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<title><![CDATA[Charlie Sheen takes to the live Web, attacks trolls]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These days, if you're really interested in winning, you have to rule the Web.This is something that Charlie Sheen, the rather visible star of the CBS sitcom &quot;Two And a Half Men,&quot; seems to have grasped. Even though some question his motivations and even his health.Earlier this week, Sheen took his mantra of success to Twitter, where he instantly became a prime Twitteratus. He managed to secure hundreds of thousands of followers in just a day. At the time of writing, he is almost up to 2 million. For Sheen, though, this was just the beginning. Last night, he ventured into another web medium, livestream TV.(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Using Twitter as his advertising medium, Sheen announced the debut of &quot;Sheen's Korner,&quot; a 50-minute Ustream show that will become a regular event--if you, the people, want it to be. (I have embedded the whole thing below, just in case you had a very early night.)He tweeted an explanation for this new Web venture and used excellent lawyerly logic: &quot;(2-5) My lawyers asked that I stop talking with the press. so, if it's just me, how upset could they possibly be Sheen's-Korner.&quot;Sheen explained that his live broadcasting stance is very simple: &quot;You're either in Sheen's Korner or with the trolls.&quot; And if you're in his Korner, you experience something loosely associated with a talk show. It's rambling, it's full of Sheen's friends and associates, and it was reportedly watched, at its height, by 115,000 people.There are some who will believe that Sheen is taking to the Web in such an aggressive and pulsating manner because this is the only place he can currently make money. Perhaps he believes he can secure the same $10,000 per tweet that is allegedly commanded by such Twitter goddesses as Kim Kardashian.Just by posting one Twitpic last week--in which he held a bottle of chocolate milk from Broguiere's Farm Fresh Dairy in Montebello, Calif.-- reportedly caused the dairy to be swamped with inquiries for its no doubt fine product.Those who get sanctimonious first and ask questions later will rail that all of this Web activity, taking Sheen from star to meme, is merely a sad exposition of one man's troubled life.Perhaps, though, however troubled he might be, Sheen is also laughing at us and at what we might find amusing, fascinating, or merely great entertainment.Video streaming by Ustream<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA probe makes Valentine's Day comet flyby]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe is making a bonus Valentine's Day flyby late today. This time the probe will close in on comet Tempel 1 to find out how the icy body has changed since it was visited by another NASA spacecraft in 2005.The renamed Stardust-New Exploration of Tempel mission--Stardust-NExT--is on track to pass within about 124 miles of the nucleus of Tempel 1 at 8:37 p.m. PT, snapping 72 high-resolution images and collecting data about the dust environment in the immediate vicinity as it races past at a relative velocity of 24,300 mph.Because radio signals to and from the spacecraft will take about 45 minutes to cover the 418-million-mile round-trip distance between Earth and the spacecraft, Stardust-NExT will carry out the flyby autonomously under control of its onboard computer. The first images of Tempel 1 are expected to reach NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., around midnight PT.Comet Tempel 1 as seen from the Deep Impact spacecraft in 2005, showing areas of flow-like terrain ('a' an 'b') and the site of an impact by an instrumented probe that blasted out a crater on the surface (large arrow' photo taken before impact). The white line at lower right represents 1 kilometer for scale.(Credit:NASA)&quot;In the few minutes around closest approach, we'll be taking the bulk of our images, we'll be taking 72 high-resolution images,&quot; said JPL Project Manager Tim Larson. &quot;We cannot transmit those to the ground real time because of the flyby geometry. So we have to store all of those on board in the spacecraft memory.&quot;An hour after the flyby, we turn the spacecraft to point the high gain antenna back to Earth and at that point, we'll start relaying all the information back to Earth. It will take approximately 12 hours to get all the data back own on the ground. The first images should be hitting the ground around midnight Pacific Time on the 14th.&quot;The $300 million Stardust mission was launched in 1999. On January 2, 2004, the spacecraft flew past comet Wild 2, using an innovative collector to capture particles from the coma, the cloud of debris surrounding the nucleus. Passing back by Earth two years later, a small re-entry capsule carrying the collected material was ejected and fell to a landing in Utah where it was recovered for detailed analysis.In the meantime, NASA carried out the Deep Impact mission, sending another spacecraft to comet Tempel 1, a roughly potato-shaped body with a nucleus measuring 4.7 by 3 miles. During a dramatic encounter in 2005, Deep Impact released an instrumented probe that crashed into the comet, throwing up a cloud of debris from the surface. The Deep Impact spacecraft monitored the crash from a safe distance and carried out remote observations with cameras and other instruments.But the cloud of debris, or ejecta, thrown up by the Deep Impact probe prevented scientists from seeing the crater the crash excavated.With the Stardust probe still healthy after its successful mission to Wild 2, NASA approved a $29 million mission extension and agreed to send the spacecraft to Tempel 1 to study how the comet had changed during a full trip around the sun.Joe Veverka, the Stardust-NExT principal investigator at Cornell University, said Tempel 1 turned out to be &quot;unusually interesting.