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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TrailerTail reduces drag, saves fuel, looks funny]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Catch a trailer by the tail.(Credit:ATDynamics)You're driving down the highway. A big rig passes. Everything seems normal till you see a strange contraption attached to the rear of the trailer. Is it a ramp for Knight Rider Part of a rocket booster system No, it's a TrailerTail, a device designed to improve the aerodynamics of bulky tractor-trailers.Gas prices are bad enough for folks with a daily commute. Imagine the pump pain that trucking companies are feeling right now. According to manufacturer ATDynamics, the TrailerTail delivers 6.6 percent fuel savings at 65 mph. That can really add up when you're clocking thousands of miles each week.The TrailerTail may look like a giant piece of unfinished origami, but there is a lot of thought behind the design. The panels are made from reinforced thermoplastic and the system can be deployed in just 4 seconds. It delivers on fuel economy by reducing the trailer's rear drag. That also translates to lower emissions, always a nice bonus.Related links&amp;149' U.S. to inject $187 million into fuel efficiency &amp;149' Devices under testing at NASA may save trucking billions &amp;149' Prius tops in fuel efficiency for 2011 carsAn $18,000 starter pack includes 10 tails and installation. Shipping is extra, but that's why you have your own trucking company, rightWith national trucking fleet Werner Enterprises announcing last week the expansion of its use of TrailerTails, you may start seeing them on the road. Someone may need to rewrite that old country song as &quot;18 Wheels, a Dozen Roses, and a TrailerTail.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Want an online date Tell her she has nice lips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=want-an-online-date-tell-her-she-has-nice-lips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Right now, millions of men all over the world are sweating.They are poised over their laptops, wondering what to write to a girl whose fetching photograph they have espied on Facebook, eHarmony or, perhaps, Lifestyle Lounge.They are wondering whether to tell her she has beautiful hair. They are twisted about whether to compliment her eyes, her cheeks or even, perish the daring, her obvious intelligence.One false step and they will disappear into the trash. I want to save these men from themselves and their torture. Thankfully, armed with new research from dating site Badoo.com, I bear the answer: tell her she has nice lips. Yes, lips. Badoo's marketing director, Lloyd Price, can barely contain himself about discovering this answer. He told Reuters: &quot;We have found the Holy Grail of flirting.&quot;You might, given your natural skepticism and wet palms, feel suspicious. However, Badoo apparently examined 200,000 online exchanges, across 11 different countries.The lips have it(Credit:CC Notsogoodphotography/Flickr)To determine which of 12 potential opening lines was the most successful, Badoo chose two criteria: whether the line achieved so much as a reply, and whether it stimulated a longer, more vivid, conversation.Put simply, the lips had it. Which might, for some, explain Angelina Jolie's astounding popularity.I must, however, toss a caveat into your relief. The lips thing was only a success when all countries' results were pooled together.Specific countries have their specific kinks. Brazilian, French, Italian, and American women are, apparently, more moved by compliments about their clothes, rather than their lips. Although one wonders whether little pictures on dating sites really give a full view of a woman's dress sense.British women would rather you first looked down and loved their legs.But I feel myself bound to warn anyone who might experience a sudden urge to contact Dutch or Portuguese women. For they, allegedly, responded most favorably to an opening line that waxed lyrical about their ears.On hearing this, I realized that this research must, after all, suffer from a lack of interpretation.These women weren't responding to opening lines about eyes, ears, nose, or throat. They weren't revealing their weakness for compliments about legs or hair, moles, or kneecaps.It is my firm belief that these women quickly looked at the profile pictures of the senders. If they had nice eyes, legs, hair, mouth, lips, or even ears, the women responded. If they were sad-faced, bald coots with vast eyebrows, the women stayed silent.Ours is a visual, aka superficial, world. Neither sex is deeper nor more considerate. Neither sex is more interested than the other in that sadly outdated concept known as &quot;personality.&quot; If it doesn't come with comeliness, personality is but an empty bucket.If you're deemed ugly, no online bon mot will do you good. You must deal with it as best you can.I know a couple of excellent plastic surgeons, masters of the art of liposuction, Botox, nip and tuck, who are ready to help.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delays in iTunes song samples cause confusion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=delays-in-itunes-song-samples-cause-confusion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple has finally rolled out the 90-second samples on songs that are longer than 2.5 minutes, sold in the United States, and that iTunes has managed to equip with the longer preview. Apple CEOSteve Jobs offers iTunes users more time this holiday season to sample a song before buying. (Credit:James Martin/CNET)Some bloggers and iTunes users have questioned why longer previews don't accompany every song. As first reported in August by CNET, Apple approached the top-four recording companies last summer about the longer samples that iTunes users can hear to test drive songs before buying. Researchers say that longer song samples stimulate sales. According to several music industry sources, Apple has only acquired licenses to the longer samples for the United States, but the company is in talks to acquire rights to extended previews for overseas markets. As for U.S. iTunes users who find a song that otherwise should be eligible for a sample but is without it, the sources said that Apple is hard at work attaching them. It takes time to make the switch but it should be completed very soon, the sources said. Apple came close to announcing the extended samples last fall. Apple secured the okay from the labels and was ready to announce the previews at a media event on September 1. The event came and went without a peep from CEO Steve Jobs