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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Road Trip Pic of the Day, 6/3: What is it]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If you know what this is, and where it is located, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Update (Friday, 11:11 p.m. PDT): The answer to Friday's challenge--which 224 people got--is the French national Opera house, otherwise known as Palais Garnier, in Paris, France. Thanks to all who played, and to everyone, please come back for Saturday's challenge.Welcome to the Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. This is your chance to win some cool prizes as you test your skills at recognizing pictures.Each day, I'll be posting a new photograph from my various travels, and your job is to try to correctly identify it using any means at your disposal. Throughout Road Trip 2011, which will take me to a number of countries in Western Europe, there will be a new challenge each and every day, and the opportunity to win some great prizes.And now on to today's challenge. If you know what this is, and where it's located, please send me an email with both pieces of information (to daniel*dot*terdiman--at--cbs*dot*com) by 6 p.m. pacific time today. Please note: in order to be considered, you must include the phrase &quot;Picture of the Day challenge&quot; in the subject line of your email. No other methods of entering are guaranteed to be considered.And please forgive me if you don't hear from me if you're not the winner. I get dozens of responses each day. Also, I've turned off comments because otherwise people will post the correct answers there. I hate to shut down discussion, but I want you to figure out the answer on your own. The giveawaysThis year, I'll be giving both a weekly prize and one grand prize at the end of my Road Trip project. Here's how it will work:For the weekly prize, I'll pick a winner at random from among all those who correctly identified one of that week's daily challenges. You get one entry into this drawing for each correct entry you submitted that week. For the grand prize, which is a major brand video game console, the winner will be the person who answers the most daily challenges correctly during the entire project. So there's definitely an incentive to play every day and to answer correctly as often as possible. Be warned: Last year, there was no shortage of people who had the right answer most of the time, so the competition for the grand prize will be stiff.Given the constraints of the work I'll be doing on Road Trip, I have to minimize the complexity of the Picture of the Day challenge, so if you want to accumulate right answers and compete for the grand prize, you must use the same e-mail address and name each time. If you use a different name or e-mail address, your answers won't all be counted together. For complete information and rules about the Picture of the Day challenge, please click here. Good luck today, and throughout the summer. The disclaimer: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MUST BE A LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OLD AND AGE OF MAJORITY OR OLDER IN STATE OF RESIDENCE AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. SWEEPSTAKES ENDS 11:59:59 PM PT ON 8/7/11. SEE OFFICIAL RULES FOR DETAILS.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC lists ARM with Intel as PC chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=idc-lists-arm-with-intel-as-pc-chips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Intel's power-efficient 3D transistor couldn't have come any sooner. IDC on Thursday, in its quarterly forecast, is listing not just Intel-compatible PC chips but other categories of processors, namely ARM--the power-frugal silicon of choice in thetablet and smartphone world. &quot;For the first time, IDC is forecasting PC microprocessor units by processor architecture, including those based on x86 (Intel and Advanced Micro Devices) and those based on ARM,&quot; IDC's Shane Rau wrote in a research note dated Thursday. ARM chips are made by Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Apple (via Samsung), and Nvidia, to name a few. &quot;By 2015, IDC expects that over 13 percent of PC processors will be based on the ARM architecture.&quot; That bears repeating. That's not smartphones but PCs. Though not included in Rau's report, there are a few things to consider. Windows 8 will run on ARM--which is expected to happen in the 2012-2013 timeframe. So, conceivably there will be newfangled ARM-based PCs running Windows. Tablets based on ARM chips such as HP&amp;39's TouchPad and Apple&amp;39's iPad are expected to make gains at the expense of PCs. (Credit:Hewlett-Packard)Before that happens, however, there is the tablet. For now, that meansApple's iPad, which can be categorized as a PC. Shipments of tablets are forecast to fall in the 40 million to 50 million range in the U.S. in 2011. Earlier this year, Gartner, another market research firm, said &quot;growing consumer enthusiasm for mobile PC alternatives, such as the iPad and other media tablets [is expected to] dramatically slow home mobile PC sales.