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As its name suggests, Sloshspot is a website for people looking to have a good time – perhaps too good of a time. Like many sites before it, Sloshspot is an index of bars and nightspots, where users can leave reviews, post photos, and check out other “regulars” of different locales. Venues can maintain their own presence on the site to keep their regulars informed of events and drink specials.

What makes Sloshspot interesting, unique, and maybe a bit of an enabler, is a point system that allows users to earn rewards for more participation on the site. Of course, more participation – like posting photos and comments from a night out at a particular venue – requires more time out on the town.

As you participate more on the site, you move up to different levels – from lightweight, to weekend warrior, to socialite, etc. At each level, you unlock new site features, like things you can add to your profile, and eventually become eligible for prizes like iTunes gift cards and of course, free kegs.

Sloshspot also offers an iPhone app so you can find bars, events, and shows on the go. The app automatically detects your location, then lets you search the database to find something nearby. You can see all of the same data that’s available on the website, like ratings, the regulars, and who’s attending on a given night.

The big competition for Sloshspot would seem to by MySpace, where many venues already maintain their own presence where you can do much of the same, by becoming a “friend” of a given place, checking the event schedule, or leaving comments with your reviews and photos.

Where Sloshspot has a chance to standout is with its reward system and a mobile experience specific to those that can’t get enough of the nightlife. And if those two components can take off, there is certainly money to be made in hyperlocal advertising to a crowd that’s looking to spend money.

