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This
month, it's finally good to be a Mac-based gamer. In addition to the reveal that Valve
will be moving Steam (and the Source Engine) over to Apple's OS, we discovered this morning
that Blizzard is hard at work on a StarCraft
2 beta client for Mac. According to recent Twitter Q&A with the game's devs (catalogued here), the
studio is "currently working on a Mac version of the beta and hope to release it sometime in
April."
Unfortunately, it seems that if you didn't register many moons ago, you still might not be eligible
for inclusion, as the developers also reveal that "We have no plans to make an open beta at this
time." Considering the game is still planned for release in the first half of this year, though, it
would seem that even without a beta invite you'll be playing the game fairly soon.
This
month, it's finally good to be a Mac-based gamer. In addition to the reveal that Valve
will be moving Steam (and the Source Engine) over to Apple's OS, we discovered this morning
that Blizzard is hard at work on a StarCraft
2 beta client for Mac. According to recent Twitter Q&A with the game's devs (catalogued here), the
studio is "currently working on a Mac version of the beta and hope to release it sometime in
April."
Unfortunately, it seems that if you didn't register many moons ago, you still might not be eligible
for inclusion, as the developers also reveal that "We have no plans to make an open beta at this
time." Considering the game is still planned for release in the first half of this year, though, it
would seem that even without a beta invite you'll be playing the game fairly soon.
Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes
to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized
homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools.
Earlier this morning, we got a chance to sit down with Adelson to discuss these changes in
greater detail. Some of these changes will surely be extremely controversial in the Digg
community and might also make some publishers who rely on Digg's traffic a bit nervous.
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It's hard to underestimate the influence these changes will have on the Digg community. Not only
did the Digg team create a completely new backend architecture, but Digg is also making a lot of
changes to how the site will work from a user's perspective - some of which will surely be
controversial among Digg's most active users.
Digg will launch the new site in alpha in a few weeks. You can sign up for an account here. It's important to note that Digg plans to work directly with its
users and is looking for feedback from its alpha users. The alpha site, for example, will feature
a large feedback bar at the bottom of every page.
Personalized Homepages as Default
On the new Digg, every user will get a personalized homepage which will be populated with stories
that are popular among this user's friends and relate to topics this user has expressed interest
in. This personalized homepage will become the default Digg frontpage for all users who have
signed in to Digg. Users who are not signed in will still see the old Digg homepage. With this,
the Digg team is clearly looking to get more users to sign up for the service. Digg will also
update its users' profile pages.
Submitters Lose Power
Another major change to Digg - and one that will surely create some controversy among the most
active users of the service - is that the new Digg will de-emphasize the power of submitters and
put an even stronger emphasis on who votes for stories, as well as on outside signals from
third-party services like Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, the new Digg will now allow publishers to
auto-submit their stories through RSS feeds and a number of other mechanisms that the company
plans to unveil in the next few weeks. Until now, while Digg didn't forbid publishers to submit
their own content, this behavior was generally discouraged by the Digg community.
As Adelson told us, on the new Digg, submitting a story will basically mean that you are the
first voter. Currently, a relatively small group of submitters has a lot of power over which
stories will appear on the Digg frontpage.
Signals from Twitter, Facebook and Co.
While there will still be a role for those users who regularly discover new and interesting
content, the new Digg will put a strong emphasis on votes and signals from your friends on
third-party sites like Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, Digg will create a social graph for you that
will take all of this information into account when it create your personalized homepage. On the
homepage, Digg will also expose why a story appeared in your feed.
While Adelson couldn't go into details, it seems like Digg has established a very good
relationship with Twitter and has had access to Twitter's firehose feed to almost a year.
Once the new digg comes out of beta, anonymous users will also be able to vote on stories. While
the team is still working out the details, it is clear that Digg is looking to get as many
signals as possible to augment the current voting process. It will be interesting to see how Digg
will weigh all this information in the creation of personalized pages and the new topic pages.
The submission process for stories that haven't been submitted to Digg already will now be a
one-click process.
Digg will also soon use third-party sign-on systems, including Google, Twitter Connect and Yahoo
to allow its users to sign in.
Working With Publishers: What Will Happen to the Digg Effect?
