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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Comodo hacker says he's protesting U.S. policy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After a hacker obtained fraudulent digital certificates that could be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype, and other major Web sites, the security company that issued them blamed the Iranian government.There is only &quot;one conclusion,&quot; Comodo, the Jersey City, N.J.-based issuer of digital certificates said in a report tracing the intrusion to Iran. &quot;This was likely to be a state-driven attack.&quot;Well, not quite. The perpetrator claims to be a 21-year-old Iranian patriot--a &quot;single programmer with the experience of 1,000 programmers&quot;--who told CNET he carried out the intrusion in large part to protest the policies of the U.S. government.As proof, &quot;ComodoHacker&quot; has posted the private half of a digital certificate obtained during the intrusion into the network of GlobalTrust, a Comodo reseller in Italy. (ComodoHacker also uses the aliases &quot;Sun Ich&quot; and &quot;Ichsunx,&quot; which he says are random.)That was enough to convince the skeptics. Robert Graham of Errata Securitydescribed how he verified the digital certificate, meaning that ComodoHacker did have information that only Comodo, or the perpetrator of the intrusion, would be able to obtain. Even Melih Abdulhayoglu, Comodo's founder and chief executive, now says he's convinced of ComodoHacker's identity: &quot;They've proven themselves,&quot; he said.Of course, that doesn't mean that anything ComodoHacker says about his age, motivation, nationality, and so on is true. And it's also possible that the original perpetrator shared the private half of the digital certificate with third parties, or that it was a group effort in the first place. On the other hand, ComodoHacker has published still more details, including a decompiled file called TrustDLL, about GlobalTrust's systems.In a series of e-mail messages over the last week, ComodoHacker said that he took over two more Comodo resellers (which the company partially verified).He said that he compromised &quot;one more&quot; certificate authority besides Comodo, and &quot;if I need I could do more,&quot; but declined to identify which one. When asked whether he obtained fraudulent certificates from it, he replied: &quot;Sure.&quot;ComodoHacker says he's never left Iran: &quot;No, I never traveled, I feel so good and safe in my own country.&quot; He enjoys visiting, he says, the cities of Mashhad, Shiraz, and Yazd.Part of the reason he pulled off the hack was, he said, revenge for Stuxnet, which was malware that targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran and has been linked to the U.S. government or its contractors.Here's more from ComodoHacker:On Stuxnet: &quot;USA authorities should understand, they can't do anything they want, they can't look in the world and in internet to find me, but they have no any problem with HBGary CEO which produces malwares to infect people in middle east, they should understand if they sniff emails, I (as 21 years old person) personally can do, we should be equal, I mean CIA and myself. That's the message.&quot;On U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: &quot;They don't have any policy, their policy is just killing innocent people in Afghanistan and they killed millions in Iraq, just for one this: OIL. The world isn't safe with USA policies, they just attack, they just start wars, they use nuclear weapons (Hiroshima), they don't know anything about talking, see recent USA soldiers scandal in Afghanistan, they kill afghan people for fun. They should learn some basics, first basic thing they should learn is killing and destroying would not solve any of their problem. Killing people with nuclear weapon never solved anything, killing my country's nuclear scientist never solve their problem. I really care about earth future, when a country like USA and Israel with such administration try to rule it. Simply they failed.&quot;On whether he agrees with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israel: &quot;Totally. Israel is 63 years old regime who occupied Palestinian people's land, they should let Palestinian people decide about thier own land, simply they occupied Palestine with help of ENTIRE world, including UK, USA and even Germany and others.&quot;Comodo's CEO hasn't relinquished his belief that ComodoHacker is tied to the Iranian government. He &quot;claims to be pro-government,&quot; Abdulhayoglu says. &quot;He's using the media to threaten all the democracy-movement people now.&quot;It's possible that the Iranian government is behind ComodoHacker, who has quickly established a combative online persona that uses Twitter to lament the &quot;stupids&quot; who doubt his exploits and employs hash tags like &quot;usagovfail&quot; to condemn the West's understanding of Islam and Iran. But that might be attributing too much to a sometimes-brutal regime that the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders says actively censors opposition Web sites, jams satellite broadcasts, and limits Internet connection speeds when criticism of its policies mounts.Peter Gutmann, a computer scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, offered this salient observation on a Mozilla forum: Comodo &quot;wasn't owned by a nation-state cyberwar agency but by a random script kiddie having some fun.&quot;Related links&amp;149' Comodo hack may reshape browser security&amp;149' Full coverage of Comodo hack&amp;149' Stuxnet expert: Other sites were hit but Natanz was true target        Declan McCullagh     Full Profile E-mail Declan McCullagh   E-mail Declan McCullagh If you have a question or comment for Declan McCullagh, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET. Declan previously was a reporter for Time and the Washington bureau chief for Wired and wrote the Taking Liberties section and Other People's Money column for CBS News' Web site.