Official Google Reader Blog. What are Power Balance bands? 7 January 2011Last updated at 11:32 By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine Andrew Strauss, Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood all wore the bands A growing number of celebrities are being spotted with a distinctive silicone band on their wrists. While users claim it can help with balance, critics dismiss it as unscientific hocus pocus. So why would anybody wear a Power Balance band? Andrew Strauss is a victorious cricket captain, having starred in a dazzling Ashes series win. The cricket fans might talk about diligent batting, calm captaincy and canny field placings. But what about the £30 rubber band visible on his wrist?
It's a Power Balance bracelet - a silicone band with a hologram. The bands are increasingly popular among professional golfers But this is a controversial gizmo. The bracelet's distributors in Australia have just had to apologise and change their marketing and advertising text after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took action. Continue reading the main story. Live Streaming Internet Broadcast - Chris Pirillo Lifestreaming Life Online. Facebook hype will fade. Douglas Rushkoff: Facebook seems ascendant as MySpace declines, with rumors of layoffsBut Goldman Sachs' Facebook investment, he says, is more a sign Facebook is cashing outMurdoch bought MySpace at site's peak; site's popularity already fallen, he saysRushkoff: Social networks wax, wane; Facebook hype obscures that it's likely on way down Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is the author, most recently, of "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back" , and "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" (CNN) -- All signs for Facebook appear to be pointing up.
Mark Zuckerberg is Time's Man of the Year, the movie about him seems likely to be an Oscar winner, and now Goldman Sachs is raising $1.5 billion from its favorite investors on behalf of the social networking company. But appearances can be deceiving. In fact, as I read the situation, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook. The Times didn't run the piece. Dominique De Vito's Weblog - The new Freebox: a new step towards personal data revolution I have already written a post About gathering web 2.0 personal data into one safer place for telling how important set-top boxes are for personal data.
I have also written about them as potential bricks for building long-term Facebook's challengers, see my post Two ways to challenge the Facebook leadership. Today is a kind of Christmas Day, as the French Internet Service Provider (ISP) named Free has just released it's new set-top box named Freebox v6 (French readers could take a look of the article Nouvelle Freebox : Free frappe très fort for details). This new Freebox v6 has a lot of exciting features, but the one I was more eager to see is the Freebox Server. One year ago, in December 2009, I read the post Personal Data Stores – The Time is Coming (PDS). While a project like Mine! So, IMHO, definitely, the new Freebox v6 is a very promising step towards personal data store, that is, towards personal data revolution. L'univers électronique ::: Find and Delete Duplicate Images on your Computer.
This video tutorial describes how you can quickly delete duplicate images and photographs on your computer with free software tools. You can have duplicate images on your computer for three reasons: You transferred a set of pictures from the digital camera to your computer but did not erase them from the camera. Thus when you re-connected the camera, they got copied again to your hard drive but in a different location. You made some minor edits to a picture – let’s say you cropped it or fixed the rotation – and your image editing program saved the edited image as well as the original picture. You may also have images on your computer that are “loose duplicates” of each other. That means the images are mostly identical except for very minor variations – often happens when you capture multiple frames in quick succession.
If you are only looking to find and remove images that are “exact” duplicates of each other, Google’s Picasa desktop software could be a good solution. Visually Discover the Most Popular Links on a Page. Learn how you can visually discover the most popular links on any web page – like the CNN homepage for example.
Compare these two web pages – page A and page B. They have identical content, just a bunch of external links, but the latter page makes it really easy for you to visually discover how popular the various links are on the social web. Facebook appears on path toward IPO, possibly next year. By Matt Krantz and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Popular social-networking site Facebook is the latest Internet company rumored to be preparing to go public, causing some investors to wonder if there's a tech IPO revival on the way.
Facebook expects to hit the 500-shareholder threshold that would trigger regulations prompting it to publicly disclose financial statements and launch an initial public offering next year, according to a document given to potential private investors by Goldman Sachs, Reuters reports. USA TODAY confirmed the existence of the letter but could not obtain a copy. Facebook and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. But market watchers say Facebook's path is clearly leading toward an IPO. If Facebook did go public, it would continue a reluctant return of technology companies to the IPO market. Facebook, though, isn't the only Internet company eyeing an IPO. It's far from a tech IPO bonanza.
US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists. 8 January 2011Last updated at 18:09 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP. The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of classified diplomatic cables. Reports indicate the Department of Justice may seek to indict him on charges of conspiring to steal documents with Private First Class Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst.
Mr Manning is facing a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for allegedly sending Wikileaks the diplomatic cables, as well military logs about incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq and a classified military video. Acrylic - Pulp for iPad. News shouldn't be like email. Pulp takes your favorite news feeds and presents them in a beautifully friendly & familiar format, making it easy to quickly scan through headlines, previews, and photos to find the stories that interest you most.
It's like your very own personalized newspaper, designed for your Mac & iPad. See What's New The latest articles are automatically highlighted, letting you see what's new and how long ago they were posted. Read Later Save interesting articles to the shelf, the perfect place to queue up stories that you want to check out later. Customize Click the Edit button at any time to add, remove, or re-arrange your feeds and pages.
Welcome to Pulp. Tap the Edit button at any time to add, remove, or re-arrange your feeds and pages. Pulp is unlike any other newsreader you've seen. Coffee breaks aren't endless, so Pulp makes it easy to save articles you want to read later. Dealing with RSS and URLs can be a pain. WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas | Media. WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts on the micro-blogging site by five figures associated with the group, including Julian Assange. Amid strong evidence that a US grand jury has begun a wide-ranging trawl for details of what networks and accounts WikiLeaks used to communicate with Bradley Manning, the US serviceman accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of sensitive government cables, some of those named in the subpoena said they would fight disclosure.
