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With 850K Users In 2 Months, Circle Of Moms Comes Out Of Nowhere

TechCrunch

- 20 hours and 21 minutes ago

It may seem like the last thing the web needs is another parenting website, but you wouldn’t know that by the impressive growth the new website CircleOfMoms.com chalked up over the past couple of months. The site, launched in October 2008, has already grown to over 850,000 registered users. Seventy-five percent of the users are US-based.

Circle of Moms is what you would expect from the name. It’s a community that lets moms connect with friends, talk about their kids, and join topical Q&A communities. Users have created over 1,000 such communities for topics like parents with toddlers, special needs children, and even recipe swapping. Many have tens of thousands of members. This holiday season the site will also be turning on a gifting widget to let moms recommend the best gifts for kids by age group and gender.

Brand advertisements, beginning next week, as well as affiliate revenue from gift purchases are the main modes of monetizing the site in the short run.

But the story doesn’t stop with a site that’s struck a chord with mothers; Circle of Moms has grown its user base with a unique multi-pronged approach. The site has a standard web presence plus a Facebook application. The combo allows moms to interact with each other through both the main site and Facebook. The Facebook application itself currently has over 840,000 monthly active users.

Founder Ephraim Luft says that the Facebook application and website have helped re-enforce each other, with mothers on Facebook pulling in friends on the website and vice versa. He plans to continue integrating with other platforms in the future to ensure mothers can continue to access the services regardless of where they are on the web.

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Google called off Yahoo deal as DOJ closed in

InfoWorld: Top News

- 22 hours and 49 minutes ago

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Google called off its proposed search advertising a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9097598"deal with Yahoo/a just three hours before the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=U.S.+Department+of+Justice"U.S. Department of Justice/a was to file an antitrust complaint on Nov. 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9114360"to pursue the case/a./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/12/hogans-litvack.html"In an interview/a with the legal blog AMLaw Daily published Dec. 2, a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Sanford+Litvack"Sanford Litvack/a -- the attorney who would have been the lead counsel on the antitrust case -- said that a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Google+Inc."Google/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Yahoo!+Inc."Yahoo/a decided to abandon the proposed deal shortly after DOJ officials informed them of the agency#39;s plans to file the antitrust complaint./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at a href="http://www.infoworld.com/news/?source=fssr"InfoWorld News/a, or subscribe to the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Today#39;s Headlines newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Shortly after the deal - which would have had Yahoo running Google advertisements alongside its own search results - was announced in June, a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=internet_applicationsamp;articleId=326250"Google and Yahoo/a came under fire from large advertiser groups, which charged that the arrangement would diminish competition and raise online advertising prices./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"And an antitrust think tank said the partnership could end up as a quot;black hole that a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9115380"swallows up Yahoo/a,quot; thus justifying an antitrust investigation./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In addition, the chairman of the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=U.S.+Senate"U.S. Senate/a#39;s antitrust subcommittee in October a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9116181"urged the DOJ/a to closely examine the proposed partnership, noting that it could lead to higher advertising prices and create unfair market conditions. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) said at the time that the subcommittee#39;s investigation found that many advertisers and competitors were concerned that Google would control a dominant share of the search advertising market. Under the deal, Yahoo would have less incentive to compete against Google and could opt to exit the market altogether, Kohl asserted./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Litvack went on to note that the complaint -- which was never filed -- would have charged that the deal would have violated antitrust regulations that bans agreements that restrain trade and prohibit companies from monopolizing or attempting to monopolize trade./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;It would have ended up also alleging that Google had a monopoly and that [the advertising pact] would have furthered their monopoly,quot; Litvack said in the blog. quot;The fact that we filed a lawsuit would not by itself have stopped them. We would have had to get an injunction from the court, and we would have sought that.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In the interview, Litvack went on to acknowledge that Microsoft Corp. and other companies lobbied the department to block the proposed deal, but said that the efforts had no influence on his decision to recommend that DOJ block the deal./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;[The department is] making it clear to the parties and to the world that this is how the division viewed these particular aspects of Google#39;s business,quot; Litvack added in the blog. In a statement after the deal was called off the DOJ said that under the agreement, Google and Yahoo would have become collaborators rather than competitors for a significant part of their search advertising business,quot; materially reducing important competitive rivalry between the two companies.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emComputerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate/em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=21a2e032df089dfc1b521e39102951e6 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware

