Kimbo Slice Knocked Out by Seth Petruzelli in 14 seconds. This was Kimbo's first loss - and what a loss it was... Kevin Ferguson (born on February 8, 1974), better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Miami, Florida-based street fighter turned mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He first appeared in several filmed underground fights which have spread primarily on the Internet. Kimbo has since left street fighting behind and is now putting his efforts towards becoming a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Rolling Stone called Slice "The King of the Web Brawlers" Kimbo Slice began his career in unsanctioned street fights. A notable street fight was with Sean Gannon, a former Boston Police officer who trains in MMA. In a brutal fight Kimbo lost for the first time. [6] The popularity of the fight, which was distributed throughout the internet, propelled both men into the MMA spotlight. To prepare for sanctioned MMA fights, Slice was trained by retired MMA fighter Bas Rutten. Slice made his sanctioned MMA debut against former WBO Heavyweight champion boxer Ray Mercer at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5, in Atlantic City on June 23, 2007. The match was scheduled as a three-round exhibition utilizing all professional rules of MMA combat. Slice defeated Mercer with a guillotine choke at 1:12 into the first round.[7] In a post-fight interview, Slice stated that he would like to fight David "Tank" Abbott. Abbott, who was a spectator, stood up from his seat and accepted the call out. One of the matchmakers for CFFC asked Slice for his assurance so that an October 12 bout at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 6 between Slice and "Tank" Abbott could be organized. This event was later canceled due to a promotion dispute. On October 11, 2007, ProElite announced that they had signed Slice to a deal and that he would make his debut on the November 10, 2007 EliteXC.[8] Originally set to make his professional MMA debut against Mike Bourke, the reformed street fighter was set to face Bo Cantrell after Bourke sustained a shoulder injury.[9] Kimbo defeated Cantrell 19 seconds into the first round by submission due to strikes. Slice will be featured on The Iron Ring, a new television series airing on BET which features MMA prospects. Slice will be a part of the selection process for the participants.[10] On February 16, 2008, Kimbo fought Tank Abbott in the main event at EliteXC: Street Certified. He won by KO 43 seconds into the first round due to strikes. At the fight his weight was announced at an all-time low of 234lbs, a far cry from his street fighting days of 280lbs. On May 31, 2008, Kimbo fought in the main event of the first ever mixed martial arts event shown on prime time network television, EliteXC: Primetime. Though one of the judges had each fighter winning one of the first two rounds, Kimbo's opponent James Thompson won both on total points by repeatedly taking down Slice and grounding and pounding. In the opening seconds of the third round, however, Kimbo threw a haymaker to Thompson's left ear, which ruptured Thompson's cauliflower. This was soon followed by three unanswered punches to a standing Thompson, which led to a referee stoppage and a controversial win for Slice. Fellow EliteXC competitor Brett Rogers was particularly critical of Slice's victory, calling Slice's performance "garbage" in a post fight interview. A Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock fight was signed for October 4, 2008 to take place at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida as part of CBS' "Saturday Night Fights". Seth Petruzelli replaced Shamrock due to a cut to the left eye during warm ups only hours before the fight was to take place. Petruzelli defeated Slice by TKO 14 seconds into the bout. all credit goes to the ufc co. and mma fighters, i am just spreading the word of the fight to give ufc more views

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Last year's online shopping season surpassed $29 billion in sales, up a full 20 percent from the previous holiday. More consumers did their shopping online than any holiday season before, due to the convenience and increasing popularity of the Internet as a way to get too many things done in too little time. This year's online sales have already been projected to produce another solid online shopping season, with many analysts predicting another 20 percent increase in online shopping sales. How many more will make their gift-buying decisions online isn't the central issue.

Even though the music player takes much longer to load than did the previous version (thus ruining the one bright spot of any band's page) and the entire product is still half-baked and clumsy, at least MySpace Music is trying. The main page has a fresh rotation of highlighted artists, videos and playlists -- a stale front page would be a problem. The Transmissions page is a nice way to offer music and video or interviews and live performances. And I really liked the McDonald's-sponsored free MP3 today. After watching a brief ad, the MP3 can be saved or opened without clicking to another screen.

Out-of-the-mainstream artists are benefiting from the main page. Deerhoof got main page placement for the exclusive on the band's upcoming album. Deerhoof's page had 10,900 streams through 10pm CT one day last week. That was 1.5% of the band's total MySpace streams to date. Not bad. Jolie Holland got similar results from her main page placement: 11,732 streams. That's 2.1% of her total streams to date in one day.

