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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google search to reward high-quality sites]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the latest changes to its search algorithm, Google is aiming to reward Web sites that offer original, in-depth content at the same time that it penalizes those that simply borrow content from others.Rolled out this week, the changes will help ensure that sites considered to be of &quot;high quality&quot; will rank higher in Google's search results, while those deemed of &quot;low quality&quot; will get dumped lower in the ranks, according to a blog posted yesterday by Google fellow Amit Singhal and principal engineer Matt Cutts.Google is clearly looking to crack down on &quot;content farms,&quot; sites that purposely tailor their pages with content that often makes little to no sense but is loaded with keywords and other information designed solely to generate a huge number of hits.How does Google figure out which sites are high-quality and which ones aren't, especially since that sort of determination can be subjectiveSinghal and Cutts explained in general terms that sites with original information, such as research, in-depth reports, and thoughtful analysis would be looked upon more favorably, while those that offer low value-add, that copy content, or &quot;that are just not very useful&quot; would be in the doghouse. And the criteria used to make this determination are part of the new algorithm.A spokesman for Google told CNET today that the company can't share the specifics of how the algorithm works because &quot;we don't want to give bad actors a way to game our algorithms and worsen the experience for our users.&quot; The company said that the new rankings won't rely on feedback obtained from its Personal Blocklist, a new Chrome extension that tracks which Web sites are blocked by users and then sends those results to Google. But the company said it did compare the information from the Blocklist with the sites caught by the new algorithm and found that many of them popped up in both places. Specifically, 84 percent of the top dozen domains flagged via the extension have also been caught by the tweaked algorithm.For now, Google has deployed these changes only in the U.S. but plans to roll them out in other countries over time. The company is also promising further updates that it thinks can further improve its search results.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some eHarmony user information stolen]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Online dating site eHarmony is advising some of its customers to change their passwords after being informed of a security breach.A hacker employed an SQL injection vulnerability in an ancillary site eHarmony operates for content management to obtain a file that included user names, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords, eHarmony said. The breach--first reported today on the Krebs on Security blog--affected an informational site called eHarmony Advice, which includes message boards that require eHarmony user names and passwords to access. The dating service's main site uses separate databases and Web servers, and &quot;at no point during this attack did the hacker successfully get inside our eHarmony network,&quot; the company said in a blog post. eHarmony said it had repaired the vulnerability and was notifying customers who may have been affected. Although the site did not reveal how many customers were affected, it did say it was less than 0.05 percent of its user base. eHarmony says it has had 33 million users since its inception.Krebs said an Argentinian hacker told him late last year that he'd discovered a vulnerability in the online dating site that allowed him to view customer passwords. Krebs said that a week later, he discovered a listing for eHarmony user names and passwords on Carder.biz, an online marketplace for hacked data and accounts, botnet hosting, and stolen credit card and consumer data. The eHarmony data was being offered for sale by a user identified as &quot;Provider&quot; at prices ranging from $3,000 to $5,000, Krebs said.The hacker also reportedly approached eHarmony with an offer to sell his security services to the site to fix the flaw--an offer the dating site said it declined. SQL injection attacks occur when a small, malicious script is inserted into a database that feeds information to the Web site.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook brand pages hit by malicious links]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xxyg12as</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest security fiasco on Facebook's application platform may involve business pages rather than personal accounts: Sendible, a company that makes software for businesses to manage accounts and presences on various social-media services, looked like it was hit by a virus or hacker on Tuesday afternoon: TechCrunch pointed out that Sendible-managed brand pages on Facebook appeared to be posting malicious links.Now Sendible's claiming it wasn't their fault. &quot;Just to clarify, Sendible was not hacked,&quot; the company posted to its Twitter account. &quot;One of our users has discovered a major flaw in Facebook's security.&quot; Sendible's Twitter account then quoted the user in question, who said, &quot;i wanted to post only on a few facebook walls as a fan - and for some reason, posted as the page Owner. weird,&quot; and Sendible added &quot;This appears to be a bug in Facebook's API as the posts should have been displayed as the user profile and not the page owner.&quot;The malicious links, which read &quot;Change Your Facebook Background Here!