InfoWorld: Top News

- 1 days and 4 hours ago

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware, which BitDefender dubbed a target="_blank" href="http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/NW900-uk--BitDefender-detects-novel-approach-to-stealing-web-passwords.html"quot;Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.Aquot;/a sits in Firefox#39;s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender#39;s lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes#39; a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/?source=fssr"Security Adviser blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a, both from InfoWorld. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish banks. When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Firefox has been continually gaining market share against main competitor Internet Explorer since its debut four years ago, which may be one reason why malware authors are looking for new avenues to infect computers, Canja said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download, which can infect a PC by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser, or by being duped into downloading it, Canja said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"When it runs on a PC, it registers itself in Firefox#39;s system files as quot;Greasemonkey,quot; a well-known collection of scripts that add extra functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"BitDefender has updated its products to detect it, and other vendors will likely follow suit quickly, Canja said. Users could avoid it by only downloading signed, verified software, but that#39;s a measure that restricts the usability of a PC, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware is not present in Mozilla#39;s repository of add-ons, Canja said. Mozilla had taken steps to ensure that its official site hosting add-ons -- also called extensions -- are free from malware./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In May, Mozilla acknowledged that the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox contained a bit of unwanted code. Although widely reported as a virus, the language actually contained a line of HTML code that would cause users to view unwanted advertisements./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mozilla now scans new add-ons for malware. However, those scans will only detect known threats, and there was no signature in the security software Mozilla was using at the time that could detect the code./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mozilla said the code probably ended up in the language pack after the PC of its developer became infected. More than 16,000 people downloaded the language pack, but only about 1,000 people regularly use it./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"After the incident, Mozilla said it would scan add-ons in its repository when antivirus signatures were updated./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35dp=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35d style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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Locked Picasa Web Albums

Google Blogoscoped

- 1 days and 4 hours ago

Google added an option to their photo gallery app Picasa Web Albums offering you to lock albums. The option is named “Sign-in required to view,” meaning only people you share the album with are meant to access it, after signing in with their Google account. The pictures themselves – like this image from a sign-in album – are still technically public, though the URLs are probably cryptic enough to stop people from simply guessing them (it might still be better to password-protect even the image URL itself).

In the past, Google already offered (and continues to offer) what they call “unlisted” albums, but those were troubled with privacy issues from time to time. For instance, in the beginning you could simply try guessing the album title (say, a title like “Private”) to get to the unlisted album. Recently, Google fixed a vulnerability with how outgoing links were potentially passing on the unlisted album URL’s authentication key to third-party sites due to the referrer field. Also, sometimes sharing just a single photo caused you to potentially share access to the whole album. In fact, this issue remains even for “sign-in” albums: when you select “Share Photo" for a single photo in a sign-in album, the recipient will be able to view your full album.

In other news, Google Picasa software product manager Mike Horowitz has left Google to join Fetch Technologies.

[Hat tip to Brinke, Wonder and Louis Gray!]

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Horizon H-Racer 2.0: Faster, Greener, Less Likely To Smash Into Walls [Fuel Cells]

