pa href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/21/reuters_sadville_end_of_an_era/"img class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4926e724796c7a65008d8c79maxX=158maxY=187" border="0" alt="eric-reuters-headshot-nobrand.jpg" title="eric-reuters-headshot-nobrand.jpg" width="158" height="187" /The Register/a is reporting the a href="http://sl.reuters.com/"Reuters Second Life/a bureau has closed, and adds about the embedded reporter there:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Reports of a marketing evac team swooping in a virtual huey to snatch Eric Reuters from the firm's Sadville bureau - while harried by squadrons of flying penises and pursued by crazed locals bent on acts of bestial sexual brutality - could not be confirmed./p pI can add details: For a year and a half, I reported under the byline a href="http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/author/eric/""Eric Reuters"/a in Second Life, before settling in at my new home here at a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/"SAI/a./p pSo what happened? Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. For all the sound and fury over recent a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/linden-lab-s-survival-plan-spike-second-life-user-fees"price hikes/a and a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/linden-lab-pulls-back-second-life-price-hikes"layoffs at Linden Lab/a, Second Life has a community of fanatically loyal users. Since Linden Lab derives its revenue from user fees, not advertisements, Second Life is much more likely to survive the Web 2.0 shakeout than most other startups./p pIt's hard to say what, if anything, Linden Lab can do to make Second Life appeal to a general audience. The very things that most appeal to Second Life's hardcore enthusiasts are either boring or creepy for most people: Spending hundreds of hours of effort to make insignificant amounts of money selling virtual clothes, experimenting with changing your gender or species, getting into random conversations with strangers from around the world, or having pseudo-nonymous sex (and let's not kid ourselves, sex is a huge draw into Second Life). As part of walking my "beat," I'd get invited by sources to virtual nightclubs, where I'd right-click the dancefloor to send my avatar gyrating as I sat at home at my computer. It was about as fun as watching paint dry./p pBut here's how Linden Lab can make Second Life more fun and a better business:/p ol listrongBuild good newbie-oriented content./strong Linden has always taken the position they're in the 3D platform business, and can't be expected to build anything with their own tools or even know what others are doing in Second Life. That argument didn't fly when the a href="http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/08/14/virtual-speakeasies-defy-second-life-gambling-ban/"gambling scandal/a broke and it doesn't work now. Second Life has a monster learning curve, and Linden Lab needs to hold new users' hands through every step of their first five or six hours. A big content push isn't even that expensive: the company has proven a href="http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/03/03/linden-lab-hiring-up-to-40-part-time-content-creators/"it can pay Second Lifers $10/hr/a to do these things and have skilled content creators begging for the job./li listrongAcknowledge that Second Life's reputation is now a liability./strong This isn't the worst thing in the world, but it does mean Second Life can't sit back and hope word-of-mouth brings in hordes of new users like it did back in 2006. Second Life needs to advertise, and the ads need to be hip. New CEO Mark Kingdon has an ad background and should have the right r sum to pull off a makeover./li listrongRadically simplify the user interface./strong The Second Life UI is a mess, and there's been no major changes to it in Second Life's 5+ years. Making the Second Life experience easy-to-use, even graceful, isn't a nice-to-have, it's a business imperative./li listrongAbandon the idea that Second Life is a a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"business app/a./strong I wasn't in Second Life to play, I was there on assignment for Reuters. The login server would crash. I'd try to reach sources, but Second Life's IM window would hang on "waiting" all day when trying to figure out who was online. "Teleports" -- the ability to move from point to point anywhere in Second Life -- would stop working and I'd get locked out of my own office. These weren't one-offs, they were my daily, first-hand, happens-all-the-time experiences. For all its bugs, Second Life is tolerable as a playground, but enterprise users will never and should never use it for business. Re-focus on the core mission: Keeping the hobbyists happy and converting potential recruits into hardcore (read: fees-paying) users./li /ol pNone of these things will make Second Life palatable to the general public, but it will draw new traffic and keep a lot more potential users with the right temperment for Second Life from quitting in frustration on their first day. That might be enough for the next year or two./p pThere's an incredible depth, passion, and camaraderie to the Second Life community that more popular online experiences like MySpace or World of Warcraft can't match. And while I didn't find it compelling, there really is something awesome about buying be able to "buy" a grid of blank 3D space, mold it like clay into an elven forest, a futuristic space station, or a bdsm dungeon, and then invite your friends to hang out./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/linden-lab-s-survival-plan-spike-second-life-user-fees"Real Estate Crashes In Second Life, Too: Linden Lab's Bailout Plan/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/linden-lab-pulls-back-second-life-price-hikes"Linden Lab Pulls Back Second Life Price Hikes, Confirms Layoffs/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"Second Life Offers Business Teleconferencing, Now Penis-Free/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-google-could-have-made-lively-work"How Google Could Have Made Lively Work: No Sex, More Ads, Firefox /a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Ca7lLqMaVq-hTM2p0wxFd0sj0o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6Ca7lLqMaVq-hTM2p0wxFd0sj0o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=o7Yix8mb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=o7Yix8mb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=m9QePwLd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=2jVSFrEs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=8KiM934T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=8KiM934T" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jXcJQ9Zx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=oOwtP6Px"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YOiDJKL4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=L1kgB3T4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/VFnMRFy9-4Y" height="1" width="1"/