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RIM gives India access to network, but not secure e-mails]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[RIM has granted India access to its BlackBerry network, but not the ability to monitor secure customer e-mails.The BlackBerry maker confirmed today that the Indian government now has the means to access its Messenger service.&quot;RIM has now delivered a solution that enables India's wireless carriers to address their lawful access requirements for our consumer messaging services, which includes BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) e-mail,&quot; Research In Motion said in a statement released today and e-mailed to CNET. But RIM insisted that the access does not include the ability to monitor e-mails on its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), which it sees as a secure virtual private network (VPN) solution for corporate customers. The company also maintained its position that the e-mails on BES are encrypted and that it has no means to unencrypt that data.&quot;This enablement of lawful access does not extend to BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which is essentially an enterprise VPN solution,&quot; said RIM in its statement. &quot;...No changes can be made to the security architecture for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers since, contrary to any rumors, the security architecture is the same around the world and RIM truly has no ability to provide its customers' encryption keys.&quot;RIM has been under pressure to satisfy the Indian government's demand for access to the BlackBerry network. The company averted a ban on BlackBerry services in October by providing an interim solution to the country and promising a permanent solution by the end of January.However, RIM's latest effort still seems a bit unclear to Indian officials, at least so far. Today, a senior interior ministry official said that the government still hadn't seen the new solution provided by RIM and therefore the country hasn't yet changed its position on access to corporate e-mail, according to Reuters.&quot;I cannot respond without seeing their reply to the government of India,&quot; the ministry official, U.K. Bansal, told Reuters.RIM has faced demands from a variety of countries requesting the ability to monitor BlackBerry e-mails in the name of national security. The company has had to walk a difficult tightrope, trying to avert bans of its service but at the same time not acquiescing to the demands for outright access to its customers' secure data.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Press day 2011 recap (photos)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Motorola Xoom--one of the many Android tablets that were announced today.(Credit:Josh P. Miller/CNET)LAS VEGAS--Officially, the Consumer Electronics show runs for four days. But the real action happens before the show, as the world's consumer electronics companies line up to tout their latest and greatest gadgets, products, and apps via a marathon of press conferences--every hour, on the hour.This year was no exception: 2011's &quot;day zero&quot; yielded a data dump of unprecedented proportions from the industry's biggest names. We're still sorting through it all ourselves, but here's an photo overview--with relevant links to earlier stories--to help put it all into perspective. Among the recurring themes so far:tablets everywhere, Android on the rise, Microsoft and Intel on the defensive, ubiquitous mobility, and 3D back with a vengeance. CES 2011: Press day recap Click through to see products from Asus, LG, Netgear, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft (which had two press events today), Sharp, Casio, Samsung, Panasonic, Motorola, and Sony. And keep in mind that this is just the beginning--we've still got several more days of reporting from the show floor.Which forthcoming product are you most anticipating And what product--or lack thereof--is already a disappointment Share your thoughts in the comments below.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to fast-track private clouds]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-to-fast-track-private-clouds</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft today announced several enhancements to its Windows Server platform, aimed at giving IT buyers hardware and software configurations ready for use as part of a private cloud.The new platform additions, which were announced as part of Microsoft's annual TechEd event going on this week, are dubbed Hyper-V Cloud. This is essentially a blueprint for the software and hardware configurations that Microsoft's customers and partners can use to get a private cloud set up quickly and without changing hardware buying habits. These configurations are highlighted in a new program called Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track, which sets each configuration up against the company's private cloud reference criteria. This goes hand in hand with a new Hyper-V deployment guide, which breaks down how 200 companies of varying sizes and server set-ups have created their own private clouds using Microsoft's software and cloud services pairings.As part of the Hyper-V Cloud push, Microsoft has also partnered with server hardware vendors like Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and NEC. For the past six months these companies have been working with Microsoft in mixed engineering teams to come up with hardware and software combinations that would meet the right specifications. IT buyers who are looking to use Microsoft's system can then identify the right hardware to get, which has effectively been given the thumbs-up for compatibility.Previously: Microsoft hungry to eat VMware's lunch<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bizzy has custom restaurant recommendations]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[ Looking for a restaurant tonight Start-up Bizzy says you cannot trust your friends, who have different tastes than you. Nor Google or Yelp, which are far too generic. Bizzy's better recommendation engine, CEO Gadi Shamia says, does a Netflix on your tastes, You tell it what you like, and it finds other places you're also likely to appreciate based on hidden signals in your data.  