&quot; In the more immediate future, IDC said global PC microprocessor unit shipments were up 7.4 percent year over year the first quarter. For the full year, IDC raised its forecast for year-over-year growth in PC (mobile, desktop, x86 server) microprocessor unit shipments in 2011 from 10.1 percent to 10.3 percent. &quot;Generally, the demand environment for the second half of this year looks decent. The earthquake and tsunami had minor effects on the PC supply chain,&quot; said Rau. &quot;However, the real near-to-mid term concern there is the effect on Japanese demand for PCs and so microprocessors,&quot; he added. Market revenue for the year is expected to grow 17.6 percent to nearly $43 billion, IDC said. In the first quarter, PC processor vendor shares &quot;overall were remarkably stable,&quot; Rau said. Intel had a 80.8 percent unit market share and AMD maintained a 18.9 percent share, both flat compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. &quot;The first quarter, which is usually weak, was strong in terms of unit shipments but surely benefited from an extra calendar week,&quot; wrote Rau. &quot;Both Intel and AMD grew unit shipments sequentially, which indicates some decent strength in their new platforms.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Asus' Transformer tablet pledges and turns for $400 on Best Buy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=asus-transformer-tablet-pledges-and-turns-for-400-on-best-buy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Asus EE Pad Transformer makes the pledge and is quickly followed by the turn. We're eagerly awaiting the prestige!(Credit:Engadget)It seems Best Buy has completed the first two parts of itstablet magic trick. According to a post at Engadget today, Asus' EE Pad Transformer appeared on BestBuy.com for $400 and was subsequently pulled from the site a short time later. Back atCES 2011 in January, Asus announced that the Android 3.0-enabled EE Pad Transformer would debut some time in the spring for a price ranging from $400 to $700, depending on the storage capacity of the version purchased.If this price holds true, this would place the Transformer a full $100 cheaper than the iPad 2 and $200 lower than the Motorola Xoom, which is currently the only Android 3.0 tablet on the market.The Transformer includes a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a 10.1-inch IPS display with a 1,280x800-pixel resolution, and, as mentioned before, will run on the Android 3.0 OS. The latest release date we've heard is April, so we expect Best Buy to hopefully deliver the prestige in the next few weeks.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel technology inside new MacBook Pros]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=intel-technology-inside-new-macbook-pros</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple's new MacBook Pros, expected to be announced tomorrow, use a copious helping of Intel technology--and even throw in a dose of silicon from Advanced Micro Devices, CNET has learned. New MacBook Pro uses a lot of Intel tech. (Credit:Apple)Thunderbolt: First things first. Intel's Light Peak technology (which Apple had a hand in implementing) has been renamed Thunderbolt, according to an industry source familiar with Apple's MacBook Pro rollout. In short, Thunderbolt is the official brand for the technology that had been codenamed Light Peak. This manifests itself in the form of a Thunderbolt connector on the new MacBooks. Thunderbolt is a new interface that will let consumers connect peripheral devices that need to move a lot of data quickly, such as an array of disk drives, or an external device that requires very high-speed connections. Needless to say, it offers higher throughput than USB or FireWire. (Following CNET's report on Saturday about the adoption of Light Peak by Apple, the news about the new naming scheme was reported today by AppleInsider.) More details on this new high-speed connection tech here. Sandy Bridge across the board: Intel's latest 32-nanometer Core i series processor makes it into all models. That's good news for consumers, of course. These Core i3, i5, and i7 processors offer both improved power efficiency and better performance. A dual-core mainstream Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor, for example, runs at a speed of 2.3GHz but can jump to a higher speed (called &quot;Turbo Boost&quot;), when necessary, of close to 3GHz. 13-MacBook Pro/Intel graphics chip only: Apple has gone with graphics silicon built directly onto the Sandy Bridge processor for the 13-inch MacBook Pro, as CNET reported last year. Nvidia, and its chipset based on GeForce 320M graphics, is out. This likely presages changes to new MacBook AIr models expected later this year. 