I just saw this on Attack of the Show, and it seems pretty cool. It's a music streaming website that's free, and you don't have to register or anything.

Don't think it'll last long though. Someone will be all up in arms about it.

br /In their own wordsbr /br /“Greenwala is a community where you can learn and brag about being green, read articles, write blogs, post classifieds, enter, vote and participate in campaigns, and more.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is an excellent meeting point for green individuals that is awash with features.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /How do you register? What information must be furnished?br /br /What it doesbr /br /Greenwala is a community site that is aimed at those who lead green lifestyles. On the website you can read and post articles about being green as well as posting related advertisements and classifieds. Moreover, the site makes it possible to participate in campaigns towards furthering and expanding green causes. br brThis online resource also hosts materials and multimedia contents such as green videos that can be readily watched. Of course, you can also make your own multimedia contributions for all to see and comment upon. br brLinks to blogs kept by members of Greenwala are also part of the premises, and if you have a blog of your own that deals with related considerations you can have it advertised on the website. br brAll in all, the site attempts to make a contribution towards a greener and more sustainable future. Whether it will achieve this aim depends on the public itself. If you lead a green lifestyle, consider paying the site a visit and show your support to the cause. brbr /br /Link: a href='http://www.greenwala.com'http://www.greenwala.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/greenwala-com-green-social-network'http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/greenwala-com-green-social-network/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=862J4gL0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=SgbhEhZM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=gmciXKGJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=gmciXKGJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=qHWRtbnX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=qHWRtbnX" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=DOrgApb6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=Mb6r5Dw9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=Mb6r5Dw9" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/ywKsYHJ4jiw" height="1" width="1"/

pYahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker" title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a), which has been trying to sell off its European comparison shopping service a href="http://kelkoo.com/" title="Kelkoo"Kelkoo/a for a while now, has finally found a buyer, according to a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/21/yahoo-finally-sells-kelkoo-and-brings-cash-in/" title="a report"a report/a: it has been sold to a little-known UK-based private equity firm called Jamplant, for something less than euro 100 million ($126 million). Yahoo bought the service in 2004 for a price then of about 475 million euros (now $598 million). Also, the founder and ex-CEO of Kelkoo Pierre Chappaz wrote a href="http://www.kelblog.com/2008/11/kelkoo-quitte-yahoo.html" title="about the deal"about the deal/a (in French) on his blog strikebut again, Yahoo hasn't said anything yet officially/strike. /p p bRobert adds/b: Yahoo UK confirmed the sell off to us. First sign of the sell-off came when a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-yahoo-opens-rd-in-grenoble-uk-too-expensive-too-few-engineers" title="Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France, HQ"Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France, HQ/a in September as an RD centre. Chappaz refused to name the price but said it was "below 100 million euros" - that means Yahoo makes a loss of at least 375 million ($472 million) euros (not including any profits in made in that time, of course). Chappaz said: "The difference is the price of management incompetence that led Yahoo's (stock price to fall) below $9." /p p Never heard of Jamplant? You're not alone. Chappaz said it's a new investment unit created by the founders of that other price comparison site USwitch, which sold to E.W. Scripps (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SSP" class="ticker" title="SSP"NYSE: SSP/a) for £210 million in 2006. It seems the operators have not given up their hope of running a bargain-hunting engine, as the consumer economy begins to impact spending. From a href="http://www.wikio.fr/article/79771978#news79771978" title="Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's email to staff"Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's email to staff/a: "Philip Smyth, chairman of Jamplant, believes that, with our backing, Kelkoo should be able to accelerate its growth much faster as a standalone company. /p pKelkoo has 270 staff in Grenoble and in London. Its latest business involved powering a white-label price comparison site for ITV (LSE: ITV) and similar deals with The Independent. Chappaz: "During the past year, several funds approached me to restart Kelkoo with them. I told them no. Despite my commitment to Kelkoo, I would prefer to devote myself to Wikio. The sell-off of Kelkoo by Yahoo ... after the failed agreement with Google (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) ... illustrates the failure of this company to grow in the world of transaction services." /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-could-close-poorly-performing-european-properties-third-party-sea" title="Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told To Move"Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told To Move/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-considering-strategic-options-for-comparison-shopping-service-kel" title="Yahoo Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe"Yahoo Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=pvvGfj"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=pvvGfj" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ONL2N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ONL2N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=61ckN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=61ckN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NfdWn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NfdWn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=eM0AN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=eM0AN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=lw6PN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=lw6PN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/460904259" height="1" width="1"/

The Register: "It's just 71 years ago this month that a seminal paper from Alan Turing was published, which helped pave the way to today's multi-billion dollar IT industry and confer on Turing the title of father of modern computer science."

br /What it doesbr /br /The tagline of this search engine is “Exposing the hidden jobs”, and it aims to emphasize the essence of the search process in question. According to the site, the percentage of unadvertised jobs is stationed at no less than 70 %, and the aim of LinkUp is scouring the jobs listed on corporate websites, saving the user both time and procedural headaches. br brSmall, mid-sized and large companies are then screened in order to come up with fresh and up-to-date career opportunities. The latter aspect is important, as there are many job search engines that include postings that are outdated and obsolete. br brOf course, there is also a section of the site that caters for those who wish to advertise jobs directly on the website. This is part of the navigation menu that can be located at the bottom of the page, a menu which also includes items like “Browse Jobs” and “Top Employers”. br brAll in all, the site stands as a useful resource that intends to makes life easier for those on the lookout for employment opportunities. You can check it out for yourself at www.linkup.com. brbr /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“LinkUp is a leading job search engine that exposes the hidden job market. We conveniently connect you with real jobs from real companies, assuring all jobs are fresh and available. We do this by monitoring thousands of small, mid-sized, and large company career sections.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is a supple way of finding fresh employment opportunities on the WWW.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /Do you have to register in order to use the website?br /br /Link: a href='http://www.linkup.com'http://www.linkup.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/linkup-com-exposing-the-hidden-jobs'http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/linkup-com-exposing-the-hidden-jobs/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=b2M2TeNy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=5SPrK7YY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=MhWmk1QD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=MhWmk1QD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=eBkFaGD1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=eBkFaGD1" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=ZS6XPEob"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=MzDISGSP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=MzDISGSP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/cbsYnDFjJmU" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.html"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/princepersia.jpg" //abr //div We don't typically like to register our video game consoles with game publishers. After watching emEnemy of the State/em, we like to stay off the grid, even if we don't exactly understand what the grid is or why it should be avoided. This may just be enough to turn us though: Ubisoft says that those who register their Gamertags or PSN IDs with Ubisoft.com will be able to download a free Altair skin to use in emPrince of Persia/em.br /br /Is it a classic example of brand dilution? Sure! But is it a cool enough case of brand dilution to make us ignore that? emAbsolutely/em.br /br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/"Pretend you're Altair in Prince of Persia/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379262/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t4CW8woDXV0r38Se6btsomExgIk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t4CW8woDXV0r38Se6btsomExgIk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=sDi2Vlqm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=sDi2Vlqm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VEwgtIHI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VEwgtIHI" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/CrilPtmcrN8" height="1" width="1"/

