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The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the
somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones
are still not mainstream. It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To
recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location (which we have thanks to
GPS chips and even the ability to
triangulate using Wi-Fi networks), software that can make sense of geographic information and
do something with it (which are out), and cooperation between handset makers and carriers to
enable developers to access such services easily.
It’s the cooperation piece that fails, but the article points to several companies such as
Nokia, uLocate’s Where application and SkyHook Wireless that are
attempting to bridge that gap by offering a platform that will sit between carriers and smaller
developers. For example, uLocate has signed a deal
with Sprint to act as the LBS platform for its WiMAX network. Smaller developers can sign on
through Where and get access to WiMAX subscribers without worrying about working with Sprint or
getting the location information form a provider. I suppose since we’ve waited this long for LBS, most
of us can wait a little longer.
To promote its new album "Folie à Deux" Fall Out Boy will perform at the Chicago Theatre on
Dec. 2. The performance will then be broadcast exclusively on Fuse Dec. 16, the day the album is
released.
The chief executive of Europe's largest entertainment group Vivendi says he is cautious on
prospects and was monitoring costs because he had "no clue" how the downturn would affect his
different divisions.
It's one of the most highly-anticipated Blu-ray releases of the New Year, and we've got a sneak
peek at the box art and final confirmed specs for 'The Bourne Trilogy.' As announced earlier this
week, Universal...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/460793746"
height="1" width="1"/
Warner Music's catalog label Rhino Records will allow New Order fans to exchange copies of new
reissues after numerous sound problems were discovered on the bonus discs.
In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in
the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire
State...
Yieldex, a startup that helps online publishers forecast ad inventory, has
won the Amazon Web Services Startup
Challenge, netting $100,000 in cash and services. Yieldex
built its ad forecasting platform using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and the Amazon Simple
Storage Service. It won $50,000 in AWS services as well as $50,000 in cash, and may even get an
Amazon investment. In addition, it and six other
finalists got to pitch their businesses to several VC firm including BlueRun
Ventures, CMEA Ventures, Greylock Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Madrona Venture
Group, who help judge the contest. Last year’s
winner Ooyala managed to score $8.5 million in venture funding two
months after it won. But those were different times.
The Iomega StorCenter ix2 is the latest compact network storage solution designed for consumers who
need a stand-alone storage drive that can be shared by multiple computers over an internet or
network connection. This compact file sharing solution allows friends, family, and coworkers to
access the same files even if they work on different computers. Notebook users can also benefit by
keeping important files on a networked drive at home, so a stolen laptop doesn't result in stolen
data. Let's take a closer look.
pFeatured links from the CNET Blog Network/p p a
href=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10104996-23.html?tag=bnprA wheres the feature? report:
iPhone 3G/a--Peter Glaskowsky describes his WTF reaction to many missing iPhone 3G features. WTF,
of course, stands for Wheres That Feature?/p p a
href=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10104284-16.html?tag=bnprAt what point does the stock market
tumble become funny?/a--We are living through a massive sell-off on the stock markets, fueled by
sheer panic. At what point does panic become funny?/p p a
href=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10104750-27.html?tag=bnprByrne/Eno succeed in cutting out
the middleman/a--Ian Rogers, whose digital music company Topspin was behind the latest Byrne/Eno
album, recently revealed some numbers showing that cutting out the middleman can put power back in
the hands of the artist./p p a
href=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10105074-71.html?tag=bnprGoogle attempts to save marriages
around the world/a--Google is shutting down its Second Life rival site, Lively. Will this have a
positive effect on the institution of marriage?/p
We knew Tina Fey’s impersonations of former V-P candidate Sarah Palin helped boost the
online video fortunes of NBC and Hulu, and now we know just how much of a bump each site got in October,
when the election was in full swing.
