pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/atte1ab1.jpg" width="558" height="284" /The Kogan Agora Pro has popped up in Australia as the latest a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/android"Android/a handset and is available for international pre-order. The phone has a 2.5-inch resistive touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3G and GPS for $399. /p pKogan claims they spent a lot of time listening to direct feedback from consumers on what features they wanted most, and what price point they were looking to buy at, then Kogan filtered it down to the Agora. The phone sells without a contract or carrier obligation and also features a 624 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, wi-fi, 2 MP camera and 400 minutes of talk time. A lesser equipped Kogan Agora is also available, lacking the camera, wi-fi and GPS for $299. The phones will start shipping on January 29. [a href="http://www.kogan.com.au/"Kogan/a]/p blockquotepKOGAN UNVEILS ‘AGORA’br / FIRST AUSSIE PHONE POWERED BY ANDROIDâ„¢/p pMELBOURNE, Thursday 4th December 2008 – Kogan Technologies today unveiled the Kogan Agora, the first Australian mobile phone powered by the Androidâ„¢ operating system./p pKogan Technologies will sell the Agora for AU$299 and the Agora Pro for AU$399. Both models are available for sale today on www.kogan.com.au. The phones are sold outright – with no contract – and will work on any network./p pThe Kogan Agora (AU$299) features a full QWERTY keyboard, central navigation key, 2.5” touchscreen, microSD slot, and 3G connectivity./p pThe Kogan Agora Pro (AU$399) adds a 2 MP camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS to the Agora’s impressive specifications./p pBoth models will ship to customers – in Australia and internationally – on January 29th 2009./p pKogan Technologies founder, Ruslan Kogan, said the Agora is proof that his company is achieving its goal of offering the latest technology at the best value prices./p p“The Kogan team have been working very hard to bring out the exciting new phones powered by Google’s Android operating system at the right mix of price and specifications,” Kogan said./p p“We’ve been listening to customers through our blog, and crammed in all the features we possibly could. The end result is the best value, fully-featured phone in the Australian market./p p“We worked closely with manufacturers and vendors to develop drivers, software, and tweaks to make the Agora an intuitive and exciting experience for everyone./p p“The design and features of the Kogan Agora makes the phone appeal to both consumers and business users./p p“The Android operating system means the handset can capture and play music, photos and video, surf the web, play games, navigate, and organise your life with extremely powerful applications."/p pKogan has been a long time supporter of open source and Androidâ„¢ provides a real alternative to Apple’s proprietary operating system for the iPhone./p p“Google is a key player in developing efficient and innovative online solutions for customers around the world. The open source nature of Android means the operating system will continually improve over time,” Kogan said./p pSome of the applications pre-loaded on the Kogan Agora are:/p p· Gmailâ„¢br / · Google Searchâ„¢br / · Google Calenderâ„¢br / · Google Mapsâ„¢br / · Google Talkâ„¢br / · YouTubeâ„¢/p pHIGHLIGHTS:br / · 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screenbr / · Integrated QWERTY keyboardbr / · High-speed 3G network connectionbr / · One-Touch Google Search â„¢br / · Easy Web Browsingbr / · Easy-to-use email with attachment support for images, videos, music and documentsbr / · Customisable Home Screen with instant Email, text message and IM notificationsbr / · Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail â„¢, YouTube â„¢, Google Talk â„¢, Google Calendar â„¢, Google Maps â„¢)br / · Music Playerbr / · microSDâ„¢ expansion slot for all your storage needsbr / · Wi-Fi network access (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / · GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / · 2.0 megapixel camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)/p pSPECIFICATIONS:/p pOperating Systembr / Androidâ„¢br / Google Mobile Functionsbr / Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢.br / Displaybr / 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 262K QVGA (320 X 240 pixel) resolutionbr / Device Controlbr / Central Navigation Keybr / Keyboardbr / QWERTY keyboardbr / Keyboard backlightingbr / GPSbr / GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Connectivitybr / Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Ratebr / Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11b/g (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Camerabr / 2.0 megapixel colour camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Audiobr / Built-in microphone and speakerbr / Headphone jackbr / Ring tone formats:br / · MIDI, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, PCMbr / Videobr / Video formats supported:br / · MPEG2 H263, H264, MPEG4, AVIbr / Mail attachment support/p pViewable document types:br / · JPEG, GIF, WBMP, MIDI, AMR, MP3, WAVbr / Dimensions (HxWxD)br / 108 mm x 64 mm x 14.8 mmbr / Weightbr / 130gbr / Batterybr / Rechargeable Lithium-ion batterybr / Capacity: 1300 mAhbr / Talk Timebr / Up to approximately 400 minutesbr / Standby Timebr / Up to approximately 300 hoursbr / Processor MHzbr / 624 MHzbr / Memorybr / ROM:br / 256 MBbr / RAM:br / 128 MB/p pmicroSDâ„¢ card expansion slotbr / Network/p pUMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)br / GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)/p pOther than as described in this release, Kogan and its products, are not affiliated with Google Inc or its products. Googleâ„¢, Androidâ„¢, Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢ are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions./p pAbout Kogan Technologiesbr / Kogan Technologies is a wholly-owned Australian company established in 2006 by entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan. Kogan sells a wide range of consumer electronics in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world. The Kogan promise is based on a unique business model that passes the savings of dealing direct with the manufacturers onto Australian consumers. Bypassing middlemen, Kogan is able to offer the latest technology at the most affordable prices. 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We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing AeroSpider, makes a great gift), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime.

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div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/winboni-20081203-600.jpg" //abr / div style="text-align: left;"We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/takara-tomys-wall-climbing-aerospider-rc-car-ships-this-month/"AeroSpider/a, makes a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-son/"great gift/a), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/12/students-build-window-washing-robot.html"The Raw Feed/a]/div /divpa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"Household/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/robots/" rel="tag"Robots/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/"MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:20:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390213/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ZDNNhZbH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ZDNNhZbH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=f7ZydRht"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=f7ZydRht" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/B7bNzlz4vdw" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/5737?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+State-controlled+banks+take+over+fund+manager+New+Starch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=New+Star+Asset+Management+Group+%28Business%29%2CBanking+sector+%28Business%29%2CMergers+and+acquisitions+%28business%29%2CBusiness%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29c5=Investments%2CCredit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Jill+Treanorc7=2008_12_04c8=1128396c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=New+Star+Asset+Managementc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FNew+Star+Asset+Management" width="1" height="1" //divpBanks rescued by the taxpayer have seized New Star, the troubled fund management group which is to delist from the stock exchange after a radical restructuring./ppJohn Duffield, the founder of New Star, is ceding control of up to 95% of the operation to a consortium of banks led by HBOS to relieve its pound;240m debt. /ppDuffield is thought to have been reluctant to agree to the terms of the debt for equity swap which was finally ratified by the New Star board late yesterday afternoon. The fund manager, which took out high profile billboard adverts to attract savers, had been forced to find a way to eradicate the debt to address the concerns of major clients who were reluctant to place their money with the firm./ppDuffield is not expected to remain with the group he founded for much longer after a long City career during which he has developed a reputation as a maverick - albeit a successful one./ppThe complex restructuring is expected to leave banks rescued by the government with control over New Star, which Duffield launched after a high-profile row with the owners of his previous venture, Jupiter. /ppThe combined Lloyds-HBOS bank in which the taxpayer is likely to own about 40%, will have an estimated 45% stake in New Star and RBS - now 58% owned by the taxpayer - with about 15% in the fund management group. HSBC and National Australia Bank will also have stakes./ppYesterday Duffield, 69, was unrepentant about the restructuring which will also hurt his own pocket as he owns around 5% of the company./pp"The cost of this restructuring is regrettably a substantial