Head on over to Yahoo! Movies to watch the full trailer for Friday the 13th and then post your thoughts on the trailer below. The pic directed by Marcus Nispel is the retelling of the original Friday the 13th about teenaged summer camp counselors that are systematically slaughtered by a mysterious killer. Jason Voorhees will wear the mask and kill, keeping the famous setting of Crystal Lake. FRIDAY hits theaters February 13, 2009.

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Apple’s App Store recently hit the 10,000 application mark, and while the store does a pretty good job at turning up impressive new applications through its Top App lists and on banners that scatter the store, most users are only exposed to a tiny fraction of the applications that are available. Now Y Combinator startup AdPinion has leveraged the technology behind its advertising voting engine to create a recommendation service for iPhone apps called Appalanche, hoping to surface the gems that are most appealing to users and might otherwise go unnoticed. To visit the web app, visit this site from your browser.

The interface is sleek and intuitive, and looks great on the iPhone’s screen (the web app is also compatible with standard PC web browsers). The site presents users with six applications at a time, asking them to drag them into either a green “Like” section or a red “Don’t Like” area”. After making a few choices, users can hit “More recommendations” to see six new applications. Users can associate their recommendations to an Email address, so they can build up a larger (and hopefully more accurate) database over time.

While the site looks very nice, it still has some shortcomings. Unless you have a comprehensive knowledge of the applications on the App Store, most of the applications displayed by Appalanche will be totally unfamiliar, which makes it hard to categorize them under ‘like’ or ‘dislike’. The icons and names for each app aren’t particularly informative, and while you can see a brief description of each app by clicking on it once, the process is tedious, especially on the iPhone’s small screen. And because it’s so tough to figure out which applications you’re actually going to be interested in, the engine isn’t as helpful as it could be. That said, I’d love to see a recommendation engine and AdPinion certainly has the technology to do it - they just need a better interface.

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Atari has released a new trailer of SimBin's ultra realistic racing game.

Not terribly long ago we caught a few glimpses of a prototype of the Grippity, a sort of garish looking back-typing keyboard. Well, the actual production model's completed, and though it's lost some of it's Frankenstein-ish charm, it continues to look rather insane and cool. The unit boasts a full QWERTY keyboard, for use with eight-finger typing from the back, plus two triggers on the back that function as the mouse buttons. As if that wasn't wild enough, it also boasts an orientation sensor that allows the 60 QWERTY keys to double as hot keys when the unit is flipped over. The final unit is expected in about six months, and should retail for $100. Check out the gallery for more views of this terrifically weird specimen.

Gallery: Grippity back-typing keyboard

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pThe bloodbath in media continues, and this time, at the West coast entertainment trades. We have learned that a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/index.jsp" title="Hollywood Reporter"Hollywood Reporter/a has done a new round of major layoffs, and about 17 people in total were laid off. It includes people in editorial, art and production, and no senior business executives were affected, as far as we know. Also, no changes yet in the print frequency, though I would expect them to be looking hard at the print product as it exists now. The news was first a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/layoffs-at-hollywood-reporter-12-the-staff/" title="reported by DHD"reported by DHD/a, and no, the layoffs don't constitute half of THR, but less than that. /p p Also, at iVariety/i, which is in the process of being sold (or not) as part of Reed Business, some more cuts as well, as the publication has closed its DC bureau. And, as Nikki notes, it also a href="http://www.thestylephile.com/blog/330000033/post/580036858.html?category_id=30686" title="has closed"has closed/a its Stylephile blog. There are likely more cuts happening or coming ... more as we find out. /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LjMbfx"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LjMbfx" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=j9n6O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=j9n6O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0qpbO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0qpbO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ikrxo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ikrxo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MIciO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MIciO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Ubc4O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Ubc4O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475191195" height="1" width="1"/

Is a major US retailer about to start selling a version of the iPhone 3G with 4G of storage for just $US99?