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro/AMD graphics: AMD (formerly ATI) &quot;discrete&quot; graphics silicon is now offered in the larger, more powerful MBPs. As in previous MacBook Pros, the discrete graphics chip is only fired up when heavy lifting is needed. When power savings is paramount or high-end graphics processing is not necessary, the system defaults to Intel's graphics. All in all, an array of technology that makes these new MacBooks pretty irresistible. Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ChromeDeck: TweetDeck Finally Comes To The Web As A Chrome&nbsp'App]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chromedeck-tweetdeck-finally-comes-to-the-web-as-a-chromenbspapp</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You can get TweetDeck, the popular realtime stream reader, as a desktop client, on your iPhone and iPad, or Android phone.  But up until now, there was no Web browser version (unlike Seesmic, which is best known as a browser-based app).  Today, TweetDeck released its first Web client as a Chrome app in the new Chrome Webstore.&amp;''It&amp;'s definitely our best version of a desktop TweetDeck so far,&amp;'' says CEO Iain Dodsworth.  You can sign in with your existing TweetDeck account, and add different realtime streams in different columnsa4&quot;Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare checkins, Google Buzz. Soon it will support Gmail as well.  ChromeDeck, as it was codenamed during development, borrows some UI elements from its most recent Android app.  There are combined columns labeled Home (all timelines from various accounts), Me (all mentions and messages directed at you such as Twitter @replies), and Inbox (direct messages, and soon Facebook and Gmail messages).The Chrome app is supposed to be faster, more stable, and less of a memory hog than the desktop AIR version.  Once you &amp;''install&amp;'' it onto your browser, it exists within its own tab.  And it is always available for you, with any other apps you install, when you launch a new blank tab.The first thing you notice if you are a regular TweetDeck user is that it is completely silent.  That silence won&amp;'t last long, however. Dodsworth &amp;amp' Co. is working on &amp;''getting some TweetDeck sounds recorded and added to all the apps&amp;'' in an effort to try to &amp;''create a social soundscape whereby you don&amp;'t even need to look at your screen and you have a sense of what&amp;'s going on.&amp;''  Oh boy, my wife is going to love that.  Bleep, Zoink, Boop.I prefer the silence.  (Silent-mode, please).  The other thing you notice is how things pop up when you need them to and disappear when you don&amp;'t.  Click on the compose box up top, and it expands to give you room to write, add images and your location, and select to which accounts you want to send out your message.  Hit reply in your stream, and a reply box zooms up to the top of the column along with the Tweet or message you are responding too, all in-line.  Smooth.CrunchBase InformationTweetDeckGoogle ChromeInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acer announces its answer to iTunes: Alive]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=acer-announces-its-answer-to-itunes-alive</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Taiwanese computer-maker Acer announced a wave of new devices today, including two Android tablets and a dual-screen tablet, but it wasna4a4t just focused on hardware. It also announced Alive, which sounds like a media and application store for owners of Acer devices.In its press release (reproduced on Engadget), Acer says it sees five main uses for Alive &amp;8212' listening to music and other audio content, watching movies and TV shows, reading e-books and periodicals, playing games, and downloading applications. This sounds like Acera4a4s version of Applea4a4s iTunes store, but Acer says this is a4Amuch more than a traditional content store.a4Users will navigate the store by subscribing to channels, for example those representing their favorite movie genres or musicians. Some of the content will be free, while other content will require a payment or a subscription fee. Users will also be able to comment on content and share those comments with friends on social networks.The press release includes a list of initial content partners, including music service 7 Digital, games supplier Casual Games, magazine distributor Zinio, and app distribution platforms Adobe InMarket and Intel AppUp. Acer plans to launch Alive in the United Kingdom and Italy in December, then roll it out to more countries and devices throughout 2011.Next Story: Why check in to TV shows Misoa4a4s new answer: For the deals Previous Story: Teen virtual world Gaia Online lays off 15 to 20 staffersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Acer AliveCompanies: Acer          Tags: Acer AliveCompanies: AcerAnthony 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[Hitwise: Facebook Accounts For 1 In 4 Page Views In The&nbsp'U.S.