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- webOS 2.0 APIs, beta SDK and features surface
- Beware: fake Tweetdeck “download” tweets hide software trojan
- This Is Digg’s New CEO: Matt Williams
- No More Mark, Hurd Leaving News Corp. Board
- Confirmed: “Who to follow” was suggesting people users already followed, Twitter disables it
- The Pirate Bay Movie Is A Go
- Notes for Later: A bookmarklet to remind you of where you’ve been browsing
- Check-in with fruit as Gowalla version 1.0 for BlackBerry now available.
- MTV To Reward STD Checkups With A Foursquare Badge
- Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle
- Job 2.0 – The End of Profession
- YouTube signs biggest premium sports partnership in MLB Japan deal
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Feature CDMA, Verizon Bound
- Google rolls out real-time Blogger stats for all
- Gmail introduces Priority Inbox: The importance filter for your email.
- Google gets into the badges game – for your electricity bill
- Google Translate gets better definition with new interface
- Don’t check in everywhere you go guys!
- Stuck on music? GetGlue has something new and great for you.
- Top ten tips for taking your iPad back to school–that don’t have to do with apps!
| webOS 2.0 APIs, beta SDK and features surface Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:53 AM PDT
Due out later this year, webOS 2.0, will, according to PreCentral, include these new/improved/re-branded features (as well as most likely many more):
So “Stacks” will be webOS 2.0’s multi-tasking interface, “Just Type” will be its universal search plus a new “Quick Actions” function that will direct the OS to do tasks, “Synergy” will be will include APIs for devs to create email/contacts/calendar apps, and the new OS will add better HTML5 and JavaScript support. Overall, sounds interesting (especially when you think about it in terms of a HP tablet) and we highly suggest that if you’re really interested you read the entire PreCentral post, which is pretty comprehensive. Image: PreCentral Original title and link for this post: webOS 2.0 APIs, beta SDK and features surface     |
| Beware: fake Tweetdeck “download” tweets hide software trojan Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:05 AM PDT Tweetdeck has announced that a series of malicious tweets are circulating that ask users to download a new version of Tweetdeck, but actually the link downloads a software trojan (virus) onto your computer. Possibly, this attack was timed to coincide with Twitter’s move to OAuth today – i.e. the attackers may have thought that some people would think they needed to upgrade Tweetdeck because of the change – but no way to know for sure. Here’s how Tweetdeck’s blog explains the threat:
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| This Is Digg’s New CEO: Matt Williams Posted: 31 Aug 2010 09:55 AM PDT
And Digg kept up the poaching game popular in the Valley, stealing Matt Williams from Amazon, his home for more than a decade, for their CEO slot. This concludes Digg’s executive shuffle, from Jay Adelson, to Kevin Rose, and now to Williams, who we suspect will be a long term fixture at the company. This announcement is not a surprise, Rose himself hinted before that a new CEO was just around the corner. Kevin will return to his previous role as Chief Architect. More as it comes.
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| No More Mark, Hurd Leaving News Corp. Board Posted: 31 Aug 2010 09:43 AM PDT
How did it happen? He was not nominated for re-election, meaning that he is not being fired outright, but will be allowed to expire like a bad bill on the desk of an ambivalent governor. Whatever zenith Hurd was hoping to swing his star to, that race is over. If you missed the genesis of the fiasco, Hurd behaved very inappropriately with a certain staffer, enough so that HP launched a private investigation into the matter. From our previous coverage:
Goodbye Hurd, at least you did well in some capacity when leading HP. You are hardly what News Corp. needs though, and they know it. Original title and link for this post: No More Mark, Hurd Leaving News Corp. Board    |
| Confirmed: “Who to follow” was suggesting people users already followed, Twitter disables it Posted: 31 Aug 2010 08:45 AM PDT This may not come as a shock to many, but Twitter’s “Who to follow” feature isn’t perfect. Since it launched recently, many Twitter users have complained that “Who to follow” often just suggests people that users have previously simply followed and then unfollowed sometime in the past. This morning, however, the service seems to have taken a step backward (hopefully temporarily) by increasing offering suggestions to users of people they already follow. UPDATE: Twitter has just temporarily turned off “Who to follow”, acknowleding that the feature was in fact doing what we reported. Here’s the short message they just left on the Twitter Status page:
Also, we asked a third party expert on OAuth if this problem could be related to Twitter changing to OAuth today, and he responded, “doubt it’s related”. While this problem has been noticed by some users recently, it really seemed to pick up this morning, as we noticed many tweets complaining about this apparent malfunction, and a quick Twitter search for “Who to follow” shows plenty of people having the same issue: We’ve emailed Twitter for comment, but the company does not usually comment on “user statistics” as it puts it. In the meantime, if you are really annoyed with the suggestions, you can do this hack (there are a few others) and remove them from your sight on Twitter.com Original title and link for this post: Confirmed: “Who to follow” was suggesting people users already followed, Twitter disables it    |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2010 08:26 AM PDT
