T-shirts, as you’ll surely agree, play a big part in the design world. Sometimes, we designers don’t get the kinds of projects we want, and so we are left to apply our creativity in some other way, many of us opting to submit graphics in t-shirt competitions or printing them ourselves and selling them through shopping cart systems such as BigCartel. In this post, we bring you a showcase of online t-shirt store Web designs, all of which serves as a great source of inspiration for Web designers, graphic designers and even illustrators.You may be interested in the…
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The Big Showcase Of Online T-Shirt Stores
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The Death of The Boring Blog Post?
19 Nov 2009 | 6:34 amLet’s face it: the classic blog post is boring. Barring the text and images, each one generally has the exact same layout. We see little originality from one post to the next. Of course, consistency and branding are extremely important to consider when designing a website or blog, but what about individuality? Does a blog post about kittens deserve the same layout as one about CSS hacks?Too Easy?Because installing a WordPress theme is so easy, anyone can have a blog up and running in minutes. While this is great, and we now have a wealth of blogs on countless topics, perhaps… -
Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
18 Nov 2009 | 7:23 amButtons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style buttons, including to make them more attractive and to enhance usability. One of the most important reasons, though, is that standard buttons can easily be missed by users because they often look similar to elements in their operating system. Here, we present you several techniques and tutorials to help you learn how to style buttons using CSS. We’ll also address usability.Links vs. buttonsBefore we explain how… -
Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
17 Nov 2009 | 8:20 amThe standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers.This is the nature of the social Web. Social news websites, message boards, social networks, online stores and blogs all have some sort of user interaction going on, whether… -
Brushing Up On Photoshop’s Brush Tool
16 Nov 2009 | 9:54 amWhen laid by a learned hand, brush strokes can convey a sense of energy, tactility and humanness. These qualities speak to your audience’s subconscious, whispering ideas that words alone can’t convey. In the digital realm, a website with beautiful brushwork is a welcome break from the stark precision of most corporate websites.Mastering the digital brush is by no means easy. It carries the same difficulties as the sable brush hidden at the bottom of your art bin. In fact, the difficulty is multiplied by the disconnect between the hand and monitor. Developing Photoshop…
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A List Apart
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On Web Typography
17 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amUntil now, chances are that if we dropped text onto a web page in a system font at a reasonable size, it was legible. But with many typefaces about to be freed for use on websites, choosing the right ones to complement a site's design will be far more challenging. Many faces to which we’ll soon have access were never meant for screen use, either because they’re aesthetically unsuitable or because they’re just plain illegible. Jason Santa Maria, a force behind improved type on the web, presents qualities and methods to keep in mind as we venture into the widening world of web type. -
Real Web Type in Real Web Context
17 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amWeb fonts are here. Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, it's time to think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Above all, we need to know how our type renders in screens, in web browsers. To that end, Tim Brown has created Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource web designers and type designers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web. -
Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 amIt's hard for clients to understand the true value of user experience research. As much as you'd like to tell your clients to go read The Elements of User Experience and call you back when they’re done, that won’t cut it in a professional services environment. David Sherwin creates a cheat sheet to help you pitch UX research using plain, client-friendly language that focuses on the business value of each exercise. -
You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners
3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am"Content-rich" is not enough. Most websites are not learner-friendly. As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable. Amber Simmons tells how to begin creating rich content sites that invite and repay exploration and discovery. -
Getting to No
20 Oct 2009 | 3:00 amA bad client relationship is like a bad marriage without the benefits. To avoid such relationships, or to fix the one you’re in, learn the five classic signs of trouble. Recognizing the never-ending contract revisionist, the giant project team, the vanishing boss and other warning signs can help you run successful, angst-free projects.
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How to Create a Magician’s Hat in Photoshop
20 Nov 2009 | 8:03 amIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how a magician’s hat can be designed in Photoshop. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and other Shape Tools. It shows a distinct use of different blending modes and focuses on other lighting techniques. Shadows are also explained in the tutorial and we’ll reveal some great beginner techniques. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. You can view… -
Dirty Design: Create a Grungy Thriller Book Cover
19 Nov 2009 | 6:39 amWe’re often told to not judge a book by its cover, but in most cases we do. If a book doesn’t have a nice cover, it probably wouldn’t catch our attention in the first place. In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you how to create a dirty grunge book cover design complete with bleeds! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4… -
Create an Awesome 3D Anaglyph Poster – Psd Plus Tutorial
18 Nov 2009 | 8:01 amWe have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your 3D poster skills to the next level, then we have an awesome retro tutorial for you. Learn how to make and put to use Stereoscopic 3D images in Photoshop. Learn more at the jump! This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Before the advent of computers, the movie industry relied on stop-frame or stop-motion animation to bring their monsters to life; special effect artists such as Ray Harryhausen used this technique on classics such as “One Million Years BC” and “The… -
Learn How to Draw Hand-crafted Pixel Art in Photoshop
17 Nov 2009 | 7:58 amIn this tutorial, legendary Aussie illustrator Russel Tate teaches you how to draw with pixels. You’ll learn how to create awesome artwork in the style of eBoy and Army of Trolls. This article was kindly shared with Psdtuts+ by iStockphoto as part of a knowledge exchange between the two sites. Read on and enjoy! To celebrate this knowledge exchange, iStockphoto have created a special 15% discount for Psdtuts+ readers. Introduction Pixel illustrations are great for making computer icons, isometric images and even whole scenes. They can be made quickly and easily using Photoshop with a… -
How to Create a Contemporary Style Illustration Without Drawing Skills – Screencast
16 Nov 2009 | 11:19 am“There are many ways to illustrate and be creative even if you can’t draw so well. If you’ve got an imagination and some Photoshop skills, then you can create illustrations that are bang on trend. I’ll take you through the necessary steps to get you on your way to creating artworks of your own. The aim of this tutorial though, is not to teach you how to rip off the style, but to show you how to create illustrations without needing to outdraw Da Vinvi. The hope is that you’ll follow and use these techniques to work within your own style! “James Davies Here…
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Coding Clean and Semantic Templates
18 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amIf you are the guy who uses <div> tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of <div> tag. Have you ever edited someone’s templates, don’t those messy tags drive you crazy? Not only writing clean templates can benefit yourself, but your team as well. It will save you time when you have to debug and edit (particularly the large projects). (more…) -
5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties
9 Nov 2009 | 9:10 amThis post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2 properties such as: clip, min-height, white-space, cursor, and display that are widely supported by all browsers. So, don’t miss this post because you might be surprised how useful they are. (more…) -
Fireworks vs Photoshop Compression
30 Oct 2009 | 1:32 amSurprisingly enough, based on the findings from my recent survey there are quite a bit of Fireworks users. Personally, I never used Fireworks. Photoshop is alway my first choice for designing—from image editing to designing mock-ups. But, did you know that Fireworks is way better than Photoshop in term of image compression? I’m not a software engineer, I can’t explain why Fireworks can compress better. But I can prove it to you by showing a series of experiments I did. (more…) -
iPhone App Site Design Trends
20 Oct 2009 | 1:47 amTo compete with thousands of iPhone apps in the App Store, having a good app icon is not enough. A nicely designed website for the app is very important. A beautiful website helps to drive traffic in and also makes your app stand out from the crowd. This post showcases a gallery of appealing iPhone app sites and common design trends that I see. (more…) -
FOWD NYC 2009 Ticket Giveaway
17 Oct 2009 | 11:49 pmThe Future of Web Design (FOWD) is returning to New York City on 16th & 17th of November! If you haven’t heard of FOWD, it’s a conference which brings together the web industry’s leading designers and delivers two days of workshops and talks from the likes of Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria, Molly Holzschlag, Joshua Davis, Vimeo and lots more. I have one conference pass to giveaway. Enter a comment in this post before November 3rd, 2009 for your chance to win a ticket. Update: The winner is: #178. (more…)
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Things I Saw Today
18 Nov 2009 | 12:56 pmA nice tutorial on creating your own textured backgrounds from two stock images by Ali Felski (who’s site is beautifully textured in its own right). Ligature, Loop & Stem, “creators and curators of fine typography-related products”, has launched. Ingenious site layout and presentation, and some wonderful ampersand-related products are already for sale. Microsoft announced an early look at IE9 for developers. Notable stuff includes support for the border-radius property. No vendor-specific extension. Good reason to include actual CSS3 properties along with… -
Hooray Coffee
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15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee
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Things I Saw Today
10 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmTypekit, “… a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts”, is now live and available to all. A superb desktop wallpaper by Alex Cornell. Loving the subtle text and texture of this one. Looks nice on the iPhone as well. (via ISO50) Birdhouse for Your Soul is a touching post by Greg Knauss on why he loves the internet. Absolutely worth a read. (via) Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Flyin’ has a new iPhone app out that boasts, “… 1,000 Minipops on your iPhone/iPod touch which you can look at whenever and wherever you want.”… -
Think Vitamin interview
6 Nov 2009 | 8:18 amA quick interview with Carsonified’s Keir Whitaker, on bulletproof design, CSS3 and a little leak on what Dribbble is.
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Font Hunt
18 Nov 2009 | 3:26 pmGiving back to Twitter department: earlier in the month I asked people who follow me on Twitter for recommendations for new typefaces. What I was looking for was an alternative to the typeface Klavika, which I quite like; it’s among the very best fonts that have been released in the recent past, in my opinion. Inconveniently for me, I somewhat subjectively regard Klavika as having been ‘claimed’ by a friend of mine who uses it more consistently and more effectively than I do. So I wanted something of my own, something similarly contemporary and similarly strong in… -
The Pencil Factory Has ”Fifteen Uses for Newsprint”
18 Nov 2009 | 2:07 pmFifteen Brooklyn illustrators reminds us of various other useful applications for newsprint. On sale for US$10. -
Introducing Basic Maths, a Theme for WordPress
14 Nov 2009 | 7:58 amThings that have been keeping me from blogging: raising a brand new baby, having grown-up time with my girlfriend, walking my dog, holding down a day job and, now finally revealed: working on Basic Maths, a brand new theme for WordPress that I designed with my friend Allan Cole. After months of plugging away at in during whatever free time we’ve been able to find, we’re finally releasing it into the wild today, to coincide with WordCampNYC 2009. (In fact, I’m heading over to that conference later today, and Allan will be speaking there early this afternoon, so if… -
Watching Yankees Spending
8 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pmLast Wednesday The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their twenty-seventh World Series. After a nine year title drought, the victory predictably thrilled Yankees fans like myself while also re-igniting the old complaint that the franchise is a bully in the baseball market, that the team uses an obscenely resourceful payroll to effectively and unfairly buy championships. Actually, the pilot light for that particular criticism never goes out, whether the team has won or lost its most recent bid for the World Series (or even when they make no post-season appearance at… -
Hey Oscar Wilde, It’s Clobberin’ Time!
6 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pmVarious comics artists interpret their favorite literary figure/author/character. Pretty entertaining.