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hitwise has released another staggering data point in favor of Facebook&amp;'s domination today. According to Hitwise&amp;'s data, 1 in 4 page views in the US took place on Facebook.com as of last week.In March, Hitwise reported that Facebook overcame Google to become the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google was second at 7.03% at the time. As of September, comScore reported that Facebook was behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Hitwise also says that visits to Facebook have increased by 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week. And the market share of page views for Facebook was 24.27% last week, 3.8x the volume of the 2nd ranked website YouTube.com with 6.93%.Of course, it&amp;'s important to note that this doesn&amp;'t include visits from outside the U.S. and excludes mobile traffic. CrunchBase InformationHitwiseInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google&'s Nexus One successor revealed: Meet Samsung&'s Nexus S]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=googlersquos-nexus-one-successor-revealed-meet-samsungrsquos-nexus-s</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Google, please announce the Nexus S already so I can dump my iPhone 4.We finally have a clear glimpse of the Nexus One&amp;'s successor, Google&amp;'s next major Android superphone, thanks to a product listing slip-up by Best Buy and a report from gadget blog Engadget.The phone is currently being tested by Google employees, and is apparently called the Nexus S (instead of the Nexus Two). Best Buy&amp;'s product listing mentioned that the phone features a &amp;''Pure Google&amp;'' experience (meaning it runs Android, and no third-party interface &amp;''enhancements&amp;'', like the original Nexus One), and that it would be available on T-Mobile for the holidays. The product listing has subsequently been removed.Engadget&amp;'s photos from a Google tipster reveal that the phone sports the curvaceous design we previously speculated on and that it looks a lot like Samsung&amp;'s current Galaxy S phones. The Nexus S looks like it&amp;'s using the same 4-inch Super AMOLED screen as its Galaxy cousins, and previous reports say that it&amp;'s using the same 1-gigahertz Samsung Hummingbird processor as well. There&amp;'s also a visible front-facing camera for video conferencing, which is only available on one Galaxy S device, Sprint&amp;'s Epic 4G.The Nexus S certainly isn&amp;'t leaps and bounds ahead of other Android phones like the Nexus One was. Samsung&amp;'s Galaxy S phones were launched just a few months ago, and as we just mentioned, they&amp;'re likely not that much different from the Nexus S internally. Other Android manufacturers like Motorola and HTC have also continued iterating on their hardware with devices like the Droid X and Incredible, which are about on-par with Samsung&amp;'s hardware. It will likely be the first phone to run Google&amp;'s Android 2.3 update, but other high-end Android phones should be receiving that update over the next few months as well.Just like the Nexus One, the Nexus S doesn&amp;'t appear to be for everybody. Instead, it will appeal to hardcore geeks who are looking for the best possible Android phone for this holiday season. That same crowd will appreciate that the Nexus S only runs pure Android, without the cruft of other software slowing it down. Google will probably also sell it without contract.Honestly, I can&amp;'t wait for it. Despite reports that AT&amp;amp'T&amp;'s New York cellular network has been improved, my iPhone 4 experience has only gotten worse when it comes to voice calls. I love the platform and hardware, but I need to get on another network stat. With T-Mobile&amp;'s faster HSPA+ speeds, and free Wi-Fi calling, it&amp;'s certainly tempting to move over. Now I just need the right smartphone to make it worth the move.Next Story: Facebook heads back east with a relatively green data center in North Carolina Previous Story: Comcasta4a4s Tunerfish social TV app gets a new facePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Galaxy S, iPhone, nexus one, Nexus S, Nexus TwoCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Google, Samsung, T Mobile          Tags: Android, Galaxy S, iPhone, nexus one, Nexus S, Nexus TwoCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Google, Samsung, T MobileDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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[Give