&quot;, were showing up on brand pages as major as Coca-Cola, Google, and &quot;South Park.&quot;One Facebook page administrator wrote on Twitter that the sketchy link-posting appeared to be automated and that it attempted to post multiple times. The details don't completely add up, with the situation certainly looking like a hack of Sendible but with the company itself indicating that the problem is on Facebook's end.Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cleantech VCs are thinking small]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cleantech has been the industry of big-money investments in ambitious projects, but that may be changing, judging from a venture capital panel at VentureBeata4a4s GreenBeat conference today.The most emphatic speaker on this point was Navin Chaddha, a partner at the Mayfield Fund. Chaddha said hea4a4s more interested in investing a4Adownstreama4 from energy generation, rather than in generation itself. Thata4a4s where entrepreneurs will find more opportunities, and those companies require less funding. As positive examples, Chaddha pointed to SolarCity (one of his portfolio companies) and SunRun, which arena4a4t trying to build giant solar plants or factories, and are instead trying to change the solar distribution model by bringing it directly to consumers.On the flip side, he pointed to solar panel maker Solyndra, which has reportedly raised more than $1 billion but just announced that ita4a4s closing one of its factories. $1 billion is more than most individual venture funds, Chaddha noted, and spending that much money on a single company is the a4Aantithesisa4 of what venture capital is about.Paul Holland from Foundation Capital added that cleantech investors are starting to feel pressure from their current portfolio companies. Firms that have invested steadily in cleantech over the past few years are finding that 40 of their companies need to raise more money, and that 20 of them need that funding in a matter of weeks or months.a4AThata4a4s a hard way to live,a4 Holland said.Despite his emphasis on capital efficiency, Chaddha isna4a4t saying that hea4a4s looking for unambitious companies that can sell quickly. In fact, he concluded that investors and entrepreneurs need to understand that cleantech companies take a long time to pay off.a4ALet&amp;'s not live on the era of a497 and a499, and keep on waiting for things to happen in two years,a4 Chaddha said. a4AThis is a marathon. This is not a sprint.a4Next Story: Sibblingz takes CrowdStar&amp;'s It Girl game to all the hot platforms Previous Story: IssueBurner: Finally, task and issue tracking with emailPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Foundation Capital, Mayfield FundPeople: Navin Chaddha, Paul Holland          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Foundation Capital, Mayfield FundPeople: Navin Chaddha, Paul HollandAnthony 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[How RIM&'s PlayBook Could Have&nbsp'Succeeded]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Editor&amp;'s note: Guest author Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, and software engineer.Oh, Research In Motion. You never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.RIM was born in my home town, ata4smy alma mater, so it&amp;'s depressing watching their empire rot and crumble before the Android / iPhone onslaught. I had high hopes for their new tablet, a potential game-changera4&quot;but alas, they&amp;'ve hamstrung it before it&amp;'s even been released. Here&amp;'s what theya4sshoulda4shave done with it:1) Embrace Android (phones)RIM proudly announced that while their PlayBook can&amp;'t connect to cell networks, it can tether to a compatible BlackBerry via Bluetooth. They might as well have installed aa4s&amp;''For BlackBerry Owners Only&amp;''a4sstartup screen. Way to pre-alienate most of the market, guys.Instead they should have stressed that they can also connect via Wi-Fi to Android 2.2 phones, and announced an Android app that syncs data between Androids and PlayBooks. They can&amp;'t support the iPhone, Apple would never allow it, but Android&amp;'s wide open.&amp;''But Android is the competition!&amp;'' No, Androida4stabletsa4sare. Tablets and phones are entirely different entities. RIM&amp;'s tech people understand that: it&amp;'s why the PlayBook runs a brand-new OS built by QNX, a company they bought earlier this year, rather than a new iteration of the archaic BlackBerry OS. Which is no bad thinga4&quot;QNX is well-regarded, and time-tested. (I fondly remember being reprimanded for hacking into my high school&amp;'s QNX system many years ago.)Until RIM drops that millstone called the BlackBerry OS, or replaces it with a QNX-based version, Android and Apple will eat their phones for lunch. Meanwhile, they need to accept that the PlayBook should complement rather than compete with Android phones.2) WebWorks or AIR: Pick One.I&amp;'m an app developer. Pity me. I have to know Java, Eclipse, Objective-C, XCode, and both the Android and iOS SDKs.a4s I could use a cross-compiler like PhoneGap, but they&amp;'re clunky and slow to implement new features. If Windows Phone 7 takes off, I need to mastera4sanothera4slanguage, environment, and platforma4&quot;and while BlackBerry apps are written in Java, it&amp;'s an older version than Android&amp;'s, and the SDK is completely different.I liked Palm, but I was delighted to see it die, and Nokia&amp;'s decay into irrelevance is a relief. Nothing against them' I just don&amp;'t want the hassle. App developers don&amp;'t want choice, we want consistency.So what does RIM give us Choice. First they offer free PlayBooks to developers who build PlayBook apps with Adobe&amp;'s AIR. Then they say you can build both PlayBook and BlackBerry 6 apps with BlackBerry WebWorks. Rather than split their development and support resources between two different platforms, they should have chosen one and ran with it.  