about the longer samples. Turns out that the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) read CNET's story about Apple's plans and informed the company that as far as they were concerned, Apple also needed their approval or there was going to be a problem, managers from the NMPA told CNET. They told Apple that the trade group, which represents song writers and music publishers, wouldn't necessarily have a problem offering the songs &quot;gratis,&quot; or for free, but they wanted time to study the deal, which they said Apple didn't offer them. Since then, Apple wrote independent record labels and told them that the company planned to offer 90-second previews on songs longer than 2.5 minutes. Apple said that the only way for the indie labels to opt out was to remove their songs. That the Music publishers were able to hold up the offering illustrates growing their growing influence in the music industry. This is one area of the business that typically is still profitable. In the past, a label's recorded-music division largely steered the ship. But recently, labels have turned to music publishing for guidance. EMI Group tapped Roger Faxon, the former head of the label's publishing arm, to run the entire company. If music publishing's power continues to grow, look for David Israelite, the NMPA's CEO, to step more into the spotlight. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Add-on offers Gmail-like UI in Thunderbird 3.3]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=add-on-offers-gmail-like-ui-in-thunderbird-3-3</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you're looking for a more Gmail-like experience in Thunderbird 3.3 alpha, a new add-on should be able to help you out.Dubbed Thunderbird Conversations, the add-on offers a conversation view in the e-mail program, allowing users to have all their messages to and from another party in one place, similar to Gmail. The app &quot;fetches&quot; e-mails across every folder in the user's Thunderbird installation. Users can reply to an e-mail inline, and access the add-on's &quot;contacts auto-complete&quot; feature to streamline its use.Thunderbird Conversations was first made available at the end of last week, but it was formally announced on the Mozilla Labs blog earlier today.If Thunderbird Conversations sounds familiar to current users of older versions of Thunderbird, there's a reason for that. The add-on is a totally rewritten version of the former Gmail Conversation View, available to those using Thunderbird 3.1. The add-on's developer, Jonathan Protzenko, claims Thunderbird Conversations is &quot;a significant improvement over previous versions.&quot; However, he also noted on the Mozilla Labs blog that the new Thunderbird Conversations will only work with Thunderbird 3.3 because it includes &quot;the required support&quot; for the add-on.A view of Thunderbird Conversations.(Credit:Mozilla)Thunderbird 3.3 alpha was released at the end of November and includes support for Windows,Mac, and Linux. Along with its launch, Mozilla announced that the e-mail program would not support PowerPC-based Macs going forward.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon to launch 4G wireless network December 5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizon-to-launch-4g-wireless-network-december-5</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's finally here: Verizon will launch its LTE network this Sunday.After more than a year of hype, the company is finally launching its so-called 4G wireless network that uses a network technology known as Long Term Evolution or LTE. Starting December 5, the new network will be  live in a number of markets including New York, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco, among others. About 70 percent of the 38 markets that Verizon is launching in initially will get the service starting Sunday. The company will have street view maps available on its Web site starting Sunday to show exact locations where the network is available.The service will also be available in more than 60 airports, including airports in seven cities that are not part of Verizon's initial 4G launch. The network will be rolled out over the next three years, much the same way the carrier rolled out its 3G wireless network several years ago. Verizon said customers will have two options for data plans. They can get 5 Gigabytes of data per month for $50 or 10GB of data for $80 a month. Customers who exceed this limit will be charged $10 for every 1GB that goes over the limit. The $50 pricing of the service is $10 cheaper than Verizon's existing 3G wireless service. The company said it will offer text alerts that will warn customers about the usage of their data plan. The company is initially launching the service with USB air cards that access LTE for its laptop customers. These USB cards can also access the 3G network when 4G isn't available. LG and Pantech will be the first USB air card providers. The devices will cost $99 with a $50 rebate and a two-year contract for the service. &quot;It doesn't matter what we label the network. In our subscribers' daily lives this technology will change what people can do. There's no question about that. I think even the ITU would agree this is a dramatic leap in performance.&quot;--Verizon Wireless CTO Tony MeloneThe company will be announcing more USB cards in the coming weeks, but LTE embedded into other devices will show up on the market in early 2011, including mobile handsets. In fact, the Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off in Las Vegas in early January, is expected to be the coming out party for some new handsets. Executives have said previously the company will have LTE handsets on the market in the first quarter of 2011.Verizon expects to expand its coverage after the initial 38 market launch. Within 18 months, Verizon has said that it expects to blanket the entire country with the service serving about two-thirds of users in its footprint. By the end of 2011 it will be able to serve 200 million people with the service. And by the end of 2013 it will be available to more than 285 million potential customers.Verizon has already been airing advertisements on TV promoting the new network. The ad, along with competing advertising campaigns from competitors, is meant to get consumer excited about a new generation of wireless network. Verizon and others, such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, are vying to be known as the fastest and largest 4G network in the nation. The Verizon commercial, which features a young man using Verizon's 4G wireless network to throw a lightning bolt into the