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pimg alt="friend_connect_logo_nov08.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/friend_connect_logo_nov08.png" /Just about half a year ago, Google announced the limited beta of a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"Friend Connect/a, which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to sign in to these social gadgets with their OpenID, AIM, Yahoo, or Google accounts./p pa href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/friend-connect-service-coming-soon/5497/"Amit Agarwal/a has been keeping a close eye on Friend Connect since it was announced and he assumes that the service could go live pretty soon. Just last week, Google published a new a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94s7ix0JPo"YouTube video/a geared towards users and now the a href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/"support site/a for Friend Connect is available as well./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12675amp;cb=12675' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12675amp;n=12675' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pSome of the gadgets Google currently supplies are a comment wall and a ratings gadget. Friend Connect will also work with third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community. To enable these gadgets, all a site owner has to do is to copy and paste some code snippets into their site's HTML./p h2Google Profiles Meets MyBlogLog/h2 pLately, Google has started to put a lot more emphasis on its own user profiles, and Friend Connect makes good use of them. Once you join a Friend Connect enabled site, other users will be able to see information from your profile, though you can set your privacy settings to disallow others from seeing your profile pages as well. In many ways, this is quite similar to a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/"MyBlogLog/a./p h2It's Social, But is it Open?/h2 pimg alt="friend_connect.jpg" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/friend_connect.jpg" /When Friend Connect was first announced, we were a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_join_the_crowd_with.php"concerned/a about the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"direction Google was taking/a with this implementation of the OpenSocial standards. Also, as we noted in our earlier posts, the Friend Connect apps are displayed in an iframe, which is basically a separate web page inside another web page. Because of this, these apps are black boxes that live on your site, but don't allow the site owners to really leverage the data from these apps on their own sites./p pIt is interesting to note that the latest Google video about Friend Connect still prominently features Facebook as a supported service, even though Facebook has decided to eschew OpenSocial in favor of its own platform. The a href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/bin/answer.py?answer=112075amp;topic=16611"help pages/a for Friend Connect don't feature a list of supported services yet./p h2Benefits/h2 pThere are, however, also some clear benefits to using Friend Connect. Through this service, a site owner might be able to create more user loyalty and enthusiastic readers can evangelize your site by publishing their activity on it to their own social network. Visitors will also be able to a href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/bin/answer.py?answer=112073"invite their friends/a on social networks to join your site./p pIn an a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_friend_connect.html"early press release/a about Friend Connect, Google stated that this initiative was about helping the 'long tail' of sites to become more social. 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Vikram Pandit, Citigroup’s chief executive, today blamed the bank’s plunging share price on "rumour mongering" and reiterated that its capital position is "very strong".

centerimg title="With Nokia Build, French Users Can Customize the Nokia 7310 Online" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="With Nokia Build, French Users Can Customize the Nokia 7310 Online" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/nokia-build.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pNokia France has built a website called a href="http://www.nokia.fr/nokia-build"Nokia Build/a that allows its customers to design or customize their handset before ordering online. At the moment, it is only available for the Nokia 7310 and basically lets you design a sticker for the back of the phone. It could be really cool, depending on the final quality. How important is customization for you and how much more, ifnbsp;at all,nbsp;would you like to pay to personalize your phone?/p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/with_nokia_build_french_users_can_customize_the_nokia_7310_online.html"With Nokia Build, French Users Can Customize the Nokia 7310 Online/a from a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081121101902" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081121101902?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081121101902" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081121101902amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fwith_nokia_build_french_users_can_customize_the_nokia_7310_online.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/PjnTKHJsWyMiXzoZZjgd98XvmqI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/PjnTKHJsWyMiXzoZZjgd98XvmqI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=A42x029M"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=mmh8MVBJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=mmh8MVBJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=kk3AgFTF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=W0OxJkQe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=W0OxJkQe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=BcPKqoI4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=BcPKqoI4" border="0"/img/a /div

a href="http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/11/digg-attack-javascript-game.html"DIGG ATTACK/a is a game. Lead a small band of good guys (small bluish dots) in a struggle to flee from Digg Stories. Requires your browser support the canvas tag. br /

As its name suggests, Sloshspot is a website for people looking to have a good time – perhaps too good of a time. Like many sites before it, Sloshspot is an index of bars and nightspots, where users can leave reviews, post photos, and check out other “regulars” of different locales. Venues can maintain their own presence on the site to keep their regulars informed of events and drink specials.

What makes Sloshspot interesting, unique, and maybe a bit of an enabler, is a point system that allows users to earn rewards for more participation on the site. Of course, more participation – like posting photos and comments from a night out at a particular venue – requires more time out on the town.

As you participate more on the site, you move up to different levels – from lightweight, to weekend warrior, to socialite, etc. At each level, you unlock new site features, like things you can add to your profile, and eventually become eligible for prizes like iTunes gift cards and of course, free kegs.

Sloshspot also offers an iPhone app so you can find bars, events, and shows on the go. The app automatically detects your location, then lets you search the database to find something nearby. You can see all of the same data that’s available on the website, like ratings, the regulars, and who’s attending on a given night.

The big competition for Sloshspot would seem to by MySpace, where many venues already maintain their own presence where you can do much of the same, by becoming a “friend” of a given place, checking the event schedule, or leaving comments with your reviews and photos.