Us Our Data,&nbsp'Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=give-us-our-datanbspfacebook</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I usually give Facebook the benefit of the doubt in its various wars with the press and users, particularly around privacy issues. Mostly because user expectations around privacy are changing in real time. Things that were reprehensible just a couple of years ago are now considered so mainstream that even Salesforce will buy them and no one blinks. So when Facebook redefines privacy to remove actual privacy, I take a wait and see approach.I&amp;'ve taken the same approach on data portability. For a good two years we&amp;'ve all been waiting for Facebook to let our data out. They&amp;'ve done so in drips and drabs, but the crown jewels &amp;8211' user emails &amp;8211' remain locked up.In 2008 Robert Scoble was actually banned from Facebook for using a Plaxo script that extracted friends&amp;' email addresses. That was pretty hard back then and it required both screen scraping as well as optical character recognition, because the emails were displayed in images.At the time I sided with Facebook. Mostly because screen scraping on a mass scale can destabilize sites, but also because I believed that my email address was my data, not Robert&amp;'s, to take. Also, Facebook wasn&amp;'t that big back then, sometimes you need to give young startups a break so they have any chance against the big guys.Well, that&amp;'s all changed now. And it&amp;'s time for Facebook to voluntarily hand that data over to users, via an API that third party apps can use. Also, I&amp;'m not focusing on Google&amp;'s actions, or the very public fight going on between the two companies (summary here) over this very issue, in this post. Whether Google is right or wrong, while interesting, is a different conversation.These are the reasons I think Facebook has to give users and authorized third party applications the ability to extract social graph information, including email addresses, from Facebook. More on each below.1. It&amp;'s what users want, and it&amp;'s the right thing to do.2. Facebook is so large now that health-of-ecosystem and user needs must be considered when Facebook makes product and policy decisions.3. They&amp;'re lying to press and users, even today, about their motivations for retaining data. This is not about protecting users.4. The data export tool they released last month is a red herring.5. They have a very small window of opportunity to do this, before Attorneys General and class action litigators see too big of an opportunity to pass up.It&amp;'s the right thing to do. Facebook is becoming the center of our Internet lives, more so each day. Dissatisfied users really don&amp;'t have a choice to leave Facebook any more. Giving up Facebook, for tens of millions of people at least, would be no more palatable than giving up their telephone. That means people can&amp;'t really vote with their feet any more. Facebook needs to lay the groundwork now to avoid being the focus of antitrust attention in the next decade, or attorney general/class action lawyers in the next two years. It&amp;'s the right thing to do, and it&amp;'s also the smart thing to do.Facebook is too important. So much of the Internet&amp;'s architecture has been rewritten in the last year to leverage and exploit Facebook Connect and other Facebook data and tools that the decision is no longer really entirely theirs. There are real health-of-ecosystem issues arising that must be addressed now or the Internet as a whole will suffer. And on a user level, Facebook is already the center of their world. It is their address book, except it&amp;'s an address book that won&amp;'t let you download your information to use it in other places. We need a user advocate sitting at the table when Facebook makes product and policy decisions. That way it won&amp;'t be about what they can get away with, it will be about what&amp;'s best for everyone. In the long run, that will make Facebook a far more valuable company, too. There should be someone at Facebook who&amp;'s job it is to piss everyone else off by always taking the user&amp;'s side. And when they win or lose battles internally they should be transparent about their position on those battles.Facebook is lying. Facebook&amp;'s statement today boiled down to this: &amp;''The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friendsa4a4 information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friendsa4a4 private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friendsa4a4 private photo albums.