According to comScore, Hulu
went from 2.85 million unique visitors in September to 5.34 million uniques in October, for an 87
percent increase. NBC Universal jumped from 16 million uniques in September to almost 24.8
million uniques in October, for a 33 percent jump. Further, NBC’s online Saturday Night
Live channel shot up 85 percent to 4.4 million visitors in October.
Of course, it wasn’t all Fey-lin’s doing. The Palin-Biden and Obama McCain debates
were live-streamed during October as well.
The question becomes, how much of that new traffic will Hulu and NBC be able to hang onto now
that the election is over?
Le concept ? Un blogueur ou une blogueuse, des questions, posées par n’importe quel
rédacteur ou rédactrice de Pingoo.com, des photos nues, et voilà. Si vous et
votre blog voulez participer, contactez-nous sur redac@pingoo.com.
Toutes les interviews publiées ici seront accessibles sur ce tag : Interviews.
Lou :
- Allez Julien, ne sois pas timide, maintenant que tu es tout nu :
e-présente-toi.
Julien :
J’ai effectivement créé ”Beaucoup d’images sur pas grand chose” (une fine
référence à ”Beaucoup de bruit pour rien”) à la fin 2006
pour communiquer par l’image. Elle a l’avantage de ne pas avoir besoin de traduction
pour être comprise partout... Je suis très fier d’avoir à peine 50% de
visites de France. Je voulais aussi gagner du temps et ne pas passer des heures à choisir
mes mots. Ca c’est raté : je passe des heures à choisir et retoucher mes
photos. Je suis toujours aussi discret dans la sphère Web 2.0 (jusqu’à
présent) alors que je navigue dans l’internet depuis presque 15 ans maintenant. Oh
mon dieu, je me sens si vieux tout d’un coup.
Lou:
- Ca fait combien de temps que tu photographies des bébés en poussettes et des
poupées vaudou ?
Julien :
C’est çà que de regarder Rosemary’s baby avant de prendre des photos...
D’habitude je m’intéresse plus à des buildings et à des
scènes de rues, dans la tradition des photojournalistes des années 50. Je prends la
plupart de mes photos à l’instinct, sans vraiment faire attention aux
réglages et aux usages des professionnels de la profession.
Lou:
- Entre nous [je ne le répèterais à personne], ça (r)apporte quoi, un
photoblog ?
Julien :
Financièrement, pas grand chose. Je publie pour publier. Certains photographes s’en
servent comme d’une vitrine, mais je n’en connais pas qui tirent directement des
revenus de leurs photoblog. Maintenant, si quelqu’un veut me donner plein de sous pour
faire quelques images, je ne dirai pas non (tout de suite) ! De l’autre côté,
les photos permettent de rencontrer des gens de tous les horizons. L’an dernier, alors que
j’avais prévu de partir à New York, j’ai été
invité chez des photographes de Cleveland. C’est le genre d’endroit dans
lequel on ne pense pas vraiment aller si on n’a pas de raison impérieuse ! Rien que
pour cela, le blog m’a déjà enrichi au-delà de toute espérance
!
Lou:
- Parle-moi de ta meilleure photo et fais-nous rêver un peu.
Julien :
Meilleure, meilleure, un bien grand mot. Alors, si j’en crois les commentaires sur le blog,
l’une des plus appréciées a été prise à Coney
Island, l’une des plages de New York.
J’ai passé pas mal de temps à faire des photos ratées sur le ponton
quand j’ai eu l’idée de regarder ce qui se passait dessous. Là
j’ai remarqué les effets de lumière dans l’eau et cela correspondait
à une de mes obsessions (les couloirs). Je n’ai ainsi pris que 4 ou 5 photos que
j’ai oubliées pendant presque un an. Je les ai redécouvertes par hasard en
montrant mes photos à des amis !
Lou:
- Si tu étais un caillou, tu serais... ?
Julien :
Un fisheye, bien sûr. Ce sont des objectifs qui permettent de prendre des photos aux bords
arrondis, avec un très grand angle. Les effets sont géniaux et j’aime bien
voir les choses dans leur globalité...
