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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Tron: Legacy' pinball looks like a quarter quencher]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most Crave-worthy pinball machine in recent memory. Click to enlarge.(Credit:Stern Pinball)In &quot;Tron: Legacy,&quot; we were once again exposed to the madness of a virtual world created by an eccentric programmer. And now the grid has inspired a new game.The playfield on the new &amp;quot'Tron: Legacy&amp;quot' pinball game. Click to enlarge.(Credit:Stern Pinball)Get ready to load your fanny pack full of quarters. Stern Pinball and Disney recently unveiled a full featured &quot;Tron: Legacy&quot; pinball machine perhaps worthy enough for Flynn's Arcade. The playfield features light cycles, deadly discs, and other notable imagery from the film. The audio doesn't slouch either, as the original Daft Punk soundtrack and character sound clips emit during gameplay. Well-known names in the pinball industry collaborated on the project: John Borg is the playfield architect, artist John Youssi designed the art, and David Thiel engineered the sound.After pulling back on the plunger, players take on the role of Sam Flynn, who is attempting to fight off villians Clu and Rinsler. According to Stern Pinball, gameplay features are numerous, including the option to &quot;ride the two ramps for Light Cycle battles on different levels of the Grid' defeat the motorized Recognizer target bank to expose Rinsler's spinning Identity Disc' or fire the ball from Rinsler's Disc to simulate a Disc War.&quot;There's even a limited edition &quot;Tron: Legacy&quot; pinball machine (about 400 will be made) that Pinball News has described in greater detail. The LE model features EL wire lighting, chrome trim, enhanced playfield artwork, an extra playfield toy, and other enhancements.I'm hoping I can play soon. Anything to get closer to Olivia Wilde (Quorra).<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: U.S. solar $6 billion industry in 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-u-s--solar-6-billion-industry-in-2010</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:SEIA/GTM Research)The U.S. solar market grew 67 percent from a $3.6 billion market in 2009 to $6 billion in 2010, according to &quot;U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2010 Year in Review,&quot; a report released this month by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research.California installed the most photovoltaics last year, with 258.9 megawatts of direct current (MWdc), followed by New Jersey in second place with 137.1, and Nevada with 61.4. Others on the Top 10 list in order of greatest installations included Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas.The SEIA estimates that the U.S. now has a cumulative solar capacity of 2.6 gigawatts. Of that 2.6 gigawatts, there are 152,516 PV systems totaling 2.1 gigawatts (direct current) connected to the power grid. The U.S. also now has 17 concentrated solar plants totaling about 507 megawatts (alternating current), according to the SEIA.The biggest reason for this growth could be attributed to the large amount of utility installations. There were a total of 113 megawatts as of 2009, and that increased to 242 megawatts by the end of 2010. The SEIA attributes a lot of those projects to the Department of Energy Loan program and says future growth outlook will depend in part on that program's fate.Still, despite growth, the U.S. actually fell behind other countries in 2010 in terms of global photovoltaic installation. The U.S. was home to only 5 percent of the world's installed photovoltaics in 2010, compared with 6.5 percent in 2009. The SEIA attributed this to the European solar boom caused by government incentives that pushed countries like Spain, Italy, and Germany to install more solar plants.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android in 2011: Bigger, faster, thinner, lighter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=android-in-2011-bigger-faster-thinner-lighter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The 4-inch screen, 1GB RAM, dual-core processor, and 1930mAh battery will likely make the Atrix 4G one of 2011&amp;39's top phones.(Credit:Motorola)After taking a few days to decompress and wrap my head around the Android news from CES 2011, I started to notice a couple of trends with the new devices. Not only are these phones getting substantially faster with bigger screens, but they are growing thinner and lighter at the same time.As expected, the next crop of Android phones are going to be much faster than today's handsets. We have dual-core smartphones like LG's Optimus 2X and the Motorola Atrix 4G on the horizon, and companies like Samsung are pushing out single-core processor handsets with impressive 1.2GHz speeds.  And when you factor in 1GB memory capacities, you have two ingredients for 2011's &quot;superphone.&quot; Well, at least for the first half of the year. At the rate things are moving, it's pretty difficult to forecast beyond six months.DisplaysWith screen size, big is in. What started with HTC's Evo 4G continues this year in force. In fact, it appears that the minimum display size for touch-screen phones now hovers around 4 inches or higher. Not only does a quick look show that some of the key handsets announced atCES have screens of 4.3 inches or larger, but Samsung's Infuse 4G is headed for AT&amp;T with a 4.5-inch screen. Anything larger and we'll be into Dell Streak andtablet territory.  It's really funny considering that last summer plenty of people balked at the Evo because it was considered too big. Was the success of the Sprint phone a driving factor in the new designs or are handset makers simply moving the needle whether we like it or notAs screen size grows, the technology behind them is improving as well. Motorola introduced us to qHD displays on its Droid Bionic while Samsung is ushering in the era of the Super AMOLED Plus screens. Without doing a full comparison between the different screen types available, it's sufficient to say that each will be brighter, more efficient, and better for outdoor visibility. DesignSomewhat conversely, these new handsets are becoming thinner and lighter. While the average user might not be able to detect it right away, the next generation of Android smartphones come in with an average thickness of around 0.39 inch (10mm) or less. Maybe I'm wrong, but I could swear I heard at least three companies announce the thinnest smartphone on the planet at last week's CES. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, for example, has a 0.34 inch (8.7mm) profile while the iPhone 4, which Apple hailed as the &quot;world's thinnest smartphone&quot; last year, compares at 0.36 inch (9.3mm) thick.  Looking at LG's Optimus Black, we have a phone that starts at 0.36 inch (9.2mm) at its widest point, but dwindles down to as low as a very trim 0.23 inch (6mm) at its narrowest. If a 0.12-inch (3.3mm) difference doesn't sound like much, consider this: the Optimus Black is 33 percent thinner than theiPhone 4 in certain spots. PowerThings look promising on the battery front with Motorola's Atrix 4G. Indeed, Moto has squeezed a 1930mAh battery into a feature-laden handset. Promised talk time is nine hours plus a rated standby time of 10.4 days. Though that's in perfect-world conditions, it's most welcome over the Samsung Nexus S' 1500mAh battery.