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<title><![CDATA[Amazing architecture across the Golden Gate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Unassuming and spare from the outside, Gate 5 house is a study in maximizing minimal space. This houseboat is part of the Dwell magazine-sponsored Marin Homes tour taking place April 30 and May 1. CNET takes you inside this and three other interesting homes now.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)SAUSALITO, Calif.--Here in Marin, a county forward-thinking enough that it commissioned a world-class civic center by Frank Lloyd Wright, it should come as no surprise that many homes are truly stunning and would be envied the world over.  And the envy will probably be especially strong for those who fork over $150 to visit 10 multimillion dollar masterpieces throughout Marin, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, on April 30 and May 1. Dwell magazine, in conjunction with Marin magazine, is hosting the Home Tours. But as part of my Road Trip at Home series, I got a chance to visit four of the residences before the tours take place. The four homes I toured provided a terrific cross-section of the best Marin has to offer: a Tiburon hilltop cacophony of windows featuring world-beating views of Marin, the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, and Berkeley and Oakland' a spare but impressive floating home in the middle of one of Sausalito's best houseboat communities' a &quot;Bridge House&quot; that imaginatively spans a small valley and a river below' and a home at the top of a hill in a tree-studded and quiet neighborhood that emphasizes the beauty and grandeur of the outdoors throughout its modern interior.As the home tour's official brochure puts it, these houses are &quot;pushing residential architecture forward in Marin County... Discover the houses that are bringing the outdoors in, realizing dreams, and defining what modern design means.&quot;Gate 5 HouseFor years, one of my favorite things to do in Sausalito has been to go walking on the houseboat docks. And while there are several of them clustered together in a small area on the north end of town, I've long favored one specific dock for its quiet, the lush plants that residents grow outside, the many cats that wander peacefully along the wooden planks, and the whimsical art found up and down the dock.So I was very happy when I discovered that the one houseboat included in the home tour is not only on my favorite dock, but is located right at my favorite part of the dock.This is owner-architect David Spurgeon's Gate 5 House. Unassuming from the outside, inside it's a study in maximizing minimal space. After all, this is a house with two wide-open floors and no other rooms, save for a couple of bathrooms and a closet-cum-bunk-bed. Yet it features a fantastic gourmet kitchen, views to die for of Southern Marin's Richardson Bay, a boat of its own that allows Spurgeon to set sail for just about anywhere he wants to go, and much more.Spurgeon, who works in Sausalito as an architect, started out by buying the aging tugboat that previously filled his slip and turning it over to the local fire department, which in turn moved it nearby and used it to set test fires. Once the slip was empty, Spurgeon began building his new home by hand in 2002, completing it three years later. &quot;I built everything you see,&quot; he told me proudly.North of S.F., stunning architecture dwells (photos) The house is designed to be comfortable in all seasons. When it's warm, Spurgeon can open the wide doors that lead from the main upstairs space to a deck that looks out over the water. When it's cold, he keeps the doors closed, trapping heat inside. Spurgeon touts the house's green credentials: it has radiant heat in the floors, and bamboo flooring, low-E glass, steel siding, and manufactured lumber from new-growth wood. The house also uses space wisely. In the lower level, Spurgeon installed closets that open both into his bedroom area and into the bunk bed room. The bunk is built on top of the closet, which is located at floor level. I thought using the closet would require stooping down, but that wasn't the case. In the bathroom, Spurgeon displays more creative use of materials. For his fixtures here, he employed food service equipment, including a kettle caddy for the main plumbing. It feels industrial, but looks just right. I asked Spurgeon something I've always wanted to know about the houseboats: Don't they suffer from mold, since they're smack dab in the middle of an extremely wet environment The only corrosive he worries about, he said, is the salt from the bay water that can attack the wood and metal of the boat.But it doesn't look like he has much trouble with that, and when I asked him if he likes living here, he glowed. &quot;Basically, you never really lose the connection to the outside,&quot; Spurgeon said, touting the seals that show up outside from time to time and the &quot;pelicans that come in like marauding bombers&quot; about 6 inches off the surface of the water. &quot;It's an absolute cacophony of stuff with all the doors open... I love it here. I always feel like I'm camping out.