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<title><![CDATA[Miramax brings ad-free films to Hulu Plus]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miramax is bringing hundreds of films to Hulu.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Miramax and Hulu have signed a multiyear deal that will see some of the studio's top films come to the streaming-video service.Starting today, Hulu Plus subscribers will have access to hundreds of ad-free Miramax films. Many of the titles will be available in HD, the company said, while the remaining titles will be available to users in standard definition. In addition, those who access the free Hulu will find a selection of 15 Miramax films to choose from. Those films, which will be rotated each month, will be ad-supported, the companies said.Adding Miramax content to Hulu is a big win for the streaming provider. The studio has a slew of popular titles, including &quot;Pulp Fiction,&quot; &quot;Good Will Hunting,&quot; &quot;The English Patient,&quot; and others that should help to bolster Hulu's current roster of available films.But for Hulu Plus users, the lack of ads in Miramax films could be one of the best points in today's announcement. Though they need to pay $8 a month for access to Hulu Plus, an enhanced version of the free option available on the Hulu Web site, users are still forced to sit through advertisements. In some cases, a single hour-long television show could include a half-dozen ads. Films can have several ads, as well. It's a policy that Hulu has been criticized for, since its top competitor, Netflix, doesn't use ads to supplement content revenue.Speaking of Netflix, Miramax's deal with Hulu is the second major agreement the studio has inked in the last few weeks. In May, Miramax announced that it would be bringing &quot;several hundred&quot; films to Netflix this month, including the aforementioned titles. The move was part of what Miramax said is a wider digital strategy.&quot;From day one, we've been very clear about the importance of digital and our desire to respond to the significant pent-up demand for our films--delivering to consumers whenever and wherever they want,&quot; Miramax CEO Mike Lang said in a statement accompanying the Netflix deal announcement. &quot;This agreement is an important first step in our digital strategy.&quot;Where will Miramax go next Back in March, The Wall Street Journal reported that the studio was in talks with Amazon and Facebook to bring its film library to those services. So far, Miramax has not inked a deal with either company.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How one researcher helped the U.S. government slip news past China&'s censors]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government has used a special email program to &amp;''bust through internet censorship filters&amp;'' in order to deliver news to people in countries such as China where censorship is in effect, according to Fox News. Fox News cites a report from the federal Broadcasting Board of Governors, which said it used the email program, known as Feed Over email, or FOE, to bypass the Chinese government&amp;'s censors.While Fox touts the development of this technology as something new, we heard about it at the Defcon hacker conference way back in August, 2009. That was when researcher Sho Ho (pictured) spoke about the program in front of a crowd of hackers and security experts in Las Vegas. Government security experts often talk at Defcon, which draws hackers on both sides of the legal divide, in hopes of getting help in validating new ideas. At the time, the FOE technology was billed as way that technology could be used to enhance freedom around the globe.Since that time, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, known as the BBG and producer of Voice of America, tested the technology by slipping data into emails sent to users in Hong Kong and China. The report, obtained by the GovernmentAttic nonprofit through a Freedom of Information Act request, said the &amp;''technology performed well in all tests&amp;'' between February and June, 2010. The BBG confirmed the authenticity of that report to Fox News.The agency&amp;'s testing proved that the FOE technology can transmit everything from RSS feeds to downloadable files and proxy web addresses (the latter can give users access to browse normally censored parts of the internet). I remember when Ho gave her speech at conference. She spoke slowly, as if English were not her native language. And she seemed out of place among all of the hackers with beards and long hair. But I could tell at the time the audience took her words very seriously, as she offered hope to hackers who risk criminal prosecution by creating ways for people to get around electronic censorship.Ho said at that event that the program is the equivalent of a proxy-less RSS reader. It  uses U.S.-based email programs such as Gmail as delivery vehicles. Typically, foreign governments censor web sites such as CNN.com by  blocking the Internet Protocol (IP) address they use. The web sites  respond by changing their web site IP addresses, or they send users to  proxy servers. But the authorities can block the proxy servers whenever  they find out about them. So users face the hassle of constantly  switching proxy servers to get their news.The censors can also use deep packet filtering to block sites  containing certain keywords. Users can encrypt the data, making it  harder to do real-time filtering. The Chinese government has also done  things such as renaming the addresses of web sites such as Google so  mail will go to the wrong web sites. The Chinese government also sought  to impose censorship software, dubbed Green Dam Youth Escort, on all PCs  sold in China. It backed off on that plan after a public outcry.With FOE, Ho said she could use a specially formatted email to transfer  RSS feeds or other types of news. Ita4a4s just like sending an email with  HTML code in it. To do it, a user needs to create an email account that  is hosted outside the censored country. The reason is that mail services  in censored countries may censor FOE messages.The client and mail server have to be encrypted to bypass the deep  packet filtering. The user selects which feeds they want to receive.  