dilution for ordinary shareholders, including me. However, in current market conditions we have to recognise that there is no option to ensure the stability of the business," Duffield said./pp"We are now free to focus all our attention on improving our investment performance. Our existing share-based bonus scheme will be replaced by a new scheme to ensure that our key people are locked in." /ppTwo new share-based incentive schemes are being put in place for New Star staff, many of whom had been lured to work at the group by the promise of lucrative incentive schemes. Until the credit crunch began to bite, the schemes had proved attractive to employees after its flotation at 225p three years ago. The shares reached 450p before collapsing to just 4p which values the company at barely pound;20m./ppStaff own about 25% of the company and the debt for equity swap will wipe out all existing shareholders who will have to approve the de-listing of the shares. The company took on the debt to return pound;363m to shareholders last year before the credit crunch began./ppDuffield has taken out a total of pound;150m from the company which had been forced to renegotiate the terms of the loan last month amid client withdrawals. Funds under management are now pound;13.9bn from a peak of pound;20bn./ppNew Star had already embarked upon a cost cutting exercise and is losing 60 jobs from its workforce of 380. More posts may now be shed as the banks exert their influence. Directors such as the chief executive Howard Covington may also decide to step aside. The anxiety about the company's debt was heightened after the market mayhem caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Its customers' nerves were further frayed by the suspension of dealing in its high-profile international property fund. The board also blamed its stock market listing for its plight./pp"The board believes that the reporting requirements and public scrutiny that are part of being a listed company have served to magnify these concerns," New Star said./ppThe restructuring involves the banks converting pound;240m of the pound;260m they are owed into pound;94m of preference shares and enough ordinary shares to allow them to own 75% of New Star. The preference shares pay an annual interest and convert into ordinary shares that could ultimately allow the banks to own 95% of the company. While returns for investors in its funds will be affected by the financial turmoil, all investors' money is held in separate trusts and therefore ring-fenced from the fund manager's operations./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/newstarassetmanagementgroup"New Star Asset Management/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/banking"UK banking sector/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/mergersandacquisitions"Mergers and acquisitions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RHXG0pP5ERb01w-KlTnCK9ho30w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RHXG0pP5ERb01w-KlTnCK9ho30w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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pOne wonders sometimes, with all the other stuff they've always got going on, if the members of a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/"strongSonic Youth/strong/a ever have to remind themselves that they're in Sonic Youth. Like, can you picture Thurston, jamming out with a href="/article/record_review/145413-original-silence-the-second-original-silence"strongOriginal Silence/strong/a, thinking, "Oh, crap, a href="/article/news/145351-sonic-youth-link-with-matador-for-next-album"strongwe just signed to Matador/strong/a! I better call Lee and get my lanky behind to the studio!" Or Kim's a href="/article/record_review/50830-free-kitten-inherit"stronghanging out with Yoshimi and Julie Cafritz/strong/a and realizes she's gotta write a bassline for that pesky other band of hers? There's been a wealth of happenings with the members of Sonic Youth lately, though precious little of it has to do with Sonic Youth proper./p pBut more about those side gigs in a minute.../p pFirstly, the four Yoofs managed to get together in the same room recently to collaborate withnbsp;Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Takehisa Kosugi on a brand new piece of music. The piece will soundtrack a new work by the a href="http://www.merce.org/"strongMerce Cunningham Dance Company/strong/a that will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in mid-April, in celebration of choreographer Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The a href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=703"strongMerce Cunningham at 90/strong/a piece will be performed on April 16-19. (You might remember the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as being the people who a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/11/03/031103crda_dancing "strongbrought Radiohead and Sigur Roacute;s together/strong/a back in 2003.) br /br /So, yeah. Sonic Youth + Led Zeppelin + dancers = MASSIVE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM EXPLOSION!!!