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Scott Cleland is a "telecom analyst" who, in reality, is actually paid a large sum of money by the telcos to slam Google. He's become sort of a joke in DC circles. In the past, we noted his a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080404/180724761.shtml"ridiculously bad math/a in claiming that Google fleeced taxpayers out of $7 billion, as well as his claims that "open spectrum" is somehow a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080131/003825134.shtml"anti-American/a. His main issue, of course, is trying to dispense a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061022/220402.shtml"bogus arguments/a for why net neutrality is really a big scam by Google to keep its broadband bills cheap. To give Cleland credit, at least he's not as bad as Mike McCurry, who once claimed that Google a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060801/0219252.shtml"doesn't pay a dime/a for broadband. McCurry, of course, has moved on from spinning for the telcos to spinning for a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080925/0216422370.shtml"the entertainment industry/a, so Cleland needed to up his game. br /br / He's now released a "study" claiming that a href="http://precursorblog.com/content/google-uses-21-times-more-bandwidth-it-pays-first-ever-research-study" target="_new"Google uses 21 times as much bandwidth as it pays for/a. First of all, this is simply incorrect. Cleland doesn't know how much Google actually pays for broadband, so he comes up with a small number, which is wrong a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/response-to-phone-companies-google.html" target="_new"for a variety of reasons/a. br /br / He seems to conflate consumer broadband and Google's broadband. This is based, in part, on the old telco argument that when you buy internet access, you're only buying access a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060131/0923209.shtml"to the middle/a of the internet, and you should have to pay a second time to actually ireach/i any endpoint or other user. So, even though consumers pay for the bandwidth they use to reach Google, Cleland appears to calculate that as being Google's responsibility, ignoring that consumers are paying plenty for the right to reach Google (and the rest of the internet). As Cord Blomquist points out, this is like a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/google-bandwidth-study-proves-very-little/" target="_new"pointing out that Best Buy should pay for the gas it takes/a for people to drive to Best Buy. Broadband Reports also does a a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Scott-Cleland-Google-Using-21x-The-Bandwidth-They-Pay-For-99475" target="_new"nice job deconstructing this/a. br /br / However, even if we ignore all the basic facts and information that Cleland gets wrong, if we grant his premise, his argument still doesn't make any sense. If anything, rather than being an argument in favor of the telcos' position, Clelands report (if true) suggests that telco execs all deserve to be fired. After all, they're the ones who set up the business model and the billing relationship, and if they're undercharging Google by so much, then shouldn't they raise their prices? Of course, there's a good reason why this doesn't happen: because Google is paying fair market value for its bandwidth, and if anyone tried to charge them 21 times more, Google would quickly take its business elsewhere. So, based on this report, either Cleland is dead wrong in his report, or the telcos who funded it are run by morons who don't know how to set pricing correctly. Which one is more likely?br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081204/1453233022op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=RfDCo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=RfDCo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/475210547" height="1" width="1"/

pobject width="495" height="326"param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2432245amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=00ADEFamp;fullscreen=1" /embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2432245amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=00ADEFamp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="495" height="326"/embed/objectbr / Hey Jason, Chris and I got into NY yesterday and haven't really stopped moving since then. The Gizmodo Gallery has been a huge success so far, especially with a href="http://blog.makezine.com/"Phil Torrone/a from Make doing free laser etchings all day for anyone who brought him a graphic and a gadget to tattoo. But setup, well, it took awhile. Especially deciding where to put what furniture, and what gadgets to put on what particular pieces of furniture. We ended in a mental loop for a few hours, trying to sort everything out so it would be presented perfectly, and in the end, we were satisfied. But from start to finish, it took us 15 hours to do. Which we compressed into a 45 second time lapse video which you can see above./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=ba481f490ecb41ab32c076fec500ae4aamp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=ba481f490ecb41ab32c076fec500ae4aamp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=LPCMxn2o"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=BBqGbLzh"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=N1DV36ew"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=N1DV36ew" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=so163Yyn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=so163Yyn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/lfR7fni4v8o" height="1" width="1"/

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Going More Mobile  —  Over the last year we've seen an explosion of mobile devices uploading to and browsing Flickr.  It's rapidly becoming the norm for our members to use a camera phone to share their immediate world with others, and a mobile browser to keep track of friends and family.

