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<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google App Engine goes for Go language]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Gordon, Google&amp;39's Go gopher mascot(Credit:Google)Go, Google's experimental programming language, is coming to the company's App Engine cloud-computing service--and a bit closer to reality in the process.Google hopes to use Go to tackle modern programming challenges such as getting useful work out of chips with multiple processor cores. Getting new languages to catch on is difficult, though--it took Sun Microsystems years with Java, and its Fortress never really caught on widely.But incorporating Go into App Engine could help make it more relevant, or at least easier to test out, by reducing the hassles involved in trying it. App Engine is a service for running software on Google's infrastructure--a higher-level foundation than the nuts and bolts Amazon Web Services provides, but a lower level than full-fledged applications such as Google Docs.The company announced the Go move last week at the Google I/O show and released a new Go software development kit (SDK) to let programmers try it out. So far, though, the SDK is as far as the average person can get, because Google hasn't publicly released the service.&quot;You don't even need to have Go installed beforehand because the SDK is fully self-contained. Just download the SDK, unzip it, and start coding,&quot; said Go team members David Symonds, Nigel Tao, and Andrew Gerrand on the Go blog. &quot;We will soon enable deployment of Go apps into the App Engine hosting infrastructure...Once full deployment is enabled, it'll be easy to push your app to Google's cloud.&quot;App Engine started with the ability to run software written in Python, a popular language within Google. Second came Java, which is widely used to run server software. Go, while not the fixture of mainstream computing the first two languages are, has attracted a very active programming community. The language is an open-source software project.Go on App Engine can handle the full go language and, when programs run, they can tap into most of the standard suite of libraries of pre-built tools that come with Go. In addition, Go is adapted for several App Engine features designed to let applications run at large scale, such as the Datastore interface for storing information in a database.However, some elements of Go are missing for now--including one part of the Go sales pitch, the ability to spread jobs more easily across multiple threads that run in parallel. &quot;Although goroutines and channels are present, when a Go app runs on App Engine only one thread is run in a given instance,&quot; the Go team members said. &quot;That is, all goroutines run in a single operating system thread, so there is no CPU parallelism available for a given client request. We expect this restriction will be lifted at some point.&quot;Even in its preliminary form, Go should appeal to some coders, said &quot;It's...an interesting new option for App Engine because Go apps will be compiled to native code, making Go a good choice for more CPU-intensive tasks,&quot; said Google's Scott Knaster in a Google Code blog post. &quot;Plus, the garbage collection and concurrency features of the language, combined with excellent libraries, make it a great fit for Web apps.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chrome OS puts the cloud in your hands]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<title><![CDATA[Cochlear implant could help wearers find balance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Jay Rubinstein and Jennifer Hsia implant a new vestibular device via microscope at UW Medical Center on October 21.(Credit:Clare McLean/University of Washington)For those who have never suffered from a bout of vertigo, the condition might evoke thoughts of Alfred Hitchock and a dizzying fear of heights. Those people would be misguided.Imagine instead that, for anywhere from 20 seconds to 2 minutes, you are both falling and spinning, and yet you are also lying perfectly still in bed. It is not only nauseating and terrifying, but the disconnect is also completely frustrating.Millions of people around the world are thought to suffer from one of a number of balance disorders, some of which are still poorly understood (do the problems stem from the ear, brain, or some combination of the two). However, a new device could help those who suffer from one such problem, called Meniere's disease, avoid symptoms the moment an attack begins.The device will be manufactured by Australia-based Cochlear Ltd.