/p pAlso, that traveling, career-spanning a href="/article/news/48683-sonic-youth-plan-career-spanning-art-exhibit"strongart exhibit/strong/a, a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/includes/sensationalpop.html"strong"Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix"/strong/a is on display until January 4 in Bolzano, Italy. It'll move to the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany from January 31-April 26, Konsthall in Malmo, Sweden May 29-September 6, and Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo in Navarra/Nafarroa, Spain from October 2009 through January 2010.br /br /Other than that, and presumably working on their Matador debut, Sonic Youth as a unit has been pretty quiet recently. Individually, though, they have a hell of a lot going on.br /br /Thurston Moore's a href="http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/"strongEcstatic Peace/strong/a label recently offered up an LP from a trio comprised of saxophonist Paul Flaherty, Vampire Belt guitarist (and Thurston's partner in Northampton Wools) Bill Nace, and Thurston himself. The three-track set, emFlaherty/Nace/Moore/em, was crafted last winter, and sports three very amusingly-titled tracks: "Sex", "Drugs" and "Lavender". Northampton Wools promise their debut LP from the label shortly, and Ecstatic Peace will also issue an album by Hat City Initiative, a group featuring Thurston and his brother Gene Moore, as well as a forthcoming collaboration between Thurston and noise god Prurient. Thurston also just issued an ultra-limited edition cassette to a href="http://www.destructiveindustries.net/"strongDestructive Industries/strong/a which they call his "most encompassing and introverted work to date". We'd tell you more about it, except it is sold the hell out. Moore also recently a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/spike-jones-where-the-wild-things-are-1/"stronginterviewed director Spike Jonze/strong/a for emInterview /emmagazine, and introduced a screening of David Bowie videos at NYC's Museum of Modern Art earlier this week.br /br /Moving on, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley pops up on Spanish singer a href="http://www.christinarosenvinge.com/"strongChristina Rosenvinge/strong/a's recent album emTu Labio Superior/em, which was recorded and mixed by a href="/article/record_review/36646-rather-ripped"strongemRather Ripped/em/strong/a producer John Agnello at Sonic Youth's studio in Hoboken, NJ. Rosenvinge will hit the road in Spain with Shelley, Chris Brokaw, and Jeremy Wilms early next year./p pSY guitarist Lee Ranaldo and photographer Leah Singer (his wife) have an art exhibit entitled "Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated" hanging at the Teaching Gallery at Troy, New York's Hudson Valley Community College through December 6. They also have two art shows scheduled for February 2009: ILoveYouIHateYou" at Magasin3 in Stockholm and "Between You amp; Me" at CNEAI (Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprim) in Paris. Ranaldo is also producing a series of three 12" singles by the French band a href="http://www.hifiklub.com/"strongHIFIKLUB/strong/a, set to be released in 2009. And he shows up in the new documentary film a href="http://www.flickerflicker.com/flash/index.html"strongemFLicKeR/em/strong/a, about artist Brion Gysin's "dream machine."/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iRJM3nwtbo9UMPuzkZirJw1Q5sY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iRJM3nwtbo9UMPuzkZirJw1Q5sY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/H0cjt8nDvQw" height="1" width="1"/

Chose promise à l#8217;occasion des 2 ans de leur entente cordiale, chose due. On annonçait début novembre la disponibilité prochaine de la version pilote de Moonlight. La voici en bêta pour Linux.

Chose promise à l#8217;occasion des 2 ans de leur entente cordiale, chose due. On annonçait début novembre la disponibilité prochaine de la version pilote de Moonlight. La voici en bêta pour Linux.

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Fujitsu Siemens has been showing off its AMILO Sa 3650 and AMILO GraphicBooster add-on for a few months now, and we even recently saw the combo put to the Crysis test, but it looks like both are now finally, actually rolling out to the general public. In case you missed it, the laptop itself is a 13-inch, AMD-based number (your choice of Turion X2 or Athlon X2 processors), with an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card, up to 4GB of RAM, and either and either a 250GB or 320GB hard drive. The GraphicBooster add-on, which currently only works with the Sa 3650, is based around an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics card, and promises a 470% increase in graphics performance over the laptop's built-in graphics. No word on prices just yet, unfortunately but both the laptop and the GraphicBooster add-on will apparently be available at some "specialist retailers" this month.

