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du CEO d’ASUS accordée à Laptop Mag, on apprend que les retours de netbooks du
leader du marché sont les mêmes qu’ils soient sous Windows ou Linux.br / br / Ce
qui prouve bien que si la distribution est bien intégrée, et que les consommateurs
savent ce qu’ils achètent, il n’y a aucune raison d’avoir a
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return rates have been higher for Linux-based netbooks. Can you share information on sales of the
Linux Eee PCs versus Windows XP versions? What about return rates overall for Eee PC
netbooks?/strongbr / I think the return rate for the Eee PCs are low but I believe the Linux and
Windows have similar return rates. We really separate the products into different user groups. A
lot of users like the Windows XP, but in Europe a lot of people want the Linux option. Actually in
Linux we support the Easy Mode and in Q4 of this year we are going to start selling Windows XP with
an Easy Mode./citebr / br / Reste à voir ce qu’il en est chez Acer, qui semble avoir
pas mal rattrapé (voire a
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les EeePC avec son Aspire One. À noter également que pour ce dernier, il est bien
plus facile de trouver les versions Linux en France, contrairement à Asus, qui a
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rapprochement...
Category: Productivity
Released: Nov 19, 2008
Price: Free
Description:
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couple taps,iPhind will help you find the key people you're looking for and remember everything
about them. Just enter a name in your iPhone contact list, assign it some keywords in the Notes
section and when you need to find that person, whose name you forgot or may be one of many on your
list, you can pull them up based on the keyword search. In just a couple taps, you can find who you
want and call, email or text them instantly. The Notes section can also be used as your personal
database in remembering things about your contacts that are important to them, what is key about
them, what they like to eat, where they live, etc. Whether you're a CEO networking your client
list, a salesperson managing your prospects, a parent organizing your doctors or contractors or
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are appreciated and can be emailed to support@sookiez.comTo hear from the people will allow us to build
a truly helpful application. Notes; Product has been tested with large databases, in the thousands
of contacts, and works fine. It will perform searches and matches similar to the Treo, by just
using initials of the name of the person you are looking for. Just enter part of their phone number
and the contact will be found. You can perform a Basic search and find names, companies, phone
numbers, or the Advanced search that searches Basic and by email, website, and the contents of your
notes. Once you find your contact their contact information is there so you can send an SMS by
taping their name, call them, email them, or go to their website, what ever in 1
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easy, simple.iPhind will keep track of your searches, that you can use as favorites, or frequently
contacted individuals even if they are not your favorites. Your session searches will also be there
at a tap.iPhind can even remember your last search and start with that one for you. More than a
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spend a little bit of time planning what information you add to your contacts. A truly mobile
solution..
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developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.
Just a little over a year ago, Honeyshed launched its beta
site, promising to blend the merchandise-moving capabilities of QVC with the video stylings of
MTV. We weren’t fans of
it then (to put it mildly), but with the site officially out of beta as of last week and a
year’s worth of experience under its belt, have things gotten any better?
In a word: no.
As AdAge pointed out rather
eloquently, the problem is that Honeyshed just tries SO hard to be hip and winds up failing
miserably. Honeyshed is built on the idea that people know they are being marketed to, so why not
make the proposition transparent? Wear the fact that you are shilling products on your sleeve and
try to wrap that mercantile message in entertaining and goofy skitz that the kidz will like.
The problem with Honeyshed is encapsulated within a video segment trying to sell you a fog
machine (!). One of the video’s hosts, “Pok Boogey,” proclaims, “You walk
into a party, you bring a fog machine, you’re the sh-t.” Does anyone actually believe
that?
Honeyshed has put itself in an awkward conundrum. It believes it has more integrity and appeal to
jaded youth because it’s so up-front about its commercial ambitions. But that authenticity
is immediately lost when a group of goofy people talk about how you need a fog machine.
I spoke with Honeyshed CEO Stephen Greifer who admitted the site had some issues finding traction
this past year. “We never really generated much audience,” he said. Though he
wouldn’t provide any stats, Greifer “wouldn’t object” to the metrics
listed in a recent AdWeek
article that said Honeyshed never drew more than 7,000 visitors a month.
