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todaytest 05/30/2008

2008-05-30T09:30:00.001-07:00

WebGuild: Google's Eric Schmidt: Google Big on Mobile and Wimax
tags: utr3, mobile
- Tuesday, May 27, 2008
  
  Google's Eric Schmidt: Google Big on Mobile and Wimax
  
  Google CEO Eric Schmidt, interviewed in Germany, offered several insights into the future as Google sees it. Here are some standout items from that interview. Schmidt quotes are in italics:
  
  There is still a lot of revenue in search - as we get the technology better or as we can do more targeted ads. There is no limit for search marketing. People assume that there is a limit, but we have many more ideas about technology.
  
  .... mobile will be a larger business than the PC-Web. But it will take a few years.
  
  On Google's investment in the Wimax initiative to bring broadband outside of the phone carriers: We are concerned that the carriers in the United States might close off the network.
  
  MySpace did not monetize as well as we thought. We have a lot of traffic, a lot of page views, but it is harder than we thought to get our ad network to work with social networks.

todaytest 05/23/2008

2008-05-23T09:30:00.001-07:00

Ludacris backs crowdsourced music site WeMix (Tech Confidential - The Note)
tags: music

todaytest 05/22/2008

2008-05-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

William Morris Launching Agency 3.0 With Amp’d Founder Adderton | paidContent.org
tags: agency, william, morris
- William Morris Launching Agency 3.0 With Amp’d Founder Adderton
  
  By
  Rafat Ali
  - Tue 20 May 2008 06:15 PM PST
  
  William Morris Agency is launching a new branded content and marketing division, called Agency 3.0, working with former Amp’d Mobile CEO and founder Peter Adderton. The division, which will operate as a separate company, has most of the creative team behind Amp’d’s critically acclaimed content services, and has signed on Qualcomm and Clearwire as clients, we have learned, though the company refused to confirm these clients. Our sources also say that WMA is going to invest as much as $3 million into the venture over time, though again, the company refused comment on any amount.

todaytest 05/08/2008

2008-05-08T09:30:00.001-07:00

CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership | The Social - CNET News.com
tags: hollywood, la
- When CBS Interactive announced on Tuesday that its CBSNews.com property had entered a content partnership with Digg, there wasn't a whole lot of information released other than the fact that election-related headlines from Digg would appear on CBSNews.com and that the news site's political news and video clips would be accompanied by Digg buttons.
  
  The amorphous press release was intentional, CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith said later Tuesday in an interview with CNET News.com. It's not always easy to deal with Digg's notoriously opinionated community, which has shown a tendency to cause a mild to major uprising if something pops up suggesting the site has made a move without the users in mind.
Interview with Richard Wolpert, The Mail Room Fund review at Kaboodle
Richard Wolpert is the head of the Mail Room Fund, a new venture fund backed by William Morris, Accel Partners, Venrock, and AT&T. Wolpert is well known for his work as Chief Strategy Officer for RealNetworks, as president of Disney Online, as well as for his angel investments. We sat down for breakfast a few days ago to chat with Richard about the new fund, his angel investments, and what he sees as the promise of Los Angeles. Richard Wolpert: We started the fund about two months ago, called the Mail Room Fund. That's sort of an LA play on the garage, if you will. In Silicon Valley, everything gets started in the garage--in LA, and although we're not specifically focused on entertainment, a lot of famous people got started in the mail room. So, David Geffen got started in the mail room, Barry Diller started in the mail room, William Morris specifically. So it's the Mail Room fund, and it's partnered with AT&T, Accel, Venrock, and William Morris. The idea is to specifically invest in companies in LA, that are in the broad Internet consumer space. So there's a little bit of an assumption that since William Morris is involved, we're just working with entertainment companies, and just looking at content, but it's actually the contrary. We're looking broadly at Internet consumer plays and services, and technologies that support those plays. Our ideal investment per deal is about a million dollars. And, we're looking for earlier stage things, things that have not or are not to the Series A stage yet. We're off and running. What's your ideal investment--what do you want to see in a company, how far along do you want them to be? Richard Wolpert: If I could answer that question with just 20 words, I'd be smarter than I am. But, I'll give you some guidelines. In terms of the entrepreneur, the most ideal is someone who has had a successful exit. My first company, I got funding, and hadn't had a successful exit. So, that's not a requirement for us, but if you've got value out of a successful exit, the odds that you know what you are doing are great. To the extent that they haven't had a successful exit, if it's a group of young guys, who are sharp and working hard but also open to knowing they need help, that's something we're completely happy and willing to do as well. I would say we're looking at a mix of companies right now. We haven't announced or done any deals yet, and if I can think of two of the ones that are more interesting. One is a guy who has done this twice before, and one are some guys who just got out of college three years ago, and this is basically their first thing. It just depends on their talent, the space, their ability to learn, and their experience. Richard Wolpert: In terms of kind of company, we are saying broadly consumer Internet. Some people think that's so broadly ambiguous it doesn't mean anything. We're not doing hardware in any sort. Not doing back end storage. We're not doing at this point pure content plays -- like "fund this TV/webisodic series" -- we're not doing those sorts of things. We're trying to avoid the hits bet -- the hits bet being somebody who needs $20 million dollars to build something and we won't know until they've spend $20 million dollars if it's a hit or not. One of the things that is very different about 2008 than 2000 is that you don't need $5 million dollars to build a web site. So when we ask people to come to us--who have spent half a million dollars--and have a couple of good people on their team, and have actually built something to show for it, and they need a million/million and a half to get to the next step, that's very, very interesting. When we have people come to us, saying "here's our idea" and need $5 million dollars and 18 months to show for it, we don't think that is that interesting --based on the tools and how the market works today. We think the market is such that you can actually launch -- some level of a service -- even if it's not the ultimate service or a complete vision, for a million or million and a half dollars. We are looking for people who get See less »
tags: utr, vcs

todaytest 05/04/2008

2008-05-04T09:30:00.001-07:00

Myka
tags: utr2
- Hello, my name is Dan Lovy. I'm the president of Myka. On March 20th, 2008 we announced our product. Myka quite simply, lets you download torrents to a hard disk that is connected directly to your TV. We don't lock you into any service. It's Bit Torrent.
  
  The response has been just amazing. If you Google 'myka bittorrent' you get 50 pages of news articles about us. When we started, people thought we were crazy! They would say,"You're going to make a product that is completely open!" or, "How will you control what people watch?" Myka is not AppleTV. We let you get

todaytest 05/02/2008

2008-05-02T09:30:00.001-07:00

Marshall Kirkpatrick » How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project
tags: blog
- How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project
  
  05.01.08
  
  I'm excited to unveil my latest consulting project, a fairly extensive RSS-based microsite put together with Sun Microsystems for next week's JavaOne conference. It's called BlogCentral. Turns out today is international RSS Awareness Day! This might have been a better fit for Enterprise RSS Awareness Day last week, but that's ok.

todaytest 05/01/2008

2008-05-01T09:30:00.001-07:00

Bezos’ Bucks Back Kongregate
tags: utr, success
- Bezos’ Bucks Back Kongregate
  
  Print
  All Articles
  
  Letter to the editor
  
  Podcast
  
  on 30 April 2008, 12:45
  
  by Ken Schachter
  
  Billionaire investor Jeff Bezos is putting $3 million behind San Francisco-based Kongregate, an online casual games site that draws its content from Indie developers.
  
  The investment brings Kongregate’s investment total to $9 million, with a $1 million angel round and a $5 million investment by Greylock Partners, a backer of Red Hat, Digg and Facebook.
  
  The investment by Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, comes through his person investment fund, Bezos Expeditions.
  
  Kongregate competes with companies like Miniclip in trying to build large audiences for casual games offered through an Internet browser. Kongregate, founded in June 2006, offers more than 4,000 Flash and Shockwave games from more than 1,500 developers.
  
  Kongregate Chief Executive Jim Greer likened the "super-angel" funding round to an insurance policy.
UMG, Sony invest in music startup MOG (Tech Confidential - VC Ratings)
tags: utr

todaytest 04/25/2008

2008-04-25T09:30:00.001-07:00

Fyreball User Login - Fyreball - Annotated
tags: utr2
- Fyreball is a fast, fun and better way to share the best stuff with your friends.
  See a video or picture that made you laugh 'till you snorted?
  Got a web game that you can't stop playing? Fyre it up.
  
  We're gonna stop with the jibber jabber now, because that's boring.
  Sign up and see what we're talking about!

todaytest 04/24/2008

2008-04-24T09:30:00.001-07:00

Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Annotated
tags: utr2
- Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search
  
  Posted by Stefanie Olsen
  
  | Post a comment
  
  Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, has been quietly working on a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees, CNET News.com has learned. The site, called Mechanical Zoo, is poised to launch in beta next month.
  
  The San Francisco company, which is about 9 months old, has an impressive team of tech veterans. It was co-founded by Stoll; Max Ventilla, a former business development manager at Google; and Damon Horowitz, a longtime computer scientist and former lead engineer of Perspecta, a search software company that sold to Excite@Home in the dot-com heyday. Fritz Schneider, who was an application-security engineer at Google for about five years, heading up the Google Firefox team, is also a part of the 12-person staff.

todaytest 04/22/2008

2008-04-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

U.S. Lags in Social Media Creation, per Survey - Annotated
tags: utr2
- NEW YORK A new global study of social media use reveals that
  the U.S. severely lags behind Asian and South American countries in
  participation rates.
  
  Consumers in the U.S. and Western Europe are more likely to be
  passive social-media participants -- sharing videos and reading
  blogs -- while those in emerging markets often create content
  through blogging, social networks and video and photo sharing
  sites.
  
  "By and large, in the U.S. we're a country of voyeurs," said David
  Cohen, U.S. director of digital communications at Universal McCann,
  which conducted the study. "We love to watch and consume content
  created by others, but there's a fairly small group that are doing
  that creation -- unlike China, which is a country of
  creators."

todaytest 04/20/2008

2008-04-20T09:30:00.001-07:00

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Web Mission 08: UK startups to visit Silicon Valley - Annotated
tags: utr2, startups
- based on their business viability and the strength of the management team. And they looked for a mix of companies that showed the breadth of what the UK has to offer in this space. The aim is for the companies “to explore new opportunities for growth with key people in Silicon Valley.”
  
  So, without further ado, the confirmed companies for Web Mission 08 are:
  
  Groupspaces - Web-based tools for groups
  
  Tioti - A social network around TV
  
  Exabre (TheFilter) - Advanced music recommendation
  
  Coull - Interactive video platform
  
  Zogix - Employee services platform
  
  Byteplay (dotHomes) - Real estate search engine
  
  Trampoline Systems - Enterprise software harnessing social behaviour
  
  Hubdub - News prediction social network
  
  WAYN - travel and lifestyle social networking community
  
  TrustedPlaces - Venue recommendation network
  
  Slicethepie - Enabling bands to raise money directly from their fans
  
  Mydeo - Mainstream application for storing and sharing video
  
  Skimbit - Research and share decisions
  
  Huddle - Enterprise 2.0 collaboration
  
  Rummble - Mobile social networking and recommendation
  
  Zebtab - Desktop TV application
  
  Silobreaker - Contextual and graphic search results
  
  Kwiqq - Social Website builder
  
  edocr - Making business documents interactive
  
  ShortFuze - Online movie creation tools for social networks
Coull - Annotated
tags: no_tag
- To read more about the Web Mission (including an agenda) go to: www.webmission08.com
  
  The 20 companies embarking on the Web Mission are:
  
  Groupspaces - Web-based tools for groups
  
  Tioti - A social network around TV
  
  Exabre (TheFilter) - Advanced music recommendation
  
  Coull - Interactive video platform
  
  Zogix - Employee services platform
  
  Byteplay (dotHomes) - Real estate search engine
  
  Trampoline Systems - Enterprise software harnessing social behaviour
  
  Hubdub - News prediction social network
  
  WAYN - travel and lifestyle social networking community
  
  TrustedPlaces - Venue recommendation network
  
  Slicethepie - Enabling bands to raise money directly from their fans
  
  Mydeo - Mainstream application for storing and sharing video
  
  Skimbit - Research and share decisions
  
  Huddle - Enterprise 2.0 collaboration
  
  Rummble - Mobile social networking and recommendation
  
  Zebtab - Desktop TV application
  
  Silobreaker - Contextual and graphic search results
  
  Kwiqq - Social Website builder
  
  edocr - Making business documents interactive
  
  ShortFuze - Online movie creation tools for social networks
  
  Details on the 20 selected companies are listed in TechCruch.
  
  Click here to see the article on Netimperative’s website.

todaytest 04/19/2008

2008-04-19T09:30:00.001-07:00

With a nod to the Valley, CBS Interactive shuffles management | The Social - CNET News.com - Annotated
tags: utr, la
- CBS Interactive, the media giant's digital division, has announced the opening of a Silicon Valley office and an executive reshuffling to focus on growth, President Quincy Smith announced Thursday.
  
  The CBS Interactive satellite office in Menlo Park, Calif., has opened, with its eye on tech partnerships and acquisitions. The Valley branch will "allow the company to better facilitate existing partnerships in the area, and future ones as well," a release from CBS explained.

todaytest 04/18/2008

2008-04-18T09:30:00.001-07:00

eXelate Raises $4M for Delayed-Ad Exchange - Annotated
tags: utr2, advertising
- In another example that investments in Internet advertising startups are far from cooling, eXelate is announcing a $4M investment from Carmel Ventures.
  
  The Israeli company offers a marketplace called the “eXelate Targeting eXchange” which is focused on what they are calling “Delayed-Ads.”
  
  Here’s how it works: An ad network participating in eXelate’s exchange purchases from publishers the right to place Delayed-Ad cookies on users with vertical-specific interests (travel, automotive, etc.). When such users later visit publisher sites that fall under the realm of the ad network, they are shown targeted ads relevant to the interest-specific site they received their Delayed-Ad cookie on. Hence, “Delayed-Ad.”
Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the Web - Annotated
tags: utr2
- Every media company on the planet knows that its articles, songs, photos, and videos are being copied and spread willy-nilly across the Web, but they don’t have a clue what to do about it. They are not even sure what to do about all of their stuff that is just on YouTube (should they let Google monitor itself or create some vague industry guidelines and hope that every site follows them?). A startup called Attributor in Redwood City, Calif. says it can monitor the Web for copied content no matter where it may be, help publishers and media companies track it all, and help them decide what to do about it.
  
  Attributor was founded in 2005 and has raised $10 million from Sigma Partners, Selby Ventures, Draper Richards, First Round Capital and Amicus. The enterprise version of its service launches today, although it has been testing it with Reuters and AP for about six months. The enterprise service will cost anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year (a more limited self-serve version for bloggers and smaller publishers could cost as little as $6 or $7 per month, and will launch in 2008). CEO Jim Brock gave me a demo of Attributor last week in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria.
Want To See How I Make A Screencast? « Demo Girl - Annotated
companes should see this and make screen casts for our site
tags: utr
- Want To See How I Make A Screencast?
  
  14Jan08
  
  Not all screencasts are created equal. What I mean by that is, there are lots of different tools one can use in order to create a screencast. There are different types of software and applications such as Jing, Demo Builder, CamStudio, uTIPu, and what I use, Camtasia Studio. There are also lots of different settings and effects you can use within those tools. I decided to show you what steps I go through before, during, and after recording a screencast to end up with what you normally will see as an end product on DemoGirl. This is not really a tutorial on how to use Camtasia Studio. It’s more of a way for me to show you what settings I use when creating a screencast. Hopefully it will be useful to those just getting started.
  