Obviously, quite a few publishers will worry that the old Digg effect - which would often take
sites down because of the huge amount of traffic a story on Digg's frontpage can create - will
now disappear. Adelson, however, who also noted that Digg "wants to be a good source for traffic
for publishers," thinks that this new system will create a more regular stream of traffic to
publishers.
In the long run, Adelson noted, Digg also plans to open up its advertising platform to share
revenue with publishers. This project is still in its early stages, but according to Adelson,
this could involve using a widget on the publisher's site or by using Digg's salesforce to sell
ad inventory on these sites directly.
To make all of this work, Digg completely stripped out the old infrastructure and started over by
building a completely new platform. This, said Adelson, will allow Digg to easily make changes to
the frontend and react to user feedback during the alpha and beta phase. At some point in the
future, Digg might also open this platform up to third parties.
A Completely New Platform
Digg is clearly taking this new version extremely serious. The company plans to hire 50 engineers
this year to help with scaling the architecture. Adelson was clearly proud of the work his team
has done on the backend architecture. The new site will be "wicked fast," thanks to a complete
retooling of every aspect of the site, up to the point where the bottlenecks for Digg are now
network speed and latency. This is quite a feat, given that Digg now offers an almost unlimited
amount of topic pages and a personalized homepage for every user - all of which will have to be
recalculated constantly.
How Will Users React?
It will be very interesting to see how users will react to all of these changes. Adelson and the
rest of the Digg team are very aware that this will create some controversy, but Adelson clearly
thinks that this is the right way to go for Digg. The topic pages will allow Digg to cater to
users who care about every type of news, be it the Boston Red Socks or the latest gadget news.
Late last night in Texas
-- at the infamous and indefatigable SXSWi convention -- Digg's CEO Jay Adelson showed the world a new and revamped version of
Digg. This overhaul, which has been five years in the making and the primary focus of the Digg
team, will finally see a change in the slow, unwieldy and demagogic nature of the service.
Along with the usual Web 2.0-esque streamlining (rounded corners everywhere, I bet), Digg will
become faster, more responsive and instant. Users will now be able to submit pages and
Digg other submissions even if they're not logged in. This fundamental change, according
to Adelson, will see the number of daily submissions climb from a meager 20,000 to
millions per day -- "can you handle that much content?" gloated the proud CEO, no doubt
throwing his head back to emit a maniacal cackle.
To accompany the new site, Digg is also dropping its old MySQL back-end in favour of a new, 'very,
very fast' infrastructure.
Dubbed 'Digg 2.0' by CNET, there's
no sign of when the new version will be rolled out to the general public, but there is a holding
page at 'new.digg.com', where you can enter an email address -- presumably to join an open beta,
when and if it comes.
Philippe est un "serial entrepreneur"... Il avait créé il y a quelques années
Sinequa qui était, et qui est toujours, un moteur de
recherche sémantique pour les documents en entreprises... Il commence par nous rappeller ce
qu'il faut entendre par sémantique (moteur statistique et/ou linguistique).. Kwaga, sa nouvelle société est en quelque sorte
une déclinaison de Sinequa dans la gestion des mails (pour l'instant Kwaga fonctionne que
pour Gmail , bientôt pour Yahoo mail, Facebook qui va ouvrir un webmail bientôt...).
Quels sont les mails importants que vous avez reçus ? Les mails qui fixent un rendez-vous ?
Les personnes à relancer ? etc... Quel est le volume de mails reçus ou envoyés
pour que Kwaga apporte un réel service ? Nouvelles fonctionnalités qui y seront
implantées ? Quid du vocal ? Kwaga fonctionne sur la base de texte en anglais et en
français. Quid du chinois et des autres langues ? Y a-t-il des concurrents ? (xobni,
otherinbox, senderok...)
Actuellement Kwaga est en beta privée depuis la fin 2009 (vous pouvez vous y inscrire
avec comme code d'invitation mon nom : billaut). Quel est le business model ? Investissement
recherché ?
It appears that Microsoft's partnership with Nokia to port Silverlight to Symbian will soon bear fruit.
Microsoft posted the developer tools and the beta version of the code on March 11th but then
quickly pulled them down again. Mary Jo Foley
thinks it may launch at Mix next week.