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RIM to filter Indonesia Web traffic]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rim-to-filter-indonesia-web-traffic</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Research In Motion will block pornography accessed through its smartphones in Indonesia.The company announced today that it will develop a &quot;prompt, compliant filtering solution&quot; for Indonesia BlackBerry users by the country's January 21 deadline. If RIM doesn't start filtering out pornographic sites through its service by that date, the company could find itself in hot water with the Indonesian government.According to Bloomberg, which first reported the story and spoke with officials in Indonesia, the country could block BlackBerry Web browsing altogether if RIM doesn't filter pornography.Indonesia was quick to point out to Bloomberg that it wasn't alone in battling with RIM over Web-access regulations. Heru Sutadi of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body told Bloomberg that &quot;Middle Eastern countries are also being hard on RIM.&quot;Last year, RIM faced threats of service bans from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over those countries' demand to have access to communications on BlackBerry devices. The company's strict encryption and security features make it nearly impossible for governments to monitor communications through its smartphones. The countries contend that by not providing access to BlackBerry communications, RIM is putting them at risk of terrorism.Reports later surfaced, claiming RIM was able to come to terms with Saudi Arabia by reportedly installing a server in the country to allow the government to monitor communications. However, RIM has said publicly that it has never entered into special arrangements with countries, and it has no way to provide governments with the data they desire, due to the encryption it employs.That argument has been echoed numerous times in RIM's battles with India.Back in August, the Indian government threatened to shut down BlackBerry service if RIM didn't provide it with access to e-mail, instant messages, and Web browsing data. RIM didn't give in to those demands at the time, and said that it didn't have a &quot;master key&quot; that would allow the company to provide governments with access to communications, even if it wanted to. The company also said that it didn't believe it should be singled out.&quot;This challenge can only be truly overcome if the information and communications technology industry comes together as a whole to work with the government of India,&quot; RIM said in a statement. &quot;The use of strong encryption in wireless technology is not unique to the BlackBerry platform. It is unquestionably an industrywide matter.&quot;But that hasn't stopped India from continuing to take aim at the company. It created a new deadline for the end of January for RIM to offer access to communications. The government also started negotiating with companies that use BlackBerry devices to circumvent RIM's objections and gain access to their communications.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Panasonic event Wednesday at CES 2011 (live blog)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-panasonic-event-wednesday-at-ces-2011-live-blog</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-panasonic-event-wednesday-at-ces-2011-live-blog</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be CES without new televisions to talk about, and Panasonic's press conference tomorrow shouldn't disappoint. Sign up below for to receive an e-mail reminder for our live coverage of Panasonic executives speaking live at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas at 3 p.m. PT Wednesday. I'll be joined by CNET's trio of television experts, including David Carnoy, David Katzmaier, and Matt Moscovciak, as we outline the news released during the event and provide commentary.Panasonic CES 2011 press conference live blog<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Facebook saved some Gawker subscribers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-facebook-saved-some-gawker-subscribers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The data breach at Gawker earlier this week had many people scrambling to figure out if their data had been exposed and resetting passwords on other sites just in case they had reused their password there.  The only Gawker subscribers who appeared to have been safe were those who logged in to the site using Login with Facebook (formerly called Facebook Connect), a single sign-on authentication service that lets you use one login for multiple sites as long as you have a Facebook account.  Basically, it works by allowing you to sign in to a Web site using your Facebook username and password. If your browser stores cookies, the site will automatically log you in every time you visit it.  There are similar single sign-on services, including OpenID, Microsoft Passport, and Twitter OAuth, which allows people to use apps without the apps storing the user password. But the popularity of Facebook has pushed its login service to be used on more than 2 million sites. One hitch for the Gawker users was that people who didn't have Facebook accounts couldn't use the Login for Facebook option. Facebook addressed that with a new registration tool announced yesterday that allows Web sites to use Login for Facebook even if the subscriber doesn't have a Facebook account. The tool fills in the registration window with information for Facebook users who are logged in at the time. Non-Facebook users can sign up for the site manually.  For users who want convenience, single sign-on is a good option. Not only does it allow them to quickly access their favorite Web sites and services without having to remember more than one password, but Login for Facebook also allows them to easily share their Facebook information between the different sites and interact with their Facebook friends on the non-Facebook site.  Some people may not want their Facebook profile information to be shared with other sites. When they are signing up the first time via Login for Facebook a window explains exactly what information the site will access in the user's Facebook account.  For Web site owners, Login for Facebook and other single sign-in options relieve them of the burden of having to store and manage user passwords and do so securely. As Gawker learned, this is not an easy feat.  &quot;Independent Web site developers can leverage an existing user database of a large service, like Facebook, and get access to the data the users have stored there,&quot; said Andrew Walls, research director at Gartner. &quot;Reducing the number of places users store user names and passwords makes sense.&quot;  But there is the concern that such services are even more attractive targets for attackers and data thieves. The operator of the single sign-on service needs to be expert at defending the data or it will lose the confidence of its users, Walls said.  &quot;Who do you trust more in terms of security performance Do you trust Gawker or any Web site out there, or Facebook&quot; he asked rhetorically. &quot;Many people [500 million users] have expressed trust in Facebook and its ability to secure personal information, so I think Facebook is well positioned to make the claim that at the moment they are more secure than most Web sites out there.&quot; Security a la Facebook Facebook has more than 150 people dedicated to security and spends &quot;tens of millions of dollars&quot; a year on securing the data and accounts of its users, a spokesman said. Every new engineer or engineering manager goes through a six-week &quot;boot camp&quot; in which they learn about how to do secure coding and get training in &quot;defense against the dark arts.