  At first, I wasn’t sure how I was going to record a screencast showing how I record a screencast. Sound confusing? Yeah, it did to me too. Then I remembered that even though I long ago upgraded to Camtasia Studio Version 4, I still have Version 3. So, I made the recording with version 3 but showed you all of the features I use in version 4. Pretty nifty, huh? Here’s my screencast tour of how I make screencasts for DemoGirl:
  
  Click Here To Watch The Screencast 7m49s
  
  Want this screencast on your site? Click here to get the code for this and other DemoGirl screencasts
Demo Girl - Annotated
tags: no_tag
- Want To See How I Make A Screencast?
  
  14Jan08
  
  Not all screencasts are created equal. What I mean by that is, there are lots of different tools one can use in order to create a screencast. There are different types of software and applications such as Jing, Demo Builder, CamStudio, uTIPu, and what I use, Camtasia Studio. There are also lots of different settings and effects you can use within those tools. I decided to show you what steps I go through before, during, and after recording a screencast to end up with what you normally will see as an end product on DemoGirl. This is not really a tutorial on how to use Camtasia Studio. It’s more of a way for me to show you what settings I use when creating a screencast. Hopefully it will be useful to those just getting started.
  
  At first, I wasn’t sure how I was going to record a screencast showing how I record a screencast. Sound confusing? Yeah, it did to me too. Then I remembered that even though I long ago upgraded to Camtasia Studio Version 4, I still have Version 3. So, I made the recording with version 3 but showed you all of the features I use in version 4. Pretty nifty, huh? Here’s my screencast tour of how I make screencasts for DemoGirl:
  
  Click Here To Watch The Screencast 7m49s
  
  Want this screencast on your site? Click here to get the code for this and other DemoGirl screencasts

todaytest 04/16/2008

2008-04-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

Entrepreneurial Series: Plain English Term Sheets - Mysteries Revealed - Annotated
tags: blogpost
- Location:
  WEBINAR
  
  Series:
  (none)
  
  Description:
  
  Entrepreneurial Series: Plain English Term Sheets - Mysteries Revealed
  
  Tuesday, April 22, 2008
  
  12:00-1:00pm Program
  
  WEBINAR
  
  The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Entrepreneurial Cluster presents a special call-in talk show on term sheets. This plain-English discussion is designed for entrepreneurs and business people and features star lawyers Jeff Stoler of McCarter & English, LLP and Sarah Reed of Lowenstein Sandler PC (and former in-house counsel for Charles River Ventures). James Geshwiler of CommonAngels moderates.
Boston startup events and resources - Annotated
tags: boston, utr
- Boston startup events and resources
  
  Boston loves startups. The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council is doing a great job setting up events. Watch the MTLC site for future dates. Here are just a few of the upcoming events this week and next.

todaytest 04/11/2008

2008-04-11T09:30:00.001-07:00

Ustream and more (Tech Confidential - VC Ratings) - Annotated
Ustream.tv Inc. of Los Altos, Calif., disclosed an $11.1 million Series A round of funding
tags: success
- INTERNET
  
  USTREAM
  Online video broadcasting platform Ustream.tv Inc. of Los Altos, Calif., disclosed an $11.1 million Series A round of funding. Investors in the round were DCM and the Band of Angels, both of Menlo Park, Calif., and Labrador Ventures of Palo Alto, Calif. Other Ustream stakeholders include Western Technology Investment of San Jose, Calif., and Infinity Venture Partners Incubator Fund of Japan. Ustream enables individual users to create live broadcasts of events and claims to have gathered more than 2 million users and 250,000 broadcasters since the site was launched in March 2007.

todaytest 04/09/2008

2008-04-09T09:30:00.001-07:00

StartupCamp5AttendeeList - StartupCamp - Annotated
tags: utr2
- StartupCamp5AttendeeList
  
  From StartupCamp
  
  Jump to: navigation, search
  
  Who's Coming to Startup Camp San Francisco

todaytest 04/05/2008

2008-04-05T09:30:00.001-07:00

How William Morris and other Hollywood agencies are getting into tech startups and investing » VentureBeat Annotated

tags: la

All manner of Hollywood businesses are looking at how they can make themselves profitable online. The future isn’t clear for stalwarts like the larger music labels and movie studios. But there are other power players in the media who are making moves. In particular it’s worth looking at the role that Hollywood talent agencies are starting to play in connecting technology companies with the media and advertising industries.

All four of the largest talent agencies are looking at how to put themselves at the center of digital media. Perhaps the one most open about its efforts is the William Morris Agency, which recently partnered with Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners and Venrock, and telecommunications giant AT&T, to co-invest in promising media-related startups. WMA’s rival, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), has also been looking at raising a large digital media fund, together with Draper Richards Jurvetson — although it’s still little more than rumor.

Beyond investing in promising startups, WMA sees itself as a sort of “extended business development” arm of a technology startup, much like the role that it takes for the actors, directors, writers, musicians, professional athletes and other “talent” (celebrities) it represents. Take, for example, its role in helping Sunnyvale, Calif.-based mobile video company MyWaves.

William Morris and MyWaves’ growth

todaytest 04/04/2008

2008-04-04T09:30:00.001-07:00

Xoopit Launches Private Beta of First Application for Webmail to Help People Discover, Organize and Share Rich Media in the Inbox; Also Announces $5 Million Series A led by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital Annotated

tags: utr2

    The inbox is the largest untapped social network in the world and has
remained relatively unchanged for two decades, until now



    SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Xoopit released the
first product to bring the power of the social web to email by combining
the benefits of social networks and media management within email
environments. Xoopit finds the pictures, videos, and files buried in
webmail's gigabytes of free storage, and allows users to share, comment,
and post them to their contacts on other social networks and blogs. The
product was released today in private beta with initial client support for
Google's Gmail and automatically imports shared media from the top photo
and video sharing networks such as YouTube, Flickr, Kodak, Shutterfly, and
Picasaweb.

todaytest 04/03/2008

2008-04-03T09:31:00.001-07:00

iControl, Vlingo and more (Tech Confidential - VC Ratings) Annotated

tags: success

Internet

Vlingo
Mobile voice search startup Vlingo Corporation has secured a $20 million Series B financing led by Yahoo! Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. Also participating were existing investors Charles River Ventures of Waltham, Mass., and Sigma Partners of Boston. Cambridge, Mass.-based Vlingo plans to will use the capital for international expansion and product development. Yahoo! will take a seat on the company's board of directors. The Internet portal uses Vlingo's voice-powered interface to enable searches on mobile phones for its Yahoo! oneSearch product. --G.W.

todaytest 04/02/2008

2008-04-02T09:30:00.001-07:00

Social gaming picks up momentum Annotated

tags: utr2

Social Gaming Network, whose games include War Book, spun off from Freewebs earlier this year and started operating in Palo Alto this month.

"We're in the Pong stages of social gaming," said Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming. "In terms of building new ideas, you should expect to see innovation for what it means to be a game and tap into the social graph, the people you enjoy playing games with."

Veeple uses Flash to make videos come alive with ad links » VentureBeat Annotated

tags: no_tag

The Los Gatos, Calif. company can embed anything — including advertising web page links — into videos. It does so by putting an interactive overlay on top of a video in the Adobe Flash format. It thus makes the video come alive with links and other creative features. Users can thus imprint their own thoughts on a video in the parts where they want and then share it with their friends.

You can place a “VeeSpot” on any part of a video and make that spot interactive. You can turn it into a speech or a thought bubble with a sarcastic message. You can also record a voice message that plays when someone clicks on the VeeSpot. If you want, you can quickly share that video with family, friends, or everyone you know.

Omnisio also uses its Flash overlay to allow people to make comments on videos. (Our coverage). PLYmedia also allows movie viewers to embed comments in speech bubbles in movies.

With Veeple, you can also embed an ad link, such as an eBay logo, into a video. Users who click upon Madonna’s sunglasses in a video can thus link directly to a site where they can buy those glasses.

Scott Broomfield, CEO of Veeple, says that Veeple can distinguish itself from its rivals in a variety of ways. The company has its own object recognition technology that it can use to find and recognize objects within a video. Hence, if an advertiser puts a VeeSpot on an object in a video, that VeeSpot will appear whenever that object appears in the video.

“We consider these links within a video to be unintrusive to the viewer,” Broomfield said. “Since viewers aren’t putting up with 30-second commercials, we consider this to be the next logical step for video advertising.”

todaytest 04/01/2008

2008-04-01T09:30:00.001-07:00

Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat - New York Times Annotated

tags: no_tag

Vivaty, a start-up based in Menlo Park, Calif., is creating 3-D virtual chat rooms that people can add to the Web pages and social networking profiles on the sites where they spend most of their Internet time.

The company has been quietly working on its technology for three years and will begin a private test period on Facebook this week in advance of a wider introduction this summer. It is backed by the blue-chip venture capital firms Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mohr Davidow Ventures.

Vivaty turns a flat profile page into a three-dimensional live chat room. Users choose characters to represent themselves from a list of preternaturally handsome avatars — a requirement for any such service — and proceed to one of a dozen environments, like a gothic urban warehouse or seaside villa.

With videogame-like precision, they can then navigate that virtual space, which may feature their Facebook photos hanging from the walls and a YouTube video playing on a widescreen TV. Up to 15 others can choose avatars and enter the same room at the same time for text-based live socializing.

todaytest 11/15/2007

2007-11-15T08:30:00.001-08:00

Android Developer Challenge - Android Annotated

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards -- no strings attached -- for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.

todaytest 08/16/2007

2007-08-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

Tech Confidential Blog: Damn the mobile data, full speed ahead!
Annotated

ndsets and the venture capitalists funding companies to provide services via mobile devices. However, new data out from M:Metrics, a research firm in London, shows that those services aren't being used with much frequency. In the U.S., the most popular services are text messages, with only 42% of subscribers using it, and photos, with 18%. Only 3% of subscribers downloaded games with the same amount also downloading screensavers and wallpapers.

There's no data on the use of location-based services or accessing maps online in the report, but another hot topic in the mobile space — connecting to a social network on a handset — attracts less than 4% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. That's more than the European countries surveyed, but is still only 7.5 million people, many of whom are under 25. Sure, the geriatric generation who didn't grow up in the age of connectivity (I'm talkin' to you, GenX and older), probably has better things to do than check their Facebook and MySpace networks from a cell phone — or maybe the type is simply too small for their aging eyes to read — but that 4% is getting an inordinate amount of attention from investors.

The fact that more than half of cell-phone users apparentl

VentureBeat » What can the VC community do to help our energy crisis?
Annotated

New Electrons Powering the Planet

There is a tremendous opportunity in what I call “new electrons” to help drive a substantial change in the energy source of modern society. New electrons are technologies and techniques that efficiently harness and

todaytest 08/12/2007

2007-08-12T09:30:00.001-07:00

WordPress MU › Newspaper Like Content - Pull From All Blogs? « WordPress MU Forums - Mozilla Firefox
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SamG, for your second request, I'd suggest a custom plug-in to keep a list of your featured posts. See if anyone else has ideas though, I tend to do things quickly that work before giving much thought to if it's the best way to do it. lol

Your 3rd request you could just hand code in the links on the sidebar, create a Page with the list, or again do some sort of plug-in to maintain the list.

Creating the plug-ins is pretty much the same, especially if you are just creating custom ones for the main blog and don't have to worry about everyone being able to use them. I've just been doing plug-ins for a couple weeks and I'm pretty proud of what I have made so far. The best one so far is a used textbook listings plug-in for the site I'm working on. I created some custom tables in the database, placed the menu additions file in the mu-plugins folder (so everyone will see the add/maintain menu when they log in) and the main plug-in in the plugins folder.

MobileCrunch » Mobile Game Goes Massively Multiplayer - Mozilla Firefox
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Mobile Game Goes Massively Multiplayer

Posted by Peter Suciu

Fighting a war in deep space is challenging enough without having a lot of competition. But sometimes a little – or in this case a lot – of competition can really make for a more engaging experience. That’s the hope with Space Wars, a new ad-supported massively multiplayer mobile game from Cellufun. This free mobile Internet game lets players battle for control of the galaxy, and compete against up to 120 other players.

“The Space Wars experience is far-

todaytest 08/08/2007

2007-08-08T09:30:00.001-07:00

MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm" - MIT News Office
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MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm"

Plan would harvest energy of human movement

July 25, 2007

Two graduate students at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert.

The so-called "Crowd Farm," as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both M.Arch candidates, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking or jumping into a source of electricity. Their proposal took first place in the Japan-based Holcim Foundation's Sustainable Construction competition this year.

A Crowd Farm in Boston's South Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps would be installed beneath the station's main lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as people walked would generate power through the principle of the dynamo, a device that converts the energy of motion into that of an electric

todaytest 08/03/2007

2007-08-03T09:30:00.001-07:00

30+ WordPress Plugins To Get More Blog Readers Annotated

Gaining blog readers is hard; Wordpress makes it much easier. Here are 30+ WordPress plugins to help you garner some of that attention, and then retain readers once they visit.

Marketing Your Blog Part 1 - Essential WordPress Plugins - simple pixel Annotated

Marketing Your Blog Part 1 - Essential WordPress Plugins

Search Engine Optimization, Technology - posted by Adam Add comments

Here are some essential WordPress plugins to assist in the process of optimizing your blog for pickup and sharing by visitors, search engines, and aggregators. Make sure you know what you are doing before you go and install these, some play nice with each other, and some do not.

Social Marketing

Share This - provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to add your posts to various social bookmarking sites.

Sitemaps

Google Sitemap Generator - automatically generates XML sitemaps for WordPress. Includes many options such as auto-ping, change and priority adjustments and selection of content for inclusion.

todaytest 07/18/2007

2007-07-18T09:30:00.001-07:00

pelago - about Annotated

Pelago was founded in early 2006 with a DNA of innovation, customer obsession, bias for action and, of course, a relentless commitment to having fun. We're incredibly proud of the all-superstar team we've assembled to date, and together, we're pushing the boundaries in every facet of our business to develop truly creative consumer-facing products.

Jeff Holden

CEO and Co-Founder

Prior to co-founding Pelago, Jeff spent almost 8 1/2 years (1997-2006) at Amazon.com. Most recently, Jeff was the Senior Vice President responsible for Amazon's consumer websites, worldwide. In this role, he oversaw the end-to-end customer experience (search, navigation, personalization, social computing, ordering, merchandising, automated email) as well as Amazon's online traffic initiatives (the Amazon Associates program, search engine optimization and search engine advertising) and the experimental platform that enabled Amazon to conduct quantitative experiments with regard to consumer behavior and measure incremental value of new initiatives.

Before moving into the website-focused role, Jeff was the Director of Supply Chain Optimization Systems at Amazon (for approximately 4 years). In this position, Jeff led the design and development of Amazon's unique and powerful forecasting, inventory planning, order fulfillment optimization and transactional purchasing systems. Jeff championed the idea that fulfillment planning could be sufficiently real-time that the order pipeline could be connected directly to the fulfillment planning engine to generate optimal plans from which shipping promises are made to the customer during the check-out process. The system realizing this vision was launched in 2001 and continues to power the Amazon site today.