Mobile may be the killer app to get Silverlight in more users hands. With Silverlight being heavily
integrated with the up coming Windows
Phone 7, soon with Symbian and even talk of a port to Android, Microsoft will significantly
expand its reach with the platform.
The MIX conference next week will certainly be interesting as Microsoft pushes to reclaim the
mobile space.
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning
projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous
projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the first phase
of this process, Mozilla will release an alpha draft based on feedback already received. This will
be followed by 'commentary, discussion, and further drafting, followed by beta and release
candidate drafts.' Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL
compatible with the Apache license, in an effort to 'help projects using the MPL become more
flexible about using Apache-licensed code.'"
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning
projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous
projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the first phase
of this process, Mozilla will release an alpha draft based on feedback already received. This will
be followed by 'commentary, discussion, and further drafting, followed by beta and release
candidate drafts.' Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL
compatible with the Apache license, in an effort to 'help projects using the MPL become more
flexible about using Apache-licensed code.'"
Microsoft está a punto de lanzar una beta de Silverlight para
Symbian, junto con un pack de herramientas para desarrolladores. Casi va a ser un
re-lanzamiento, porque hace unos días esta beta fue publicada, quizás por un
lapsus, pero la retiraron poco después.
Ya a principios de 2008, Microsoft y Nokia anunciaron que Silverlight iba a ser adaptado al
sistema operativo de los smartphones de la compañía finlandesa, pero hasta el
momento no había más novedades al respecto.
En la descripción de la beta decía que “este ejecutable permite a los
usuarios ejecutar aplicaciones Silverlight en la plataforma Nokia S60 Quinta
Edición”. En el pack para desarrolladores además se indicaba que
incluía el runtime de Silverlight, el del emulador, aplicaciones de ejemplo, y
documentación para desarrolladores.
Es posible que la semana que viene vea la luz de forma oficial, y los rumores
hablan del anuncio por parte de los de Redmond de sus planes sobre otra versión
para Android. Silverlight es uno de esos casos en los que Microsoft crea un producto
realmente interesante, pero demasiado tarde, en un mercado ya copado por Flash.
Créé par Byuu, le développement de cet émulateur a débuté
le 14/10/2004. Sa priorité est de servir d'outil de débugging et de posséder
un code propre afin d'obtenir une émulation des plus précise. Sa compatibilité
est excellente (3 jeux ne fonctionnent pas, le reste est censé fonctionner) et requiert une
configuration assez musclée en comparaison avec ses concurrents (l'auteur recommande un AMD
Phenom II ou un Core 2 Duo). Site du projet en cour de développement.
Even if your
handset of choice
won't be eligible for upgrade to Windows Phone 7, there's no reason you can't enjoy the look
and feel of Microsoft's latest and greatest with a well-executed skin, right? Looks like Jaxbot's
Windows
Phone 7 Series Theme is available in passable beta form -- great news for any and all of you
jealous WinMo 6.5 users who might be reading this -- and it can be had right now (as in
now!) at the XDA Developers forum. Want to see it do its thing? Peep the video after the
break.
Squirrel 0.8.2b8Squirrel is a simple finance application. It has been designed for
users who want a simple way to track and plan their finances.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 0.8.2b8:
0.8.2 introduces multiple currencies support, and the beta test begins today. Many of you
have been eager to see this, and it's been a real challenge to implement.
Basically, when you spend some money in a foreign currency, Squirrel 0.8.2 knows how much it
represents in your base currency, based on the exchange rates of transfers between your accounts.
Moreover, when you edit one of the amounts of the transactions of a transfer, Squirrel updates
the exchange rate just as you would expect.
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Political Lunch creators Rob Millis and Will Coghlin today at SXSW
demoed a new tool for makers of content looking to distribute video under a micropayment system
during a panel called “Beyond Advertising: Can Online Video Finally Pay?” Dubbed
Dynamo, the new fully embeddable player features an
extremely simple sign-up process that allows audiences to make direct payments to producers using
PayPal, thus allowing producers to embed video on their own sites and directly profit from it.