&quot;And if camping means cooking in a gourmet kitchen, sign me up. The Bridge HouseAnother stop on the tour was a totally unique home a bit further west in Marin: architect Stanley Saitowitz's Bridge House.Designed for a lawyer-technologist couple that bought the property in 2002, Saitowitz saw a small gorgeous, green, lush valley with a river flowing through it and decided that rather than excavating and flattening out the space like other designers wanted to do, he'd simply bridge the gap.Stanley Saitowitz&amp;39's Bridge House, built over five-and-a-half years from 2002 to 2008, uses Cor-Ten cladding to give it a look of &amp;34'a rusty machine in the landscape.&amp;34'(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) &quot;He walked out here in his tasseled loafers and drew us a picture of this building and its expanse,&quot; said Rebecca, the home's owner, who asked that her last name not be used, &quot;and it was pretty much love at first sketch.&quot;The house is long and fairly narrow, and gets amazing light. It has two floors--the top one has side-to-side and floor-to-ceiling windows facing east, and the lower one has windows facing west. &quot;The whole house is sited in such a way that the sun arcs directly over the house and we don't get (much) direct sunlight,&quot; Rebecca said. &quot;I love it because the shades are always open and I feel in touch with what's going on outside.&quot;Indeed, the house is, as Rebecca said, a very industrial form that's been placed into an extremely natural landscape. The area is quiet, with little more sound than the burbling of the creek under the house and the rustling of the grass in the wind. And the house, with its rusted Cor-Ten cladding, fits right in to the color scheme of the little valley. Though she was a litigator in a past life, these days she's mainly a stay-at-home mom. &quot;Since we moved in, I've enjoyed pretty much every day,&quot; she said. &quot;I don't go out much. I love having people come over&quot; to play in the pool and look out at the wildlife. One theme characterizing the house is floating. The structure itself floats above the little valley, and throughout the building are floating features, like a fireplace that Saitowitz built so the family could have both a stairway where they wanted it and an adjacent fireplace. Once he found the floating motif, Saitowitz continued with it, adding a floating barbeque, entertainment console, and buffet in different rooms. &quot;For a big, heavy, ponderous house,&quot; Rebecca said, &quot;it's incredibly light.&quot;Tiburon ResidenceIf you know anything about Marin, you know that one of the wealthiest communities here is Tiburon. Located a stone's throw--and a quick ferry ride--from San Francisco, it offers most residents incredible views of the city, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the vast amounts of green space Marin boasts.This is the Tiburon Residence, designed by architect Ron Sutton. Located high above Richardson Bay, the house has stunning views of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Oakland, and more.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) But if you took all those attributes and combined them into one building, it might be the Tiburon Residence, which architect Ron Sutton designed for former Sun Microsystems engineer Bernard Lacroute and his wife.Situated atop one of the most striking of all the hills in Tiburon, the house was built in 2008 to replace a 1960s-era ranch house that Sutton said didn't seem to take particularly good advantage of the oh-my-god views the property affords. To maximize the space, Sutton came up with a concept to excavate the property in order to build two levels, the top of which is the living space. And what a space. From just about every room there are world-class views, with the Golden Gate Bridge dominating the vistas on the lawn, in the living room, and in the kitchen.Sutton explained that the house is divided into two separate areas--a living space in the front, and a set of bedrooms in the back. A long, light-filled hallway and reflecting pool break up the two spaces. Like the Bridge House and the Gate 5 House, the Tiburon Residence emphasizes bringing the gorgeous outdoors inside, and wherever you are in the home, you can see lush hills or the bay down below. San Francisco is off in the distance, an urban counterpoint to the seeming solitude at the top of this hill.It can be extremely windy up here. But often, it's calm and warm. So Sutton designed the front of the house to feature wide doors that can be opened when the wind is quiet and shut when it's howling. But because the owners were clear that being outside was important to them, there is a sheltered back patio area that lets them take in the fresh air no matter how the wind's blowing.And what keeps the building solid Throughout, Sutton used Texas limestone as his building blocks, a material that is at once solid, graceful, and down to earth. For now, the owners still see signs of outside civilization in the form of a house below them and a new property being constructed just above them. But smart use of vegetation will soon block out the neighbors, and perhaps even a power line that Sutton said he tried to get a neighbor to bury to remove it from the owners' view. But he said the woman wouldn't pay the $10,000 cost of doing so, so it mars an otherwise all-natural view. Pfau HouseLike the other three houses I saw, owner-architect Peter Pfau's house atop a hill in San Anselmo, Calif. about 25 minutes northwest of San Francisco, is built around the idea of enjoying the outdoors while inside. This is the Pfau House, designed and owned by architect Peter Pfau.