Prior to Amazon, Jeff spent five years (1992-1997) at D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. in New York. Jeff joined the firm as a software engineer; his first assignment was to help Jeff Bezos build and launch the Third Market strategy, one of Shaw's early sell-side strategies. After Bezos left to found Amazon.com, Jeff remained at Shaw as the Vice President responsible for the firm's front office software infrastructure.

Prior to joining D. E. Shaw & Co., Jeff earned his BS and MS in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Darren Erik Vengroff, Ph.D.

CTO and Co-Founder

Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains.

Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting, time-series analysis, content platform architecture, attribute-based navigation, search, and build and deployment systems.

Prior to Amazon.com, Darren spent six years at Goldman Sachs. As a vice president, he was responsible for trading and risk management systems that priced billions of dollars of derivative products for the fixed income, currency, and commodity businesses. See "On Top of the World: Goldman Sachs and the Culture of Risk," a cover story in The Economist that discusses the role these businesses played in distinguishing Goldman from its competitors.

Earlier in his career, Darren built the first microprocessor simulator capable of booting and running a commercial operating system under load. Prior to that, micro-architectural simulation was typically done on user code only, or on static instruction stream traces.

Darren holds an Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he studied I/O-efficient algorithms with Jeff Vitter, and a B.S.E. in Computer Science with Highest Honors from Princeton University.

Phones home in on gee-whiz capabilities - USATODAY.com Annotated

Phones home in on gee-whiz capabilities

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ZenZui's tile interface lets users share 'tiles' that contain live content.


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The Helio features both a traditional keypad and a full keyboard.

By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY

ORLANDO — Cellphone makers, wireless carriers and content providers are in Orlando this week for the CTIA Wireless trade show. Here are a few items capturing attention:

Upstaging Apple?: UpStage is a thin, $149 (with two-year contract) wireless phone/MP3 player from Samsung and Sprint.

Peek at one side, and you'll see a typical phone keypad and a 1.4-inch LCD screen. Peek at the other side, and you'll think it's an MP3 player with a 2.1-inch screen. A "flip" button toggles between the two.

alarm:clock: Quattro Wireless Gains Funding For Mobile Ads Marketplace Annotated

Quattro Wireless Gains Funding For Mobile Ads Marketplace

To some extent Quattro Wireless will compete with other online ad exchanges like AdMob. However, the Waltham, MA-based startup has gone a step further by developing software that will do the conversion for publishers of their Web content to fit into the confines of the mobile phone.

Quattro Wireless - GetMobile Annotated

Through its industry-leading mobile workbench, publishing and analytics platform, Quattro empowers Web publishers of all shapes and sizes to build, manage and extend a dynamic, advertising-supported mobile Web experience.

Under the GetMobile umbrella, Quattro Wireless brings a diverse network of publishers and a deep inventory of Advertisers together to leverage the reach of the mobile web in a powerful and transparent mobile-only marketplace.

Formed in 2006 and based in Waltham, Mass.
, Quattro Wireless is led by Andrew Miller and Eswar Priyadarshan, who serve as Quattro Wireless’ CEO and CTO, respectively. Both are former members of the leadership team for mobile media management company m-Qube and led that organization through its successful acquisition by VeriSign in 2006. Quattro Wireless is funded by Highland Capital Partners. Bob Davis and Jon Auerbach of Highland Capital Partners presently serve on the Quattro Wireless Board of Directors.

ColoradoBiz Magazine Annotated

Tech Startup of the Month: FEED Tribes Inc.

By Eric Peterson

Rod Stambaugh

FEED Tribes Inc.
Where: Boulder
Founded: 2006
www.feedtribes.com

INITIAL LIGHT BULB:
Early last year, Rod Stambaugh decided it was time to leverage his 17 years in the payment industry into a startup that turns mobile phones into credit cards.

"The original premise was to enable the mobile phone to make a payment at point-of- sale," he said. "That was the initial genesis of the company."

Stambaugh, now CEO of the

eonBusiness Funds Groundbreaking Mobile Payment and Marketing Company 'FEED' Annotated

eonBusiness Funds Groundbreaking Mobile Payment and Marketing Company 'FEED'

  Forget Credit Cards and Coupons, Use Your Mobile Phone to Pay Your Way -
                    and Get Discounts and Rewards for It

    DENVER, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --
eonBusiness(http://www.eonbusiness.com), a strategic e-commerce investment
firm, today announced its participation in helping to fund a new mobile
payment company named FEED (http://www.feedit.com). FEED is a mobile
payment and marketing platform that lets consumers pay for goods and
services at the register and online using a secure coding system
transmitted via cellphones. The company currently has more than 200
merchants accepting FEED payments in the Boulder, Colorado market, where it
plans to aggressively begin introducing the platform this month.
    "Its innovations and marketplace applications like FEED's that
eonBusiness looks to support, as the undeniable evolution towards
e-commerce continues," said Dave Carlson, CEO of eonBusiness. "Companies
like FEED are seizing practical opportunities to connect with e-savvy
consumers and retailers to the benefit of both. FEED caught our attention
because it is the only mobile payment solution available that combines
secure payment applications with the ability for merchants to market
directly to the consumer. The implications of a platform like this are
far-reaching, from the obvious banking and retailing impact, to marketing
and advertising and beyond."
    Consumers at all levels can easily establish and use a FEED account,
providing both convenience and security without the use of a credit-card.
Merchants who accept FEED payments also get a break, as FEED transactions
are less costly than credit card processing and the merchant can
communicate, offer promotions and market directly to the consumer through
their cellphones.
    "With cellphones becoming vital communications and information centers
that you take along in your pocket, it makes sense to have your personal
commerce available through them as well," added Rod Stambaugh, FEED's
founder. "FEED was born out of the simple concept of matching mobility with
commerce, and we're thrilled to have the funding from eonBusiness and other
supporters to aggressively begin our consumer outreach in Boulder later
this month."
    With a total of $3.25 million from early series funding, FEED can boast
support from eonBusiness, The Lacuna Venture Fund LLLP and other investors
that will support the company as it aggressively expands. Additional
financial details were not disclosed.
    "Having eonBusiness both financially and strategically involved will be
very valuable to FEED," continued Stambaugh. "They bring a wealth of online
marketing and e-commerce expertise to the table, including connections with
online retailers that FEED needs to reach to broaden our offering on the
web."
    Thanks to the current round of funding from eonBusiness, lead investor
Lacuna and others, FEED can move full speed ahead with their aggressive
growth strategy, planning to expand to national availability in 2008.
    About eonBusiness
    Founded in 1997, eonBusiness is an e-commerce investment firm
recognized for assisting entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing
innovative web-based e-commerce businesses. Infusing their own e-market
expertise and early-stage venture capital into strategically-selected
enterprises, eonBusiness advances, supports and operates several successful
Internet service and e-commerce businesses including AllAboardToys.com,
HomePoint.com, BuyerGuardian.com and several others. More information on
the company and its portfolio is available at http://www.eonbusiness.com.
    About FEED
    FEED is a mobile payment and marketing company that lets consumers pay
for goods and services at the register and online with their cellphones.
FEED simplifies the payment process, providing total transaction security.
FEED saves merchants money vs. credit card transaction fees while providing
consumers with unprecedented value via real-time text offers. Based in
Boulder, Colorado, FEED operates with any of the 200 million mobile phones
in the United States. http://www.feedit.com

todaytest 07/15/2007

2007-07-15T09:30:00.001-07:00

VentureBeat » Greentech notes: SoloPower, MWOE, SNTech Annotated

Here’s a roundup of the latest green technology developments.

SoloPower announces investors — The Milpitas, Calif. make of photovoltaic solar cells and modules ,said it has $30 million more in a second round of capital. That adds to its previous $10 million. It’s well-funded, but not near nearly as well as some other players using the similar material, copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS), to make newer, low-cost solar cells. Nanosolar, Heliovolt, Solyndra and Miasole have all raised significantly more cash. We reported SolorPower’s funding yesterday, but the company hadn’t disclosed investor names. Today it released those names: Convexa Capital, which led the investment, Scatec, Spencer Energy and existing investors Crosslink Capital, Firsthand Capital Management and Musea Ventures.

MWOE Solar, yet another “thin-film” solar panel maker, raises $7M — The company, based in Ohio, received the funding from Emerald Technology Ventures and NGP Energy Technology Partners. Like all the companies mentioned above, it uses a thin-film technology. Thin-film refers to the thin layer of CIGS or other material deposited onto a substrate, which makes solar panels more flexible than traditional silicon-based solar technology (see image above, which comes from MWOE’s site).

SNTech, low-power motor maker, raises $1.2M — The company, of Seoul, Korea, makes low-power brushless DC motors for household appliances. SAIL Venture Partners won a quarter ownership of the company, in return for the investment (VentureWire; subscription required).

VentureBeat » Cleantech: Verdiem raises $8 million from Kleiner Perkins, others, to save PC energy Annotated

Verdiem, a growing Seattle company that makes computer networks use less energy, has raised $8.33 million from seven investors including big-name venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

It is one of many companies riding a wave of public commitments by cities, companies, universities and other organizations to make their IT operations more energy efficient. The City of Boston and the City University of New York are two of Verdiem’s clients.

The company has been “toiling way for four years under the radar,” chief executive Kevin Klustner told us, but has noticed a huge recent up-tick in interest from companies. As the debate about global warming heats up, corporations are gi

todaytest 07/13/2007

2007-07-13T09:30:00.001-07:00

In Europe, the social network as digital friend - International Herald Tribune Annotated

PARIS: When it comes to social networking Web sites, Europeans see things a little differently.

While the Continent's innovators in business, social and mobile networking Web sites expect growing demand for their services, users will be looking for something like a digital cocktail party hostess.

"The ideal social network should work as a computer-enhanced friend that suggests people you ought to know," said Lars Hinrichs, the founder of the Xing social network, based in Hamburg. "Networks are filled with people who would be connected to one another if they knew their own common interests."

The Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause Annotated

The Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause

July 11, 2007 — 04:17 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole — Share This

The Sundance Channel’s online component is looking to integrate more social features, and it doing so with the Eco-mmunity Map.

This interactive map will mark and help you find others that are interested in bettering the environment and living a more green lifestyle. You can find businesses, special attractions and action points on this eco-mmunity map as well, which is powered by Google. The purpose is to connect others that are concerned with having a more green lifestyle with the people and resources they need, based on location. Users can add their own markers to the map. Branching from this eco-mmunity map is an environmental forum, which includes blogs, news, discussions and other areas for users to contribute as well.

This attempt to facilitate the discussions that take place for the eco-conscious is a good way that an established media company can provide social tools for a great cause. This ultra-niche manner in which the Sundance Channel is affecting change is a good route to take, as it’s not overtly inserting social networking modules into its website, and it’s gaining attention from users by promoting a cause, while also raising awareness and

VentureBeat » With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX Annotated

With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX

By Matt Marshall 01.30.07

Bling Software, a start-up that launches today at DEMO, helps translate your Web site into a visually rich mobile version.

Your regular site can not be duplicated on a cellphone’s tiny screen, so you have to customize it. This can cost serious bucks.

Now, Pleasanton’s Bling has unveiled an AJAX-based software that publishers can use to transform their sites into visually rich mobile versions. Bling’s chief executive, Roy Satterthwaite, tells VentureBeat the company is the first to guarantee the AJAX application will work across cell-phone platforms, and small enough to be distributed via cellular networks.

Roeder-Johnson Client: FoneMine Annotated

FoneMine

Company Profile :

FoneMine is the first company to launch a next generation interactive mobile services platform. This platform is designed around a fundamental belief that mobile must be treated as a "first class citizen" and is neither just an extension of earlier computing models nor only for youth.

FoneMine's platform enables customers to offer mobile services in whatever way they want, to any demographic, building their offerings based on their own strategies. FoneMine's customers include major advertisers focused on customer acquisition through to full mobile commerce, international service providers focused on interactive groups and individual mobile messaging through next generation services, and financial institutions offering mobile finance services.

VentureBeat » FoneMine: Expand your business into the mobile web Annotated

FoneMine: Expand your business into the mobile web

By Dan Kaplan 07.11.07

FoneMine helps companies build interactive mobile web applications — including things like a shopping carts, comments , and search — that work across any mobile carriers and phones.

So far, companies wanting more than a basic mobile-friendly website have to build a customized back-end, host it, and maintain the code.

The Sunnyvale, Calif. company is the latest in a string of companies that help companies build more sophisticated mobile sites, and it claims to be the most complete and scalable service on the market today. There are companies like iLoop Mobile and Air2Web that help businesses develop mobile storefronts and manage SMS-based mobile marketing campaigns, but FoneMine wants to do that and more. Bling Software, which we’ve covered, offers a platform to build mobile sites. (It has teamed up with baseball star Barry Bonds and rap mogul Jay-Z to show them off. Bonds’ application alerts users when he hits another home run, just in time for baseball fans to track him as he closes in on Hank Aaron’s record.)

Chief executive Jagadish Bandole said Fonemine can offer a hosted, interactive mobile website with full SMS-based marketing functions within in a matter of days. More complicated sites will take a couple of weeks, instead of the months previously required. Through FoneMine’s straightforward interface (see screenshot below), we built a mobile page with photos, sub pages, a commenting section, and a “click-to-call” link that called our phone.

Jagadish showed us a mobile banking application that had been built on the FoneMine platform. You can check your balance, make cash transfers, see outstanding bills and pay them. Theater Bay Area, a company that sells half-priced theater tickets on the day of the shows, uses FoneMine to extend the reach of its marketing into SMS. Customers opt in to receive text alerts when tickets become available, and can click on a link in the message to buy tickets on their phone.

Jagadish says FoneMine will allow developers to create browser-based applications of just about any kind. For example, he says building an equivalent to Google Mobile Maps would be a “straightforward” task. All of this is yet to be seen, and we welcome feedback if any of you use it.

The company has raised around $6 million from angels and individuals, and makes money by charging companies for hosting, licensing and transactions. Depending on the needs and scale of the mobile application, the costs range from $500-2000 dollars per month for hosting and licensing, and up to $2000 extra if mass SMS-marketing functions are used.

3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annotated

3G is third-generation technology in the context of mobile phone standards. The services associated with 3G include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. In marketing 3G services, video telephone has often been suggested as the killer application for 3G.

According to the GSA, in December 2005 there were 100 3G networks in operation in 40 countries in the world. In Asia, Europe, and the USA and Canada, telecommunication companies use W-CDMA technology with the support of around 100 terminal designs to operate 3G mobile networks.

Roll-out of 3G networks was delayed in some countries by the enormous costs of additional spectrum licensing fees. In many parts of the world 3G networks do not use the same radio frequencies as 2G, requiring mobile operators to build entirely new networks and license entirely new frequencies; a notable exception is the United States where carriers operate 3G service in the same frequencies as other services. The license fees in some European countries were particularly high, bolstered by government auctions of a limited number of licences and sealed bid auctions, and initial excitement over 3G's potential. Other delays were as a result of the expenses related to upgrading equipment for the new systems.

The first country that introduced 3G on a large commercial scale was Japan. In 2005, about 40% of subscribers used 3G networks only, with 2G being on the way out. It was expected that the transition from 2G to 3G would be largely completed during 2006, and upgrades to the next 3.5G stage with 3 Mbit/s data rates were under way.