sky like a javelin, claims that Verizon has the most &quot;advanced 4G&quot; wireless network.Technically not 4GBut truth be told, neither Verizon nor Sprint nor T-Mobile have a real 4G wireless network today. Still, Verizon Wireless, which uses LTE' T-Mobile USA, which is using a version of its current 3G technology called HSPA+' and Sprint Nextel, which uses WiMax, all claim to have 4G wireless networks. While current versions of WiMax and LTE are typically referred to in the industry as &quot;4G,&quot; they do not actually meet the International Telecommunication Union's strict definition. To be legitimately considered a 4G technology by the ITU, the network technology is required by the agency to be IP-based and use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). The other main requirement is that the technology needs to support peak download speeds of 100Mbps. The current flavors of LTE and WiMax are not that fast. And neither is the technology T-Mobile is using, which is called HSPA+.Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone(Credit:Verizon Wireless)Tony Melone, CTO of Verizon Wireless, said in an interview with CNET following a press conference that it doesn't matter whether the ITU calls its technology 4G or not, because wireless subscribers will notice the generational shift in performance. &quot;It doesn't matter what we label the network,&quot; he said. &quot;In our subscribers' daily lives this technology will change what people can do. There's no question about that. I think even the ITU would agree this is a dramatic leap in performance.&quot;Indeed the upgraded networks are faster than the current generation of 3G wireless services. Average 3G services offer between 700Kbps and 1.5Mbps. Sprint's WiMax service, built by Clearwire, offers average download speeds of around 6Mbps, Sprint has said. And Verizon claims that tests indicate it is getting download speeds of between 6Mbps and 12Mbps on its LTE network. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network also gives a significant boost, with speeds between 3Mbps and 7Mbps.AT&amp;T, which has not claimed that its network is 4G, also has upgraded to the next generation of HSPA+ technology, which puts it on par in terms of speed with its competitors. But Melone said that even though these other technologies are in the same ballpark as LTE, it does not match it in terms of performance.&quot;I can tell you that AT&amp;T with its HSPA+ network is not getting similar speeds to what we can get with LTE,&quot; he said. &quot;We are getting average download speeds of 5Mbps to 12Mpbs. HSPA+ may get peak speeds of 5Mbps, but the average is much less. That's why carriers are moving from HSPA+ to LTE.&quot;As for network coverage, it will take time for Verizon to get the 4G service everywhere. The initial 38 markets will make the service available to 110 million potential customers. But it won't be able to offer the service to its full 285 million customers for at least three years. Meanwhile, AT&amp;T's HSPA+ network will reach 250 million customers by the end of this year and it will be available everywhere its current 3G service is available. So in terms of coverage, AT&amp;T will have the largest, fastest wireless network in the U.S. this year, regardless of whether you call it 4G or 3G. How do the other two major wireless operators stack up T-Mobile USA, which has also been making some bold 4G claims, will be in 100 markets by the end of 2010, the company has said. And it will be available to more than 200 million potential customers. Sprint Nextel (via Clearwire) is in more than 55 markets today and is adding more each week. Its goal is to reach 120 million potential customers by the end of 2010. Still, Melone believes that Verizon's 4G coverage will set it apart from competitors.&quot;What is different about Verizon's 4G network is what's been different about our network for the past 10 years,&quot; he said. &quot;The leap in performance consumers get will be in most of the places they go. It will be where they live and work. And it won't just be available only in isolated spots.&quot;Update 10:16 a.m. PT:This story has been updated with comments from a Verizon executive.Update 9:35 a.m. PT:This story has been updated with pricing and device information as well as more background details.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2.0: New design, manufacture process]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Lots of rumors are swirling around what Steve Jobs is cooking up with the anticipated next version of the iPad.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Things we absolutely know about the next version of theiPad: it's not going to have a 7-inch screen.Thanks to CEO Steve Jobs' epic rant against the spate of tablets set to be released now through next year of that size, it's an easy prediction. But what else do we know for sure about Apple's followup to the insanely successful iPad Not much.Rumors, leaks, and guesswork can offer this, though: it probably has a front-facing camera (FaceTime makes perfect sense), will likely come sometime in the first quarter of next year (Apple has a pretty predictable refresh cycle for gadgets), and the 3G version might be dual mode.According to analysts who are checking with suppliers, Qualcomm may provide chips that allow the iPad to run on both CDMA and GSM networks, a so-called &quot;world&quot; iPad. The current 3G version is GSM only. The same analyst, Brian Blair of Wedge Partners, says the iPad will be manufactured from the same unibody construction design process from a single chunk of metal that the MacBook Pro uses.The dual-mode iPad makes a lot of sense considering that Apple is now offering the iPad on both CDMA and GSM networks. While the 3G version of the tablet AT&amp;T (and others) sells has GSM chips inside, the Verizon version comes bundled with a wireless hot spot. It's a workable compromise, but one that the complexity-averse, minimalist design-oriented Apple probably hopes is short-lived.