There is a project on Kickstarter raising funds to complete a documentary film on ThePirateBay’s three founders and their stories. It had a goal of $25,000 that it was trying to reach in a month. In three days it shot past that goal, and is now approaching 1000 backers and $30,000 in funding. The film, according to its maker "is not a fan movie about the Pirate Bay, neither is it a journalistic piece on copyright conflict. It's an observational, character driven film about three guys whose hobby homepage became the embryo of a global political movement." That everyone who watches the movie is going to torrent it is perhaps the irony for the cake’s icing. Either way, TBD AFK (ThePirateBay Away From Keyboard) is going to be well funded, and coming out in the future. How soon? The sad part of that question is that it depends what happens next for the three founders. According to TorrentFreak:
Whatever the outcome of the trial, the film trailer looks great. I’ll have some popcorn ready when the film is released, and you are all invited. Original title and link for this post: The Pirate Bay Movie Is A Go    |
| Notes for Later: A bookmarklet to remind you of where you’ve been browsing Posted: 31 Aug 2010 08:18 AM PDT
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| Check-in with fruit as Gowalla version 1.0 for BlackBerry now available. Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:32 AM PDT Gowalla, my personal favorite check-in service of choice, have updated their previously less than great BlackBerry app, taking version 1.0 out of beta and making it available to all. Some of the features of Gowalla for BlackBerry version 1.0 include, the ability to add pictures to spots, keep track of virtual items, check-in to and share your favorite spots with Facebook and Twitter contacts. The Gowalla blog post expands on the release: "Brand-new improvements to the Gowalla app for BlackBerry rolled out over the weekend, including:
We're pretty stoked with this latest version of our BlackBerry app, enough so that we're deeming it out of beta and bestowing the title Gowalla 1.0 on it!" Gowalla differs from the check-in app that most hear about, Foursquare, by focusing on a more visually appealing design and gaming element to its application. With Gowalla you can find virtual items when checking in, trade them for items left at spots where you check-in and earn signature stickers with grand designs checking-in to famous spots or completing trips to locations. With Facebook for BlackBerry lacking "Places" at present, it is my opinion that if you want to venture into the land of checking-in when on the go, Gowalla is your best option. You can get Gowalla for BlackBerry version 1.0 below.
Are you a Gowalla user? If not, do you use Facebook "Places," Foursquare, another service, or combination of several? Original title and link for this post: Check-in with fruit as Gowalla version 1.0 for BlackBerry now available.    |
| MTV To Reward STD Checkups With A Foursquare Badge Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:18 AM PDT
What would you say if you could grab yourself a new Foursquare badge simply by checking-in at your local STD clinic? This is what MTV and Foursquare are looking to do. As part of a September promotional US-based campaign entitled “GYT: Get Yourself Tested”, MTV hopes that by incentivising Foursquare users with a special version badge, it can help “remove the stigma attached to getting checked out for STDs.” The campaign has run in previous years but this is the first year that location-centric service Foursquare has been used to help stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Whilst we applaud the idea of raising awareness of sexual testing, and making steps to remove the taboo behind getting tested, I don’t think having a STI badge on your Foursquare wall will be quite the catalyst that MTV hopes it will. In this case, I would be happy to be wrong. Original title and link for this post: MTV To Reward STD Checkups With A Foursquare Badge    |
| Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle Posted: 31 Aug 2010 06:34 AM PDT
The deal, which will see the $139 version of the Kindle, the 3G model and the Kindle DX going on sale, is Amazon’s attempt at getting its e-reader in a number of different retail locations, taking a direct aim at Barnes and Noble’s Nook, which is currently on sale within its own stores but also at Best Buy. Amazon has already reached a deal with Target to start selling the Kindle in its stores, starting back in April, helping to drive sales of the device to over 5 million units since its launch in 2007. We know that the newest Kindle models are selling well, so well that Amazon simply can’t stock enough of them. A move into bricks and mortar stores will allow customers to interact with the device before purchase, helping to increase casual sales that were previously unavailable. Original title and link for this post: Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle    |