The successful 3G introduction in Japan showed that video telephony was not the killer application for 3G networks after all. The real-life usage of video telephony on 3G networks was found to be a small fraction of all services. On the other hand, downloading of music found strong acceptance by customers. Music download services in Japan were pioneered by KDDI with the EZchakuuta and Chaku Uta Full services.

3G networks are not IEEE 802.11 networks. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, higher-bandwidth (primarily) data networks, while 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony.

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets; Also Rok Annotated

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets; Also Rok

By
Rafat Ali
- Wed 11 Jul 2007 09:30 AM PST

Now that it figured out that Wi-Fi phones would becomes common (Nokia itself is pushing many of those), it has finally embedded Skype onto one of its “phones”...well, it is not a phone technically, it is the N800 Internet Tablet device. Skype for the Nokia N800 will be available for download for existing users...I have one and will try it out later. There will also be Skype download links on the latest release of Nokia N800 devices which will be available at retail and on the Skype online store. More here. Would be interesting to see when Skype gets embedded on other Nokia Wi-Fi compatible handsets like N95.

In related news, Nokia is embedding a trial version of mobile TV service ROK TV in its E65 and E61i phones...Two channel packages will be offered - a 5 channel ‘Strictly Business’ package, to be charged in the UK at GBP 5.00 a month, with a heavy emphasis on business news and information channels such as Bloomberg, CNBC Europe, EuroNews in 9 languages and regional news channels, and a 10 channel ‘ROK All’ TV package, to be charged at GBP10.00 a month containing all the live business news channels as well as additional sports news, music videos and comedy channels. As a trial, both TV packages will be free to view for the first 2 weeks.

Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause

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The Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause Annotated

The

Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause

July 11, 2007 — 04:17 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole — Share This

The Sundance Channel’s online component is looking to integrate more social features, and it doing so with the Eco-mmunity Map.

With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX

2007-07-12T11:40:00.001-07:00

VentureBeat » With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX Annotated

With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX

By Matt Marshall 01.30.07

Bling Software, a start-up that launches today at DEMO, helps translate your Web site into a visually rich mobile version.

Your regular site can not be duplicated on a cellphone’s tiny screen, so you have to customize it. This can cost serious bucks.

FoneMine, iLoop Mobile, Air2Web, Bling Software

2007-07-12T11:08:00.001-07:00

VentureBeat » FoneMine: Expand your business into the mobile web Annotated

FoneMine: Expand your business into the mobile web

By Dan Kaplan 07.11.07

FoneMine helps companies build interactive mobile web applications — including things like a shopping carts, comments , and search — that work across any mobile carriers and phones.

So far, companies wanting more than a basic mobile-friendly website have to build a customized back-end, host it, and maintain the code.

3G Defined

2007-07-12T10:41:00.001-07:00

3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annotated

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets

2007-07-12T10:40:00.001-07:00

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets; Also Rok Annotated

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets; Also Rok

By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 Jul 2007 09:30 AM PST

Mobile: Blyk

2007-07-11T14:23:00.001-07:00

Coming to (free) mobile phones for youths: Ads - Technology & Media - International Herald Tribune

PARIS: Goodbye, mobile phone bills. Hello, advertising.Pitching itself as the world's first advertising-supported phone company, a Finnish company called Blyk plans to roll

todaytest 07/02/2007

2007-07-02T09:30:00.001-07:00

Go Big or Go Home: Why Being Bold is Critical to Getting Noticed | Copyblogger Annotated

Why Bold Works

Why does being bold work better than being humble and understated, as I think many of us would prefer to be? Here’s why:

It stands out. Again, there are more than 83 million blogs out there … how will you get noticed among the cacophony of all those blogs? If you think bigger and bolder than all of them, you will get noticed.

You’re more clickable. If your headline is in someone’s feed reader, or they see your headline on another blog among a list of links, they will be more likely to click on you if you’re bold. It’s almost irresistible.

People talk about you. It’s good if people start talking about you. They read your bold post, and they talk about it on their blog. “I just read an interesting post on Zen Habits about why ….” And even if they disagree, that’s still good news. Whether people disagree with you or not is immaterial — you want them talking about you.

People link to you. When other blogs talk about you, they link to you. And that’s the most important effect of al

How to Write a Persuasive News Release » Copywriting Blog By Copywriter Michel Fortin Annotated

The most profitable and often overlooked free publicity generator is the news release (also called "press release", although news release is a better term).

News releases are not only great marketing tools but also far more credible and believable than advertising since they appear to come from an objective third party.

While publicity is the most powerful promotional tool there is, it is the one that is the least effectively used.

Go Big or Go Home: Why Being Bold is Critical to Getting Noticed | Copyblogger

2007-07-01T17:28:00.001-07:00

Go Big or Go Home: Why Being Bold is Critical to Getting Noticed | Copyblogger Annotated

Why Bold Works

Why does being bold work better than being humble and understated, as I think many of us would prefer to be? Here’s why:

It stands out. Again, there are more than 83 million blogs out there … how will you get noticed among the cacophony of all those blogs? If you think bigger and bolder than all of them, you will get noticed.

You’re more clickable. If your headline is in someone’s feed reader, or they see your headline on another blog among a list of links, they will be more likely to click on you if you’re bold. It’s almost irresistible.

People talk about you. It’s good if people start talking about you. They read your bold post, and they talk about it on their blog. “I just read an interesting post on Zen Habits about why ….” And even if they disagree, that’s still good news. Whether people disagree with you or not is immaterial — you want them talking about you.

People link to you. When other blogs talk about you, they link to you. And that’s the most important effect of al

todaytest 07/01/2007

2007-07-01T09:30:00.001-07:00

VentureBeat » XLNTads and Spotzer, two different ways to make ads cheap Annotated

XLNTads and Spotzer, two different ways to make ads cheap

VentureBeat » Pluggd begins delivery of better audio search Annotated

Pluggd, a Seattle company, has delivered a widget that lets you search audio (and soon, video) on third-party sites in more sophisticated ways.

Video Ads in Web Video: Success! ~ Chris Pirillo

todaytest 06/30/2007

2007-06-30T09:30:00.001-07:00

WeblogMatrix - Compare them all

eine sehr schoene uebersicht von blog_anbietern und dessen services
- post by pierro

Online Journalism Review's Blog Software Comparison Chart Annotated

(tags: blogs comparison) - post by pfflyer
compare and contrast. - post by daveforhan
Blog software comparison chart This chart is a companion to the article - post by aaronkurtz
Blog software comparison chart - post by groper
This chart is a companion to the article "Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?," published July 14, 2005 - post by ycc2106
(tags: blogs comparison) - post by ycc2106

Blog software comparison chart

Updated May 18, 2006: This chart is a companion to the article "Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?," published July 14, 2005 in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Do note that this chart reflects only standard features of the tools' installation, and not every possible extension, plug-in modification... or hack.

Functionality

Blogger

TypePad Basic

TypePad Plus

TypePad Pro

Blogware

WordPress

Movable Type

Expression Engine

iMedia Connection: Dissecting 3 Kick-Ass Emails Annotated

Many companies flood you with communications as soon as you give them your email address, but that new relationship is easy to damage.

In this article:
Award-winning emails
A fundraising email from WBFO
Occasional emails from Innocentdrinks.co.uk
A follow-up email from Rentalo.com

Award-winning emails
Before I talk about the three emails I have chosen for this article, let me just say how hard it was to unearth any really good emails. I went through emails of all kinds, from a variety of sources, including lists of so-called "award-winning" emails. I looked at promotional emails, customer service emails, retention emails and more. Some were B2B, others were B2C.

I found it a depressing search.

The underlying weakness I saw was that almost every email I read failed to take advantage of the very personal, one-on-one potential of email as a medium.

I saw too many emails that simply thrust their message into the reader's face, as if email were some kind of mass, broadcast medium.

iMedia Connection: Chicken Soup for the Confused Mobile Marketer Annotated

In This Article:
So what's so great about mobile anyway?
What would Sprite do?
What would Google do?
What would Yahoo! do?
Finally, some agreement

So what's so great about mobile anyway?
Here's a guarantee you can take to the bank: Some of the mobile players that are all the rage today won't even be a memory a few years from now. How do I know? Because nobody knows for certain what the mobile market holds.

If you're an advertiser or a brand that has tried to engage mobile users, you've doubtless been beset by an array of business models, confusing jargon and mobile firms that insist they know how to turn your campaign into gold.

But if you confused a sales pitch with mobile wisdom, shame on you. There's a reason why mobile is classified as an emerging ad platform: The answers are still in the embryonic stage.

One thing is true about mobile, it's small. Very small. But mobile isn't just a smaller interactive world, it's a different planet altogether.

Door Is Open to High-Tech Offerings That Meet Thresholds - New York Times Annotated

VC Nation

Door Is Open to High-Tech Offerings That Meet Thresholds

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By BRAD STONE

Published: June 29, 2007

DAN NYE is perhaps the most publicly accessible chief executive on the planet. Anyone can contact the head of LinkedIn, a social network based in Mountain View, Calif., simply by visiting his personal profile page on the service and sending him a message.

todaytest 06/21/2007

2007-06-21T09:30:00.001-07:00

Method Arts | A Consortium | How to Plan a Party in Five Minutes Annotated

Back in August, Mark and I were chatting via IM and he asked if I was going to An Event Apart. I told him I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t quit my job yet, so there were

todaytest 06/20/2007

2007-06-20T09:30:00.001-07:00

Digital Digressions: What Marketeers Forget When Thinking of Web 2.0 Annotated

No longer is it about 'what do we want to communicate - it's about 'what do we want to facilitate!'
Web 2.0 is a dialogue, it's a start of a love-affair, it's a discussion that takes twists and turns depending on who is having the conversation and what the topic is. It's fun to talk to someone if they show they listen to what you have to say and respond accordingly. It's even better when they can put you in touch with other people just like you. It's extremely boring when you feel like you are talking to a wall. It's really that simple - but what it means is that smokescreens become harder to maintain. After all, not everyone is David Copperfield and besides, if everyone's rating everything and all views are public - you don't even want to be David Copperfield, you have to be you and be good, because what goes around comes around.

todaytest 06/16/2007

2007-06-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

J-Board - a Job Board for Everyone Annotated

SmartSheet Raises $2.69M in Funding Annotated

, the web-based spreadsheet creation service, has raised $2.69 million in a Series A-4 of funding, led by Madrona Venture Group.

SmartSheet, which won Business 2.0’s Best of Show award earlier this year, has a good management team, some members hailing from Onyx Software. The edge that SmartSheet is looking to develop is its interactive capabilities, and auto-tracking tools that are beneficial for team projects and collaborative efforts. The social aspect of SmartSheet includes its wiki, which furthers the ability for the

todaytest 06/14/2007

2007-06-14T09:31:00.001-07:00

B2B Lead Generation Blog: 10 Lead Generation (Prospecting) Tips for Sales People Annotated

their own lead generation.

1. Build an ideal customer profile – Focus your energy on leads that best fit your ideal customer profile. Both the companies and the individuals you covet as customers. What separates your best and worst customers? What are their attributes and demographics? What organizations/associations do they belong to?

2. Talk to your best customers – How much do you really know about your customers? A simple phone call can generate plenty of useful information. Ask your customers why they chose to work with you? Is that the same reason they keep doing business with you? How has working with you helped their business? Would they refer you to other people? Use this information to refine your message to identify more leads just like your best custom

Press Releases - DoubleClick Inc. Annotated

DOUBLECLICK’S RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES THE BENEFITS OF ONLINE VIDEO ADVERTISING
Consumers Interact with Video Ads More Than with Image Ads; Video Click Rates Are Higher than Image Format Ads
New York, NY, 3/20/2007 - DoubleClick Inc., the premier provider of digital marketing technology and services, today announced the results of its recent research of online video ad placements, illustrating that video is a highly effective format for online advertising. Findings show that audiences have high interaction rates with video ads, users click the "Play" button more than they click on image ads, video ads are typically played two-thirds of the way through and video ad click rates are far higher than those of image format ads.

DoubleClick conducted its analysis of more than 300 online video ad campaigns that were placed by more than 130 advertisers over a four-month period in 2006. The objective was to identify major trends in the performance metrics of online video ad campaigns according to campaign features, such as vertical industry sector, ad format, ad size and ad length.

"Online video ads are quickly becoming the medium of choice to drive both brand awareness and sales," said Rick Bruner, research director at DoubleClick. "The results show that there are clear ROI advantages to placing video ads. We expect to see strong growth in the number of companies reaping the benefits of online video adv

todaytest 06/09/2007

2007-06-09T09:30:00.001-07:00

Casual Games Muscling in on Traditional TV Time news from 1UP.com Annotated

Casual Games Muscling in on Traditional TV Time

Study shows your mom likes Bejeweled more than Survivor.

By Mark Whiting, 08/18/2006

Remember RealNetworks? Well, for some reason they've recently become curious as to why people aren't watching Extreme Home Makeover anymore.

The culprit? Casual games.

The study, conducted by by Harris Interactive, sought to suss out the viewing habits of the American household. Once the numbers were in, executives were shocked... shocked... to find that the boob tube just isn't pulling in the eyeballs like it used to.

The short answer is that more and more American adults now prefer to waste their time playing Bejeweled than waste it watching CSI. How many, exactly? Answer: a "substantial minority" -- 31 percent.

"Watching movies at home" is apparently a slightly more compelling activity compared to television -- only 21% of the population prefers Zuma over a DVD. Actually going to a theatre? -- the big loser, with 35% of you preferring a quiet evening with PopCap instead.

Real's big discovery however was the significant spike in casual gaming in a very traditionally 'un-gamer' demographic... older women.

The numbers for the "women over 40" category clearly illustrate a dramatic ascendency in casual gaming nationwide. Nearly half of mothers in America (49%) prefer a quiet night with TextTwist to a wild night with Snakes on a Plane. Numbers are similarly huge for TV and DVD rejection: 37 and 32 percent, respectively.

This is news? Obviously they haven't met my mother-in-law -- the Zuma Champeen.

Unsurprisingly, all the fuss boils down to advertising dollars. "Advergames" i.e. games which contain "strongly branded" content -- are a big thumbs-down from players across the board. Throwing a banner or two in between level loads? Still apparently OK.

New SoGoPlay Label Courts Casual Market news from 1UP.com Annotated

"Traditional videogames have alienated potential customers."

So says Lou Fawcett, the recently-appointed head of SoGoPlay: SCi Interactive's newly-formed "casual games" label -- born from the recent acquisition of casual-gaming sister company Rockpool Games.

Fawcett made the comment during a larger speech at the Northern Exposure games conference, held last week in the United Kingdom. GamesIndustry.biz is covering the announcement of the new studio with a brace of articles centered on Eidos' aggressive new approach to the emergent casual games market.

The message seems to be clear: A savvy studio overlooks casual gamers at its own peril. For this reason, Eidos (a subcell of SCi Interactive) has charged SoGoPlay with an unusual mission: the promotion and marketing of casual games with intensity equal to the big name AAA titles of modern hardcore-dom. Says Fawcett: "We're aiming to establish SoGoPlay as THE flagship casual games brand."

EA Jumps on Casual Games Bandwagon news from 1UP.com Annotated

EA Jumps on Casual Games Bandwagon

New division to focus entirely on pick up 'n play.