As a creative organisation the BBC needs to take risks with its content - not with its editorial controls, Sir Michael Lyons said today, following the release of the Trust#8217;s findings on the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair. With this creativity comes great responsibility and the Beeb needs to #8216;understand where the boundaries are and that they [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/26a5705/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Risky business: BBC must take risks, says Lyons, but creates ‘high risk’ programme registerlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/risky-business-bbc-must-take-risks-says-lyons-but-creates-high-risk-programme-register/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Risky business: BBC must take risks, says Lyons, but creates ‘high risk’ programme registerlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/risky-business-bbc-must-take-risks-says-lyons-but-creates-high-risk-programme-register/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192760929/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40523525/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192760929/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40523525/a2.img" border="0"//a

123 Web Messenger Server Software 1.4123 Web Messenger Server Software is a web (browser) based instant messaging software, it creates an unique IM network only for your own website, fully integrated your existing user database and enables one-to-one chat function to your website users. The key feature is the invitation box which pops up from the webpage.

Benefits - It brings the website to life, make it interactive between users. It retains members and increases loyalty of users, so it's ideal solution to build the community for a user based website.

Technology - 123 Web Messenger is compiled with a Flash chat cilent and a full-featured Java server.

Integration and auto-login - It seamlessly integrates the existing database of your website. The "invite chat" button is embeded into the proper position of a website as the website owner wants, such as profile page, search result page or online user list page, and the members don't have to double register or double login to talk to the other users privately.

Features of 123 Web Messenger

• User initiates one-to-one chat with other user, on the same website.
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• The invitation box will pop up from the webpage cause the code was embeded there invisibly.
• One user can start multiple private chats simultaneously.
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• The "invite chat" button can be embedded to anywhere on your website.
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• Chat client is cross-platform, very user-friendly.
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• Sound notification.
• Font style/ Font color.
• Video chat facility, optional.
• End users can chat behind firewall if you run the chat on port 80.