For example, if you like loud restaurants over quiet ones, or if your top criteria for a dining establishment is the attractiveness of the waitstaff, the Bizzy engine will return results that work for you, even if you're never specified these ideas. You just tell Bizzy the places you do like, and its algorithms do the rest.  Bizzy doesn't actually know which restaurants are loud. It just knows what you like and what other people like who like the same things you do. The more people create preference connections between commercial establishments, the better the results should be. And although Bizzy relies on its users rating places to generate good results and it lets users share their finds, it's not a social network. You don't have to tell it who your friends are or give it your social graph. Rather, says VP Ryan Kuder, &quot;There's a huge untapped potential in figuring out what the commercial graph looks like.&quot; Bizzy asks 20 questions to get to know you. Assuming the recommendations engine works as advertised, the Bizzy team would have to be exceptionally dunderheaded not to make a nice profit from referring users to dining establishments they like. This will be the company's main business. The site will also be able to recommend shopping and entertainment venues, but Kuder realistically notes, &quot;You make eating decisions three times a day.&quot;  They're also considering adding a deal or coupon service for businesses, which could work (this was the original idea for the product, before they zeroed in on the recommendation system). Kuder says that Bizzy will never juggle recommendation order based on commercial deals. &quot;Our promise to users is that recommendations will be pure,&quot; he says, but neither will the company shy away from the fact that it's a commercial platform.  Bizzy may link out to Yelp, as Bizzy is not, strictly speaking, a competitive reviews site. Yelp, however, is a competitor for mindshare, in that it remains a go-to source for people seeking dining recommendations, and because it has the raw data necessary to create a Bizzy-like recommendation system. The site doesn&amp;39't yet have enough data to provide solid advice. The necessary mobile apps for Bizzy should be along shortly--iPhone first, followed by Android.  The Bizzy business model is smart and I believe it's conceptually robust. It should be tolerant of a less-than-perfect implementation, although user uptake may be slow due to the strong lineup of existing restaurant-finding systems that Bizzy hopes to displace or supplement.  The only thing I don't like about the Bizzy product itself is that it's a potential date killer, as it will tell you what you will like, not what would be best for you and your dining companion. However, the team is aware of this, and has on its development roadmap a function that will let multiple Bizzy users find the intersections of their personal recommendations to locate the venues that are most likely to make everyone happy at once. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Corner: Facebook follies and the compensation conundrum]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest from VentureBeat&amp;'s Entrepreneur Corner.Can you fire someone for disparaging your company on Facebook a4&quot; Having an employee grouse about your business on a social media forum is infuriating, but is it grounds for dismissal Attorney Curtis Smolar runs down how the question stands on the legal front.3 tips every entrepreneur should know a4&quot; Starting a company is a lot like launching a rocket aimed at the moona4&quot;if the launch is only 2 degrees off target at blast-off, it will miss by hundreds of thousands of miles. Doug Collom, vice dean and an adjunct lecturer on venture capital and entrepreneurship for Wharton|San Francisco, gives would-be entrepreneurs advice on three things they must do.Cash vs. equity: The compensation conundrum a4&quot; Getting good employees in the early days of your start-up is crucial, but compensation can be an issue. Many are willing to accept lower salaries for equity, but how much should you give Serial entrepreneur Jason Cohen explains his formula.10 ways to expedite contract negotiations a4&quot; Contract negotiations that drag on run up both legal and manpower costs. Polly Dinkel, a partner at Sideman &amp;amp' Bancroft, offers 10 tips on how to move the process along.George Zachary: No bubble yet, but one&amp;'s building &amp;8211' George Zachary of Charles River Ventures gives his thoughts on a number of trends in this keynote address given at the recent Founder Showcase event.Next Story: A List Games creates service to market self-funded indie games Previous Story: Latin American startup gets $1.3M for 3D social gamingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: entrepreneur corner          Tags: entrepreneur cornerChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge 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[Peter Relan takes over as CEO of social game firm CrowdStar (exclusive)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There&amp;'s some shuffling in the management suite at CrowdStar, a social game company with 47 million monthly active users on Facebook.Niren Hiro is stepping down as chief executive after less than a year in the job. Executive Chairman Peter Relan (pictured right) will take over as the new CEO.In a joint phone interview, Relan thanked Hiroand said it was an amicable parting. Relan said, &amp;''We agreed about our larger goals but not on the path to get there. We have different visions on how to scale the business and exploit the opportunities before us.