Main page placement is no guarantee. It's nice to see a variety of artists, but not all visitors are taking advantage of the music discovery offered to them. Impressions will vary according to popularity. A recognized and more mainstream artist will get even more out of the main page. Christina Milan, for example, has over 44,000 streams today. Indie rappers Yo! Majesty has only 2,000 streams today.

[music jobs] Brand and Online Marketing Manager at The Ascot Club/Am Only; Brooklyn, NY.

Supreme Court Stays Out of TiVo vs. Dish; high court won’t consider an appeal of the $74 million judgment against the satellite company over a patent dispute with the DVR maker. (The Associated Press)

Time Warner Reacts to LIN Dispute By Urging People Online; after the two companies didn’t reach an agreement, Time Warner displays a URL on channels formerly occupied by LIN that hosts a video on how to watch TV programs online. (The New York Times)

Blinkx Drops Bid to Buy Miva; video search company will not be acquiring the pay-per-click ad network. (paidContent)

Comcast to Hike Rates; third price increase since January 2007, cable co. blames the economy (convenient!). (RedOrbit)

Video Advertisers Looking to Display Ads; companies like Apple are inserting video into banners and moving beyond the in-stream slots. (AdWeek)

Conde Naste Using Mobile Vid-Casting for Bridal Fashion Shows; company using Flixwagon to live-stream footage that will be featured on Bride.com’s Wedded Bits blog. (MediaWeek)

Access Hollywood Partnering with iVillage; fluffy entertainment news magazine will have a module on the women’s site that will include video. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Iron Man’s Popularity Brings Down Servers; number of people trying to access the BD-Live content brought down Paramount’s tech. (CrunchGear)

Semantic search engine Hakia announced a major redesign of its site today, including the addition of 'credible sites' to its search index. Credible sites are currently limited to health and environmental topics, but Hakia is planning to expand this quickly. By adding these credible sources, Hakia wants to go beyond '10 blue links' and give its users an alternative to popularity driven approaches like Google's PageRank. Hakia has also added a 'Galleries' section, which is a structured directory of some of the most popular search topics.

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Credible Sources

In order to create this index of credible and trustworthy sites, Hakia is relying on volunteers. Hakia is specifically recruiting librarians, though it seems anybody can sign up, which could potentially leave the site open to spammers. Hakia asks submitters for their professional credentials, but it is not clear if the company will actually check these.

Hakia uses a very strict definition for what makes a site credible. To be included in the index, a site should have gone through a peer review process, not have any commercial bias, and the information should be current. The fact that Hakia insists on only adding peer reviewed sites should greatly enhances the signal-to-noise ratio of the search results.

Structured Results

In our tests, we were often impressed by hakia's ability to structure its regular search results. For 'Sarah Palin', for example, Hakia organizes the results by official websites, images, news, biography, awards, and speeches. A search for 'Portland, OR,' on the other hand, first displays general information about the city, images, transportation options, and restaurant guides.

All results now also feature images and user-generate content.

Whenever we tried to ask more general questions ("What is a blog?"), however, Hakia's results were often underwhelming and uneven. Sometimes we got results that were spot-on, while at other times, the results barely had anything to do with our query.

Hakia also introduced 'my hakia,' a personal start page which still looks a bit unfinished, but seems to rely on Hakia's expertise in structuring search results to give users more background information about current events.

Overall, we liked Hakia's updates and we are looking forward to the expansion of the 'credible sources' to other topics, as we were quite impressed with the results it returns already.

Discuss

With the popularity of Apple’s AppStore, it looks like everybody is trying to get a piece of the cake. After Android’s Marketplace, it looks like RIM will be gearing up for something similar too, with their BlackBerry Application Center. The Application Center is due to launch on the BlackBerry Storm’s version 4.7 operating system, which will allow users to browse and install 3rd party BlackBerry applications, which would be hosted by carriers. Features of the BlackBerry Application Center include:

• The Application Center will be available on 4.7 Storm devices and will be designed for the Storm touch screen UI
• Carriers will be responsible for hosting the application data and sending updates to the directory to RIM
• The main application screen will provide the user with a list of all applications that are available for install from the particular carrier for the specific device model and OS version. Incompatible applications will not be displayed
• The main screen will provide the user the ability to quickly browse the application list, then view the available information about each application in a detailed description screen which shows the logo and full description
• Installation will occur with one click (launches the web browser)
• The user will be able to access the Options > Applications screen from within the App Center (allowing the user to delete applications directly from within the App Center)
• The user will be provided with various status info: date the app list was most recently updated; notification that updates are available; option to reapplication list was completed, etc
• Since the download and installation will be handled by the browser in this first release, the Application Center will not be capable of restarting the application / download intelligently
• The Application Center will automatically check for updates daily

Today Hakia announced an outreach to librarians and information professionals to help make its results even more credible. The company will be expanding its focus beyond the medical scope and wants the assistance of professionals to make sure that the next market it turns its focus on delivers results as trustworthy as its health results have been.