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Atari has shed more like on AKI's Ready 2 Rumble Revolution for Wii, which the publisher said yesterday would be released in March 2009.

R2RR adopts the Wii Sports standard of remote and nunchuk for boxing gloves and serves up 18 caricatured boxers based on sports, music and film stars to punch your way through in the game's single-player Championship mode, where you also design your own boxer and build them up through mini-games.

Then there's multiplayer, and Atari promises "hilarious moves, detailed facial animations, damage textures and fighting techniques including special moves, combos, extreme knockdowns and special 'Rumble' combos". Meanwhile, the ring announcer is Michael "Let's Get Readyyyy To Rumble" Buffer.

p-- ba href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20081203_hallmarkchannel.html" title="Google TV Ads' Hallmark moment"Google TV Ads' Hallmark moment/a/b: Google (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) TV Ads has convinced cable nets Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel to set aside a portion of their respective inventories for the search giant's self-serve, targeted ads system on EchoStar (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SATS" class="ticker" title="SATS"NSDQ: SATS/a). The partnership comes just as the family-friendly Hallmark nets gear up programming and promotions for the holiday season. The arrangement also shows Google TV Ads' gift for timing: just as the financial markets cratered two months ago, Google TV Ads said it had struck a a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nbcus-digital-health-net-strikes-video-deal-with-six-distributors-googl" title="similar addressable TV deal"similar addressable TV deal/a with Bloomberg TV. /p p -- ba href="http://adage.com/article?article_id=132778" title="Widgets and branded fly-swatters"Widgets and branded fly-swatters/a/b: AdAge columnist Bob Garfield loves widget as ad tools. The very idea sends him racing to compare branded apps to the joys of receiving ballpoint pens, calendars and refrigerator magnets with marketers' names emblazoned across them. If only advertisers shared his ardor, as widget ads will attract a miserly $100 million in spending. The problem is, according to Mediassociates' Ben Kunz, is that these "magical items" are being oversold to marketers who don't understand how best to use them. /p p -- ba href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3ib1405eaa568fd52dbb52450f000f8fda" title="Nat Geo signs up for Nielsen set-top box measurement"Nat Geo signs up for Nielsen set-top box measurement/a/b: Nielsen Media Research has got its first customer for its set-top box audience analysis offering, DigitalPlus. National Geographic Channel will be the first official user to access DigitalPlus' "second-by-second ratings analyses" that promises a more detailed look at whether consumers are switching the dial during commercials and programs. /p p -- ba href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/media/03adco.html?ref=media" title="Creative ads get the automated treatment"Creative ads get the automated treatment/a/b: As display ads wilt in the face of search ads' great targetability, companies like Adisn and Tumri are creating ads that can be changed in color and tone to better attract consumers based on behavioral and contextual targeting. While the two companies have been working with big name brands, Madison Ave. has been naturally slow to embrace this approach to digital creativity.nbsp; /p piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=OawJJX"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=OawJJX" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=mqZPO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=mqZPO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Zr59O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Zr59O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0orKo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0orKo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WnTcO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WnTcO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=c44PO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=c44PO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/473870248" height="1" width="1"/

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a history TV show which in turn inspired me to buy a book about significant events in human history. In this book I read about Jesus#8217;s Crucifixion and decided to further refresh my knowledge of the subject by hitting up Wikipedia. In this example we see two distinctive concepts: emPassive Education/em and emContent Aggregation and Linking/em:/p ul liemPassive Education/em - in my example of Historical Jesus, my primary focus was gathering the facts and the story. I was happy for this subject#8217;s learning to be passive. I was happy to merely consume the content and not interact with it much more than selecting what to learn./li liemContent Aggregation and Linking/em - learning has links and connections. I first watched a show about history. This intrigued me to buy the book on historical events. A section in that book inspired me to access