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese woman arrested on wedding day for retweet]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chinese-woman-arrested-on-wedding-day-for-retweet</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chinese-woman-arrested-on-wedding-day-for-retweet</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the tech world's greatest lawyers told me the other day that he thought the retweet was the greatest way of saying something truly nasty about another person without having to write it yourself.However, some authorities are, perhaps, becoming wise to this secondary insult market.According to UPI, Cheng Jianping, a human rights activist in China, retweeted something written by her fiance on Twitter. His tweet was a slightly sarcastic note concerning supposed Chinese nationalists who had decided to smash up Japanese products because of a dispute between China and Japan over the East China Sea islands of Diaoyu/Senkaku.Her fiance, Hua Chunhui, had reportedly tweeted: &quot;Anti-Japanese demonstrations, smashing Japanese products, that was all done years ago by Guo Quan (an activist and expert on the Nanjing Massacre). It's no new trick. If you really wanted to kick it up a notch, you'd immediately fly to Shanghai to smash the Japanese Expo pavilion.&quot;This is more than 140 characters when translated into English. But, even in English, one can feel the sarcasm.(Credit:CC Blue Sky Day/Flickr)Cheng reportedly managed to add a couple of words to her retweet, just to reinforce the joke: &quot;Charge, angry youth!&quot;Sadly, this retweet has reportedly disappeared from her Twitter feed. She and her fiance were each detained last month, but Hua was released five days later, according to a New York Times story. Hua told journalists that he and Cheng were supposed to get married the day they were detained. Cheng was subsequently sentenced to a year's hard labor in the Shibali River women's labor camp in Zhengzhou city in Henan Province. Twitter is actually banned in China, but enterprising Chinese seem to have found many ways to obviate this stricture. And lest we think that a lack of humor might somehow be confined to the at times draconian Chinese regime, there is the case of Paul Chambers to remember. He is the Brit who sarcastically tweeted that he would blow up his local airport if the staff didn't clear it of snow. He was found guilty and lost his appeal last week.The authorities are monitoring your jokes, people. You have been warned. Tweeting is no laughing matter. Neither, it seems, is retweeting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crocodoc&'s new viewer aims to banish Acrobat from the office]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Y Combinator alumCrocodoc is launching an HTML5-based version of its online document-viewing service today.The software reads in any kind of document and renders it in HTML5, the latest version of the HTML standard universally used in websites, in real time. Web developers can insert an HTML tag for each document uploaded to Crocodoc&amp;'s servers into their site&amp;'s code, much as they might embed a YouTube video on a page. Users can then scroll through the documents as soon as they are rendered, without needing software like Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat to read a particular format.Other services like Scribd and Docstoc already offer embeddable document viewers aimed at sharing documents online. Crocodoc is more focused on the problem of large email attachments, which simultaneously take up space on mail servers and frustrate users who might not have the right version of software to open a given file.The quality is pretty good a4&quot; it&amp;'s hard to tell much of a difference between the original document and a reconstructed version on the site. Crocodoc&amp;'s HTML5-based version of one document can be seen on the left in the image above, with the original document on the right. One chief advantage of using HTML5 is that users can interact with the Crocodoc documents like they would any other document a4&quot; meaning they can pull out images and copy and paste text if they want.&amp;''We&amp;'re trying to do for Adobe Acrobat what Gmail did to Outlook,&amp;'' said Ryan Damico, Crocodoc&amp;'s chief executive. &amp;''We just want to extract the 20 percent of functionality from an offline application that people actually care about and use and cut off all the extra fat.&amp;''Crocodoc also has a number of collaboration features for its document viewing service. Multiple people can view the same document and add notes for each other on the side. Collaborators can also draw on the document and make notes on it, and then save the new marked-up version as a PDF. Aside from collaboration, there are a number of other uses. A Crocodoc users wouldn&amp;'t have to print out a contract and re-scan it once it&amp;'s signed a4&quot; they&amp;'d just sign it in the document instead.Crocodoc also supports PowerPoint slide decks and images. The company is a bit behind Scribd, which says it has published more than a billion pages online in HTML5 form and has around 60 million readers monthly. Scribd launched in 2007, whereas Crocodoc is just more than a year old. But Crocodoc has a jump in the enterprise market by getting in the pool with enterprise social network Yammer, another red-hot startup in the collaboration and enterprise space. The company is launching its HTML5 service alongside a widget for Yammer. That means Yammer users can view any kind of supported document a4&quot; whether it&amp;'s a Microsoft Word document or a PDF a4&quot; and add notes from within the social network.&amp;''It&amp;'s not really rocket science,&amp;'' Damico said. &amp;''We just wanted to make something that just works.&amp;''Crocodoc is a graduate of the winter winter 2010 class of Y Combinator, a prolific Silicon Valley incubator known for its tight network of investors and alumni companies.Next Story: Obituary site 1000memories not dying for cash, with $2.5M from Greylock Partners Previous Story: LVestus grabs $750M for no-money-down geothermalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: collaboration, document viewing, enterpriseCompanies: Crocodoc, Yammer          Tags: collaboration, document viewing, enterpriseCompanies: Crocodoc, YammerMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[Adknowledge brings alternative payments to the iPhone]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=adknowledge-brings-alternative-payments-to-the-iphone</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Adknowledge is announcing today that it is opening up new payment options, such as offers, to iPhone app developers. This gives users yet another way to pay for goods and developers another way to make money.Adknowledge&amp;'s Super Rewards division specializes in ads known as offers on platforms such as Facebook. In social games, users can play games under the free-to-play business model, where the game is available for free and users can pay real money for virtual goods.Those who don&amp;'t want to pay with money or a credit card can accept an offer, such as signing up for a Netflix subscription in exchange for virtual goods. That has turned into a big business on Facebook, with 30 &amp;8211' 50 percent of all paying users of social games turning to alternative payment options. It reduces friction, or the obstacles that prevent users from paying. The result is that developers can monetize more users.Now Adknowledge is bringing those offers to iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices). In the past, as recently as a year ago, most iPhone games were sold for $2.99 or so through direct purchases on iTunes.Then Apple opened up in-app purchases, which allowed app developers to use free-to-play business models. Now the free-to-play model has tremendous momentum on the iPhone. Total game revenue is expected to hit $11 billion by 2015, according to market researcher Juniper. And an increasing percentage of that revenue is from free-to-play games.