&quot;  Meanwhile, all code goes through a rigorous review process and uses specific techniques to prevent common cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, according to the Facebook spokesman. Passwords are stored in a way that allows Facebook to authenticate users with passwords without actually storing the passwords using what is called &quot;cryptographic hash functions.&quot; &quot;As an Internet company, we want people to deal with passwords as little as possible. The more you use a password the more opportunities for it to be compromised,&quot; Ryan McGeehan, manager of Facebook's security incident response team, told CNET. &quot;On the system side, the Web site is not in the business of protecting user data. That burden is on us.&quot;  Another potential problem for Web sites is that an outage at Facebook could affect the ability for people to log in on the other sites using Login for Facebook. This is similar to how malware or outages with Twitter's automated feed can ripple out and affect other sites that integrate Twitter feeds directly onto their pages.  &quot;Just like any Web site, Facebook occasionally experiences downtime, and this downtime may also result in Facebook Platform (including Login with Facebook) going down,&quot; a Facebook spokesman said. &quot;We work hard to ensure that these instances are rare, and when they do happen, that they're fixed quickly.&quot;  Small mom-and-pop Web sites may be glad to outsource the authentication of users to Facebook, but other companies won't necessarily want to, especially if they are competing with the social-networking giant for eyeballs and loyalty. &quot;The Googles and the Amazons would all love to become the identity broker for the Web,&quot; Walls said.  Single sign-on services are still at risk of being targets of phishing attacks, even more so because the passwords are the keys to so many sites. Facebook advises people to make sure that when they are signing up via Login for Facebook on a site that a window pops up in a new browser and that it includes a legitimate Facebook.com Web address. Otherwise, the user could fall prey to a scam that looks like a legitimate Login for Facebook implementation but is instead a ruse to steal log in information.  Because so many people re-use passwords and phishing attacks are ubiquitous, Gartner analyst John Pescatore says sites would be better off looking at authentication that doesn't rely on just passwords. One option is a two-step verification process like the one Google announced a few months ago that sends a security code to a user's smartphone to allow them to log in after providing a password. &quot;I think it would be a much better advance for the state of the Internet if we tried out alternatives to reusable passwords rather than just trying to find bigger and bigger places to store them,&quot; he said. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile-app revenue could reach $35 billion by 2014]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-app-revenue-could-reach-35-billion-by-2014</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-app-revenue-could-reach-35-billion-by-2014</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you think mobile applications are popular now, a new report predicts you haven't seen anything yet.This year, consumers worldwide will have downloaded 10.9 billion mobile apps, according to a report from IDC released today. But that figure will pale in comparison to how many apps users download in 2014.By that time, IDC believes 76.9 billion mobile apps will be downloaded in a single year. Given that popularity, IDC said that mobile-app revenue around the world could surpass $35 billion in 2014, up from an estimated $4.9 billion this year.Going forward, IDC said that it believes &quot;appification&quot; of a user's personal and professional life will only continue.&quot;Mobile app developers will 'appify' just about every interaction you can think of in your physical and digital worlds,&quot; Scott Ellison, vice president of IDC's Mobile and Wireless research, said in a statement. &quot;The extension of mobile apps to every aspect of our personal and business lives will be one of the hallmarks of the new decade with enormous opportunities for virtually every business sector.&quot;Evidently, Angry Birds creator Rovio sees that potential for future growth, as well. The company announced last week that it would be launching a new in-app payment system next year, called Bad Piggy Bank. It didn't divulge how it would share revenue with developers, but the company said that it would provide users with a one-tap purchase system that requires no credit card or registration. Instead, the consumer will be charged for the purchase on their monthly phone bill.Earlier this year, mobile-app store GetJar commissioned a study that offered up another rosy picture of the future of the mobile-apps business. The company found that total downloads could reach 50 billion in 2012, while revenue could climb to $17.5 billion that year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WheeMe: Like a Roomba for your sore back]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wheeme-like-a-roomba-for-your-sore-back</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:DreamBots)No massage could ever come close to those given by Eleanor, the miracle worker who is CNET's in-house masseuse (we do have to pay for her time, but rates are good). Sometimes, however, even she needs a day off, and for those sad occasions, we're thinking CNET might want to invest in a few WheeMe massage robots. The WheeMe toy car massage robot comes in several color combinations (click to enlarge). (Credit:DreamBots)Yes, they wash our hair and give us sponge baths, and now robots are climbing atop our backs to massage our aching muscles, too. Employing tilt sensor technology, the palm-size bot from Israel's DreamBots automatically steers itself around at 4.5 centimeters per second, gently caressing your muscles with &quot;patented fingerettes&quot; that make it look like the love child of a toy car and a rubber caterpillar. DreamBots points out that WheeMe works best on horizontal surfaces such as the back or stomach (although one or two photos on the DreamBots site hint at more provocative targets). The company promises the robot won't fall off or lose its grip as it silently maneuvers around your achy-breaky body.  The WheeMe measures 3.9 inches by 3.5 inches by 2.3 inches, weighs less than a pound, and runs on three AA batteries or three rechargeable AA nickel metal hydride batteries. It's available for preorder now for $49 and starts shipping in the spring, with a limited number of units set to be manufactured before the end of this year, according to DreamBots.  Man, we can't wait to get our backs on this one. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iHome fires first shot in AirPlay speaker wars]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ihome-fires-first-shot-in-airplay-speaker-wars</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ihome-fires-first-shot-in-airplay-speaker-wars</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The iHome iW1 is one of the first portable speaker systems we've seen announced that is compatible with Apple's AirPlay wireless audio standard.