By Mark Whiting, 06/06/2007

Say what you like about casual games; your derision won't change the fact that investments in cellphone, handheld and Xbox Live Arcade-style downloads are currently paying out like one-armed bandits for the big developers.

Exhibit A came a few weeks ago with the announcement of SCi Interactive's SoGoPlay "casual games only" development label. Today, further evidence comes in the form of a another triple-A challenger deciding to step into the ring of "hardcore" casual games development. The publisher: Electronic Arts. Their newly formed label: EA Casual Entertainment.

The new company will be headed up by former Activision exec. Kathy Vrabeck, who will take the helm as President. "All over the world", she says, "consumers are playing games that don't require hours of intense concentration. Whether it will be playing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the Wii with the family or downloading Madden NFL 08 on a phone, quick-to-the-fun games are bringing new players and new demographics to interactive entertainment."

We wrote to EA to see if they were interested in explaining how the EA Casual brand intends to differentiate itself from competitors like SoGoPlay.

"EA Casual Entertainment is a new group dedicated to the global and rapidly growing market for easy access games on all platforms. The inspiration for the creation of the division is the recognition that many consumers want to play games that don't require hours of commitment, intense concentration and deep skills. EA has the talent, the ideas and the franchises to compete in this genre. This division is modeled after The Sims -- with studios and publishing working side-by-side on a broad array of easy-access games for all platforms."

EA told 1UP that EA Casual will leverage the success of their "Pogo" casual gaming brand as a means to attract and retain fans. Pogo (according to EA, at least) is the "stickiest site on the Internet," with 18 million people playing every month, and 1.5 million paid subscribers.

The last few years have seen an incredible rise in the visibility and significance of the casual gaming dollar in the overall business of video games. "Quick and easy fun" comes complete with a quick and easy development price tag -- one that conveniently sidesteps the inherent risks associated with costly next-gen development. More and more, the big publishers are regarding the popularity of cellphone, download and internet-based games as a no-brainer low-risk, high-return business model.

By way of example, last January saw casual gaming studio Mumbo Jumbo expand to a size large enough to flat-out purchase Relic Entertainment (the guys behind SiN). With the growing ubiquity of Wii and popularity of download services like Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, expect to see this trend continue. Each copy of Catan sold moves that almighty development dollar further and further away from a business model based on servicing a notoriously fickle "hardcore" demographic.

todaytest 06/08/2007

2007-06-08T09:30:00.001-07:00

BeyondVC: Annotated

As an early stage investor and board member of several companies, I am fortunate to get the opportunity to work with some great entrepreneurs and also pattern match and observe trends, both good and bad, in early stage companies. I am not here to throw platitudes at you but simply to share an observation of the differences between some of the better run companies and the ones that have less than stellar execution. In one portfolio company, we had some of the standard issues of coordinating product management with engineering and balancing sales requirements with engineering priorities. Having a company operate solely in departmental silos is like having each body part with a different brain-sure it is your body but it is also hard to move fluidly if each body part is moving in a di

Sprint adds local product search via GPS - New York Times Annotated

Sprint adds local product search via GPS

Marguerite Reardon, for News.com

Published: June 7, 2007

Sprint Nextel said Thursday it is offering a new application that will let subscribers search for products in nearby retail stores directly from their handsets.

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The service, which uses embedded GPS (Global Positioning System) chips in phones, allows shoppers to use their cell phones to find any of 85 million products available at 30,000 stores across the country. People type in a keyword, product name, model number or UPC number to search for the product.

Raph’s Website » NYT looks at kids’ worlds AGAIN Annotated

“Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play”, says the New York Times. Among the games covered are ones I hadn’t really paid attention to before, like Stardoll and Cartoon Doll Emporium.

Over at Virtual Worlds News they give this handy table summarizing the growth rates of some of these; I added to the table with additional unique user stats elsewhere in the article:

Site                                         Users in April 2006     Users in April 2007

Club Penguin                         794,000                                 4,073,000

Webkinz                                 325,000                                 3,879,000

Cartoon Doll Emporium                                                      ~3,000,000

Stardoll                                  367,000                                  1,241,000

WeeWorld                                                                             ~900,000

The NYT mentions that the category has grown 68% in the last year alone; some of the sites report 20% growth monthly.

My list of “the biggest MMOs in the West” is evolving rapidly. With Habbo Hotel and Runescape also clocking in with multiple millions of unique users every month, it may be possible that World of Warcraft is actually sitting around #4 or #5 in the top MMOs in NA and Europe.

Of course, by and large, the gamers and gaming industry will likely blow these off as “not counting” or “shallow” or something. I get that pretty regularly, particularly from folks who are hoping that I am not making something like these games myself. (I’m not — I just find it fascinating).

Eve Online - Video Games - New York Times Annotated

In a Virtual Universe, the Politics Turn Real

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By SETH SCHIESEL

Published: June 7, 2007

The kingdom is in crisis. After pledging to treat its citizens equally, the government stands accused of unfairly favoring one powerful, well-connected political faction. Many citizens have taken to open dissent, even revolt, and some are threatening to emigrate permanently.

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A scene from the multiplayer Internet game Eve Online.

This specter of corruption has emerged most recently not in some post-colonial trouble spot but in the virtual nation of

Promoting a Thirst for Sprite in Teenage Cellphone Users - New York Times Annotated

The Coca-Cola Company is hoping its new mobile site for social networking, Sprite Yard, will become the MySpace of the cellphone world.

But some marketing executives say the plan could instead become the BudTV of the soda world — a failed effort to build a community around a brand.

Sprite Yard, to be introduced in the United States this month, will look a lot like the social networking sites that have become popular on the Internet. Consumers will be able to set up personal profiles, share photos and

‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ - New York Times Annotated

Cyberfamilias

‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’

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By MICHELLE SLATALLA

Published: June 7, 2007

I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I’ve lost my edge.

He’s 9 Years Old and a Video-Game Circuit Star - New York Times Annotated

OLBROOK, N.Y., June 5 — Victor M. De Leon III has been playing video games on the professional circuit for five years now, racking up thousands of dollars in prizes and endorsements at tournaments around the country. He has a national corporate sponsor, a publicist and a Web site, with 531 photos chronicling his career. A documentary filmmaker has been following him for months.

Victor weighs 56 pounds and likes to watch SpongeBob SquarePants at his home here on Long Island. He celebrated his 9th birthday last month with a trip to a carnival and a vanilla cake. He gets above-average marks in the third grade, where he recently drew a dragon for art c

VentureBeat » Bubble Motion, trying to bring voice SMS to U.S. Annotated

ubble Motion is a texting (SMS) service that eliminates the need to type out message on that tiny keypad, and lets you leave voice message instead.

Many of us are texting, but we aren’t leaving voice messages via SMS — because carriers aren’t letting us.

Bubble Motion, of Singapore, wants to change that, and is negotiating with U.S carriers to provide the service here. Leaving a voice message is convenient. There are many times I’m feeling asocial, for example, and would much prefer to leave a voice message for someone without risking actually talking with them.

todaytest 06/07/2007

2007-06-07T09:30:00.001-07:00

user Gen - eb 2.0 - crowds, lists etc Annotated

Yet there is a limit to how splintered a culture can become, one that’s as much psychological as aesthetic. Humans like to congregate and join a crowd, at least up to a point. One thing the Internet does superbly is to tabulate, and it’s no accident that sites featuring user-generated content prominently display their own most-viewed and most-played lists. Even if they take pride in ignoring the mass-market Top 10, users still want a little company, and perhaps they hope that the collective choices add up to some guidance.

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Audio: Jon Pareles on User-Generated Content

Humans also like to share what they enjoy; hence all the user-generated playlists at sites like Amazon or eMusic, the inevitable lists of favorite bands and films on social networking sites and the proliferation of music blogs, like fluxblog.org or obscuresound.com, that gather hard-to-find songs for listeners to download directly. The songs on music blogs are chosen not by companies desperate for profit, but by individuals with time to spare, and if the choices often seem a little, well, geeky — indie rock, with a side of underground hip-hop, seems to be the overwhelming choice of music bloggers — who but a geek would be spending all that time at a computer?

Those geeks make life easier for the media moguls who bought into user-generated content this year. Selection, a time-consuming job, has been outsourced. What’s growing is the plentitude not just of user-generated content, but also of user-filtered content. (There are even sites like elbo.ws that tabulate songs found on music blogs, finding yet another Top 10.)

The open question is whether those new, quirky, homemade filters will find better art than the old, crassly commercial ones. The most-played songs from unsigned bands on MySpace — some played two million or three million times — tend to be as sappy as anything on the radio; the most-viewed videos on YouTube are novelty bits, and proudly dorky. Mouse-clicking individuals can be as tasteless, in the aggregate, as entertainment professionals.

Unlike the old media roadblocks, however, their filtering can easily be ignored. The promise of all the self-expression online is that genius will reach the public with fewer obstacles, bypassing the entrenched media. The reality is that genius has a bigger junk pile to climb out of than ever, one that requires just as much hustle and ingenuity as the old distribution system.

V.C.s Have a Crush on IceBreaker - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times Annotated

.C.’s Have a Crush on IceBreaker

June 6, 2007, 7:23 am

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IceBreaker has landed $7.2 million in new financing, money that the Bellevue, Wash. startup will use to continue marketing its mobile dating service, Crush or Flush. It also plans to use funds to bolster a research and development center in Beijing, where the company employs more than 20 people and is looking to add more.

Unveiled in mid-January, the Crush or Flush service allows singles to find potential matches by browsing picture profiles of other members on mobile phones.

todaytest 06/06/2007

2007-06-06T09:30:00.001-07:00

Mobile Marketing Firm HipCricket Raises $6 Million | Digital Media Wire Annotated

Bellevue, Wash. - HipCricket, a provider of mobile marketing services, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $6 million in its second round of funding, which it will use for expansion of its services with the broadcast community and top brands.

The Bellevue, Wash.-based company has now raised $10 million over the past two years, from angel investors, Broadmark Capital and

todaytest 06/04/2007

2007-06-04T09:30:00.001-07:00

Five excellent free/almost free analytics tools - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews Annotated

Doing proper analysis of your web app or blog is critical to its success. It is vital that you monitor the who, what, when, where and why visitors are coming to your web site. If you expect to get VC money or to be able to sell advertising, you must prove the traffic your site receives. I love analytics and have reviewed somewhere close to 200 tools over the years. I have come up with what I consider to be five of the top analytics tools that are either free or very low cost. These tools will help you answer the 5 w's of your web site. List is in no specific order and all of the tools I am suggesting just require a few lines of javascript code in your footer include to get them working. Less than 10 minutes setup.

todaytest 06/02/2007

2007-06-02T09:30:00.001-07:00

The value of a blog for your business - Small Business Opportunities & Ideas Annotated

But a small business isn’t a traditional publisher. The value of attention can be far greater than just advertising revenue. We have clients who blog for attention - and when they get that attention, it might lead to:

a new client worth many thousands of dollars (we have a client who measures customer value in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars).

a new influencer who can indirectly lead to many new customers.

You don’t need a massive audience for blogging to be worthwhile. Getting the attention of a niche audience can be extremely valuable, but not if you think in terms of advertising revenue.

Here is an exercise for you. Visualise your ideal prospective clients and your ideal influencers (the people who can send lots of small customers your way).

Particls - About - Features Annotated

About Particls For Publishers

Particls allows you to offer a
customized, user-friendly news and alerts
system that extends the reach of
your brand and your content right to
the desktop and beyond. Get more return
visitors, differentiate your brand and
earn more revenue.

There are two ways that publishers can take
advantage of Particls.

inTouch Basic for quick and easy integration
(refer below), and

inTouch Partner
for more advanced customization and revenue share.

inTouch Basic

Get more return traffic (alert
users about new content)

To embed
Particls on your site simply type
in a URL to a website, RSS/Atom
Feed or OPML file and use the
embed code provided.

todaytest 05/31/2007

2007-05-31T09:30:00.001-07:00

89-Ways-To-Optimize-Your-Website-For-Filthy-Rich-Customers Annotated

Filthy-Rich Customers

Hello and welcome,

Get ready. I'm about to share with you a secret system that will test your nerve. Make others think you've gone mad. And maybe even make you think you've gone mad yourself...

...but it will cost you nothing to try. It will cut your workload massively. And it will increase your profits whatever your business.

And the best bit.

todaytest 05/30/2007

2007-05-30T09:30:00.001-07:00

Metrics 2.0: Mobile advertising to hit US$11.35B; Will Google stay No.1 in Mobile Search? Annotated

Mobile advertising to hit US$11.35B; Will Google stay No.1 in Mobile Search?

Worldwide
spend on mobile advertising will rise to US$11.35 billion by 2011, up from
$871 million this year, according
to Informa Telecoms & Media report "Mobile Advertising Services:
generating revenue through subsidised content". In
2007, mobile advertising spend will more than double from 2006 levels to
over US$1.5bn.

Infroma forecasts
that search-related mobile ad revenue will climb to $1.5 billion in 2011,
up from just $3 million this year.

todaytest 05/29/2007

2007-05-29T09:30:00.001-07:00

GameTrove

Might be fun for the kids - post by bmassey

Bit Blot

todaytest 05/28/2007

2007-05-28T09:30:00.001-07:00

Jay is Games - Flash and casual game reviews, walkthroughs, room escape games, point and click games, puzzle games and more!

java games - post by vkbaker
Have some fun with the best Java games of 2005. - post by mikeheth
Game reviews - post by amysu88

gotoAndPlay(): Flash games, tutorials and game development

Planetfreeplay.com population: 1500 free games

Room Escape games, Point'n'Click games, Puzzle games, walkthroughs and more Free Web Games at FreeGamesNews.com

Hannes Drexl AKA robotriot - Illustrations And Pixel Graphics Annotated

There are some things you have to set up first before you can start pixeling with Photoshop. Of course there are a couple of things which are easier with pure pixel programs like Pro Motion. Still, I believe Photoshop has its advantages (like using layers, or a superior colour chooser), that's why I use it 95% of the time.

:: ARMY OF TROLLS - Pixelart - Pixel Art :: Annotated

:: Push-Push Penguin - Classic Arcade Game :::

Push-Push Penguin is heavily influenced by Sega's classic arcade game Pengo with elements from some of our favourite games (Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands) thrown in for good measure. You control the heroic Pen-Pen thru many exciting levels packed with ice block smashing antics.

Battle thru 50+ Levels

eboy XV » About Annotated

About

EbOY is Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. We create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork.

Some of our clients, partners & friends: Adidas, Amazon, Arena Magazine, Attenda, AXE, Bizz Magazine, Blender Magazine, Boston Magazine, Brazen, Bungalow Records, Carraro, Coca-Cola, Computer Arts Magazine, Create Online Magazine, Creative Review Magazine, DaimlerChrysler, Der Spiegel, Design Plex, Die Woche, Die Zeit, Diesel, DKNY, Edge Mag, Egg, Electronic Gaming Magazine, ESPN M

:: dot-invasion :: multi-platform 2D game design & development :: Annotated

Informations:

If you want to get in touch with dot-invasion, this is the place you are looking for. Filling the form below is the simplest way to contact us.