&amp;''Hiro (pictured below), a veteran of AdMob, the hot mobile-advertising startup bought last year by Google, also said he is bullish on CrowdStar&amp;'s opportunities. He point out that it has outpaced the growth of the social-game businesses of Electronic Arts (which bought Playfish for $400 million) and Disney (which bought Playdom for up to $763 million). And he noted it has managed to grow faster than those rivals without raising any outside funding. Hiro said he will continue to advise Relan and will continue to do angel investments.CrowdStar is unique among social game companies in that it was born from YouWeb, Relan&amp;'s incubator, but has funded its own growth through its own revenues for social games such as Happy Aquarium. That has made it an underdog compared to well-financed rivals such as Zynga, which has about six times more users on Facebook. But it has a larger audience on Facebook than many big companies. CrowdStar&amp;'s ability to stay ahead of EA and Disney is impressive, but it has only to look to Zynga to see how much more potential for growth it has.In the past few quarters, CrowdStar launched Flash-based role-playing games It Girl and Mighty Pirates. It also began expansions into mobile markets such as Japan and started making games for Microsoft&amp;'s Bing search platform. Relan said that CrowdStar would likely pick up the pace on game introductions in 2011, with launches in Japan, mobile games, and on Facebook.CrowdStar was founded by Suren Markosian and Jeffrey Tseng. Both remain at the company. In the spring of 2010, CrowdStar launched an ambitious hiring expansion. Besides CrowdStar, Relan&amp;'s other investments via YouWeb include OpenFeint and Sibblingz. Hiro previously worked at AdMob and joined CrowdStar in May.Relan said the company has 75 full-time employees and a number of consultants as well. A year ago, the company had 20 employees. Relan said it is likely that CrowdStar will double its employee count in the next year. He said the company remains cash-flow positive. But he said that it is possible that the company will consider raising outside funding in the future.&amp;''The fact that we pulled this off without raising money is spectacular,&amp;'' Relan said. &amp;''Historically, we didn&amp;'t raise money because we were scrappy and entrepreneurial. But raising money is a consideration.&amp;''Relan said he is not looking for a permanent CEO for CrowdStar. He will likely scale back his YouWeb incubator activities in order to do the CrowdStar CEO job.Previous Story: HP streams Earth Wind &amp;038' Fire in live 3D on a huge screenPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Happy AquariumCompanies: Crowdstar, Disney, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Playdom, Playfish, YouWeb, ZyngaPeople: Jeffrey Tseng, Niren Hiro, Peter Relan, Suren Markosian          Tags: Happy AquariumCompanies: Crowdstar, Disney, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Playdom, Playfish, YouWeb, ZyngaPeople: Jeffrey Tseng, Niren Hiro, Peter Relan, Suren MarkosianDean 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.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[Google Toying With Naming Social Product &''Google +1&8243' As Sergey Brin Gets&nbsp'Involved]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google&amp;'s upcoming social project is &amp;''Emerald Sea&amp;''. Despite some confusion that it may be called &amp;''Emerald City&amp;'', it is definitely &amp;''Sea&amp;'', we&amp;'ve confirmed with several sources. But there&amp;'s more.As one of our sources told us yesterday, these codenames quickly evolve. And in fact, it now looks like Emerald Sea may already be a slightly older name. And Google may be close to picking the final name for the product. As of right now, we&amp;'re hearing it&amp;'s being called &amp;''Google +1&amp;8243' or &amp;''Google Plus One&amp;''.Our source on this wasn&amp;'t sure if this will end up being the final name, but it is definitely the one they&amp;'re using internally right now with the thought that it could be the final name. The &amp;''Plus One&amp;'' name apparently is derived from some of the&amp;nbsp'functionality&amp;nbsp'of the project. In this case, you could think of &amp;nbsp'&amp;''+1&amp;8243' as being Google&amp;'s version of the &amp;''Like&amp;'' or &amp;''Retweet&amp;''. It also speaks to the the fact that you&amp;'re not doing something alone on the web. It&amp;'s social, get itAnother source suggests another possible name Google is considering: &amp;''@Google&amp;'' or &amp;''At Google&amp;''. Yes, that would seem to be a total Twitter rip-off, but several other social services have since adopted the @reply syntax since Twitter made it popular a few years ago.More interesting than the name though is who is said to be taking a very active role in the development: Sergey Brin.One source says that Google&amp;'s co-founder has moved the project to an area of the Googleplex called &amp;''Building 2000&amp;'' (which is also home to a new Google campus store and a slide!) and that the area is now in a state of lock down as they prepare the project.Other sources suggest that &amp;''there is still a lot of grumbling&amp;'' surrounding the project internally. This seems to sync up with previous reports of internal disagreement that has led to delays. As we first reported, Google VP Vic Gundotra has been leading the project, so it&amp;'s not clear how or if Brin&amp;'s hands-on involvement has altered that.In its current state, Google +1 is said to be a toolbar that appears across many of Google&amp;'s services. That is said to include their Chrome web browser. Though one source says they believe it will be a Chrome extension, rather than being fully baked into the browser a4&quot; at least for now. And while +1 should start on Google properties, the idea would be get other sites to implement it too a4&quot; perhaps like Facebook&amp;'s Like button and other social widgets.Google clearly really, really wants to get this social stuff right, this time. And to that, I say &amp;''+1&amp;8243'.