(Credit:iHome)Just as wireless Bluetooth speakers are starting to get some love from the surge ofiPhone,iPad, andiPod Touch users over the past few years, Apple's new AirPlay wireless audio standard is setting out to make them obsolete. Apple's own description page for its AirPlay technology (a part of iOS 4.2 and Apple TV) specifically mentions compatibility with the Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin and upcoming Denon and Marantz receivers, but leaves out specifics on anything portable or affordable. Fortunately, iHome seems to have a solution for the rest of us.The iHome iW1 is the company's first AirPlay-compatible system. It's also the first we've seen announced from any manufacturer that offers a built-in rechargeable battery for portability. Today, the iHome iW1 product page includes new tantalizing details and photos, detailing its unique charging base, a capacitive touch control strip at the top, Bongiovi acoustic design and audio enhancement DSP, Class-D amplification, and support for an external charging dock for an iPhone, iPod, or iPad.Predictably, the two most important details (pricing and availability) are still unknown. Pricing on iHome products is typically very reasonable, though, and we think its fair to say they would be pretty upset if the iW1 misses the holiday buying frenzy.Also, is it just me, or does the iW1 look like the spitting image of the ill-fated Sony S-AIR wireless speaker system <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube to test smart 'topics' on videos]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=youtube-to-test-smart-topics-on-videos</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=youtube-to-test-smart-topics-on-videos</guid>
<description><![CDATA[YouTube plans to start testing user reaction to what they are calling &amp;34'topics,&amp;34' shown here to the right of the &amp;34'Explore&amp;34' link.(Credit:YouTube)SAN BRUNO, Calif.--YouTube thinks it has found a better way to help its users find exactly which videos they're looking for on its site: smart tags. At some point tomorrow evening, YouTube will turn on an experiment in TestTube, its lab, in which users will be able to see what the company is calling &quot;topics&quot; above videos they find through search results or that are shared among friends. These topics are sort of like tags, but are the product of sophisticated analysis of comments, viewing patterns, and other signals that will automatically appear above videos, said Palash Nandy, a staff engineer at YouTube, in a briefing for the media here at the company's headquarters. &quot;People don't know what to search for because they don't know what's there,&quot; Nandy said, referring to how Internet search and video search are two different problems. When you search on Google, you're generally looking for a defined result, you just don't know where it's located. But when you're looking to be entertained, and you search for something like &quot;funny videos,&quot; how is YouTube supposed to know what is actually funny, and what is merely stupid yet was labeled &quot;funny lol!&quot; by some user Or whether you find slapstick humor in the video you were sent funny but pranks and practical jokes in related videos also entitled &quot;funny&quot; actually boring To try and solve that problem, YouTube has decided to put these &quot;topics&quot; front and center on videos--at least for its experimental users--as to evaluate how they are used. For example, a video about fighter jets might have more specific topics automatically generated that relate to that video, such as &quot;air force fighter jets,&quot; &quot;blue angel bay area,&quot; or &quot;air show footage,&quot; which a user could click on to see more videos of that type. &quot;We're really creating a language of discovery,&quot; Nandy said. It's not clear when YouTube might be ready to bring this into wider distribution, but those interested in checking it out should be able to opt into the program tomorrow night at TestTube. Likewise, it's not clear when YouTube might be ready to speak the language of advertising just yet when it comes to these topics, as certain advertisers could find them valuable in the same manner that AdWords continues to rake in advertising dollars at YouTube parent Google. YouTube also demonstrated a mobile application called YouTube Remote that allows Android users to control the YouTube application on their Google TV systems with their phones, as well as pause a video on their phones and start watching it on their Google TV. That application should be available in the Android Market this afternoon.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[People feel safer on a PC than on a mobile device]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=people-feel-safer-on-a-pc-than-on-a-mobile-device</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=people-feel-safer-on-a-pc-than-on-a-mobile-device</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you feel safer online using your PC instead of your mobile phone, you are not alone.A majority 87 percent of people polled for a new study think their home PCs offer better defense against viruses, malware, and hackers than do their mobile phones. Released today by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec, the study (PDF) also discovered that people may be overconfident in the power of their computers to protect them as less than half are using full security software.Though only 24 percent of those polled said they feel very safe using their home computers to surf the Net, 61 percent said they feel somewhat safe. In contrast, just 18 percent said they feel very safe using their mobile phones to access the Web, while only 28 percent feel somewhat safe.When asked if they run a complete security suite, 58 percent said yes. But Symantec's scans found only 37 percent fully protected. Symantec's definition of a complete security suite includes antivirus, firewall, antispyware, spam filtering, antiphishing, and identity protection. Like many of these polls, the companies doing the polling have a vested interest in the results--in this case Symantec sells its own complete security suite. But that by itself doesn't necessarily make the findings less credible or relevant.The study also learned that people are connecting to the Internet from a wider array of devices. Half of those polled said they have two or three PCs at home, with 74 percent owning a laptop or Netbook. Almost 17 percent are able to access the Internet from their TV and 24 percent from a gaming console.To surf the Net from all their gadgets, 70 percent have a Wi-Fi router at home. Some 85 percent of those people said their routers are password protected. But among all of those polled, 43 percent admitted to jumping onto Wi-Fi networks not secured by a password, a number that surged to 66 percent for those 18 to 29 years old. &quot;Computer users can run into online threats regardless of where they might be connected and what device they're using,&quot; Marian Merritt, Norton Internet Safety Advocate, said in a statement. &quot;However, on a Wi-Fi network, there are other risks consumers can run into, like 'evil twin' networks that trick people into connecting to unknown networks, giving cybercriminals access to their computer and its contents. Consumers should ensure they're connecting to a legitimate network, using the access keys or portal given to them by the Wi-Fi provider.&quot;Only 5.1 percent of those surveyed think the Internet is safer than it was a year ago, while 68 percent feel it's about the same, and 21.2 percent believe it's less safe. Half of those polled cited identify theft as a major concern. Overall, 44 percent of the respondents see themselves as responsible for their own online safety. Only 30 percent believe keeping the Internet secure is the responsibility of Internet providers, while just 4 percent feel it's the government's job.To compile the study, the NCSA commissioned a survey of 3,498 Americans, while Symantec ran an analysis on some 400 PCs.