pasted document fragment gets injected into the target page's DOM.&nbsp; We concluded that allowing authors to handle this case in their aftereditaction handlers might be the best approach here. Implementation Issues We also spent some time describing the Gecko and WebKit implementation of contentEditable, and tried to get familiar with some of the upsides and downsides of each implementation.&nbsp; One of the interesting things that was discussed here was the possibility of borrowing tests from each other.&nbsp; It seems like WebKit should at least be able to borrow a subset of the crashtests and reftests from Gecko.&nbsp; Borrowing WebKit tests for Gecko might be a bit trickier, since WebKit's LayoutTests depend on WebKit's internals.&nbsp; But we all agreed that it would be a very good idea for us to adopt cross-browser unit tests. Future Ideas We also took some time to go over some future ideas. IME&nbsp;APIs for the web There is a proposal to enable web pages to implement IME&nbsp;in Javascript.&nbsp; This seems to be an interesting proposal, and we decided to put the Gecko and WebKit IME&nbsp;experts in touch with each other to make some progress on this. Keyboard events interoperability Currently, there are some interoperability problems with keyboard events.&nbsp; One such category of problems align with the differences between the modifier keys on Mac and Windows/Linux platforms.&nbsp; Another source is some browsers not sending the correct keyCode and charCode in the keyboard events for some keyboard layouts.&nbsp; Determining what needs to be done in all of these cases is tricky, but this was not the area of expertise of any of us. Keyboard shortcuts We might be able to leverage the accessKeyLabel property to inform the web pages about the default keyboard accelerator modifier key on the platform on which the browser runs (but there are some privacy concerns with exposing this information).&nbsp; We agreed that we need a platform independent way to defining shortcut keys, in order to not require authors to handle low level keyboard events to implement keyboard shortcuts.&nbsp; We might be able to use the accesskey attribute on command elements for this purpose.&nbsp; We also would need a way to assign a command element to a certain contentEditable element.&nbsp; We might be able to use the for attribute on the command elements to point to the ID of a contentEditable element.&nbsp; Also, we thought that we should handle the well-known keyboard shortcuts for operations such as undo, redo, select all, bold, italicize, underline, cut, copy and paste automatically. Spell checking APIs There has been a proposal to enable web applications to provide their own spell checking facilities in Javascript.&nbsp; Both Gecko and WebKit are interested in implementing this API in the future. Exposing editing algorithms to web content It might be a good idea for us to expose some of the base editing algorithms to web application authors so that they can use them in their own applications.&nbsp; We all agreed that we should probably wait for the editing spec to stabilize a bit before we go ahead and consider exposing some of the base algorithms.&nbsp; We also need feedback from web developers on what kinds of algorithms they would find useful to have access to. Accessibility concerns Currently, browser engines do not behave in a consistent way when navigating through editable regions using the keyboard.&nbsp; We need to specify how browsers should move the caret when the user initiates moving commands using the keyboard.&nbsp; While some of this behavior might be platform dependent, we would really prefer the keyboard navigation to work similarly across different platforms, if possible. Resizing and table editing UI One of the things that people really want is resizing and table editing UI.&nbsp; Gecko tries to provide this UI, but the existing UI&nbsp;is buggy and may not be the ideal one.&nbsp; WebKit currently doesn't provide any UI&nbsp;for this, at all.&nbsp; For resizing, we're currently thinking of using the CSS&nbsp;resize property.&nbsp; Table editing UI&nbsp;is not going to be that easy though, and we agreed that we should discuss that in the future. &nbsp; Overall, I'm really excited about the direction we're heading towards in the world of editing on the web.&nbsp; There seems to be a lot of interest in both Gecko and WebKit to try to improve the current situation, and I do hope that in the future we would be able to have this discussion with other browser vendors too. Trackback URL for this post: http://ehsanakhgari.org/trackback/129",
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"text": "Dashlane, a stealth start-up out of Paris, is still a few weeks away from unveiling its product, but the company is happily talking up its flush financial situation. The company announced Wednesday it has raised $10 million from Rho Ventures, FirstMark Capital and Bernard Liautaud, the co-founder and former CEO of Business Objects. Dashlane, which launched 18 months ago and is now opening a U.S. office in New York, is not explaining what it does exactly But it has provided some general details about its technology which purportedly tackles the growing problem of inputting information, passwords and payment data into websites from desktop and mobile devices. Dashlane will offer an application that allows users to quickly and securely enter credit card details, names, addresses and login details for commerce, social and other websites. The company is focusing on the opportunity in mobile as more users struggle to repeatedly enter in information from devices that often don’t have traditional keyboards. Emmanuel Schalit, Dashlane’s CEO, told me the application will be helpful particularly in transactions. He said 2/3 of people who begin a mobile transaction online abandon it before checkout. The startup’s new money will go toward accelerating development of the product, which will go into private beta in a few weeks. Habib Kairouz, managing partner at Rho Ventures, and Rick Heitzmann, managing director at FirstMark will join private Liautaud on the board. I’m curious to see what Dashlane can do. As we shift to a “post-PC” world, it makes sense to focus on some of the friction people encounter as they rely more on tablets and smartphones. Particular in the case of mobile commerce and mobile payments, it’s good to streamline the process of entering in payment information while still maintaining security. Apple’s App Store and iTunes are good examples of how simplicity can spur on a lot of transactions. So we’ll have to see if Dashlane can actually deliver something that’s worth using — but I think the opportunity is big if it can. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.",