[photo: flickr/jurvetson]CrunchBase InformationGoogleSergey BrinInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Investors buy into social shopping service myShopanion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Zappli, the San Francisco-based maker of iPhone shopping application myShopanion, has raised a $500,000 seed round to fund its plans to take the lead against a horde of social shopping competitors.Chief executive Philippe Suchet said one of his main goals with the round was to bring in e-commerce experts, which is why the investors include Maynard Webb, the former chief operating officer of eBay and now the CEO of LiveOps, as well as 500 Startups, the fund from former PayPal director of marketing Dave McClure (now a well-known angel investor).The company launched at the DEMO conference co-produced by VentureBeat in September, and it also won the &amp;''most promising startups&amp;'' panel judged by venture capitalists at the Web 2.0 summit last week.With myShopanion, users can scan product barcodes, read reviews, and ask for friends&amp;' feedback on Facebook and Twitter.It&amp;'s not the only social shopping startup to emerge this fall. The TechCrunch Disrupt conference alone saw the launch of both Snapdragon and CheckPoints, two applications that allow users to &amp;''check in&amp;'' to different products.Suchet said myShopanion is &amp;''the first and most advanced player in this space,&amp;'' with its integration into multiple social networks, its instant feedback feature, plus the ability to discover new products by seeing what your friends have been scanning and searching for. He also said that it&amp;'s built with an emphasis on customer choice &amp;8212' for example it allows users to either scan a barcode, take a picture of the product, or just type in the product name.To that end, Suchet said the company also released an updated version of its application today with features like improved product search and improved friend-finding capabilities.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Offshore wind permits to be streamlined, spray-on solar panels may be on the way Previous Story: You think the iPad is pricey First-ever Apple computer sells for $210,000PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: myShopanion, social shoppingCompanies: 500 Startups, ZappliPeople: Dave McClure, Maynard Webb, Philippe Suchet          Tags: myShopanion, social shoppingCompanies: 500 Startups, ZappliPeople: Dave McClure, Maynard Webb, Philippe SuchetAnthony 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[The Initial AngelPad Startups Get Their&nbsp'Wings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in August, we broke the news about AngelPad, a new incubator started by a group of seven ex-Googlers. A day later, we sat down with one of those ex-Googlers,&amp;nbsp'Thomas Korte, to talk a bit about the project. At the time, the logistics of how everything would work were still being ironed out. Fast forward to today, not even three months later, and they&amp;'re having their first demo day.In total, eight startups are ready to graduate from the program today. We got a chance to sit down with each of them for a bit, and overall the quality of the companies is very impressive. This shouldn&amp;'t be too surprising given how many of them are also ex-Google or former&amp;nbsp'employees&amp;nbsp'of several other high-profile tech companies.Below, find a rundown of the initial 8:MoPubMoPub is a startup aiming to reshape mobile monetization. The easiest way to think about their approach is as a DoubleClick for mobile applications. Essentially, they&amp;'ve created a system to serve up ads from several different ad networks depending on a variety of factors including inventory and targeting.The startup is founded by a group of ex-Google and ex-AdMob guys and one of the first things they showed me was Google CEO Eric Schmidt&amp;'s quote from our own TechCrunch Disrupt conference where he said that mobile monetization hasn&amp;'t been&amp;nbsp'optimized&amp;nbsp'yet. That&amp;'s absolutely the case, and one reason is that a really good system to run different types of ads hasn&amp;'t been created yet. That&amp;'s what MoPub is trying to do.They noted that a few companies have hacked together their own systems for showing various types of ads in their apps, but this can be tough because all of this stuff has to be approved, particularly by Apple. MoPub&amp;'s system would be an easy-to-integrate solution that would take care of everything on their end.The team notes that eCPMs are really low on mobile right now because there is basically no targeting. Obviously, a lot of startups are working on this issue but at least two of them, AdWhirl and Mobclix, are starting to drop the ball because they&amp;'ve been acquired. MoPub sees a massive opening and&amp;nbsp'opportunity&amp;nbsp'here.RollCallRollCall is an application to help small groups of friends get together while on the go. While there are no shortage of startups and larger companies that are taking on event planning, very few of them are doing it solely focused on the mobile space. And that is perhaps the best way to make plans these days.Using one of the service&amp;'s apps (they&amp;'ll have an iPhone and Android app out in a few weeks), you look for friends you want to invite to hang out and message them. You can then have conversations inside of this app as well as do things like vote on activities and eventually get recommendations