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Famed Babbage machine could come back to life]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=famed-babbage-machine-could-come-back-to-life</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=famed-babbage-machine-could-come-back-to-life</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A model of a part of the Analytical Engine built by Charles Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum in London.(Credit:Wikimedia Commons)Yesterday marked the anniversary of the 1871 death of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable non-digital computer. It also happens that a move is now afoot to use Babbage's original blueprints to create a working version of his steam-powered Analytical Engine. The campaign is being spearheaded by blogger and programmer John Graham-Cumming, author of &quot;The Geek Atlas.&quot; Unfortunately for Babbage, he never got to complete his project, although parts of the machine he conceived have been built over the 173 years since he put his ideas on paper. Graham-Cumming now plans to use those original blueprints to construct the truck-sized device. So far, about 1,600 people have pledged to contribute funds to the project, according to the BBC.  &quot;It's an inspirational piece of equipment,&quot; Graham-Cumming said. &quot;A hundred years ago, before computers were available, [Babbage] had envisaged this machine.&quot; Babbage's notebooks are housed at the Science Museum in London. For more about Babbage and his ideas, read CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman's coverage of the difference engine, Babbage's predecessor to the Analytical Engine, and check out this video report:This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Patent Office Agrees To Facebook&'s &''Face&''&nbsp'Trademark]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=patent-office-agrees-to-facebookrsquos-8220face8221nbsptrademark</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=patent-office-agrees-to-facebookrsquos-8220face8221nbsptrademark</guid>
<description><![CDATA[photo a4s 2009 Kyla Buckingham | more info (via: Wylio)Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word &amp;''Face.&amp;'' As of today the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have agreed to grant the &amp;''Face&amp;'' trademark to Facebook.All Facebook needs to do is pay the issue fee within three months of today and the &amp;''Face&amp;'' trademark will be issued and be published in the official USPTO gazette and everything.For all intents and purposes today&amp;'s status update bodes wella4sfor Facebook&amp;'s hold over &amp;''Face&amp;'' usages in &amp;''Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter, none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars.&amp;''While it seems so bizarre that a company should have the right to trademark a word as common as &amp;''Face&amp;'' apparently the USPTO isn&amp;'t at all disturbeda4s(what&amp;'s with the &amp;''related to motoring or cars&amp;'' restrictions). Something tells me Facebook won&amp;'t have any problem forking over the cash.Update: A commenter points out that aside from the issue fee, Facebook will have file a Statement of Use and use the trademark on its own in commerce before it has actual legal claim over the word &amp;''Face.&amp;'' Right now it only uses the word &amp;''Face&amp;'' in conjunction with &amp;''book,&amp;'' but that will have to change if it wants to have any right to the trademark.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Talking to People, So&nbsp'Over]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=talking-to-people-sonbspover</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=talking-to-people-sonbspover</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We&amp;'ve killed a lot of things recently at Techcrunch: the phone call, cable tv, books, the mouse, and many more.  Regrettably, I&amp;'m ready to kill off another one &amp;8212' talking to people.  It&amp;'s so inefficient, slow, and old-fashioned.  &amp;8216'Talk&amp;' about something that been around for at least thousands of years and is ripe for disruption by new technology.The latest driver in the assault on talk is the recently announced Facebook Messages.  The social media leader is creating a way to communicate no matter which format you are using: email, chat, SMS.  Notice, they don&amp;'t include plans to help you actually talk to people.  Facebook Messages are searchable.  Try that with talking.  The product also offers a record of everything you communicate.  This is so much better than talking.  It&amp;'s hard to remember what I said yesterday.  Forget about 3 years ago.Email, chat, and SMS are so much faster than talking.  Most people are comfortable listening at 150 words per minute.  But, we can read at 250 to 300 words per minute.  A potential 100% improvement compared to just old talking.Social mores are changing too.  I remember the first time a friend used an instant messaging system to contact me when I was sitting 5 feet away.  We were the only two people working in a quiet newsroom in the middle of the night.  Instead of talking, my friend sent me an IM.  [Actually, a top-line message using BASYS back in 1980s, which later became iNEWS.]  At first, I was puzzled and thought this was odd behavior.  But soon, it made total sense.  He was being courteous.  Why interupt me with a conversation, when I could get to his message when I was ready.  Talking pretty much requires synchronous (at the same time) communication, but email/chat/text can be synchronous OR asynchronous.  Talking to lots of people at once requires everyone to be in the same room or setting up a conference call.   With typing,  it&amp;'s a simple as adding a cc.  This type of non-verbal communication is now the norm in many offices.  It&amp;'s also the new normal at home and away.  I&amp;'ve heard many parents say the only way to reach their kids is via texting.  When it&amp;'s time for dinner, they send a text to get their kids to come to the table.  It&amp;'s not just kids.  How many times have you seen people at a restaurant typing messages on their smartphones, instead of talking to each other. Perhaps, they are even typing messages to each other across the table.  It&amp;'s also a growing trend on trains, buses, planes and even cars.  People are more often typing, not talking.A &amp;8216'conversation&amp;' used to mean having a verbal discussion with people.  Not any more. Google&amp;'s Gmail uses the word conversation for a threaded email.Alexia Tsotsis just wrote about how the phone call was dead.  So, imagine my surprise when she messaged me her cell phone number, so we could coordinate logistics for a tech event.  Sounded like hypocrisy.  When I asked her why she was sharing a dying phone number, she replied &amp;''Texts, my friend.  Texts.&amp;''  Of course.  Alexia tells me &amp;''talk is definitely on its way out.&amp;''  MG Siegler, who loves his iPhone, admits he uses his phone mostly for apps and browsing, not calls.  He&amp;'s clearly not the only one.   By no longer talking to people, you don&amp;'t have to worry about rude, unwelcome &amp;8216'cold talking&amp;' either.  That&amp;'s when people just come up to you and start a conversation whether you are ready to or not, similar to a cold call on the phone.To my friends, family, colleagues and future connections, please feel free to still talk or call me.  I&amp;'m only kidding about no more talking.  Mostly.