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) In 2008, Pfau and his wife decided to remodel the 1950s-era house that stood atop this hill for decades, but when they did, they chose to maintain the character of the original building--and its relationship with the surrounding nature.This, Pfau said, is a classic California house, in that there is a strong relationship between the building and the landscape, and indeed, most of the rooms in the house are dominated by the views of the many oaks on the property and nearby. Also, when working on the remodel, Pfau chose to use steel beams that were &quot;pegged to the color of the oak trees,&quot; and said that &quot;for us, it's about what does it mean to live in California How can a house be about the climate&quot;The question, he said, is how the couple could live outdoors even as they reside indoors. And that was just the problem he tackled when designing the remodel. And it works. The house is a big &quot;L,&quot; with bright, wide rooms and big windows that make it feel as though the exterior landscape is part of what's in the rooms.As well, the Ashlar Masonry walls--the original stone from the house that was here since the 1950s--help make this feel like a natural compromise between old and new, outside and inside. Pfau calls this a &quot;dialogue between the exterior and the interior.&quot;And like Spurgeon, Pfau harks back to that most ancient of pastimes. &quot;Really, it's elegant camping,&quot; Pfau said. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rumor: Mac App Store launching December 13]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>franccanfa</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A view of the upcoming Mac App Store.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)The Mac App Store could be launching as early as next week, a report from Apple enthusiast blog Appletell claims.Citing an &quot;inside source,&quot; Appletell is reporting that Apple plans a December 13 launch of itsMac App Store, which will allow people to download both paid and free applications to their Mac computers. The blog claims that developers were told by Apple to &quot;have their software prepared for a launch as early as [today].&quot; However, the publication's source said that Apple launching the marketplace today seemed unlikely.It's important to note that Appletell's story is very much a rumor at this point and that Apple has not confirmed a date for the launch of its planned store.If the store does launch next week, it would be way ahead of schedule.When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first unveiled plans for the Mac App Store in late October, he said that it would be available to Snow Leopard users in &quot;90 days,&quot; indicating that the store would launch at the end of the January. Moreover, Apple started reviewing applications for the store last month. It may need more time to get the store up and running with a number of apps that it feels comfortable offering.Apple did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment on when it plans to officially launch its Mac App Store. And until Apple does confirm, consider every launch-day claim, like this one, nothing more than a rumor.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter: &''No Plans For A Twitter News Network&'', But It&'s Still An Interesting&nbsp'Idea]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, Reuters ran a short interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in which he talked about the possibility of tweets being used to create a &amp;''Twitter News Service&amp;''. It seems pretty likely that Stone was just running with a hypothetical idea that was on his mind at the time of the interview. (Okay, it seems very likely.) And in fact, it&amp;'s hardly the first time a Twitter co-founder has talked about similar ideas in the press a4&quot; which nothing ever came of (at least not yet). But that doesn&amp;'t mean it&amp;'s not an interesting idea. As Stone tells Reuters about Twitter,a4s&amp;''From the very beginning this has seemed almost as if it&amp;'s a news wire coming from everywhere around the world.&amp;''Back in the early days of Twitter, it wasn&amp;'t thea4smundanea4supdates from web people that made the service so interesting to me, it was when it started being a go to place for realtime news. This started with Twitter&amp;'s ability to spread links faster than other services at the time. But it quickly escalated into something much more when an earthquake would happen somewhere else in the world, or a massive fire would break out. People would be there, on the ground, tweeting about it in realtime. It made the traditional news outlets look like absolute dinosaurs. So it shouldn&amp;'t be any surprise that now, a few years later, many of them are using the service on a daily basis to augment their news coverage.Ask yourself this: if a news story was breaking right now, which would you turn to first: your television or Twitter For many people, it&amp;'s now the latter. Twitter is simply a faster way to watch events unfold, and to get more information from all sides. Sure, a lot of misinformation is spread on the network too, but the ecosystem is actually pretty good at quickly filtering out what&amp;'s fact from fiction. And it sounds as if Stone is thinking about this as well.