(Credit:Cochlear Ltd.)The implantable device consists of a cochlear implant and a processor with new software and electrode arrays designed by University of Washington researchers who specialize in head and neck surgery, signal processing, brainstem physiology, and vestibular neural coding.It has been designed specifically to treat Meniere's disease--which affects an estimated 615,000 people in the U.S., typically between ages 40 and 60 and which typically affects one ear--because the disease is well understood. (The attacks result from rupturing of the inner-ear membrane, causing a sensation of spinning in the direction of the failing ear.)The most common way for those with Meniere's to fight the symptoms of a vertigo attack is to lie very still for hours or, in severe cases, to elect for surgery that essentially shuts off that ear altogether, permanently affecting hearing and balance.&quot;We have a variety of existing treatments for Meniere's disease, and any time there's a variety it's because none of them are optimal,&quot; says Dr. Jay Rubinstein at UW's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, who himself has never experienced vertigo--&quot;other than from drinking too much in college&quot;--but who for years has seen first-hand how debilitating it can be. &quot;In theory this is potentially an optimal therapy that could really change how we treat Meniere's.&quot;The device, implanted last week in a 56-year-old patient who is the first of 10 to be involved in the first clinical trials, is essentially an override, Rubinstein explains. &quot;It doesn't change what's happening in the ear, but it eliminates the symptoms while replacing the function of that ear until it recovers.&quot;The processor lives behind the ear and transmits signals wirelessly to the implanted device almost directly beneath it in the temporal bone. The device responds by transmitting electrical impulses through three electrodes inserted into the superior semicircular, lateral semicircular, and posterior semicircular canals of the inner ear.Because the design and surgical implantation of cochlear devices are already FDA-approved, the team was able to get approval for this variation in June, leapfrogging past researchers who have been working on other types of devices for years.Its initial studies on primates showed that the device did not result in any loss of hearing or vestibular function, and if the team can demonstrate safety and functionality in the first 10-person trial, it will then study 50 to 100 patients to try to demonstrate efficacy and bring the device to market.&quot;Meniere's is not just a target in and of itself, but a stepping stone to get at other disorders,&quot; Rubinstein adds.The first patient's device will be turned on when he returns to the lab November 4' the moment he experiences the first signs of vertigo, testing can truly begin.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Polish programmers are joining U.S. startups &8211' but staying in Poland]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa, product manager at Inflavo and former community manager at Adtaily. On Twitter she is @julencjaIf you happen to be a smart, English-speaking programmer in Poland, there is a good chance you will work in a start-up. An American one.Ryan Janssen, CEO of New York based SetJam.com started his company 18 months ago. His first challenge was to build a team of quality developers but, according to how he sees the tech scene in New York, finding the developers who work in lighter, agile frameworks was not so easy. The startup-oriented Django/Python/Scrum skill sets are hard to find in a city where majority of programmers work in more enterprise-friendly methodologies, with .NET, Java and C++ as core languages.Today SetJam employs six full-time developers and three quality assurance specialists, all of them based in Poland (pictured), while the CEO, business people and project manager are located in the New York office, 6 hours away in terms of time zone difference. Though it might sound odd for a young company to delegate its entire product development to people found somewhere in the Internet who live 4300 miles away, Janssen says he is extremely happy about the way the work gets done in the team.Finding the first programmers took him about 40 emails sent to various coders of which about 30 replied. After Skype talks and evaluating their online presence (blogs, open source contributions, Github and Djangopeople profiles) he decided to give three of them a shot. Since the very beginning the company maintains high bandwidth internal communication, with daily stand-ups on Campfire, issue tracking on Lighthouse and two Mac Minis with Skype video turned on 24/7 which serve as a window between the two offices, just to feel a little closer.Asked about the downsides of having a remote team he says they are really losing out the social aspect of working together, with all the normal working communications expressed only via Skype talks. But for the investors at least, as Janssen claims after several serious talks, the Polish team is not an issue at all and the two offices situation has never been seen as a problem. The obvious advantage of keeping development in Central Europe is a much better access to quality programmers fluent in modern frameworks and their competitive rates, comparable to what is offered by regular outsource companies in India. Also, when you deal with western TV productions, like