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will China&'s 1999 Moment Bail-Out Some Valley&nbsp'VCs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, China is taking over the world. Or at least the Internet. No, this is not like the WE&amp;'LL-ALL-BE-WORKING-FOR-JAPAN-oh-nevermind scare of the 1980s. Why Because China has more than 1 billion people. It already represents the largest online audience in the world and is less than 30% penetrated and hasa4sInternet spending per capita that&amp;'s less than one-third of the United States.That means two things are true that aren&amp;'t usually true at the same time: It&amp;'s a monster now and it&amp;'s barely gotten started. The Internet&amp;8211' more than any other industry&amp;8211' is about building huge, mass audiences. China wins at that. Accept it.a4sYou can&amp;'t spend 15 years arguing size and eyeballs matter and not be impressed by what is happening in China right now.Chinese Internet companies make up two of the five largest Internet companies on the planet. And if Alibaba can wrestle away from Yahoo, and take Taobao and Alipay public, it may have three of the largest in the near future. (Especially because Yahoo&amp;'s value would plummet.) No other country aside from the US has come anywhere close to achieving that level of business success online.Three giants would be impressive enough. But it&amp;'s not just Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba. If you need any more evidence that the hub of a4sInternet returns has shifted from Silicon Valley consider the interplay of these three macro-stories.One: Nearly every outspoken Valley-centric VC and super angel is blogging and Tweeting about strategies for surviving this &amp;''bubble&amp;'' of seed investing, whether it&amp;'s Ben Horowitz saying Andreessen Horowitz is looking more at later stage deals in this over-priced climate, Fred Wilson saying that he&amp;'s seeing &amp;''storm clouds,&amp;'' or Mark Suster getting applauded for his defense of relationship-driven venture capital, as opposed to hopping into a deal with no due diligence at any price. Ladies and gentlemen, there is an early-stage pricing bubble in the Valley, and we are past the point of inevitable carnage if this many people are sounding the panic alarm.Two: The Valley is largely a bubble that doesn&amp;'t actually have returns yet. Exits have mostly been confined to a bunch of industry insiders selling for less than $100 million and employees cashing out shares in the secondary market, and yet prices are going up insanely. Huh That is like a purple unicorn. It shouldn&amp;'t exist in nature. It is purely a function of supply and demand, a scarcity of good deals and a glut of willing capital. Of course, there are companies that will make huge amounts of money when they chose to go public like Zynga and Facebook and, I&amp;'d argue, the comparatively reasonably valued Twitter. But no one actually has and best case there are only a few names you can put in that category.Ok, Bill Gurley, we get it.a4sIPOs are increasing, and there is an appetite for more. But there are a few important points the Benchmark GP and defender of the not-totally-dead IPO market makes in this post. First, the reason companies that have gone public like OpenTable are soaring is because the giant Valley companies do not want to go public right now. For years now, people have been talking about this great backlog of companies. Guess what It&amp;'s still a backlog mostly.&amp;''A good year&amp;'' relative to 2009, isn&amp;'t the same thing as good when you have an industry investing between $15 billion and $20 billion a year in startups. That math does not work on a macro-level, no matter how badly everyone in this ecosystem would like it to. Gurley argues the bar for &amp;''a good year&amp;'' also shouldn&amp;'t be 1999. That&amp;'s true, but if there&amp;'s this much money going into startups, the bar can&amp;'t be pre-1999 when the asset class was a fraction of its current size either.The last important point Gurley makes is that the bulk of the IPOs that are happening are from companies outside Silicon Valley, partially because of this shift in the Valley&amp;'s cultural desire to lead a public company. Which leads me to&amp;8230'Three: Five trips to China ago I met with a wide array of startups. They were all pretty much blind stabs in the dark of who might be an up-and-coming Web company. Three of them that I wrote about at the time have filed paperwork to go public or priced right in a row: BitAuto, Tudou and YouKu. I am just not that good at picking startups in a country where I don&amp;'t speak the language and didn&amp;'t know a single contact. No one is.a4sChinese IPOs are just huge right now&amp;8211' both in the Internet and in other &amp;''old economy&amp;'' sectors as well.Chinese companies generally are making up about one-third of US IPO activity this year, according to Peter Astiz, co-head of DLA Piper&amp;'s global technology sector practice.a4sMost high-growth Chinese companies&amp;8211'especially in technology&amp;8211'are choosing to list on US exchanges, Astiz says.Part of this is that culturally there&amp;'s a massive preference for an IPO over an acquisition in China. That&amp;'s the exact reverse of what Gurley aptly describes as going on in the Valley.a4sYou think China is still a &amp;''communist&amp;'' country Get. On. A. Plane. It is authoritarian, sure, but it is capitalism gone wild. &amp;''I&amp;'ve been in this business 25 years including when everyone was saying we should learn Japanese, and it&amp;'s clear to me China&amp;'s cultural model towards entrepreneurialism is the closest to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurialism I have seen anywhere,&amp;'' Astiz says. I haven&amp;'t spent 25 years doing this, but I have spent more than a decade in the Valley and half of the last two years meeting with entrepreneurs in eleven different countries, and I couldn&amp;'t agree more.The Valley is not anything like 1999 right now, no matter how much term sheets and deal negotiations look like it. In 1999 the deals were driven by the fact that you could take a company public at inflated values in 18 months and exit. To date, only YouTube has had a $1 billion-plus exit and Web 2.0 has been going on for about five years. And the truth is, China isn&amp;'t just like 1999 either. Companies aren&amp;'t exiting at the same speed, some have spent years building their companies and a lot of them are making money. But unlike the Valley, everyone in China wants to go public, and it&amp;'s hard to argue some values aren&amp;'t getting inflated as investors grapple for position in a market that is going to be huge and one where US companies have not proven they can succeed.And yet, when I travel to other emerging markets, I always get questions about why all the big Web companies still come out of the US. The world needs to wake up. Value-judgements aside, the Internet will be transformed as more of the aggregate Internet market value flows east. Just like when new-world AOL suddenly bought old-world TimeWarner, one of these Chinese companies will be smart enough to leverage their inflated position while they can. (And an ensuinga4sgood v. evil media/political brouhaha is going to explode.)I&amp;'ll tell you who isn&amp;'t surprised by anything I&amp;'ve written in this post: Valley venture capitalists who started investing in China eight-to-ten years ago. Are many of these companies over-valued Yep. But that doesn&amp;'t mean it&amp;'s not lucrative for VCs who got in early and a huge wave of Chinese entrepreneurs. And like our own Internet bubble, it doesn&amp;'t mean there aren&amp;'t real fundamentals and lasting companies buried in all that hype.You remember those bumper stickers spotted in the early 2000s that read &amp;''Please, Lord, Give Me One More Bubble&amp;'' Well,a4shallelujah, Sand Hill Road, if the flurry of recent Chinese Internet paperwork, pricings and rumors of both are any indication, your prayers might be answered. Only a few years ago there were widespread worries that VCs investing in China were throwing their money down a black hole. This week several firms have told me their China funds might out-perform their US funds&amp;8211' at least in the short term.