| Job 2.0 – The End of Profession Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:23 AM PDT Profession Job In his book “Hackers and Painters” Paul Graham describes his uneasiness with the question often prompted at formal meeting “So what do you do?”. People asking this question generally expect an easy answer which opens the door to casual conversation. But what if you are like Paul Graham who is an author, developer entrepreneur, investor and blogger and probably a lot more? His solution? Whenever people asked him that question he replied “I’m developing a new version of LISP”. Although the story is funny I’m not sure it will make you very popular at parties. And sometimes you don’t actually want to scare people away (as that answer surely did) but give an honest and short answer. The problem is, there is no short description to what most of us do these days. In fact, it will only get worse. For a while now we have been moving from the Job 1.0 into the Job 2.0 phase. In the Job 1.0 era life was simple. You were born, studied something (in college or on the street) for about 10 years and then star practicing what you learned until you retired. When people asked you what you did you answered ‘Plumber’, ‘Architect’, ‘Photographer’ or ‘Dentist’ and people would know what you were talking about. We will always have Plumbers, architects, photographers and dentists. But it is more likely they will be like waitresses in Los Angeles. Yes, that women serving you coffee is a waitress but she is also an actress, model and dancer. Your dentist might also be a photographer and blogger. The Job 2.0 era gives us all an opportunity to have more than one profession at a time. Plumbers don’t just do plumbing anymore. They have to be in marketing and PR as well and offer more related services than just plumbing to satisfy market demand. Architects aren’t just designing buildings anymore. They also design cities, furniture, books and gadgets. Why is that? Why don’t people stick to one profession anymore? there are two reasons why. The first is the internet and the second is our increased proficiency in everything. Although it is still pretty hard to become a brain surgeon or master violin player there are a lot of tasks that don’t require a lifetime of study anymore. Want to learn how to edit videos? Get iMovie. Want to create 3D effects for movies? Get a copy of Adobe After effect, dedicate 3 weeks to learning it and get working. Our tools are becoming increasingly more powerful but also easier to learn. The learning curve for a lot of skills has decreased immensely over the past years. Of course learning how to use a tool doesn’t make you a skilled master yet. Learning how to use Apple’s Garage Band software doesn’t make you Madonna yet. This is where the second reason for the Job 2.0 era comes in; The Internet. With our new communication tools we don’t need to become madonna. Madonna became Madonna because MTV made her world famous 20 years ago. There could only be one Madonna. Now, with the internet at your disposal you don’t need millions of fans to be a star. You just need a small but loyal following. Do you have 10.000 fans? Thats enough for a record contract and your own first album. Just sign up at *** and ask all your followers to invest $5. Madonna wouldn’t have been anywhere without MTV and the big record labels of the time. She might have been able to gather 10.000 fans but how would she have been able to communicate with them? Send them a postcard? The Job 2.0 era makes us multi talented project managers. All we need to do is find our own, and unique, audience. We don’t need millions of fans, just a few thousand loyal followers. The real talents of the future won’t be able to introduce themselves properly when the question “What do you do?” is asked. That question will slowly fade away an be replaced with the more useful “What are you doing?”. Original title and link for this post: Job 2.0 – The End of Profession    |
| YouTube signs biggest premium sports partnership in MLB Japan deal Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:54 AM PDT
The deal is YouTube’s biggest premium sports partnership to date and will allow Japanese MLB fans to catch highlight reels of every game from both the 2009 and current seasons on the MLB.JP’s YouTube channel. The videos shown will be ad-supported but will be completely free to view, going online within 36 hours of completion. YouTube will look to capitalise on the opportunities offered by ad-supported sporting coverage, an initiative that first gained momentum when YouTube partnered with the Indian Premier League (IPL) to stream live cricket matches and highlight coverage. MediaPost writes that ad-supported video will become the fastest growing of YouTube’s three primary revenue streams, with eMarketer estimating that ad-supported mobile video revenues will reach a 60% compound annual growth rate (GAGR) over the next 4 years. With YouTube recently adding full-length feature films to its website, negotiations for sporting coverage might give us a look into how Google will move forward in talks with major Hollywood studios as it continues to mull over the possibility of pay-per-view video rentals. Apple looks set to announce its offering on September 1st, it could be an exciting time for the consumer as Google and Apple look to move into the televisual market. Original title and link for this post: YouTube signs biggest premium sports partnership in MLB Japan deal    |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Feature CDMA, Verizon Bound Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:27 AM PDT
BoyGeniusReport received a leaked screenshot of Verizon’s stock database, with a clear mention of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in amongst a number of other search results. The model number seems to tally with the mention of a number of smartphones and tablets in Verizon’s leaked roadmap, adding further credibility to the leak. That said, we only have two days until Samsung take to the stage at IFA 2010 in Berlin, all will become clear then.
