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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Seized Web sites won't end up like drug dealers' cars]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=seized-web-sites-wont-end-up-like-drug-dealers-cars</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Screen shot of a public service announcement that visitors to seized Web sites will be redirected to. (Credit:Screen shot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)When the government seizes a dope dealer'scar, it can put the auto up for auction. But what happens when agents seize a Web domainThe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said today that those sites seized for trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods will now serve to help spread the government's message that &quot;unfairly devalue America's contributions, compromise American jobs, and put consumers, families, and communities at risk.&quot;The Obama administration and the U.S. Congress have declared war on online piracy and law enforcement agencies have seized more than 100 sites in the past year. Of those, 65 domain names now direct visitors to a public service announcement. ICE Director John Morton(Credit:Greg Sandoval/CNET)For example, visitors to Dvdcollects.com, a domain seized in November 2009, will now be redirected to an announcement on ICE's YouTube page. According to ICE, plenty of people are seeing these messages. &quot;There have been over 45 million hits to the seizure banner that notifies visitors that a federal court order has been issued for the domain,&quot; ICE said in a press release. ICE is one of the agencies that has been tasked with taking down sites accused of illegally distributing intellectual property. The agency said, however, that before it can start using the seized Web sites for its own purposes, it must give interested parties time to contest the forfeiture. Interested parties can file a petition with a federal court, ICE said in its statement. More to come<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Faster JavaScript gets Google Chrome 10 spotlight]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Google released Chrome 10 today, endowing its browser with faster JavaScript, password synchronization, a revamped preferences system--but no new Chrome logo. Chrome is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.Google announced Chrome 10's stable release on its blog but refrained from mentioning its product number. That's in line with the company's effort to focus on features rather than version numbers, which it calls mere milestones. Google tries to get new versions into users' hands as rapidly as possible and currently passes a new milestone about once every six weeks.JavaScript is the programming language used to write Web-based programs, and it's steadily gaining in importance. That's because programmers are now using it to write full-featured Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, not just Web pages, and faster JavaScript enables more features and a faster interface.Chrome 10 comes with the &quot;Crankshaft&quot; version of the V8 browser engine that Google pegs as 66 percent faster than the unnamed version in Chrome 9 as measured with Google's V8 Benchmark suite. That's a major speed boost, but be aware there are many other attributes of browser performance, and one of the biggest--hardware acceleration--will hit prime time with the imminent release of Mozilla'sFirefox 4 and Microsoft's IE9.Chrome 10 gets some hardware acceleration, though, when it comes to playing videos, said Chrome team member Jason Kersey in a blog post.Browsers usually get new features, but, unusually, Chrome had oneremoved: H.264 video is gone. Google said Chrome 10 would support Google's own VP8 video encoding, which it offers royalty-free in an attempt to unencumber Web video from patent licensing barriers that come with the widely used H.264. For those who are attached to the codec, Microsoft offers an H.264 Chrome plug-in forWindows 7 users.Chrome already had Adobe's Flash Player built in, but Chrome 10 also puts Flash in a protective sandbox to confine security problems to a walled-off area of memory. Also in the security department are 23 security fixes discovered through Google's Chrome bounty program and ranging in severity from low to high.One seemingly minor but actually pretty useful change in Chrome 10 is a revamped configuration system. Instead of a pop-up dialog box that must be dealt with then closed, the new settings show in a browser tab.The first advantage of the approach is that there's more room to show what's going on. The second is that you can leave the settings open while using other tabs--for example while reading Web sites that are offering advice on what to do. A third is that you can save specific Web addresses for a configuration setting, which Google believes could make remote tech support easier because you can simply e-mail somebody a URL rather than tell them how to drill down through a number of settings. Finally, a feature that comes along for the ride is that the configuration page comes with a search box to locate particular features directly.Update 10:40 a.m. PT: Added information about Chrome 10 supporting VP8 video encoding and putting Flash in a protective sandbox.Updated 1:53 p.m. PT: Added information about Chrome 10's hardware acceleration for video and security fixes and about Microsoft's H.264 plug-in.