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All Points Bulletin goes free to play, but will that save it from being a bad game]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well this is awkward. GamersFirst, an operator of free-to-play online games, announced today that it has acquired the rights to the 2010 flop of the year, All Points Bulletin (APB), and will re-launch it on a freemium revenue model later next year.GamersFirst is essentially betting that switching All Points Bulletin, which was formerly on a monthly pay-to-play subscription model before it shut down in September, to a free-to-play model that makes money off the sale of virtual goodslike weapons, will save the game.What GamersFirst may be forgetting is thatAPB&amp;'s developer, Realtime Worlds, chewed through $100 million before shutting its doors.Simply making APB free for everyone to play isn&amp;'t a guarantee that gamers will flock back to the game.All Points Bulletin was universally slammed by critics. And that&amp;'s not because it was on a pay-to-play model a4&quot; it simply wasn&amp;'t a good game. The game only garnered a score of 58 out of 100 after 42 reviews on Metacritic, a site that aggregates reviews into a single score. And even if gamers do pick up the game once again, there&amp;'s no guarantee the game would actually begin making money.Some games have seen success shifting from a subscription-based revenue model to a free-to-play model. Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online, both games released by Turbine, are the most notable.Lord of the Rings Online&amp;'s revenue doubled after Turbine introduced microtransactions to help speed up character progression, and Dungeons and Dragons Online&amp;'s revenue went up by 500 percent.But that&amp;'s mostly because the games were actually good, according to game critics. Lord of the Rings Online had a score of 86 out of 100 after 40 reviews on Metacritic, and Dungeons and Dragons Online had a slightly less-than-stellar a4&quot; but by no means terrible a4&quot;74 out of 100 after 33 reviews.Realtime Worlds previously created Crackdown, a third-person shooting game that took place in an open world urban environment and let gamers participate in all sorts of mayhem. Crackdown ended up being a cult hit, and picking up a score of 83 out of 100 after 75 reviews on Metacritic. The company built its staff to more than 250 employees and worked on All Points Bulletin for more than five years, only to find out that nobody wanted to play it.So far there is only one successful subscription-based online game left. Activision Blizzard&amp;'s World of Warcraft, one of the most dominant online games in history, has around 12 million players that pay $15 a month to access the game&amp;'s persistent world. And again, that&amp;'s simply because World of Warcraft is widely considered to be a fantastic game. The game received a score of 93 out of 100 after 57 reviews on Metacritic. World of Warcaft has been so dominant that it has forced many other subscription-based games to go free-to-play.GamersFirst says that it has around 30 million players across 160 million countries playing its games. I guess it can only hope that those same gamers are more forgiving than the rest of the world was to APB the first time around.Next Story: Kleiner&amp;'s John Doerr: &amp;''We were wrong&amp;'' to turn down Twitter Previous Story: Third fund for Union Square Ventures looks likely, but size is always an issuePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: All Points Bulletin, APB, free to play model, freemium, subscription modelCompanies: GamersFirst, Realtime Worlds          Tags: All Points Bulletin, APB, free to play model, freemium, subscription modelCompanies: GamersFirst, Realtime WorldsVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook fleshes out strategy to own your mobile identity]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-fleshes-out-strategy-to-own-your-mobile-identity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With a new single sign-on feature, Facebook aims to become the way users log into all their mobile applications. It&amp;'s already doing this to some extent, by allowing users to log into non-Facebook websites using Facebook Connect, but the company&amp;'s mobile chief, Erick Tseng, said the goal here is to make the process as simple as possible on phones, where typing in user names and passwords can be a huge pain.After users have logged in to the Facebook app, they can use Facebook to log in to partner apps without any typing. When users open a partner app for the first time, they just tap a &amp;''sign-in with Facebook&amp;'' button, tell Facebook that they authorize the app, and skip the login process.Initial partners for this feature include Groupon, Zynga, Loopt, Scvngr, Yelp, Flixster, and Booyah.Facebook has been saying for a while now that its strategy on mobile phones goes beyond the Facebook application and that it wants to become the &amp;''social layer&amp;'' for any mobile application. So the single sign-in feature is the first step to making that vision a reality.Facebook also announced new application programming interfaces (APIs) that will give mobile apps greater access to their users&amp;' Facebook data. For example, location service Loopt will be able to pull in check-in data from Facebook Places, so it can tell users not only where their Loopt friends are, but also where their friends have checked in on Facebook.These new features should be available to users and developers on Android starting today, Facebook said, and on the iPhone in about a week. Neither of these additions may make a huge difference to users initially &amp;8212' but again, they play into Facebook&amp;'s broader strategy of turning your Facebook account into your social identity wherever you are, whether it&amp;'s another website or another mobile app.On the privacy front, the news today doesn&amp;'t seem hugely significant, but I still expect some complaints when users start seeing Facebook data showing up in other apps.Zuckerberg also spoke today about what Facebook&amp;'s strategy does not involve. He said people may have heard rumors that Facebook is building  is phone &amp;8212' in response, he chuckled and said, &amp;''No.&amp;''You can read more about the announcement on the Facebook blog.Next Story: Facebook, Twitter analytics successfully predict 2010 election winners Previous Story: Google announces first AdMob integration: AdSense ads in AdMob&amp;'s networkPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iPhoneCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark Zuckerberg          Tags: Android, iPhoneCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark ZuckerbergAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg&'s redesign fails to address core problems]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanya01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Social news aggregator site Digg did a good job last week of unveiling a new look and adding back some features it had removed prior to version 4, but the company still has a long way to go before it finally erases all of the mistakes it has made.The site became legendary among largely teen and college-age male users who perused the site for the latest in bizarre, tech and political news. So many millions of people visited Digg that domains appearing on Digg&amp;'s front page received hundreds of