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| Google rolls out real-time Blogger stats for all Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:22 AM PDT
After a few weeks’ testing as a ‘Blogger in Draft’ feature, Google says that all users now have a new ‘Stats’ tab on their dashboard. The stats offer real-time tracking, updating almost immediately each time your blog is viewed, and Google Analytics-style insights into your audience like top search keywords, countries and browsers. Following the test period, Google says it has tweaked the service to offer the ability to filter out a user’s own visits, as well as visits from search engine crawlers and other bots. Native stats are something that rival platforms such as Wordpress and Typepad have offered for several years, so it will be a welcome addition for Blogger users who until now have had to deal with custom code in order to insert external stats packages into their blogs. Original title and link for this post: Google rolls out real-time Blogger stats for all    |
| Gmail introduces Priority Inbox: The importance filter for your email. Posted: 30 Aug 2010 08:20 PM PDT
Taking that information, Gmail has a new feature called Priority Inbox. The idea is that, as you open your Gmail, it will be tagged and sorted by importance so that you’ll be able to more easily see what needs attention and what can wait until later…sometimes much later. Best of all, if Gmail happens to make an incorrect prediction, you can manually adjust the system as easily as you would add a star or delete a message: Message importance is decided using the same sort of algorithm that drives Gmail’s infamous spam protection. With that in mind, I absolutely can not wait to get this into my Google Apps inbox for The Next Web. According to the Gmail Blog, we’ll start seeing Priority Inbox rolling out to users over the next few days, including Google Apps users who should see it within a week. Like all new Gmail features, you’ll see the large red text up near your Settings and Labs links at the top right of your Gmail. Once you have it, your inbox will be broken into 3 sections: The top section holds your important messages, while the new middle section will display your starred items. Maybe they’re not immediately important, but they will be soon? Put a star on them to keep them easily in mind. The bottom section, finally, displays all of the rest of your email. Individual messages, then, can be given higher or lower priority by selecting them then using the + or – buttons on your bar. Google also suggests setting up filters for your “must-have” email, as filters will now support an “Always mark it as important” option. Overall, I can tell you that in the few minutes that I’ve had to use Priority Inbox, the results have been outstanding. Not that you should be surprised. If you’re a Gmail user, then spam generally isn’t something you have to deal with. Now, because of that same type of algorithm, wasting time on unwanted mail should soon be a thing of the past as well.