Millis and Coghlin, who in September told us they were ending Political Lunchto focus on
developing Dynamo, opened the discussion with an exhaustive comparison of the options
currently available to independent producers hoping to monetize their content — including
making deals with advertisers directly, partnering with indie film distributors like Indie Flix, and working with bigger dogs like Amazon VOD and the
YouTube rental system.
The problems with those systems, according to the pair,
include the challenges of finding the right advertisers to partner with content, overly
complicated contracts that greatly favor the distributor and take a long time to set up, and a
lack of transparency when it comes to the actual amount of payment. A major issue was said to be
the fact that when a creator signs up to distribute their content via YouTube, there’s no
disclosure of the percentage of sales you’ll actually get; the contract only specifies
“a portion.” Millis theorized at one point that the reason for this might be that
“YouTube is giving a better deal to the bigger guys [aka Hollywood studios] —
you’re subsidizing that.”
Meanwhile, during the hour-long panel, Coghlin filmed a short video, uploaded it to Dynamo,
embedded it on a Blogger blog and demonstrated the payment process.
People who already know that they might be interested can sign up for the beta version by
emailing beta@dynamoplayer.com, but if you want more detail first, tomorrow I’ll be getting
an up-close look from Millis and Coghlin. So stay tuned!
Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life
(Windows) Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets
you publish them to the web, where users can interact with your charts and graphs with live
updates.
SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's
Monitors (Mac) Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one
screen. If you're looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of
each monitor.
Mini Wide Fullscreens Gmail, Is Very Netbook
Friendly (Firefox/Chrome) Small netbook screens make you really appreciate every last pixel on your device. The Mini
Wide userscript for Gmail adds a "netbook mode" shortcut to Gmail that removes navigation and
ads for a streamlined, netbook-friendly, message-focused view of your inbox.
Launchy 2.5 Beta 2 Improves Performance, Lands on
Macs (Windows/Mac/Linux) Launchy, the little application launcher that could, has introduced a Mac version with its
latest beta. Bug fixes, performance overhauls, and new shortcuts and controls are also baked
into this beta for every system.
FeelHome Gives Easy Remote Access to Your Files Across
Platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux) If you would like to easily access, edit, and save files across multiple computers, free
application FeelHome allows you to share files across operating systems and over the web.
SuperbarMonitor Puts System Monitoring Right on Your
Windows Superbar (Windows 7) If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage,
and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to
read indicators right on your Superbar.
Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life
(Windows) Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets
you publish them to the web, where users can interact with your charts and graphs with live
updates.
SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's
Monitors (Mac) Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one
screen. If you're looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of
each monitor.
Mini Wide Fullscreens Gmail, Is Very Netbook
Friendly (Firefox/Chrome) Small netbook screens make you really appreciate every last pixel on your device. The Mini
Wide userscript for Gmail adds a "netbook mode" shortcut to Gmail that removes navigation and
ads for a streamlined, netbook-friendly, message-focused view of your inbox.
Launchy 2.5 Beta 2 Improves Performance, Lands on
Macs (Windows/Mac/Linux) Launchy, the little application launcher that could, has introduced a Mac version with its
latest beta. Bug fixes, performance overhauls, and new shortcuts and controls are also baked
into this beta for every system.
FeelHome Gives Easy Remote Access to Your Files Across
Platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux) If you would like to easily access, edit, and save files across multiple computers, free
application FeelHome allows you to share files across operating systems and over the web.
SuperbarMonitor Puts System Monitoring Right on Your
Windows Superbar (Windows 7) If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage,
and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to
read indicators right on your Superbar.
A new torrent has been uploaded to U2Torrents.com.
Torrent: 5746
Title: U2 1982-12-06 Hammersmith Palais, London, UK [SBD]
Size: 329.38 MB
Category: October
Uploaded by: bctopia
Description
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U2
December 6, 1982
Hammersmith Palais
London, England
Lineage: Silvers cd > EAC V0.95 pre beta 4 > WAV > FLAC Frontend V1.7.1 > FLAC
Sound Quality: Excellent soundboard. This is recorded from vinyl source.