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5 More Helpful Video Quick Tips
20 Nov 2009 | 11:56 amAs many of you might know, I post a sporadic video quick tip on Twitter once a week or so. For those of you who don’t follow us, here are the latest five. You’ll learn how to select anything and everything with jQuery, how to log PHP errors to a text file, how to change your website’s background with each WordPress post, and more. Each video does not exceed five minutes. How to Change your Website’s Background with Each WordPress Blog Post Watch on your iPhone Download the Mp4 Further Reading on this Subject How to Rename the jQuery “$” Symbol Watch on your… -
Sorting Values with JavaScript
19 Nov 2009 | 11:29 amLists and tables are often the best way to display data on the web; but you shouldn’t have to worry about sorting that information manually. In today’s tutorial, you’re going to make a jQuery plugin that will put all your ducks in a row with JavaScript ease! Preface So, how exactly does sorting work in JavaScript? It’s not too complicated: any array object has a sort method. If you don’t pass it any parameters, it will convert the objects in the array to strings, sort them pseudo-alphabetically, and return them. Usually, this is terrible; consider sorting the… -
How to Build a Custom jQuery Tabs Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
18 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pmIn this week’s 45 minute Plus video tutorial, I’ll personally teach you how to build a flexible jQuery tabs plugin. This plugin will automatically create the individual tabs, allow for auto-switching, fading, and plenty more – without being bloated. Why create a tabs plugin when there are plenty of them already available? Because too much abstraction is never a good thing. Become a Plus member. Join Tuts Plus For those unfamiliar, the family of TUTS sites runs a premium membership service called “TUTSPLUS”. For $9 per month, you gain access to exclusive premium… -
Build an RSS 2.0 Feed with CodeIgniter
18 Nov 2009 | 11:19 amIn this tutorial, we will build a RSS 2.0 Feed with the PHP framework CodeIgniter. After this tutorial, you will be able to build a feed for any custom website in no time at all. Tutorial Details Program: CodeIgniter PHP Framework Version: 1.7.1 Difficulty: Easy Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes Step 1: What we Need First, we’ll take a look at the tools needed to get started. Besides an installation of CodeIgniter, we need a running MySQL database with some content from which we can build our feed. For this purpose, here are some dummy entries you can import. Create a database… -
20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners
17 Nov 2009 | 11:39 amEven for experience designers, building email newsletters isn’t easy. You receive a lovely looking design, and you crack on with the development. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work as it should in every email clients. Styles don’t display, images aren’t visible, etc. This is where these twenty best practices come in handy. 1: Keep the Design Simple Emails are not like complex website designs; they should be nicely designed, but somewhat basic. Try basing your designs on a main header image followed by the main content. The cleaner the design, the easier it will be to…
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Daily Inspiration #359
20 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pmThis post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image"… -
The Future of Newspaper Design
20 Nov 2009 | 11:32 amI saw this post today on core77 and I thought it was a great story to share it with our Abduzeedo readers. I'm sure you've all heard the notion that "print is a dying medium." Advertising in print is down, and seems to continue declining, because more people are going online to read content. So what do we do? Do we just write Print's obituary and sit around remembering it fondly, or do we try to salvage it? A brand new daily publication in Portugal, simply titled i, is trying something new and they are getting positive results. i's circulation had increased from 11,000 in May to 16,000 in… -
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #24
20 Nov 2009 | 9:06 amI will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#24 and make sure to comeback for more next week. <!--break--> Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts Champagne & Limousines by Nymphont Download Champagne & Limousines Copper Penny by M.G. Adkins Download Copper Penny Oloron by Michel Bujardet Download Oloron Will & Grace by Harold's Fonts Download Will & Grace About the authorHi! I'm Paulo… -
Sites of the Week #78
20 Nov 2009 | 2:07 amFor this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Design Fruit and Poccuo. Also we're featuring a great app called Bidsketch, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site. <!--break--> You can send me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the message. DESIGN / CSS Poccuo - poccuo.com It's a Thursday in November. We're growing curious about the perpetually broken escalators at the north exit of… -
Picasso Superheroes by Mike Esparza
20 Nov 2009 | 1:11 amWe love comic books and superheroes and it's hard to explain why, however we could say that it's one of our first contacts with art, even though they are commercial. Now imagine if a famoust artist like Pablo Picasso were alive and decided to paint about superheroes? That is what Mike Esparza decided to play with, he created a superhero series with the Picasso's Cubist style. I get a lot of my inspiration from comic books, movies, music and observing other artwork. When I paint, I tend to bend the rules a little, but try to keep my subject recognizable so the audience can still connect with…
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'1 million newborns die every yr in India'
20 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pmAlmost 20 years after India signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, experts are now looking at the glass as half full, on indicators related to child survival and development. -
From car cleaners to class toppers
20 Nov 2009 | 1:18 pmNestled in the Aravallis and about 190 kms from Delhi, Bal Ashram's four-acre campus is a different world from the sweat shops, factories and farms familiar to the kids. -
SC panel wants Reddys to stop 'illegal' mining
20 Nov 2009 | 1:14 pmKarnataka's Reddy brothers have been slammed by the Supreme Court's high-powered environment panel which has accused their Obulapuram Mining Company of indulging in largescale illegal mining. -
'No better time to be a communist in US'
20 Nov 2009 | 12:06 pmThe international conference of communist and workers' parties began amidst a call to intensify popular struggles and expand solidarities in the wake of the current world capitalist crisis. -
Snowstorm kills 8 in Rohtang
20 Nov 2009 | 12:01 pmEight people crossing the Rohtang Pass on foot were killed on Friday when they were hit by a snow storm.
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Pakistan-based terrorist groups plotting more attacks: Manmohan - Hindu
20 Nov 2009 | 1:37 pmIndian ExpressPakistan-based terrorist groups plotting more attacks: ManmohanHinduWashington: As the first anniversary of November 2008 Mumbai attacks nears, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said he received intelligence inputs daily that suggest that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting more 26/11-like strikes in India. PM's state visit to showcase strong Indo-US relationshipHindustan TimesGovt plays down pm's US trip, delinks it from Obama's China visitIndian ExpressIndian officials wary after perceived White House slightsWashington PostTimes of India -Chandigarh… -
Sena activists attack IBN offices in Mumbai, Pune - Hindu
20 Nov 2009 | 1:37 pmSINDH TODAYSena activists attack IBN offices in Mumbai, PuneHinduVANDALISM: Broken glass, upturned chairs and shocked faces at the offices of IBN7 and IBN Lokmat in Mumbai after an attack by Shiv Sena activists on Friday. Mumbai: In a shocking incident threatening the freedom of speech and expression in Maharashtra, Will act against the ringleaders: ChavanIBNLive.comSena men vandalise IBN officeDeccan HeraldShiv Sainiks on the rampage againDaily News & AnalysisExpress Buzz -The Hindu -Times of Indiaall 155 news articles » -
Govt plans to pass National Green Tribunal Bill this session - Economic Times
20 Nov 2009 | 1:29 pmDeccan HeraldGovt plans to pass National Green Tribunal Bill this sessionEconomic Times21 Nov 2009, 0254 hrs IST, PTI New Delhi: The government will try to pass a bill on setting up of a special tribunal, which will settle environment disputes, in the current Parliament session, Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said on India can win Nobel for filth, says Jairam RameshTimes of IndiaIndia deserves Nobel for dirt, filth: JairamHindustan TimesIndia to release 'green GDP' data from 2015Financial ExpressBusiness Standard -The Hinduall 114 news articles » -
Manu parole: HC pulls up Delhi govt - Economic Times
20 Nov 2009 | 1:29 pmThe HinduManu parole: HC pulls up Delhi govtEconomic TimesNEW DELHI: The Shiela Dikshit government got severe judicial caning for its indulgence towards high-profile convicts. The Delhi High Court said that the way parole was granted to Jessica Lall's murderer Manu Sharma was a clear case of selective Manu Sharma parole lands Sheila Dikshit in dockDaily News & AnalysisParole isn't only for rich and powerful: SC to GovtIBNLive.comLawyer standing by his convictionsGulfNewsTehelka -Press Trust of India -MyNews.inall 29 news articles » -
China has stake in S Asia peace: Mirwaiz - Indian Express
20 Nov 2009 | 1:19 pmIndian ExpressChina has stake in S Asia peace: MirwaizIndian ExpressA day after revealing that he was visiting China, Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said China had a stake in peace in South Asia as part of Kashmir was under its control. Adressing the Friday congregation at Srinagar's Jamia Masjid, China invites Mirwaiz. Revenge for Dalai's Arunachal visit?Daily News & AnalysisDelhi turns tables on Beijing over Mirwaiz trip to ChinaDeccan HeraldChina has 'direct link with Kashmir', says Mirwaiz ahead of visitSifyHindustan Times -Rising Kashmir -Times…
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Can Pakistan own up to Kasab’s roots?
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The pseudo peace prophet
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Ranbaxy recalls acne drug from US market
20 Nov 2009 | 9:36 amGurgaon-based Ranbaxy voluntarily recalled 40 mg capsules of isotretinoin, the chemical ingredient in Accutane, the company said in a statement on Friday -
The Week in review for 20 Nov 2009
20 Nov 2009 | 9:26 amNaresh Goyal could reduce his stake in Jet Airways; Supreme Court says petroleum ministry can become party to Reliance gas dispute; videogame stirs up controversy -
CNBC-TV18, Awaaz merge operations
20 Nov 2009 | 9:17 amThere are 1,100 employees in the two channels, according to a person familiar with the development, who declined to be named. That would put the number of job losses at 132
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Gap between India, US emissions goals grows wider
20 Nov 2009 | 10:45 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and Prime minister meet next week to talk about climate change the leaders will focus on green technologies rather than narrowing the global divide on greenhouse gas emissions goals, the chairman of the U.N.'s climate science panel said. -
Police expose Europe's biggest match-fixing ring
20 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amBOCHUM, Germany (Reuters) - A match-fixing ring with more than 200 suspected members fixed or tried to fix around 200 matches across Europe, including three in the Champions League, in what UEFA called the biggest betting scandal in Europe. -
Q+A - India, U.S. seek to move "beyond cliches" on ties
20 Nov 2009 | 10:30 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives on Monday in Washington on the first state visit of the Obama administration -- a tribute, both sides say, to the close natural ties between the two giant democracies. -
Reuters Summit - India on recovery trail, but challenges loom
20 Nov 2009 | 8:28 amMUMBAI (Reuters) - India evaded the eye of the storm that sucked the global economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, and has emerged, along with China, as a leader of the nascent worldwide recovery. -
Govt to amend cane price rule after farmers' protests
20 Nov 2009 | 7:15 amNEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government will change a new sugarcane pricing rule that provoked protests, putting the onus back on mills to pay the difference if state governments raise floor rates fixed by the central government.
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Gold buy to contain Rupee volatility
20 Nov 2009 | 12:57 pmThe recent mega gold purchase by the Reserve Bank was to smoothen the exchange rate volatility arising from the changes in the valuation of US dollar, the Lok Sabha was informed today. -
New RBI riders on Essar Tele's issue
20 Nov 2009 | 12:40 pmReserve Bank of India has laid fresh conditions to allow Essar Tele’s Rs 4,280 crore bond issue to go through. The central bank has said that Essar will have to be more specific on the end use of the funds. -
RBI sets fresh riders on Essar Tele’s bond issue, wants end-use details
20 Nov 2009 | 12:40 pmReserve Bank of India has laid fresh conditions to allow Essar Tele’s Rs 4,280 crore bond issue to go through. The central bank has said that Essar will have to be more specific on the end use of the funds. -
Govt decides against rice imports
20 Nov 2009 | 12:16 pmThe Indian government said on Friday that it will not import rice for now. -
Gold at record high above $1,150
20 Nov 2009 | 12:14 pmGold prices scaled historic heights above $1,150 per ounce this week, buoyed by the weak greenback and recent central bank purchases of the precious metal, analysts said.
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Friday Photo of the Week #80
20 Nov 2009 | 6:50 amColoured Destinies Even though we wear the same colours we chart our own destinies. [click on image to enlarge] Selected by Anil. Join the DesiPundit India through Flickr group to see your photos here. This group is administered by Akshay Mahajan. Other notables are: Ticking Away In ticking, past landscapes help time linger on even as it hurries along. Binding Factor The land binds man and animal while helping man retain his faith in his own humanity. The Shadow Every once in a while let your shadow lead you. Maybe in the outline it casts at your feet, it’ll help you fill in the void… -
Kurbaan Movie Review : Kuch kuch terrorism hai?
