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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Dad wants to fight for the right to paaaarty!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>molokolillana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Beastie Boys)Forget the tools and ties for dear old Dad this Father's Day. What he really wants is the Beastie Boys' new tunes on vinyl -- or so the message goes from a new video uploaded, on June 15, by the band, on Youtube.Because of an internet leak of the Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Part Two album, the band was forced to stream the entire thing (the explicit version), on their website, before their actual June release date. By the end of April, the CDs and digital downloads of the album were (and are) made available on iTunes, Amazon, and Best Buy. The focus for this new video, however, is on the sale of the vinyl format, which Mike D. says &quot;...will be slightly different then the other formats. But please know that our corps. of engineers and experts have been on this, making sure the wait is worth it and that I can personally tell you that in my humble opinion, the test pressing of the vinyl sounded banging on my home hi fi.&quot;This isn't the first video released to promote the album. There was a 30-minute video, on the Beastie Boys' YouTube channel, called Fight for Your Right Revisited, which features a number of celebrities - Seth Rogen, Stanley Tucci, Jack Black, Danny McBride, Elijah Wood, Will Ferrell and Susan Sarandon, among others.All formats of the album are available via their website, and are listed as packages from $10.99--which includes a digital download plus bonus song Make Some Noise (Passion Pit Remix)--to the $74.99 deluxe package--which includes the CD with 8 panel digipak fold-out design, 9-panel fold-out poster designed by Mike Mills, a 2 x 180 gram white gatefold vinyl, a digital album download card, 2 extra bonus tracks + remix (delivered digitally via e-mail) and a bonus 7-inch vinyl. Last we checked, the deluxe package was selling fast on their site. So if you're a fan of vinyl, best get to their site as quickly as possible. There is a disclaimer for orders placed after April 19 for packages containing vinyl, which is that it won't ship until July. If you can't wait that that long, there are still plenty of CDs and digital downloads available on the aforementioned websites listed above.If your Dad's a fan of the Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two will take them back to when the Beastie Boys were in their prime. They sound refreshed, and are all about the fun again. FYI, Mike D just posted the remix version of their first single, Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win by Major Lazer, on their blog site.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Solazyme cruises in biofuels, green chemicals IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>molokolillana</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Solazyme raised $227 million in its public stock offering today, netting more than anticipated from the biofuels and renewable chemicals company's public launch.Trading of the San Francisco-based company's stock (SZYM) started today on the NASDAQ higher than the planned $18 opening price and closed the day at over $20, or 15 percent higher, to bring in $227 million.Solazyme algae oil.(Credit:Solazyme)The IPO is a bright spot for the biofuel and renewable chemical area, where many companies have been founded over the past 10 years but only a handful have successfully gone public.Solazyme uses algae to make liquid fuels, including fuel in a contract with the Navy, and oils for nutrition and skin care products. The company's scientists choose and breed specific algae for different purposes. Its process is different from many other algae fuel companies in that Solazyme grows algae by feeding it sugar in closed fermentation tanks. It can use sugar cane as a feedstock to grow the algae, and the company is working on using non-food sources as well. In its S-1 document, which it filed in March, Solazyme said that it has a number of initial customers, including airlines that are testing its biofuel mixed with petroleum fuel. Solazyme has been able to demonstrate that its fuels and chemicals meet performance requirements, but one of the big challenges for biofuels companies is producing at large scale and making a profit. In its S-1, the company projected a full-scale manufacturing facility could make fuel at $3.44 a gallon. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vimeo's 'Video School' now in session]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>molokolillana</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Video-sharing site Vimeo has rolled the cameras on its Vimeo Video School, a freely accessible section of the site devoted to movie-making tutorials for beginners and more-advanced videographers alike.Launched earlier this week, the Video School expands on and organizes user-generated how-to and tips-and-tricks videos.It features a Video 101 section, made up of Vimeo-produced clips about the basics' a DSLR Basics section, also Vimeo-produced and devoted to shooting video with digital single lens reflex cameras' and a Featured Lessons section, in which Vimeo staffers offer up teachings on a variety of topics, from composition fundamentals to storyboarding basics to how to make a good holiday video.Aspiring Eisensteins can also search different categories--Editing, Gear, and Do-It-Yourself among them--to find Vimeo-created &quot;lessons&quot; and user-produced &quot;tutorials&quot; on their chosen area of interest. And the &quot;lessons&quot; include &quot;challenges,&quot; which invite users to create clips with their newfound knowledge and post them to get feedback from other Vimeo users.