&amp;'' That&amp;'s the same argument that they used two years ago with Scoble. But since then Facebook has been quite willing to allow &amp;''mass exports&amp;'' of &amp;''friends&amp;' private email addresses&amp;'' if the terms are right. They did it with Microsoft, they&amp;'re doing it with Yahoo, and possibly other partners. Facebook violated their own privacy policy with the Microsoft relationship. The policy has since been updated.The truth is Facebook doesn&amp;'t see this data as your friends&amp;' private email addresses. They consider it their data. They own it. Literally. So when they say &amp;''A person has no more right to mass export all of her friendsa4a4 private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friendsa4a4 private photo albums,&amp;'' what they really need to do is add &amp;'', unless it&amp;'s with a partner that&amp;'s making it worth our while.&amp;''The data export tool red herring. Last month Facebook started letting users download most of their Facebook data, and many people point to that as a sign they are opening up. Nonsense. All that data is nice, and it&amp;'s helpful to be able to download it. But it is not usable by third parties in any automated way, and it doesn&amp;'t include friend email addresses. You couldn&amp;'t use it to export all your photos to Flickr, for example. That means it&amp;'s a nice PR product, but it doesn&amp;'t address the core problem at all.Small window of opportunity. There are companies with unlimited resources putting pressure on politicians with unlimited ambitions to do something about this. If Facebook moves now they get credit for being decent. If they wait, things get ugly for them, with the same result. At this point Facebook has already won this war twice over &amp;8211' being magnanimous won&amp;'t hurt them competitively, and it will help their image.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Swedish kitchen cloths by yearly subscription - Springwise]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=swedish-kitchen-cloths-by-yearly-subscription---springwise</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Another week, another subscription model spotted! This time, the virtual ink was still drying on our story about Bonbon''s lip balms by monthly subscription when we got word of a like-minded effort applied to the lowly kitchen cleaning cloth. Far from homely, however, UK-based Jangneus Design''s eco-friendly cleaning cloths offer a heaping helping of Swedish-inspired design with strong colours and eye-catching motifs. Jangneus Design''s kitchen cloths all feature a bright design against a white background' colours available for the designs are blue, turquoise, green, black, purple, yellow and red. Pricing is GBP 2.50 for one to three cloths, GBP 2 for four to nine cloths and GBP 1.75 for 10 or more' shipping within the UK is free. Fully biodegradable at the end of their useful lives, the cloths clearly offer yet another lovely illustration of our favourite a4Aeverything can be upgradeda4 theme. Perhaps even more interesting, though, is Jangneus'' subscription plan, whereby GBP 25 per year buys the subscriber a new cloth every month. Consumers can specify the colour of the cloths they receive, or they can opt for a mixed subscription whereby Jangneus chooses for them. Subscriptions are available only within the UK.Of course, beyond simply offering consumers a distinctive product without the hassle of having to shop for it multiple times per year, subscription models like Jangneus'' also offer startups a good way to gain traction. It''s the elusive win-win proposition, and a good reason to try subscriptions for the recurring purchases in your own company''s product line. Be inspired!Website: www.jangneus-design.com/subscribe.phpContact: hello@jangneus-design.com<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook&'s Mark Zuckerberg: &''The iPad isn&'t mobile&'']]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebookrsquos-mark-zuckerberg-8220the-ipad-isnrsquot-mobile8221</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebookrsquos-mark-zuckerberg-8220the-ipad-isnrsquot-mobile8221</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Facebook held a press conference today focusing on its mobile platform. At the event, Mashable editor Ben Parr took the opportunity to ask whether Facebook is developing an iPad-specific application. All of today&amp;'s official announcements were around Facebook&amp;'s features on Google&amp;'s Android operating system and Apple&amp;'s iPhone (and I&amp;'ll have posts up soon describing the news), but the iPad is a mobile device too, Parr argued.&amp;''The iPad&amp;'s not mobile,&amp;'' Zuckerberg responded. &amp;''It&amp;'s not mobile, it&amp;'s a computer.&amp;''That prompted laughter from the audience, so Zuckerberg added that he isn&amp;'t trying to be &amp;''rude&amp;'' to Apple. He just that wanted to focus on truly mobile products today, and the iPad &amp;''is not a mobile platform in the same way that a phone is.