Le broker CL King garde inchangé son opinion "Strong Buy" sur le titre du libraire Barnes Noble, mais abaisse de 31 à 18 dollars son objectif de cours sur le titre. Rappelons que Barnes Noble a publié hier ses résultats du T3, clos le 1 novembre 2008.

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pSo, we have a new book out, a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present/em/strong/a, published by the Simon amp; Schuster imprint Fireside Books. It explores our 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006-- interspersed with sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl-- to construct an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music. In the coming weeks we'll be posting streams of tracks from the book here in Forkcast and giving you a sneak peek at some of the entries.nbsp;/p pIf you're in Brooklyn, please come out for the strongema href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500/em/strong/a/em/strong launch party on Wednesday, November 26. Dance and bowl (yes, bowl) to selections from the book at a href="http://www.thegutterbrooklyn.com/"strongThe Gutter Bar/strong/a, located at 200 N. 14th St. (between Wythe and Berry) in Williamsburg. We'll be there from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., there's no cover, and there will be books for sale. For a complete rundown of events, check a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongwww.thepitchfork500.com/strong/a./p pemThe Pitchfork 500/em is available in your local bookstore right now (a href="http://www.quimbys.com/product_info.php?products_id=21880" target="_blank"strongQuimby/strong/a's is the shop in our Chicago neighborhood). Or you can order it via stronga href="http://www.amazon.com/Pitchfork-500-Guide-Greatest-Present/dp/1416562028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1223394242amp;sr=8-1"Amazon/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.bn.com/pitchfork"Barnes amp; Noble/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/SearchResults?keyword=pitchfork+500amp;type=0amp;simple=1"Borders/a/strong, strongspan style="color: #551a8b;"a href="http://www.insound.com/Pitchfork_The_Pitchfork_500%3A_Our_Guide_to_the_Greatest_Songs_from_Punk_to_the_Present__PRE-ORDER_Book/productmain/p/INS50216/" target="_blank" title="Insound"Insound/a/span/strong, stronga href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781416562023-0"Powells/a/strong, or stronga href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1amp;pid=628435amp;app=buy_now"Simon amp; Schuster/a/strong./p pAnd now, here'snbsp;Stephen Trousseacute; on Orange Juice's "Blue Boy", with a stream (good for one free play every 24 hours, via a href="http://www.lala.com/" target="_blank"strongLala/strong/a) below the text./p pimg src="/sites/default/files/blueboyblurb_0.jpg" border="0" / object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="300" height="254" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" param name="id" value="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a434924994847f5f8af" / param name="wmode" value="transparent" / param name="allowNetworking" value="all" / param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" / param name="src" value="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/4924994847f5f8af/48f4e8b6706ccf78/9852f4ab/-cpid/b0ee5e3d98481900" /embed id="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a434924994847f5f8af" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="254" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/4924994847f5f8af/48f4e8b6706ccf78/9852f4ab/-cpid/b0ee5e3d98481900" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" wmode="transparent"/embed /object /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/K1KBm3xG6DO4IUZ-fStJVHb3HVE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/K1KBm3xG6DO4IUZ-fStJVHb3HVE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/NI8aEUkPEmE" height="1" width="1"/

PAvec Julie Verlaine, dans le cadre du cycle : Colloque De l'imitation dans les musées. Enregistré le 07-12-2007 à 12:00./PPLes fondations privées d'art contemporain crées en Europe dans les années soixante se présentent comme des anti-musées et sont conçues comme des projets strictement individuels (et privés), mais à portée universelle (donc publique). Il s'agit pour des collectionneurs mécènes de faire oelig;uvre de créateur, mais aussi de signifier socialement leur réussite financière. En ce sens, ces fondations sont influencées par leurs homologues nord-américaines, à tel point que l'un des ileitmotive/i récurrents, non dénué d'anti-américanisme d'ailleurs, est de réussir à faire mieux que le docteur Barnes : éviter qu'une collection vivante ne meure de sa muséification.br À travers l'exemple de la Fondation Maeght, mais aussi ceux des fondations Gulbenkian à Lisbonne, Louisiana à Copenhague, Sonja Henie-Nils Onstad à Hovikodden, Veranneman à Kruishoutem, il sera possible de montrer combien les réflexions sur le rôle et le statut de ces fondations -- lieux de présentation d'une collection personnelle, lieux de création, lieux de démocratisation de l'art ? -- ont participé du débat sur la possibilité même d'exposer la création contemporaine et ont peut-être permis aux vrais musées européens de penser leur propre valorisation de l'art contemporain, jusque-là inexistante./P