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| Google gets into the badges game – for your electricity bill Posted: 30 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT Google Powermeter, a service from Google.org to help you converse electricity (note: unless you are getting your power from one of three providers in the world, you’ll have to purchase a third-party – and expensive – device to use this service), has added personalize recommendations and game mechanics a-la-Foursquare to try to spur people into saving power, by introducing badges earned by carrying out the recommendations. We’ve got to say, this is certainly taking game mechanics to an entirely new place. You’d be forgiven if you mistook a post on the Google.org blog today as a post on the Foursquare blog:
Of course, it’s great that Google is doing everything that it can to help people conserve power, but from a services perspective, it will be extremely interesting to see if giving badges to users in this context actually works. There doesn’t seem to be anywhere to find out exactly what all of the badges are, but in the screenshot provided by Google below, you’ll see two gold badges: one that looks like a thermometer and one that has a TV in it (we have no idea what recommendation either badge corresponds to):
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| Google Translate gets better definition with new interface Posted: 30 Aug 2010 03:22 PM PDT Google has given Google Translate a face lift that it plans to roll out worldwide over the next few days (it’s live for us now). The new look is cleaner and intended to highlight the many ways that users can use Translate, including in Gmail, search, and through the Chrome extension. It’s a nice graphical upgrade, and though Google uses the word “functional” in it’s blog post on the announcement, we don’t really see what has changed functionally. We’ve emailed Google for clarification. UPDATE: A Google representitive responded that, “There were no functionality changes with this launch,” which is what we thought. Here’s what the new design looks like: Google ends the post by asking for people with stories about Google Translate to send them in. Google is also highlighting how Translate works behind the scenes, and provided this video done by JESS3 called “Inside Google Translate“:
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| Don’t check in everywhere you go guys! Posted: 30 Aug 2010 03:08 PM PDT |
| Stuck on music? GetGlue has something new and great for you. Posted: 30 Aug 2010 02:58 PM PDT GetGlue, a social network for entertainment, with > 5M unique ratings and check-ins for shows, movies, music and books every month, recently launched an Android app and new mobile site, now has something new to offer for those of you who love music. Today GetGlue has announced their first set of branded rewards for music fans – Maroon 5 Stickers. Maroon 5 is the first band to announce their stickers. According to GetGlue, there will be an "exciting pipeline of recording artists and bands that will follow with unique rewards in the coming weeks." The music addition is a grand feature, but why Maroon 5 you ask? GetGlue's Maroon 5 stickers are aimed at promoting the Maroon 5 2010/11 tour and their upcoming new album called Hands All Over. How does one acquire Maroon 5 stickers? Glad you asked. According to GetGlue, "The basic fan sticker can be earned by checking into Marooon 5 using GetGlue apps or GetGlue.com. The other three stickers – superfan, a tour sticker, and the Hands All Over album sticker are secret. Maroon 5 will be giving hints on how to earn these stickers via their Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as during the actual tour." The fun doesn't stop there though, with GetGlue announcing an additional batch of new rewards for fans of various networks and the shows thereon, including: HBO, Showtime, PBS, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Home Entertainment, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Barnes & Noble and others to reach and reward their fans. The first of the new, aforementioned, partner updates are with HBO. GetGlue is working with HBO to provide exclusive rewards for fans of upcoming HBO shows, including Boardwalk Empire. As of last week, GetGlue has a permanent unit on the True Blood home page, encouraging fans to check-in while watching to earn exclusive stickers from HBO. GetGlue is also unveiling new HBO rewards that tap into HBO characters. To earn these stickers, users need to like their favorite shows, characters and stars. Other partnerships include HGTV, which now offers stickers for the fans of their popular House Hunters show, and Showtime, where the new season of Dexter begins at the end of September. GetGlue will be providing an exclusive sticker for the season premier as well as other exclusive rewards throughout the season. Finally, and for those with an iPad this is grand news, GetGlue for iPad will be launching in early September. Another way to access GetGlue's already great features. Are you a GetGlue user and if so, how do you access the service? If you are so inclined, you can follow things I enjoy by clicking here. You don't have to, but it would be nice if you did. Original title and link for this post: Stuck on music? GetGlue has something new and great for you.    |
| Top ten tips for taking your iPad back to school–that don’t have to do with apps! Posted: 30 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT  My bag with everything I carry Everything is pointing to this school year being the year of the iPad, and while there are lots of articles on what apps to get, I haven’t seen any on the stuff you need to take your iPad to school with you. And since I’ve been carrying around my iPad for some time now, I thought I’d pass onto you my top 10 tips for taking your iPad back to school (or even just out and about):
Those are my main tips. Sure, as you can see from the picture, I carry a lot more in my bag (pens, mechanical pencil, gum, notebook, bus passes, shopping bag, USB cable), but those are the 10 things that I think are must haves for being out and about with your iPad. If you’re like me, you might find that with the right stuff on hand (like the keyboard), you can forgo carrying your laptop most of the time. The one thing that I haven’t tried, and just might soon, is if your school has those “traditional” desk/chair combos, getting a smal spring clamp to clamp your iPad case to the desk might be a good idea. I’ve found that standing in landscape mode the whole thing to be a little tippy, but maybe clamping it to the table might help. These have been my 10 tips, do you have any to add? Do you have a case or bag that you like more? Share! Original title and link for this post: Top ten tips for taking your iPad back to school–that don’t have to do with apps!    |
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