&amp;''Stone said he envisaged other news organizations might take more specialized access,&amp;'' according to Reuters.a4sThat seems to imply that Twitter could potentially create a new, focused tweet firehose that news organizations could use. Perhaps they could be given all the information coming into Twitter about a story, and they&amp;'d be in charge of sorting through it and picking fact from fiction. If Twitter had a way to quiet the noise and focus the stream in such a way, this would be very valuable information to any news organization.Further, Stone later says that Twitter could also offer a service where the outlets could easily get in touch with Twitter users on the ground of a story, to perhaps turn them into instant embedded reporters.Of course, the big question in this big hypothetical scenario would be if Twitter could or should make money from this Reuters notes that Twitter sells access to their firehose of data to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, implying that such a news firehose might be for sale as well. And many news outlets would likely pay for such a thing.But Stone uses the words &amp;''open&amp;'' and &amp;''shared&amp;'' in his actual quotes. If Twitter actually wants to &amp;''be a force for good&amp;'', perhaps such a service is better left free. Otherwise, they&amp;'d be dictating who got access to potentially important information based on financial agreements.Of course, all of this is just hypothetical anyway. Again, Twitter has &amp;''no plans for a &amp;8216'Twitter News Network&amp;'&amp;''. But never say never. Especially when there&amp;'s clearly something to an idea.Ask @biz a &amp;quot'can you imagine Twitter doing&amp;8230'&amp;quot' Q, &amp;amp' he&amp;039's going to get creative and imagine.  Related:  No plans for a &amp;quot'Twitter news network&amp;quot'.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple Buys HP&'s Old Campus, HP Buys The Twitter Ads For&nbsp'Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last week, MercuryNews.com revealed that Apple made a massive land purchase near their current headquarters in Cupertino, CA. They actually bought the old HP campus, which the electronics giant announced they were moving out of to consolidate their offices in nearby Palo Alto. So perhaps it shouldn&amp;'t be too surprising that HP bought something of Apple&amp;'s today: their hashtag on Twitter.Okay, Apple doesn&amp;'t technically have any rights to a hashtag containing their name on Twitter. In fact, maybe HP is targeting people tweeting about the fruit. Yeah, right.As you can see here, the HP Official Store has paid to promote tweets with links to computer sales they&amp;'re having to people searching for Apple. They have a group of rotating tweets they&amp;'re promoting, but all point to sales they are having at the HP online store a4&quot; a store which couldn&amp;'t look more different from Apple&amp;'s.This kind of rivalry targeting is done all the time on Google and other search engines, but it seems to becoming more of a norm on Twitter as well. A few weeks ago, we saw competing ads on Twitter from Microsoft and Google for mobile.I wonder howa4snewly prolific Twitter user and Apple executive Phil Schiller likes them applesUpdate: As Steven notes in the comments, HP bought the Twitter ads for mac as well. Nice.Update 2: And as Kevin points out below, they bought macbook as well![thanks Kevin]CrunchBase InformationAppleHewlett-PackardTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shufflr TV&'s Three-Screen Experience: The Grand Central Demo&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I am shown product demos in some of the strangest places.  On Wednesday afternoon, I found myself in a Starbucks in New York City&amp;'s Grand Central Terminal with Rajnish, one of the founders of Althea Systems.  Rajnish was in town from Bangalore and he wanted to show me Shufflr TV, his startup&amp;'s Internet TV application.  Shufflr is available right now as a desktop AIR app, but the company is also working on a simplified version for TVs and one for Android phones.  In the video above, Rajnish shows me a demo across all three screens (using his laptop in place of a TV, but he did switch to a TV remote as you can see).  There was a lot of distractions, including some screaming kids next to us, but Rajnish stayed focussed and powered through the demo.Shufflr lets you browse videos from across the Web, and sorts them by recommended videos, buzz, or what your friends are watching on Facebook and Twitter.  You can share, comment on, or bookmark any video.  And The AIR app has this slick wall of video effect that would look great on a touchscreen.  Videos are pulled from all over the Web, including YouTube, Comedy Central, and Funny Or Die.  You can also browse by channel/source or by people.  If you start following people, then you start to see the videos they share.  It also suggests people with similar tastes.Rajnish also gave me a sneak peak at Shufflr&amp;'s ten-foot UI, which is designed for regular TVs and can be controlled via a remote.  It lets you explore different genres and zero in on what you want with related tags.  