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<title><![CDATA[Huffington Post CEO: We will be worth more than the Wall Street Journal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When news blog Business Insider brought executives from the Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal onstage this morning, co-founder Henry Blodget went ahead and asked the awkward question: In five years, will the Huffington Post be worth more than the JournalBlodget, who was moderating the panel at his Ignition conference in New York, had earlier said that new media and old media companies are now a4Aneck and necka4 in value. Huffington Post chief executive Eric Hippeau initially said you have to reckon with a4Aa Rupert Murdocha4 factor. The News Corp founder is leading the Wall Street Journal to experiment with new technologies, Hippeau said, so it will probably stay relevant.As Blodget noted, that&amp;'s really a a4Anon-answer,a4 so he pressed Hippeau, who gave in and said that when you look at the Wall Street Journal property alone (as opposed to all of News Corp), the answer is a4Aprobablya4.Unsurprisingly, Dow Jones president Todd Larsen disagreed, saying, a4AIta4a4s highly unlikely, but you never know.a4 Like Hippeau, he pointed to the Journala4a4s experimentation with new media, which is a4Acreating a lot of growth across [the] franchise.a4 The paper is even willing to risk &amp;''cannibalizationa4 with its traditional revenue models.Larsen acknowledged that the Journal is still pretty old-fashioned in some ways. For one thing, ita4a4s still very interested in expanding the print product. True, print advertising isna4a4t growing, but ita4a4s still a4Aa share gamea4 with opportunity to take marketshare from competitors, so the Journal still invests in the print product with things like local sections.Blodget also pointed out that the Journal has been criticized for the fact that ita4a4s very reluctant to link to articles on other websites. Larsen agreed that the Journal isn&amp;'t as a4Alink-orienteda4 as other sites, and yes, ita4a4s because it doesna4a4t want to be a4Aone little stopa4 on the way to another websites.Still, Larsen said, a4AIf you go back over a five-year period, you&amp;'ve seen us do more and more.a4[photo by Owen Thomas]Next Story: BlackBerry gets sexy: RIM acquires Swedish design firm TAT Previous Story: Will OnLive squash game retailers with $9.99-a-month online gamesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Ignition, Ignition 2010Companies: Dow jones, Huffington Post, Wall Street JournalPeople: Eric Hippeau, Henry Blodget, Todd Larsen          Tags: Ignition, Ignition 2010Companies: Dow jones, Huffington Post, Wall Street JournalPeople: Eric Hippeau, Henry Blodget, Todd LarsenAnthony 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[TRON: Legacy movie review&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Part of the TRON press event included an advance screening of TRON: Legacy. We&amp;'ve been under embargo not to review the movie, but someone broke the embargo, so we are no longer going to keep it secret.If you do not like movie spoilers, do not click to read more and do not read on, because I&amp;'m going to tell you what I think about the movie and I&amp;'m going to include some information about it that you might not want to know. I&amp;'m not going to give away major plots, because I hate that, but I&amp;'m going to go into some of my thoughts on the movie. If you are curious about seeing TRON and don&amp;'t mind a tidbit of information, read on.When I saw TRON the first time as a child it opened up my mind to amazing possibilities. The story around Kevin Flynn was ok, but the ideas around being transported to a virtual world where programs were personified by human representations are what really stuck with me. I liked to believe that one day this would be possible. I could have an avatar and I could meet people on the &amp;''grid&amp;''. In some ways we can do this now through MMORPGs etc., but we&amp;'re still aware of our real world surroundings. We can&amp;'t truly get lost yet. We can&amp;'t feel, smell and taste virtual things. Maybe someday.TRON held a different place in my heart during different periods of my life. As a child, it was just a simple and beautiful thing, but as an adult, I dove deeper into the technology that made it all possible. What TRON achieved in 1982 was ground breaking. From what I understand, it was the first movie to incorporate live action with CGI and hand drawn animation. The results were breath taking. I know you look back at it now and maybe you don&amp;'t see it, but you have to somehow use a mental wayback machine to put yourself in the early 80s and imagine it. The animations were rendered on the only PDP-10 in the area using 2MB of RAM.As a young adult, I played TRON at parties with the volume off. We&amp;'d watch it in the background and revel at its beauty. When the volume was on, we laughed at the witty and inaccurate technical jokes, but they were endearing. My favorite character was &amp;''bit&amp;'' who only spoke in binary. Yes and No.Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes&amp;8230' NO NO NO NO NO! Yes.When IMDB launched, I immediately looked up TRON and saw &amp;8211' &amp;''In production TRON 2.0, release date TBD&amp;''. I waited and waited. I heard the production was canceled, restarted, canceled, restarted, etc. As technology accelerated and movies like the Matrix &amp;amp' Avatar appeared, it made me hopeful for what they could create with a new TRON.I also love the original Star Wars. When I found out they were making Episode 1, I had extremely mixed feelings. Unlike TRON, I&amp;'m not sure Star Wars gets better with improved technology. Part of what made Star Wars so special were the models and limitations of the time. I camped out all night with a friend and we played chess while we waited to see the new Star Wars. I was so disappointed. Jar Jar ruined quite a bit of it for me, but really, if I had to be honest, it wasn&amp;'t special anymore. Something was lost. I was too young to realize it then, but those movies were not intended for me. They were intended for a whole new audience and a whole new generation of Star Wars fans that had just recently been born. I wasn&amp;'t going to relive my childhood through that movie and I had to move on.So, really, the Matrix is the sequel to TRON in my mind. That&amp;'s where you&amp;'d take a concept like TRON to a whole new level for adults. The key word being adult. The new TRON, like Star Wars, is for a whole new generation. It is a stand alone movie that needs to be judged on its own.It is a Frankenstein story, where the artist creates a world that is meant to be perfect, but everything goes wrong. The cost is the real and tangible relationship with the outside world.a4s It is also a story about the ethics around artificial intelligence. If the original TRON inspired me the way it did, I wonder what our children will take away from this. Maybe they&amp;'ll get the message.So, if the Matrix, Snowcrash, Diamond Age and Avatar are for adults. TRON is the movie for children. It is the introduction to the complex idea of existing in a virtual world by transporting your brain and identity into an electronic form. Think of it as a Madeleine L&amp;' engle book. If you read a Wrinkle In Time as a child, it was an introduction to quantum physics. This is what TRON is. It is a primer for more complex thoughts that require more literature and other movies.The new TRON is absolutely beautiful. The Cirque Du Soliel of movies. You don&amp;'t go for the plot at Cirque, you go to see some amazing stuff. You go to see how far we can push the human body and you are astonished by the skill. That&amp;'s TRON, old and new. It is a wonder of the human imagination. A virtual wonderland.Even the movie Hackers (another favorite) was like this. If you tried to take that movie seriously and compare it to what was really possible, you&amp;'d be disappointed, but if you saw it from the creator&amp;'s eyes and how computer people &amp;''sound&amp;'' to people who don&amp;'t understand what we&amp;'re saying, it made perfect sense. That movie was the re-creation of hearing people talking about a kill -9 on a process. If you asked any hacker what his dream girl might be like, maybe she did ride a motorcycle and skate around on rollerblades. She certainly had the fastest computer which was better than yours and could hack you under the table.a4s That movie was also a work of art.As a bonus for the Unix geeks, there&amp;'s some actual *real* Unix stuff in this movie when Sam goes through his father&amp;'s history and executes some previous commands. I thought that was pretty cool. Usually movies get this all wrong. I mean, in the Matrix, Trinity took down some power grid using nmap, which is a port scanner. It sure looked cool, but it really didn&amp;'t make any sense.&amp;''This is Unix. I know this.&amp;'' &amp;8211' Jurrasic ParkOne of the members of the TRON team said not to over analyze it and get lost in the world, and that&amp;'s my advice as well. Try to become a child again and imagine being a 5-10 year old and being blown away by the light cycle races. Imagine what&amp;'s ticking in their mind and what seeds are being planted.The original TRON is responsible for a lot of things that we enjoy today. Daft Punk draws their inspiration from the movie, many people got into technology because of it, movies were inspired by it and so on.After watching the movie, I was left wanting more, which is always a good sign. I felt like they could have given us one hour more of this beautiful world. I didn&amp;'t want it to end. That&amp;'s what Avatar was for me. The story was basically Pocahontas in