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Garriott: My plan to beat FarmVille and CityVille (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and CItyVille, in social games. His new game company, Portalarium, will debut its first major game in a month.Garriott doesn&amp;'t make empty promises. If anyone poses a threat to Zynga &amp;8212' which has more than 276 million monthly active users on Facebook &amp;8212' it is a veteran of video games like Garriott. What the industry&amp;'s old-timers bring is their knowledge of game mechanics &amp;8212' the elegant, creative, quirky details that make a game fun &amp;8212' to bear on social games. Zynga is busy acquiring talented game designers &amp;8212' including Garriott&amp;'s friend Bruce Shelley, now a contractor for Zynga &amp;8212' but it hasn&amp;'t locked up all the talent yet. There are huge stakes for whoever wins this talent war, since the best days of social gaming are likely still to come.Garriott is no stranger to ambition. He has soared into the heavens, literally &amp;8212' all the way to the International Space Station as an astronaut. He has plummeted to despair with the launch and failure of one of the game industry&amp;'s biggest online games, Tabula Rasa.Now he is trying to launch the &amp;''third age of video games&amp;'' through his new company, Portalarium, which we wrote about a year ago. What were those ages For those of you who didn&amp;'t grow up playing games, it may help to know that Garriott was present for the first age of video games, with the debut of great single-player games such as Ultima, which was followed by many sequels. In 1997, under his alter ego Lord British, Garriott extended his role-playing fantasy world to the online multiplayer game Ultima Online. Garriott considers the rise of Internet-connected games to be the second age of video games. The third age began with the explosive growth of simple, quickly played social games like Zynga&amp;'s FarmVille on Facebook.In an interview at the Dice Summit game conference in Las Vegas, Garriott said he knows he is late and the gold rush into social games has happened without him so far. Portalarium launched two simple casino games on Facebook so far in order to test the company&amp;'s theories about player engagement, or the trick of getting gamers to play games for a long time. Within a month or so, Garriott says Portalarium will unveil its first social game on Facebook, Hi5, and other social networks.This game won&amp;'t be an act of &amp;''plagiarism,&amp;'' Garriott said, alluding to charges some have laid against Zynga that the social games maker&amp;'s success derives from mimicking other social games. Plagiarism has proven to be a very lucrative business model, Garriott said. (Zynga begs to differ, of course, since it has created successful original games such as FrontierVille and CityVille. CityVille won the award at the Interactive Entertainment Awards for best social game. Even so, some point to the inspiration CityVille apparently took from the early city-building game SimCity.)Garriott isn&amp;'t describing his new game now because he worries that someone will take the idea and plagiarize it. (Copyright and trademark law are not as clear-cut in video games as they are in other media, which makes this a real risk.) That&amp;'s one difference between social games and traditional console games. While traditional game marketers tease their games early and dole out the details far ahead of a launch to build buzz, social game companies launch their games quietly and then tweak them until they start taking off like wildfire. Then they announce them.Garriott says he feels he arrived two years late in the new social game era. And he warns his colleagues in traditional games that they had better join into the gold rush or find themselves in a very difficult position, as revenues for traditional games will likely go down even as budgets soar.&amp;''It&amp;'s time for game companies to act,&amp;'' Garriott said. &amp;''The first age of games took 10 years to mature. Online games took five years. Social games may mature much more rapidly. The door is closing quickly.&amp;''Those who make the jump to social games will discover how to make money with casual, bite-sized titles, he said. With each new age of gaming, the audience size grows by a factor of 10, Garriott said. Women, men and pretty much all demographics can now count themselves as gamers.&amp;''This is a particularly exciting period for the game industry,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''We are about to begin a new time of invention.&amp;''Garriott&amp;'s last game, Tabula Rasa, required the work of hundreds of game developers and it had a huge budget. The game launched in 2007 but it failed to unseat rival World of WarCraft in the massively multiplayer online game market. Publisher NCSoft shut it down in 2009, just after Garriott returned from his Space Adventures trip to the space station. Garriott spent $30 million of his own personal fortune for the space trip. But he won a $28 million judgment from NCSoft because it fired him without awarding him promised stock.Garriott was very far removed from the programming process in Tabula Rasa. But at Portalarium, he can now get involved at that level.