These &amp;''choices&amp;'' will only confuse and irritate the app makers who will determine their fate.3) Change the name. And the target market.PlayBooka4sReally You&amp;'re Research In Motion. You&amp;'re business, baby. Your tech level may be a little antiquated, but you&amp;'re secure, you get stuff done, and the new tablet brings you back up to speed. You should be targeting corporate videoconferencing and hospital patient data and business travelers. That&amp;'s why you&amp;'ve got BlackBerry tethering, rightInstead you called it the PlayBook and can&amp;'t stop talking about how it runs Flash, both of which will make CIOs everywhere raise skeptical eyebrows. You&amp;'re trying to be all things to all users, including consumersa4&quot;but Android tablets run Flash too, and they&amp;'ll be available for Christmas' the iPad boasts a bigger screen, superior apps, and the Apple halo' and worst of all, the PlayBook will probably launch right in the teeth of the iPad 2 hype machine. RIM should conquer the business-tablet space first. Instead, they already look like also-rans before they even have their running shoes on.It&amp;'s a shame. I wish RIM well, and their new tablet looks like a potentially superb device. But they&amp;'re squandering that potential before it even has a chance to succeed.CrunchBase InformationResearch In MotionInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask a VC in Indonesia: Is East Ventures Early or Crazy&nbsp'[TCTV]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Welcome to part two of Ask a VC in Southeast Asia. This week, it&amp;'s Wilson Cuaca and Chandra Tjan of East Ventures. I shot this video in Singapore, but they invest primarily in Indonesia where East is one of the only traditional early stage VC firms.Over delicious crab, we discuss the Web opportunities in Southeast Asia, whether startups should focus locally or globally, and perhaps the most important and most divisive question: Whether Singapore or Indonesia has the better cuisine. Enjoy.Ask a VC will return to the Valley next week. Not sure who the guest is, but send in your questions now to AskaVC(at)techcrunch(dot)com.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[From The Mind Of A Chrome Designer Comes DropMocks: The Easiest Way To Share&nbsp'Images]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you ever want to share some photos, mockups or screengrabs with somebody else online quick and dirty  Go to DropMocks, drag and drop your images, and you are done.  You get an instant image gallery that displays in CoverFlow style, along with a short URL to share it.For instance, here is an example of a DropMocks I put together in 5 seconds by pulling some photos from my desktop.  Same here with these screengrabs.  You can name your gallery and save it, and that is pretty much it.   DropMocks is a side project of Glen Murphy, a UI designer for Google Chrome (both the browser and the OS).  It is all done with HTML5 technologies.  No Flash, just CSS and Javascript.  It uploads and displays very fast.  Please note, this is not for private sharing. Once you upload, anyone with the link can see your gallery.  @chrismessinaChris Messina&amp;8482'<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Multimedia search startup Qwiki raising $8M]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Qwiki, a new service that delivers information through rich multimedia presentations, is raising an $8 million round of funding, according a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The Palo Alto, Calif. company launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September, where it won the top award. You still need an invitation to access the site, but the conference judges were obviously impressed by the presentation they saw last fall, and I was even more impressed when founder and chief executive Doug Imbruce sat down to show me the product a couple of months later.The goal is to deliver a much richer information experience than what you normally find on the Web. Imbruce has compared the product to how computers work on science fiction movies like Wall-E: You ask about topics like a4ASan Franciscoa4 or a4AAOLa4 or a4ANatalie Portmana4, then Qwiki delivers audio narration from sites like Wikipedia, accompanied by images and other media. Obviously, there are cases where youa4a4re looking for quick bits of information and dona4a4t want to bother with a fancy presentation, but if you want an engaging overview of a topic, Qwiki offers a good way to get that. The company also wants to work with publishers to deliver their content in a richer way.And Qwiki will work on smartphones and tablets. Imbruce has said his team is working to develop a personalized experience as well, so, for example, every morning your phone could tell you about relevant weather, appointments, emails.When asked about the filing today, Imbruce declined to confirm the funding. He only said, a4AQwiki has generated a lot of interest from the investor community, acquirers, publishers and more.a4The filing says Qwiki has raised $5 million of the $8 million round already. The company previously raised $1.5 million in funding.Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt from Qwiki on Vimeo.Next Story: FCC chair: Wireless spectrum crunch is a vital economic issue for U.S. Previous Story: Verizon iPhone coming February 3rd (Update: Verizon announcement next week)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Anthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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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