20 Nov 2009 | 6:27 amCast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri Direction: Rensil D’Silva Rating: One and a half stars I desisted from writing an instant-noodle review of Kurbaan. I said I wouldn’t, there’s no point etc. Because it raised my hackles to the extent that I wondered whether I was responding to this… See Also: India-related Tweets: Use #india tag to add your tweets © Khalid Mohamed for DesiPundit, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: -
Part Of The Picture: Life Goes On
20 Nov 2009 | 5:18 amLIFE GOES ON NOV 21, 2009 – WHEN A WOMAN DISAPPEARS ON A CRAGGY Mediterranean island – literally disappears, vanishes into thin air (or the surrounding water) – what is one to make of this occurrence? In a mainstream movie, this would be the mysterious motor that powers the narrative. Who… See Also: India-related Tweets: Use #india tag to add your tweets © brangan for DesiPundit, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: -
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan on drought in India
20 Nov 2009 | 2:17 amMy father recalled sometime back the terrible drought that happened when he was a child: since the grains were running low, my grandfather would go out and dig tubers from surrounding fields, my grandmother would make something out of it for the kids. It is an experience that is far removed from my… See Also: India-related Tweets: Use #india tag to add your tweets © The Scientific Indian for DesiPundit, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: -
Test Your Global IQ
20 Nov 2009 | 1:26 amWhat is your knowledge about global affairs, particularly in relation to India? I re-did some Pew quiz questions to suit India. The format is the same, but the questions are now India centered. So take the plunge and check your global IQ! The answers to the questions are given below. It’s an… See Also: India-related Tweets: Use #india tag to add your tweets © Nita for DesiPundit, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags:
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asklaila launches Voice Search (Call Center Based)..Feasibility vs. Monetization
20 Nov 2009 | 5:33 amaskLaila has launched Voice based search (yes!! voice based, i.e. call center driven) in Bangalore and plans to expand to other cities in near future. askLaila earlier tried voice recognition (did pilot/PoC with another startup) and while the company tried to get it rolling, Indian accents/dialects just do not gel well with voice recognition (Google’s voice search is a big failure, by all means). In order to use askLaila’s service, just call 080-33555555 and you will be connected to an agent who will help you with the query (just like JustDial (yes! they will always be compared with JD,… -
Its Official: Skype Deal Closed For Whopping $2.75 Billion
20 Nov 2009 | 1:32 amSo in the end, ebay, the online auction company sold Skype for $2.75 billion to investors group led by Silver Lake. At last the two architects of popular peer-to-peer calling service providers got something to cheer about as they bagged two seats on the Board of Directors. There has been on going controversy over copyright of Skype software between ebay and co founders of Skype for quite a while. After a bitter battle over misuse of code and copyright infringement, the founders of Skype dropped their lawsuits against ebay. As a part of this deal, the lion’s share belongs to Silver… -
Hey Google India – Have some mercy on the Indian Kid [Doodle]
19 Nov 2009 | 10:30 pmGoogle India launched ‘Doodle 4 Google – My India’ contest in August and the results were announced on November 14th (Children’s Day). Gurgaon based Puru Pratap, Class 4 student won the contest for the following logo The fun doesnt’ end here. Puru won a laptop for himself, t-shirt with his doodle and Rs. 1 lakh for his school. Awesome, if you ask me! What’s the big deal, if you ask? Puru’s counterparts in US (and UK), i.e. kids who won the Doodle contest received $15,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to the Google New York Office, a… -
Herd Mentality Continues- Indiatimes Does a Redesign
19 Nov 2009 | 10:15 pmIndiaTimes has redesigned its homepage. Looks like redesign is the only answer that media biggies find to address the stagnant growth. The redesign seems to come form “Rediff did it, so even we should try it”, herd mentality. Here are some features of the new design: The look and feel has more white into it. All the NEW tags have gone, thankfully. The text to background color contrast has diminished. All the element are mostly same except a time based browsing element. They are announcing ”India’s Largest Music Store”, very soon. And it has gone into Beta. -
News Bytes: TripAdvisor: IRCTC, IPL Theatre Rights
19 Nov 2009 | 8:12 pmTripAdvisor has partnered with IRCTC to power travel review content on IRCTC website. IRCTC drives 33% of total tickets sold by Indian railways and the deal is surely a big entry for TripAdvisor on India’s most successful ecommerce website. TripAdvisor also licenses it’s travel reviews to Google. IPL Theatre Rights And now, you can watch IPL matches on theatres, buses, trains etc. IPL has announced that Entertainment & Sports Direct (ESD) has made the highest bid for the Indian Premier League’s (IPL’s) theatrical rights to matches in the league to be played in Seasons 2010…
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FT.com - India
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India losing English advantage to China
19 Nov 2009 | 12:07 pmIndia is rapidly losing an economic advantage, with the number of Chinese able to speak English now on a par with its rival, a British Council study shows -
India's billionaires outstrip US counterparts
19 Nov 2009 | 2:09 amIndia's billionaires secure more wealth than their US counterparts in 2009 according to Forbes rich list, in a further sign the subcontinent is recovering faster than western economies -
Three arrested in Vedanta plant deaths probe
17 Nov 2009 | 10:52 amIndian police arrest an executive and two other officials from the Indian subsidiary of Vedanta for alleged negligence in connection with the collapse of a power plant chimney that killed 41 people -
Michelin to invest $870m in India
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India bans 'pay as you go' in restive Kashmir
16 Nov 2009 | 8:41 amMobile phone users in India's Kashmir region are upset over a government decision to ban pre-paid mobile phone services in order to avoid "misuse" of the phones by terrorists
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The India Uncut Blog
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‘Nokia Hum Aapko Denge’
18 Nov 2009 | 6:01 pmVia @saba_imtiaz, here’s a speech that’s surely going to become a YouTube classic: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari giving a speech to (presumably) his party workers in accented Urdu: At the end of his speech, he’s like Rohit Verma and Vindu Dara Singh from Bigg Boss combined: Rohit’s hysteria, Vindu’s raw aggro. My advice to young Bilawal: try decaf. He sounds like he had 17 risterttos before breakfast, no? The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic -
A Bad Name For The Family
18 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pmThe Times of India has a news report up about a 12-year-old-girl raped in a moving car. This happened in Palam, near the IGI airport in Delhi, where this seventh-standard girl was taken for a drive by her neighbours. “The car had tinted dark windows and I couldn’t see anything,” the girl said. She was raped by both men. A senior cop has been quoted as saying, “The accused threatened the girl not to report the matter to the police.” And then: The girl, however, recounted her ordeal to her parents who landed up at the Palam Village police station to lodge a case. -
Solid Waste Management
14 Nov 2009 | 2:42 amThis is quite the quote of the day: The accidents are not my responsibility as I am not in charge of solid waste management. Here’s the context. I’m not trying to make a point here—the quote, by itself, just seems to capture something of our zeitgeist. Doesn’t it? The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic -
The Ministry of Masturbation
13 Nov 2009 | 8:18 pmThe Guardian reports: It is a subject that would make most governments blush, but officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major programme to encourage what could be described as a more hands-on approach to sexuality. The region’s socialist government has launched a €14,000 (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure” – or to put it less delicately: masturbation. “Pleasure is in your own hands” is the slogan of a campaign that has sparked… -
Where Your Taxes Go: 43
12 Nov 2009 | 7:52 amOn doing up BS Yeddyurappa’s home. The Times of India reports: An RTI reply has revealed that Yeddyurappa has [...] spent a staggering Rs 1.7 crore to renovate his bungalow, Rs 35 lakh of which went into redoing his bedroom. [...] Renovation and fittings of the master bedroom cost Rs 34.55 lakh. This includes toilet works and interiors at Rs 10 lakh, marble flooring at Rs 10 lakh, a false ceiling and wall designs at Rs 4.40 lakh and Rs 10.15 lakh for gypsum board and wall panelling. Since that’s our money, that’s our bedroom, and we should all be allowed access. How would…
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A wide angle view of India
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Test Your Global IQ
20 Nov 2009 | 1:26 amWhat is your knowledge about global affairs, particularly in relation to India? I re-did some Pew quiz questions to suit India. The format is the same, but the questions are now India centered. So take the plunge and check your global IQ! View This Pollopinion View This Pollpoll View This Pollpolls View This Pollopinion View This Pollpolls View This Pollsurvey software View This Pollpolls View This Pollpolling View This Pollopinion View This Pollonline surveys The answers to the questions are given below. It’s an upside down image. Save it and rotate it on your pc to get the correct… -
Wishing and Hoping…My Bucket List – (Tag)
18 Nov 2009 | 8:31 amI was tagged by Minal, a new blog friend. She has tagged me to write my wish list. And my done list. So here it is guys and girls, and it’s not long, but more or less encapsulates my life. I have done tags and memes before, but of late have been a quite lazy about them. This one I did as it didn’t require much work! :) My Bucket List: TO DO LIST:- 1) I cannot help but start with what Minal has written, because it is on my agenda too. I do it off and on, but it’s always cooking on burning hot coals, and it’s the thing I am going to devote a certain part of my life… -
What is Sachin Tendulkar really like?
16 Nov 2009 | 7:30 pmI am not a great fan of cricket but there are some sports people whom I am in awe of. Sachin Tendulkar is certainly one of them. A lot is being written about him of late, because he completed 20 years in international cricket. He’s lasted, unlike many others. However Sachin has always been a bit of a reserved person and I have always been curious as to what he is really like, inside. There is no way of knowing, unless ofcourse one knows him well. I had no hopes of doing that, so the next best thing was to see whether his hand revealed it. Some of my readers know that I am a palmist, but… -
Don’t be cheap, be smart
15 Nov 2009 | 9:39 pmBeing cheap hurts. It hurts the earth, it hurts people, it hurts the economy, and it hurts you too. Ever think of the things you buy just because they are cheap, some of them you don’t even need? Cheap products are usually a bad decision. To keep their products cheap, companies break environment guidelines, bribe officials to pass cheap unsafe materials, hire non-qualified people, exploit workers, use child labour or use hazardous materials in the product or in the packaging. These products not only harm consumers, they harm the image of one’s country as well, and this impacts its… -
Should women spend their income on family expenses?
9 Nov 2009 | 1:20 amA reader, Rohit, sent me an email asking me my opinion on an issue many couples face. This problem afflicts a small section of urban educated couples, but it does seem to have become a serious source of conflict and at times it can lead to a break-up. The question is: Should a working couple share the financial burden equally? A part of Rohit’s email: With changing times in educated urban class dowry is no more. Since the girls are also working and earning more the Indian girl has to share the marriage, honeymoon & family expenses equally along with boy. But Indian girls are using word…
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Swaroop C H - India, Life, Technology, Productivity
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Leaving IonLab
13 Nov 2009 | 5:05 amYesterday was my last day at IonLab, the company that I built with a few friends. It has been a wild ride but I could continue no longer. I am leaving due to internal differences on the progress and transparency in the company. We have been well-supported in our experience, right from a Govt. of India grant to being one of the few to be selected as a TiE Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program mentee. We owe special gratitude for the people who made that happen and supported us. But as any been-there-done-that startupper would expect, we delivered on technology, but we sorely lacked in maturity… -
An interactive version of A Byte of Python
9 Nov 2009 | 5:00 amRoorky is a new startup that has created a new file format and software for interactive books. As part of the default installation of the software, they are bundling A Byte of Python free with the software. What is interesting is that this may help complete beginners who stumble in getting started with IDLE, etc. The most common email that I get asked is when people run python abc.py on the IDLE interpreter prompt and wonder why it is not working – both the concepts of two command lines as well as the concept of running a program is not grokked well by beginners who are getting started,… -
What I learned at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009
5 Nov 2009 | 11:30 amThere are not enough good problems that tech startups are working on and there seems to be no shortage of funds, platforms and ecosystem partners willing to help startups. The ecosystem is hungry for successes. Product Management skills are the need of the hour, NOT talks about talks about opportunities in X sector, and so on. When there is no culture of knowing how to execute, rest of the topics are moot points. ⇒ Read more at our event coverage at StartupDunia.com. Update: This has been cross-posted to the official NASSCOM Emerge blog. © swaroop for Swaroop C H - India, Technology,… -
To get somewhere, you already have to be there
13 Oct 2009 | 2:17 amThe irony in this world is that “To get somewhere, you already have to be there.” From an individual perspective: If you want to make money, you need to already have money. To get a job, you need to be one-year experienced and not a fresher. If you’re experienced and want to apply for a job that you really want to work on, you should already have the background of working in that area, and you should already know how to do all that the job entails. If you want to write a book, publisher expects you to have already written a book before. To be listened to, you need to be an… -
Mobile App market in India
6 Oct 2009 | 6:22 amThinking from an entrepreneurial angle, it seems to me that there is almost no mobile app market in India today i.e., it is not a startuppable market. All the successful apps that are making money are transaction-based. For example, ngpay takes a cut from every movie ticket you buy through it. This is only possible for entertainment-oriented apps. The only other successful ones that I see are, of course, communication apps such as Gmail app. I see almost nobody using utility applications on their phones. Things can improve only if internet-on-mobile was affordable! I think we need 3G for…
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Sepia Mutiny
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Rock Music In India: Breaking Through At Last?
19 Nov 2009 | 1:39 pmAs most SepiaMutiny readers know by now, I work for MTV Iggy. And I don’t mean to keep pimping that stuff over here, but whenever something that might interest you comes up, it seems a shame to not share it. A new special feature just went up on the rock music scene in India, with interviews, live performance footage, music videos, slideshows, and more. Arjun S. Ravi, the editor of a Mumbai-based site that tracks the Indian rock scene, contributed fascinating article on the highs and lows of being a rock music fan in India: The easiest way to sneak alcohol into Rang Bhavan was to hide… -
A Desi Woman's Voice On The Hill
18 Nov 2009 | 1:32 pmRemember last month when I blogged about how President Obama signed the executive order to reinstate the Asian American and Pacific Islander Advisory Commission and White House Initiative? You know, when Penn Masala sang at the White House? Well, Kiran Ahuja has just been named Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. This federal-wide effort was first established in June of 1999 by President Bill Clinton… The office will be housed in the U.S. Department of Education and include a Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) co-chaired by… -
What if India had Liberalized Sooner?
17 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pmHistorical "what-if's" are notoriously difficult to prove but also notoriously delicious to discuss. Would WWII have happened if Hitler had been killed in the trenches of WWI? [W]ith earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 million more Indians would have become literate, and 109 million more people would have risen above the poverty line.Would there have been a WWI if Franz Ferdinand survived the assassination attempt? What if Al Gore got his Florida recount? What would have become of Sonam Kapoor's career if she skipped the flop that was Saawariya? Arguably, while… -
"Children of a Lesser Google"
16 Nov 2009 | 9:26 pmHey, remember when Google’s motto used to be “don’t be evil?” Vaht, you thought they still had it? I did too, but this…might not be evil, but it certainly seems a little unfair: Google India had launched a ‘Doodle 4 Google - My India’ contest in August. The Doodle is the logo design you see on the Google homepage. The theme of this competition was ‘My India’. On November 12, Google India announced at Taj Ambassador Hotel that tech hub Gurgaon based 4th standard school kid Puru Pratap has won the competition…a laptop computer for… -
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."