specific content on Wikipedia. The thread that connected these different resources together was the subject of Historical Jesus and I aggregated the different pieces of knowledge together in my brain. My current knowledge of Historical Jesus draws from these different resources./li /ul pWhen we learn about our primary interests, learning is different. Our desire is often for emActive Learning/em. We not only want to know the subject, but we want to immerse ourselves in the execution and debate of it too. Much of this is not only collating general knowledge, as I did with Historical Jesus, but learning about more localised information too. When I learn about music, I want to know about local bands. I want to know when my favourite bands are coming to my area. I want to hear about music groups, gigs, and conventions near to me. I want to know about special offers in local music stores. In a nutshell, I don#8217;t just want to consume, I want to emparticipate/em./p pIn recent years, computers and the Internet have made both Active and Passive Learning incredibly accessible. The web has bolstered passive learning resources, and active learning has been thrusted towards us with online communities, social networking, community groups and discussion boards. No matter what you want to know about, the Internet can help you in both Passive and Active ways/p pBut lets get back to emWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/em. Although I could not stand the concept of emedutainment/em at the time, what that game emdid/em do that intrigues me is that it delivered education to people automatically. The education was emassociative/em: topics and concepts were delivered to you as you played the game./p pI find this really interesting. I find the concept of linking and associating different types of education and resources fascinating. This also holds huge opportunity for the desktop./p pA great example is a href=http://banshee-project.org/Banshee/a. For those who have been living under a rock for the last three years, Banshee is a media player. I have it open all day, delivering a fresh dose of metal to me all day long. Banshee not only plays music, but it brings many diverse music related activities together under the same roof: digital music, Internet radio, CD playing and ripping, meta-data editing etc. The Banshee bods have done a great job./p pBut the most interesting feature to me is its a href=http://www.last.fm/Last.fm/a integration. When I listen to a song (such as Hammerfall right now). The artist and track is posted to a href=http://www.last.fm/user/jonobaconmy Last.fm account/a. This in itself is not all that exciting. But what Banshee does that emis/em exciting is look up the artist of my current playing song and use Last.fm to make recommendations. It delivers those recommendations to me inside the application. That is emwicked cool/em. Sure, I could go and look up these recommendations on the Last.fm website, but I am unlikely to do that. Banshee does the work for me. The result is that this simple feature has helped me discover literally hundreds of new bands. Banshee linked and aggregated the data, and this resulted in better learning for this important part of my interests./p pYesterday I installed the a href=http://getsongbird.com/new 1.0.0 release of Songbird/a. Songbird is an iTunes like Open Source media player that holds some stunning promise. They have used Mozilla technologies and GStreamer to build a cross-platform media player. I know some of the guys who work on Songbird and wanted to give it a try: I had last used an early snapshot. While I don#8217;t want to turn this into a review (if you folks want a review, let me know and I will write one up), it ships with some interesting features that build on some of the concepts seen in Banshee. Oh, and Amarok folks, I know your media player has probably been doing all of this for years, so hold fire. img src=http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:) class=wp-smiley / /p pIn Songbird, for the artist of the song I am currently listening to, Songbird will go and look up data from a number of resources and bring it together. It grabs a summary blurb, discography, members, tags and links of the artist from Last.fm, a photo slideshow from Flickr, videos from YouTube, and News from Google News. Again, I could find this information separately without ever installing Songbird, but Songbird not only aggregated this content, but it linked it to an opportunity of curiosity (what I am listening to). I might never typically go and look for more details about emHammerfall/em, but when I am listening to it, it often triggers my interest. Songbird satisfies that curiosity before I even know I have it./p pAnother great feature of Songbird that builds on emactive learning/em is that it uses a href=http://www.songkick.com/Songkick/a to look up all of the artists in my playlist to see if there are concerts and shows in my area. With this feature I now have a list of all the up and coming shows for the artists I like (including all those obscure metal bands). This provides me with direct access to the local community and opportunities. That is one stunningly helpful and outrageously cool feature. My media player is stopping be