SetJam does, you really need developers who understand the American culture. With Polish programmers who probably watch more American than Polish TV series there are practically no cultural gaps.I was curious if the Polish developers who work for American start-ups share the same &amp;''perfect match&amp;'' enthusiasm. Michaa4a4s Ka4a4sujszo and Maciej Cielecki of 10clouds.com, run a development house in Warsaw, Poland. The team has been developing several software projects in agile methodologies based on scrum. One of their biggest current projects is Numote.com, a San Francisco based social TV start-up, where they have been coding an iPhone app and backend for it.Before Numote&amp;'s CEO, Vijay Kailas, hired 10clouds, he had been outsourcing iPhone app development to India. He sums up this experience in one sentence: &amp;''when you hire an Indian team, you need to hire two to be sure you&amp;'ll get the product shipped.&amp;'' He switched then to Polish developers and they have been working together with 10clouds for 10 months now.Although 10clouds can&amp;'t complain about a lack of clients in Poland, they clearly prefer to take projects from the US. &amp;''It&amp;'s just the cultural difference between Polish and American entrepreneurs. The Americans are faster in making decisions, don&amp;'t get upset about prices and have more faith in people&amp;'', say Michaa4a4s and Maciej. While it&amp;'s usually completely OK for an American entrepreneur to be charged in the cost per hour model, Polish companies would rather pay a fixed rate for entire projects, which clearly makes the development less flexible.10clouds have more to say about drawbacks of working remotely. The biggest problem is communication, and with Warsaw and San Francisco being 9 hours apart it forces product owners to plan ahead all the specification and implementation.  10clouds&amp;' founders say the biggest difference between working via Skype and physically sharing an office is that you can&amp;'t compensate for any mess made just talking over Skype. Outsourcing development requires big discipline while expressing and planning the software specification. And you can&amp;'t just call a developer at 2 AM to tell him to make an ad hoc quick fix just right now.For its own part, the Polish start-up scene superficially looks pretty healthy for a country that only 20 years ago was behind the Iron Curtain. Each year there are a number of start-up expos, start-up competitions, start-up schools, and whatever else start-upish comes to mind. Practically every bigger city in Poland has its own tech event held on a regular basis. These barcamps and meetups create vibrant local communities of bloggers, nerds, tech people, and all kinds of consultants.The problem is, however, that all these events seldom give birth to many real start-up companies. The number of VCs and angels in Poland is minimal and the standards of investor/start-up relations haven&amp;'t been formed yet, to put it diplomatically. Hence the result:  each year a handful of quality programmers graduate from several good universities in Warsaw, Krakw, or Wroca4a4saw, but the under-developed community of investors makes them think twice before they set up their own start-ups. When you look at the country rankings of TopCoder, the world&amp;'s largest competitive software development community, Poland, the only country in top five that uses the Latin alphabet, is just behind Russia and China.Without an easy access to American visas Polish programmers do stay in Poland. And perhaps it&amp;'s only a matter of time until, as the SetJam&amp;'s dev team half-jokingly calls it, &amp;''outsourcing CEOs to the US&amp;'' hits the Polish mainstream.CrunchBase InformationJulia Krysztofiak-SzopaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York City seeks restaurateurs for curb lane cafs - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
<category>Food</category>
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<description><![CDATA[New York''s Department of Transportation has been busy this year! Hard on the heels of our story about the city''s partnership with Zipcar comes word that it''s also now seeking applications from restaurants for a new series of pop-up cafs citywide.This past summer, New York City''s DOT partnered with two Lower Manhattan restaurants to pilot the citya4a4s first pop-up caf, with outdoor public seating in the curb lane to promote local businesses. Targeting areas where city-licensed sidewalk cafs aren''t permitted (usually because the sidewalks are too narrow), the program was a4&quot; not surprisingly a4&quot; a resounding success. Now, the DOT is planning an extended two-year pilot covering the warm months of 2011 and 2012. Specifically, the city aims to partner with restaurants or cafs in up to 12 locations throughout the city''s five boroughs. Interested restaurants can now apply online' the deadline is Dec. 3. Those accepted will be responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of a pop-up caf directly in front of their