16 Nov 2009 | 2:40 pmI love this picture. I have no other reason for sharing it with you, other than that. I wondered if we might be able to use it for a caption contest, but I’m not sure how it would turn out (did I just diss your creative powers? I might have! Prove me wrong! ;) Fantastic capture, isn’t it? It was taken by a Debasis Roy, of Asansol, India, and I felt like it deserved to be seen, in case you missed it when it was featured on National Geographic’s “Top Shots”. As for how the fishy fared, don’t fret about the poor pet: While transferring fish from one bowl to…
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PHP.net news & announcements
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PHP 5.3.1 Released!
19 Nov 2009 | 9:41 amThe PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.1. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1: Added "max_file_uploads" INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion. Added missing sanity checks around exif processing. Fixed a safe_mode bypass in… -
PHP UK Conference 2010 Call For Papers
30 Oct 2009 | 6:19 amThe main focus of the PHP UK conference is obviously the talks that are given, and so we hope to attract the best PHP speakers from around the world. We are looking for talks relating to any non-basic aspect of the PHP programming language, be it mainstream, advanced, niche or non-technical. Speakers will be invited to the pre-conference dinner, likely to be on Thursday February 25th 2010 and the post-conference social dinner after the event. The deadline for this call for papers is the end of Saturday 31st October 2009. -
International PHP Conference
21 Oct 2009 | 11:15 amWith its mixture of topics the International PHP Conference provides an ideal resource for all professionals and their successful daily routine within the whole PHP spectrum. Insights into current Web 2.0 technologies, Security, Best Practices for tools and components, Enterprise know-how, databases, architectures and more are presented at the International PHP Conference 2009. More than 30 Experts explain current trends and demonstrate how to make the most of your code and your business. They will answer your questions not only in the 40+ sessions and panel discussions but also during… -
PHP World Kongress
1 Oct 2009 | 12:19 pmOn 24th and 25th of November you should not miss the lectures of the top speakers of the PHP Industry on Professional Software Development with PHP at Munich Conference Center. 10 international speakers offer you more than 20 hours of knowledge transfer in the topics "Development", "Tools & Technologies", "PHP 5 Certification", "TYPO3 Certification", "Search Engine Optimization" and "Design Patterns with PHP" on two days. On November 24th, Pierre Joye from the PHP core team under Windows opens the congress with his keynote… -
Call for speaker ConFoo 2010
29 Sep 2009 | 10:20 amPHP Quebec, Montreal-Python, Ruby Montreal, W3Qc, and OWASP Montreal are organizing the first edition of the ConFoo.ca conference for Web technologies, which will be held in Montreal on March 10th through 12th, at the prestigious Hilton Bonaventure Hotel. We are looking for the best international speakers willing to share their experience and skills with programmers, managers and marketers. The conference is divided into two parts: A technical part, encompassing different aspects of Web development: PHP, Python, Ruby, security, CMSs and frameworks, databases, systems administration, Web…
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Gizmodo
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Flo TV Shown Off On The iPhone For Reasons Unknown
20 Nov 2009 | 10:32 amI get that this Flo TV iPhone demo is just a proof of concept. That's fine! I'm just a little confused as to what the concept is. Is it just what they're showing us? A Flo TV app, that requires some kind of accessory to tune into broadcasts? That's possible, but given how well the iPhone can stream video over 3G, it'd be a hard sell, even with Flo TV's cable-like channel selection. It would also help if said accessory wasn't larger than the actual iPhone. Or is it to foster excitement over the idea of native Flo TV hardware support in the iPhone, like in the HTC Imagio? Because that will… -
Sometimes, Dreams Come True
20 Nov 2009 | 8:40 amIn 2007 I whined and whined asking for an iPhone Software Developer's Kit. Back then, I asked for five apps. It took two years, but today I've got them all. The last one just came in yesterday. It's not Voice Candy, but Voices looks as good, if not better: Retro tape recorder and microphone, cute icons, simple touch interface, and sharing via Twitter, Facebook, and eMail, so you can spook everyone with that infernal Reverse Voice effect. For $1, it's impossible to resist. [iTunes App Store—Thanks Juanlu and Lisa Bettany, who stars in the Voices' promo video] Now that I think about it,… -
These Two iPhone Apps Made Me Realize That My Love Life Sucks
19 Nov 2009 | 8:40 pmWhile trying out Stud/Dud and Single?, two romance-themed iPhone apps, I've realized that I've got a lousy relationship history. First I discovered that several ex-boyfriends were "duds," then that one was actually married...to his grandmother. I can't look anymore! Stud/Dud and Single? are pretty much public record search engines repackaged in a neat app format. There's not much to making a search with either aside from entering a name (and any details that help narrow down the query) and you'll get partial results on the iPhone and the rest emailed. But if you want, you can see video guides… -
Sign Documents on Your iPhone Through Zosh App
19 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pmEvery time I receive an emailed loan agreement for a product review, the process of signing it becomes a complete pain. I either have to print, sign and scan the document, or paste a signature in Photoshop. No more! Zosh is a $3 app that allows you to sign attached documents on your iPhone. Basically, you forward the emailed document to Zosh from the iPhone's mail app, then you open the Zosh app to sign it (plus you can add a date and stuff). Testing the app, the signing process actually work pretty well. Maybe the neatest component of the interface is that the signature line auto tracks your… -
Threadless Shirts Become iPhone Cases
19 Nov 2009 | 7:20 amIn a surprising but sensible partnership, Griffin will be adding Threadless designs to their iPhone cases. So far, only two models are available, and the going rate is $35. [Griffin via Gearlog]
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ReadWriteWeb
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8tracks to Launch Playback API and Developer Program
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmIt appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site Imeem sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with all four major record labels signed, more than 15 million uniques a month and well over 5 million tracks in its catalogue, it came as a sobering blow to the industry. While many companies move to a subscription model, 8tracks continues to forge along in what some describe as a convenient loophole. As of this weekend the company is publicly launching its API for Boston's… -
Memento: Protocol-Based Time Travel for the Web
20 Nov 2009 | 11:45 amThe Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem even more apparent. Memento, a project based at Old Dominion University, wants to make it easier to access older versions of a web page without having to go to the Internet Archive. To do this, the project is using a relatively obscure feature of the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Sponsor The Memento project wants to give browsers a 'time-travel' mode. -
The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web
20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 amThe semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation. However, with the rise of the social Web, we see that what truly makes our online experiences meaningful is not necessarily the Web's ability to approximate human language or to return search results with syntactical exactness. The value of the semantic Web will take time because the… -
FastPencil: Turn Your Blog Posts into a Published Book
20 Nov 2009 | 9:42 amWriting a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services for authors. One cool feature of FastPencil is that it can import blog posts and turn them into books and e-books that bloggers can then sell through all the major book distribution channels. Sponsor Features The areas where FastPencil exceeds are online editing,… -
Was Chrome OS a Disappointment?
20 Nov 2009 | 8:28 amIt's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's still listed as a "trending topic" as of this morning. But now that the news is out, has Chrome OS lost its shine? People had high expectations for Google's new operating system but the end result doesn't look like the revolutionary, "change the world" product many had hoped…
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Wired Top Stories
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Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmMalaria has begun showing troubling signs of developing resistance to artemisinin, which is currently the best available treatment for the disease. -
VW Builds the World's Coolest SUV
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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
20 Nov 2009 | 11:30 amA trove of e-mails stolen from a leading climate-research group in Britain has sparked an online debate over global warming data. Bloggers claim the e-mails reveal that scientists colluded and manipulated data to support global warming theories. -
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
20 Nov 2009 | 11:15 amUsing DNA barcoding, scientists tested tuna at 31 sushi restaurants and discovered many of the restaurants were selling endangered species, or fish that wasn't tuna at all. -
Wired Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize
20 Nov 2009 | 10:30 amNothing has done a better job of circumventing censorship, spreading democratic thought and promoting understanding between nations than the internet. Join Wired's global campaign to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to our beloved series of tubes.
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TechCrunch
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Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution
20 Nov 2009 | 12:48 pmLast year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that’s not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a ‘WordPress for microblogs’. That is to say, they make a platform that others can easily download and install to their own servers. And today they’re showing off the next major step in their platform: a hosted solution for those who don’t want to bother with managing their own… -
Google And The Amazing Technicolor Search Options
20 Nov 2009 | 12:42 pmI’m a big fan of keeping things simple, but that doesn’t mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland. Sure, sometimes you get returned things like YouTube thumbnails or pictures, but many results are still just a monotonous stream of blue links. Google tried to break this stream up a bit with its Search Options, an expandable feature, that gives you a left-side toolbar. But even that is just a bland series of links. Google is finally thinking about changing that. Today, Google has begun testing a new look for Search Options. This offers more visual… -
Knx.To Is Your Social Graph And Address Book Rolled Into One
20 Nov 2009 | 12:41 pmAngstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from their LinkedIn profile to their Flickr account to their Facebook profile. In order to understand Knx.to’s virtue, it’s best to see the technology implemented in an application. Ribbit Mobile, a Google Voice competitor and cloud-based VoIP telephony service,… -
Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser
20 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pmQwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have 500 invites exclusively for TechCrunch users. You can redeem these invites simply by clicking here. It’s important to note that Qwisk is a browser extension, not a plug-in to a browser. On the site’s page, you sign into your Facebook and Twitter accounts via Facebook Connect and oAuth. -
Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry
20 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pmSeesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the Android and BlackBerry, which are now available for download here. This is a pivotal moment for Seesmic because the startup is now conquering all the mediums—web, desktop and mobile. I sat down with Seesmic’s co-founder, Loic Le Meur, to…
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Techmeme
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Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
20 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pmLeena Rao / TechCrunch: Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry — Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. -
Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans (Tarmo Virki/Reuters)
20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pmTarmo Virki / Reuters: Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans — BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform. -
Barnes & Noble's Nook Sold Out for the Holidays (Brad Stone/Bits)
20 Nov 2009 | 11:25 amBrad Stone / Bits: Barnes & Noble's Nook Sold Out for the Holidays — It's shaping up to a be very merry holiday season for Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader. — Earlier this week, we reported that Sony could not guarantee that its new Daily Edition Reader would reach online buyers in time for Christmas. -
Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos (CBC News)
20 Nov 2009 | 9:25 amCBC News: Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos — A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook. — Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job … -
Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook. (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
20 Nov 2009 | 9:05 amMG Siegler / TechCrunch: Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook. — Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it's only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it's being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta …
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Ars Technica
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Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs
20 Nov 2009 | 12:20 pmElectronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. But many have pointed out that simply throwing computers at a problem isn't a solution unless the software and practices are also in place to allow the medical community to leverage the technology efficiently. A study of US hospital data… -
Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam
20 Nov 2009 | 10:48 amDealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal "tens of millions of dollars" from the program. VRS was first launched in Texas in the mid-90s as a way for the deaf to communicate via telephone. A hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired person could use a video phone to dial into a VRS service equipped with sign language… -
Microsoft settles with employee accused of stealing docs
20 Nov 2009 | 10:44 amThe litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they have agreed to deny any and all liability, and have released each other from all claims of the litigation, but made sure to keep the terms of the settlement as confidential. "I am pleased with this resolution and wish my friends at Microsoft's Windows division nothing but success with Windows 7 launch,"… -
Students get discounts on Exchange-compatible Office for Mac
20 Nov 2009 | 9:51 amCollege isn't cheap these days, even if you're attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has just announced that it's offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you're not a college student, though, the Mac BU is offering a range of "holiday" discounts on Office as well. Office 2008 for Mac comes in two different editions. The Home & Student Edition includes Word, Excel,… -
FCC outlines seven biggest barriers to broadband adoption
20 Nov 2009 | 9:34 amAlmost two-thirds of adults have broadband connections at home, but that's a long way from the ultimate goal: universal adoption of high speed Internet throughout the United States. Depending on which study you believe, we're everything from number 11 to 24 in international broadband penetration rankings. So how do we get to somewhere near number one? The Federal Communications Commission's broadband task force has identified seven "gaps" or roadblocks along the path to the Holy Grail. The document doesn't offer any specific solutions to these problems. But the analysis offers clues as to…
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Mashable!
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LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Video Sharing Service?