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"text": "Over the past two months, we’ve gone from asking “how do we know when to scale” to “holy crap, we need to scale.” Things have been going well. Thirteen months ago we raised $7.5M in venture financing. Since then, we’ve maintained the “early-stage” startup hustle and culture, adding less than 10 full-time employees, while iterating rapidly on the product. We went from an “easy way to collect money for groups” to the “hassle-free way to collect payments online,” and we’ve far exceeded our revenue and growth projections. It’s time to scale. Our pitch to potential employees is simple: you have a unique opportunity to join a startup that’s just now blowing up; You get all the benefits and upside of joining an early-stage startup without sacrificing security, stability, and salary. Unfortunately, the most effective pitch in the world isn’t effective unless you have enough candidates coming in the front door. So, in addition to our own internal hiring efforts, we’ve decided to engage a few professional recruiters. Now, to date, most of my experience with recruiters has been limited to watching a few poor and unsuccessful attempts to poach our engineers, but we are so swamped internally right now, that I figured it couldn’t hurt to have a few recruiters pounding the pavement, getting our name out there. In an awesome twist of irony, however, one of our own recruiters recently attempted to poach one of our own engineers. He wanted him to join… you guessed it…WePay! Yes, I’m as confused as you are. His email is below: Hi XXXX, Hope all is well. I wanted to reach out to you about an awesome opportunity at a strong VC-backed startup. WePay takes the hassle out of collecting payments online. WePay was founded in 2008, and has raised $10 million in venture financing… They are one of the fastest growing company in Palo Alto, just a few blocks from Caltrain and California Avenue. They offer competitive salaries, early stage stock options, a subsidized gym membership, a stipend to donate to great charities, and a fantastic health, dental and vision plan. Let me know if you have a few minutes to chat. I guess it really is a tough hiring market when you need to poach your own employees. I’m reminded of an awesome blog post by Kevin Hale of Wufoo fame, in which he lambasts junior associates at VC firms for failing to do even a minimal level of diligence and research before initiating an unsolicited conversation: …it’s sort of not cool to not do your homework and effectively make the company do the pitch anyway. Then we’re doing your job. Then, when you show the company how not different you are from everyone else following what is apparently the same lead, you’ve accomplished the exact opposite of what you intended: We do not think you’re different. We are not confident in your ability to establish strong relationships with companies. And we will probably not think of you when we need funding later on. Recruiters are charged with filling the pipeline with good candidates. This means they need to research two things: the company they are staffing and the candidates they are staffing it with. If you send candidates that are clearly a bad fit, then you are either not doing your job or you are doing it poorly. And you’re wasting both of our time. I had the good fortune to meet Aaron Patzer, the founder and CEO of Mint.com, a few months ago. Aaron is credited with hiring some incredible employees – perhaps most notably, Jason Putorti, Mint’s lead designer. A few months ago, I asked Aaron: “How did you know Jason was your guy? He obviously made a name for himself at Mint, but you had to see something in him when he was still unproven.” I wanted to know what I should look for in a lead designer. He replied: “You shouldn’t worry about experience (so long as he has at least 1-2 years outside of college), or what school he went to, but you should be very impressed with his portfolio. Otherwise, I would keep looking.” So when we asked a recruiter to help us fill an open design position, I tried to communicate this feedback to him. First, if the candidate didn’t have an online portfolio, personal site, or blog, I didn’t want to see a resumé. Even if I missed out on some great candidates, that was the only way that I knew how to screen them. So I sent a few examples that I found impressive for various reasons: I even attempted to reiterate my fairly simple criteria for hiring designers in a subsequent email: Dev skills (especially a working knowledge of html/css/javascript) are definitely a huge plus, but not absolutely necessary. The designers that I respect the most are usually able to implement their own designs (even if their code is a bit messy). As I mentioned, I should be impressed by the blog, portfolio or personal website. The ones you have sent thus far have been mediocre at best. They may be “career designers” but I couldn’t imagine any of them designing the next Mint. And yet, I’ve been consistently disappointed. I still receive 2-3 referrals a day from the recruiter, which alone is a bad sign. If I spent all day scouring the earth for great designers, I still wouldn’t be able to consistently find that many candidates. It’s increasingly clear that I’m being sent every resume that comes across his desk, which is by far the most common criticism of all recruiters. I’m not asking the recruiter to be a great judge of design ability, just to do the bare minimum to screen applicants. If I say that I won’t interview a designer that doesn’t have a portfolio or website that I find impressive, and you send me a resumé without a link to either…you are not doing your job. 