main establishment' they must also select a design and hire their own state-licensed architect/engineer and construction team. DOT can provide technical assistance and make necessary safety improvements to the roadway, such as by applying traffic markings to the street or adding flexible bollards. Pop-up cafs built in New York and California have cost approximately USD 10,000 per restaurant, DOT says.Is there any doubt that heat-weary New Yorkers will welcome additional opportunities to refresh themselves during the summer months We don''t think so either. Gotham restaurateurs: this one''s for you! And local governments in other cities a4&quot; time to start planning something similar Website: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/sidewalks/popupcafe.shtmlContact: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/contactdot/assist.shtmlSpotted by: Gothamist<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yakaz brings location to social classified ads]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever wish you could get all the eBay, Craigslist and Autotrader.com ads from your area in one location Then here&amp;'sYakaz, a social network for classified ads that is announcing the release of its latest version available in 190 countries and 50 languages.Yakaz is a pretty simple concept in that it allows users to choice their location and then aggregates ads from a host of outsideclassified and auction sites, like eBay and Craigslist. The benefit is knowing that whatever it is you&amp;'re looking for, whether a car or sofa, is in your area. If you&amp;'re interested in posting a product or service, you&amp;'ll be allowed only 280 characters and the company will categorize it by keywords automatically.The company isn&amp;'t just interested in providing users with ads, a &amp;''discussion&amp;'' and instant chatfeature has been added to allow users in a specific area to easily engage and make transactions. The features are also beneficial for asking questions about potential products or services from other users.Ooodle&amp;'sMarketplace app on Facebookis probably Yakaz&amp;'sbiggest competitor. The service is very similar in features, allowing users to see posts by location as well as chat with each other. However, Oodle&amp;'s Marketplace only shows ads from Facebook users, so customers won&amp;'t see ads from outside sites. That makes Yakaz a slightly more robust offering.The Paris-based company, founded in 2005, secured a first round of funding for around $640,000 back in 2006 and currently has 15 employees.Next Story: Meebo closes $25M in funding as content sharing gets hotter Previous Story: Cloud gurus say Oracle just doesn&amp;'t get the cloudPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: classifieds ads, community, e commerceCompanies: Oodle, Yakaz          Tags: classifieds ads, community, e commerceCompanies: Oodle, YakazCody Barbierri is a social and digital media consultant. He works for Piehead and blogs about social media at Social Tab. (None of his posts are about clients or their competitors.) Reach him at Cody@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Cody 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[Delicious founder raises $3M to put a4Athe useful back in social softwarea4]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elsa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Joshua Schachter, the founder of social bookmarking startup Delicious, is working on a stealthy startup called Tasty Labs, and the company just raised $3 million in funding from two big-name firms &amp;8212' Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.Schachter left Google in June (he sold Delicious to Yahoo back in 2005), and his new company came to light earlier this month. Union Squarea4a4s Albert Wenger (formerly president at Delicious) announced today that he has invested in the company, along with Andreessen Horowitz and a group of angel investors. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that funding round totaled $3 million, and that Wenger has joined the Tasty Labs&amp;' board of directors.So what does Tasty Labs do Wenger isna4a4t saying, and the Los Altos, Calif. companya4a4s website isna4a4t saying much either. The website says that it wona4a4t offer pet food reviews, wona4a4t create open source operating systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, wona4a4t be a marketplace for used satellites, and that it aims to put a4Athe useful back in social software.a4Hopefully, wea4a4ll find out what actually means soon.Previous Story: Windows Phone 7 hits the ground running with 15,000 app developersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: social softwareCompanies: Andreessen Horowitz, Tasty Labs, Union Square VenturesPeople: Albert Wenger, Joshua Schachter          Tags: social softwareCompanies: Andreessen Horowitz, Tasty Labs, Union Square VenturesPeople: Albert Wenger, Joshua SchachterAnthony 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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