Where Sloshspot has a chance to standout is with its reward system and a mobile experience specific to those that can’t get enough of the nightlife. And if those two components can take off, there is certainly money to be made in hyperlocal advertising to a crowd that’s looking to spend money.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: --- a href="http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/"The Turbaconducken/a. br /

If the translation to English is to be trusted, Egypt's strongest man generates 240 horsepower, is medically exempt from working because he might hurt someone in the workplace, and, well, it just gets better from there. Oh, and HE'S NEVER SLEPT. (via delicious ghost)

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It's just taken a relatively short six months, but it looks like the team behind the Open Computing Language (or OpenCL) have already delivered the final spec for the standard, which puts it right on track for inclusion in OS X Snow Leopard. In fact, the team credits Apple with helping them meet the "impossible deadline," with Intel's Tim Mattson saying that Apple's decision to "support it in Snow Leopard was a huge plus to us," even if it forced them to "divorce our families" and left them "almost dead." The standard itself, which allows for greater leveraging of GPUs and other hardware, isn't quite ready to be implemented just yet, however, as it still has to go through the final stage of being vetted by all 20 partner companies for patent issues and whatnot. Once that's done, which will take a "minimum" of 30 days, they'll release the actual spec and begin the usual round demos.

[Via Ars Technica]

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Linux.com: "MySQL GUI Tools is a suite of graphical desktop applications for working with and administering MySQL servers. The suite consists of three tools: MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator, and MySQL Migration Assistant (available only on Windows). We'll look at the first two to see how well they let us manage MySQL without using the command line."

No, I'm not talking about Eli Stone, although that would certainly be twist. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Mila Kunis has signed on to Denzel Washington's upcoming The Book of Eli. Set in the future, the film focuses on a lone hero named Eli (Washington) who treks across the ravaged lands of America trying to save a sacred book that could save the future of humanity.

Gary Oldman signed on last month to try and get the text for himself, and now Kunis will join the action as Solara, a woman who is tapped to betray Eli, but then joins him on his quest. If we get one more big comedy out of Kunis in the upcoming months, I think she'll have solidified herself as the guy's gal with her ever-growing roster of action flicks and comedies.

I'm also dying to remention that which shall not be named again, because more and more, this is sounding like that darned film. But I won't, unless it turns out that Eli once failed to save Kunis's family from a well death bound with barbed wire. Doubt it though... With Washington, I bet it will go in a whole different, and less campy direction. (Although I might love it all the more if Denzel went campy. Wouldn't that be great?)

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Dems have given the Big 3 until Dec. 2 to come up with recovery plan — a directive that's driving their opponents crazy
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The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.

James Burgett of ACCRC's skull of junked electronics (photo via Dale Dougherty)

The Alameda County Computer Resource Center could really use your help, as Dale writes on boingboing:

ACCRC is in desperate straits. The Bay Area electronics recycler is going through tough times with an emergency re-org and a lack of funds to pay taxes and healthcare for its employees. Its own internal problems are compounded by a sudden drop in the price of scrap metal. ACCRC has been a friend to Make and Maker Faire, and generally anyone in the Bay Area who uses computers and electronics and wants to make sure they are recycled properly.

The good news about falling metal prices is that scrapyards who couldn't be bothered to sell random bits of metal to Makers may now think otherwise. However, this is a scant silver lining when you consider the effect on recycling businesses that need sane metal prices to stay in business. We're not talking a tiny drop here, either: prices on some metals have dropped 80% in the last 3 months.

Please consider donating to ACCRC here. They're a charitable organization, so you might even be able to get your employer to match it!

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Via Discovery News:
Scientists in California have developed a software algorithm that automatically creates a physical key based solely on a picture of one, regardless of angle or distance. The project, called Sneakey, was meant to warn people about the dangers of haphazardly placing keys in the open or posting images of them online.
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When Savage and his students searched online photo sharing Web sites, like Flickr, they easily found thousands of photos of keys with enough definition to replicate. A more social person could simply use their cell phone camera to snap a quick picture of stray keys on a table top.
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the researchers set up a camera with a zoom lens 200 feet away. Using those photos, they created a working key 80 percent on their first try. Within three attempts they opened every lock.

Check out the researcher's site here, where you can learn more and read their paper: "Reconsidering Physical Key Secrecy: Teleduplication via Optical Decoding."

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, you could have a camera with zoom hundreds of feet away from a door and leave it recording. If you've achieved the right angle, you could capture a few frames of the key pre-insertion-into-the-door that let you then make your own copy!

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="340" border="0" align="top" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/slurpeecups.jpg" //abr //div 7-Eleven, bastion of the 2AM munchies, announced recently it's going to expand its video game offerings. The company currently plans to offer a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41"seven titles/a over the holiday season (like a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/wrath-of-the-lich-king"emWrath of the Lich King/em/a, a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/fallout-3"emFallout 3/em/a, ema href="http://joystiq.com/tag/world-at-war"CoD:WaW/a, a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/gears-of-war-2"Gears 2/a/em) "while supplies last." Depending on how things go, Sleven plans to have more titles beyond the predicted "hot-selling" games.br /br /We're all for 7-Eleven carrying games, we're even more for it continuing to avoid training its employees properly and a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/11/7-11-sells-wrath-of-the-lich-king-early/"breaking street dates/a for blockbuster titles like emGears of War 2/em and emLich King/em*.br /br /small*Yes, we realize in the case of emLich King/em it didn't mean much because the servers weren't up, but it's avoiding the midnight lines that counts./smallbr /br /[Via a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26681522amp;part=rssamp;tag=gs_newsamp;subj=6201484"Gamespot/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/"7-Eleven getting comfortable with game sales/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379510/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HbwcS5kR1e2GVSjlMQhlGVxuwiE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HbwcS5kR1e2GVSjlMQhlGVxuwiE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=gtmf6OgA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=gtmf6OgA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=eLZY95ia"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=eLZY95ia" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/NwsEMF4x7Qg" height="1" width="1"/

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Somali pirates have been paid more than $150m (£101m) in ransoms in the past 12 months, Kenya's foreign minister says.