20 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pmIt’s Friday, people, which means that not only is it Follow Friday, it’s also time for the Lunchtime Poll! Last week we wanted to know about your favorite news reader (or whether you use RSS at all). We’ll have the results for you later today, but let’s get a head start on the new poll: what’s your favorite video sharing service? We’ll start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine folks have at it in the comments. Be sure to let us know along with your vote why you chose it as your favorite. We’ll post the results… -
Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry
20 Nov 2009 | 12:28 pmHot on the heels of the launch of the Windows desktop app preview, Seesmic has brought its Twitter client to the mobile arena as well with the launch of clients for the Android and BlackBerry platforms. Both apps are available for free — get the Android version from the Android Market and the BlackBerry version by pointing your BlackBerry to Seesmic. We had a chance to test out the Android build on the Motorola Droid and came away impressed. The interface is well-designed and easy to use. Read on for our impressions and a demo video below. Four buttons at the top take you to timeline,… -
50 Cent Symbolizes the Impending Live Video Explosion
20 Nov 2009 | 12:13 pmSome of the recent numbers being put up by live video events on the Web are giving TV a run for its money. Take for example the New Moon Premiere, which attracted 3 million viewers in total, a U2 concert on YouTube that reached 10 million, and the red carpet event for This Is It, which saw 1.8 million tune in. Today, we have yet another big number to share, this time from last night’s Ustream premiere of 50 Cent’s movie “Before I Self Destruct.” In total, more than 255,000 users watched at least part of the 90 minute screening, which included the hip hop mogul answering questions live… -
3 Creative Ways SMBs Can Use Social Media for Holiday Discounts
20 Nov 2009 | 11:46 amThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Every year consumers turn to the web to scour for the best holiday shopping deals. Black Friday has practically become a holiday of its own, with retailers jumping on the bandwagon earlier than ever to satisfy deal-hungry consumers. This holiday season you have an opportunity to leverage social media channels for trackable giveaways and discounts that can not only boost your holiday sales but improve your social media… -
New Moon Reviews: What Twitter Thinks [CHART]
20 Nov 2009 | 11:23 amTwilight-mania just won’t stop! More than 400 million “New Moon” videos have been viewed online, the film is expected to beat all midnight opening records, and Twitter continues to be abuzz with “New Moon” chatter. On Wednesday, we reported that more than 81,000 tweets were sent out about “New Moon,” most of them positive. So how did the Twitteratti respond to the debut of “New Moon” last night? Our friends at Crimson Hexagon ran the numbers and this is what they figured out. Out of 4500 tweets sent regarding the film, this was the…
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Lifehacker
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Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard Drive Sectors [Downloads]
20 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pmWindows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start.... -
MinimizeToTray Revived Puts Firefox in Your System Tray [Downloads]
20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pmWindows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn't support Firefox 3 or later, and puts Firefox in... -
Hand Out Your Invites in the Google Wave Invitation Donation Thread [Google Wave]
20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pmIn our continuing efforts to help as many of our readers get a chance to play around with Google Wave as possible, we're back again with our weekly Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read... -
Wallpaper Roundup: Turkey Time and Pumpkin Pie [Wallpaper Roundup]
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmTurkeys are being purchased, pie recipes dusted off, and the folding chairs are being dragged out from the basement. It's that time of year again—celebrate Thanksgiving with some fresh... -
Give Wireless Charging Mats a Natural Wood Look [DIY Creations]
20 Nov 2009 | 11:30 amWireless charging mats are a clever way to charge your gadgets without cords or power bricks, but a big black mat can easily stick out in any room. Instructables shows you how to make a more stylish...
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GigaOM
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4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmYou’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only to fail miserably — or achieve a degree of success far below what was expected. Google Docs, for example, was supposed to topple Microsoft Office, and is still predicted to do so, but if that ever happened, I missed it. Next year, Google will introduce one of its most ambitious projects yet: Chrome OS. There are quite a few misconceptions going… -
Air Canada Will Offer In-Flight Wi-Fi, Too
20 Nov 2009 | 11:48 amAir Canada is testing an in-flight Wi-Fi service from Aircell on its flights between Toronto and Los Angeles and Montreal and L.A. From now until Jan. 29, passengers can plunk down $9.95 per flight to surf on a laptop and $7.95 to access the Internet on smaller devices such as a smartphone or WiFi-enabled media players like the iPod touch. AirCell also provides its GoGo in-air Wi-Fi service on Delta and American Airlines flights in the U.S. And because Aircell currently only has regulatory approval and the antenna coverage that enables airlines to offer Wi-Fi in the U.S., Air Canada… -
What to read on the GigaOM network
20 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amBitTorrent after The Pirate Bay: Do you still need trackers? (NewTeeVee) 3 next-gen applications for Smart Grid 2.0 (Earth2Tech) Microsoft’s bad image should be a warning to Apple (TheAppleBlog) 4 open-source file shredders that delete data forever (OStatic) How to get a Magic Mouse to touch-scroll in Windows (jkOnTheRun) Finding web worker gear deals on Black Friday (WebWorkerDaily) -
Twitter: “Really Cool” Ads and Commercial Accounts Coming Soon
20 Nov 2009 | 10:26 amTwitter COO Dick Costolo, speaking today on a panel at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp event in San Francisco, shed some light into the micromessaging service’s revenue plans, promising that it will begin taking a cut of its partners’ advertising revenues “early next year.” Meanwhile, it will “foster mechanisms that allow partners to do more sophisticated things” with its APIs. Twitter also plans to offer commercial accounts that contain premium features like analytics dashboards and multiple authors, according to Costolo. Achieving the seemingly… -
Windows 7 Will Throw Down, But Not Just Yet
20 Nov 2009 | 10:04 amThe Windows 7 trumpets are blasting with gusto, with Steve Felice, president of the small and medium-sized business (SMB) division of Dell, claiming that Microsoft’s new operating system is fueling a surge in demand for PCs, according to Computerworld. “As soon as Oct. 22 hit, both our consumer business and our SMB business had a very healthy increase in demand,” Felice is quoted as saying. Meanwhile, David Coursey reports that with Vista on the sidelines and a well-reviewed new OS, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer “has a new ‘f’ word” to describe…
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Engadget
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The Engadget Show tapes this Sunday with HTC's Drew Bamford and Chris Grant of Joystiq!
20 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pmThe Engadget Show is happening again, humans! This Sunday, November 22nd, we'll be bringing that live magic back to the stage as we sit down with Drew Bamford (you can read a bit about him here), director of HTC's Innovation Center (the place where things like the Sense UI are born). We'll also be joined by Joystiq's Editor-in-chief Chris Grant for a special roundtable discussion focused on gaming. As a bonus, we've got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on! The show takes… -
Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: Cellphones
20 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pmWelcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today's bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the holiday season. True smartphones like the Palm Pre, Motorola Droid, and iPhone are all chewing up a majority of wireless mindshare these days, which makes it particularly easy to forget that there's this… -
Entelligence: Chrome OS, babies, and bathwater
20 Nov 2009 | 12:14 pmEntelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. In an age where products that have never been announced get coverage and even critiqued over rumored shipping delays, it's no surprise that Google received a lot of coverage this week with an update on its Chrome OS strategy. While… -
Grace E-motorbikes are ultralightweight, German, and very expensive
20 Nov 2009 | 11:46 amWe've ridden our fair share of electric bikes and motorcycles, but we've yet to get our hands on one that's been hand assembled in Berlin/Biesenthal. Grace boasts a water-tight / ultra-light CNC-Aluminum frame, a 1300-watt motor, lithium-ion batteries, a 40 30 MPH speed, a range of up to 31 miles, and a one-hour recharge time. Looks good enough for a Kraftwerk video, although you'd better steer clear of the Autobahn with this thing. The bike starts shipping in January for €5,877 ($8,760-ish).Video after the break. Gallery: Grace street legal e-bicycle [Thanks, Christopher]Continue… -
How-to: run Chrome OS as a virtual machine
20 Nov 2009 | 11:15 amItching for some Chrome OS? Well, we all are, but you might be a bit disappointed at the fact that while Google has open-sourced its progress on the OS so far, the version that is currently available for download seems eons behind what Google showed off at its event yesterday. Still, if you just have to see it for yourself, the good news is that it's a total breeze to get a virtual machine running. We used a VMWare image that was packaged up by the kind folks at gdgt, and set it up with VMWare Fusion running on a recent model MacBook Pro. Your mileage may vary depending on your particular…
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Ubergizmo
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Blackberry Storm 2 for 99c at Wirefly - Black Friday only
20 Nov 2009 | 11:24 amFor those interested in the Blackberry Storm 2: Wirefly has just announced that it will sell the phone (with a new contract). If you already have a Verizon contract, you might be eligible for a $29.99 upgrade. From Wirefly: "Verizon is waiving the activation fee, as well. And additional savings of $35 for one line. And up to $135 for 5 lines." Our advice: check the Motorola Droid first. Permalink: Blackberry Storm 2 for 99c at Wirefly - Black Friday only from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review -
Bandit To Help With Your Exercises
20 Nov 2009 | 9:52 amAre you too busy to find a gym partner? Well, the folks over at the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded systems have pulled in the stats (and we’re fairly sure everybody is busy). The robot called Bandit is now offering Robotics and Embedded Systems exercise training. This certainly seems suitable in the gym, though you had to admit the fact that the it’s so huge would probably deter a lot of people from checking it out. Permalink: Bandit To Help With Your Exercises from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review -
Liquid metal battery being developed
20 Nov 2009 | 9:45 amA group at MIT led by Professor Donald Sadoway is busy developing grid-scale storage solutions for times when electricity is scarce. They’ve come up with a rather novel way to keep things running, which is by using high temperature liquid medals. The team has even had time to award a grant from ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency and Energy. We’re not too sure how getting high temperature liquid metals will be feasible, but we’ll leave that to the experts for the moment. Permalink: Liquid metal battery being developed from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review -
Steering Wheel With Integrated Desk
20 Nov 2009 | 9:37 amEver needed a place to write or doodle some stuff while you were waiting in your car? Well, with the steering desk wheel, you’ll certainly be reclaiming a little bit of space that was initially yours. Would you attach this innovative table to your expensive car? Permalink: Steering Wheel With Integrated Desk from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review -
Leica M9 Ready For Pre-order
20 Nov 2009 | 9:25 amAre you a camera aficionado? You know, because if you are, you could drop $7000 to pay for the Leica M9 B&H preorder. Of course, for that price, you would probably get a half-decent car, not to mention in home air conditioning. If megapixels is your thing, you would be glad to know that the Leica M9 sports an 18-megapixel resolution. Permalink: Leica M9 Ready For Pre-order from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review
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SitePoint » News & Trends
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Bing Partners with WolframAlpha to Take on Google
16 Nov 2009 | 8:44 amIn their ongoing attempt to lure users away from Google, Microsoft have teamed up with WolframAlpha to improve results in the Bing Search engine. Both Bing and WolframAlpha were launched in 2009: Bing appeared in June and received a largely positive response from the Internet community. The results are relevant and fast, plus it has a few interesting features such as text and image previews. It’s been slowly chipping away at Google’s market share but is yet to achieve worldwide appeal. WolframAlpha was launched in May and was billed as the “knowledge engine” which… -
SitePoint Roundup #1: RIP Dan Schulz, Google Closure Debate, and the Podcast Turns One
15 Nov 2009 | 8:35 pmOur community is the heart and soul of SitePoint. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s been happening in our community over the last little while. In Memory of Dan Schulz We were very sad and shocked to learn that a well-loved SitePoint Forums member, Dan Schulz, passed away suddenly last week. Dan was a member of our community for a long time, and his posts helped all kinds of people. He won several community awards, including our Member of the Year award in 2007, and was an Advisor in the Design forum. You can read more about what happened, and see some of the reactions to this… -
EU Object to Oracle’s MySQL Takeover
11 Nov 2009 | 3:09 amFollowing a recent investigation, European anti-trust regulators have formally objected to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The main issue is MySQL, the world’s most popular open-source database: the EU believes that the takeover could harm competition. The $7.4 billion Oracle-Sun deal was announced in April 2009. Although US regulators have not raised objections, the EU investigation could put the merger plan at risk. EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is known to support open-source technology and Oracle have posted a statement responding to her concerns: [The EU… -
Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!