&quot;Vimeo has an amazing community of members who enjoy sharing their knowledge to help each other reach the next level, whatever that level might be,&quot; Vimeo General Manager Dae Mellencamp said in a statement. &quot;With Vimeo Video School we have created a structured extension of what our community members have done for one another for years: teach and share best practices.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Distracting Article About Digital&nbsp'Distraction]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>molokolillana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This morning, I pulled out my iPad to read The New York Times feature entitled Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction. After reading a few hundred words, I tweeted about reading it. Then I realized it was something like 4,000 words, so I took a break to go check Twitter. Then Facebook. Then my email. Then Yammer. Then I came back to reading a4&quot; for another 1,000 words or so, before an Instagram Push Notification popped up. I hopped over there. Then I came back and finished the article.This is pretty much the standard way I read things nowadays. It has taken a while to get used to, but now I&amp;'m fine with it. And increasingly, like it or not, this is the way the world is going to work.There are two underlying currents in the NYT piece that are never fully stated: 1) That 17 year-old Vishal Singh is actually drawing something very educational and meaningful from his technology addiction. 2) That eventually someone will come up with some sort of cure for this digital overload.There is no cure for this. If anything, it&amp;'s going to get much worse. So we can either bitch about how much that sucks, and how it&amp;'s ruining society. Or we can adapt and change some of thea4sfundamentala4sconcepts of what learning is.That latter idea isn&amp;'t going to be easy for some people to swallow. Parents, in particular, I imagine. I&amp;'m not a parent. But I&amp;'m also not that far removed from being a kid. I didn&amp;'t grow up in a world where everyone had a computer in their pocket (smartphones), but I wish I had. Instead, my high school years saw pagers give way to the first truly portable cellphones (not the Zack Morris/Gordon Gekko variety). But it was already a time when everyone had a computer at their home that was connected to the Internet.The Internet was a magical place at that time. It still is. In fact, with all of these different ways to use it and access it now, it&amp;'s even more magical. I&amp;'m tempted to be cautious in the way I say this, but I can&amp;'t come up with a real reason to be, so I&amp;'ll just say it: I have definitely learned a lot more on the Internet than I ever did in high school.High school, at least when I attended it, was much more about learning social skills than educational information. The education side of things was more like one big game. You had to figure out how to play the game so you could get into a good college. It was about memorizing things for tests that you&amp;'d forget a week later, and figuring out how you could do your homework in the free period before the class in which it was due. I more or less remember nothing from high school beyond the times I spent with friends. And I know I&amp;'m not alone there.One major problem with high school learning is that you are forced to take certain classes which you couldn&amp;'t care less about. I understand that the rationale behind this is that it makes you a more &amp;''full&amp;'' person, and you might learn you love something that you didn&amp;'t realize you would. But that mentality is from a pre-connected world. I would guess that a lot of students these days know what they&amp;'re really passionate about at a much earlier age, thanks to the Internet. Kids like the aforementioned Singh figure out a passion for video editing and filmmaking not through high school, but through the web and technology. And his high school doesn&amp;'t cater to that passion. Instead, they want him to take a Latin class. Yes, Latin.It shouldn&amp;'t be tooa4ssurprisinga4sthat it&amp;'s the Latin teacher that seems the most concerned about technology distractions. He&amp;'s teaching something that was infinitely more useful in 10 A.D. than in 2010 A.D.Other teachers mentioned in the article, to their credit, seem much more open to ideas about utilizing technology to augment their teaching. In my view, that&amp;'s the only way forward here. You can try to ban the use of technology in the classroom, but it will find a way in. Or kids will find a way out. Resistance is futile.What&amp;'s also sort of humorous about all of this is that it sounds a lot like the &amp;''television will rot your mind&amp;'' stuff of yesteryear. And probably radio before that, etc, etc. New technology is going to keep coming at us that&amp;'s going to alter the way we live. To try to pretend like it doesn&amp;'t exist, or to automatically assume that it has to be a bad thing that&amp;'s going to lead to the corruption of our youth is ridiculous. Embrace and change. I just don&amp;'t see a reason why all of these great tools can&amp;'t help us learn more, rather than less.I&amp;'m also reminded of what Bill Gates said at the Techonomy conference this past August. He extended the idea of learning via the Internet to college as well. &amp;''Five years from now on the web for free youa4a4ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university,&amp;'' he said. Easy for a college drop-out who subsequently became the richest man in the world to say. But he&amp;'s very likely right.Certain people will need to go to places of higher education for the access thosea4sinstitutionsa4shave to tools that a person would otherwise not be able to get access to. And there&amp;'s no denying the value of a good teacher/professor.a4sAnd certain people willa4sdefinitely always benefit from the combination of social environment mixed with structured learning. But not everyone learns the same way.If you&amp;'re a self-starter, why shouldn&amp;'t you be able to get your education on the web Because there are too many distractions Please. Those distractions don&amp;'t seem to be an issue for Singh when he&amp;'s doing what he loves (filmmaking), just when he&amp;'s doing what he&amp;'s forced to do (Latin). Funny how that works.