Tonner Direct announced today two exclusive Twilight action figures. Beyond the break you can check out your first look at dolls for Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson). The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead.

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pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21351/banjokazooiebogb.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/[Every week, Gamasutra sister weblog GamerBytes' editor Ryan Langley passes along the top console digital download news tidbits from the past 7 days, including brand new game announcements and scoops through the world of Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and WiiWare.] For digital console downloads, this was a slow week for all concerned. But it's to be expected - we're right at the beginning of December. GamerBytes' pick of the week would be Banjo Kazooie .../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=LHRMO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=LHRMO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=zzdCO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=zzdCO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=ZinfO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=ZinfO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/474705965" height="1" width="1"/

When UserVoice launched its hosted solution for companies looking to harness user feedback a little over 7 months ago, we wrote it could well be a replacement for e-mail when it comes to aggregating opinions, ideas and suggestions from user / customer bases. Now, UserVoice says its offering is solid enough for enterprise usage and is consequently dropping the beta tag.

Billing itself as an ‘online suggestion box that sorts itself’, UserVoice enables companies to embed widgets onto websites and applications to sollicit feedback from users in combination with a Digg-like voting feature. The idea behind that approach is that it’s easier and more scalable to crowdsource user opinions, ideas and suggestions than other ways of communication.

You can use the UserVoice service for free, but with a rather big limitation on features. More advanced packages are available starting from $289 per month, and there are also special packages for startups, non-profit organizations and educational institutions. If you want to take a look at alternatives, you might want to check out similar service providers such as CrowdSound, Suggestionbox and Get Satisfaction.

UserVoice has attracted customers from various sizes so far, including nice references like Sun Microsystems, Nokia and MySpace but also smaller web application providers like Blip.fm, 12seconds and Alert Thingy. According to the announcement, over 120 million widget impressions have already been served, with over 530,000 votes logged to date. Not bad for a startup that operates without outside financing apart from a small seed round from Nuvoiz raised back in 2007.

Bonus points for using Initech as the company for the live demo. Marvellous touch.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/wordpad2009.png" width="775" height="665" style="display:block;float:none;" / Windows only: Lots of folks rave about Microsoft Office 2007's ribbon interface, but now you can have it for free in Microsoft Word's younger sibling, WordPad. A developer over at deviantARTmdash;not Microsoft, mind youmdash;has released "Wordpad 2009," which offers multiple documents in tabs, Windows 7 icons, and yes, the ribbon interface. While this is yet another way you can a href="http://lifehacker.com/5077690/get-windows-7s-best-features-right-now"get Windows 7 features for free right now/a, Wordpad 2009 doesn't look exactly like Windows 7's WordPad. Check out the difference./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/wordpadinwin2007.png" width="653" height="618" style="display:block;float:none;" / Here's a screenshot of WordPad in the Windows 7 preview. Notice that the ribbon here is laid out to match Microsoft's authentic ribbon, but Wordpad 2009 has one thing that Win7 WordPad does not: the ability to edit multiple documents in tabs.br clear="all"/p pWordpad 2009 is a free download for Windows only. See also a href="http://lifehacker.com/5055478/notepad-2008-brings-the-office-ribbon-to-your-text-editor"previously mentioned/a Notepad 2008./p div class="related"a href="http://solo-dev.deviantart.com/art/Wordpad-2009-105410281"Wordpad 2009 by ~Solo-Dev/a [deviantART]/div br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=fe70a4bd7ec2e2093cd4a0f2ba913928p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=fe70a4bd7ec2e2093cd4a0f2ba913928p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=fe70a4bd7ec2e2093cd4a0f2ba913928" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=cEP7m1JO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Pm8irLce"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=8A0DwvVc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=8A0DwvVc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=IZozaIj6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=IZozaIj6" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/JuCgx1P0azs" height="1" width="1"/

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