&amp;''I once felt like I had mastered every byte of the Apple II as a programmer,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''It&amp;'s been a decade since I have worked at this level in a game and I am truly enjoying it.&amp;''The game mechanics won&amp;'t be something familiar like running a pet shop or a farm or a town, Garriott said.&amp;''I looked at FarmVille, but it was too simple for me as a player,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''The user interface was awkward and the game play was not rewarding. When FrontierVille came out, it was much more interesting. But now with CityVille, there is way too much going on. So now we have bracketed this new experience. One is too simple, and one is too complicated.&amp;''Eventually, Garriott promises that he will move on to &amp;''Lord British&amp;'s brave new world, or a spiritual successor to my previous work.&amp;''Garriott said that Portalarium has built a suite of tools to make it easier to build games that can &amp;''break down the barriers between games.&amp;'' That is, he thinks it is too hard right now to promote a game to a person who is playing another game. You should, he said, be able to easily find out what your friends are playing.Is there a tiny bit of bluster in Garriott&amp;'s words Sure. Should Zynga be scared of a puny company in Austin, Texas Not yet. But objects in the rear view mirror may be closer than they appear to be. Yes, Zynga may look over its shoulder and find that one day Lord British is gaining on them.Check out our video interview with Garriott below.Previous Story: Galaxy S II smartphone and Galaxy Tab II tablet in the worksPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CityVille, Farmville, FrontierVille, poker, social games, Tabula RasaCompanies: PortalariumPeople: Richard Garriott          Tags: CityVille, Farmville, FrontierVille, poker, social games, Tabula RasaCompanies: PortalariumPeople: Richard GarriottDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. 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[What President Obama&'s Web-hipster beer hoax tells us]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=what-president-obamarsquos-web-hipster-beer-hoax-tells-us</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&amp;''Pics or it didn&amp;'t happen,&amp;'' the kids like to say on Internet discussion boards when confronted with an unlikely scenario that calls for photographic verification.How about making that &amp;''Pics and it didn&amp;'t happen&amp;'' That&amp;'s the scenario that unfolded after the founder of a popular tech news-headlines site claimed he checked into a San Francisco bar popular with young startup workers and happened upon President Obama, who was in the Bay Area yesterday to meet with local tech innovators. He then shared a photo purportedly taken at the scene with Instagram, a hot mobile photo-sharing service.Only one problem: The photo that Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera posted was three years old and taken in the Raleigh Times bar in Raleigh Times, North Carolina. At the time Rivera posted yesterday&amp;'s pic, Obama was actually dining with Silicon Valley bigwigs 30 miles away in Woodside, Calif. &amp;8212' a fact that could have been verified by checking the White House schedule.Photographic hoaxes are as old as photography itself. But the new location- and photo-sharing services designed for mobile apps are meant to lend verisimilitude to postings. Foursquare, for example, the location-based service Rivera checked in with, announces the Twitter usernames of other people who have checked in at the same location. That&amp;'s easy to fake, though, by manually typing those usernames in as you check in. Instagram, likewise, is meant to share photos taken on the go, linked to a nearby location using a phone&amp;'s GPS. Nothing&amp;'s stopping a user from downloading a photo, then reuploading it, and claiming it as real.I think the use of Foursquare and Instagram were key to taking people in: They simply weren&amp;'t expecting a hoax on services meant to thrive on a tighter connection to what&amp;'s happening right now in the world around you. But Rivera&amp;'s stunt served as a useful reminder that every day, technology is making humans easier to use.Next Story: Inside the all-electric Esflow, the Nissan Leaf&amp;'s sexier sister Previous Story: Photos capture Obama&amp;'s moment with Zuckerberg &amp;8212' in a suit  &amp;8212' and Jobs in turtleneckPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: location based services, location-based hoax, mobile sharing, photo sharingCompanies: Foursquare, Instagram, TwitterPeople: Barack Obama, Gabe Rivera          Tags: location based services, location-based hoax, mobile sharing, photo sharingCompanies: Foursquare, Instagram, TwitterPeople: Barack Obama, Gabe RiveraOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. 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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