space, which really didn&amp;'t interest me, but the idea around real living things being driven by a remote host was what really piqued my interest. The creation of a whole new world that I could get lost in, was just amazing. I watched it three times just to see that world and I blocked out what everyone was saying.The new TRON is sexy, the soundtrack is amazing, the world is beautiful, the characters are awesome and the 3D is amazing.I don&amp;'t normally recommend that you see anything in 3D, but I wouldn&amp;'t see this movie any other way. As a matter of fact, see it on IMAX if you can. Just remember, it is a Disney film. Put your child hat on and let go of being an adult for a while. I think you&amp;'ll really enjoy it. If nothing else, you&amp;'ll be pining for your very own TRON suit and End Of Line club with your very own Daft Punk to play songs for you.You can view a short TRON: Legacy Featurette below.  Plus, watch our interviews with cast and crew Part 1 and 2 (with the original Tron director and more about the fashion) here, and Part 3 and 4 (with Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde) here.You can also pledge your allegiance for TRON vs Avatar here. I watched Avatar 3 times, and I&amp;'ve pledged to watch TRON at least 4.CrunchBase InformationThe Walt Disney CompanyInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley&'s shopping spree: One Kings Lane, Abe&'s Market and more]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new wave of e-commerce is coming, backed by tends of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley&amp;'s savviest investors, that&amp;'s reinventing more than just how consumers shop online.From One Kings Lane to Plum District and Abe&amp;'s Market, from Stella &amp;038' Dot to Bonobos, we&amp;'re seeing a generation of companies that are rethinking relationships with vendors and acting as middlemen and marketplaces as much as they are merchants.Today, One Kings Lane, an online home-dcor seller, announced a new $23 million round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, its earliest backer, and Greylock Partners, a firm masterminding the social Web from Facebook on down.That follows right after Thursday&amp;'s announcement of $3.4 million raised for Abe&amp;'s Market, a marketplace for natural goods, in a round led by Accel Partners, an investor in Groupon. And just last month, we saw a purchase of a $37 million stake in Stella &amp;038' Dot, a startup which sells jewelry through a network of independent sellers, by Sequoia Capital, and an $8.5 million investment by Kleiner Perkins in Plum District, a mom-focused, Amway-like Groupon competitor in the daily deals market. December saw Bonobos, an online menswear retailer, raise $18.5 million from Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.It&amp;'s clear that Accel and Kleiner are taking the lead in investing in the next wave of e-commerce, one that emphasizes social links and an engaging &amp;8212' even fun &amp;8212' user experience that matches the thrill of shopping offline.But a common thread between these businesses is the extent to which they&amp;'re shedding the old image of e-commerce as a capital-intensive business laden with expensive warehouses and inventory and embracing a matchmaking role between suppliers and consumers.Abe&amp;'s Market may be the purest example of this. Many manufacturers of natural goods are microbusinesses &amp;8212' lone entrepreneurs or mom-and-pop shops. They struggle to get their wares into stores, and when they sell through megasites like Amazon.com or eBay, they find themselves so low down in the search results that they fail to do much volume.Cofounder Jon Polin told me that he views Abe&amp;'s Market as an online analog to the farmer&amp;'s markets where many of these vendors sell their products today. Abe&amp;'s is the merchant of record on purchases, meaning it shows up on customers&amp;' credit-card bills, but it doesn&amp;'t stock any merchandise. Instead, it passes orders on to its 300 or so vendors. Its secret may lie in making the experience easy for vendors, who are usually stuck with awkward Web interfaces, arcane rules, and demanding fulfillment processes. In exchange for taking 30 percent of a transaction&amp;'s retail price, Abe&amp;'s handles shipping costs &amp;8212' and even provides a printable three-part order slip that a vendor can use to pick an order, pack it, and send it (on Abe&amp;'s dime).Plum District, too, takes a different approach in dealing with the small businesses it solicits for deals. Unlike Groupon and LivingSocial, the two biggest players in the deep-discount daily deals market, Plum District doesn&amp;'t have its own sales force. Instead, it solicits independent salespeople, mostly moms, to both cajole local businesses into offering discounts and then signing up customers to take the deal. Since the moms get a