1. Surrender
2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
3. A Day Without Me
4. An Cat Dubh
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. I Fall Down
7. The Cry / Electric Co.
8. October
9. New Year's Day
10. Gloria
11. I Will Follow
12. Fire
Live U2
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The U.K. is suddenly awash with online video services vying
for attention. And there promises to be even more on the way. Following on from the full launch
of SeeSaw, the MSN Video Player has launched after a lengthy period in beta. And it has improved
considerably.
Online Video In The U.K.
Online video is veritably booming in the U.K.
The country already has the fantastic
BBC iPlayer, my personal favorite
4oD from Channel 4, ITV Player, and Demand Five. And that’s just the catch-up services
for the free-to-air terrestrial channels.
There is also
Sky Player (for BSkyB subscribers), and the likes of
YouTube,
SeeSaw, and the MSN Video Player catering for people after older shows online. And Hulu is still endeavoring to kick-start
its service in the U.K. as it breaks out of the U.S. and pushes into Europe.
MSN Video Player
Microsoft
announced the MSN Video Player in July 2009. The beta version of the fledgling service then
launched in August 2009 with an initial 300 hours of content, mostly from BBC Worldwide and
All3Media.
Shows on offer from the start included Hustle, Mock the Week, Dead
Ringers, That Mitchell and Webb Look, How to Look Good Naked, 10 Years
Younger, and Peep Show. All of which were offered for free with advertising
support.
Positive Changes
The MSN Video Player has now left beta and fully launched,
and many improvements have been made since I
reviewed the site over six months ago.
The site has been redesigned, and is now much easier to navigate.
As well as TV Shows, there are sections dedicated to TV Clips, Movie Trailers, and even the
best Viral Video clips.
There is a lot more content available now than during the beta. It’s still all archive
content, but that was always going to be the case.
Video quality has been vastly improved, with a shift away from Adobe Flash to
Microsoft’s own Silverlight technology.
The Video Player has a Dim Lights feature, as well as the option to share the clip on a
number of social networking sites.
Conclusions
Microsoft has clearly used
the extended beta period to improve the MSN Video Player considerably. And it has therefore moved
several places up the league table. Although there’s no guarantee that there’ll be
content on the service you’ll want to watch, the chances are high. And the user experience
now makes watching that content more of a pleasure than a chore.
Pourquoi demain je ne compte pas voter pour les élections régionales ? Alors que
j’ai un engagement politique globalement notable et très orienté…
Voyons voir…
- Parce que les instances dirigeantes des appareils politiques m’ont toutes gonflé
au niveau national et médiatique, à privilégier avant tout la mise en avant
de « coups bas », les déclarations molles, et surtout en faisant
preuve d’une absence crasse de pédagogie législative. Les gens ne savent pas
quel est le sujet de ce vote.
Cette remarque s’adresse à toutes les formations politiques, à part peut
être le Modem qui a disparu de la circulation (mis à part leur Obama à eux,
que j’ai trouvé complètement beta).
- Parce que les journalistes politiques les plus en vue, et la presse Web, radio, et papier,
m’a donné la nausée.
Toute cette campagne n’a été que « petites phrases »,
« dérapages » et saloperies que les rédactions ont pris
plaisir de faire grossir systématiquement. Oubliant toute vocation informative et
objective.
Je suis écoeuré des interviews politiques pendant lesquels le schéma est
systématiquement le même. Les journalistes font le buzz, le buzz prend, puis les
journalistes racontent que les gens ne s’intéressent qu’aux buzz, et que les
politiques ne font que ça, du buzz et des dérapages. Alors que ce sont EUX qui ne
parlent que de ça en permanence, plutôt que de s’intéresser aux
programmes (forcément ça se vend moins).
- Parce qu’un d’un point de vue général, les élections
politiques ressemblent de plus en plus à des élections de
télé-réalité, sauf qu’on peut pas voter par SMS.
- Parce que je suis pas inscrit sur les listes électorales de toutes
manières…
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On March 15,
at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, a conversation
will take place between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei,
Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard
MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder and editor in chief. The moderator will be
Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia
Society in New York.
The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change.
The onsite event is invitation only, but it will be live streamed exclusively on
ReadWriteWeb on Monday, March 15, at 6:30 PM EST (-5 GMT), from the Paley Center for
Media, New York City.