Hakia has been around for a while, offering users a place to find what they call a verified, social, semantic search engine. What this means is that not only do you get a form of semantic search, the folks at Hakia go a bit further and verify the results as well. This has been the case for those engaging in health searches using Hakia’s social semantic search engine.

By using tools such as the Medical Library Association to make sure the results you get for your searches are trustworthy, Hakia takes search a step beyond traditional search sites like Google that tend to deliver more results, but sort them by popularity based relevance. For those of us who prefer to do our own sorting, Hakia won’t be the answer, but if you are pressed for time or need to have more confidence in your medical search results, Hakia may be the option for you.

One of the company’s tag lines is “A popular Web source may not always be credible, and a credible Web source may not always be popular.” Hakia takes that to heart, making sure that the sites that might hold the most useful information get weighted properly in spite of popularity. They also offer a social aspect of their search engine for additional search options that incorporate a more social aspect.

Hakia hopes that the librarians and information professionals they tap for the new program will suggest URLs of credible sources on a variety of topics, which Hakia can then verify using its QDEX (Quality Detection and Extraction) system. The participants in the program will be unpaid, though they will receive small gifts such as books and conference grants as a kind of thank you for participating.

This is a smart move on Hakia’s part. This group is a largely untapped resource that already participates in the online space. If you are a librarian or information professional and would like to participate in the program, you can visit the Hakia sign up page.

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In their own words

“Tweader is a new way to view twitter conversations. Long gone are the days of going through all of a tweet's @replies to get a grasp of the conversation. All you have to do now is enter the tweet's ID below and have it all done for you.”

Why it might be a killer

Twitter is very popular; any tool that makes it easier to use will have people flocking to it.

Some questions

Is it free? Can I read multiple conversations at the same time?

What it does

The popularity of Twitter is evidenced by the constant stream of applications and add-ons that keep on rolling along. The later tool to join this ever-increasing family goes by the name of Tweader.

In principle, Tweader enables anybody to view and read Twitter conversations. As the webmaster itself points out, reading all the replies that have been posted is a time-consuming task, and that is why this tool was created.

To use it, you must key in a Twitter ID and click on the “Submit” button. The process is really as simple as that. If you are unsure whether this application is for you or not, you can always have a look at the “Here’s how it’ll look like” screenshot that is provided for reference purposes.

All in all, this is a tool that will come in handy for more than one Twitter user out there. Wend your way to Tweader.com if you fall into this category and want to make the best of your online time and further your Twitter experience.


Link: http://www.tweader.com
Our Review: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/tweader-com-read-twitter-conversations

 

There are many ways to make money in today's society however currency trading is gaining popularity. Although it may be gaining popularity, few people know how to effectively do it. This lack of experience is a major cause of failure in the business.

Hakia recently announced an outreach to librarians and information professionals to help make its results even more credible. The company will be expanding its focus beyond the medical scope and wants the assistance of professionals to make sure that the next market it turns its focus on delivers results as trustworthy as its health results have been.

Hakia has been around for a while, offering users a place to find what they call a verified, social, semantic search engine. What this means is that not only do you get a form of semantic search, the folks at Hakia go a bit further and verify the results as well. This has been the case for those engaging in health searches using Hakia’s social semantic search engine.

By using tools such as the Medical Library Association to make sure the results you get for your searches are trustworthy, Hakia takes search a step beyond traditional search sites like Google that tend to deliver more results, but sort them by popularity based relevance. For those of us who prefer to do our own sorting, Hakia won’t be the answer, but if you are pressed for time or need to have more confidence in your medical search results, Hakia may be the option for you.

One of the company’s tag lines is “A popular Web source may not always be credible, and a credible Web source may not always be popular.” Hakia takes that to heart, making sure that the sites that might hold the most useful information get weighted properly in spite of popularity. They also offer a social aspect of their search engine for additional search options that incorporate a more social aspect.