&amp;''Maybe this is just a minor definitional dispute, but it&amp;'s still interesting to see Zuckerberg pushing back against a common practice in the tech industry to talk about the iPad and other tablets as mobile devices. One of the reporters at the conference noted that Apple would probably dispute Zuckerberg&amp;'s characterization of the iPad (especially since the iPad runs the iPhone operating system and iPhone apps).Devindra Hardawar, VentureBeat&amp;'s lead mobile writer, sounded pleased when I told him about by Zuckerberg&amp;'s comments. (His response over instant message was, &amp;''VALIDATION.&amp;'') We keep sending him iPad and other tablet announcements because we see it as mobile news, and he keeps complaining that the iPad isn&amp;'t really a mobile device. Now he knows at least one person agrees with him.[image via Facebook for Business]Next Story: Google announces first AdMob integration: AdSense ads in AdMob&amp;'s network Previous Story: Remote controls take over the world&amp;'s living roomsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPad, semantics, tablets, what is mobileCompanies: Apple, FacebookPeople: Mark Zuckerberg          Tags: iPad, semantics, tablets, what is mobileCompanies: Apple, FacebookPeople: Mark ZuckerbergAnthony 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[App developers say their top new platforms for 2011 will be Android, Windows Phone 7, and iPad]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=app-developers-say-their-top-new-platforms-for-2011-will-be-android-windows-phone-7-and-ipad</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anyannucci</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mobile app developers are most looking forward to developing new apps for Android, Windows Phone 7 and the iPad, according to a report released today by mobile ad network Millennial Media.The firm, together with technology analysis site Digiday and an analyst from Stifel Nicolaus, surveyed app developers, publishers, and advertisers in the most recent quarter regarding their plans for 2011 and their practices this year. Since most developers already have iPhone apps, it&amp;'s interesting to see what other platforms they&amp;'re interested in.It&amp;'s no surprise to learn that Android may see the biggest growth next year, but it&amp;'s nice to have actual numbers from developers. 29 percent of developers said they would bring new apps to Android next year, while Windows Phone 7 and the iPad tied, drawing 20 percent of developer interest each.Android could very well overtake the iPhone&amp;'s developer lead by next year. 30 percent of developers reported supporting the iPhone in 2010, compared to 23 percent for Android. Millennial also notes that the iPhone (along with RIM) saw a year-over-year decrease in developer support, which will also work in Android&amp;'s favor come next year. 8 percent of developers plan to launch new iPhone apps in 2011.Developer interest in the iPad is likely tied into overall interest in the tablet format, something that will also benefit Android-based tablets come next year.It&amp;'s also worth noting that Palm made out the worst when it came to developer interest for next year. 4 percent of developers said they would pursue Palm&amp;'s webOS platform &amp;8212' even the embattled Symbian platform scored higher with 6 percent.Publishers are also confidant that their apps will take off next year. 31 percent anticipate a 100 percent or more increase in revenue from their apps, while 17 percent expect a 50 percent or more increase.When it comes to choosing a mobile platform to support, both advertisers and developers consider reach, demographic and better branding as their main considerations. Millennial reports that both developers and advertisers are also taking an increasingly cross-platform approach &amp;8212' not a surprise given that reach is their main concern.The big takeaway here, yet again, is that Android is set to explode next year. The interest in Windows Phone 7 is certainly a surprise, though. It&amp;'s possibly a sign that Microsoft has managed to make developers forget about its dead Windows Mobile platform and has made them believe in Windows phones once again.Next Story: Raising $3.5M, Rocket Ninja will blast onto Facebook with 3D games (exclusive) Previous Story: Apptio slides past its third round funding goal thanks to Cisco, raises $20MPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, apps, iOS, iPad, iPhone, smartphones, tablets, Windows Phone 7Companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, millennial media, Palm, RIM          Tags: Android, apps, iOS, iPad, iPhone, smartphones, tablets, Windows Phone 7Companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, millennial media, Palm, RIMDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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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