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Le titre du libraire Barnes Noble baisse de plus de 6% ce soir à Wall Street. La Société a publié, avant ouverture, ses résultats du T3, clos le 1 novembre 2008. Le chiffre d'affaires de la Société sur la période est de 1,1 Milliard de dollars, en

By now it’s sadly common experience, hearing racist, homophobic, even anti-Semitic slurs during online games. Often it’s for no apparent reason other than as a term of abuse used against competitors, that packs more of a punch than your standard four-letter word. But a couple months back, I had a different experience, and I’m sure it’s no more uncommon for others, too. In a game of Castle Crashers — cooperative multiplayer — this guy I was playing with completely proffered some rather ugly opinions of African-Americans, and needlessly heaped racial slurs on the foes we were battling.

First off, the guy knew I was a weekend editor at Kotaku. Secondly, I’m not black. But what troubled me most was not his behavior but my reaction to it. It was worse than being told a racist joke at a party under the assumption you’d laugh along because you’re white. I continued to play a game with the guy, quite passively letting the comment go lest I be the one to make things too awkward. And I beat myself up about it later for not calling this guy out on the spot, or at minimum, quitting the game.

Turns out, according to a couple psychologists I spoke to, that would have been the wrong reaction.

”Ignore it completely,” was one of two suggestions of Dr. Stuart Twemlow, , professor of psychiatry at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry in Houston. The other was a more subtle call-out of the remark — interpret it and ask if the guy’s doing it to get an advantage. Since this is cooperative multiplayer, maybe something like ”Does that help you play this game better?”

Because in a perverse way, that’s what you’re dealing with here. Psychologists call this behavior ”paradoxing,” and it’s a classic attempt to gain the upper hand, to become dominant in certain settings. Competitively, it’s to frustrate and anger you and take you out of your game. Cooperatively, it’s to establish aggression and therefore take the decision-making and the leadership. As I recall, this guy had played Castle Crashers a lot longer than I had, and was taking it somewhat seriously.

”When you act very unexpectedly, and when that person is caught up in what you’re doing, they lose their orientation,” Twemlow said. ”And in that little window, you can control their mind. It’s an intervention to unseat you,” Twemlow said, even in a cooperative environment, where the intent is more to establish control of how the game proceeds. ”And one advantage they have is the anonymity of being online. It’s so open and yet a person feels anonymous enough to say the most outrageous things, practically to your face.

”And the reason for doing that is because it exposes your weakness. It means you really want to win.” Twemlow said. ”And that means you’re not a good player, because an expert player would never say that winning is the be all and end all.”

Not every situation needs psychological hand-holding. It’s not uncommon to see some ad-hoc self-policing, or a collectively expressed rebuke — booting, often backed or preceded by their own swear words — when the worst offenders start ruining a multiplayer match. Strength in numbers there. This is more about dealing with a sociopath in a one-on-one setting.

”You’re not going to change the way this person thinks, so getting into a confrontation is not going to work,” said Sue Barnes, associate director of the Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology, who studies online behavior and social media.

So the key for anyone provoked by this kind of baiting would not be so much in the reaction as in the preparation. Know that it’s coming, and because, in my case, this was cooperative multiplayer where I was invited by the same person who ended up spewing the invective, my guard was down. But I’d be naive to think ugly language is new enough to be called a trend in online play. If anything, it’s getting worse, and we should expect to see it all the time, especially among those we truly don’t know. Part of the shock, the experts said, is that you feel because you share an interest in the game you know the person better than you actually do. He’s still no different from any other stranger in public of whom you have no expectations, and would gladly avoid.