The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the
Olympia Conference Centre in London. The two-day event features four dedicated conference
streams:
Social Networking World Forum
Enterprise social media
Social TV World Forum
Mobile Social Networking Forum
The event features key speakers from global brands, organizations, social networking publishers
and developers, pioneering social media leaders, top agencies, content producers, and more.
Go beyond search at Search Engine
Strategies New York. Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that
industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search
exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition
from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the
registration. Sessions include:
After a long winter's hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join
hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos,
drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird
tickets are available, and they're going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As
always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search &
Discovery. If you're building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here!
Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.
The first Freemium Summit is a one day
event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all
segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine
a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most
exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit
will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie,
Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran,
YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln
Murphy, Sixteen Ventures.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford,
Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
4 April 2010: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
TEDx CMU is an independently
organized TEDx event that will be held on April 4th, 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University and will
feature a full day of talks by prominent speakers as well as recorded videos from past TEDTalks.
Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Fields (author, blogger and entrepreneur), Stacey Monk
(founder of Epic Change, a startup nonprofit), Chase Jarvis (photographer, director and social
artist) and Nathan Martin (CEO of Deeplocal, an innovation studio in Pittsburgh).
The theme of the event is "Fearless", and we are inviting speakers from cross-disciplinary
backgrounds to talk about their experiences, and tell us a little about what inspires them to be
fearless in the pursuit of goals. We hope to spark discussions and foster connections between
participants, encouraging aspiring individuals to follow their dreams and make a difference. The
event is free to attend, and the application deadline is March 21, 2010.
For more information about the event, visit tedxcmu.com or email
info@tedxcmu.com. You can also find TEDx CMU on Facebook
or follow us on Twitter.
ConnectNow brings together international
specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection
with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous
computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the
importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more info email
info@connectnow.net.au.
PubCon, the premier search
and social media conference, features the industry's biggest names and key players shaping the
future of the Web. PubCon South will include
cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate
marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the
world's top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of
intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry's most respected search
professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register
here.
Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend
event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers
and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and
innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference,
featuring a hand-picked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top
tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com.
FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge
conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion
of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference
and TechNow.
Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way
we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up
a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and
influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy,
Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now
and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
DrupalCon is
the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management
framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee
of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal
experts.
Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has
doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types
including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and
management.
The Future of Money & Technology
Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including
visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors,
solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet
to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking
environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O'Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives
from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and
many more.
Use discount code "rww" to get 10% off registration.
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends - both the technology and the
emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with
the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference.
An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created
on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit - Development and Business - so the Summit will be of
interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike.
Here's a sample of some of the topics we'll explore in both of these tracks.
FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge
financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's
signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked
companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of
unique value into a single day.
Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the
leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech
entrepreneurs. Early bird registration
rates are available.
The SF MusicTech Summit
will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space - the best and brightest
entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations
who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving
music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment.
Enter the discount code "rww" to get 10% off.
Glue is the only conference devoted
solely to exploring the problem-sets facing architects, developers and IT professionals in a
"post-cloud" world. Glue focuses on the APIs and protocols (Twitter, Facebook, Websockets,
PubSubHubBub, XMPP), formats and standards (RDF/Linked Data, JSON, Microformats, HTML5),
platforms and providers (Amazon, Rackspace, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, Eucalyptus),
Identity Protocols (OAuth/WRAP, SAML, OpenID, SPML) emerging NoSQL data models (Cassandra,
CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, HBase), and other mechanisms that are building the post-cloud world.
ReadWriteCloud will be blogging live from Gluecon and CloudCamp, and ReadWriteWeb's Alex Williams
will be moderating the "Managing Complexity in the Cloud" session. Please join us May 25-27 in
Denver, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb readers can receive 10% off of
registration by using the code "RWW12".
The Corporate Social Media Summit is a
two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media
to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring:
Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully
20-plus corporate speakers (including
PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald's, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson),
Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social
media in your business
A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth,
practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding
corporate use of social media
Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here.
La sabiduría popular establece
que Flash es un comedor de recursos nato y que
HTML5 debería proporcionar más segundos de descanso a nuestros
equipos cuando estos nos sirvan para visualizar un vídeo embebido en la
web.