&amp;''After working with thousands of free-to-play game publishers, I am 100 percent convinced that this model will be the dominant  monetization strategy that will enable developers to successfully build  and monetize their games,&amp;'' said Chris Smutny, general manager of games at Adknowledge. &amp;''We think this is going to happen a lot faster on mobile than it did on social networks.&amp;''Rivals include Tapjoy and Flurry. But Adknowledge can offer a wide variety of advertising offers to users, he said. Some offers simply get users to install other apps. But Adknowledge will tap the full potential of its 10,000-client base of advertisers in order to offer a wide range of deals for users, from movie ticket offers to viewing videos.If Adknowledge can come up with offers that users are more likely to accept, then it can help make iPhone apps much more lucrative for developers. Apple may not like the fact that it isn&amp;'t getting as much direct revenues from sales. But it will reap the benefits of having more successful developers, who will make more games for the Apple platform, Smutny said.The company announced the new business at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Adknowledge was founded in 2004 and it acquired Miva, Super Rewards and Hydra to grow into one of the largest privately-owned advertising networks. Adknowledge launched alternative payments on Android devices a couple of weeks ago.Next Story: Soladigm grabs another $10M to make smart glass Previous Story: Digg shows page view stats in ongoing effort to recapture relevancyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Dean 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[Cisco jumps into electric cars via Ecotality partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electric car charging company Ecotality has integrated its Blink car charger with Cisco&amp;'s home energy management systems. TheCisco-Ecotality parntership will allow electric car charging status and electricity rates gathered  by the Blink charger (pictured, above) to be viewable on a Cisco home  energy controller (pictured, below).Given that a charging station is  already something of an in-home energy metering and display device,  integrating it with a home energy manager is a a logical next step as  electric vehicles mark one of the first smart-home ready products.The partnership reflects the increasingly connected world of electricity management, thanks to the growth of the smart grid and the high-tech approach needed by electric car users.Electric vehicles pose a concern for utilities and customers because of their potential to overload the grid and the possibility of running out of battery while driving. So automakers and charging companies have worked to solve those problems with solutionsthat allow customers to remotely view best times to charge (reflecting discounted rates for charging in off-peak hours), pre-program charge times, check in on charge status remotely, locate charging stations and pre-heat or pre-cool the car while it is still plugged in.The Cisco/Ecotality combined service will be rolled out as a part of Ecotality&amp;'sEV Project, a $230 million rollout of about 15,000 public and residential electric car chargers and a study of charging habits supported in part by US Department of Energy dollars.As more and more utilities plan to convert to the smart grid, billions of dollars in smart grid opportunities are expected to open up in the next few years. Major players like LG, Intel and GEhave all launched home energy management and smart home, smart appliance-related products.Cisco is one of many major technology companies moving forcefully into the smart grid. Last year, it acquired Arch Rock Systems, a wireless network technology provider for IP-based smart grid systems, and also partnered with smart meter maker Itron.Next Story: Users give mobile apps one shot 26% of the time Previous Story: Mixtent launches social network that tracks your reputationPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, home energy management, Smart GridCompanies: Cisco, ECOtalityPeople: Jonathan Read          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, home energy management, Smart GridCompanies: Cisco, ECOtalityPeople: Jonathan ReadIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). 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[On the GreenBeat: Molycorp stock rises on rare earth scarcity, Verizon launches smart home pilot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:Warren Buffet&amp;'s MidAmerican Energy to install wind power in Iowa &amp;8212' The company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, plans to install 593 megawatts of wind power in Iowa, enough to power 190,000 homes, CNET reports.. The project will consist of 258 wind turbines supplied by Siemens Energy, to be installed throughout the state by the end of next year.China defends cutting rare metal exports, boosting Molycorp stock &amp;8212' Rare metals are used in wind turbines and hybrid cars, so it&amp;'s bad news for both that prices for those metals have been soaring since this summer, when China slashed its exports by 40 percent. The country, which produces about 97 percent of the world&amp;'s metals for high-tech products,is defending its decision to the global community, which is calling the move a potential World Trade Organization violation, Reuters reports. On the other hand, U.S. rare earth mining company Molycorp&amp;'s stock is soaring, Earth2Tech notes. The company plans to start mining again in California next year and was also bolstered by a joint venture with Japanese mining firm Hitachi Metals.India to quadruple renewable energy capacity &amp;8211' The country plans to reach the goal of 72,400 megawatts of power generation capacity from clean energy by 2022, the Wall