If you do feel compelled to speak up — especially if you’re a person of color, or the actual object of hate speech’s intent — Barnes suggests another query. She notes that much of the racism and bigoted language, especially as expressed by much younger gamers, isn’t the product of a very self-aware person. And they’d be insecure about having a mirror held up to their behavior. ”So, you could try asking, ‘What if I told you I was black?’ ”

It’s a valid question even if you’re not. And the person might get so caught up in wondering why you had said that, if you aren’t, that you’ve paradoxed him out of his offensive state.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptelltakepicture.png" width="320" height="480" / iPhone and iPod touch only: When you see a book, CD, DVD, or game at a friend's house you want to look up and bookmark instantly, fire up SnapTell Explorer on your iPhone or iPod touch and take a photo of it. Similar to a bar code scanner (except you photograph the item cover, not its bar code), SnapTell automatically looks up your item and gives you links to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia, and straight-up search engines so you can compare prices and find out more about it. SnapTell's results aren't 100% accuratemdash;once it gave me a strategy guide result when I photographed a video game covermdash;but everything else I tried it on, the results were spot-on. Here's what the result for the Halo 3 photograph looked like./p pbr clear="all" /br / img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptellresults.png" width="320" height="480" / SnapTell pulls in the official product image and gives you links to look it up in places like Amazon and Wikipedia. If you hit the "Share this product" button you can email the item to someone. (What it needs to domdash;and maybe in a future iterationmdash;is display prices and details here, with these links below them.)/p pbr clear="all" /br / img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptelllist.png" width="320" height="480" / Your SnapTell results get stored in a single list, called "My Snaps." It would be nice to set up multiple lists (like "wishlist" or "gift ideas for my sweetie") but right now it's only a single list./p pbr clear="all" //p p One of the most impressive apps we tried on the G1 phone running Android was the a href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"Compare Everywhere/a bar code scanner that does photo-lookups just like this. While SnapTell doesn't offer the same amount of detail and on-the-spot price comparison, for iPhone owners, it's a fast and easy way to instantly capture products of interest. SnapTell Explorer is a free download for the iPhone and iPod touch. div class="related"a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291920403mt=8"SnapTell Explorer/a [via a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/snaptell-instant-product-lookup-from-the-iphone-you-want-this/"TechCrunch/a]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=dc6322746f949713c3f8d9fcd6cac14camp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=dc6322746f949713c3f8d9fcd6cac14camp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=m25U9XGa"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=GdkboeYN"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=Q8xUdj3k"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Q8xUdj3k" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Z5Tj2wPv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Z5Tj2wPv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/ZvrEjW7QETc" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptelltakepicture.png" width="320" height="480" / iPhone and iPod touch only: When you see a book, CD, DVD, or game at a friend's house you want to look up and bookmark instantly, fire up SnapTell Explorer on your iPhone or iPod touch and take a photo of it. Similar to a bar code scanner (except you photograph the item cover, not its bar code), SnapTell automatically looks up your item and gives you links to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia, and straight-up search engines so you can compare prices and find out more about it. SnapTell's results aren't 100% accuratemdash;once it gave me a strategy guide result when I photographed a video game covermdash;but everything else I tried it on, the results were spot-on. Here's what the result for the Halo 3 photograph looked like./p pbr clear="all" /br / img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptellresults.png" width="320" height="480" / SnapTell pulls in the official product image and gives you links to look it up in places like Amazon and Wikipedia. If you hit the "Share this product" button you can email the item to someone. (What it needs to domdash;and maybe in a future iterationmdash;is display prices and details here, with these links below them.)