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We understand the following languages: Eng

MochiAds - The World's First Ad Network for Casual Games

todaytest 05/27/2007

2007-05-27T09:30:00.001-07:00

Welcome to MindHabits.com Annotated

tress Relief through Simple, Daily Games

MindHabits produces computer software designed to help people reduce their stress levels and boost their self-confidence, using games that automatically retrain the way the mind responds to social stress. This patent pending technology is the result of a decade of research by scientists at McGill University, one of the world’s top medical research centers. The software – based on the emerging science of social intelligence – helps you practice the mind habit of focusing on positive social feedback, which in turn reduces stress levels and improves self

Cerebral Vortex Games - Welcome

todaytest 05/22/2007

2007-05-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

Remember These 5 Copywriting Formulas » Copywriting Blog By Copywriter Michel Fortin Annotated

I used to teach marketing and selling at a local college here in Ottawa. And one of the things I used to teach with (I also use them all the time when I want to learn and remember new things, too) are mnemonics.

Mnemonics are tools or devices that aid retention. My best form of mnemonic are acronyms.

Do you remember the little ditty to remember all the planets taught mostly in kindergarten? It goes, "My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas," where the first letter of each word represents the name of each planet in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

Similarly, I use acronyms to teach about copywriting. I do this to help you remember, appreciate, and understand the process I go through when I write copy. Here they are, with their meaning (they are also linked to their respective articles covering the formula in detail):

Six Elements for Effective Landing Pages | Marketing Pilgrim Annotated

MarketingExperiments just released a new research brief discussing how to make landing pages more successful. As always, their conclusions are very relevant to online retailers and other companies who are trying to generate an action from their visitors.

A key part of the study involved trying to determine whether long copy or short copy performed better when the desired action was a simple email capture. As it turns out, the short copy was more successful.

In the past, many studies have shown that long copy is more effective in certain situations. However, MarketingExperiments believes that there are four factors that should influence your decision about whether to use long or short copy–the cost of what you are selling, the perceived risk, the commitment level, and the motivation.

In other words, if you are selling a high priced product, asking for a lot of personal information, requiring a time commitment, or using logic as your selling strategy, use long copy. On the other hand, if you are giving away something for free without commitment and selling with emotion, use short copy.

MarketingExperiments identifies six elements that affect the performance of landing pages:

1) Friction - how much work the visitor has to do (this includes the reading)

2) Incentives - extras that are thrown in to sweeten the deal

3) Visitor motivation - how much they want what you have

4) Value proposition - the perception visitors have of you and what you are selling

5) Anxiety - the perceived risk to the visitor

6) Credibility - how well you convey trustworthiness

To increase site conversion, you should focus on these elements. It is important to understand that few changes will in themselves make dramatic differences. My company tripled our conversion rate over the past year, but we did it with a huge number of very minor changes. Even very modest improvements in these six areas can cumulatively add up to a significant increase.

todaytest 05/19/2007

2007-05-19T09:30:00.001-07:00

Testimonials - eMarketer Annotated

What Our Customers Say

"When I need the latest trends and stats on e-business, I
turn to eMarketer. eMarketer cuts through the hype and turns an overabundance
of data into concise information that is sound and dependable."

Mark Selleck, Business Unit Executive, DISU e-business Solutions, IBM

"While creating our business plan for the region, we
combed through literally dozens of research sources to generate our facts and
views. After trying to extrapolate several different sources into one single
viewpoint it became apparent that eMarketer had already figured that angle out.
Hence eMarketer's perspective became our benchmark for the data we used to plan
our strategic intelligence around."

Tobin Trevarthin, VP Interactive Marketing, AOL Time Warner

"eMarketer is a highly valued and trusted resource for Avenue A/Razorfish.
Throughout the organization, eMarketer reports and data allow our staff to stay ahead of the rapid
changes in digital marketing."

Matt Wood, Manager, Supplier & Research Development, Avenue A/Razorfish

"eMarketer, different from other firms, compares studies and
gives a wide analysis of a problem, interpreted from different points of view.
Your reports are among the best available."

Dr. Alessandro Longo, Italian IT Journalist

"Quite simply, eMarketer is the best
marketing resource site that I have ever seen."

Larry Chase, Web Digest for Marketers

todaytest 05/17/2007

2007-05-17T09:30:00.001-07:00

Nantucket Conference Annotated

The Nantucket Conference
convenes a small, invitation-only group of New England’s
most creative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs,
investors, technologists, and executives. There are
several reasons why this region's high-level high-tech
players consider the Nantucket Conference a must-attend
gathering.

First, there are unique
opportunities for exchanging ideas and networking in a
relaxing, informal environment. We acknowledge that much
of the value of the Nantucket Conference comes from
impromptu hallway conversations, serendipitous seatings at
lunch, and walks around town. Nantucket is a place for
having fun, doing business, and making new connections.

Second, sessions on
Nantucket elicit the kind of real-world war stories and
insight that you don’t hear at any other conference. All
proceedings of the Conference are off-the-record, which
gives presenters a chance to talk openly and honestly. We
limit the use of PowerPoint and forbid blatant company
pitches. Also, since there is precisely no difference in
the caliber of people on stage and those in the audience,
there is always plenty of opportunity at each session for
interaction and debate.

Finally, this isn’t an
event produced by a conference company that churns out
dozens of cookie-cutter events each year. Nantucket is
organized by a group of people -- our Advisory
Board -- who actually work in the technology space
every day.

todaytest 05/16/2007

2007-05-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

Antenna Group - Our Approach - Our Services Annotated

Executive
Profile Development

Antenna Group crafts its CEO program to reflect the needs and
availability of the individual. Below are examples of some of the
standard practices that have proven successful with Antenna client CEOs.

Dinner Salons—Each
month, Antenna hosts one to two dinner salons at outstanding
restaurants that bring together client CEOs and CTOs with top-level
media and analysts. The dinners—on relevant, timely topics in
the tech industry—enable our clients to network and
ultimately create important relationships with influential media. No
other agency has been able to imitate Antenna’s Salon success.

Speaker
program—Appropriate venues are identified for
client CEOs to give company presentations or participate in panel
discussions. Antenna has developed relationships with conference
organizers and regularly places client executives in prominent speaking
positions at industry conferences. We draft and submit speaking
proposals, pitch organizers, confirm arrangements, and assist in media
training and rehearsing.

Media
training—A 30-year veteran of the broadcast news
industry conducts Antenna’s media training sessions for
executives. Our trainer combines supportive coaching with attack-dog
techniques to prepare clients for anything. Sessions are repeated as
needed.

Bylined
articles—Antenna Group researches and identifies
appropriate vehicles for client CEO articles. Using our knowledge of
industry trends and the expertise of the CEO, Antenna crafts an article
outline and works with the client marketing team to develop a
thoughtful, compelling piece. Once approved, Antenna pitches the
article to a select group of top-tier outlets. We extend the life of
the byline feature by re-working it for submission to additional
outlets.

EconSM Conference - The Economics of Social Media Annotated

How do you thrive in an industry that seems to change irrevocably every few days? At paidContent and its sister sites MocoNews.net and ContentSutra, we chronicle the world of social media on a minute-by-minute basis. But sometimes, in an industry moving so fast, it's useful, fun, and necessary to allow yourself a day away from the everyday to think, learn, and network alongside your fellow industry leaders. So on April 26, ContentNext Media, our parent company, is presenting its first conference, The Economics of Social Media, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Over one packed day, in a series of large and small sessions we're designing to ensure maximum participation, we'll examine the tremendous changes social media is bringing to:

Traditional media

Gerson Lehrman Group Councils Annotated

Introduction to the Terms and Conditions of Council Membership

Building the Mosaic

Gerson Lehrman Group provides value to its clients by arranging projects with
experts (Council Members) in numerous specialties. Our clients need direct,
unbiased primary inputs and education on complex or hard to find/understand
topics (which access to the GLG Councils can provide) that can help them make
more informed investment decisions. Such inquiries can include understanding
how a particular technology, drug or service works, understanding products and
their acceptance in the market, trends in industries and the like. Gathering
bits of fragmented information from various sources is often called building
the mosaic or "mosaic theory" – which has been recognized by leading investment
industry groups, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Securities and Exchange
Commission as contributing to a healthy and efficient market for securities.
Business leaders, government and non-profits also find that access to
specialized expertise drives superior decisions.

The Role of the Council Member

Our clients value these inputs, but understand that Council Members are not
providing investment advice and are not able to provide ‘answers’. This is why
our clients come to us to speak with multiple experts on a given topic –
aggregating tiles in the mosaic to develop a picture. It is important that
Council Members understand that the value they can add is in educating and
providing objective insight to our clients. Disclosure of information that is
confidential or a discussion that presents a conflict for Council Members is
unwelcome to our client

todaytest 05/15/2007

2007-05-15T09:30:00.001-07:00

18" Diamond Cut Twisted Cable Link Necklace 14K Gold, 1.9g at QVC Annotated

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Music Radio on the Internet Faces Thorny Royalty Issues - New York Times Annotated

Since Pandora.com closed its box of digital musical delights this month to users outside the United States, the complaints have been pouring in from Dubai to Patagonia.

It is “a step back to the dark ages in the music world!” fumed Mario from Mexico City. Declared a user from Spain: “Why can’t they leave us in peace?”

With 6.5 million registered users, Pandora stands at the vanguard of the sprawling, global Internet radio market. But like other Webcasters, it faces an increase in royalty rates in the

Online Ads vs. Privacy - New York Times Annotated

OR advertisers, and in many ways for consumers, online advertising is a blessing. Customized messages rescue advertisers from the broad reach of traditional media. And consumers can learn about products and services that appeal directly to them.

Skip to next paragraph

Alex Eben Meyer

Online Advertising: So Good, Yet So Bad for Us (wired.com)
Deceptive Online Marketing Practices (democraticmedia.org) (pdf)
Computers, Freedom and Privacy (cfp2007.org)
Identity Woman: Genetic Non-Descrimination Bill in House (kaliyasblogs.net)
hotmapping.co.uk
Future Boy Blog: For Energy Wasters, the Heat Is On (blogs.business2.com)
iwantoneofthose.com/nothing
Nothing is On Sale for $6.28 (gizmodo.com)

But there are huge costs, and many dangers, warns Jennifer Granick, the executive director for the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (wired.com). To app

A Site Where Virtual Barbies Can Compare Their Makeovers - New York Times Annotated

Barbie dolls collide with Web 2.0 with the release of BarbieGirls.com, a free online community which Mattel hopes will pull young girls away from competitors like Ty Girlz, Neopets and Webkinz. Once children pick a screen name and password, they can dress up their own Barbie avatar, a fun process of mixing and matching hairstyles, clothing items and shades of lipstick. There’s no bad hair; in fact, every creation looks like a slightly different beauty queen.

Skip to next paragraph

Girls soon learn that some of the dress-up items, like that green purse with sparkles, are reserved for those who own a $60 Barbie-shaped MP3 player, le

A Nod to Journalistic Integrity Is Seen in an Editor’s Return - New York Times Annotated

Who says industry magazines are cozy with their advertisers?

Last week, the International Data Group removed the chief executive of its largest-circulation computer magazine, PC World, and reinstated its top editor, who had quit days earlier over the executive’s decision to not run an article critical of an advertiser.

The editor in chief, Harry McCracken, rejoined the magazine on Wednesday after the disputed article, “10 Things We Hate About Apple,” was posted on the magazine’s Web site.

It was a hero’s homecoming for Mr. McCracken, who was praised on the PCWorld.com message boards and in the blogosphere for sacrificing himself in the name of journalistic integrity.

“I was on the brink of canceling my subscription,” wrote one reader. “Now that McCracken’s back, I’ll stick around, too.”

PC World, a monthly magazine with a companion Web site that mixes technology news with product reviews, has a reputation for smart and sometimes hard-hitting articles that often offend big tech companies.

In recent years, it has criticized several of

gocrosscampus :: win your world Annotated

Currently, online social networking utilities such as MySpace, Facebook, and the like offer both an arena and the tools for social interaction, but with a lack of inherent motivation to do so. A new type of social experience is needed, one that offers a distinct and cerebral motivation to participate – an interactive outlet with a reason to interact. Enter GoCrossCampus, an unprecedented endeavor to create a massively multiplayer social gaming platform and integrated online team strategy community. Capitalizing on the team spirit of large campuses, the historical success of massively multiplayer online strategy games and the marketability of bringing collegiate communities together in a unique and viral environment, GoCrossCampus brings custom-tailored Risk-style gameplay to college campuses.

todaytest 05/14/2007

2007-05-14T09:30:00.001-07:00

People Really Want to Help You | Copyblogger Annotated

There’s never been a better time to be a bootstrapping entrepreneur using social media to build a business. Don’t hide the fact that you’re winging it on a shoestring, relish in it. People will help promote you if they think you need it, but there’s not a lot of altruistic love for big corporations. Small is the next big thing.

Don’t be a drama queen in an attempt to get promotional help. Manipulating the altruistic tendencies of your clients and customers will get you burned.

Build a community. Encourage interaction at every opportunity with your blog. Jump into your own comments section often, directly answering questions and thanking readers for encouraging words. Answer every email.

It’s up to you to give, give, give. You’re not being altruistic, because you do have something to gain. But you should give like you’ll never get anything back, and simply accept it when on occasions you don’t. You’re going to have to work hard

todaytest 05/11/2007

2007-05-11T09:30:00.001-07:00

The Fortex Group Speakers Bureau - Executive Speaking Placement Annotated

bout The Fortex Executive Speaker Placement
Service

The Fortex approach to managing a speakers
bureau program is simple: we don't submit
what we hope is of interest; we submit what
we know is of interest. We do this by
working directly with conference editorial
teams to determine the best fit among speakers, topics
and forums. We work
with the top management of some of the world's
largest companies, and we know how to get the
right kind of visibility for a deep executive
bench. Our success is based on tightly forged
relationships.

Our successes include top business and industry
forums such as The Commonwealth Club, The
Churchill Club, Forbes CEO and CFO Forums,
Stanford Graduate School of Management, Chicago
Executives Club, University of Michigan Business
School, Yale University’s Graduate School of
Management, Fortune's Brainstorm and Financial
Times Conferences.

Pay for results, not promises

We back up our promise to deliver results with
actual performance guarantee

todaytest 05/05/2007

2007-05-05T09:30:00.001-07:00

Media Analysis, Media Evaluation, Corporate Reputation, Crisis Communication: Cision

Meltwater

Techcrunch Annotated

Great blog with news and announcements about the "Web 2.0" products. Written mostly by Michael Arrington, with occasional guest bloggers. A truly unique view on Web 2.0. - post by codemonkey
TechCrunch profiles and reviews new web 2.0 products and companies. TechCrunch is written by Michael Arrington. - post by freality
great blog
- post by satchmo
Weblog tracking web2.0. - post by drsnyder
I wish he would have responded to ClickGrid.com's press release :( - post by mikepc
Mike is "gesturing" that we check this out. - post by lkraus
I'm using this diggo feature due to techcrunch's hot celebrity endorsement - post by tarajosette
All the news and views of the latest Web 2.0 sites. If you like social networking, bookmark this page and hear about the hundreds that are launching! - post by dcruickers
A weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies. - post by davemorehouse

he same report values Yahoo! at $50 billion; the interest by Microsoft is said to be serious to the point that world renowned bankers G

Good News Holdings: Home

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Threadless T-Shirts - Interviews With Threadless' Finest

Online videos: From home videos to premium internet television content | Veoh Video Network

Thousands of free videos on Veoh.com, your internet television network. Watch and share your own videos. Tag and comment on other videos. Preview hit movies and see some of the famous viral videos heading around the internet right now. - post by stiphen
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Internet Television Peercasting Network - post by sciphex
New better video shows on-line, TV & other things like these. - post by chanio
Veoh is a new type of Television Broadcasting System, using the Internet and Peer-to-Peer technology is used as the broadcast medium. Unlike traditional Television Broadcasting Systems such as Cable or Satellite, Veoh is an OPEN system that allows ANYONE to broadcast Television-Quality Full-Screen video directly to consumers. If you have ever wanted to broadcast your own TV show, Veoh is what you've been dreaming of. No matter if you are a complete novice, or a large Hollywood studio, Veoh provides a broadcasting medium that lets you reach hundreds of millions of users around the world... - post by ycc2106

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Online Postal Mail by Earth Class Mail | Remote Control Mail

Service where you have your postal mail delivered and they scan in the information and you can sort through mail online. You can trash, recycle, ask to open or forward to your location.
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todaytest 04/26/2007

2007-04-26T09:30:00.001-07:00

Why Your Company Needs to Be Here! Annotated

Why Your Company Needs to Be Here!