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"text": "Stealthy consumer Internet startup Dashlane is announcing today that it has closed $5 million in Series A funding led by New York City-based firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital. Also participating in the round is Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud. Dashlane won’t say much about its product offering just yet, only that it’s designed to eliminate the hassles involved with filling in personal information online, both on the desktop and on mobile. How exactly Dashlane is different from current solutions is still unclear. There are several companies out there that help manage form-filling and automated password creation, for example. Web browsers have their own autofill capabilities, too. But Dashlane’s promise is that it will “do more” than what’s available now, and has features designed to work specifically with e-commerce and m-commerce sites. It will not actually store your credit card information on its own servers, CEO Emmanuel Schalit tells us. We do know that it has filed four patents related to its IP, but product details, including what type of data is stores and how that’s stored, are sparse. Dashlane was founded 18 months ago by Bernard Liautaud, the co-founder and former CEO of Business Objects, which was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion in 2007. CEO Schalit came on around 9 months ago and will help manage the company’s New York offices. Going forward, the company’s original engineering team will remain in its Paris-based offices, while its New York offices are staffed up. Over the next 12 months, Dashlane will double its roster of a dozen team members with new hires in areas that include support, community management, marketing, business development, and, as Schalit puts it, “engineers, engineers, engineers.” New York was chosen as Dashlane’s U.S. home because of the time zone differences between it and Paris as well as the commute time between the two cities. But Schalit says that the company also believes New York City is a place that’s “starting to catch up with Silicon Valley,” and is becoming an attractive place to set up an Internet business. He notes, too, that there isn’t as much competition for talent as there is out West. In addition to hiring, the new funds will be used to advance product development, and in particular, mobile development – a key piece to Dashlane’s overall solution. The desktop service will launch in a few weeks time, with the mobile component to follow. The site’s homepage is hosting a sign-up form for interested users now. As part of today’s announcement, Habib Kairouz, managing partner at Rho Ventures, and Rick Heitzmann, managing director of FirstMark Capital, will join Bernard Liautaud and Dashlane CEO Emmanuel Schalit on the board, bringing the total board to four members. Dashlane dashlane.com June 7, 2009 Dashlane is currently in “Stealth” mode with Beta launch in the second half of 2011 Learn more",
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I do, dimly, recall the arrival of a piece of brown wooden furniture with sturdy Bakelite knobs and a screen no larger than the screen on this Powerbook. Initially there was nothing on it but \"snow,\" and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called \"the test pattern,\" which people actually gathered to watch. Today I think about the test pattern as I surf the Web. I imagine that the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more than the test pattern for whatever the 21st century will regard as its equivalent medium. Not that I can even remotely imagine what that medium might actually be. In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing. It never reminds me of conversation, although it can feel a lot like staring into space. \"Surfing the Web\" (as dubious a metaphor as \"the information highway\") is, as a friend of mind has it, \"like reading magazines with the pages stuck together.\" My wife shakes her head in dismay as I patiently await the downloading of some Japanese Beatles fan's personal catalogue of bootlegs. \"But it's from Japan!\" She isn't moved. She goes out to enjoy the flowers in her garden. I stay in. Hooked. Is this leisure -- this browsing, randomly linking my way through these small patches of virtual real-estate -- or do I somehow imagine that I am performing some more dynamic function? The content of the Web aspires to absolute variety. One might find anything there. It is like rummaging in the forefront of the collective global mind. Somewhere, surely, there is a site that contains . . . everything we have lost? The finest and most secret pleasure afforded new users of the Web rests in submitting to the search engine of Alta Vista the names of people we may not have spoken aloud in years. Will she be here? Has he survived unto this age? (She isn't there. Someone with his name has recently posted to a news group concerned with gossip about soap stars.) What is this casting of the nets of identity? Do we engage here in something of a tragic seriousness? In the age of wooden television, media were there to entertain, to sell an advertiser's product, perhaps to inform. Watching television, then, could indeed be considered a leisure activity. In our hypermediated age, we have come to suspect that watching television constitutes a species of work. Post-industrial creatures of an information economy, we increasingly sense that accessing media is what we do. We have become terminally self-conscious. There is no such thing as simple entertainment. We watch ourselves watching. We watch ourselves watching Beavis and Butt-head, who are watching rock videos. Simply to watch, without the buffer of irony in place, might reveal a fatal naivete. But that is our response to aging media like film and television, survivors from the age of wood. The Web is new, and our response to it has not yet hardened. That is a large part of its appeal. It is something half-formed, growing. Larval. It is not what it was six months ago; in another six months it will be something else again. It was not planned; it simply happened, is happening. It is happening the way cities happened. It is a city. Toward the end of the age of wooden televisions the futurists of the Sunday supplements announced the advent of the \"leisure society.