/p pbr clear="all" /br / img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/snaptelllist.png" width="320" height="480" / Your SnapTell results get stored in a single list, called "My Snaps." It would be nice to set up multiple lists (like "wishlist" or "gift ideas for my sweetie") but right now it's only a single list./p pbr clear="all" //p p One of the most impressive apps we tried on the G1 phone running Android was the a href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"Compare Everywhere/a bar code scanner that does photo-lookups just like this. While SnapTell doesn't offer the same amount of detail and on-the-spot price comparison, for iPhone owners, it's a fast and easy way to instantly capture products of interest. SnapTell Explorer is a free download for the iPhone and iPod touch. div class="related"a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291920403mt=8"SnapTell Explorer/a [via a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/snaptell-instant-product-lookup-from-the-iphone-you-want-this/"TechCrunch/a]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=dc6322746f949713c3f8d9fcd6cac14camp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=dc6322746f949713c3f8d9fcd6cac14camp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=m25U9XGa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=GdkboeYN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Q8xUdj3k"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Q8xUdj3k" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Z5Tj2wPv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Z5Tj2wPv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/ZvrEjW7QETc" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/analysisopinion/" rel="tag"Analysis / Opinion/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/cool-tools/" rel="tag"Cool tools/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/odds-and-ends/" rel="tag"Odds and ends/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/freeware/" rel="tag"Freeware/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag"iPhone/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/snaptellexplorer.jpg" alt="" /Oh man -- finally, we're getting an app that fulfills the promise of the iPhone. Ever since we knew the iPhone would have a camera and an internet connection, we've been waiting for a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291920403amp;mt=8"SnapTell Explorer/a, and now it's here and free. Download and install it on the iPhone, and then snap a picture of any book, CD, movie, or videogame, and bingo, you've got links to listings for it (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia, Google, etc.) around the Internet. I have no idea how it works (some type of picture comparison script hooked up to a database, surely, though it's amazing that it works that well with just the iPhone's camera), but that's fine, because it makes it all the more indistinguishable from magic.br /br /The main drawback is that it takes a bit to search their database -- while wifi or 3G are much faster (obviously), Edge will have you waiting a few minutes for a find. And at this point, all they have are links to pages -- it would be nice to see a price comparison right away and/or a quick rating (to see instantly what people think of a movie if you happen to be standing in a video store making your choice). Finally, it would be nice to see this extended to all sorts of items -- I tried scanning a few groceries that I might be price shopping, but for now it's just books, movies, and music.br /br /But otherwise, it's awesome -- even in low light/bad light situations, as long as you can get a recognizable picture of the case, it works. This is exactly the kind of thing the iPhone is made for, very cool to finally see it in action.br /br /[via a href="http://waxy.org/links/"Waxy/a]br /p style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/snaptell-explorer-retrives-product-listings-from-the-iphones-ca/"Snaptell Explorer retrives product listings from the iPhone's camera/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291920403amp;mt=8Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/snaptell-explorer-retrives-product-listings-from-the-iphones-ca/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1378296/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/snaptell-explorer-retrives-product-listings-from-the-iphones-ca/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lusm5-69JKF4ii02vmRNu6V3ChQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lusm5-69JKF4ii02vmRNu6V3ChQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=h4kIbHmt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=h4kIbHmt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=j2vOOur4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=j2vOOur4" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/RqqMZPiPKEs" height="1" width="1"/

