pimg alt="my6sense_logo_dec08.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/my6sense_logo_dec08.png" /Personalized recommendations have always been one of those technologies that look great on paper, but hardly ever work quite as well as advertised. This week, we got a chance to test a href="http://www.my6sense.com/"my6sense/a, which takes your feed subscriptions and then recommends interesting posts based on your own reading habits. My6sense's current focus is on providing a good mobile experience, though the company will soon also launch its service on the web as well./p pWhile it did take a bit of training before the application fully recognized our preferences and before it returned really good results, the overall results were very impressive./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12820amp;cb=12820' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12820amp;n=12820' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p h2Features/h2 pSo how does it work? When you first sign up, my6sense can import your RSS feeds (from Google Reader, Netvibes, MyYahoo, or from a standard OPML file). After that, all you have to do is read your feeds through the web app and my6sense will automatically learn from your reading behavior (my6sense calls this "digital intuition"). You can also explicitly give a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' on any post./p pimg alt="my6sense_sshot.png" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/my6sense_sshot.png" /My6sense is also a very capable RSS reader in its own right, with the built-in ability to share items on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and LinkedIn, as well as by email. One very nice feature of the app is that it also allows you to see comments on posts from supported blogging platforms./p pCurrently, my6sense is only available as a web app, but the company expects to have a native iPhone application in the App Store by the time the service launches its public beta early next year./p h2Training/h2 pOn a mobile device, good recommendations can be quite a time saver. Having to scroll through numerous feeds can quickly become frustratingly slow. In our tests, it took a day or two of regular usage before my6sense started to come back with really good recommendations. As Kristie Wells, my6sense's VP of Marketing and Community Relations told us, the company is working on providing a better out-of-the-box experience that will learn faster, but given our positive experience, training the software off and on for a day or two is well worth it./p h2Attention/h2 pimg alt="my6sense_sshot_item.png" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/my6sense_sshot_item.png" /We also talked to the two co-founders of my6sense, Barak Hachamov and Avinoam Rubinstainem,/em earlier last month and we asked them if they were going to support any of the open attention profiles like the a href="http://www.apml.org/"APML/a, which would make it possible for users to take their attention profile and transfer it to other news readers. For now, however, the company says that it is focused on providing a good user experience for its alpha testers, though they didn't rule out support for the APML in the future./p h2Invites/h2 pOur experience with my6sense has been very positive, but you don't have to take our word for it. While the service is still in private alpha, they have provided us with 500 invites for our readers. Just a href="http://www.my6sense.com/rww"click here to claim yours/a and let us know if it worked as well for you as it did for us./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/my6sense_personalized_recommendations.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ID_kVHeyvYpxzR3EI4jmWFzwmKE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ID_kVHeyvYpxzR3EI4jmWFzwmKE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=Agvohkui"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=0zNi1o8t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=gKVtgLfD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=gKVtgLfD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=T7VpZFYr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=T7VpZFYr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=2wjeCgNY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=2wjeCgNY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=14oitEec"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=j8oxy5jO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/IMcJw8X7qdM" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pIt may only consist of three dates, but a href="http://www.myspace.com/feedelity" target="_blank"Lindstøm/a is officially making a tour of the U.S. in the new year. He'll play an East Coast date, a West Coast one, and a show smack in the middle of the country, thereby giving most of the U.S. something of a chance to see him (though you might have to drive a few hours in some cases)./p pa href="http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2008/12/lindstr-m-headed-stateside"read more/a/p

400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.

Filmmaker Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is inarguably one of the great cinematic poets. He established a fluid, almost unobtrusive style that allowed him to burrow directly into the souls of his characters. In his most acclaimed film, The Rules of the Game (1939), he appears as a kind of buffoonish party guest, and speaks a line of dialogue that has come to be associated with the real-life filmmaker and all his films: "Everyone has his reasons."