\" Technology would leave us less and less to do in the Marxian sense of yanking the levers of production. The challenge, then, would be to fill our days with meaningful, healthful, satisfying activity. As with most products of an earlier era's futurism, we find it difficult today to imagine the exact coordinates from which this vision came. In any case, our world does not offer us a surplus of leisure. The word itself has grown somehow suspect, as quaint and vaguely melancholy as the battered leather valise in a Ralph Lauren window display. Only the very old or the economically disadvantaged (provided they are not chained to the schedules of their environment's more demanding addictions) have a great deal of time on their hands. To be successful, apparently, is to be chronically busy. As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for . . . slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that postgeographical meta-country we increasingly call home. It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun -- we seem to have a knack for that -- but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working. </p></p>",
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"text": "In 2006, Google acquired the exclusive rights to a search algorithm called Orion. They outbid Yahoo and Microsoft on the deal, which was the PhD work of a 26-year-old University of New South Wales student named Ori Allon. Allon went on to work for Google, integrating his system into their main search algorithm, where it still plays a key role. Allon left in 2010 to found a new startup, Julpan. It didn’t take long for someone to scoop him up again. Twitter has just announced that they’ve acquired Julpan for an undisclosed sum. The startup focuses on analyzing social information that is shared on social services like Twitter, so this is a natural fit. This will enable Twitter to come up with ways to surface relevant content to users as more and more of it keeps flowing into the system. Twitter has recently stated that this is a key area of focus. Twitter is acquiring both the technology and the full team of roughly 12. They will work out of Twitter’s New York office (where Julpan has been based). Allon will become a director of engineering at Twitter. He writes on Julpan’s site: I am very proud to announce that Julpan has been acquired by Twitter. We founded Julpan more than a year ago. In that time we’ve created innovative, early-alpha-stage search technology that analyzes social activity across the Web to deliver fresh and relevant content to users. Twitter houses an industry-leading engineering team that is tackling some of the Internet’s most interesting opportunities. With more than 230 million Tweets per day on every subject imaginable, Twitter gives us a chance to make an even greater contribution toward instantly bringing people closer to what is most meaningful to them. We look forward to joining forces with Twitter’s engineering team to explore how we can best integrate and optimize Julpan’s innovations. I’d like to personally thank the talented engineers, architects and designers of Julpan. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people with whom to invent some of the world’s best social search technology. Twitter twitter.com $1.16B Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for... Learn more Julpan julpan.com Julpan’s mission is to analyze the way people share information on the social web. Studying the way stories develop and how people react to them provides a wealth of data to help determine what exactly people care about at any given moment. From this data, we are able to understand and follow the most popular topics and track the highest quality content. Learn more",
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"text": "It’s always nice to see mega-brand corporations give a little something back. For the most valuable company in the world, Apple, it’s only fitting that what they give back would be one of the more valued devices on the market: the first generation iPad. Last spring after the iPad 2 was announced, first-gen iPad owners were told they could return their old tablet to an Apple retail location and it would be donated to low-income teachers working with the organization Teach For America. If you aren’t already familiar with it, Teach For America is a program that takes some of the brightest college grads in the country, gives them a quick five-week training course, and then sends them into the more impoverished districts across the country to be teachers. This is meant to help them better understand the achievement gap in the U.S. So why Teach For America? Well, besides the fact that it’s a smart organization that has the potential to make a difference, Steve Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell sits on the TFA board of directors, reports Fortune. We’re not sure just how many first-gen iPads Apple actually collected during the initiative, but it was enough to make sure every one of the 8,000+ TFA corps members got their very own. Though it’s a great start, one iPad per classroom seems a bit ineffective. However, one teacher from St. Louis found that her kids would get work done more efficiently if they knew that they could play with the iPad when they finished. A pretty smart implementation of the device with just one per classroom, but hopefully they’ll be adding the iPad 2 to their collections once the rumored iPad 3 makes its debut. APPLE Apple apple.com January 4, 1976 September 21, 1980, NASDAQ:AAPL Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with... Learn more",