Lou:
- Que les hommes sont vantards sur leur virilité, bon dieu. Et sinon en vrai, tu as un
métier qui te nourrit ?
Julien :
Aujourd’hui je suis en stand-by et je cherche des projets dans lesquels je pourrais
apprendre de nouvelles choses. J’ai arrêté de jouer au donneur de
leçon, pardon, consultant, dans le droit de la propriété industrielle et la
gestion de projets innovants. Dès que j’ai ma carte verte en début
d’année prochaine, je compte m’installer à New York.
Lou:
- Les blogs, le milieu Web 2.0, tout ça, t’en penses quoi ? Tu vois ça
comment, dans 5 ans ?
Julien :
Je crois que personne ne prends la mesure de la manière dont ces outils sont
appropriés par l’ensemble des internautes (non geeks). Le besoin de reconnaissance
(et les pratiques qu’il engendre) génère beaucoup trop de bruit et
m’ennuie profondément. D’une certaine manière, les véritables
bloggers (je n’aime pas cette étiquette) ne méritent pas ce terme : ils sont
dessinateurs, graphistes, écrivains, journalistes, etc. Alors dans 5 ans ? Bien malin
celui qui prétend savoir ce qu’il va se passer... Les outils sociaux vont encore se
développer, mais la protection de la vie privée va devenir un problème aigu
et il n’est pas impossible que l’on voit de plus en plus des systèmes de
partages d’informations restreints. Aujourd’hui je reviens déjà
à la lecture par newsletter et certains de ne publient déjà que par ce
moyen...
Lou:
- Cite-moi tes blogs préférés, tiens. Et ceux qui t’insupportent, pour
faire bonne mesure.
Julien :
Dans mes blogs préférés, il y a le ”Journal d’un avocat” de l’incontournable Maître Eolas
bien sûr. ”Laetirature” de Laëtita, tout en poésie et en douceur me ravit
à chaque fois. Un peu de photo, avec ”mes humeurs, mes photos” de Frédéric et ”Boxman Fotologue” de Tetsuo. Et comment
oublier la bobo parisienne ?
Des blogs que je n’aime pas ? De manière générale tous ceux qui
copient sur leur voisin et ne savent ni lire ni écrire...
Lou: - Timoré, va. Tu
préfères être en blanc ou en noir
?
Julien :
Oui.
Lou: - Elle en pense quoi ta
dame que tu poses pour Pingoo ?
Julien :
Tu veux dire avant ou après s’être rendue compte que d’autres filles
allaient pouvoir me reluquer ? Disons que Katrina [Le cyclone, ndlr] m’avait l’air
très sympathique à côté...
pYahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker"
title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a), which has been trying to sell off its European comparison shopping
service a href="http://kelkoo.com/" title="Kelkoo"Kelkoo/a for a while now, has finally found a
buyer, according to a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/21/yahoo-finally-sells-kelkoo-and-brings-cash-in/" title="a
report"a report/a: it has been sold to a little-known UK-based private equity firm called Jamplant,
for something less than euro 100 million ($126 million). Yahoo bought the service in 2004 for a
price then of about 475 million euros (now $598 million). Also, the founder and ex-CEO of Kelkoo
Pierre Chappaz wrote a href="http://www.kelblog.com/2008/11/kelkoo-quitte-yahoo.html" title="about
the deal"about the deal/a (in French) on his blog strikebut again, Yahoo hasn't said anything yet
officially/strike. /p p bRobert adds/b: Yahoo UK confirmed the sell off to us. First sign of the
sell-off came when a
href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-yahoo-opens-rd-in-grenoble-uk-too-expensive-too-few-engineers"
title="Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France, HQ"Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France,
HQ/a in September as an RD centre. Chappaz refused to name the price but said it was "below 100
million euros" - that means Yahoo makes a loss of at least 375 million ($472 million) euros (not
including any profits in made in that time, of course). Chappaz said: "The difference is the price
of management incompetence that led Yahoo's (stock price to fall) below $9." /p p Never heard of
Jamplant? You're not alone. Chappaz said it's a new investment unit created by the founders of that
other price comparison site USwitch, which sold to E.W. Scripps (a
href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SSP" class="ticker"
title="SSP"NYSE: SSP/a) for £210 million in 2006. It seems the operators have not given up
their hope of running a bargain-hunting engine, as the consumer economy begins to impact spending.