Trans World Entertainment, Barnes amp; Noble, Hastings Entertainment post quarterly losses.

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The hardbook comic titled Dead Space hits comic book stores nationwide today and will hit Amazon, Borders and Barnes and Noble at the end of the month.

pSo, we have a new book out, a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present/em/strong/a, published by the Simon amp; Schuster imprint Fireside Books. It explores our 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006-- interspersed with sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl-- to construct an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music. In the coming weeks we'll be posting streams of tracks from the book here in Forkcast and giving you a sneak peek at some of the entries.nbsp;/p pIf you're in Brooklyn, come out for the strongema href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500/em/strong/a/em/strong launch party on Wednesday, November 26. Dance and bowl (yes, bowl) to selections from the book at a href="http://www.thegutterbrooklyn.com/"strongThe Gutter Bar/strong/a, located at 200 N. 14th St. (between Wythe and Berry) in Williamsburg. We'll be there from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., there's no cover, and there will be books for sale. For a complete rundown of events, check a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongwww.thepitchfork500.com/strong/a./p pemThe Pitchfork 500/em is available in your local bookstore right now (a href="http://www.quimbys.com/product_info.php?products_id=21880" target="_blank"strongQuimby/strong/a's is the shop in our Chicago neighborhood). Or you can order it via stronga href="http://www.amazon.com/Pitchfork-500-Guide-Greatest-Present/dp/1416562028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1223394242amp;sr=8-1"Amazon/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.bn.com/pitchfork"Barnes amp; Noble/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/SearchResults?keyword=pitchfork+500amp;type=0amp;simple=1"Borders/a/strong, strongspan style="color: #551a8b;"a href="http://www.insound.com/Pitchfork_The_Pitchfork_500%3A_Our_Guide_to_the_Greatest_Songs_from_Punk_to_the_Present__PRE-ORDER_Book/productmain/p/INS50216/" target="_blank" title="Insound"Insound/a/span/strong, stronga href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781416562023-0"Powells/a/strong, or stronga href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1amp;pid=628435amp;app=buy_now"Simon amp; Schuster/a/strong./p pAnd now, here'snbsp;Stephen M. Deusner on Sineacute;ad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", with a stream (good for one free play every 24 hours, via a href="http://www.lala.com/" target="_blank"strongLala/strong/a) below the text./p pimg src="/sites/default/files/nothingcomparesblurb_2.jpg" border="0" //p p object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="300" height="254" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" param name="id" value="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a4349248dc6d5aa7f47" / param name="wmode" value="transparent" / param name="allowNetworking" value="all" / param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" / param name="src" value="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/49248dc6d5aa7f47/48f4e8b6706ccf78/29fa99f0/-cpid/b0ee5e3d48b969c0" /embed id="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a4349248dc6d5aa7f47" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="254" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/49248dc6d5aa7f47/48f4e8b6706ccf78/29fa99f0/-cpid/b0ee5e3d48b969c0" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" wmode="transparent"/embed /object /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Ag_Yx634FrVl2Ci362dDFNZLM5c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Ag_Yx634FrVl2Ci362dDFNZLM5c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/J440rS2J3_c" height="1" width="1"/

If you have an iPhone, you’ll probably want to check out SnapTell Explorer, a free application now available on the App Store. The premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online.

I was skeptical when I first saw the app - the iPhone has long had difficulty with image processing for barcodes, and most image recognitions systems I’ve tried on other platforms have been iffy at best. But SnapTell just works. Every time.

The app correctly identified just about everything I threw at it: Xbox games, Pocketbook O’Reilly manuals, The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom, Kurt Vonegut novels, and a number of more obscure books (yes, it worked on The Twinkies Cookbook). It even managed to ID a copy of Civilization 4, despite the fact that it was covered in obnoxious price tags and stickers. I actually tried to mess it up by taking photos in poor lighting and odd angles, but the app still stayed nearly flawless. No, it doesn’t have everything - I managed to stump it on a book about Danish Grammar - but it will do just fine for any trip to a retail store.

But while SnapTell seems to have the technology perfected, the app itself still needs a little work. Once you’ve located a product there is no rating or description offered - instead you’re directed to the appropriate links on stores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble (it would be nice if some basic rating information was pulled into the app). There’s also currently no way to quickly view a product’s price across multiple online stores, though this will be included in the next release which is expected in the next few weeks. The UI could also use some more polish - buttons are oddly placed, and the app doesn’t look nearly as slick as it should.

SnapTell works best on Wi-Fi and 3G, but also supports Edge (it takes around 10-15 seconds to upload the image on the slower network, versus a moment or two). The application will also be coming to the Android soon, and will feature both the image recognition seen on the iPhone version as well as barcode lookup (which is popular on Android but very difficult to pull off on the iPhone). The app was developed by SnapTell, a company that primarily focuses on image-recognition based marketing, and is making use of the company’s 5 million+ product database.

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