thousands of unique visit referrals. Large publishers like Sports Illustrated, AOL, Newsweek and others expressed interest in hiring Digg power users to promote their stories in order to get traffic. In September of 2008 Digg announced a $28.7 million round of funding with Highland Capital Partners.But towards the end of August 2010, things took a sharp turn for the worse. Founder Kevin Rose attempted to change not only the look of the site, but how it was navigated and how stories were promoted, all at once. The changes were not received well. Longtime users and even more casual ones left the site in droves, heading for rival news aggregator Reddit. Digg laid off 37% of its staff, and Rose stepped down as CEO.In an attempt to get people to spend more time on the site, Digg has now added back user profiles on submission pages, as well as popular story stats. It&amp;'s simplified and cleaned up the look of the site and has made special efforts to converse with dozens of heavy users in order to fix perceived problems. I&amp;'ve attended a session with staff, and I have to stay I&amp;'m impressed with their professionalism and desire to live up to Digg&amp;'s great legacy, which despite past mistakes, is a proud one. Their openness about their problems, frustrations and future plans is a bright ray of hope as far as I&amp;'m concerned. New CEO Matt Williams (pictured) is an impressive guy, and I think he stands a chance at turning the site around.But the company still faces major obstacles and will need to make some adjustments if it wants rebuild the community it once had. Reddit made a big deal recently of the fact that its 13.7 million unique visitors in January clicked on the site one billion times. Williams says that Digg had more than 20 million unique visitors that same month but saw a much smaller number of page views. This is for several reasons, but perhaps the biggest one is that the front page starts and stops like a broken car.Most evenings, and especially on weekends, the Digg crew somehow thinks it&amp;'s in their best interest to essentially turn off movement on the front page and stop story promotion. Whether this occurs because everyone went home or because interesting things stop happening on planet Earth, I don&amp;'t know. But Digg takes on a desolate appearance during these incidents. People who make more than one visit to the site during the course of day are presented with the same old news they saw during their first visit. Maybe Digg is promoting fewer items to its front page so that the referral traffic sent to sites will be larger and Digg can maintain it&amp;'s image as a heavy referrer The problem is, Digg is destroying its once-solid reputation as a vital place for fresh content in order to do this.What should Digg do Keep its front page moving, that&amp;'s what. During peak-time on a regular day, staff typically allows about two hours&amp;' worth of promoted stories onto the front page. It&amp;'s totally reasonable to allow that span to lengthen a bit at night. But it shouldn&amp;'t extend too many hours longer than that. On the weekends there should generally be fewer stories that hit, but not to the point where the site freezes content-wise, as it often does. This means someone needs to be manning the ship most of the time so that spam does not make it to the front page, but Digg should be able to handle that cost if it&amp;'s serious about bringing the community back to the site.I can talk all day about Digg&amp;'s other problems. Some of them are huge. Search on the site is broken. Regular users have no simple and convenient way to discover all the stories from sites like, say, Physorg or Cracked that hit Digg&amp;'s front page recently. I could write an entirely separate article about how the &amp;''My News&amp;'' section of the site isn&amp;'t relevant to many users. I could rail for a while about how the staff doesn&amp;'t have good news judgment and struggles at times to pick appropriate front page stories. I think they should scrap the staff picks and instead bring back the &amp;''trending story&amp;'' feature that became so popular last year and actually brought a sense of &amp;''now&amp;'' to the front page. Digg also needs to build ways for users to communicate with each other while on the site rather than having to rely on third-party services like Twitter, Facebook, Google chat or AOL Instant Messaging.These are all important issues, but they still pale in comparison to that inactive front page. It doesn&amp;'t matter if the activity isn&amp;'t really there. Get the front page moving and keep it that way!Next Story: Epic Games believes 3D graphics will take mobile devices by storm (video) Previous Story: Groupon shakes up board with Starbucks CEOPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Social Media, social networking, Social networksCompanies: diggPeople: Kevin Rose          Tags: Social Media, social networking, Social networksCompanies: diggPeople: Kevin RoseJohn is a writer and social media consultant who has worked at Village Voice Media and NBC. Before that he held several positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California, from 1994 to 2009. He was a web editor for two years at KNTV, the NBC station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. He also held freelance writing positions at KGO, KRON and KPIX in San Francisco.  He worked as a radio anchor, assignment desk manager, reporter, editor and producer at KEYT in Santa Barbara for 10 years. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Another Digg Exec Is Out: Longtime CFO John Moffett&nbsp'Leaves]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[More bad news for Digg. Earlier today we broke the news that Digg was having a large wave of layoffs that cut 37% its staff, which camea4salongside the exit of Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards. We&amp;'ve just confirmed that Digg has also seen another departure from its executive team: Chief Financial Officer John Moffett recently left the company.Moffett wasn&amp;'t a recently appointed executive hire a4&quot;a4she&amp;'s been with Digg for nearly five years, which means he&amp;'s been there for most of the company&amp;'s history (it launched in 2004). According to his LinkedIn profile, Moffett has served as Digg&amp;'s CFO since 2005, and has led the company&amp;'s &amp;''financial, legal, and human resource initiatives as part of the executive team.&amp;''According to the LinkedIn profile, Moffett left Digg to become the CFO of Vizu, a firm that specializes in measuring the effectiveness of digital ads. That company has raised $10.7M since 2006.CrunchBase InformationJohn MoffettDiggInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask a VC: Why David Hornik Invests Close to Home and the Dumbest Deal in the Valley&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, most VCs refused to invest outside of Silicon Valley. Now, most of them have funds in Israel, Europe, India or China&amp;8211' and lately many of those Chinese funds are outperforming the US counterparts. But August Capital is still sticking with the kind of local venture capital that built this industry, and David Hornik explains why in this week&amp;'s episode of Ask a VC.But, Portland Yeah he&amp;'d invest in a Portland company and answers a reader question about what the local ecosystem needs to do to get his and other venture capitalists&amp;' attention.Hornik also (sort of) answers one of the best reader questions I&amp;'ve gotten in a while: What&amp;'s the dumbest investment he&amp;'s seen recently in Silicon Valley (Hint.)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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