Just this week I caught up with Philippe Claudel's directorial debut I've Loved You So Long (52 screens), which some critics have compared to Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married (216 screens). Both films feature contenders for Best Actress, both try to concentrate on human emotions and behavior rather than a forward-thrusting plot, and at least one film has been compared to Renoir. However, one film succeeds and the other fails, and it comes down to the issue of trust. One filmmaker steps back and lets his characters evolve within the film, and the other constructs the characters as specific types to drive the story (he tells rather than shows).

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Sites domain registration was changed to point to a server hosting malicious downloads in the early morning hours Tuesday, according to reports.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/ihome0.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="531" style="display:block;float:none;" /strongThe Gadget/strong: iHome's iP47 speakerphone has an unbelievable amount of integrated functions, like A2DP stereo Bluetooth connectivity, iPhone/iPod docking, GSM interference shielding, iPod alarm clock playback, AM/FM radio and on-board dialing direct from the unit. And, it has a remote control. It's one of the only iPhone speakerphone units out there now./p pscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('ihomeip47', 3, ''); /script/p pstrongThe Price/strong: $199/p pstrongThe Verdict/strong: Good, but not fantasticmdash;and a bit pricey. For all the functions it has, each one has a small flaw that prevents the whole from being spectacular./p pThe main point of the iP47 is the speakerphone functionality, which connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth (not via dock connector). The speakers for speakerphoning sound fantastic, but the microphone is definitely less impressive. Everyone we called said we sounded like we were on speakerphone and had varying degrees of difficulty understanding us once we moved too far away from the base. But, it was a joy for ius/i to use it, no matter what the other people said. Their voices came through quite nicely, and it can be bloud/b./p pOther bits like iPod music playback and AM/FM radio were alright, but not great. The speakers are slightly tinny for the size, and in general the sound reproduction can be described as top-heavy. For playing back music as an alarm clock in the mornings, it's definitely more than adequate, but it's no substitute for a decent speaker system./p pWe didn't get a chance to test the A2DP stereo Bluetooth playback, but other features like alarm clock, radio, and the remote all worked fine./p pThe biggest function is the speakerphone, which, like we said, works just fine on our end. You can charge your iPhone at the same time you're talking (iPhone 3G compatible) and even leave your phone in another room and still be able to converse. The price is fairly steep at $199, but for users who NEED a better speakerphone than the one built in, we'd recommend it. [a href="http://www.ihomeaudio.com/products.asp?product_id=10247"iHome/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c799166da65af8aefcd0189599388e0b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=7AT9Txgx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=CDAAEgXN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=4Spi9cXG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=4Spi9cXG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=STXtX7iT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=STXtX7iT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/LJJYLsYuHEQ" height="1" width="1"/

Apple's interest in cooling technology is not limited to liquid means, a new document from the US Patent and Trademark Office shows. The company is attempting to patent two heatsink technologies, both connected by the use of a diamond-based thermal material. In the first, a heatsink would be linked to circuits that need cooling, but only through an intermediate layer, where the thermal material ...

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films screening at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the out-of-competition sections of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, and Park City at Midnight. Celebrating its 25th year, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah.

Avez vous déjà eu recours à la Marketplace Facebook? Probablement pas, et pour cause, ce n’est pas vraiment ce qui se fait de mieux en matière de “classified ads”, surtout si vous n’utilisez pas les “Networks” au sein du réseau social (sur lesquels repose principalement le service). Mainteant que Facebook a réaisé cela, l’entreprise a décidé de sous traiter la gestion de sa place de marché à Oodle, cette dernière cela intégré comme les applications tierces et sera lancée au premier trimestre 2009.

Oodle gère déjà la marketplace de MySpace et avec Facebook, les 2 réseaux sociaux brassent + 200 millions de visiteurs uniques et quelques 100 milliards de pages vues, s’attaquer aux annonces (et y intégrer un business model innovant) pourrait être une bonne très bonne chose pour Facebook, pour cela il faudrait que la sauce prenne et que les membres s’approprient cette nouveau service. La concurrence est rude (ebay, craiglist et autres job boards), mais Facebook a des arguments, la puissance de Oodle, son trafic et sa base de membres, wait & see !

AT#38;T-branded phones will shift away from using Java over the next several years, and might start using an open-source version of Symbian.

