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Facebook Connect is now open for business, allowing any developer to let users login to their websites using
their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other key Facebook features, like your friends list,
can now be integrated into third-party applications, which can in turn send data back into
Facebook and the News Feed.
If there were an OpenID for Dummies book, its publisher would be Facebook Connect, because for
all intents and purposes, it’s the same thing, at least to 99.9% of end users who
experience it. For an example of how it works, the new Citysearch beta, which launched
a couple weeks ago, allows users to use their Facebook login to write reviews and leave comments.
Those actions are then broadcast back to the Facebook News Feed.
That’s a big win for two obvious reasons: (1) you don’t need to register for
a Citysearch account, provided you’re one of the 130 million people that now has Facebook
(2) Citysearch gets a ton of free exposure, as Facebook users who leave reviews and comments have
those activities broadcast back to their mini-feed.
Now, OpenID works similarly – you can sign-in to third-party websites using
credentials from popular services like Yahoo and AIM – but both as a user and
a developer, the benefits aren’t as tangible as those being offered by Facebook Connect.
The remaining advantage for OpenID is that it doesn’t tether users to one service
– since so many companies are now identity providers, just about everyone
already has an account somewhere they can use on sites that accept OpenID logins.
But, I don’t think that’s enough to hold back Facebook Connect from being a powerful
force in identity management, and a must-add feature for websites with social features. It would
seem that a lot of big websites already agree, as Facebook has signed on more than 100 launch
partners, including CBS, CNET, CNN, Vimeo, and even My.BarackObama.com. And, according to
Facebook, early testing of Connect shows a 50 percent increase in engagement on websites that
have implemented it.
That’s not to say Facebook isn’t without competition – MySpace has
already launched its own similar effort on a number
of websites, while Google
Friend Connect, likely not as a matter of coincidence, today opened up its doors for any
developer to implement. But with its existing and growing lead in social networking, along with
an approach that any end-user can understand, Facebook appears to have a big advantage.
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br /What it doesbr /br /Headquartered in Silicon Valley, PlaySpan is a virtual goods marketplace
that provides game publishers and developers with a new source of revenue, and with a chance to
expand and consolidate their existing user bases. br brAs it is fit, the site subdivides itself in
sections which are geared towards gamers and publishers, and the payment solutions are concisely
described online. Basically, payments are handled using the PayByCash platform –
a platform that was established approximately 10 years ago, and which supports more than 70
different payment methods across 200 territories spanning the globe. Moreover, a pre-paid card is
available and it goes by the apt name of the “Ultimate Game Card”. So far, this prepaid
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technology to the gaming experience.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /Gamers
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The "Solar Paper Latern" is made from 36 miniature solar panels with each
connected up to an electroluminescent diode. The resulting light can remain on indefinitely, as
long as the panels are near a spot of strong sun exposure.
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"The new survey by the Public Policy Institute
of California of 2,003 Californians who voted Nov. 4 found significantly less support for Prop. 8
among blacks than had been indicated by exit polls. Election Day exit polls triggered
recriminations between gay rights advocates and black leaders. And now the new data indicates
that 61 percent of Latinos voted for the ban, an even higher percentage than exit polls indicated
on Election Day. But while a majority of non-white voters backed a ban on gay marriage, the key
finding in the new survey was that voters' position on Prop. 8 was determined more by their level
of education and income than their race or ethnicity, said PPIC president Mark Baldassare. Among
Californians with a high school diploma or less, 69 percent voted for Prop. 8. Among college
graduates, 57 percent voted against it. 'Both among whites and non-whites, among college
graduates and among upper-income voters, Prop. 8 lost,' Baldassare said. 'Among both whites and
non-whites, among non-college graduates and lower income voters, Prop. 8 won. It seems to me that
some of what we attributed to race and ethnic differences really had to do with a socioeconomic
divide in regard to same-sex marriage.'"
Added Baldassare: "[If the state sees more growth among groups who are less educated and less
affluent,] "then you are not necessarily going to see a situation where you have growing support
for gay marriage in California. It has to do with exposure to different ideas. It's perceptions
about lifestyle differences, tolerance for differences, broader view of social trends and issues
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On 28 November 2008 The Nation, one of Papua New Guinea’s two largest newspapers, ran a
story entitled Male Babies Killed To
Stop Fights which claimed that women in the Gimi area have decided to kill all their male
children in an attempt to stop an ongoing tribal fight by, as it were, cutting off the supply of
reinforcements. The story, sensational as it was, got picked up by the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation and even made its way to Fox News.
Now, on the one hand this story is so outrageously exoticizing, so sensationalistically othering,
so reliant on tropes of primitive, savage black people that it pushes all the buttons of
Politically Correct Anthropologists. On the other hand, Melanesianists like myself often are wary
of overly-eager professors who denounce myths of cannibalism and so forth because, well, Papua
New Guinea is a place where cannibalism was practiced, a place where real cultural
difference does occur, were there is fighting, and so forth: no one ever told anyone in
PNG that we in the academy had developed an elaborate set of rules about how they were supposed
to live their lives, if you see what I mean.