What makes WebVideo Summit 2007 a can't-miss event?

Internet video requires different choices and skills. Different rules apply to shooting for the Web, where video will be highly compressed:
more contrast, cuts instead of camera motion, foreground action rather than background subtlety. The quality of encoding can make or break the end result, so we'll have the leading engineers representing Flash, Microsoft, MPEG, and Quicktime to help attendees make informed choices and show the latest techniques. Attendees may distribute via a professional sale model (like Akimbo), a program or network creation service (Blip.TV), a consumer-focused site (YouTube), or their own Web site. We'll explain profitable models using peer to peer, including Warner Brothers at Bit Torrent and Mark Cuban at Red Swoosh.

The WebVideo Summit is designed to be the hub of the Video Internet. It will bring together the new pioneers of this exploding industry and will explain what everyone needs to know about shooting, editing, encoding, distributing and promoting Internet videos.

THE
FACTS

Don't think the cost of your product or service is your customers main
criteria when choosing your company as an equipment vendor ...
How can you
differentiate your company from the competition if you're not
there?

How do you most-effectively reach potential buyers in
the least amount of time?
Attendees represent a channel of communication
to multiple influencers within their organizations, which extends the sales
message beyond just the attendee visiting an event.**

36% will share with
1-3 people
35% will share with 4-6 people
9% will share with 7-10
people
20% will share with 11+ people

How do you maximize the ROI
on your overall sales effort?
Statistics clearly prove that
decision-makers take buying actions at trade events, trade events provide the
highest sales call-to-close ratio, more marketing dollars are spent on trade
events than any other marketing or advertising vehicle and trade events provide
the lowest cost-per-sale and the largest profit margins.**

THE
REACH
You'll meet the innovators and technicians who are looking for
your product or service.

Attendees include:

Video shooters
Network executives
Webmasters
Flash Professionals
Internet Entrepreneurs
Investors

Whether they're creating the next Rocketboom, a re-organized Hollywood studio, a politician's campaign, a feature about a ski resort, a business promotion piece, a church program or a new inicarnation of geek TV. They'll find their answers (and your solutions) in San Jose.

Here's how WebVideo Summit will reach into
every corner of the market, bringing buyers to you. We commit to:

Send direct mail marketing material to targeted lists regionally and
worldwide and distribute at industry trade shows
Place advertising in leading industry publications
Partner with industry associations
List conference dates on event calendars throughout the industry
Distribute news releases to industry publications and regional media
Publish the WebVideo Summit Web address [www.webvideosummit.com] on all promotional
material
Include a link from our online exhibitor list to your company’s Web site
Offer the opportunity to add your logo or banner ad to the official event
Web site
Distribute promotional materials through exhibitors, speakers, related
associations and event partners
Send targeted email marketing to our top prospects throughout the pre-event
cycle
Provide customer invitations for the event for you to send to your best
customers, inviting them to visit you at the show
Offer marketing and sponsorship opportunities to maximize your exposure
before and during the event

Make your deal at WebVideo Summit 2007

Contact:
Neil Whitney, Sales Manager
661-257-4161, email Neil

cluetrain manifesto - chapter one Annotated

We die.

You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

"Life is too short," we say, and it is. Too short for office politics, for busywork and pointless paper chases, for jumping through hoops and covering our asses, for trying to please, to not offend, for constantly struggling to achieve some ever-receding definition of success. Too short as well for worrying whether we bought the right suit, the right breakfast cereal, the right laptop computer, the right brand of underarm deodorant.

Life is too short because we die. Alone with ourselves, we sometimes stop to wonder what's important, really. Our kids, our friends, our lovers, our losses? Things change and change is often painful. People get "downsized," move away, the old neighborhood isn't what it used to be. Children get sick, get better, get bored, get on our nerves. They grow up hearing news of a world more frightening than anything in ancient fairy tales. The wicked witch won't really push you into the oven, honey, but watch out for AK-47s at recess.

Amazingly, we learn to live with it. Human beings are i

MediaPost Publications - Reign Of The Plain: Survey Finds Gen Ys Prefer Brand Simple - 04/20/2007 Annotated

Reign Of The Plain: Survey Finds Gen Ys Prefer Brand Simple
by Kevin Ransom, Friday, Apr 20, 2007 5:00 AM ET

A RECENT SURVEY CONDUCTED BY Outlaw Consulting, a San Francisco research firm, concluded that Generation Y trendsetters are more drawn to brands that speak to them in a "straightforward and stripped-down way, use plain packaging, and avoid excess," says Holly Brickley, an Outlaw strategic analyst.

Outlaw surveyed 100 of what it calls its "most forward trendsetter panelists" in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, asking them which companies they most respected, and why.

The sample mostly targeted the first wave of Gen Y consumers, aged 21-27. The goal was to compile a "Trust Index" of brands that evoke "deeply positively feelings" among the trendsetters.

Most of the companies cited by the respondents stress simplicity, says Brickley, who notes that many of their favorite companies, from giants such as Apple to smaller newcomers like Method, are known for keeping things as stripped-down and unadorned as possible - not just in terms of the product's visual appearance but also in the way they organize their offerings. "Apple's computers and iPods are so clean and simple and easy to use," remarked one trendsetter. "No excess."

According to an Outlaw Consulting newsletter, the preference for simplification, lean-and-clean styling and all-in-one convenience could be motivated by environmental concerns. In other words, as the "green lifestyle" is something more and more people aspire to, the notion of excess has fallen into disfavor, notes Brickley, who wrote the report.

The Most Trusted 15 brands named by the trendsetters in the survey were:

Welcome to Web Video Summit 2007 Annotated

todaytest 04/24/2007

2007-04-24T09:30:00.001-07:00

Slacker Radio - Personalized Music Everywhere Annotated

are now playing

The Noisettes Radio

This station plays the best music from The Noisettes and the best music from artists like The Noisettes.

Paul Kedrosky: Some Online Media Picks Annotated

Some Online Media Picks

With some adds this week, here are my current favorite subscriptions for online media. This area is really changing and improving in a hurry:

Research Channel. Think C-Span for academics.
Fora.tv. Thinks C-Span for New York Review of Books readers.
Smashing Telly. Think C-Span for Nova/Frontline fans.
TED. Think C-Span for people to cheap to attend TED.
Pop!Tech. Thanks C-Span for people who are more earthy Maine sorts.
Barron's Video. Think ... Barron's, but on video.

Social Gaming for the Masses: Faketown Relaunches Annotated

genious social gaming site Faketown relaunches with powerful new features focused on personal expression, creativity, and global interaction

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 17, 2006 -– With online networking and tasking becoming an ever-increasing component of everyday life, the masses are about to get clued in on an underground, social gaming phenomenon that over half-a-million international users are already hip to... Faketown (www.faketown.com)!

The public beta of Faketown version 2.0 allows both existing and new users access to the completely overhauled social gaming site. This new iteration of the Faketown virtual world provides powerful, yet easy-to-use content creation tools, real time multi-user chat, plus an onslaught of innovative features, all presented in a fun, retro-styled, pixilated aesthetic.

Boasting the ability to “Design Your Own Identity”, Faketown originated in 2001 as a free online multi-player game. Gaining underground credibility via word of mouth by its early fan base, the site organically grew to over 500,000 residents. Now, with the new version of the site, the company’s primary goal is to foster a virtual community dedicated to creative expression, interaction, and communication on a global level. For the first time, people have a way to feel the power of community and ownership in a virtual world, via a completely browser based, cross platform environment.

Utilizing their avatars, or “Fake I.D.s”, users are able to engage in a variety of interactions. They can own real estate, furnish their homes, create drawings and animations, watch a movie, play games, and of course, chat with other users -- all in real-time. The site is self-governed by its users, who reside in various geographic regions, each having its own political system and social structure.

Using online tools, users (a.k.a. “Fakers”) can buy virtual property in a town and design their own building or home. Once a building is constructed it can be decorated like a dollhouse or as an abstract collage of virtual items that users upload, design online through the site’s integrated tools, or purchase via the Faketown Store or Faketown Auction. A user’s building becomes the equivalent of a "live" home page within a community of other home pages created by people around the world. Your neighbor may live in Sweden, but her virtual home is in Faketown next door to you.

todaytest 04/23/2007

2007-04-23T09:30:00.001-07:00

Faketown 2.0 - The Next Habbo Hotel? Annotated

California-based Faketown is a 6-year old “social game” that quietly relaunched in mid-August, although they’ve yet to announce the change publicly. The site centers around a virtual chat room, and allows users to create, buy, sell, trade and share virtual products, services and real estate - it’s broadly similar to Habbo Hotel, Cyworld and Gaia Online, but with much more freedom to develop your own content. And as it happens, it’s also very, very cool.

Most of the interaction happens within a Flash window, wherein your pixelated pal can explore the sprawling virtual world. You can drop into different locations using the world map, and each town is governed by an elected major. Towns also have their own economies, social systems and varying levels of tax - there are definite echos of Sim City here. Other activities include buying land, furnishing your virtual abode, playing games, creating drawings and animations, uploading MP3s and photos and a whole lot more. It goes without saying that chat is the most used feature, but there’s also a “mobile chat” option for contacting friends who aren’t in your immediate vicinity. And unlike the elevator music that accompanies most of these games, venues in Faketown play mainstream rock and hiphop, uploaded by the users themselves. Just like the new TuneFeed widget from Faces.com, I’ve no idea if it’s legal to broadcast your music collection in this way. That said, it certainly makes the experience more fun.

NewTeeVee » Pluggd Makes Bold Claims, Takes Funding Annotated

Pluggd Makes Bold Claims, Takes Funding

VentureBeat reports Pluggd, a Seattle-based audio and video search startup, has raised $1.65 million from Intel and a group of angels. Pluggd, which we first met at DEMO this year, is trying to use speech recognition tools to help make sense of audio and video podcasts. VentureBeat runs the company’s claim it has “‘perfected the user experience’ for audio and visual search.” While we like what Pluggd is doing, that’s a bit of an overstatement.

First, “visual” is probably a typo for “video”; to our knowledge Pluggd does not have an image recognition product. It’s possible that visual search is in the works, but it’s not even at the demo level yet.

VentureBeat » Pluggd “perfects” audio and video search, raises $1.65M Annotated

Pluggd “perfects” audio and video search, raises $1.65M

By Matt Marshall 12.6.06

Declaring it has “perfected the user experience” for audio and visual search, Seattle start-up Pluggd has raised $1.65 million from Intel and angel investors to help it start distributing its technology.

If you haven’t played with Pluggd, you should. It provides that “wow” experience, giving you what you intuitively want when searching video: a way to skip forward to the exact part of the audio or video file you are looking for. We’ll be hearing more about Pluggd next year, as it begins to cut partnership deals with major publishers, and comes out of the testing phase it launched two months ago.

EXCLUSIVE Q&A with Flock: 19 questions for a startup (because 19 is a good looking prime) (SocialComputingMagazine.com) Annotated

ompany: Flock

Web Site: http://www.flock.com

Blog: http://www.flock.com/blog

Location: Mountain View, CA

Size: 32

Funding: Series C closed in Nov. 05. See below

Summary

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

bunchball - TechCrunch Annotated

I originally wrote about Bunchball during the Web 2.0 conference last fall. They relaunched their product on February 1, 2006

The core technology is the same, but bunchball has changed their interface, focus and messaging. From their profile request:

We’re a place for users to come play multi-player Flash “games” with small groups of friends, or easily take them and put them into their own web pages and blogs, to play with their visitors.

This is the important new thing about Bunchball that we added after the Web 2.0 conference (along with a completely new, 100x better UI) - the ability to take any game and put it into a web page.

Games can be anything from arcade type games to chat, to photo and music sharing.

For developers, we provide quick deployment of existing games (minutes), and an API to our multi-player platform - giving them more opportunities to have their games be viral and the ability to create multiplayer games faster than ever before.

The focus is now on allowing people to easily create flash games, and syndicate them to the edge on blogs and websites. I’ve embedded a version of Asteroids below, which is playable on this site. Games can be multi-player, and chat is integrated. I hope bunchball doesn’t pull an “ajchat” on me and break down.

Bunchball was founded by Rajat Paharia and Sunil Singh and is based in silicon valley.

MySpace Games from Bunchball Annotated

is shaping up to be a nice product. The service allows you to place Flash games on your blog, your MySpace page or virtually any website. That’s a nice idea, but when I tested the service a few months back it just didn’t work right. I returned again today and things are looking better. From the site:

Have a web page somewhere? Take any of our games and put the game directly into your page! Play games with your visitors, or let your visitors compete for the best high score, or chat with them about whatever you want, directly from your page. Once you have an account at Bunchball, all it takes is a couple of clicks to get the code you need. Copy and paste it into your MySpace, TypePad, Piczo, Xanga or other page, and start playing! Check out some examples on our blog and click the “get one free” link on any game to get one for yourself.

Social games on blogs is an idea I tried to pursue last year and ultimately dropped in favor of less taxing projects. So here’s what I’d do if I was in Bunchball’s shoes. First, don’t develop the games. Why bother when you have a whole army of peer producers at your disposal? They’re asking developers to submit games, and I think that’s a good way forward. I don’t know whether this is within their grasp, but I think there’s definitely a market for the Ning of games - a service that makes it easy not only to share games, but to create your own with virtually no effort. Right now you have to be a Flash developer to build a game - it shouldn’t be so. (Admittedly, Ning isn’t delivering on its promise yet, but you get the idea).

MediaPost Publications - Brightcove Partners With Video Analytics Start-Up - 03/19/2007 Annotated

Brightcove Partners With Video Analytics Start-Up
by Shankar Gupta, Monday, Mar 19, 2007 6:00 AM ET

INTERNET TV COMPANY BRIGHTCOVE THIS week is expected to announce a partnership with Visible Measures, a start-up Web video analytics firm that just closed a $5 million round of venture funding from General Catalyst Partners.

Eric Elia, Brightcove's vice president of programming and design, said that one of the company's goals is to bring Web-style analytics to TV content.

"When we started this business, it was our belief that the Internet provided a whole lot of benefits to television and video producers that wasn't available in traditional media," he said. "One of the key pieces that's broken in traditional TV is the reporting and analytics."