Articles from the Web about particular shows could also be brought up, and it integrates with Flickr to bring your photos to the big screen.  The Android app is the simplest of all, showing three different video feeds: friends, recommendations,and queue.  The last one will works in conjunction with Shufflr&amp;'s browser plug-in which lets you add any video you come across on the Web to your queue (essentially a video bookmarking system). As with every other Internet TV project out there from Google TV and Apple TV to Boxee, a lovely UI will only get Shufflr so far.  It is screaming for more mainstream shows and movies.  But the demo is instructive in terms of showing what a three-screen experience might one day look like.  Althea Systems recently raised $3 million from Intel Capital.  CrunchBase InformationAlthea SystemsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google to rock the ebook world with &''Editions&'' store soon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;'s long talked-about ebook store, Google Ventures, is set to debut by the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reports.The store was initially supposed to launch this past summer, but sources close to the company say that it only recently cleared some legal and technical hurdles. Now Google is gearing up to launch Editions by the end of the year in the US and by first quarter 2011 worldwide, according to Google product management director Scott Dougall.So what is Google offering that Amazon isn&amp;'t Just as with its open-source mobile operating system Android, it appears that Google is aiming to establish a more open ebook ecosystem. You&amp;'ll be able to purchase ebooks from Google, or other online retailers, and tie them to an ebook library with your Google account. The Google Editions library will be easily accessible online from any web-enabled device, including smartphones, tablets, and PCs.This is in contrast to Amazon&amp;'s Kindle ecosystem, in which you order books from Amazon&amp;'s store, and they&amp;'re subsequently delivered to your Kindle. Kindle books are also available on computers and smartphones via Amazon&amp;'s Kindle apps, but Google is avoiding that intermediary step altogether by letting you access your library on the web.Google is working on an affiliate program that will let website owners earn revenue by recommending ebooks on Editions, and it&amp;'s also partnering with independent booksellers to share revenue from their websites. It&amp;'s unclear how much revenue Google will share with affiliates or booksellers, but I suspect it will have to be more than the 10 percent Amazon offers its affiliates for Kindle ebook sales.The WSJ reports that Google has already signed deals with major book publishers. Google will offer hundreds of thousands of books for purchase, as well as millions that will be available for free &amp;8212' figures that should put it in line with the ebook libraries Amazon and Barnes &amp;amp' Noble offer. Prices are expected to be similar to the competition as well.While Google&amp;'s ebook venture sounds ambitious, I don&amp;'t suspect that it will play nicely with existing e-readers. Amazon&amp;'s Kindle and Barnes &amp;amp' Noble&amp;'s Nook devices offer web browser access, but it&amp;'s fairly primitive. It wouldn&amp;'t support some of the features users get on the devices, like highlighting, or typography tweaks. I also don&amp;'t think that either Amazon or Barnes &amp;amp' Noble will go out of their way to support Google Editions. Tablets, which have access to more fully featured web browsers, are better off.Google is positioning the ebook store as an extension of Google Books, its plan to scan the roughly 150 million books ever published worldwide. The book scanning project is currently about 10 percent complete, according to Google executives.I suspect that we&amp;'ll see Google Editions very soon &amp;8212' perhaps within a week or two. Google, like many other software companies, imposes a code freeze towards the middle of December, which would delay any uncompleted projects into the next year. After so many delays, I don&amp;'t think Google can afford to have Editions miss out on this holiday season.Image via Javier CandeiraPrevious Story: LOLapps gives an inside look at the success of social game Ravenwood FairPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: books, ebooks, ereader, Google Editions, kindle, Nook, smartphones, tabletsCompanies: Amazon, Barnes And Noble, GooglePeople: Scott Dougall          Tags: books, ebooks, ereader, Google Editions, kindle, Nook, smartphones, tabletsCompanies: Amazon, Barnes And Noble, GooglePeople: Scott DougallDevindra 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[Smart blood-pressure monitor reports your readings to iPhone (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some wags have talked for a long time about the &amp;''internet of things.