for what to do.But the best part about RollCall may be that you don&amp;'t need all your friends to have the same app to use it. The entire system works over SMS or via an HTML5 web app. In that regard, it&amp;'s a bit like&amp;nbsp'the group texting app Fast Society. But it seems like it&amp;'s much more robust, and should even be simpler to use.Recommendations are a big part of the plan down the road as they want to be able to give you and your friends things to do based on what you&amp;'ve done in the past.Curated.byCurated.by has been making some noise on Twitter for some time now. Currently, they give Twitter users a way to curate tweets around a particular topic. This has been particularly useful during big events, like TechCrunch Disrupt.Using a browser extension, a user or a group of users can select tweets with a click to bundle them together. These bundles can then be viewed on Curated.by&amp;'s website or embedded on any other site.While they&amp;'re currently in the process of redesigning their service, they&amp;'ve apparently had over 20,000 tweets curated by users in just the past few weeks a4&quot; and they&amp;'re still in closed beta. But this type of usage makes sense since they&amp;'re solving a big problem that Twitter has when it comes to the surfacing of particular content based on quality and not time.Eventually the plan is to move beyond just Twitter content to be a curation platform for many things on the web.AllTrailsAllTrails is the Yelp for people who enjoy the outdoors. You know, hiking, skiing, camping, all that stuff. They&amp;'re building up a database of all the best stuff to do in the wild with a major focus on trails right now. So far, they have over 42,000 trails around the world in their database. And they have some 19,000 reviews about those trails.The service has been up and running for a few months now with a website, but the next component they&amp;'re working on is the mobile experience. An iPhone app is currently in beta testing, with an Android app coming soon after that. The idea here is that you&amp;'d be able to take all the information you want about a trail on the go so you can see it when you&amp;'re actually on that trail.And if you don&amp;'t have a connection out in the wilderness (or in San Francisco for that matter if you&amp;'re on the iPhone), the app stores all the data it needs locally so you can have it all on you. And even if the data connection isn&amp;'t working, the GPS likely will be, so you can still follow a map of your trail.The service has some 27,000 registered users so far who have logged over 94,000 miles with the mobile app in limited testing.AdkuAdku wants to&amp;nbsp'fundamentally&amp;nbsp'change the e-commerce experience by making it more intelligent. Currently, if you visit a site like Zappos, you&amp;'ll see them highlighting winter gear for you. But what if you live in an area like Texas where it&amp;'s warm Or what if it&amp;'s just unseasonably warm where you live at the moment Most companies don&amp;'t have a good way to change their targeting on the fly. That&amp;'s what Adku wants to do.Using a bunch of signals, Adku would be able to dynamically change your e-commerce site to sell inventory that matters the most to the people visiting the site. For example, the San Francisco Giants just won the World Series, so people in San&amp;nbsp'Francisco&amp;nbsp'are obviously excited about that. Wouldn&amp;'t it make sense for online retailers to push Giants gear towards those people But people in Texas (who the Giants beat) wouldn&amp;'t want to see that stuff, obviously.eBay apparently spends around $110,000 every time they want to change the main page of their site. With Adku, this could be done for much cheaper and much faster. And it&amp;'s not just about product inventory, they can do advertising targeting as well.This is another startup founded by a bunch of ex-Google guys who are most pleased with the prediction engine they&amp;'ve created. This engine can power the dynamic shifting of all sorts of things, even content on websites, they say.The craziest part may be that they&amp;'ve built this entire system in only 3 months.EggCartelEggCartel wants to take what we all do on eBay and Craigslist and make it about a thousand times easier. That is, they want to greatly simplify the process for buying and selling stuff online. And they want to do it using the hot elements of the web today: social and mobile.The group of ex-Google and ex-eBay guys note that currently it can take something like 10 steps to list an item on existing services. With EggCartel they bring that number down to a few simple steps. In some cases, it&amp;'s as easy as taking a picture of an item from your mobile phone or scanning its barcode to get a listing up.And they realize the importance of pictures. When most people scan eBay or Craigslist, all they really care about is seeing pictures of the item they&amp;'re looking for. EggCartel puts an emphasis on the pictures.A couple of examples they give for where this type of system is perfect is the buying and selling of tickets on game days. Say you have a ticket that you&amp;'re not going to use. You can easily put it up on EggCartel simply by taking its picture. People around you can then check their phones and see that someone is selling a ticket nearby and ping you to start the transaction process.The company did an alpha launch about 9 weeks ago, and they&amp;'re already seeing about 40 percent of their 1,000 registered users coming back to buy and/or sell more items.Hug EnergyHug Energy wants to help consumers track and cut their energy usage. But rather than doing this by way of a complicated smart meter system, they&amp;'re using a simple computer application for connected devices.Currently Mac-only, the app allows you to see exactly how much energy your computer is using throughout the day. You can also see more detailed analytics to