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48626c8d14b9b9be00feede9maxX=320maxY=264" border="0" alt="yahoo-hq.jpg" title="yahoo-hq.jpg" width="320" height="264" /When Yahoo's stock hit $12, we said it was ridiculously cheap. Now it's below $9. Given that no one else seems to want to buy and fix this once-great and still amazingly valuable company, we're now offering to do it ourselves./p pWe have the privilege of being a co-host of Yahoo's "TechTicker" financial show. So that makes this an employee-led turnaround plan. To execute the plan, we're going to need the support of many other Yahoo employees, including Jerry Yang, David Filo, and the Board, so we're just going to call this a management buyout. Cool?/p pWe've structured our proposal to be as simple and easy as possible: No need for shareholder votes. No need to raise billions of dollars of capital (who has time for that?). No need for interminable, angst-ridden negotiations. We're also making the proposal completely transparent, so our fellow Yahoos and shareholders know what's coming./p pHere's the plan:/p ul listrongYahoo will buy our parent company, Silicon Alley Media, for, say, $100 million in stock./strong We already own some YHOO, and we're willing to put more money where our mouth is: Specifically, we're willing to bet our entire company on our YHOO turnaround plan.br //li listrongYahoo will appoint us as acting CEO. /strongNo worries: We will not take this job to become yet another fat CEO pig at the trough. In fact, we're so excited about this opportunity that we'll do it for Jerry's salary: $1 a year (okay, maybe we could add some zeroes there, to preserve our marriage. But not six. Or, god forbid, eight). Believe it or not, we also have no ambition to hold this post indefinitely. Several folks in the business world are more qualified to run a global Fortune 500 company than we are, and when the time is right, we will gladly hand the reins to one of them. Unlike many incoming Yahoo CEO candidates, however, we know what Yahoo needs right now, and there's no sense wasting time CEO-hunting when we can start the process today.br //li listrongWe will immediately resize the company, cutting approximately one-quarter to one-third of the cost base./strong Even now, with its bloated cost structure, Yahoo is still making money. Our cuts will ensure that Yahoo is positioned to survive a major online ad downturn and still have plenty of cash flow to reinvest in the business. One big reduction instead of several small ones will also ensure that Yahoo doesn't go down the road it is heading down now, which is the demoralizing death by a thousand cuts./li listrongWe will do a search deal with Microsoft. /strongYahoo has lost the search game, and it is senseless for the company to throw more good money after bad. Yahoo will continue to maintain a significant if declining share of emsearch queries /emfor the next few years, but these can be monetized better with economies of scale, and the company can avoid mindless and expensive duplication of effort. Microsoft is great at engineering and desperately wants to show Google who's boss. We'll sell Yahoo's search technology to Microsoft and do a multi-year revenue deal with them. And when it comes up for renewal, we will play Microsoft and Google off one another./li listrongWe'll step up Yahoo's focus on content aggregation./strong Algorithms cannot create the best user experience for every application. Yahoo highest and best opportunity is to do what Tim Koogle used to talk about in the 1990s and Jerry has been suggesting over the past year: Become the first stop for anyone looking for an intelligent, organized view of the world. The company has made great strides in this effort over the past 14 years, but it has gotten distracted of late. We'll fix that./li listrongWe'll increase Yahoo's production of lightweight, high-velocity online content, through programs like TechTicker, blogs, fantasy sports leagues, etc./strong With a distribution platform that reaches 500 million global users a month, Yahoo can make a killing on low-cost content production. We wileml not /emturn Yahoo into the New York Times (which is a dying print business.) Instead, we will hire a few more folks emfrom/em the New York Times and other excellent content-production companies (people who get the Internet). These folks will help edit, curate, and organize all the great content that's already out there and produce some good original stuff. (But not TV shows or magazine articles. TechTicker works because it takes advantage of what the Internet can do better than other media, not because it tries to clone CNBC or a newspaper). br //li listrongWe will buy or build small consumer subscription businesses that produce content that people will pay for...and then we will plug them into Yahoo's massive global distribution engine./strong In several years, we will build subscriptions into a major contributor to revenue, not the afterthought they are today./li listrongWe will fix Yahoo's communications platform, in part by buying and integrating AOL (and, if we can help Steve Ballmer see the light, MSN). /strongAs long-term Yahoo Mail users, we are appalled that Yahoo has fallen behind in this area. We don't want to switch to Gmail, but if nothing changes, we may have to. 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Windows only: Wallpaper Shifter is a lightweight wallpaper randomizer. The installation is 8.11MB which by portable-application standards isn't super light, but the system resources consumed by...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/2008-11-21_084056.jpg" height="273" width="299" align="left" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2""/Windows only: Wallpaper Shifter is a lightweight wallpaper randomizer. The installation is 8.11MB which by portable-application standards isn't super light, but the system resources consumed by Walllpaper Shifter are extremely lightweight.br / blockquoteWallpaper Shifter is a little program that starts when you login to Windows and picks a random wallpaper from your list. Depending on the wallpaper width and height, it can automagically scale it for you to fit your desktop without deforming it's proportions. It does not remain running in the background so no system resources are used./p/blockquote p If you need a more complex wallpaper changer that will stay active during your Window session, check out a href="http://lifehacker.com/395508/johns-background-switcher-automatically-swaps-your-desktop-wallpaper"John's Background Switcher/a. Wallpaper Shifter is freeware, Windows only. div class="related"a href="http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2008/06/cyber-d.html"Wallpaper Shifter 7/a [via a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/21/wallpaper-shifter/"gHacks/a]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=75f71370a91bf588c30485e1ca49352fp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=75f71370a91bf588c30485e1ca49352fp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=75f71370a91bf588c30485e1ca49352f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=dmaqqZlD"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=aNAhNQCJ"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=J9FSOWhk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=J9FSOWhk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=P56EkLub"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=P56EkLub" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/021povJfTW4" height="1" width="1"/

dhcpcd is an RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. It is fully featured and yet lightweight: the binary is 46k as reported by size(1) on Linux i386. It has support for duplicate address detection, IPv4LL, carrier detection, and a merged resolv.conf and ntp.conf for which other DHCP clients require third party tools. hr / strongLicense:/strong BSD License (revised) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / This release no longer sends a ClientID by default (which mirrors the in-kernel DHCP client). pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mM6ojxPORTO7C89A3KeKXAUr1cY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mM6ojxPORTO7C89A3KeKXAUr1cY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/_ybzzofT3dw" height="1" width="1"/

dhcpcd is an RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. It is fully featured and yet lightweight: the binary is 46k as reported by size(1) on Linux i386. It has support for duplicate address detection, IPv4LL, carrier detection, and a merged resolv.conf and ntp.conf for which other DHCP clients require third party tools. hr / strongLicense:/strong BSD License (revised) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / This release no longer sends a ClientID by default (which mirrors the in-kernel DHCP client). pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/eC9cVbLKvEX7BME4Ub5Pyq7cgMM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/eC9cVbLKvEX7BME4Ub5Pyq7cgMM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-global/~4/_ybzzofT3dw" height="1" width="1"/