Gizmodo

- 1 days and 14 hours ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/H-Racer_2_car.jpg" width="500" height="384" /The original a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/h+racer-toy-hydrogen-car-174962.php"Horizon H-Racer/a hydrogen fuel-cell toy just got an update: Before, you could fill it with water and let 'er rip. Now, you can actually steer the bastard./p pThe new kitmdash;because it may look like a race car but let's be honest, it's a science edu-toymdash;still comes with the solar panel and hydrogen station so that you can use the sun's rays to convert H2O to H2 and O2. But the car itself now has glowing LEDs, responds to an IR remote, and runs longer and faster with the same amount of fuel. img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/H-Racer_2_kit.jpg" width="807" height="418" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/Taking a cue from auto makers and gas companies who release literally green advertisements to convince the public they aren't part of the problem, Horizon decided to change the car's translucent tint from blue to, yes, green. The difference, of course, is that Horizon definitely isn't part of the problem. Only time will tell, however, if they are part of the solution. Meantime, here's a fun Christmas gift for anyone that still has $120 to spend on progress! [a href="http://www.horizonfuelcell.com/store/h_racer20.htm"Horizon/a via a href="http://www.gizmag.com/h-racer-20-gets-more-power-and-remote-control/10496/"Gizmag/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=stnXxJRk"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=vPItOJbk"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=FBLNfq6T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=FBLNfq6T" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=J6cv6BWE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=J6cv6BWE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/AKPruE2j_Lc" height="1" width="1"/

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T-Mobile Offers Game With Ads

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- 1 days and 14 hours ago

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="T-Mobile Offers Game With Ads" alt="T-Mobile Offers Game With Ads" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/tmob-games.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pT-Mobile will be offering full, free mobile games to their subscribers, although it will cost you some time as you will need to go through some advertisements before getting started. The first title will be Poker Million II, where you have to plow through two full-screen ads before and two full-screen ads after the game. The client software is smart enough to know whether the game itself is compatible with your device, so you can be sure that you won't be offered anything that isn't able to work. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile 'Web'n'Walk' (Internet) customers won't be charged a single penny for the data used to download the games or view the adverts. In addition, there are no limits on how many games you want to waste your time with or download. I'll stick to my DS Lite for portable gaming./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/tmobile_offers_game_with_ads.html"T-Mobile Offers Game With Ads/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/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"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081203182241" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081203182241?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_081203182241" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081203182241amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Ftmobile_offers_game_with_ads.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4sM-DRw0DJdEtBudkJcjxu2-2VU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4sM-DRw0DJdEtBudkJcjxu2-2VU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=gK1OwMcr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=tutKeGL8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=tutKeGL8" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=jIEiJpd1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=r9XZ7aIR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=r9XZ7aIR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=R6dYSd9a"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=R6dYSd9a" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/u4vwsMZh0nY" height="1" width="1"/

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Red Bull charges into PS Home as first major sponsor

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- 1 days and 22 hours ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/Revolution/News/866365/Red-Bull-becomes-first-brand-PlayStation-Home/"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/red_bull_race_home.jpg" //abr //div Puzzling through Sony's reasons for throwing money at a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/home"emPlayStation Home/em/a is not a task for weak of heart, but for long, sleepless hours spent burning the midnight oil. Thankfully we now have Red Bull, the online service's first major third-party partner, on tap to help energize our search for enlightenment.br /br /Details remain scant, though UK site a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/Revolution/News/866365/Red-Bull-becomes-first-brand-PlayStation-Home/"Brand Republic/a notes that the energy drink company will have its own caffeinated island space in emHome /emfeaturing "an aeroplane racing game based on Red Bull's real world Red Bull Air Race series." As emHome /emdoes anything but race to release, we can't help but wonder if someday we'll take in Sony's advertisement-laden virtual landscape from the air, rather than while wandering aimlessly on the ground.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/12/02/red-bull-to-be-first-company-to-charge-into-home/"PS3 Fanboy/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/red-bull-charges-into-ps-home-as-first-major-sponsor/"Red Bull charges into PS Home as first major sponsor/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:00 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.brandrepublic.com/Revolution/News/866365/Red-Bull-becomes-first-brand-PlayStation-Home/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/red-bull-charges-into-ps-home-as-first-major-sponsor/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1390245/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/red-bull-charges-into-ps-home-as-first-major-sponsor/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gXXaM6k5zx--j_Guksw4Gxy7eDI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gXXaM6k5zx--j_Guksw4Gxy7eDI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=a7wKsiyH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=a7wKsiyH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=m5ugfcym"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=m5ugfcym" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/X4OAtvzxSLM" height="1" width="1"/

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