&amp;'' Now that&amp;'s being replaced by the &amp;''intelligence of things,&amp;'' as evidenced by the latest web-connected gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show.A case in point is Withings&amp;8216' smart blood-pressure monitor. The device is made for iOS devices (iPhones, iPods and iPads). You wrap the monitor around your arm and connect it via wire to your iPhone. The free app records you heart rate and blood pressure and then transmits your measurements to your online health book. You can look at the pattern of your readings graphically over a period of time. Then you can compare them with recommended World Health Organization readings. The device is accurate to plus or minus 5 percent on pulse and plus or minus 2 percent on blood pressure.The whole point of such devices is that they can use the internet to take a dumb device and turn it into a smart one. If you add sensors, the internet, and data analysis to an ordinary device, you get something that is worth a product upgrade, says Sean Dubravac, an analyst at the Consumer Electronics Association. The device operates on four triple A batteries. Price and availability will be available later. Check out our video demo with Withings&amp;' Eric, who was a little nervous doing the test.Next Story: WowWee&amp;'s Cinemin Slice projector cashes in on iPad popularity (video) Previous Story: Motion-control startup Omek is bringing gesture controls to the PC (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics Show, gadgetsCompanies: WiThings          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics Show, gadgetsCompanies: WiThingsDean 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.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[Yuri Milner and Ron Conway aim to disrupt angel investing with latest proposal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket investment to every new startup from the Y Combinator incubator.Milner heads Russian investment firm DST (once known as Digital Sky Technologies) and he disrupted venture capital practices when he made investments in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon at very high valuations and easy deal terms. Milner didn&amp;'t even ask for seats on the board of directors of those companies. In hindsight, his investments look brilliant because all have risen in value, at least on paper. Conway runs the SV Angel investment fund.Techcrunch reported that Milner (acting as an individual investor) and Conway&amp;'s fund are going to invest in every single Y Combinator startup, with some 40 startups in the latest class. Their new fund is called Start Fund and is being managed by SV Angel&amp;'s David Lee. The bold bet is that they are investing in these startups sight unseen, with an offer of $150,000 in convertible debt. There is &amp;''no cap and no discount,&amp;'' which Techcrunch says are terms that no angel will match. It means that the Start Fund will loan each company $150,000, and that money will convert into equity when the startup raises money from other sources. The debt has no valuation ceiling and does not get a discount on the conversion.Each startup can choose to take the investment or decline it. The fund will offer the same deal for each Y Combinator in subsequent classes as well. That&amp;'s a big vote of confidence in Y Combinator&amp;'s ability to pick entrepreneurs. Typically, Y Combinator startups get $15,000 to $20,000 during the first few months of their projects. Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, told Techcrunch he was pleased with the new investment strategy. But other angels may cringe because they will have to match the generous terms offered by Conway and Milner or lose deals.DST has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into hot social companies  Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. But it made those investments when the  companies were in relatively late stages of maturity, just as they were  poised to go public. DST can pour so much money into the companies that they dona4a4t have to  worry about raising money and can postpone their IPOs for a year or two.  In doing this, DST works with the companies to buy 80 percent of the  shares from secondary sources, such as employees or early investors who  want to cash out, and only 20 percent from the primary share owners.That strategy involves a lot of risk, because it requires that DST  come up with a ton of capital. But Milner has had no trouble with that.  Earlier this year, he restructured the investment firma4a4s holdings so  that its Russia-specific email, social and game businesses were all in  one company, Mail.ru. That enabled Mail.ru, where Milner serves as  chairman, to go public. Milner now runs the business of the global  investment fund, DST, which is the entity that holds large stakes in  Zynga, Facebook and Groupon.The businesses all have potential for conflicts of interest. Zynga,  the dominant player on Facebook, doesna4a4t always see eye to eye with the  social network. Those dynamics make for the classic tensions between a  platform owner and the platforma4a4s major applications company, Milner  said. But Milner avoids conflicts by refusing to take a seat on company  boards, even though he has big stakes in each of the companies.Next Story: Week in review: Microsoft&amp;'s game business is growing fast Previous Story: Entrepreneur Corner: Rulings may change privacy rights of employee emailsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: Digital Sky Technologies, DST, SV AngelPeople: Ron Conway, Yuri Milner          Companies: Digital Sky Technologies, DST, SV AngelPeople: Ron Conway, Yuri MilnerDean 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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