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"text": "Maker Shed Deal of the Day! Special Sections & Features The Weekend Projects Challenge at World Maker Faire and Online Are you attending the 2nd annual World Maker Faire this weekend in Queens, NY? If not, reconsider! You won’t regret it. If you are coming, now there’s even more incentive to enjoy your trip to the NY Hall of Science. As part of RadioShack’s The Great Create campaign, we’re challenging all MAKE readers out there to complete any of our Weekend Projects and to bring your completed project (or any derivative mod thereof) to the Faire. In return, you’ll win a FREE Maker’s Notebook ($20 value, pictured above), courtesy of the Maker Shed, as well as some additional schwag (think swanky apparel!). To show of your warez, stop by the MAKE magazine booth inside of the Maker Shed and talk to anyone inside the booth to claim your prize. If you can’t make it out to World Maker Faire, never fear! The first 20 online readers who send us an email with info, photos, or video of a completed Weekend Project will also receive a FREE Maker’s Notebook! Feel free to send us a little story about your experiences and we’ll feature you here and in our Weekend Projects Newsletter. We’ll have another project launching this week, so sign up below for the Newsletter to get the scoop on new projects as soon as they launch. And we look forward to seeing you – and your projects! – at World Maker Faire! Sign up below for the Weekend Projects Newsletter to access the projects before anybody else does, get tips, see other makers’ builds, and more. Sign Up for the “Weekend Projects” Newsletter Name: </p> Email: </p> More: See all of the RadioShack Weekend Projects posts (to date) Anonymous Anonymous It wouldn’t qualify for this giveaway, which is just for the Weekend Projects series on Make: Projects, but we’d love to see your build anyways. We love seeing the work and hearing about builders’ experiences whenever you do a project on MAKE, especially if you makes changes, encounter problems you need to find workaround for, etc. Feel free to send to the email address in the post. Make: Online has a \"be nice\" commenting policy. Don't say anything here you wouldn't say to a person's face. We will use our discretion in removing comments we find offensive, spammy, self-promotional, or mean-spirited. See more on our Maker Community Guidelines page. Subscribe to MAKE Magazine! Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers. $34.95 / 1 year (4 Quarterly Issues) Subscribe now",
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"text": "AtGoogleTalks uploaded a new video (1 day ago) Harvard Business School professor and author, Teresa Amabile, describes her researchinto what makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creati... &nbsp; more Harvard Business School professor and author, Teresa Amabile, describes her researchinto what makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work. Using storiesfrom her own life and from the diaries of professionals working on creative projectsinside companies, Dr. Amabile explores inner work life -- the emotions, perceptions, andmotivations that people experience as they react to events in their work day. Her researchteam discovered that, of all the events that can deeply engage people in their work, thesingle most important is making progress on meaningful work. &nbsp; less &nbsp; &nbsp; AtGoogleTalks uploaded a new video (4 days ago) Jonah Hill stops by YouTube Headquarters for a conversation about his career and his latest film, Moneyball. &nbsp; &nbsp; AtGoogleTalks added a new video to Broadway@Google (5 days ago) Kristin Chenoweth stopped by Google NYC to talk about her new album, \"Some Lessons Learned\" and the new ABC show, \"Good Christian Be... &nbsp; more Kristin Chenoweth stopped by Google NYC to talk about her new album, \"Some Lessons Learned\" and the new ABC show, \"Good Christian Belles\" as well as answer some questions from Googlers and moderator Lee Stimmel.Kristin Chenoweth is an American stage, screen and television actress. Though, depending on who you ask, Cheno fans may disagree on what her most famous roles are. Since Chenoweth began her career, she has been credited with roles in musicals and plays on and off-Broadway, on various television shows and can be seen in movies on television and the big screen. She has also lent her recognizable voice numerous times to animated features.Chenoweth was born in the small town of Broken Arrow, OK. Soon after her birth, Chenoweth was adopted by Jerry and Junie Chenoweth. She is very open about her adoption and has been known to support various adoption causes and organization around the US. Although Chenoweth knows the backgrounds of her birth parents, she has commented that she has little interest in meeting them. The Chenoweth family includes older brother Mark. Chenoweth graduated from Broken Arrow High School and went on to study Musical Theater at Oklahoma City University. Under the guidance of Florence Birdwell, Chenoweth flourished in stage and vocal performance. She later received her Master's Degree in Opera Performance at OCU. An avid fan of all things Oklahoma, Chenoweth was inducted into the 2010 State Hall of Fame.Fans of Kristin Chenoweth, the stage actress, have seen her stealing performances in Steel Pier, Epic Proportions, and The Apple Tree. In 1999, Chenoweth received the Tony Award for her performance as \"Sally\" in \"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown\". Chenoweth is well-known as the originator of \"Glinda\" in the 2003 mega-hit musical \"Wicked\". The role, written with Chenoweth in mind, earned her a Tony Award Nomination amongst many other accolades. Chenoweth returned to Broadway in 2010, alongside Sean Hayes in the Broadway revival of \"Promises, Promises\".In January of 2007, Chenoweth became the third musical theater performer in history to have a solo performance at NYC's Metropolitan Opera. She has also performed with various Symphonies around the world. Chenoweth