8 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmMozilla Firefox is 5 years old today. Firefox 1.0 was released on 9 November 2004. The browser quickly gained the adoration of web developers and their enthusiasm spread throughout the world. Firefox has been downloaded more than one billion times and is the world’s second most popular browser after Internet Explorer. (You could make the case that Firefox 3.x is the most-used browser since IE’s market share is split between IE6, IE7 and IE8). Firefox’s history goes back a few years further and it rose from the smoldering ashes of Mozilla’s buggy and bloated browser… -
ICANN Approve International Domain Suffixes
6 Nov 2009 | 10:46 amSitePoint is fortunate to receive visitors from all over the world. However, the vast majority are from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. As native English speakers, it’s easy to forget the billions of Russian, Chinese, Arabic and other computer users who do not speak the language. OS manufacturers make considerable efforts to internationalize their systems, yet entering a web address requires everyone to use the same 26-letter Latin alphabet for domain name suffixes such as .com, .org and .net. All that will change on 16 November 2009. The board of the Internet…
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IndianWeb2.com
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China, India and Japan are the Fastest Growing Internet Countries (Asia-Pacific)
16 Nov 2009 | 11:25 amChina, India & Japan constitutes the fastest growing countries of Internet population in Asia-Pacific region, with China being the home to largest Internet audience in the world. The study report released by Comscore Inc., measured internet population accessing web from a home or work location and excluding public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. In September 2009, China with 220.8 million internet population showed a 31 percent increase, making it the fastest-growing Internet country in the region. Japan 68.3 million online population showed 18… -
Puru, a 9-year old Kid made First Ever Made in India Google’s Doodle
15 Nov 2009 | 9:47 amThis Children’s Day you might seen a special Google’s logo with a peacock resembling ‘G’ of Google with Mahatma Gandhi, Symbols of Different religions of India, Kashmir, Lotus (National Flower of India) and all this in Google’s logo live for a full-day on 14th November. This First ever ‘Made in India’ Doodle is a creative art designed by a 9-year old Class-4 Student Puru Pratap Singh, Gurgaon, India. The talented Kid has been a winner of first ever Doodle Competition in India chosen through an online poll from 4,000 nationwide entries and the theme… -
YouTube to bring More High Definition (HD)Videos, upto 1080P
13 Nov 2009 | 11:50 amYouTube will be able to show more HD(High Quality Definition Videos) upto 1080 Pixels. Up from YouTube’s maximum output of 720p today, YouTube’s HD mode will be adding support from next to view videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source. More HD Quality videos means improved sharpness in videos with visual clarity and difference is more noticeable in videos that have fast movements and in full-screen mode. Here is a Test Video showing 1080 P Video on YouTube. For those who have already uploaded the 1080 p resolution videos YouTube will be rencoding… -
Ask.com launches new Askdeals Microsite, encourages deals this Holiday Season
12 Nov 2009 | 11:05 amAsk.com had a new launched site just a month back called Ask.com/deals, which is nothing more than a shopping aggregator site to find and buy best bargained products online. Now for this Holiday season and with Halloween coming-up, Ask.com come up with new advertising model to propagate its product Ask deals. Askdeals.com is a new microsite that show some videos of users which actually a new interactive way of viral marketing where users can record their own videos with ask jingle/tune in background and which would be shown on Askdeal microsite and can even get posted on facebook in… -
IMImobile raises USD 13 million by Sequoia Capital in Second Round Funding
12 Nov 2009 | 10:27 amIMImobile, an end-to-end provider of converged mobile and online value-added services for mobile operators, media companies and enterprises today announced that it has raised USD 13 million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital and existing investor First Mark Capital. The funding will enable IMImobile to embark on its next phase of growth building on the impressive gains the company has made over the last few years. Spark Ventures plc, a founding partners of IMImobile is the largest institutional shareholder and had provided the seed capital. MAPE Advisory Group acted as advisor to…
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Coaxing Karzai
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Re-start for 'Big Bang' machine
20 Nov 2009 | 1:31 pmThe Large Hadron Collider experiment, designed to shed light on the cosmos, re-starts after 14 months of repairs. -
France reject Irish replay hopes
20 Nov 2009 | 12:51 pmThe French Football Federation turns down the Republic of Ireland's request for a replay of their controversial World Cup play-off game. -
UK navy fires on 'Spanish flag'
20 Nov 2009 | 12:46 pmThe UK apologises to Spain after the Royal Navy uses a buoy with Spanish colours for target practice off Gibraltar. -
Dangerous seas
20 Nov 2009 | 12:23 pmCan EU's taskforce defeat pirates off Somalia coast?
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BBC: South Asia
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Coaxing Karzai
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Sri Lanka minorities hold talks
20 Nov 2009 | 10:03 amPolitical parties representing minority Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka hold talks in Switzerland, the first since the end of the conflict. -
India plans surge in solar power
20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 amIndia backs plans for a massive increase in the amount of electricity it generates from solar power. -
Afghan ex-warlord escapes attack
20 Nov 2009 | 6:18 amMP and former Afghan warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in which five bodyguards die. -
Bodies of Mumbai gunmen unburied
20 Nov 2009 | 3:40 amThe unclaimed bodies of nine gunmen who were killed during the Mumbai attacks a year ago are still awaiting burial.
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Breaking Tweets
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One in six Americans go hungry
17 Nov 2009 | 8:44 amA new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more Americans are going hungry. USA TODAY reports, forty-nine million people in American households one in six went hungry or had insufficient food at some point in 2008, the highest number since the government began tracking the problem in 1995.Twitter users in the United States are wondering why they don’t hear more about this. Some users are being thankful for what they have in these tough times. SexyNexBoy73 (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)That is so sad. Economic news – CNNMoney.com >1 in 6 Americans goes hungry 16… -
Obama in China: Twitter users in region address Beijing visit
16 Nov 2009 | 8:57 pmAs part of his first tour of Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing, participating in a summit to discuss a number of issues, per BBC. @stevebruskCNN tweeted the following about the event, “CNN live now…President Obama and President Hu make comments after their meeting in Beijing. Unlike many such events, no questions allowed.” Twitter users in China are paying close attention to Obama’s visit to their country. Annie_He (Beijing) #Obama talks abt human rights, the police arrests 20 dissidents & activists. -
Swine flu challenges airline travelers
13 Nov 2009 | 12:02 amThe push to prevent others from being infected with swine flu is causing conflict between airline travelers. Tampa Bay Online reports the staff at United Airlines suspected passenger Mitra Mostoufi had the flu and forced her to get off the plane and stay in Tampa as she was trying to return to her home in Hawaii on Monday. Mostoufi and other sick travelers are finding it difficult to travel by plane if airlines know they may potentially have the disease. Twitter users question if what airlines are doing is appropriate and are scared of catching the disease on planes: KGMB9 (Honolulu,… -
Munich doctors make breakthrough in breast reconstruction
12 Nov 2009 | 2:17 pmDoctors in Bavaria have become the first in Europe to test a new post-mastectomy plastic surgery procedure that uses pig tissue. News24 reports, after giving replacement breasts made from pigskin to six women in Germany, doctors in Munich detailed the new method on Thursday, saying it results in fewer scars for mastectomy patients. Twitter users are feeling optimistic about this breakthrough. One user is even having a little fun and warning people of the pig breast cancer flu. AngelaSS (Royston, Georgia) Make sure you don’t catch the pig breast cancer flu! http://tinyurl.com/yfdrdfw… -
TwitPics: Twitter users celebrate U.S. Veterans Day with photos
11 Nov 2009 | 12:59 pmThe United State’s celebration of Veteran’s Day dates back to after World War I. First designated a holiday by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, current President Barack Obama honored the day by speaking at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. today.Twitter users were attending parades around the country, and also posting pictures of their own favorite soldiers. @kevin_oates (Venice, CA): Great photo from Hyundia's video board in Times Square from the Veterans' Day Parade @d1ane (Milford, MI):WWII Sailor at Memorial Day parade in Milford MI--INCREDIBLE turnout of…
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Tutorialized.com: Photoshop
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Dashing Girl Photo Effect
19 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pmIn this photoshop tutorial we will learn how to use a mask to separate subject from the surrounding pixels. Microsoft BPOS Demo Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite demo. Watch it now. -
A Complete Website Design Tutorial - The New BoxedArt.com Layout
19 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pmLearn all the eye candy behind the new BoxedArt.com including scotch tape, post-it notes, old weathered stamps, paper, ink stamps, cardboard background textures, and more! Transportation Design - AutoCAD Civil 3D Design Road Projects 75% Faster with Automatic Documentation Updates! -
Basic Editing and Retouching Images in Photoshop
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How to Create a Night Sky
19 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pmTutorial explaining how to create great looking night sky in Photoshop. Autodesk Inventor® Go Beyond 3D To Digital Prototyping With Autodesk Inventor. Learn How. -
Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Lasso Tool
19 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pmPhotoshop's Lasso Tool is probably the easiest of the selection tools to use, allowing us to draw freehand selections around objects in a photo as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or penc... Virtualization Solutions Optimize, Simplify, & Save Today. Learn About Microsoft Solutions.
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I Love Typography
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The Right Type of Education
19 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pmBy Abi HuynhLast year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project typefaces from the 08/09 class.Type Design at KABKThe Type and Media masters program has a long history at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. The roots of the program can be traced back to Gerrit Noordzij’s Letter Programme within the graphic design department at KABK during the 1970s. -
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles
5 Nov 2009 | 11:31 pmReviewed by James PuckettI was excited when Taschen announced the first volume of Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, described as “This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter” . Such language, including the title, is disingenuous, because this book is not a history. Type does contain a short essay by coauthor/coeditor Cees W. de Jong about type history, but it is poorly written and riddled with inaccuracies. Similarly bad are the captions that introduce each specimen. Many are obvious or inane statements… -
Sex, lies, & type
24 Oct 2009 | 8:24 amThe Week in TypeWelcome to a slightly later than usual week in type. Lots happening in the world of web fonts — links to the best content below. There’s also free stuff, so don’t click away.I’m thrilled by the launch of a new type foundry, Mota Italic. Congratulations to Rob and Co.As others have noted, the shopping cart is particularly novel and intuitive. Be sure to check out Vesper, their present flagship typeface; it’s bursting with lots of OpenType features, including numerous smart contextual alternates.This article’s header is set in Vesper Pro Italic & Heavy… -
Type Camp
5 Oct 2009 | 7:49 pmBy Jessica R. YurasekLet’s face it, most of the general public does not really understand typography. So when I first tell people that I attended something called ‘Type Camp’ this summer, I tend to garner a lot of puzzled looks. But, smiling bemusedly, the typographic outsider with whom I am conversing, is likely to then ask a question not so far off from my own the first time I heard about Type Camp: what, exactly, do you do there?Well, explore typography, of course.I signed up for Type Camp not quite knowing what to expect, but I knew one thing for certain: that the past two… -
Karbon type
22 Sep 2009 | 11:14 amThe Week in TypeI’m struggling to keep up with all that’s new in type. Exciting times. Lots of great new releases, and some very novel and creative uses of type and lettering. Let’s jump straight in.I am tempted to try something like this:Click here to view the embedded video. Futura vs Verdana IKEA Smackdown:Click here to view the embedded video.From RocketBoom. Via @DesignObserver.Something a little more serious: a short profile of the wonderful Gerard Unger, the designer of one of my all-time favourites, Swift:Click here to view the embedded video.And talking of Swift, Linotype has…
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CreativePro: Fonts
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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition
Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.read more -
Web Fonts: The Experts Speak
Imagine you could design a Web site using typefaces beyond the boring usual system font choices and be sure viewers would see what you intended. read more -
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2
Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares. read more -
FlipFont Adds Fonts, Features, & Phones
Monotype Imaging debuts 10 new fonts and enhances its FlipFont mobile font solution with expanded availability, new application features and new phone support.read more -
TypeTalk: Distorting Type
Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Don't do it!read more
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Signal vs. Noise
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I'm a tailor
20 Nov 2009 | 6:33 amWhen people ask me what I do all day I have a hard time summing it up. I design, I edit, I think, I review, I suggest, I teach. Some things I mess up, some things I fix up. But what I really do most of the time is trim, tuck, iron, cut, press, and fit. I’m a software tailor. And I’m starting to think that’s my perfect role. My team is incredible. I don’t need to tell them what to do. If there was a fantasy software league, I wouldn’t trade my team for anyone. But there are times during the development and design process where the things we make just don’t… -
Unicorns and projections
19 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am“Off the Chart” talks about how recent unemployment rate predictions turned out to be way off the mark. The reason: “Reality has produced numbers of its own.” And that’s the problem with projections. Reality is a terrible collaborator. No matter how much you try to work with it, it has a mind of its own. And it never listens to you. Plus, it’s easier to be a cheerleader than a doomsayer — especially when you have a vested interest in the outcome. That’s how people wind up in an overly optimistic fantasy world. No one ever submits a business plan… -
QUESTION: If you had to give it up, which subscription
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Design Explorations: Basecamp To-dos with Due Dates
17 Nov 2009 | 11:32 amWe’ve just posted another article in our series of Design Explorations. This installment shows our process for adding a new feature to Basecamp: Add due dates to to-dos. We’re excited about this new feature and anxious to share this latest peek at our design process. Read the full Basecamp to-dos design exploration. -
[Podcast] Episode #2: Tech company valuations
17 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amDownload MP3 | Time: 24:10 Like this episode? Please share it with your friends: 37signals worth $100 billion? Start time: 0:37 The story behind the mock press release claiming 37signals is worth $100 billion. The press should be more critical in covering valuation stories. Eyeballs aren’t the only thing that matter. The valuation dance Start time: 8:45 Was the press release a shot at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube? Why was the sale of Mint to Intuit disappointing? Where will the next great generation of companies come from if they keep selling early? Also, VC money is a time…
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456 Berea Street
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Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer 9
20 Nov 2009 | 8:02 amIn An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch (General Manager, Internet Explorer) reveals some of the news in the next version of Internet Explorer. Better JavaScript performance, improved standards support (border-radius and CSS 3 selectors are mentioned), and better text rendering are all good. I would really like to see CSS 3 support on par with that of other browsers, as well as support for “stable” parts of HTML 5. Here’s hoping that by the time we get a public preview version of IE 9 there will be much more news on improved standards support.Read full postPosted in… -
Do you find table summaries helpful?