Despite the setbacks, Greifer is a big believer in Honeyshed’s future. He told us the
company now has 150 brand marketers and has filmed more than 400 content segments devoted to
hawking products in categories like fashion, beauty, and gadgets.
Greifer said Honeyshed will make money by charging companies the production cost to make a video
segment, as well as through sponsorships and a CPM+ model whereby advertisers pay based on a
yet-to-be defined level of engagement with the ad (for example, higher rates if a viewer watches
the video all the way through). So far Puma is the biggest brand name paying to be on the site
(there is a Volvo spot, but the car company didn’t pay for it).
While still a separate entity, Honeyshed is still financially supported and solely funded by
giganto ad agency network Publicis. Honeyshed isn’t profitable yet and Greifer didn’t
have a deadline by which the site needed to become successful. “We need to see what the
trajectory is around how we’re able to build audience,” he said. “To put an
exact time frame on that is difficult.”
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In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday
while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was
apparently egged on by commenters on Justin.tv and fellow forum users on bodybuilding.com. Biggs overdosed on pills
while on camera and appeared to be breathing for hours until watchers realized he might be serious,
at which point they alerted the police. The video kept running until police and EMTs broke
Biggs’ door down and blocked the camera’s view.
We confirmed Biggs’ death with the Broward County medical examiner. The Justin.tv video and
many of the forum posts have been taken down.
When asked about the broadcast via email, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: As for the broadcaster
incident last night, we don’t comment on individual videos, however, our policy prohibits
inappropriate content on Justin.tv. We rely on the community to flag videos that they feel are
objectionable. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed and quickly removed from the system if it
violates our Terms of Use. We won’t post the disturbing content here, but much of it is still
online. Images of the broadcast have been posted here and here, and there’s also a suicide note from Biggs,
who went by the screenname CandyJunkie. An account of forum users watching the broadcast and
calling the police is here. There are also rest-in-peace comments on what appears to be Biggs’ MySpace page. The Justin.tv
broadcast used to be here. Thecontention that filming and uploading (and even hosting video of) a crime is a
crime as well might not be valid, but given the very nature of live broadcasts, the issue becomes
more complicated.
And it’s not as if technology enabled the taking of a life, or as if this hasn’t
happened before. A British man hung himself last year
after allegedly being goaded on by fellow users on Paltalk, another live video site. There was even
a widely distributed movie on the topic of live-streamed killings released earlier this year called
Untraceable. But
last night’s incident raises a thought-provoking question regarding free hosting of live
broadcasts — what could sites like Justin.tv possibly do to prevent live-streamed snuff
films?
Justin.tv has already come under fire for another problem with live broadcasts — copyright
infringement. The Premier League is reportedly threatening
legal action against the site over unauthorized broadcasts of soccer games. Justin.tv, which is
a free service, has maintained it complies with takedown requests according to the law — but
with live broadcasts, the key event often ends before lawyers can get involved. Or in Biggs’
case, before people who care about him could get through.
Cliffnotes:
thee best cliff around(decent read but most detailed around)
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Originally Posted by Bulker
Proper Cliffs
- CandyJunkie creates thread telling Misc. he'll overdose himself again on drugs live on
Justin.tv
- CandyJunkie posts the amount of drugs he's going to take
- Mods don't take it seriously because of his past trolling
- People egg him on
- CandyJunkie posts a copied suicide note
- People keep egging him on
- He pops the pills and goes to sleep
- He breathes for a few hours, people think he's going to be alright and keep joking and trash
talking on his JTV log.
- Some time later many people realize he was not moving.
- I find his personal details through E-detectivery, I figure out his name and number and
location.
- Personal details posted on Misc. I request people to call the cops because I live in India and
had no way to make International calls all by myself.
- People tell me he's a troll and nobody calls. Staberella especially is quite a huge cynic and
says that he wasn't going to die on that kind of drugs, she insists nothing is going to happen and
that people should just gtfo of the thread.