XML Parse Lib is a lightweight set of re-usable functions for general purpose parsing, checking, and creation of XML files. It supports stream-oriented, SAX, or DOM parsing styles, and includes an optional xsd schema validator and a graphical schema generator. It supports all valid XML, and includes checking for validity. It has minimal dependencies, and is totally self-contained. It is both speed- and memory-efficient, and is simple to use. hr / strongLicense:/strong MIT/X Consortium License hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / The ability to handle escaped numeric symbols in XML files was added. Such values begin with an ampersand and a pound-sign, followed by a hexidecimal or base-10 value, and then a semi-colon. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zWp_tjouj5NR96scq4Vz3N-t7GI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zWp_tjouj5NR96scq4Vz3N-t7GI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/ZYJTcS40OKE" height="1" width="1"/

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img src="http://c.fsdn.com/fm/screenshots/71026_thumb.png" align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10" TurnKey Django is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD of the Django Web framework that can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines. It features a Mac OS X themed Web management interface and a Python configuration and installation console. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, automatically updated, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run Django Web applications with maximum usability, efficiency, and security. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vCJXJQfjbsr-dhi5z7m86_B3I9A/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vCJXJQfjbsr-dhi5z7m86_B3I9A/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-global/~4/xj5_0560EVM" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://c.fsdn.com/fm/screenshots/71026_thumb.png" align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10" TurnKey Django is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD of the Django Web framework that can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines. It features a Mac OS X themed Web management interface and a Python configuration and installation console. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, automatically updated, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run Django Web applications with maximum usability, efficiency, and security. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tlBa06SscKjj_57BTIrF6C5BZo8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tlBa06SscKjj_57BTIrF6C5BZo8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/xj5_0560EVM" height="1" width="1"/

iParcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager./ibr / br / bAbout this version/bbr / v0.9 Thursday, November 20 2008br / br / Newbr / + Confirm clear option.br / + Parcellite menu hotkey.br / + Translated .desktop files.br / + Support for managing x-selection (primary).br / + Hungarian and turkish translation (disabled until tr.po is updated).br / + Prevent empty clipboard. Clipboard/Primary contents are backed up and recovered if they ever become NULL.br / br / Changesbr / + Fixed/updated daemon mode.br / + Changed preferences dialog.br / + Changed actions preferences to use GtkTreeView's built in editing mode.br / + Fixed bug with icon showing up in --no-icon mode when you execute an action.br / + Fixed parcellite-startup.desktop to include Type=Application to prevent desktop-file-validate from failing.

pPyRoom is not the only distraction-free editor out there, but it does contain a few useful features that make it a good choice for users who are looking for a lightweight full-screen editor./p