From a href="http://www.wikio.fr/article/79771978#news79771978" title="Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's
email to staff"Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's email to staff/a: "Philip Smyth, chairman of Jamplant,
believes that, with our backing, Kelkoo should be able to accelerate its growth much faster as a
standalone company. /p pKelkoo has 270 staff in Grenoble and in London. Its latest business
involved powering a white-label price comparison site for ITV (LSE: ITV) and similar deals with The
Independent. Chappaz: "During the past year, several funds approached me to restart Kelkoo with
them. I told them no. Despite my commitment to Kelkoo, I would prefer to devote myself to Wikio.
The sell-off of Kelkoo by Yahoo ... after the failed agreement with Google (a
href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker"
title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) ... illustrates the failure of this company to grow in the world of
transaction services." /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-could-close-poorly-performing-european-properties-third-party-sea"
title="Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told
To Move"Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers
Told To Move/a/li lia
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-considering-strategic-options-for-comparison-shopping-service-kel"
title="Yahoo Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe"Yahoo
Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe/a/li /ul p!--
iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and
perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail
reception. Cost is complimentary. a
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On November 26, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman bring Australia to theaters in the U.S. Directed by
Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), Australia tells a sweeping story
of war and romance set against the backdrop of the extraordinary Australian landscape.
To celebrate the placement of the archive of her life’s work at Emory, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Alice Walker visited the university in March 2008 to explain her decision and grace those
gathered with selected readings from her prose and poetry. A consummate storyteller, Alice Walker
has written more than 23 books, including The Color Purple, one of the works she reads from in
these episodes on iTunes U.
Bad Dog Apps has released an update to BdEmailer, its e-mail software for the iPhone and iPod
touch. The software attempts to expand on the functionality of Apple's own Mail client, by allowing
landscape typing, bulk, draft and favorite messages, and a searchable history of sent items. The
app now supports the SMTP protocol, which can be used to deliver pre-formulated quick responses
without lea...
p7-Eleven is getting into the gaming business by offering a small selection of big-name console and
PC games. With broken street dates and easily fenced goods being kept in stores, the business may
be more trouble than it's worth. Ars talks about the challenge of selling games in a convenience
store. /ppa
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says Ford of Australia to the Duratec V6. Instead, Ford of Oz will invest $21 million to upgrade
its homegrown inline six-cylinder and keep the invading powerplant out. The ongoing commitment to
its own engine saves jobs at Ford's Geelong plant, as well as keeps local Australian suppliers
healthy. It doesn't make any sense for gaskets, castings, bearings and other various parts to come
from some other continent, so it's a piece of good news for the economy in Victoria. The engine
will be freshened to meet Euro IV emissions standards and will keep thundering away down under with
exemplary second-order vibration characteristics. The Falcon, Falcon Ute, and Territory will
continue to be homegrown products with homegrown hearts, that we still badly want here in he
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Does genius only work for music that you have bought from itunes? If so then ok that's the reason
why genius doesnt work for me. None of my 1500 songs are from itunes. If it should still work then
what? Does it have something to do with my TAG Information?
In the Name section of every song i always have the artist and the title
Example:
Name: The Game - Remedy
Artist: The Game
Ablum: -
Do you think i need to clean up my tags for genius to work? Does every song need the album??? I
have my whole music collection separated into 2 albums (sort of like a playlist)... that would
suck...