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p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1_qjgenth.jpg?409931" rel="lightbox[article126533]" title="Prince 20of 20Persia 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1.jpg 3F409931 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img alt="Prince of Persia - Image 1" title="Prince of Persia - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1_qjgenth.jpg?409931" align=""/anbsp;a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2_qjgenth.jpg?952227" rel="lightbox[article126533]" title="Prince 20of 20Persia 20- 20Image 202 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2.jpg 3F952227 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img alt="Prince of Persia - Image 2" title="Prince of Persia - Image 2" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2_qjgenth.jpg?952227" align=""/abr/pbrLooks like Altair's span style="font-style: italic;"Assassin's Creed/span costume is being passed around and recycled like fruitcake presents from three Christmases ago. After being donned by none other than a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/solid-snake/2620" id="tag" title=""Solid Snake/a in span style="font-style: italic;"MGS4/span, Altair's red-and-white robes go to the Prince as an unlockable costume in span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span.brbrThe devs at a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ubisoft/178" id="tag" title="makers of GT4"Ubisoft/a are making this unlockable costume a giveaway - a simple thank you to the gamers. According to the press release, all you have to do to unlock it is link your PSN or XBL account to a Ubisoft account (register in their official website to get one).brbrAs of now, this is the second span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span costume unlock we've heard of. The first one would be the span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span classic skins, available via pre-order.brbrOh, and in case you were wondering about that dev diary we promised yesterday, it's already up - a title="Prince of Persia DLC formally announced, website relaunched, dev diary #4" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-DLC-formally-announced-website-relaunched-dev-diary-4/pg/49/aid/126487"you can check the video here/a.brbrUbisoft's span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persi/spana for the the a title="PS3 - Prince of Persia - Ubisoft" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia/cid/5009"PS3/a, a title="Xbox 360 - Prince of Persia - Ubisoft" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia/cid/5010"Xbox 360/a, PC, and a title="DS - Prince of Persia" href="http://ds.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-The-Fallen-King/cid/5008"DS/a is set to sizzle this a href="http://ps3.qj.nethttp://ps3.qj.net/tags/christmas/99" id="tag" title="December 25, a Christian holiday"Christmas/a season with a retail release on December 2 in a href="http://ps3.qj.nethttp://ps3.qj.net/tags/north-america/2901" id="tag" title="a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere"North America/a, December 4 in a href="http://ps3.qj.nethttp://ps3.qj.net/tags/europe/2311" id="tag" title="One of the seven continents"Europe/a, and December 5 in the a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/uk/4320" id="tag" title="United Kingdom"UK/a.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrul style="font-style: italic;"lia title="Prince of Persia UK pre-orders galore: drown yourself in artwork" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-UK-pre-orders-galore-drown-yourself-in-artwork/pg/49/aid/126441"Prince of Persia UK pre-orders galore: drown yourself in artwork/abr/lilia title="MGS4: Assassin's Creed costume confirmed, Snake gets closure, more" href="http://ps3.qj.net/MGS4-Assassin-s-Creed-costume-confirmed-Snake-gets-closure-more/pg/49/aid/120291"MGS4: Assassin's Creed costume confirmed, Snake gets closure, more/a/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/VlcQ39h43Go" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: left;"More press releases from a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ubisoft/178" id="tag" title="makers of GT4"Ubisoft/a: they've just announced that span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span has finally gone gold! The game gets released in just a few more weeks now, and for even more good news, we've got these:br/pp style="text-align: center;"br/pp style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1_qjgenth.jpg?409931" rel="lightbox[article126533]" title="Prince 20of 20Persia 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1.jpg 3F409931 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img alt="Prince of Persia - Image 1" title="Prince of Persia - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-1_qjgenth.jpg?409931" align=""/anbsp;a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2_qjgenth.jpg?952227" rel="lightbox[article126533]" title="Prince 20of 20Persia 20- 20Image 202 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2.jpg 3F952227 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img alt="Prince of Persia - Image 2" title="Prince of Persia - Image 2" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126533/prince-of-persia-altair-2_qjgenth.jpg?952227" align=""/abr/pbrLooks like Altair's span style="font-style: italic;"Assassin's Creed/span costume is being passed around and recycled like fruitcake presents from three Christmases ago. After being donned by none other than a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/solid-snake/2620" id="tag" title=""Solid Snake/a in span style="font-style: italic;"MGS4/span, Altair's red-and-white robes go to the Prince as an unlockable costume in span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span.brbrThe devs at Ubisoft are making this unlockable costume a giveaway - a simple thank you to the gamers. According to the press release, all you have to do to unlock it is link your PSN or XBL account to a Ubisoft account (register in their official website to get one).brbrAs of now, this is the second span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span costume unlock we've heard of. The first one would be the span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persia/span classic skins, available via pre-order.brbrOh, and in case you were wondering about that dev diary we promised yesterday, it's already up - a title="Prince of Persia DLC formally announced, website relaunched, dev diary #4" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-DLC-formally-announced-website-relaunched-dev-diary-4/pg/49/aid/126487"you can check the video here/a.brbrUbisoft's span style="font-style: italic;"Prince of Persi/spana for the the a title="PS3 - Prince of Persia - Ubisoft" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia/cid/5009"PS3/a, a title="Xbox 360 - Prince of Persia - Ubisoft" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia/cid/5010"Xbox 360/a, and a title="DS - Prince of Persia" href="http://ds.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-The-Fallen-King/cid/5008"DS/a is set to sizzle this a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/christmas/99" id="tag" title="December 25, a Christian holiday"Christmas/a season with a retail release on December 2 in a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/north-america/2901" id="tag" title="a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere"North America/a, December 4 in a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/europe/2311" id="tag" title="One of the seven continents"Europe/a, and December 5 in the a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/uk/4320" id="tag" title="United Kingdom"UK/a.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrul style="font-style: italic;"lia title="Prince of Persia UK pre-orders galore: drown yourself in artwork" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Prince-of-Persia-UK-pre-orders-galore-drown-yourself-in-artwork/pg/49/aid/126441"Prince of Persia UK pre-orders galore: drown yourself in artwork/abr/lilia title="MGS4: Assassin's Creed costume confirmed, Snake gets closure, more" href="http://ps3.qj.net/MGS4-Assassin-s-Creed-costume-confirmed-Snake-gets-closure-more/pg/49/aid/120291"MGS4: Assassin's Creed costume confirmed, Snake gets closure, more/a/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/Std0oVPUexU" height="1" width="1"/

My apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, but I figured since this was related to Keychain Access that the OS X forum would do.


I've successfully installed my digital ID on my MacBook, but when I copied the file to my iMac and tried to install it, it doesn't register as my personal certificate. Therefore, I can't sign/encrypt email sent from my iMac.

I also tried to redownload the digital ID directly from my iMac. Didn't work.

Any suggestions?

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/_DSC0040.JPG" width="230" height="346" /Sharp has unveiled a stunning 26-foot-tall Christmas tree made of 43 Aquos LCD televisions, which sizes ranging from 19 to 52 inches. The gigantic TV tree is located in New York's Grand Central Station, where people can not only admire its coordinated decoration animations, created by Japanese video artist Tsuyoshi Takashiro, but also register to win one of the Aquos panels in the tree. If you are a New Yorker and need another reason to go to Grand Central, Sharp will also donate one dollar per registered person to a program that trains people in environmental jobs. [a href="http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2008-11/free-lcd-tvs-santa-comes-early"PopSci/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=de3ecf9865e2f058c9c371bc8bfb40f3p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=de3ecf9865e2f058c9c371bc8bfb40f3p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=de3ecf9865e2f058c9c371bc8bfb40f3" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Ko3cuCMM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=FrpHg3kG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=squyq8Lq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=squyq8Lq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=hNj2csln"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=hNj2csln" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/cTaWnHDfauY" height="1" width="1"/

Spyre, et al (all our intrepid ATI beta testers who are here to listen)

It is obvious by now that there is a serious problem with cat 8.11 and a pair of 4850s in Xfire.

There have been many who complained of this in the main 8.11 thread. I decided to do some further testing, and was able to replicate it on several motherboards, as well as with clean, and existing installs.

The first set of tests, I had a pair of 4850s (reference design, bone stock, Asus labels) running in xfire in a Gigabyte MA780G-DS3H (780G) mobo. With an existing install (cat 8.10 with the hotfix), I tried both a clean install (using the uninstall manager, then driver cleaner), and upon boot, made it to the little vista circle that shines, then a BSOD and the atimkdag

I also rolled back and tried installiing directly OVER the same 8.10 with hotfix, and that was even more of a trainwreck, as obviously the hotfix doesn't register properly with its .Net database, and windows. This yielded a completely roached machine that was rolled back in safe mode.

I then did move the boards to an Asus M3A78-T (790GX mobo) and did a complete fresh install of Vista 32, did windows update, then did a clean install of the 8.11 package (Cat software suite) and not only did it BSOD after the vista glow thingy, but it also did not see the northbridge, nor the IDE controller.

So in all cases, there seems to be clearly be a problem with 8.11 and the 4850s. Dunno what else to do at this point.

It is also clear that there is some wierdness with the 8.10 hotfix as it concerns registration and what Vista as well as ATI install utility think is installed. Its definitely a somewhat dirty install.

Motivation: Most genotyping technologies for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers use standard clustering methods to ‘call’ the SNP genotypes. These methods are not always optimal in distinguishing the genotype clusters of a SNP because they do not take advantage of specific features of the genotype calling problem. In particular, when family data are available, pedigree information is ignored. Furthermore, prior information about the distribution of the measurements for each cluster can be used to choose an appropriate model-based clustering method and can significantly improve the genotype calls. One special genotyping problem that has never been discussed in the literature is that of genotyping of trisomic individuals, such as individuals with Down syndrome. Calling trisomic genotypes is a more complicated problem, and the addition of external information becomes very important.