El próximo paso dentro del mundo Flash es nueva versión de Adobe, la
10.1 que sobre todo, viene cargada de mejoras a nivel de rendimiento, ya que
entre otras cosas implementa aceleración por hardware en la reproducción de
vídeo al menos en la versión Windows. Y en
Linux no se soporta por la elevada dispersión de sistemas Linux y las
complicaciones de cerrar un modelo fijo en cuanto a gráficos se refiere en esa plataforma.
La versión maquera no lo soporta por que, bueno digamos que a Apple no le hace
mucha gracia la tecnología Flash en general. Aunque no está todo perdido y
parece que la nueva versión podría soportar Core Animation (más en
la entrada completa).
La diferencia en el uso de la aceleración por hardware es muy apreciable,
hace poco en
ReadWriteWeb hicieron un test con Flash 10.1 y Firefox bajo Windows donde el consumo de
procesador bajó del 22% usando la versión 10.0 al 6% con la nueva versión
10.1.
Es decir que si se tiene acceso a una
aceleración por hardware tipo GPU de la que Apple ya hace uso en Mac OS
X, o si se pudiese acceder a algo similar en un iPhone, las diferencias entre
Flash y HTML5 en cuanto a consumo de recursos decrecerían hasta convertirse en
imperceptibles. Pero no es difícil ver que Apple no dará ninguna
facilidad para acceder de forma fácil a la aceleración por hardware en sus
dispositivos y menos cuando Steve Jobs ha dejado claro en más de una
ocasión que no es nada partidario de esta tecnología.
Aun así, parece que la nueva
versión de Flash para Mac hará uso de Core Animation, pero no está muy claro
que el rendimiento se aproveche al máximo como sucede en la versión Windows ni que
esté disponible en todos los navegadores, ya que parece que a día de hoy en la
plataforma maquera sólo Safari 4 implementa esa posibilidad.
Cuando el contenido a reproducir no es vídeo, HTML5 no parece que tenga un
rendimiento escaso de recursos, pero no hay una manera muy fina de medirlo ya que se han
hecho pocas pruebas de rendimiento de las animaciones reproducidas en Flash o en
Canvas/JS.
Así pues, el rendimiento mejorará sustancialmente en plataformas Windows
una vez la 10.1 de Flash haya dejado la fase beta, cosa que parece que sucederá
en breve, no osbtante los usuarios de Linux y Mac, deberán seguir confiando en la
implementación del HTML5 en los distintos browsers, cosa que les dejará un poco al
margen de momento, de las mejoras que se introduzcan en la versión Windows del plugin de
Flash.
MAMELoad TNG est une interface graphique qui se greffe sur l'émulateur
arcade MAME. Elle est également compatible avec ses dérivés comme PinMAME,
HazeMD, M1, MESS, MJOLNIR et d'autres encore. Comme toute interface, elle permet la navigation dans
les dossiers du disque dur et peut ensuite lancer un jeu. Elle accepte les différents
fichiers au format .DAT tels que HISTORY.DAT, MAMEINFO.DAT, STORY.DAT, etc. Au niveau de
l'affichage, elle supporte le mode fenêtre ou plein écran et la rotation de
l'écran.
- Correction d'un problème concerant l'enregistrement de FAVORITE.ML.
- Correction d'un bogue relatif à l'utilisation d'une police externe.
- Correction d'un problème avec l'utilisation de FBA et la détection des noms des
sources.
- Mise à jour de RESOURCE.ML avec la version MAME 0.137 et partiellement avec MESS.
The first beta of Lucid Lynx is coming up next week, on March 18. It would be good to
have a refresh of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/TechnicalOverview leading
up to this with more input from people who can say what's great about Lucid instead
of just people like me who spend our time enumerating all the things that are wrong with
it. :-) What's great about the Ubuntu 10.04 beta that you want our users to know?
Take a look at the wiki and see
if you can help answer slangasek's question
-"What's great about the Ubuntu 10.04 beta that you want our users to
know?"