has recorded 3 studio albums. Those who know Kristin best from her various television performances remember her as the quirky, down on love, \"Olive Snook\" on \"Pushing Daisies\" (2007). The role won Ms. Chenoweth an Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actress. The show, ultimately canceled shortly after its 2nd season, is still considered by Kristin to be one of her favorite characters to play. In 2001, Chenoweth stared in the short-lived NBC comedy \"Kristin\" (2001). She has also been seen on \"The West Wing\" (1999), \"Ugly Betty\" (2006) and has a reoccurring role on Fox's \"Glee\" (2009) as the recovering alcoholic has-been, but lovable \"April Rhodes\" . Her appearances on \"Glee\" earned her a 3rd Emmy nomination.Most recently, Ms. Chenoweth had a small part in the 2010 comedy, You Again (2010). She has also had roles in Four Christmases (2008), Deck the Halls (2006), Running with Scissors (2006) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006). In 2009, Chenoweth took on the challenging role as \"Linda\" in the film, Into Temptation (2009). &nbsp; less &nbsp; &nbsp; AtGoogleTalks uploaded a new video (5 days ago) Kristin Chenoweth stopped by Google NYC to talk about her new album, \"Some Lessons Learned\" and the new ABC show, \"Good Christian Be... &nbsp; more Kristin Chenoweth stopped by Google NYC to talk about her new album, \"Some Lessons Learned\" and the new ABC show, \"Good Christian Belles\" as well as answer some questions from Googlers and moderator Lee Stimmel.Kristin Chenoweth is an American stage, screen and television actress. Though, depending on who you ask, Cheno fans may disagree on what her most famous roles are. Since Chenoweth began her career, she has been credited with roles in musicals and plays on and off-Broadway, on various television shows and can be seen in movies on television and the big screen. She has also lent her recognizable voice numerous times to animated features.Chenoweth was born in the small town of Broken Arrow, OK. Soon after her birth, Chenoweth was adopted by Jerry and Junie Chenoweth. She is very open about her adoption and has been known to support various adoption causes and organization around the US. Although Chenoweth knows the backgrounds of her birth parents, she has commented that she has little interest in meeting them. The Chenoweth family includes older brother Mark. Chenoweth graduated from Broken Arrow High School and went on to study Musical Theater at Oklahoma City University. Under the guidance of Florence Birdwell, Chenoweth flourished in stage and vocal performance. She later received her Master's Degree in Opera Performance at OCU. An avid fan of all things Oklahoma, Chenoweth was inducted into the 2010 State Hall of Fame.Fans of Kristin Chenoweth, the stage actress, have seen her stealing performances in Steel Pier, Epic Proportions, and The Apple Tree. In 1999, Chenoweth received the Tony Award for her performance as \"Sally\" in \"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown\". Chenoweth is well-known as the originator of \"Glinda\" in the 2003 mega-hit musical \"Wicked\". The role, written with Chenoweth in mind, earned her a Tony Award Nomination amongst many other accolades. Chenoweth returned to Broadway in 2010, alongside Sean Hayes in the Broadway revival of \"Promises, Promises\".In January of 2007, Chenoweth became the third musical theater performer in history to have a solo performance at NYC's Metropolitan Opera. She has also performed with various Symphonies around the world. Chenoweth has recorded 3 studio albums. Those who know Kristin best from her various television performances remember her as the quirky, down on love, \"Olive Snook\" on \"Pushing Daisies\" (2007). The role won Ms. Chenoweth an Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actress. The show, ultimately canceled shortly after its 2nd season, is still considered by Kristin to be one of her favorite characters to play. In 2001, Chenoweth stared in the short-lived NBC comedy \"Kristin\" (2001). She has also been seen on \"The West Wing\" (1999), \"Ugly Betty\" (2006) and has a reoccurring role on Fox's \"Glee\" (2009) as the recovering alcoholic has-been, but lovable \"April Rhodes\" . Her appearances on \"Glee\" earned her a 3rd Emmy nomination.Most recently, Ms. Chenoweth had a small part in the 2010 comedy, You Again (2010). She has also had roles in Four Christmases (2008), Deck the Halls (2006), Running with Scissors (2006) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006). 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"text": "We’re just about a year away from the next Presidential election. That means one thing: campaign ads. A shit ton of them. Everywhere. And that includes Twitter. Yes, the old: “This message has been approved by….” is coming to Twitter starting today. Mitt Romney’s campaign is the first to buy one. While they are still technically a part of the Promoted Products suite, Twitter is rolling out small UI changes to distinguish political ads from regular ones, they say. And yes, the FEC disclaimers will be a included in the hover overlay. This project is being led by Twitter’s Peter Greenberger, a guy they just hired who previously ran political sales for Google. With campaigns looking to spend more online than ever before, this is a smart move by Twitter. And as we get closer to the election, Twitter will undoubtedly play a key role in the political discourse. Of course, both that and the ads will likely piss plenty of users off as well. I’ve asked Twitter who will see these political ads — everyone, or just those following candidates (or those tweeting political things)? I’ll update when I hear back. Update from Twitter: They’ll function exactly as existing Promoted Products do. The only difference is that political advertising will have a special icon to help users distinguish between political ads & normal promoted stuff, and when people hover over those ads, we will display a pop-up disclaimer identifying who paid for the ad. Promoted Tweets will appear in search and