Street Journal reports. India is expected to be the second-largest cause of global energy demand rising by 2035, with its consumption more than doubling by that time.Verizon launches home monitoring and controls &amp;8212' The company announced a trial phase to become available in the first half of 2011. The service lets you lock doors remotely and set, adjust and control lights, smart thermostats and smart appliances using Fios, Verizon&amp;'s fiber-optic network.Next Story: Amazon turns on Kindle ebook lending Previous Story: VentureBeat&amp;'s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: INdia, rare metals, smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart home, smart thermostats, windCompanies: Berkshire Hathaway, MidAmerican Energy, Molycorp, VerizonPeople: Warren Buffet          Tags: INdia, rare metals, smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart home, smart thermostats, windCompanies: Berkshire Hathaway, MidAmerican Energy, Molycorp, VerizonPeople: Warren BuffetIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[Want A Mobile View Of Black Friday Deals There&'s A Map For&nbsp'That]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Excited about wrestling a bunch of other sales obsessed people this Friday over the last HDTV or Xbox or whatever you crazies with disposable income are buying these daysWish someone had plotted out all the Black Friday sales in your area, allowing you to use your iPhone or Android to easily find the closest way to save by spending Well, you know the drill &amp;8230'The folks at The Dealmap have done you a solid and mapped out more than 165,000 Black Friday deals at 52,000 retail locations in the US so you&amp;'ll never have to miss a post-Thanksgiving discount opportunity again.For the first time ever, both The Dealmap Android and iPhone apps will use location awareness to help you find the Black Friday sales nearest you and if there happens to be a deal super closeby, The Dealmap will notify you of its location.a4sBusinesses can also submit their sales here, tagging them with &amp;''Black Friday.&amp;'' The app unfortunately does not calculate the risk of getting trampled on by rabid sales-crazed shoppers.When not contributing to the chaos surround traditional consumerist &amp;''holidays,&amp;'' The Dealmap is the largest mobile deal aggregator with around 350,000 live deals per day. Let the sales-related injuries begin!CrunchBase InformationThe DealmapInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confirmed: Accel sold Facebook shares at $34B valuation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Looks like it isna4a4t just employees who are cashing out on their Facebook shares. TechCrunch reported earlier today that Accel Partners sold a4Avery significant chunksa4 of its stake in the company (while also holding on to the vast majority of its shares), and I&amp;'ve confirmed the news with a source.My source said that Accel sold its shares at a $34 billion valuation and that those shares added up to less than 20 percent of Accela4a4s total stake. Contrary to TechCrunch&amp;'s report, my source told me that Accel remains the largest venture shareholder in Facebook.I couldna4a4t get any information on who was doing the buying. TechCrunch doesna4a4t sound too sure about the details, but says it heard that Technology Crossover Ventures bought $200 million worth of shares, while Andreessen Horowitz bought $80 million.Whatever the details, with this sale, Accel has clearly had a huge return on its $12.7 million investment in Facebooka4a4s first round. And that will be dwarfed by how much the firm will earn if it keeps the rest of its shares until Facebooka4a4s initial public offering.Both Accel and Andreessen Horowitz declined to comment.Next Story: Lionside scores $1.6M to make Facebook games for sports fans Previous Story: Seattle companies: Join us November 30 for a pitch at Madrona, and then cocktailsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cashing out, liquidityCompanies: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Facebook, Technology Crossover Ventures          Tags: cashing out, liquidityCompanies: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Facebook, Technology Crossover VenturesAnthony 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[Social Networking: The&nbsp'Present]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Editor&amp;'s note: This is the second of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on &amp;''Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.&amp;''  Read Part I first.  Follow him on Twitter @msuster.  This series is an adaptation of a recent talk he gave at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on &amp;''the future of social networking.&amp;''  You can watch thea4svideo here , or you can scroll quickly through the Powerpoint slides embedded at the bottom of the post ora4shere on DocStoc.Social Networking in Web 2.0: Plaxo &amp;amp' LinkedInIn my last post, I discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, Prodigy, the Well, then the rise of AOL, Geocities and Yahoo Groups.  Next began the era of &amp;''spam-based&amp;'' networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. a4sCo-founded by Sean Parker (yes, the same one who worked witha4sMarka4sZuckerberg in the early days of Facebook), it encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and &amp;''connect&amp;'' on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could bya4ssynchronizeda4swith everybody&amp;'s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch.There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we&amp;'d throw up our arms and say, &amp;''oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&amp;'' mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.And come after they did. a4sWhile Plaxo never figured out what to do with us once we were all connected online, LinkedIn did. a4sThey formed us into networks of networkers. a4sIt was suddenly now not only about whom I was connected to, but who they knew and how I could get access to them. a4sWe suddenly all wanted intros. a4sIt added a new dimension to online social networks &amp;8230' business networking. a4sAnd they encouraged us to part with a lot more data about ourselves making LinkedIn our virtual resume.And importantly Web 2.0 ushered in the era of &amp;''participation&amp;'' &amp;8211' we all know that. a4sBut less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0 ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly &amp;8211' namely images and video &amp;8211' otherwide Web 2.0 might have been a lot less differentiated. a4sSuddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad &amp;amp' WordPress. a4sWe started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.But the masses didn&amp;'t want to blog. a4sThey wanted to publish pictures of themselves &amp;amp' their friends, share them, communicate with others, stay connected, have common experiences, find people to date, etc. a4sAs I&amp;'ve said, it&amp;'s the same shit as the 1980&amp;8242's &amp;8211' I swear.Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace &amp;amp' FacebookWe all know Friendster was the trailblazer in this category allowing people to create personal pages and connect to other people in a LinkedIn style but without the &amp;''business&amp;'' and with a little more interactivity (let&amp;'s face it, for the longest time most users &amp;''friended&amp;'' people on LinkedIn but then never really did much else). a4sBut Friendster&amp;'s computer systems couldn&amp;'t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. a4sFriendster wasa4sDOA.And there it was &amp;8211' MySpace was growing at the exact time we all had cheap digital cameras, smartphones with cameras and new, cheap video cameras like the Flip that allowed us to create video.Except that MySpace didn&amp;'t handle images or video well. a4sLuckily Photobucket &amp;amp' ImageShack did. a4sSo users put all their photos on Photobucket &amp;amp' their videos on YouTube and shared them with their friends through MySpace.Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. a4sFor a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet. a4sGoogle acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, which at the time seemed laughably high and now seems prescient. a4sGoogle turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. a4sMySpace would have liked to own YouTube but didn&amp;'t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.MySpace later bought Photobucket for $250 million + $50 million earn out. a4sIt did not have the same success as Google&amp;'s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.Murdoch seethed at these &amp;''startups&amp;'' getting rich off the back of MySpace. a4sThe conventional wisdom at Fox&amp;'s headquarters is that MySpace had &amp;''made&amp;'' both YouTube &amp;amp' Photobucket by allowing them distribution. a4sMySpace vowed not to create anymore million dollar successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire.So Fox ludicrouslya4sset up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. a4sThe goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. a4sThis was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. I literallya4ssnortled when I heard that they were going to do this. a4sIt was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn&amp;'t understand innovation.Enter Facebook. a4sIt had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. a4sFacebook was everything that MySpace wasn&amp;'t. a4sIt was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite,a4saestheticallya4spleasing, ad-free and users were verified. a4sMySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.But the critical distinction in the direction of both companies was that while MySpace was putting up moats to keep outside companies from innovating and making money off their backs, Facebook took the opposite approach. a4sIt launched open API&amp;'s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn&amp;'t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. a4sSo along come companies like Slide, RockYou &amp;amp' Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest bya4sMark Zuckerberg.It was at that moment that a 22-year-olda4sMarka4sZuckerberg completely schooled the 75-year-old Rupert Murdoch. a4sWithin the next 12 months Facebook users doubled to 200 million while MySpace stayed flat at 100 million. a4sThe lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. a4sAsk Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com &amp;8211' the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road.Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! in terms of time spent on the sites. a4sSlingshot Labs was unsurprisingly closed within a short period of time and its properties sold-off or dismantled. a4sDuh.Social Networking goes Real Time: TwitterWhile Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. a4sThis was revolutionary in thinking and worked because as a user you understood this bargain when you started. a4sTwitter is not the place to share pictures of your kids with your family.Another Twitter innovation was &amp;''asymmetry&amp;'' because you didn&amp;'t have to have a two-way following relationship to be connected. a4sYou could follow people who didn&amp;'t necessarily follow you back. a4sThis allowed followers to be able to &amp;''curate&amp;'' their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. a4sTwitter restricts each post to 140 characters so users often share links with other people &amp;8211' one of the most important features of Twitter. a4sSo this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of &amp;''news exchange&amp;'' that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people!Twitter is much more. a4sI&amp;'ve written extensively on the topic, but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.But what is magic about Twitter is that it is real time. a4sIn most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.The one major thing that Twitter doesn&amp;'t have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. a4sTwitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). a4s18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter&amp;'s API. a4sNow I don&amp;'t get any. a4sNot one. a4sYet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased.Given I&amp;'m a passionate user of Twitter, I sure hope somebody there will re-read the MySpace vs. Facebook section above. a4sLesson learned (to me at least) &amp;8211' let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax &amp;8216'em later. a4sThat way other companies innovate on their own shekels (or at least a VCs) and let the best man win. a4sClose shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine &amp;amp' capital. a4sSeems kinda obvious or am I missing somethign a4sRupertSocial Networking is Becoming Mobile: Foursquare and SkoutThe trend that is unfolding before our eyes is that Social Networking is now becoming mobile and that adds new dimensions to how we use social networks. a4sThe most obvious change is that now social networks become &amp;''location aware.