- I send an email to Miami Police on their official email on their website, Email not
functioning!
- I call Miami Police from my dad's phone and speak to at least three cops and one person from the
911 line (whatever it is) for over 8 minutes about the situation, the people there do not take the
case seriously and tell me to call the sheriff of his county, and give me the sheriff's number even
after I told them I was speaking from a different country and that this was an emergency.
- I post the sheriff's number on the Misc. thread
- People tell me to quit worrying and that they're 100% sure its a loop and he's just fraudin'
-calls the Broward County Sheriff's office and speaks to them about the situation along with a
couple of other people. By the time I called, it turns out 3 people had already called them about
it.
- People wait for the cops to bust in on the JTV cam.
- Some people start thinking nobody called the cops, at least 5 more people call the cops, they
were told the cops were on it
- 25 minutes after the first call to the cops, the cops bust in. They cover the webcam
- People speculating whether he's dead or not
- Friends post messages on his myspace worried about him, no response from him.
- His best friend posts a thread on the Misc. and informs the people that he's dead.
- Some people still think its a bluff
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Call it a coincidence, but over the past few days I have spent a lot of
time with folks who used to work for Amazon but are now out doing new things. It all started with
Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, who was
a keynote speaker at our NewTeeVee Live conference. Then last night I met with Dave Schapell,
founder and CEO of TeachStreet, an e-marketplace for teachers. And this morning I had coffee with
Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilo.
My buddy Dave McClure was the one who pointed out that they are all part of the Ex-Amazon club.
Just like the rising number of ex-Google entrepreneurs I wrote about last year, these guys are
leaving top jobs at one of the best technology companies in the U.S. Here is a list of just some
of those names, their current companies and their previous positions at the e-tailer:
Plus Jason Kilar, CEO of
Hulu (Amazon Marketplace)
Now this isn’t even a comprehensive list, and slowly and surely, it is expanding. The easy
availability of capital in Seattle certainly helps, but more importantly it speaks to the amount
of top-quality talent that Amazon has been able to attract over the years. Lawson, who stopped by
for a cup of tea this morning to pitch his company, Twilio, said that one of Amazon’s
biggest strengths has always been its ability to recruit and hire great minds.
It is because of this hiring policy that the company has not only stayed ahead of the technology
curve, but established itself as the leader in Web 2.0
innovation. That’s in stark contrast to other tech giants such as Yahoo and Google,
which have instead taken their cues from small startups. For talented people, the allure of
working with Jeff Bezos can be what clinches the deal, according to Schappell of TeachStreet,
which counts Bezos Expeditions as one of its investors. His company has essentially
developed a place where you can go to find things like a French teacher, or someone to give
you trombone lessons. I like to call it the Yellow Pages with brains, and it’s the kind of
service a company like eBay should have launched instead of mucking around with things like
Skype.
Of course, it also has its downside. Bezos’ big-play approach frustrates those who want to
unleash small ideas, and nurture them over a period of time. Eventually some great people
couldn’t live within the corporate structure of Amazon and went on to do their own thing.
Like Lawson, who until recently was the CTO of Stubhub before starting Twilio, a company that
has developed an easy way for web application developers to add voice capabilities to their
offerings using standard web-programming techniques.
Should Amazon be worried about this brain drain? Absolutely not, for the company continues to
attract talent the way lights attracts moths. I’ve often wondered what Amazon would do
next, and I have a few ideas as to where I think they’re going. Someday I’ll blog
about that, too.
Call it a coincidence, but over the past few days I have spent a lot of
time with folks who used to work for Amazon but are now out doing new things. It all started with
Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, who was
a keynote speaker at our NewTeeVee Live conference. Then last night I met with Dave Schapell,
founder and CEO of TeachStreet, an e-marketplace for teachers. And this morning I had coffee with
Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilo.
My buddy Dave McClure was the one who pointed out that they are all part of the Ex-Amazon club.