When the FOE server gets the request, it emails the feed back to the  clienta4a4s email address, verifies the content, and then displays the  feed on the clienta4a4s screen.Ho said the FOE system is user-friendly. In 2009, she said the RSS feeds can be erased,  and future versions might let a user delete the software quickly, in  case authorities arrive. The FOE emails work with all operating  systems. It can accommodate news features such as news feeds,  podcasting, small file downloads, the distribution of proxy server  locations and push announcements. It doesna4a4t work well with large files,  proxy serving, or real-time apps such as Twitter, Ho said in 2009. FOE can work with  mobile phones. Ho said at the time that the BBG was looking for programming help.Evidently, the BBG got that help. The Fox report said there are other tools being used to battle foreign censors. The Alliance of Youth Movements, started under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and continued by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with the help of Google and others, is teaching democratic groups how to use social media. Google created a call-in line on which Egyptians could leave a voice mail, which was then distributed via Twitter.Previous Story: Week in review: Apple&amp;'s Wozniak speaks on white iPhonePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Alliance of Youth Movements, censorship, China, Defcon, Feed Over Email, FOE, Social MediaCompanies: Broadcasting Board of Governors, Fox News, GooglePeople: Sho Ho          Tags: Alliance of Youth Movements, censorship, China, Defcon, Feed Over Email, FOE, Social MediaCompanies: Broadcasting Board of Governors, Fox News, GooglePeople: Sho HoDean 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[VC True Ventures co-founder: There is no bubble, period]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There is no bubble forming around Silicon Valley or tech startups because white-hot companies like Twitter and Facebook are able to show they have fundamental value and are capable of making money, Phil Black, co-founder at early stage venture capital outfit True Ventures told me today.&amp;''There is no bubble at current moment. There are very successful Internet businesses being created that are growing very rapidly and are making a lot of pretax profit,&amp;'' said Black.The biggest red flag VCs need to worry about is when valuations seem out of whack with what investors understand about what the company actually does, he said.&amp;''We need to worry about a bubble when there are businesses being valued at sky high prices with no underlying fundamentals,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''Currently, any type of sky-high, bubble valuation dynamic is the exception and not the rule in the venture market.&amp;''San Francisco-based True Ventures is an institutional venture capital firm investing from a main $213 million fund.The company co-invests with angel investors around 80 percent, making angel-type investments, but also leading first-round investments and sometimes investing in all the subsequent rounds.Althoughthe hand-wringing continues over whether or not there is aventure capital bubble forming around trendy Silicon Valley startups, Black said that until valuations begin to act irrationally, he does not believe a bubble has even begun.Other VCs have recently chimed in about the lack of a bubble, although the community seems split about the issue, with diehard proponents on both sides.Still, Black said the business of venture capital continues as usual and will for the foreseeable future.Right now, Black said VCs are most likely to be turning their attention to three main areas of growth as Silicon Valley continues to be an incubator for rapid fire innovation and increasing competition. &amp;''Everything that can be &amp;'socialized&amp;' will be,&amp;'' said Black. &amp;''Social media is working its way into the enterprise and the mobile app experiences at a rapid pace. The consumer experience is being socially optimized now. The second biggest area is location-based services. All this data is going to be geographically located. &amp;8230' Third is the mobile experience. The mobile world is growing [in] leaps and bounds as the tablet market heats up and the iPhone/Android war continues.&amp;''True Ventures&amp;' portfolio currently contains tech darlings including Milo, GigaOm and Meebo. It recently closed a $2.5 million funding round forOrabrush, the YouTube phenomenon known for quirky videos about its tongue-cleaning product.Thus far the firm has raised $375 million, and it currently invests out of its $213 millionFund 2, with between $250k and $2.5 million in the initial capital raises for early-stage technology companies.Next Story: LinkedIn unveils its social newspaper, LinkedIn Today Previous Story: Clovr media lucks into $8.3M for next-gen loyalty programsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, bubble, Facebook, iPad, location based services, MobileBeat, Social Media, Twitter, Venture CapitalCompanies: Facebook, Gigaom, Milo, orabrush, True Ventures, TwitterPeople: Phil Black          Tags: Android, bubble, Facebook, iPad, location based services, MobileBeat, Social Media, Twitter, Venture CapitalCompanies: Facebook, Gigaom, Milo, orabrush, True Ventures, TwitterPeople: Phil BlackRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting. 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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