&amp;'' a4sThe highest profile brand in this space is Foursquare. a4sPundits are mixed on whether Foursquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. a4sAt a minimum it has been a trailblazer of innovation that a generation of companies are trying to copy.As our social actions become both public and location specific it opens up all types of future potential use cases. a4sOne obvious one is dating where players like Skout are trying to cash in on. a4sWhen you think about it, young &amp;amp' single people go out to bars &amp;amp' clubs in hopes of meeting people to &amp;''hook up&amp;'' with. a4sIn a perfect world you&amp;'d like that person to be compatible with you in additional to being attracted to them, yet as a society we go into bars and have no idea what it behind any of the people we see other than the immediacy of their looks and whether we can get enough liquid courage into ourselves to talk with them and learn more.It&amp;'s obvious to me that the future of dating will involve mobile, social networks that tell us more about the compatibility of the people around us. a4sIt doesn&amp;'t take a rocket scientist to see how big people like Match.com and eHarmony became on the trend of helping us find our dating partners and why this would be improved my mobile, social networks. a4sHow long this trend takes is unclear &amp;8211' but in 10 years I feel confident we&amp;'ll look back and say, &amp;''duh.&amp;''FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. a4sFor years I saw companies pitching themselves as &amp;''mobile coupon companies&amp;'' and I never believed this would be a big idea. a4sI&amp;'m not a big believer that people walk around with their mobile devices and say, &amp;''let me now pull out my device and see wether there are any coupons around me.&amp;'' a4sI always said that if an application could engage the user in some other way &amp;8211' like a game &amp;8211' it would earn the right to serve up coupons as a by-product. a4sI think that is what Foursquare has done well.In the future I don&amp;'t believe that Foursquare&amp;'s &amp;''check-in&amp;'' game with badges will be enough to hold users interests but for now it&amp;'s working well. a4sI&amp;'ve always said that if Foursquare has a &amp;''second act&amp;'' coming it could be a really big company. a4sIn the long-run I believe that check-ins will be more seamless &amp;8211' something handled by infrastructure in the background. a4sSo I expect more and new games from Foursquare in the future. a4sOne awesome features of today&amp;'s Foursquare that often isn&amp;'t talked about is the ability to graph your friends on a real-time map and see where everybody is. a4sThis is a killer feature for the 20 and 30 something crowds for sure. a4sMe When I go out I mostly prefer to eat in peace with my wife and friends without people knowing where we are &amp;8211' I guess we all get old '-)In the next post I will make some predictions about where social networking is going next. a4sAnd only one hint a4&quot;it isn&amp;'t all dominated by Facebook. a4sStay tuned. a4sIf you can&amp;'t wait you can get a sneak peak in the PowerPoint presentation below.var docstoc_docid=&quot;63969915&quot;'var docstoc_title=&quot;Social Networks: Past, Present &amp;amp' Future&quot;'var docstoc_urltitle=&quot;Social Networks: Past, Present &amp;amp' Future&quot;'Social Networks: Past, Present &amp;amp' FutureCrunchBase InformationMark SusterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PC-design guru Rahul Sood takes his leave from HP]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former HP CEO Mark Hurd might have been known for his ruthless cost-cutting, but he had an eye for clever acquisitions. So much so that he approved buying VoodooPC, a niche high-end PC manufacturer, in 2006 to bring the cool factor back to HP&amp;'s computer design.But now that Hurd has left for greener pastures, VoodooPC founder Rahul Soodis taking his leave from HP as its CTO of global gaming to get back to doing what he loves a4&quot; developing and manufacturing gaming computers.&amp;''I cana4a4t wait to be directly involved in a product pipeline again,&amp;'' Sood said in a blog post announcing his departure. &amp;''Nothing motivates me more than when Ia4a4m empowered to make big bets and help to create awesome products just as we did throughout most of my career.&amp;''HP had lagged behind Apple in designing sleek and aesthetically appealing computers. The company has since invested heavily in industrial design.Before HP bought Voodoo in 2006, the small Canadian PC maker specialized in custom-designed computers with hand-painted cases. Big-spending gamers happily bought about 100 of the machines each month for as much as $5,000.VoodooPC took over the design direction of HP&amp;'s computers. But as the recession took hold, Hurd set a plan toslash 7.5 percent of the company&amp;'s workforce over three years and cut costs significantly, and HP stopped making the $5,000 gaming computers that Voodoo was known for andfolded Voodoo PC&amp;'s design philosophy into its other computers. The Envy laptop computer launched last year was a Voodoo-designed response to Applea4a4s lightweight MacBook Air. Now the Envy brand name has been extended to the HP laptop product line.HP also launched the Blackbird desktop computer, also marketed toward gamers.With Sood&amp;'s departure, HP loses a good bit of gaming street cred. The next question is whether will HP hold onto the industrial design and gaming philosophy that VoodooPC and Sood brought to the company&amp;'s computer manufacturing process. Hurd left a legacy of ruthless cost-cutting a4&quot; and a successful track record to go with it. He managed to grow HP from $80 billion in revenue to $115 billion in revenue, enabled it to surpass IBM as the top tech company and he doubled its number of employees.Without Hurd&amp;'s penchant for gaming and amiable relationship with Sood, HP might abandon that altogether. That would mean the company would return to producing its bland, cheaper laptops and computers and cede the &amp;''cool&amp;'' laptop design space to Apple. Of course, HP has plenty of talented industrial designers. But the risk of losing people like Sood is clear.Next Story: Battle for your texts: Facebook Messages vs. Kik mobile chat Previous Story: Fox News High Why Rupert Murdoch is bullish on digital educationPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: gaming, gaming PC, luxury PCCompanies: Hewlett Packard, Voodoo PcPeople: Mark Hurd, Rahuul Sood          Tags: gaming, gaming PC, luxury PCCompanies: Hewlett Packard, Voodoo PcPeople: Mark Hurd, Rahuul SoodVentureBeat 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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