17 Nov 2009 | 10:30 amOn the W3C HTML Working Group’s mailing list there's been plenty of discussion about the future of the table element’s summary attribute. Should it be allowed at all in HTML 5? Should it be allowed but only “semi-valid”? Should other ways of providing information about the structure of a data table be encouraged? One question that I have seen being asked is if people who use screen readers actually are aware that data tables may have a summary attribute and if they find the information provided in it useful.Read full postPosted in Accessibility, HTML 5. -
Vendor-specific extensions are invalid CSS
16 Nov 2009 | 11:34 amIn New W3C website launched I mentioned that the W3C’s new site uses a bit of invalid CSS. A couple of readers have told me that the errors caused by vendor-specific extensions aren’t really errors, and that the CSS validator is wrong to report such property names as errors. I wasn’t completely sure about whether or not this was true, so I did a bit of research. And, to the best of my understanding, vendor-specific extensions are invalid.Read full postPosted in CSS, Web Standards. -
WebKit Web Inspector improvements
11 Nov 2009 | 11:09 amThe Web Inspector is the web development tool that ships with WebKit-based browsers, doing roughly what Firebug does for Firefox. It does some things better and others not quite as well. The list of things that it does not do quite as well as Firebug became a bit shorter with the recent Web Inspector Updates. Available in recent WebKit Nightly builds, the Web Inspector has improved or added support for things like:Read full postPosted in Browsers, Coding. -
Headings and document structure conclusions
10 Nov 2009 | 11:08 amBack in January I asked for opinions on Headings, heading hierarchy, and document outlines, hoping for a discussion that could lead to a conclusive recommendation. Unfortunately it seems very difficult to reach consensus on this topic. However, with input from the discussion in the comments on that post, along with private discussions via email and face-to-face, I see two options: Use headings for both document and site structure. Use headings only for the structure of the actual content, and use WAI-ARIA landmark roles for anything outside the content area. Read full postPosted in (X)HTML,…
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Boxes and Arrows
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IDEA 2009 - Day 2
19 Nov 2009 | 2:12 amIDEA2009 had the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners converge on Toronto’s MaRS Convention Center to share the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society. Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. Subscribe to the Boxes and Arrows Podcast in iTunes or add this page to your Del.icio.us account: iTunes Del.icio.us IDEA Conference theme music generously provided by Bumper… -
Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design
19 Nov 2009 | 2:11 amPrior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting and then rapidly prototyping innovative mobile experiences.As I transitioned from academia to industry, I discovered that while mobile UX was discussed, it wasn’t discussed from the same broad frame of reference that I was used to within the confines of a research-based institution. Although more recent mobile UX conversations I have found myself in have… -
IDEA 2009 - Day 1
12 Nov 2009 | 11:59 pmIDEA2009 had the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners converge on Toronto’s MaRS Convention Center to share the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society. Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. Subscribe to the Boxes and Arrows Podcast in iTunes or add this page to your Del.icio.us account: iTunes Del.icio.us IDEA Conference theme music generously provided by Bumper… -
What design researchers can learn from hostage negotiators
12 Nov 2009 | 11:59 pmIt’s 2 a.m., and a call comes across the radio that a young man with a gun has barricaded himself and his mother in his home. No shots have been fired, and little communication has been established between the man and police officers outside. The officers on the scene report that the young man has been struggling with the loss of his job and feels like there’s no reason to live. The crisis response team has been called, and hostage negotiators are en route. It’s the negotiator’s job to ensure that the young man does not harm himself or others during this crisis. What… -
Experience Themes
6 Oct 2009 | 1:25 amThere’s an old adage among screenwriters that when a writer can sum up a story in a sentence or less, he has discovered what’s important about the story. He’ll know what the story is about and therefore have a strong sense of theme. And in knowing the theme, he’ll have a compass to use in the process of “designing” the damn thing (i.e. what to keep, what to lose, what actually happens at the end). The story will be all the better for it because it all hangs together with a central idea that will give it greater impact and meaning. Now wouldn’t it be…
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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A Design Apart Q&A
19 Nov 2009 | 12:11 pm“Content informs design; design without content is decoration. Content has the same relationship to design that product has to advertising. Good ads are based on the product; good designs come from and facilitate the content. This is one reason we bring content strategy to every design assignment, and one reason we insist on working with real content, not lorem ipsum (placeholder) content. Nothing is sadder than a beautiful design that works great with lorem ipsum but doesn’t actually support the real content.” A Design Apart: Q&A with Jeffrey Zeldman | Sparksheet -
As we were
18 Nov 2009 | 9:11 pmTitle images from the early years of A List Apart “for people who make websites” are now available for your viewing pleasure. Were we really ever that young? NAME THAT FONT! Here’s a nice rainy-day activity for ya. Visit the ALA historical header images collection on Flickr and name the fonts used in individual images. Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=3035 -
FontShop Fonts on the Web
18 Nov 2009 | 1:08 pmFontShop announces that they are ready to deliver their font library as web type: [S]tarting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit service lets you test any of those FontFonts on your page before you publish. And tomorrow? Typekit is just one piece of a holistic strategy for FontFonts on the web. The library should be licensable in a more traditional way too. That’s where WOFF fits in. … Soon anyone will be able to license and download for their website the same professional quality FontFont they use in desktop… -
More Web Fonts
18 Nov 2009 | 4:46 amEllen Lupton and Jeffrey Zeldman talk about web fonts, part 2. That is all. This has been a belated part of Web Type Day. -
Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman
17 Nov 2009 | 8:01 amToday in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She is the author of numerous books and articles on design, a frequent lecturer, and an AIGA Gold Medalist. This has been a nutritious part of Web Type Day. Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=2932
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Google Code Blog
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Captions available for all Google I/O videos
20 Nov 2009 | 9:40 amWe work hard to make sure that the videos on the GoogleDevelopers channel on Youtube are captioned, but when I/O added over a hundred hours of video content, we got a little behind. I'm happy to announce that we're finally caught up! Every English and Spanish video from I/O now has captions that you can turn on in YouTube.Didn't know we had captions? Just click to select captions from the menu in the lower right corner of the video player.Some caption and subtitle-related news: A group of volunteers from Russia used the translated.by software to crowdsource translation for Google Wave video… -
The latest addition to Google's open source projects
18 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pmDid you know Google has released more than 300 open source projects to date? Yesterday, we announced the latest addition to Google's open source projects - YouTube Direct, a new tool that enables any developer to solicit video submissions, moderate and display them on their website, all powered by YouTube. We recognize the role that open source plays at Google and how it helps us create better applications and we try to give back to the community as much as possible.YouTube Direct was built on top of YouTube's public APIs and is designed to run on Google App Engine - Google's highly scalable… -
Welcome to Google Developer Relations, Don!
18 Nov 2009 | 10:38 amA couple days ago, Google welcomed Don Dodge to our Developer Relations team, where he joins us as a Developer Advocate working with developers, startups, and other Google Apps partners. We're expecting Don to be a fantastic addition to our team. He's already a prominent voice in the developer community, well-known and highly-regarded among entrepreneurs, technologists, and the media.In the TechCrunch post first announcing Don's availability, Michael Arrington wrote how Don, "makes a big effort to give young startups the attention they deserve. This is a guy who gives a heck of a lot more to… -
Go: A New Programming Language
10 Nov 2009 | 3:40 pmHave you heard about Go? We released a new, experimental systems programming language today. It is open source and we're excited about sharing it with the development community. For more information, check out the Google Open Source blog.By Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Ian Taylor, Russ Cox, Jini Kim and Adam Langley - The Go Team -
Use compression to make the web faster
9 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmEvery day, more than 99 human years are wasted because of uncompressed content. Although support for compression is a standard feature of all modern browsers, there are still many cases in which users of these browsers do not receive compressed content. This wastes bandwidth and slows down users' interactions with web pages.Uncompressed content hurts all users. For bandwidth-constrained users, it takes longer just to transfer the additional bits. For broadband connections, even though the bits are transferred quickly, it takes several round trips between client and server before the two can…
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Ajaxian » Front Page
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Full Frontal ‘09: Simon Willison on Server-Side Javascript and Node.js
20 Nov 2009 | 9:41 amSimon Willison snuck in a last-minute topic change, and is now going to give the server-side Javascript talk. The news of the past 24 hours is ChromeOS. For the first time in years, someone’s re-thinking how an OS should work. With Chrome, you turn on your computer and you’re in the browser. What’s really interesting is to contrast it to the introduction of the iPhone, where Apple’s apps used native APIs while they expected developers to write web apps running in the browser with limited abilities. Here, Google’s apps are using the same web… -
Full Frontal ‘09: Jake Archibald on Performance Optimisation
20 Nov 2009 | 9:11 amJake explains no-one likes waiting, and people are multi-threaded (except when they have to sneeze). Yet, we're stuck with a single-threaded language for the most part; and we still face the legacy of a DOM standard from another era (DOM Level 1 - 1997). This talk provides some optimisation tips, backed by Jake's cross-browser experiments. Jake's slides and research are online. Optimise Where it Matters Jake explains the importance of speeding things up where it really matters. Doug Crockford has pointed out that in Javascript, bitwise operations aren't close to the hardware, which stands in… -
Full Frontal ‘09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility
20 Nov 2009 | 8:10 amTodd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didn't say which version) have really good support for ARIA. And Opera, Chrome, and Safari. Likewise for the screenreaders - JAWS, Windows Eyes, NVDA - also have good support. An the libraries - YUI, Dojo, JQuery-UI - all have good support baked in, one of the benefits of using ARIA is automatic support. Improving Perception - ARIA and Screenreaders… -
Full Frontal ‘09: Stuart Langridge on HTML5 Features
20 Nov 2009 | 7:52 amStuart Langridge introduces us to some of the up-and-coming features we're getting with current and future browsers, a nice complement to Robert Nyman's talk, which covered the advanced features of "mainstream" (IE6-compatible) Javascript. After introducing the features that are there today, he also talks about how we can deal with the browser many of us are still having to support. The Goodies Here are some of the things we can look forward to. (Having been part of the large crowd who charged the pub across the road at lunch, I was a bit late getting back, so I missed one or two of these.)… -
Full Frontal ‘09: PPK on Mobile Quirks and Practices
20 Nov 2009 | 4:58 amPPK talks up the excitement of mobile web development, then brings the mood down a notch by listing the overwhelming array of browsers to be targeted! Quirksmode says it all. This talk is about quirks in mobile development, and some of the solutions out there. Mobile CSS Quirks So many platforms. Take just WebKit. You can't just say "WebKit" for example, because there's no webkit on mobile. There's iPhone Safari, Android WebKit, Bolt, Iris, different versions, etc. "If someone says my 'app should work in WebKit', laugh in his face. There are just too many versions of WebKit, so as PPK says…
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37signals Product Blog
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How To-Do list due dates saved the day for a Singapore company
20 Nov 2009 | 8:35 amAnol Bhattacharya, CEO of GetIT | Comms, a boutique outfit, based in Singapore providing interactive digital media solutions to hi-tech and telco companies, writes in: Recently Basecamp's To-Do list added in a new feature of mentioning due dates, and coincidentally just at the right time for us. Last Friday one of the project managers of our team had to rush to Seattle to attend to a Family emergency within 5 hours of notice. There are multiple very important projects ongoing and there was not enough time for a proper handover. Basecamp came to rescue! Quickly we jotted down all the To-Do's… -
Inc. magazine looks at how an organic produce farm in Indiana uses Basecamp
19 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am"How to Choose the Right Collaboration Software" [Inc.] discusses the emerging breed of low-cost tools, including Basecamp, that are making project collaboration much easier. "Companies have been looking for ways to make up for the overreliance on e-mail as a collaborative tool," says Jeffrey Mann, an analyst with Gartner. "Now we're seeing the evolution of tools that tackle everything e-mail is bad at -- like allowing users to follow a discussion, share files, monitor workflow, and get the latest status on tasks and projects." The article discusses Stranger's Hill Organics (see above photo),… -
Basecamp connects myows.com team members in Singapore and Cape Town
18 Nov 2009 | 8:51 am11 months ago, Max Guedy wrote to us detailing how Getting Real helped him create a new app. Recently, he wrote us again with details on how Basecamp helped him launch that app, myows.com. The tool is dedicated to providing a full suite of copyright solutions for designers, photographers, musicians, and anyone else who creates copyrightable work. Just like 37signals, we're a small team (4 people), but we all have our own agencies or practice to run. To make matters even better, one of our team member lives in Singapore (the developer), whereas the 3 others are in Cape Town, South Africa. -
New in Basecamp: An easier way to add 10 milestones at a time
17 Nov 2009 | 12:23 pmBasecamp has always had an "add 10 milestones at a time" feature, but the date picker wasn't the easiest to use. We had three pulldowns - one for year, one for month, and one for day. It worked, but it wasn't optimal. Today we launched a nice improvement we think you'll like. Now just click a "Pick a date" field and up pops a calendar. Click the day and it's set. That's all there is too it. Faster, easier, more contextual, and more fun to use. Thanks again for using Basecamp. -
The Basecamp outage / slowdown today
16 Nov 2009 | 2:42 pmToday Basecamp suffered the worst outage / slowdown that it has had in a very long time. We're very sorry that this disrupted your day. We know that you depend on Basecamp and any downtime, no matter how rare, is a serious problem. That's why we want to share all the details with you, so we can be as transparent as possible and you can trust that we're doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again. If you don't care about the technical details, the summary is that a server went down and our redundant backup server wasn't operational as fast as we…
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jQuery Blog
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The Official jQuery Podcast - Episode 2 - Richard D. Worth
20 Nov 2009 | 7:10 amOn Wednesday night, Ralph Whitbeck and Elijah Manor recorded this weeks episode of the Official jQuery Podcast with this weeks guest Richard D. Worth, jQuery UI Release Manager. Our next live show will be recorded and streamed Wednesday December 2nd at 10PM EST on uStream with yayQuery co-host Paul Irish. You can also subscribe to the show via iTunes or via the RSS Feed. Welcome You are listening to the Official jQuery Podcast. A weekly discussion with a key member of the jQuery community along with a look at what’s happened this week, … in jQuery. Brought to you each week by your… -
Announcing the Official jQuery Podcast
13 Nov 2009 | 8:00 amOn Wednesday night, Ralph Whitbeck and Elijah Manor recorded the first of many weekly episodes that aim to interview key members of the jQuery Community while bringing you the top news from the past week. We will be recording and streaming the audio live each Wednesday night at 10PM EST on uStream. You can also subscribe to the show via iTunes or via the RSS Feed. Our guest this week was jQuery creator, John Resig. Future shows will have guests such as Richard D. Worth (jQuery UI Release Manager), Paul Irish (yayQuery podcast), Rey Bango (jQuery Evangelist), Ben Alman (jQuery Plugin… -
What Bug Needs to be Fixed for jQuery 1.4?