&quot;&quot;In places on Tempel 1, we see layered terrains, which probably contain information about how comet nuclei are put together, and we would like to see more of these terrains,&quot; he said, explaining why Tempel 1 was targeted for a second visit. &quot;Deep Impact saw only about a third of the surface. We would like to see more.&quot;Deep Impact also showed areas that appear to be smooth flow-like deposits, along with crater-like features that could be ancient vents.A view of comet Tempel 1 as an instrumented probe crashed into its surface in 2005.(Credit:NASA)But Veverka said the most important reason to return to Tempel 1 is that &quot;this will be an opportunity, for the first time, to see how much a comet changes between two close passages to the sun.&quot;&quot;Deep Impact saw the comet in 2005, we're going to be seeing it one comet year later, just after its closest passage to the sun in 2011,&quot; he said. &quot;We know comets lose material, but the question is, how much does the surface change and where does the surface change So we'll be able to answer that question by comparing our images with those taken by Deep Impact in 2005.&quot;One year ago, engineers carried out a major rocket firing to put Stardust-NExT on course for its Valentine's Day encounter. The trajectory was selected based on careful studies of the comet's estimated 41.9-hour rotation. The goal was to make sure Stardust NExT had a view of the Deep Impact crater as it flew past.&quot;That impact threw up so much ejecta that Deep Impact never saw the crater,&quot; Veverka said. &quot;So it could never complete the experiment, to see how big the crater is and what that tells us about the mechanical properties of the comet's surface. That's important if we're ever going to go back to a comet, land a spacecraft on the surface, dig up material from the surface, bring it back to Earth...So here, we have a chance to complete the deep impact experiment.&quot;But Steve Chesley, a co-investigator at JPL, said there were no guarantees.&quot;If we've aligned our light curves correctly and the comet continues to cooperate...then we'll meet our mission objectives and hopefully also have a fantastic view of the deep impact crater,&quot; he said.&quot;But the alternative is not so bad because then we'll get fantastic views of never before seen cometary terrain. So we'll have fantastic science no matter what.&quot;Flight controllers will not know whether they hit the bull's-eye until the first images come in.&quot;We won't know until a few hours after the flyby,&quot; Chesley said. &quot;I'll be on the edge of my seat, but I think it's important to emphasize that aspect of the mission is bonus science. We're going to find out a lot about how comets evolve.&quot;Stardust-NExT has covered some 3.5 billion miles since launch in 1999. The spacecraft is not expected to have enough fuel left to carry out any additional encounters.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dave McClure has a a4Araging bonera4 for phone startup Volta]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[UpdatedA lot of companies want to help you test your websites. Now a startup called Volta wants to help companies test their phone calls.The problem, said founder Patrick Stockwell, is that many companies arena4a4t calling their customers, and the companies that do dona4a4t have a way to track which calls are paying off. Stockwell demonstrated his product on-stage today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.Basically, Volta takes the A/B testing approach for websites, where you try out two different versions and see which one gets the best results, and brings it to phone marketing. (Another company called Overstat launched an easy A/B web site testing tool at Launch this morning.) Companies can create multiple scripts for their phone calls then mark down which conversions resulted in a sale or whatever else they were looking for, and which ones didn&amp;'t. Over time, the company can compare the results across all the scripts, get rid of the ones that didna4a4t work, and come up with new ones.Therea4a4s also a component involving automation and online phone calls over VoIP (Stockwell said Volta integrates with services like Twilio and Ifbyphone), but to be honest I didna4a4t quite understand it, and there&amp;'s no information on the company&amp;'s site either. Ia4a4ve emailed Volta for details and will update if I hear back.Still, the judges seemed less confused than I was. All of them said the company was one of their favorites. 500 Startups founder Dave McClure even walked up to Stockwell, handed him his card, and said that if Volta does what Stockwell said, a4AI will write you a fucking check.a4 He later said that he has a a4Araging bonera4 for the company. George Zachary, the partner at Charles River Ventures who was an early investor in Twitter, said he was similarly enthusiastic, although he lacked McClurea4a4s audacity.Update: Shotwell just sent me the following explanation of how Volta automates the call process:Volta allows companies to insert &amp;''call triggers&amp;'' into their existing software. E-commerce, CRM, etc. When a call gets triggered (purchase is made, credit card is expired, etc etc) the call appears in the Volta &amp;''call queue&amp;''. Agents can log in, plug in their USB headsets, and click call. The calls are routed from the browser via services like Twilio, Cloudvox, and IfByPhone. Basically, instead of dumping a bunch of phone numbers into the system to call, they are automatically added every time a certain event happens from within a companies existing software.Next Story: Chute ensures your phone&amp;'s photos get online Previous Story: Top10 jumps into crowded list-sharing spacePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: A/B testing, launch2011, phone marketingCompanies: 500 Startups, VoltaPeople: Dave McClure, Patrick Stockwell          Tags: A/B testing, launch2011, phone marketingCompanies: 500 Startups, VoltaPeople: Dave McClure, Patrick StockwellAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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. 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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