cut of the action, they&amp;'re motivated to make the discount offer work for the local business. That&amp;'s an innovative take on a key part of the daily-deals model, which requires aggressive, one-on-one solicitation of offers from businesses.Stella &amp;038' Dot, like Plum District, uses a network of independent sellers. CEO and cofounder Jessica Herrin recently took some time out to demo her new mobile Web app. There are a ton of new shopping apps, from players like Amazon.com and eBay on down. But they&amp;'re all designed around making it easier for consumers to check prices and purchase goods on the go. Here&amp;'s the genius of Stella &amp;038' Dot&amp;'s app: It&amp;'s designed for the independent style consultants who sell Stella &amp;038' Dot jewelry from their homes at &amp;''trunk show&amp;'' parties, letting them play videos and share ideas off a smartphone or tablet. Imagine handing your iPhone over to a friend to show them a gorgeous new bracelet: That&amp;'s far friendlier &amp;8212' and likelier to lead to a sale &amp;8212' than awkwardly turning a laptop around. By investing in technology for its sellers, Stella &amp;038' Dot is making a smart bet on its business model.One Kings Lane, the home-dcor startup backed by Kleiner and Greylock today, may look much like Rue La La or Gilt Groupe, a flash-sales merchant which offers event-driven, short-term sales of limited quantities of merchandies at attractive prices. But unlike many flash-sales operators, One Kings Lane isn&amp;'t taking on much inventory, CEO Doug Mack told me.Because of the startup&amp;'s low inventory levels, One Kings Lane&amp;'s inventory turns &amp;8212' an industry measure for how swiftly merchandise moves off the shelves &amp;8212' are &amp;''an order of magnitude above the industry average,&amp;'' said Mack. The metric isn&amp;'t even that meaningful, he adds, because about half of its orders are drop-shipped, or shipped directly from the manufacturer to the consumer' a third are bulk-shipped after a flash-sales event, which means they stay in a third-party fulfillment warehouse only as long as it takes to break them down and ship them out' and the remainder are kept in stock by One Kings Lane so that it can offer certain items, mostly ones suitable as gifts, year-round.As a result, little of One Kings Lane&amp;'s latest round is going to working capital, Mack told me. Instead, he&amp;'s investing in technology, merchandising, marketing, and customer service &amp;8212' areas where there&amp;'s far more potential for long-term payoff than stocking more inventory.Then there&amp;'s Bonobos. Like Mack, Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn is proud of his inventory turns. You might not be able to find a given size on Bonobos, but the site takes your email and notifies you when it&amp;'s back in stock &amp;8212' a way to quietly gauge demand before placing orders from manufacturers. Bonobos also &amp;''curates&amp;'' some categories of menswear, like accessories, rather than designing its own, passing on orders to other menswear companies compatible with its brand. Both practices serve to keep inventory low.These fundings total about $90 million &amp;8212' not a huge bet compared to, say, Groupon and LivingSocial&amp;'s megafinancings. But they show that e-commerce is heating up as a sector, and that venture capitalists are focused on businesses which are rethinking every aspect of selling.In the 1990s, e-commerce took the catalog and the superstore online, but didn&amp;'t change anything on the back end: Amazon.com was just the reinvention of mail order, the Sear&amp;'s Catalog 2.0. eBay popularized the idea of inventory-free marketplaces matching supply and demand. And Groupon showed that everyone loves a deal &amp;8212' both consumers and businesses. Taking inspiration from the early players, these new e-commerce businesses are mixing and matching elements of all these models and creating something genuinely new. That&amp;'s why I suspect some of these investments may prove to be the real bargain.[Photo via TA Lucas]Previous Story: Nokia workers walk out to protest Microsoft dealPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: daily deals, e commerce, flash sales, social commerceCompanies: Abe&amp;'s Market, Accel Partners, Amazon.com, Bonobos, Greylock Partners, Groupon, Kleiner Perkins, One Kings Lane, Plum District, Sequoia Capital, Stella &amp;amp' DotPeople: Andy Dunn, Doug Mack, Jessica Herrin, Jon Polin          Tags: daily deals, e commerce, flash sales, social commerceCompanies: Abe&amp;'s Market, Accel Partners, Amazon.com, Bonobos, Greylock Partners, Groupon, Kleiner Perkins, One Kings Lane, Plum District, Sequoia Capital, Stella &amp;amp' DotPeople: Andy Dunn, Doug Mack, Jessica Herrin, Jon PolinOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. 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