Hakia hopes that the librarians and information professionals they tap for the new program will suggest URLs of credible sources on a variety of topics, which Hakia can then verify using its QDEX (Quality Detection and Extraction) system. The participants in the program will be unpaid, though they will receive small gifts such as books and conference grants as a kind of thank you for participating.

This is a smart move on Hakia’s part. This group is a largely untapped resource that already participates in the online space. If you are a librarian or information professional and would like to participate in the program, you can visit the Hakia sign up page.

---
Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:

Hakia Verifies Credible Sources in Health-Related Search Results
Semantic Search Engine Hakia Gets $5M
Hakia’s New Social Search: Discussion Boards on Steroids
Announcing the Yahoo! Search BOSS Mashable Challenge ($3,000 in prizes)
My LATimes, Unlock Austin, Google Librarians, Technorati Down, YouTube Overkill
ChaCha Partners with Indiana University
Somebody Think of The Children! Illinois Banning Social Networks?

The good news is that Iron Man on Blu-ray is selling like crazy. The bad news is that everyone trying to download BD-Live features caused a traffic jam making it impossible for some people to download content.

"The Iron Man Blu-ray went on sale Tuesday and due to the overwhelming popularity of the release an unprecedented demand was placed on the BD-Live connection. The disc represents a truly state-of-the art Blu-ray presentation with a first of its kind BD-Live application. As such, the heavy amount of traffic strained the servers due to so many people heading to the same destination.

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Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google.

Ask.com has sharpened the relevance of its search results, made the engine faster, and simplified the site's layout, said Ask.com President Scott Garrell.

"The strategy from a product perspective is to provide the best answer the first time, everytime," Garrell said. "We want to reduce the distance between your query and the answer you want."

If Ask.com can consistently provide direct answers in its search results page, Garrell believes it will grow its user base. It generally takes people 3 to 4 clicks in any search engine to get the desired information, he said.

Behind the scenes, Ask.com's makeover includes an improved ability to extract data from Web pages; to mix in a wider variety of result types like photos, news, images, and videos; and to tap a broader pool of data sources for queries about entertainment, jobs, health, and reference information.

With this upgrade Ask.com, owned by IAC, is also aiming to recapture the functionality that gave it its prominence during its heyday: the ability for people to type in queries in natural language. Ask.com is bringing this functionality back via a question-and-answer feature that uses semantic search technology to interpret the questions and return relevant answers found on the Web, Garrell said.

In the mid to late 1990s, before the rise of Google, Ask.com -- then called Ask Jeeves -- was a leading search engine, along with others like Altavista and WebCrawler. After the dot com bubble burst, Ask Jeeves de-emphasized its consumer search engine and focused on providing search services and software to the enterprise market. However, it abandoned this strategy in mid-2003, exiting the enterprise market and vowing to regain the ground lost in the consumer search space.

Since then, Ask.com has regularly updated and enhanced its search engine, often earning praise from industry experts for clever and useful innovations in technology and layout. Unfortunately, the company's share of search usage in the U.S. has fluctuated in recent years roughly between 4 percent and 7 percent, coming nowhere near market leader Google, which has in turn increased its dominance more and more.

For example, in November 2005, Google handled almost 40 percent of all U.S. queries, while Ask Jeeves placed fifth with 6.5 percent, according to comScore. By comparison, in August of this year, Google had a 63 percent share of U.S. searches, while Ask.com placed fourth with 4.8 percent, according to comScore.

Evan Andrews, a Jupiter Research analyst who was given a demo of the new and improved features, said Ask.com has a chance to attract new users, something that is hard in the search engine market because people grow very attached to their preferred provider -- Google for most.

However, there is a segment of users that Jupiter Research has identified as "power searchers" that have a voracious appetite for new search products and features. They might be drawn to give Ask.com a try and stick around if they like the improvements in blending different types of results, the so-called universal search concept that Google and all other major search providers are pursuing.

"Ask has always been a leader, a pioneer in universal search and pushed the envelope when it comes to that, so it stands a good chance to see additional gains in market share," Andrews said.

Andrews also liked the new Q&A search functionality, as well as the expanded repositories of structured data that Ask.com can tap to deliver direct answers to queries. "It's going to be difficult with just one announcement and some new features to overtake Google, but that doesn't mean Ask shouldn't try," he said. "Based on our research, the strategy of delivering richer search results is the right one."

 

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Quote: 3D stereoscopic displays will also get higher popularity in 2009.

In fact, 3D stereographic technology as well as holograms are considered to be a big thing going forward. I guess ATi and I are in complete agreement. :)