can also be targeted to followers (we’re not testing political ads in the timeline at this time) Promoted Account recommendations will appear on the right side of the Twitter.com interface in the “Who to follow” module Promoted Trends will appear at the top of the list of Trends. The key is that they’re not testing these ads in the main timeline at this time. That will be welcomed news for many. Though I imagine that may change as the ads take off. More from Twitter: Starting today, Twitter has begun to accept political advertising. Effective immediately, candidates and their political committees will be able to purchase Twitter’s full suite of Promoted Products, including Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends. We’re piloting the program with a small group of presidential candidates and national party committees. These partners will be running ads in the coming week. We will expand the pilot to include other candidates and committees as we build up our political sales team. In support of this strategy, Peter Greenberger is joining Twitter as a sales director, heading up our political sales efforts. Peter is an innovator and veteran in the market for online political advertising. He joins Twitter after 4 years with Google, where he built and managed the company’s first political sales team and managed the company’s work with electoral campaigns, committees, and issue advocacy groups. Peter’s contacts and expertise will be extremely valuable assets for Twitter as we grow this part of our business. He will be based in Washington, D.C., where he will build and oversee a dedicated political sales team. We’re launching two small UI tweaks to make it easy for people to distinguish political advertising from other advertising on Twitter. First, we’re launching a new purple “Promoted” icon that will be used to identify political advertising on Twitter. Second, we’re adding the ability for campaigns who advertise on Twitter to include a full, FEC-compliant disclaimer when users hover over their Promoted Tweets, Promoted Trends or Promoted Accounts. Today’s news is a natural extension of the role Twitter is already playing in the political world. Twitter has become a more mainstream presence in politics, both domestically and around the world. TWITTER Twitter twitter.com $1.16B Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for... Learn more",
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"text": "Outercurve Foundation Announces Contribution of GADS Project September 20, 2011 Wakefield, MA. September 20, 2011 - The Outercurve Foundation today announced the acceptance of the GADS open source (GADS/OS) project into the Data, Language and System Interoperability (DLSI) Gallery. The GADS/OS project is the fifth project contributed to the gallery. The project was contributed by the GADS Open Source Project, an independent community of power generating plant engineers and software developers. The community’s mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting plant operating and performance data as required by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC.)GADS/OS allows electric generating companies to collect and report validated performance data and event data, including outage, de-rating, non-curtailing and reserve shutdown events, in standard formats required by NERC and all major independent system operators (ISOs.) The GADS/OS project was developed by HBS Solomon Associates and sold as GADS NxL from 2004 through March 2011. Solomon published the GADS NxL source code in April 2011, providing the entire power industry access to the source code. The GADS Open Source Project formed to continue development of the software.The GADS/OS code base is being used to collect and analyze data on more than200 companies and 3,800 generating units domestically and internationally, including the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Calpine, Westar Energy, Luminant (TXU), Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, Delta Electricity (Australia), and Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Mexico). In addition, both the New York ISO and the ISO New England use the GADS/OS code base. All NERC-registered generator owners of conventional electric generating units (i.e., not wind or solar) will be required to report generator performance data through NERC's Generating Availability Data System (GADS) on a mandatory basis beginning January 1, 2012. This includes generator owners in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. “With its broad user base, GADS/OS is a significant, proven project used by generating companies to analyze and manage data to comply with mandatory GADS reporting to NERC and the various ISOs,” said Paula Hunter, Executive Director, Outercurve Foundation. “We are fortunate to add the GADS/OS project to the Data, Language and Systems Interoperability Gallery. The GADS/OS project gives electric generating companies the open source tools needed to improve and report on operational performance.”The Outercurve Foundation has three galleries and 15 projects. Galleries include the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery, the Research Accelerators Gallery and the Data, Language and System Interoperability Gallery. For more information on the GADS/OS project or the Data, Language and System Interoperability Gallery or the Outercurve Foundation please visit www.Outercurve.org.About The Outercurve FoundationThe Outercurve Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation providing software IP management and project development governance to enable and encourage organizations to develop software collaboratively in open source communities for faster results. The Outercurve Foundation is the only open source foundation that is platform, technology, and license agnostic. For more information about the Outercurve Foundation contact info@Outercurve.org.About The GADS Open Source ProjectGADS Open Source Project’s mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting NERC GADS data. The project community, comprised of a core group of highly experienced plant engineers and software developers with years of experience in reporting GADS for generating companies and in building similar commercial GADS software tools, supports a completely open development process in which anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. Press contactAnn Dalrympleadalrymple@topazpartners.com781-404-2432 (o)781-254-3892 (c) Categories: News",