But even given these reservations, even given these reservations, this story still
sounds absolutely ridiculous to me and stands, in my opinion, as a classic example of Papua New
Guinea being trotted out again to serve Australian and American fantasies of primitive savagery.
For one thing, the Salvation Army has been in the Gimi area (so much for being
‘untouched’) and has worked to try to end the dispute, and they are quoted in the
original news story. However, in a follow-up story the ABC has reported that the Salvation Army denies that these
killings took place. According to this report “the Highlands women are making the point
that there are so many murders they might as well kill their newborn boys themselves, rather than
go through the pain of losing them in tribal fights.” Now this I believe, as this
sounds very much the way that people talk about pain and suffering in PNG.
Moreover, experts on Gimi say that this area fits the pattern that we see in a lot of the
world—that female infanticide, not male infanticide, is common. In an email to me Paige
West, a professor at Barnard College, wrote
Historically Gimi in Lufa and Unavi practiced infanticide through subtle neglect and exposure if
a baby was unwanted or if the mother was simply too overwhelmed by other young children
(especially if there was one already breast feeding when the new one was born) to care for the
newborn. This was more often than not done with female infants – so much so that in the
census reports in the 60s and early 70s there was a marked gender imbalance among Gimi. Gillian
Gillison’s work shows that in general in the 70s and 80s first born babies were more likely
to die than to survive (See Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology for
Gillison’s in-depth discussion of Gimi ideas about conception, birth, and death).
Additionally, she writes:
No Gimi person I know would actually attribute the cause of fighting to their own immediate
family (if between patrilines), to their own extended family group (if between
‘clans’), to their village (if between villages), or to their ethnic group (if
between Gimi and others). They would attribute the cause of the fighting to whomever they were
fighting so to kill male offspring in ones own line in order to stop fighting is nonsensical.
and
The thought process that is ascribed to the mothers in the story in some ways seems to be a
Foucauldian management of population which is hard to imagine that any Gimi would apply to their
own children and kin. The idea that eliminating one’s own child to create some future
social benefit to all seems like a kind of governmentality that does not exist in Gimi society.
Essentially the extent to which kinship controls social relationships means that that arguement
would be a radical departure from Gimi social world views.
In sum, we have a typical story: inaccurate reporting which is picked up on on global media
because readers find it exciting to read about Papua New Guineans behaving badly. Is anyone
willing to defend the original National article in public? And, more importantly, when are we
going to have some positive news coverage of everything that is going right in Papua New Guinea?
UPDATE: Its fascinating to watch this story mutate—now Women on the Web is linking to the original story with the headline
Male Infanticide on Rise as Papua New Guinea’s Women Attempt to End War. This headline
makes it sound like the whole country is getting into the act (although to be fair the body of
the article just repeats what is in the original National article).
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pictures from the application to a site hosted by Enoetic, the parent company of Photology.
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I think we can all admit that there's something magical about the 8mm video format. Before there
was VHS, and way before there were digital video cameras, there was Super-8, pretty much the only
game in town if you were trying to get your memories recorded onto video without spending
thousands of dollars. This could explain why today when we see Super-8 footage today, it almost
automatically invokes a sense of nostalgia, as if we are peering into the timeless memories of
the pre-80's.
But really, like many people who grew up in the age of the VHS tape, my first exposure to the
Super-8 format was probably this:
Yep, the opening sequence to The Wonder Years. The reason for this sequence being done in Super-8
now seems quite obvious: It invokes the slightly faded memories of the 1960's through the
nostalgic, grainy filter of small-format video.
So what's the story behind this format?
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iBreast cancer research and treatment (8 May 2008)/ibr /br /Aberrant DNA hypermethylation of gene
promoter regions has been increasingly recognized as a common molecular alteration in
carcinogenesis. We evaluated the association between major clinicopathological features and
hypermethylation of genes in tumors among 803 incidence breast cancer cases from a large
population-based case-control study conducted in Western New York State. DNA samples were isolated
from archive paraffin embedded tumor tissue and were analyzed for hypermethylation status of the
E-cadherin, p16, and RAR-beta ( 2 ) genes using real time methylation-specific polymerase chain
reaction. The frequencies of hypermethylation were 20.0% for E-cadherin, 25.9% for p16, and 27.5%
for RAR-beta ( 2 ) genes. For postmenopausal women, hypermethylation of E-cadherin tended to be
more likely in progesterone receptor (PR) negative than in PR-positive tumors (odds ratio (OR),
1.41; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.91-2.18). Hypermethylation of p16 tended to be more frequent
among estrogen receptor (ER) negative cases than ER-positive cases (OR, 1.51; 95% CI, 1.01-2.32).
Hypermethylation of RAR-beta ( 2 ) gene was inversely associated with histological and nuclear
grade of breast cancer.br /iMeng Tao, Peter Shields, Jing Nie, Amy Millen, Christine Ambrosone,
Stephen Edge, Shiva Krishnan, Catalin Marian, Bin Xie, Janet Winston, Dominica Vito, Maurizio
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