Brian Shin, CEO of Visible Measures, said the analytics product allows publishers to track not only videos on their own site, but when their videos are embedded and streamed elsewhere.

"What we're trying to do is create an objective set of metrics that apply in terms of audience engagement, video virality, the distribution of video as it's embedded throughout the Web--if it's watched on a blog or on Facebook, we want to be able to track all of these things," he said.

Elia said that Visible Measures' technology, which monitors user engagement throughout the entire video stream, will help its publisher customers get a better idea of what parts of their videos work, and what parts don't.

"They're not just tracking how many people are watching, they're tracking the full engagement within a video experience," he said. "Visible Measures is going to help our partners better measure what their users are interacting with, and track that engagement over time."

Brightcove hopes that Visible Measures' analytics package will help raise the bar for video analytics. "Ten years ago we tracked hits with Web analytics--that's where we've been as far as online video experiences go," he said. "Visible Measures may help us enrich the tracking around video experiences just as we've seen traditional Web analytics grow over the past 10 years."

Visible Measures will be running a beta test of its analytics package with several of Brightcove's clients, Elia said. In addition to Brightcove, Visible Measures is also partnering with PermissionTV, and has received an endorsement from YouTube's chief marketing officer, Suzie Reider.

Visible Measures Management Team

Live: Brave New Web - Where do I get my Web 2.0? - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews Annotated

Moderator: Is there a Web 2.0 business philosophy?
David: It's about giving up control and giving users ways to engage with your products and services.
Scott: Web 2.0 is hard to define with a great definition. They can adopt ways on a business purpose or a tactical purpose.
Brian: It's about the user centricity. We talk about the new technologies but its about redefining interfaces.
Phil: It's defined as the web talks back and you gotta pay attention to it. Transparency is key.

Moderator: Don't solve easy problems, solve expensive ones. How much does it take to start a web-based business?
Brian: Look at Digg starting for $200.

Moderator: How much can you actually spend if vc wants to give you money?
Phil: When your business is successful, you need money like there is no end. Audit trails, better servers, compliant code, etc. You need to scale out technically and managerially.
Scott: I think you need to bring in some kind of braintrust and you need smart people.
Phil: The challenge is differentiating yourself. Do it, do it well, pick your targets and get people on board.
David: The importance is to catch a wave of opportunity and ride that wave through your execution.

Attendee: It seems the Web 2.0 business model is all or nothing bet because its based on advertising.
David: In the consumer world that is more the case. Think about the enterprise!

Attendee: Do you have any strategies for virality in the enterprise?
Rafe: I don't think of the enterprise as being viral.
David: The enterprise is now about what the employees are using vs. the CIO demanding what they use.

Moderator: Monetization with freemium services comments?
Phil: gotta find the revenues - spread the risk
Brian: if you look at LinkedIn it is an example of this

Attendee: Could panel comment on technical side of Web 2.0? Do you see what technologies are fueling Web 2.0?
Phil: We stand on the shoulders of giants. The key to success is how you package the technologies together. And it has to be able to scale.

There was a bit of talk about security and reliability for Web 2.0 services. There is also talk that Web 2.0 apps can be completely secured.

David: Make your business a viable business without needing a post on TechCrunch.

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Paul Kedrosky: Updated: Top Ten VC Lies Annotated

pdated: Top Ten VC Lies

From a recent (highly playful) presentation of mine, here is my list of the top ten lies venture capitalists tell. Imagine it being read in reverse order, from 10 to 1, a la Letterman:

10. We’re all on the same side here.
9. A lower Series A valuation is good for you too.
8. We’re not funding XXXX companies anymore.
7. I liked it. Really. But we just don’t have the bandwidth right now.
6. We don’t do deals we can’t drive to.
5. Come back when you have a lead investor.
4. Absolutely, we know top people at Google and Yahoo well.
3. Absolutely, we know people at Sequoia and KP well.
2. We love your CEO.
1. I liked it, but I couldn’t get it past my asshole partners.

[Update] A few people has asked for a little more context on some of the above. Most of them are self-explanatory, but I'll add to a couple.

10 -- It is a stretch to say you're all on the same side. Granted, if things are great then you all get wildly rich, but VCs can make some money on deals that make founders nothing.

8 -- VCs often use this one as a crutch, even if the reality is they never say never to anything.

6 -- One of the biggest lies out there. There are virtually no VCs so geographically specific anymore, but that doesn't stop people from using this as an excuse. As I told Brad yesterday, I recently had a Sand Hill VC say the preceding about an East Bay deal. Guess they don't like bridges.

5 -- We never say what we'll do when you do come back.

2 -- This is a fave, and is usually followed by firing the CEO post-close.

1 -- An all-time fave. It lets you say no, blame someone else, and still come across as a great guy. A complete lie nine times out of ten.

[Update 2] I wasn't going to dignify it by a post, and I'm not going to link to it, but a certain gossip site on the web has made a false and highly offensive allegation about the origins of this post. I'm open to ideas what to do about it, because courting controversy is one thing, but making this sort of false allegation in public is something else. Ideas anyone?

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Roundbox | Welcome Annotated

Roundbox Inc. is a leading provider of mobile broadcast software. The company provides client and server software spanning multiple network technologies. Roundbox’s products help mobile operators

and device manufacturers take maximum advantage of broadcast and multicast to enhance both existing revenue-generating services as well as deploy new, differentiated ones.

Overstock.com: 14K Gold Open Link Chain Necklace : Jewelry Annotated

14K Gold Open Link Chain Necklace

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Product Description:

14k Yellow Gold

18 or 20-inch length options available

1.30 mm wide

Open link chain

Spring Ring Clasp

cmware - leading the place-shifting revolution Annotated

Introducing myMobileMedia™ service from CMWare.

Now, mobile subscribers can access their personal digital media
libraries wherever they go. With myMobileMedia™
service from CMWare, it’s easy to turn a mobile phone into
a portable digital media player.

myMobileMedia place-shifts
media stored on your subscribers’ PCs to their mobile handsets,
providing a compelling new value for your wireless data services.
myMobileMedia is the first complete, turn-key PC place-shifting
solution for mobile carriers that works over any mobile network
to reliably deliver digital content in any format, including music
files, pictures and video whether DRM-protected files (from iTunes^TM,
Yahoo!, Napster, etc) or not.

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2007-04-17T09:30:00.001-07:00

Widgetbox › Directory of web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages Annotated

各式嵌入網誌邊欄的 Widget 資訊應用工具。
- post by anoranor
selection of widgets - post by ddddmurphy
Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. - post by jeanmichelg
Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. - post by dauroveras
Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. - post by pistos
For WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages. - post by adrianmuller
widget沢山 - post by komagata
web widgets for blogs and other web pages. They work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace and most any other blog, sidebar or website. No plugins needed. And they're free! - post by hchicha
Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. - post by geneboy
Precreated dynamic content blocks for your website. - post by jaykul

Widgetbox is a directory and syndication platform for web widgets for blogs and other web pages. Our widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites. No plug-ins are needed, and they're free!

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2007-04-14T09:30:00.001-07:00

HTML Image Maps Image Map Rollover Tutorial Annotated

...use these to jump around or read it all

[Preload The Images]
[The Images]
[Main Image]

[The Function]
[The Map]

This is a great effect. Let me tell you what it does first and then you can try it out for yourself. The image below is of an 1864 painting by Francis B. Carpenter entitled "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet". I've always liked it and it lends itself to this
tutorial. The picture is an image map. But wait...there's more.

When you place your pointer over top of Lincoln's face, you will immediately get an enlarged version of the left side of the image. Ditto the guy with the beard, a member of the cabinet, sitting to Lincoln's left. Try it. The map will just flip for you. Once flipped, let your pointer sit for a minute. A tool tip will pop up.

eMarketer.com - Gamer Demographics Spread Out Annotated

Now, advertisers, game developers and console manufacturers are getting a better look at who plays their games. Greater connectivity and digital rights management technologies reveal that although there are still plenty of young male console gamers, casual gamers are predominantly female, according to an Information Solutions Group (ISG) study commissioned by PopCap Games.

PopCap's user base is not the only casual gaming group that skews female. Casual gaming on portals like EA's Pogo and Yahoo! Games are dominated by women, according to veteran game designer Steve Meretsky. Mr. Meretsky revealed the demographic data in a panel sponsorted by the International Game Developers Association, where he listed reasons why casual games attract a more female audience.

Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools Annotated

Google's Acquisitions Chief Looking for `Crazy' Ideas (Update1)

By Peter J. Brennan and Jonathan Thaw

April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. looks for ideas that are
``really crazy'' when sizing up potential purchases, the Internet
company's top dealmaker said.

``We look at everything very carefully,'' Salman Ullah,
Google's director of corporate development, said yesterday in a
speech at a meeting of the Los Angeles Venture Association. ``The
really crazy ones do really well.''

Google, owner of the most-popular Internet search engine,
has about 15 people working on acquisitions that meet with dozens
of companies a week, Ullah said. Mountain View, California-based
Google responds to every e-mail pitching a company, while phone
calls have a 10 percent response rate, he said.

The search engine, which had more than $11 billion in cash
at the end of the fourth quarter, last year bought video-sharing
site YouTube Inc. and DMarc Broadcasting Inc. to move into the
market for radio advertising. Google also bought smaller startups
including online software company JotSpot Inc.

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2007-04-12T09:30:00.001-07:00

The Personal Bee :: Beekeeping Basics Annotated

Beekeeping Basics

The design goal of The Personal Bee is to help users extract topics of recent interest from a collection of RSS feeds, a "Bee edition." The topics of recent interest cannot simply be the most frequently cited topics, but rather topics that are new and/or "rare." Because of a Bee edition's dependency on historical information, its usefulness tends to improve over time.

Technically speaking, the Personal Bee is a basic statistics engine mixed in with a bunch of common sense. A keyphrase parser is used to read each RSS article and extracts and ranks each embedded keyphrase. This method is a form of auto-tagging. In contrast, web services like Delicious and Rojo require an active tagging community. Auto-tagging is not better than community tagging. However, auto-tagging provides a good starting for community taggers. That being said, the Personal Bee will mostly employ tags for personal filing of articles, similar to Gmail's labeling functionality.

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2007-03-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

Nozbe Tour : Getting Things Done via the Web : Nozbe : simple and efficient web-based productivity system Annotated

New! Nozbe Video Tours:
"Projects, actions, notes"
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"Next actions and contexts"
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"Power of reordering"

Nozbe Tour - Project View

Nozbe Tour:
Project View
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Working in Contexts
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Next Actions

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2007-03-20T09:30:00.001-07:00

Changing The Site URL « WordPress Codex Annotated

WordPress stores two addresses inside the database. These determine where your blog files are, and where the main index is. On a normal install, these addresses are the same.

There are two occasions where you will need to access the database to alter one or both of these settings:

If you have tried to alter the Blog URI or WordPress URI in Options and an error has occurred.
If you have moved to a

WPDesigner WordPress Themes » Red Matrix Pill Annotated

I would like the about link and the rabiitHole or blogroll link pages to be listed. I do know where the style section is but do not have any idea where to place the links in order for them to be at the bottom of the page or seperately under the header. I did it a couple of times but the image disappeared and the whole blog moved to the right.

If you have time it would be great if you could tell me exactly where to put the links but if not I’ll work on it over the next few days.

Small Potato, on February 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am Said:

You can go into the style.css file. Find #footer, #footer a, and #footer p.

Copy and paste it wherever you like, in the same file. Now change the newly pasted #footer, #footer a, and #footer p to another name. For example: #toplinks, #toplinks a, and #toplinks p.

Next, open the footer.php file. Find the id=”footer” area, copy that whole section and paste it in the header.php. Within the header.php file, make sure you paste it underneath all the codes that are already in the header.php file.

- After pasting, change the id=”footer” to id=”toplinks”

- Edit the pasted links to match the pages that you’d like to link to.

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2007-03-17T09:30:00.001-07:00

USNews.com: Inside Washington: Ten Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama Annotated

Ten Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama

By Monica Ekman

Posted 1/16/07

Compiled by the U.S. News library staff.

1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.

2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.

3. His childhood nickname was Barry.

4. Obama is the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.

5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.

7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.

8. He loves playing Scrabble.

9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.

10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Movie - Review - New York Times Annotated

In Ken Loach��s movies �� he has made more than 20 in the last 40 years �� characters frequently argue about politics, which is only fitting, since the films themselves are political arguments. There is no point in combing through Mr. Loach��s work for hints of ideological significance. Ideology �� Marxist, anti-imperialist, aligned with the perceived interests of the powerless and the marginal �� is the engine that drives his stories. The clarity and force of those stories is considerable, but their bluntness sometimes sticks in the craw of critics, who often scold Mr. Loach for lacking subtlety.

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But in watching ��The Wind That Shakes the Barley,�� his new film (which won the top prize at Cannes last year), it is possible to appreciate both Mr. Loach��s passion and his sense of nuance. Set in Ireland in the 1920s, the film paints history in stark colors and observes as they blur and bleed. Mr. Loach and Paul Laverty, the gifted screenwriter with whom he regularly collaborates, leave no doubt as to who the villains are in this tale.

From the start, when they raid an Irish farm, the British irregulars known as the Black and Tans are as brutal and sadistic as Hollywood Nazis. The atrocities they commit have an immediate radicalizing effect on the film��s hero, Damien (Cillian Murphy), who abandons his plans to study medicine in London to join the armed uprising against the British.

Injustice, in Mr. Loach��s world, ten

Intelligent Agent Blog: Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management Annotated

1. It is long��and reads more like a published article than a typical blog entry

2. For readers of my subscription-based journal, The Information Advisor, it serves as an online supplement to the March 2007 Knowledge Management Supplement article ��Social Bookmarking as a Knowledge Management Strategy��

3. On April 15th, one month from today, as an experiment on this blog, I will share that full article, which also contains a detailed feature comparison chart of both fee-based and free social bookmarking vendors and sites here on Intelligent Agent

So��here we go.

In the March 2007 Information Advisor "Knowledge Management" supplement I discussed how social book-marking can be used as a means to share knowledge and find internal expertise��in other words to facilitate knowledge management in an organization. I also examined and profiled two leading fee based vendors that have launched a product specifically designed for enterprise use: ConnectBeam and Cogenz

In that article, though I also discussed how certain free, public social bookmarking sites could also be suitable for enterprise use��IF��they offered a ��groups�� function. In other words: the ability to create your own customized group where you could share your bookmarks within a own defined group��such as a workforce team, department, project team, or any other defined group. That article provided a list of social bookmarking firms that fit that criteria, and included a detailed feature comparison chart (to be published here next month). Those free social bookmarking sites that fit my criteria for potential enterprise use are:

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Scrybe Blog Annotated

i'm not sure what's going on

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Improved font sizes on each resolution in ThoughtPad. There were some comments regarding the font size on higher resolutions and yes the fonts were bigger than what we initially intended. This problem is resolved now.

2. In the Insert Multiple Tas

what does this say?
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Plan would harvest energy of human movement

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Tech Startup of the Month: FEED Tribes Inc.

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With Bling, translate your Web site to mobile AJAX

FoneMine: Expand your business into the mobile web

Sundance Channel Adds Social Networking for a Green Cause

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3G Defined

Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets

Mobile: Blyk

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Why Bold Works

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