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"text": "Windows 8 secure boot could complicate Linux installs By Jon Brodkin | Published September 21, 2011 1:00 PM PC users who run Windows and Linux on the same machine will want to do some research before purchasing a Windows 8 computer. That's because systems with a \"Designed for Windows 8\" logo must ship with UEFI secure booting enabled—a move that prevents booting operating systems that aren’t signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. This could pose a problem for Linux users, though in practice most can just change UEFI settings to disable secure boot before installing the open-source OS. But users will have to depend on hardware vendors to make this option possible in the first place. Disabling secure boot “Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled,” Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett writes on his blog&nbsp;in reference to a recent presentation by Microsoft program manager Arie van der Hoeven. The Microsoft exec notes that UEFI and secure boot are “required for Windows 8 client” with the result that “all firmware and software in the boot process must be signed by a trusted Certificate Authority.” Microsoft has a good reason for this. A “growing class of malware targets the boot path [and] often the only fix is to reinstall the operating system,” van der Hoeven said. “UEFI and secure boot harden the boot process [and] reduce the likelihood of bootkits, rootkits and ransomware.” Importantly, though, Garrett writes that “there’s no indication that Microsoft will prevent vendors from providing firmware support for disabling this feature and running unsigned code.” For many (and hopefully most) Windows 8 machines, this means that users have a good chance of successfully entering the UEFI settings interface to turn off secure boot. But this will depend on the hardware vendor. “Experience indicates that many firmware vendors and OEMs are interested in providing only the minimum of firmware functionality required for their market,” Garrett writes. “It's almost certainly the case that some systems will ship with the option of disabling this. Equally, it's almost certainly the case that some systems won't. It's probably not worth panicking yet. But it is worth being concerned.” Technically, vendors can ship Windows 8 PCs without meeting Microsoft's \"designed for Windows 8\" logo requirements, but major OEMs typically would not do that. The Windows 8 developer tablet Microsoft handed out at this month’s recent BUILD conference did include the ability to turn off the secure boot process. This is reminiscent of Google’s Cr-48 Chromebook, which allowed users to turn off the Verified Boot process and install another operating system, though this involved flipping a physical switch instead of changing a software setting. A signed OS Besides disabling the Windows 8 secure boot process, another option for Linux lovers is installing a signed version of Linux. But “this poses several problems,” Garrett notes. “Firstly, we'd need a non-GPL bootloader. Grub 2 is released under the GPLv3, which explicitly requires that we provide the signing keys. Grub is under GPLv2 which lacks the explicit requirement for keys, but it could be argued that the requirement for the scripts used to control compilation includes that. It's a grey area, and exploiting it would be a pretty good show of bad faith. Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader. This means that kernels will also have to be signed. Making it impossible for users or developers to build their own kernels is not practical. Finally, if we self-sign, it's still necessary to get our keys included by every OEM.” Current machines dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux should be able to upgrade to Windows 8 without wiping out the Linux install. As Microsoft notes in the Building Windows 8 blog, “We will continue to support the legacy BIOS interface.” However, machines using UEFI instead of BIOS “will have significantly richer capabilities” including faster boot times and greater security. Ultimately, the Windows 8 changes aren’t likely to wipe out Linux dual-boot scenarios, but they could restrict the types of hardware that will allow them. PC users who would boot two operating systems tend to be highly technical, though, so we expect they’ll find the necessary workarounds.",
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"text": "This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors</a>. If you aren't happy with your existing online backup provider and want to switch to one of the 11 different services that NextAdvisor has analyzed, then head on over to their website now and check it out. In just a few clicks of the mouse you can see which ones offer the best match of features and price. NextAdvisor provides an interesting array of independent reviews of everything from dating sites to credit cards and VOIP services, the online backup reviews are the latest addition to their lineup. You answer questions such as how much data do you need to backup, whether it is for Macs or Windows or both, and whether you want the online backup to extend to external drives or not. The information seems fairly accurate on our quick look around the site. The only drawback is that the comparison is limited to just a few providers. It is missing a few key players such as Trend Micro's SafeSync and Zmanda.com (for unlimited users and space), among others. See Also Tell us about your road to the cloud and win a MacBook Air with an Intel&reg; Core&trade; 2 Duo Processor. This month's question:",
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