La versión 2.0 beta de eyeOs ha sido lanzada oficialmente, un proyecto
del que hemos hablado varias veces por aquí desde su concepción como emulador de escritorio en
la web. A pesar de que el producto liberado puede parecer una evolución más
bien modesta - se puede probar en el servidor que tienen de
prueba - creo que lo más interesante es el reposicionamiento que están haciendo
de eyeOs: menos énfasis en ser un "escritorio web" y más en una
plataforma sobre la que las empresas pueden tener datos y servicios en la nube, con foco en la
colaboración y el trabajo en grupo. Juegan además la mejor carta que tienen,
eyeOs es software libre, un factor relevante también en el cloud computing,
sobre todo para las empresas que quieran construir su nube privada sin quedar
atrapadas en un proveedor.
Cierto que eyeOs 2.0 sigue manteniendo algo de apego por la metáfora del escritorio
(sobre la que mantengo aversión en la web, cada vez que en una página veo una
carpeta para acceder a "ficheros"...), pero con evolución hacia un entorno basado en
widgets al estilo Netvibes. Algo es algo. Se ha mejorado de forma más ostensible en
experiencia de usuario a la hora de trabajar en grupo, aspecto en el que inevitablemente se les
va a comparar con Google
Wave y del que sería buena idea tomar la posibilidad de federar diferentes servidores
(incluso con el protocolo abierto que definieron en Google). En eyeOs han habilitado una "barra
social" con la que determinar y vigilar con quién se comparte cada ítem,
además de los grupos para la gestión de permisos.
Como producto a día de hoy, uno podría echar un vistazo a eyeOs y salir
decepcionado por la escasez de aplicaciones o que la mayoría se encuentren en prueba. El
enfoque hacia la empresa que guía el proyecto probablemente ha provocado que el foco se
haya puesto en que la plataforma sea potente, fácilmente integrable con otras herramientas
internas y en el framework que permite la colaboración entre usuarios antes que en la
experiencia final de las herramientas ofimáticas. Tiene sentido desde el punto de vista de
tener disponible la plataforma para trabajar con ella lo antes posible, pero en eyeOs
deberían seguir trabajando a fondo la experiencia de usuario. El valor sobre la
mesa a la hora de sistema para construir una nube privada es interesante, pero
la tendencia de incorporar elementos del mercado de consumo a la empresa no es algo que se deba
ignorar. De hecho es uno de los caballos de troya que quiere utilizar Google para ganar este
mercado.
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Last night, during 
Late last night in Texas
-- at the infamous and indefatigable SXSWi convention -- Digg's CEO Jay Adelson 
Microsoft está a punto de lanzar una beta de Silverlight para
Symbian, junto con un pack de herramientas para desarrolladores. Casi va a ser un
re-lanzamiento, porque hace unos días esta beta fue publicada, quizás por un
lapsus, pero la retiraron poco después.
Even if your handset of choice 
The U.K. is suddenly awash with online video services vying
for attention. And there promises to be even more on the way. Following on from the full launch
of SeeSaw, the MSN Video Player has launched after a lengthy period in beta. And it has improved
considerably.
How many SDK's does
it take to screw in a light bulb? You won't find the answer in this week's leaky edition of the
Engadget Podcast Show, but you will get an exclusive chance to peer into the future of
Paul Miller's voiceover career.
It's
SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing
about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound
and fascinating 
On March 15,
at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, 
Go beyond search at 
After a long winter's hiatus, 
The first 
The social media conference for marketers, 
The social media conference for marketers, 
The 
The 
The 
The 2nd annual 
La sabiduría popular establece
que Flash es un comedor de recursos nato y que
HTML5 debería proporcionar más segundos de descanso a nuestros
equipos cuando estos nos sirvan para visualizar un vídeo embebido en la
web.
Es decir que si se tiene acceso a una
aceleración por hardware tipo GPU de la que Apple ya hace uso en Mac OS
X, o si se pudiese acceder a algo similar en un iPhone, las diferencias entre
Flash y HTML5 en cuanto a consumo de recursos decrecerían hasta convertirse en
imperceptibles. Pero no es difícil ver que Apple no dará ninguna
facilidad para acceder de forma fácil a la aceleración por hardware en sus
dispositivos y menos cuando Steve Jobs ha dejado claro en más de una
ocasión que no es nada partidario de esta tecnología.
Aun así, parece que la nueva
versión de Flash para Mac hará uso de 
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