Just like the rising number of ex-Google entrepreneurs I wrote about last year, these guys are
leaving top jobs at one of the best technology companies in the U.S. Here is a list of just some
of those names, their current companies and their previous positions at the e-tailer:
Plus Jason Kilar, CEO of
Hulu (Amazon Marketplace)
Now this isn’t even a comprehensive list, and slowly and surely, it is expanding. The easy
availability of capital in Seattle certainly helps, but more importantly it speaks to the amount
of top-quality talent that Amazon has been able to attract over the years. Lawson, who stopped by
for a cup of tea this morning to pitch his company, Twilio, said that one of Amazon’s
biggest strengths has always been its ability to recruit and hire great minds.
It is because of this hiring policy that the company has not only stayed ahead of the technology
curve, but established itself as the leader in Web 2.0
innovation. That’s in stark contrast to other tech giants such as Yahoo and Google,
which have instead taken their cues from small startups. For talented people, the allure of
working with Jeff Bezos can be what clinches the deal, according to Schappell of TeachStreet,
which counts Bezos Expeditions as one of its investors. His company has essentially
developed a place where you can go to find things like a French teacher, or someone to give
you trombone lessons. I like to call it the Yellow Pages with brains, and it’s the kind of
service a company like eBay should have launched instead of mucking around with things like
Skype.
Of course, it also has its downside. Bezos’ big-play approach frustrates those who want to
unleash small ideas, and nurture them over a period of time. Eventually some great people
couldn’t live within the corporate structure of Amazon and went on to do their own thing.
Like Lawson, who until recently was the CTO of Stubhub before starting Twilio, a company that
has developed an easy way for web application developers to add voice capabilities to their
offerings using standard web-programming techniques.
Should Amazon be worried about this brain drain? Absolutely not, for the company continues to
attract talent the way lights attracts moths. I’ve often wondered what Amazon would do
next, and I have a few ideas as to where I think they’re going. Someday I’ll blog
about that, too.
When Mike Duke takes over as the CEO of Wal-Mart on Feb. 1, he will be confronted with a vastly
different political landscape than the one in which his predecessor, H. Lee Scott, operated for the
past nine years.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/s9K1Xg0gAEk" height="1"
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div class="rxbodyfield"p class="ArticleBody" page="1"Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who cofounded the
company, stepped aside this week to the surprise of no one who has followed the recent travails of
the company. While that ship continued to list, the IETF debated what, if anything, to do about the
problematic DNS bug that was discovered earlier this year. And the BlackBerry Storm lived up to its
name, if not entirely to its hype, as it debuted in the U.S. and U.K./pp align="right"a
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class="ArticleBody" page="1"1. a
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class="regularArticleU"Yahoo's Yang to step down as CEO/a and a
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class="regularArticleU"What's Yahoo's next move?/a: From the "it's about time" file -- Yahoo
cofounder Jerry Yang is leaving the company's CEO post, which he took over in July 2007. While he
took charge to try to right what was wrong with the company, his CEO tenure didn't go so well, with
the failed Microsoft buyout attempt, followed by a failed ad deal with Google, with two rounds of
layoffs and slumping finances mixed in. Yang will continue as a board member, and when a new CEO is
found he will resume his previous title of "Chief Yahoo." What happens next at Yahoo has been the
source of much debate this week./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"2. a
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future without programming/a: There are presently tons of codeless app dev tools available, tools
that will help you create an app without having to do any of the coding yourself. This is a great
boon to people who want to create simple apps without having to write all the code, or even
non-coders who just want to make the app that they need themselves. But they could also be
signaling a decline for developers as they see themselves replaced by applets./pp
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class="regularArticleU"Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management/a: As Microsoft and
Novell near the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, they are
announcing a beta of Moonlight, which will bring Microsoft's Silverlight RIA technology to Linux.