show the trends of your usage. And you can send these results to your friends. The idea is that most people simply don&amp;'t realize how much energy they&amp;'re wasting. If they know, they&amp;'re likely to change their habits. But no one has created a good system to show them yet.While right now the focus is on computers, the next move is into the living room as more of those machines are connected to your network as well. Video game consoles and media players are the obvious plays here.Aside from getting people to change their wasteful energy behavior, the bigger idea may actually be getting people to upgrade (or even downgrade) their systems to more energy-efficient&amp;nbsp'devices. Hug Energy would recommend new devices for consumers to get to help save the environment.This upgrade market will be a $54 billion by 2014, they note a4&quot; that&amp;'s bigger than the entire Internet ad market.Snip.lyOn the surface, Snip.ly may sound like a simple company. They offer a group of tools (extensions, bookmarklets, and a website) to allow you to easily share small snippets of content from your favorite articles online. But their goal is actually much bigger. They want to cure filter failure and content fatigue.In the age of Twitter, most people simply aren&amp;'t going to read full articles in the same way that they used to. They need a way to find the best parts of an article a4&quot; and if that&amp;'s good enough, they might decide they want to read the entire thing. That&amp;'s the service Snip.ly is providing.When you&amp;'re reading something on the web and you find something you like, you simply use their tool to make note of it and share it on Twitter and/or Facebook. You can share a quote or a larger passage and you can include your own comment about why you like it. A users who clicks on it will be taken to a page with the full article in the background but with your snip overlaid for them to read.The larger play here is to be the &amp;''Pagerank for pages&amp;''. That is, they want to be a database for the best small bits of content online. Currently, Google and others show the initial blurb on a page below a search listing a4&quot; Snip.ly would like to replace that blurb with the most popular snip from the page.The service has been live for about six days and people have already shared over 10,000 snips.CrunchBase InformationAngelPadInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why won&'t utility companies innovate Smart Grid leaders explain]]></title>
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<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Utility companies aren&amp;'t willing to innovate and develop smarter power grids because it simply isn&amp;'t cost-effective most of the time, a number of cleantech leaders said at the GreenBeat 2010 conference in Palo Alto today.The biggest issue was finding ways to make green technology and innovating the power grid more attractive from a financial perspective a4&quot; and developing a true, intelligentSmart Grid.A panel consisting of Ron Dizy of Enbala Power Networks, Andres Carvallo of Grid Net and Gary Bloom of eMeter hit on most of the major challenges power grids face that are stifling innovation.&amp;''For all the talk about green and its good, unless it&amp;'s saving money, it really doesn&amp;'t scale,&amp;'' Dizy said.Utilities are still at their core companies that need to remain operational and continue providing their services, Carvallo said. As a result, utility providers are often the slowest to innovate because of both reliability and cost issues, he said. And if the utility companies aren&amp;'t growing, they probably aren&amp;'t going to invest in innovation because they&amp;'re focused on survival, he said.&amp;''The Smart Grid and all this infrastructure renaissance implies that you&amp;'re gonna gain a benefit,&amp;'' Carvallo said. &amp;''If no benefit can be seen in a short period of time, then the utility&amp;'s not gonna make the investment.&amp;''Nowadays, it&amp;'s more efficient to manage power grids based on demand a4&quot; basically provide enough power to sate demand. That means utility companies don&amp;'t really plan for the massive spikes in power consumption that the introduction of electric vehicles might generate, Dizy said.The next step to promote innovation in the power grid is to throw off that style of management, Dizy said. It&amp;'s been the de facto way of planning power grids for about 100 years, and utility companies have to encourage more flexible models for power generation at peak hours, he said.So how will some of the cleantech leaders address those issues and make smart power grids more attractive Check out VentureBeat&amp;'s GreenBeat 2010 coverage throughout the day to see some of the biggest leaders in green technology chime in.Next Story: Redwood Systems wants lighting to behave like a broadband network Previous Story: Venture titan John Doerr: Cleantecha4a4s a4ANetscape momenta4 coming next yearPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, power grid, Smart GridCompanies: Enbala Power Networks, Grid NetPeople: Andres Carvallo, Gary Bloom, Ron Dizy          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, power grid, Smart GridCompanies: Enbala Power Networks, Grid NetPeople: Andres Carvallo, Gary Bloom, Ron DizyVentureBeat 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[As Buzz Sounds More Like Crickets, Does Google Need To Be More&nbsp'Patient]]></title>