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Philadelphia forward Elton Brand will miss Friday's game at Detroit with a strained right hamstring.

While the N97 was free to fondle, the slightly less exciting E63 was decidedly bolted to a table, so we had to take what angles we could get. The phone is basically a cheap-o version of the E71: Nokia figured it had a good thing going on in that QWERTY candybar, and decided to spread the love at a lower price point, with a slightly thicker, plastic handset. The good news is that no matter what you do to cheapen the phone, the E63 comes from good stock, and is really a compelling form factor. The slight bump in thickness is negligible, and while the cheaper materials are easily distinguished from the luxury feel of the E71, the phone by no means feels cheap. Except for the keyboard. For some reason Nokia opted to remove the hardened, clickier E71 keys and replace them with a softer, rubberier keyboard with a considerable amount of distributed give to it -- that still leaves it as one of Nokia's best QWERTYs to date, but we greatly prefer the E71. The other compelling difference between the phone and its inspiration is the inclusion of a full 3.5mm headphone jack, instead of the mini jack found on the E71. Not bad at all, but we'd guess Nokia saved a lot more money in materials and manufacturing process than with the sorry removal of GPS and HSDPA.

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced it will introduce two new Bluetooth standards, called 10x and 100x, by the middle of 2009, according to a Thursday report. The former, 10x, will work together with WLAN for faster data transfer rates, while Bluetooth 100x will have use USB-like speeds, although without wires. Currently, Bluetooth 2.0 is capable of a maximum of 3Mbps. The new 10x s...

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Aston Villa falll to a shock defeat to MSK Zilina but still reach the Uefa Cup's last 32, thanks to Hamburg's victory over Slavia Prague.

We all have a fantasy.

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Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso is one of several journalists to receive press freedom awards from a major rights group.

It’s new and improved — Playboy21’s TrickBrick v5. Revamped using moonlight’s vlf library to give TrickBrick that convincing legitimate look; you’ll without doubt drive anger, frustration, sadness, and plenty other emotions through your friend(s) after they believe their PSP was just bricked. Download: TrickBrick v5 - release / discussion thread -

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/text_message-surgery-2.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="600" height="399" style="display:block;" /Using text message instructions from a colleague, a British surgeon in the Congo successfully amputated the gangrenous collarbone and shoulder blade of an unfortunate teenager who had his arms torn off in an accident./p pThe surgeon, David Nott, texted his colleague back in the UK as he was far more knowledgeable about the procedures required for such a delicate operation. The colleague, Meirion Thomas, responded with ten steps he needed to follow in order to carry out the procedure properly. Then signed off with a simple "Easy! Good luck!"/p pPersonally, I would have felt better having him on a regular cellphone call, but heymdash;the procedure went off without a hitch. Nott claimed it was as if he had a "guardian angel on my left shoulder showing me what to do." Indeed, a little cellphone-shaped angel. [a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/04/text.message.operation/index.html?eref=rss_tech"CNN/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b37a0bc67023747525d2e31b8bf8cfc7p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b37a0bc67023747525d2e31b8bf8cfc7p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b37a0bc67023747525d2e31b8bf8cfc7" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=It2EyJh1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=9WLkKI1N"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=aHb3Pcth"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=aHb3Pcth" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ycs4xSKG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=ycs4xSKG" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/X-l0WJFY33E" height="1" width="1"/

p iSan Francisco/i - GoFish, a San Francisco-based online youth entertainment and media network that draws about 69 million unique visitors a month, said on Thursday that it has secured $22.5 million through a private placement co-led by Panorama Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners.pa href="http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/12/04/youth-entertainment-network-gofish-secures-%2422.5-million"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=BDbFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=BDbFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=6wTno"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=6wTno" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=WCL2o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=WCL2o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=JEBbO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=JEBbO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?a=hhCjo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/dmwmedia?i=hhCjo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dmwmedia/~4/475073373" height="1" width="1"/

A police official says security forces have swarmed through New Delhi's international airport after the sound of gunfire was heard, but no one was injured.