30 Oct 2009 | 12:39 pmWant to make sure that your “favorite” jQuery bug is fixed in time for the upcoming 1.4 release? Then tell the jQuery dev team using the below form. -
2009 jQuery Halloween Pumpkin
30 Oct 2009 | 12:29 pmIn a repeat of last year’s phenominal jQuery pumpkin Christopher Pickert is back with a brand new jQuery 1.3-using pumpkin that’s sure to frighten visitors: Thanks again to Christopher for this great creation. -
jQuery Summit - Nov. 19th
22 Oct 2009 | 6:00 amEnvironments for Humans is running a one-day, online conference focusing on jQuery. The conference will be on November 19th and will feature a number of prominent members of the jQuery community, including members of the jQuery team. The following talks are slated for the jQuery Summit: The State of jQuery - John Resig Web Interface Essentials - Marc Grabanski RIAs: Building for the Desktop with the Web - Jonathan Snook Rich Interactivity, Simplified, with jQuery UI - Richard Worth Refactoring jQuery - Jonathan Sharp JavaScript for Designers - David McFarland Building Robust jQuery Plugins -…
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Coding Horror
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Buy Bad Code Offsets Today!
19 Nov 2009 | 5:08 amLet's face it: we all write bad code. But not every programmer does something about the bad code they're polluting the world with, day in and day out. There's a whole universe of possibilities: Follow the instructions on the paint can Become a software apprentice Get a coding buddy Practice the fundamentals A program of effortful study Participate in the community to sharpen your saw But that's a lot of work. Really freaking hard work! Wouldn't it be nice if you could do something a bit simpler and easier to, just … say … offset the bad code you're producing? Well, now you can… -
Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way
15 Nov 2009 | 11:59 pmAmong programmers of any experience, it is generally regarded as A Bad Ideatm to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions. How bad of an idea? It apparently drove one Stack Overflow user to the brink of madness: You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. -
Whitespace: The Silent Killer
9 Nov 2009 | 12:34 amEver have one of those days where everything you check into source control is wrong? Also, how exactly is that day is different from any other? But seriously. Code that is visible is code that can be wrong. No surprise there. But did you know that even the code you can't see may be wrong, too? These are the questions that drive young programmers to madness. Take this perfectly innocent code, for example. Looks fine, doesn't it? But hold on. Wait a second. Let's take another, closer look. OH. MY. GOD! If you're not a programmer, you may be looking at these two images and wondering what the big… -
Preserving Our Digital Pre-History
5 Nov 2009 | 4:33 amI've spent a significant part of my life online. Not just on the internet, I mean, but on modems and early, primitive online communities. Today's internet is everything we couldn't have possibly dared to imagine twenty-five years ago, but there is a real risk of these early, tentative digital artifacts -- and for some, the beginnings of our Hacker Odyssey -- being lost forever in the relentless deluge of online progress. Sure, every single thing that happened in 2004 is documented exhaustively online. But 1994? 1984? Not so much. That's where Jason Scott comes in. You may know Jason Scott… -
Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome
3 Nov 2009 | 1:07 amThat Stack Overflow thing we launched a year ago? It's been going pretty well so far. Of course, everyone knows you could code Stack Overflow in a long weekend. It's trivial. Assembling a worldwide community of smart, engaged software developers? That's a whole different ball of wax. Stack Overflow is a site by programmers, for programmers; it's only as good as the programmers who choose to participate. Stack Overflow isn't about me. Or anybody else on the Stack Overflow team for that matter. Stack Overflow is you. This is the scary part, the great leap of faith that Stack Overflow is…
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MacRumors iPhone Blog
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MacRumors: Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate
20 Nov 2009 | 11:49 amReuters reports that prominent iPhone game developer Gameloft is scaling back its efforts to produce content for the Android platform in the face of weaknesses of its application store. Gameloft also notes that it is not the only one making the move... -
iPhone Coming to Virgin Mobile Canada
20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 amVirgin Mobile Canada issued a brief announcement yesterday revealing that it will begin offering the iPhone there in the near future.Virgin Mobile Canada will launch iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online ... -
TomTom to Launch Car Kit for iPod Touch
20 Nov 2009 | 8:42 amEarlier this week, an updated version of TomTom's GPS navigation application appeared in the App Store, and among the major changes included with the update was compatibility with the original iPhone and all generations of the iPod touch. The iPod t... -
Google Rolls Out Mobile-Formatted Google News for iPhone
19 Nov 2009 | 12:40 pmGoogle today announced that it has rolled out mobile-formatted Google News pages for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. The feature complements similar existing pages for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60 platforms.This... -
MacRumors: AT&T Faces Initial Setback in Verizon Ad Spat, Rolls Out Response Ad
19 Nov 2009 | 7:27 amThe Associated Press reports that a judge has refused to grant AT&T's request for a temporary restraining order forcing Verizon to halt its commercials comparing the two companies' wireless network coverage.AT&T filed the lawsuit in ...
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Wired Science
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World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
20 Nov 2009 | 11:16 amThe world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching over more than two million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on top of more than 300 isolators, bearings that can move side-to-side during an earthquake. The whole building moves as a single unit, which prevents damage from uneven forces acting on the structure. “What an isolation system does is that it enables the building to move through large displacements in… -
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 amA biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study were published Wednesday in PLOS One. “A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,” wrote the authors. “All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.” The team of researchers from… -
Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed
20 Nov 2009 | 10:08 amA new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, European Southern Observatory astronomers were able to glimpse the leftovers of the cosmic dinner. “There is a clear ring of stars and clusters hidden behind the dust lanes, and our images provide an unprecedentedly detailed view toward it,” said Jouni Kainulainen, in a paper on the… -
When Good Rockets Go Bad
19 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm<< previous image | next image >> In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public and on the funding for space exploration. The explosions in the videos we’ve assembled here were very costly, some in terms of life, some in terms of lost equipment and all in terms of progress of the space programs. Vanguard TV3 Fuel Tanks Explode Dec. 6, 1957: The United States’ first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was also its first… -
Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
19 Nov 2009 | 4:44 pmWASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread it, scientists reported Nov. 19 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The frontline drug in question is called artemisinin, the most potent medication currently in use against malaria. Signs of malarial resistance to artemisinin have surfaced over the past several…
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New York Times
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Movie Review | 'Broken Embraces': Almodóvar’s Happy Agony, Swirling Amid Jealousy and Revenge
20 Nov 2009 | 11:59 amCan there be such a thing as exuberant melancholy? I can’t think of another way to describe the spirit of “Broken Embraces.” -
Movie Review | 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon': Abstinence Makes the Heart ... Oh, You Know
20 Nov 2009 | 11:51 amThe big tease turns into the long goodbye in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” -
36 Hours in Rajasthan, India
20 Nov 2009 | 11:29 amThe country is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast, but this spectacular old region endures, evoking rulers with giant mustaches and spectacular forts and palaces. -
Michigan Football Facing Hard Times on the Field and Off It
20 Nov 2009 | 9:15 amThe Michigan Wolverines, who play rival Ohio State on Saturday, are 1-6 in the Big Ten and could have their first two consecutive losing seasons since 1963. -
News Analysis: Screening Debate Reveals Culture Clash in Medicine
20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 amBackers of science-driven medicine cheered the new recommendations on cancer screening, while many patients still believe that more is always better.
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Om Malik
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AmEx to Buy Revolution Money for $300 Million
18 Nov 2009 | 6:55 amAmerican Express, the company well known for overpriced charge cards, is buying Ted Leonsis and Steve Case’s Revolution Money for $300 million. Leonsis shared this information on his blog. Amex wants to use Revolution Money to build a next-generation offering. Revolution Money has some kind of a next-generation payments technology that brings together offline and online worlds; it’s part of the Revolution group of companies floated by Steve Case. No one I know has either seen it or actually uses it. If there is one company that is going to do offline-online payments, that will be… -
How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?
17 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmIntel today said it’s invested an undisclosed amount in Joyent, the 6-year-old Sausalito, Calif.-based startup that started out as a web hosting company but eventually evolved into a cloud service provider. Neither Intel nor Joyent disclosed the amount of money invested, but Intel’s investment in the company is a strategic bet for the chipmaker, as it faces a smaller end user base for its silicon thanks to enterprises turning to computing delivered as a service to help limit the number of servers they buy. First the deal specifics. Intel Capital has invested $8.5 million into the… -
Norwest Closes $1.2 Billion Venture Fund
17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pmNorwest Venture Partners (NVP), one of the most respected funds in Silicon Valley, says that it’s closed NVP XI, a $1.2 billion fund that will invest in diverse sectors and geographies. NVP, which recently recorded a major hit with the $405 million sale of video conferencing equipment maker LifeSize, is one of the few venture funds to close a mega-fund. Khosla Ventures ($1 billion) and Greylock Partners ($575 million) are two other partnerships that have been able to raise mega-funds. At the same time, there have been numerous reports of many partnerships struggling to whip up interest… -
Why imeem Really Sold Out
17 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pmThis morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep on Moving.” TechCrunch, which reported on the news, didn’t reveal what the deal terms were. I have been dialing sources for information, and have found an interesting backstory behind this sale. First, it was essentially a fire sale. Imeem, which in the past has been threatened into submission by large music… -
Motorola to Sell 600,000 Droids in 2009
17 Nov 2009 | 8:24 amMotorola and Verizon, thanks to their $100 million marketing efforts, are going to sell some 600,000 Droids during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech, a boutique research firm. He had initially expected about 200,000 device sales following the launch, but he has upped his forecast: Motorola should sell another 200,000 Droids by Black Friday and 150,000-200,000 during the remainder of the holiday season. This would bring the total to some 600,000 Droids for 2009. We recently reported the findings of a study from Flurry that indicated Motorola might…