The companies are also rolling out the Advanced Management Pack, which enables management of
Windows and Linux servers from a single console.br/ b[ For/b ba two-year retrospective on the
agreement, featuring comments from Microsoft, Novell and an opponent of the arrangement, see a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/47NF-microsoft-novell_1.html"
class="regularArticleU"The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later./a ]/b./pp
class="ArticleBody" page="1"4.a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/JavaFX-RIA-technology-almost-ready_1.html"
class="regularArticleU"JavaFX RIA technology almost ready/a: Sun says that general release products
for JavaFX Desktop and JavaFX Script should be out by the end of the year. Featuring an application
platform based on Java, a scripting component and runtimes for desktop and mobile systems, JavaFX,
Sun officials said, gives the company a unique entrant in a market also featuring Adobe Systems,
with Flash, and Microsoft, with Silverlight./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"5. a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/47FE-five-recession-proof-technologies_1.html"
class="regularArticleU"Five top spending priorities for hard times/a : Forrester, Gartner and IDC
have slashed 2009 IT spending growth projections, with IDC forecasting a decline to a paltry 0.9
percent from its pre-financial crisis prediction of 4.2 percent. Analysts say that despite the grim
financial scene, companies should not inflict deep cuts on IT. "Companies should tighten their
belts, not take their pants off," says Forrester senior analyst Andrew Reichman. InfoWorld chatted
up analysts and CIOs to find out which technologies should be funded regardless of what the economy
is up to (or down to, as it were)./pp class="ArticleBody" page="2"6. a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Hosted_Exchange_SharePoint_now_widely_on_sale_1.html"
class="regularArticleU"Hosted Exchange, Sharepoint now widely on sale/a: About 500,000 users have
already adopted Exchange Online since a limited release for large enterprises in October 2007, and
Microsoft expects half of all enterprise employees with e-mail to use a combined online and
premises-based system in five years. Naturally, the company hopes that its Exchange Online, now in
full release, will capture a large part of that market./pp class="ArticleBody" page="2"7. a
href="http://www.macworld.com/article/137003/2008/11/it_spending.html" target="_blank"
class="regularArticleU"Survey: U.S. IT spending forecast worst since 2001/a: Forty-five percent of
those who responded to a new ChangeWave Research Survey said their companies aim to spend less on
IT or even nothing at all on IT during the first quarter of 2009 -- the highest percentage response
to that survey question since 2001. Researchers talked to 1,926 U.S. respondents who are involved
with IT spending to get the dismal survey results. Just 10 percent said they plan to spend more in
the first quarter, which was down three points from an August survey./pp class="ArticleBody"
page="2"8.a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/Microsoft_drops_OneCare_antivirus_product_1.html"
class="regularArticleU"Microsoft drops OneCare anti-virus product/a: Microsoft is essentially
giving up on its efforts to build a consumer anti-virus business as it is discontinuing its OneCare
software. Microsoft pushed hard to get OneCare to be thought of as on the same level as products
from Symantec or McAfee, but it was poorly reviewed and failed to establish itself as being able to
run with the big boys. OneCare will be replaced with free anti-virus software called Morro./pp
class="ArticleBody" page="2"9. a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9120918amp;intsrc=news_list"
target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"Obama administration to inherit tough cybersecurity
challenges/a: The administration of President-elect Barack Obama will wind up dealing with key
cybersecurity initiatives begun during the Bush administration, but far from fruition. More
progress has been made on other cybersecurity projects, but some of those have been found to be
lacking. Those in the security industry say that the next administration will also have to focus on
collaboration between public and private sectors./pp class="ArticleBody" page="2"10. a
href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9120859amp;intsrc=hm_list"
target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"Bush's exit to put new e-records system to the test/a: The
National Archives and Record Administration expects to receive 140T bytes of data when the Bush
administration ends after eight years with inauguration day, Jan. 20, when all paper and electronic
records of the administration become the legal responsibility of NARA. The unprecedented volume of
records has to be sorted, indexed and preserved. Comparatively, the Bush years are expected to
generate 50 times more data than the Clinton administration, which also went two terms./p/divbr
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Call it a coincidence, but over the past few days I have spent a lot of
time with folks who used to work for Amazon but are now out doing new things. It all started with
Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, who was 