Results: In this article, we discuss the impact of incorporating external information into clustering algorithms to call the genotypes for both disomic and trisomic data. We also propose two new methods to call genotypes using family data. One is a modification of the K-means method and uses the pedigree information by updating all members of a family together. The other is a likelihood-based method that combines the Gaussian or beta-mixture model with pedigree information. We compare the performance of these two methods and some other existing methods using simulation studies. We also compare the performance of these methods on a real dataset generated by the Illumina platform (www.illumina.com).

Availability: The R code for the family-based genotype calling methods (SNPCaller) is available to be downloaded from the following website: http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/register.

Contact: liny@upmc.edu

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

I recently saw a TV add for phone service using what looks like a bluetooth key plugged into any computer to get free local and domestic long distance for about $40 the first year and then $20 each year thereafter. Since my IMAC already has bluetooth I was wondering if there was some way I can plug a phone into my computer to make free calls? If you are doing this, can you explain how you are doing it? Does it work with cell phones or do you need a phone with a regular phone jack? Do you need to register your phone number somewhere to keep your existing phone number?

I've heard of people using a computer to make phone calls for years but never understood how they are doing it. Thanks for the help!

You log into the iTunes Store. You buy music. It only plays on your authorized computers. In theory this helps keep illegal distribution of music over the internet down but in reality it is just a hinderance to everyday users that are required to register their iPhones and iPods and computers to play their own files that they legally own.

Apple started catching onto the idea that this whole DRM music thing isn't a concept to be continuing into the future and reached an agreement with the label EMI last May and starting the "iTunes Plus" service allowing purchase of DRM free music from the iTunes store. Since then EMI along with other major labels like Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG have started offering their music DRM free via routes other than iTunes like Napster, Amazon, and MySpace music.

While the iTunes store doesn't seem to be doing half bad in sales in the last year Apple needs to make the move to DRM free music across all of its..

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It's raining in the Middle East and bloggers are taking to their keyboards to register their thoughts at the change in climate.

We kick off our round up with Stilettos in the Sand from Saudi Arabia, who writes:

We are in for heavy rain. It has rained quite hard in other parts of the Sandbox, but we've gotten only a few drops and sprinkles, here. Rain is good. We look forward to it and relish it. A good rain cleanses everything and turns the trees green and lush - so much prettier than the tan and gray we are so used to and it controls the dust. If it is overcast all day today and we finally get some rain you will hear no complaining from me!

Our second stop is in Libya, where Khadija Teri welcomes the rain too. She notes:

The rains have finally come, accompanied by lightening and thunder. The weather is cooler and the dust has settled. We'll see how treacherous the roads are today. Usually the first big rains bring on flooding because the drain systems in the roads are clogged with sand and garbage. But never mind - no one expects anyone to be on time in weather like this.

Speaking of treacherous roads, Seabee, from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is happy that this year rain wasn't blamed for road accidents, but that the drivers were.

Here's a picture taken by Seabee showing the dark clouds which gathered in Dubai's sky:

When the first drops fell from the sky, Seabee predicted that the rain will be blamed:

Woke up this morning to a strange darkness, peered out and saw gray clouds and wet ground.
We had the first rain of the season.

So here's a prediction.

Tomorrow's papers will report chaos on the roads, including multiple crashes.
The rain will be to blame.
Motorists will be exonerated. Driving inappropriately in the conditions will not be the cause.
The rain dunnit.

Kuwait too had a change in weather and intlxpatr, who reports that the mornings are chilly, posts this picture of the light fluffy skies which have gathered in the sky, signaling some rain:

From Israel, Dr Savta also reports nicer weather.

Lately the weather has been beautiful. Yes, even those couple of days of rain were beautiful. The heat of the summer is gone and it’s still warm enough to go out without a sweater. If it were only like this all year round!

But for one Israeli mother, A Soldier's Mother, the rains summon a different feeling. She writes:

Now, the rain means Elie and the soldiers are probably wet; the winter means they may be cold; the summer means they are hot and likely uncomfortable. I've always loved thunder and lightning, the power of the storm fills me with awe. But the world of wind and rain is less friendly when you have a son outside in it.