"Today, the existence of a secret US government grand jury espionage investigation into WikiLeaks was confirmed for the first time as a subpoena was brought into the public domain," WikiLeaks said in a statement. They include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Manning, Icelandic MP Brigitta Jonsdottir and Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp. SoundCloud announces big-name investment – “The Web should not be mute” Audio sharing platform SoundCloud has received a huge boost today, confirming that it has received investment from major US tech VC firms Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. The value of the investment hasn’t been revealed but the deals see Union Square’s Fred Wilson and Index Ventures’ Mike Volpi join the company’s board. In a blog post, just published, the two companies speak out about the reasons behind the funding.
Fred Wilson of Union Square, whose portfolio includes Twitter, Foursquare and Zynga among other well-know web tech names, says “The web should not be mute. It largely is today. That well-respected names Wilson and Volpi are joining SoundCloud’s team is significant for the Berlin-based company, which initially targeted itself at musicians but is now expanding to aim at a wider audience. SoundCloud explains that the investment actually took place last year but that it was “too busy building new awesome apps at the time” to announce it.
Nouvelle Freebox Revolution : Free frappe fort. 01net le 14/12/10 à 11h55 Le secret était bien gardé. Iliad planchait depuis trois ans sur une nouvelle génération d’équipements Internet. Il a levé le voile ce 14 décembre sur ses nouveaux bébés, lors d’un show digne des présentations d’Apple. Maître de cérémonie, Xavier Niel a détaillé en long et en large l'offre Freebox Revolution, une nouvelle box et un décodeur TV flambant neuf, en présence du designer Philippe Starck, qui a planché sur l’esthétique de ces matériels. Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que le fondateur de Free a frappé fort, très fort, en annonçant des nouveautés tous azimuts : une Freebox qui fait désormais office de serveur domestique et qui permet de partager des fichiers, de télécharger PC éteint (ce qui ne devrait pas plaire à la Hadopi !)
Le prix ? D’autant plus que l’opérateur a réservé une surprise de taille à ses abonnés : tous les appels vers les mobiles en France, vers tous les opérateurs, sont désormais inclus. Freebox Server (modem routeur) Box, la meilleure offre ADSL: Internet, Téléphone, Télévision. *Tarifs TTC au 08/12/2016. Offres soumises à conditions, valables en zone dégroupée ou fibrée, sous réserve de compatibilité technique et d'éligibilité, hors prestations tarifées à l'acte ou optionnelles.
Pour la fibre, uniquement sur les zones de déploiement de la fibre optique et sous réserve du raccordement effectif du domicile de l'abonné. Frais de résiliation : 49€. Conditionnement/envoi équipements Freebox mini 4K : 19€. Voir conditions et éligibilité sur www.free.fr Les débits sont variables en fonction de la longueur de la ligne. Débits IP : capacité IP dédiée entre la Freebox et l'équipement d'accès de Free. ADSL : débit descendant atteignable en général entre 1 Mbit/s et 15 Mbit/s et débit montant atteignable en général inférieur à 1 Mbit/s. FIBRE : débit descendant théorique jusqu’à 1Gbit/s selon éligibilité et avec équipement adéquat, et débit montant théorique jusqu’à 200Mbit/s maximum, avec Freebox compatible. TV sous réserve d’éligibilité. Forfait Freebox mini 4K.
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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. A First Look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb, or Android for Tablets. The pad format suffers from lack of hardware more than lack of software. My wife has an iPad and I have a rooted Pandigital Novel running Android. The Novel is almost fast enough to get out of its own way, but at least it has given me a chance to compare interfaces, hardware, and pad apps between the two platforms. Maybe there are 200,000 apps for Android, but as of today, the hands-on quality really suffers compared to iPad. Apple has nothing to worry about for awhile. In my opinion the coolest apps use the high tech hardware. The iPad wifi is not perfect either. Nsumers in the US spend an average of $10 on digital content per month: study - Gadgets & Tech, Life & Style.
The typical online consumer spends around $10 a month for digital content said internet research firm Pew in a study released on December 30. The majority of users prefer to pay for subscription services (23%) as opposed to downloading individual files (16%) or streaming content (%8). Music, software and applications are the most popular purchases, although games, e-books and news articles also feature among the "intangible" digital products consumers are happy to spend their hard-earned money on. 33 percent of users said they had paid to download or access music online and a further 33 percent said they purchased software. Figures for newspaper, magazine and/or journal articles or reports were much lower, with just 18 percent of consumers saying they have ever paid to access or download that type of digital content.
Only two percent of online Americans admitted to paying for adult content. The definition of online content is slightly blurred in the study. Actualité à la Une. Food Blogs. Robot waiters in China never lose patience. JINAN, China — Service with a smile also comes with an electronic voice at the Dalu Robot restaurant, where the hotpot meals are not as famous yet as the staff who never lose their patience and never take tips.
The restaurant, which opened last month in Jinan in northern Shandong province, is touted as China’s first robot hotpot eatery where robots resembling “Star Wars” droids circle the room carrying trays of food in a conveyor belt-like system. More than a dozen robots operate in the restaurant as entertainers, servers, greeters and receptionists. Each robot has a motion sensor that tells it to stop when someone is in its path so customers can reach for dishes they want. The service industry in China has not always kept up with the country’s rapid economic growth, and can be quite basic in some restaurants, leading customers in the Dalu restaurant to praise the robots. “I hope this new concept shows that China is forward-thinking and innovative,” Zhang said. 5 Online Media Trends for 2011. All My Faves | Why Search? 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011.
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Storific’s app could do away with restaurant waiters forever.