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<dc:creator>marterjueye</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[As we first reported late last week, Lars Rasmussen, the father of both Google Maps and Google Wave, has left Google is heading to Facebook. As we suspected, part of the reason is that Google pulled the plug on Wave barely a year into its existence. &amp;''It takes a while for something new and different to find its footing and I think Google was just not patient,&amp;'' he told The Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend. And that brings up another question. Google&amp;'s other big social&amp;nbsp'experiment&amp;nbsp'this past year, Buzz, also hasn&amp;'t taken off yet. What happens nextLike Wave, Buzz&amp;nbsp'launched with much fanfare in February of this year. But unlike Wave, Buzz was available to many users right of the box, and instead it was security issues and misunderstandings that led to its initial stumbles. The Buzz team worked quickly to smooth those out, but now the service has a much more serious issue: indifference.Despite being shoved in everyone&amp;'s face by way of its somewhat unnatural home in Gmail, Buzz has not caught on for social sharing in the same way that rivals Facebook and Twitter have. Yes, some stats point to it trending upwards, but it still doesn&amp;'t pass the senses test. That is, you never hear about it anymore, you see fewer and fewer references to it around the web, and most importantly, few seem to touch it.We&amp;'ve been debating for a couple of weeks now whether or not to remove the Buzz button from each story on our site. It seems to be little more than clutter at this point. A few stories do get a good number of buzzes, but as far as we can tell, the traffic coming back to us from Buzz is very, very minimal. Yes, we&amp;'re well aware that because of Gmail&amp;'s encryption layer, referrer information is being scrubbed, but we&amp;'re still on the look out for inferred traffic, and we&amp;'re not seeing much.I&amp;'ve long since hidden my Buzz link in the &amp;''More&amp;'' area of Gmail because the perpetual unread count was driving me insane. But I click on it at least once a day. And what do I see when I do Not much. I follow just about 100 people. As far as I can tell, 90+ percent of all the content being put into my Buzz stream are Tweets that are being automatically pushed from Twitter. It really is FriendFeed all over again! Except minus all of the good conversation that would happen there.Of the 25 most recent Buzz posts I see in my stream right now, exactly 3 have comments under them. Of those, one has 8 comments, one has 2, and one has just one. It&amp;'s a bit sad.Okay, maybe I&amp;'m not following the right people. But talking to others who use the service more than I do and follow more people, the song is largely the same. Further, while I may only follow 100 people (which still seems like a lot), I am followed by over 2,000. And I manually share every single story I publish to Buzz (something most don&amp;'t do). The result A few comments here and there, some of which I respond to. But again, mostly crickets.We all know that Google is working on their next big idea in the social space. Buzz may or may not be a part of this supposed new &amp;''layer&amp;''. If it&amp;'s not, does Google pull the plug just about a year into it like they did with Wave Back in August, Google CEO Eric Schmidt had&amp;nbsp'some positive things to say about Buzz, but if you listen carefully, he seems to mainly credit the Gmail integration with any success it has had in gaining users. Based on this and other things I&amp;'ve heard, it doesn&amp;'t seem to me that Google is thrilled with Buzz. They&amp;'re just letting it play out for now. Sort of like Wave.Quora has some nice conversations happening around the &amp;''Why did Buzz fail&amp;'' topic as well. While a few conclude that it&amp;'s still too early to call Buzz a failure, many of those answers are from April or May of last year. Six months later, it seems like even fewer people are talking about Buzz. And that includes developers a4&quot; something which is not a good sign.Former PayPal executive and Yammer founder David Sacks has the highest rated comment on the Quora thread. In his opinion, Buzz has failed for three main reasons:You can&amp;'t algorithmically create the social graph from an address book.You can&amp;'t wedge everything that a social network is into a tab in email.It came along too late.All three make sense, and he gives more in depth reasons for each. But I&amp;'d also add a much more obvious reason: as a sharing tool, Buzz is rather hideous.Thanks to where it&amp;'s housed, Buzz looks like Gmail. Gmail, which probably my most used and favorite overall web app, is far from pretty. It looks utilitarian. It looks like the opposite of a place that I would want to share pictures, for example. Both Twitter and Facebook look beautiful next to it.Look at the latest social sharing app that&amp;'s seeing some early success, Instagram. They started with a social graph of zero, but they nailed the sharing dynamic, including the appropriate look and feel for a social app. And surprise, people are using it. Can you imagine if that were built-in to Gmail to start There would be millions of happy users right now.Of course Instagram has another key element: mobile. I&amp;'ve argued before that Google should have started Buzz as a mobile sharing application with location as a key element. And while their HTML5 app is pretty nice, it should have been a native app to start on all the big platforms. Can you imagine if Google had done that If they launched Buzz as a social sharing native app extension for Gmail, I think we&amp;'d be talking about the service very differently today.Obviously, that would have been much more tricky to pull off than I&amp;'m suggesting. But still, at least that would have been more interesting. It wouldn&amp;'t have been just an uglier FriendFeed that&amp;'s more difficult to use than Twitter or Facebook.Can Buzz do what Wave couldn&amp;'t: survive And burned by the Rasmussen departure, will Google give it more time than they normally would, or should[photo: flickr/williamcho]CrunchBase InformationGoogle BuzzInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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