[image: flickr/underminingme]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blekko Gets Into Product Search With New Holiday Shopping Vertical&nbsp'/Safeshop]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blekko, the shiny new search engine that is taking on Google, is getting into product search today with the launch of a new vertical for holiday shopping.  As you may have heard, the recently launched search engine differentiates itself from Google by giving users tools to do new types of searches that they cana4a4t do elsewhere.The search engine offers unique query refinement tools to human editors called Slashtags (i.e. /news or /date or /amazon or /blogs) to filter results to what you are looking for (you can read our full review of the platform here).Blekko&amp;'s newly created search vertical, aptly called /safeshop, includes only human selected shopping sites and is designed to thwart spammers and malware distributors. So users can now just add /safeshop to any search to search for retail products on the web, effectively filtering out any rogue or untrusted retailers who may offer a poor experience for online shoppers. With the sales from online shopping expected hit $32.4 billion this season, more consumers will be flocking to search engines to look for deals and gifts. Google recently upgraded its product search and even launched a fashion-focused vertical called Boutiques. For a search engine that is going head to head with Google and Bing, Blekko has been steadily gaining traction  in its first month open to the public, with more than 1 million queries created per day and more than 30,000 slashtags created in the first week. Last week, Blekko announced a partnership with fellow search engine DuckDuckGo to power search results for the latter. DuckDuckGo will also provide its Zero-Click Info summaries on a site by site basis. CrunchBase InformationBlekkoInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White Collar Brawler delivers Web TV with a literal punch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a big night for Nate Houghteling and Kai Hasson. After months of training, theya4a4re going to face each other in the boxing ring &amp;8212' and the match will also serve as the climax of the Web TV show they star in, White Collar Brawler.The show is a full-time job for Houghteling, Hasson, and the two other members of their production company Portal-A Interactive. Over the course of 22 episodes (so far), the show has followed the pair as theya4a4ve gone from being out-of-shape, white-collar workers to buff(-ish), semi-serious boxers. There have been detours like a massively popular fan video for the San Francisco Giants set to a version of a4ADona4a4t Stop Believinga4, as well as the Tech Beat Up, where tech employees fought each other while wearing inflatable gloves. (I was thoroughly defeated by Zyngaa4a4s Rick Johanson).Behind the scenes, Houghteling said the team has been experimenting with how to turn the show into a profitable enterprise. The company runs ads before each episode, but Houghteling said he sees more potential in events. He and Hasson hold weekly workout sessions that fans can join, and 10 to 20 people show up each time. Between 200 and 250 people attended the showa4a4s kickoff event, 400 people came to the Tech Beat Up, and Houghteling estimated that 500 or 600 will show up for tonighta4a4s bout.Not all of those events were moneymakers for Portal-A &amp;8212' the workouts are free, and the Beat Up raised money for charity. But Houghteling said the turnout shows that White Collar Brawler is onto something in its efforts to cross over from the Web to the real world.a4AIt started to become more apparent to us that people have a desire to come out to real events,a4 he said. a4AThata4a4s something the Web hasn&amp;'t really tapped into.a4Events also sound like a more effective way to make money from a small, passionate fan base (and one thata4a4s largely based in the San Francisco Bay Area) than advertising. The Giants video has received more than 2 million views, but an average episode gets between 2,000 and 10,000 views on YouTube, and about the same amount on Blip.tv. (Houghtelinga4a4s observations also match what tech blogs like VentureBeat seem to be doing, where a lot of our revenue comes from conferences.)As for what comes next, Houghteling said hea4a4s definitely thinking about season two, and that fans can expect a formal announcement about the future of White Collar Brawler early next year. The showa4a4s first season was funded in part by an outside investor. Houghteling said that at this point, hea4a4s more interested in sponsorships than further investment.Next Story: Bioplastics startup Ecospan pitches DEMO on bubble wrap, not more bubble rap Previous Story: Tumblr brings in $30M despite stability woesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: White Collar BrawlerCompanies: Portal-A InteractivePeople: Kai Hasson, Nate Houghteling          Tags: White Collar BrawlerCompanies: Portal-A InteractivePeople: Kai Hasson, Nate HoughtelingAnthony 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.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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