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/keypad_pressing_test.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" /I've long suspected that the best job ever would be to work in product stress testingmdash;because you basically get paid to break shit all day. a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/tag/nokia"Nokia/a sent over a bunch of info detailing how their test centers operate, leaving me fully convinced this would indeed be my dream gig. Not only do they run over 200 mechanical tests on these things, but where else could you play with a bunch of machines that bend, bake, humidify, spray, poke and drop phones? (And yeah, that phone in the picture above just got poked a million times...literally.)br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('nokiatestlabs3', 4, ''); /script/p pHere's a look at a handful of different tests and what each one tries to accomplish./p pstrongLiquids/strong/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/dripping_water_test2.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pNokia places a phone under a bunch of needle-sized water dispensers and then lets it drip all over the phone, which tests for resistance in situations like rain, or splashing from a pool./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/humidity_resistance-test.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pThe humidity simulation, which tests the durability of phones in up to 95% humidity, is helpful in determining if a phone will hold up in particularly damp areas like South and Central America, where gadgets don't have the longest lifespan./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/liquid_test.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pNokia also tests how the phone reacts to various liquids, creams and gels (lotions, hand sanitizers, etc...), since stuff like that tends to accidentally spill while sitting in a purse or backpack with the phone./p pstrongSturdiness/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/bending_test.jpg" width="350" height="525" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/twisting_test.jpg" width="350" height="525" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"br clear="all" br Tests for bending and twisting are pretty straight forward and self explanatory. Still, you can't help but cringe to see a phone placed in such an unnatural position. Nokia says when you have your phone in your back pocket and you sit on it, it's susceptible to bending./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/dropping_machine.jpg" width="350" height="525"img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/dropping_test.jpg" width="350" height="525" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"br clear="all" br One of the cooler stress tests that exists is the Drop testmdash;not only because it uses a giant friggin' machine, but also because they record the drops using a camera that can record 100,000 frames per second, which is 3,000 times faster than the normal video camera. The videos are then analyzed frame by frame, determining the degree to which a device becomes distorted upon impact. Check it out./p pscript type="text/javascript" newVideoPlayer("/nokia_test_vid.flv", 506, 423,""); /scriptimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/nokia_test_vid.flv.jpg" style="display:block;display: none;" //p pWhen Nokia drops a phone, they drop it from about the height of a shirt pocket onto concrete, since that's a likely scenario for dropped phones. They also attatch a phone under a steel device that pushes down 100 newtons of force./p pstrongWear and Tear/strong/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/dust_boxt_test.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pNokia has a series of wear and tear stress tests, when gauge the phone's ability to take bumps, scratches from daily use. Dust testing involves throwing a handful of phones in a dust filled box and letting everything co-mingle. How much dust gets inside? And do buttons stop working when foreign substances get under the surface? This is where you find out./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/wearing_test.jpg" width="350" height="525" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"They also let phones roll around in a bunch of pieces of hard, pointy plastic to see where it might scratch, scuff or crack under duress. These pieces are like plastic chocolate chips and bite-sized pyramids, and they're pretty sharp. This phone met an unfortunate demise in the name of quality control.br clear="all"/p p***/p pOther weird tests include rubbing a piece of denim up against a phone to test the effect of friction when the phone rubs up against your clothes and subjection the phone to temperatures ranging between -40 and 185 degrees Fahrenheit; this determines whether or not the phone can survive in the most extreme conditions on earth./p pWhen testing is finished, they have a battery of analytic procedures to determine how well or how poorly a phone held up. This includes analyzing a phone under electron microscopes, 3D X-rays and X-ray Spectroscopes to check for any related damage; possible micron-sized soldering cracks, component failure or any breakdowns in the materials./p pAs you can see, these tests aren't lightweight by any means, and most of my Nokia phones over the years have been pretty durable. What about yours? 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It’s in my stack of books for winter reading and wil be included in my classes next semester. In the meantime, I’m enjoying Jenny Levine’s report of author John Palfrey’s talk in Chicago:

 

5 characteristics

1. “I blog therefore I am”
express their identity online and offline - they don’t distinguish between the two
avatars as another version of identity
one difference is “subscribe to *me*”

2. multitaskers
a lot of debate over multitasking and what it is, but they’re doing multiple things at once
example of game in which boys tried to maintain as many IM conversations with as many girls as they could at once

3. consumers to creators
interact with digital format - seems self-evident, but presumption is immediate access because digital (eg, digital camera vs a disposable one); movie theater vs YouTube, print vs searchable text
presumption of media in digital form and that it’s social and shared

held a contest to design the logo for “Digital Natives” project at Harvard Law School - got 136 entries (32 from the kid who won), just for the glory (no prize)

4. mash up different media, putting different forms of media together

comes down to a series of technologies - RSS, Google Docs, lightweight collaborative tools

5. an international perspective
“couchsurfing” Google Maps mashup - 89,000 friendships created

And this post from Lindsay, one of my St. Kate’s LIS768 students:

 

• The way Digital Natives are interacting with information is changing rapidly. Librarians need to stay educated—be aware of the technology so the conversations/education seminars are relevant to Digital Natives. “This participatory digital environment requires all of us to become more media literate” (128). “We ignore the social norms of Digital Natives at our peril” (148). “Those who come to understand the dynamics of information production in the digital era will be better prepared than anyone else to thrive in the integrated digital world. And the best way to learn these dynamics is to participate in information production directly” (159).
• Use older Digital Natives to stay informed and current on how to engage Digital Natives—to create a community-based solution to the complex and continually evolving issues created by new information and technologies. “Tap into—and celebrate—the creativity of the Digital Natives to help solve the problem” (105). “And it is Digital Natives who are best poised to engage in this process” (125).

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