img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Paris Hilton Bardot/post_image/post_image-1202_paris_hilton_bardot_00.jpg" border="0"br Paris Hilton is in no rush a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/11/paris_hilton_benji_madden_just.php"to replace Benji Madden/a. In fact, she's downright repulsed by the thought of another relationship, according to a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/article1990736.ece"The Sun/a: blockquote“I don't have dating on my mind at all. Just the thought of dating someone else grosses me out.br “No way.”/blockquote However, what doesn't gross Paris out is pushing the ol' girls up and hitting Bardot nightclub in LA last night. Sure, maybe she had sex with three bartenders, the coat check guy and, let's assume, a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/11/nicollette_sheridan_david_spad.php"David Spade/a, but at least she's not being monogamous again. 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Responding to a question from a gamer boycotting EA for their use of SecuROM's DRM activation scheme who wonders Valve's relationship with EA in Left 4 Dead (EA publishes Left 4 Dead) Valve's Gabe Newell not only answered the gamer's question, he also levied some quotable material on his thoughts on DRM: "As far as DRM goes, most DRM strategies are just dumb. The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't).We really really discourage other developers and publishes from using the broken DRM offerings, and in general there is a groundswell to abandon those approaches."

Quote: Based on the story of multi award-winning million-selling PC role-playing game The Witcher and completely rebuilt pixel by pixel for the new generation of consoles, The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf brings the unrivalled RPG experience to Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 with a brand new combat system for thrilling dynamic action, and a new engine delivering matchless state-of-the-art visuals. The game is underpinned with the evocative and enthralling story which helped secure the original game's status as PC role-playing game of 2007, based on the mature and compelling universe created by renowned Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

"The creative vision and dedication to the quality of the player experience that CD Projekt RED bring to the Witcher games is extraordinary, and it's great to be working with them to bring the Witcher universe to console gamers," said Phil Harrison, President of Infogrames Entertainment, the parent company of Atari. "Taking this brilliantly realised world to PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 gamers for the first time is a breakthrough in the development of this important franchise."

"We're thrilled to continue our great relationship with Atari, whose refreshing focus on quality fits squarely with our own, to bring Geralt and the Witcher franchise to an even larger audience - fans who expressed to us very clearly that The Witcher would be a natural fit on consoles," said Adam Kicinski, CEO, CD Projekt RED. "Console gamers' tastes are maturing; they're looking for deeper story-driven experiences that are very hard to find in today's console market. We're developing this remake based upon the compelling narrative that helped The Witcher on PC sell more than a million copies and win more than 100 awards, building everything else from the ground up to be the definitive console RPG."

Based on the universe created by best-selling Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf puts players in the role of Geralt, a professional monster slayer who exists on the fringes of a complex society troubled by the kind of problems more commonly found on the front pages of newspapers than in a fantasy universe. Taken as a child, mutated, and trained in the arcane ways of the witchers, Geralt is a reluctant hero, who nonetheless finds himself all too frequently in the heat of battles that are not his own. In this world there is no right or wrong, only decisions and consequences.

With The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, the best PC RPG in recent years is being completely remade as the ultimate console RPG. The title is being developed by a core team from CD Projekt RED working alongside France-based Widescreen Games who provide their cross-platform DaVinci engine technology. For more information about The Witcher visit www.thewitcher.com and for more details about Atari's entire product line up visit www.atari.com.

Last month, in writing about the financial crisis, I tried walking through the root causes of how the financial crisis happened and how to prevent it from happening again -- and the point I kept coming back to was the a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081113/0321092822.shtml"lack of transparency/a. It wasn't (as some people want to claim) "greed" or a "lack of regulation" that caused the problem, but bad information (though, some might blame that on greed and a lack of regulation). Aaron deOliveira points out that some folks are noticing the same thing, suggesting that the real problem these days isn't a lack of liquidity in the markets, but a a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/11/the-need-for-re.html" target="_new"significant lack in reliable information/a. People just don't know how much things are worth, and that's a huge problem. br /br / Last week, on the always excellent Planet Money podcast, there was a discussion about what money really is. Many people think that it's a hard representation of value, but it's not. As the podcast noted, a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2008/11/hear_money_is_a_relationship.html"money is a relationship/a. Take a listen to fully understand what this means, but it's exactly right. Money is merely a relationship of trust between certain parties that enables trade. If I trust this piece of paper is worth a certain amount, I can do business with you. If I don't trust that the paper or trinket you hand me is actually worth anything, then I will not do business with you, and your "money" is not money at all. br /br / The problem that we're experiencing today is that, due to a lack of clear and itrustworthy/i information out there, no one is quite sure what anything is worth, and that makes any sort of trade difficult. Money only works when there's a trusting relationship, and you only get that sort of trusting relationship when there is a reasonable flow of information to the parties involved, such that they're confident that what they have (or what they're trading for) has value. The problem over the last few months (or, for some, years) is this realization that the information they had was bad, and they could not trust it, and thus, the "relationship" that made thing valuable disappeared. Without this trust, plenty of things that ido/i have value are being severely undervalued, because there's no (or very little) credible information, and that's leading to panic, because no one is sure what anything might actually be worth. br /br / So, once again, we're back to the situation where we were before: the answer should be imore/i information, imore/i widely distributed in a much imore/i open fashion. We should all be demanding significantly more transparency both from corporations on any sort of investment they put forth as well as from the government who is shoveling dollars -- but not information -- into the market to try to deal with the problem. But, until it gets imore information/i into the market, then the trust will not be regained, and the dollars they throw into the market will merely decrease in value, because there are not enough relationships built on trustworthy information.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2031042973.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2031042973.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081130/2031042973op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0ad7c88f2e2603fb4c173c561ec667e4p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0ad7c88f2e2603fb4c173c561ec667e4p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=0ad7c88f2e2603fb4c173c561ec667e4" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=DWaHo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=DWaHo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472813745" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Lindsay Lohan boots/post_image/post_image-1202_lindsay_lohan_boots_00.jpg" border="0"br Lindsay Lohan shot down rumors today on a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewfriendID=29730276blogID=453360936"her MySpace blog/a that she's no longer dating Samantha Ronson: blockquoteoy vey! rumors..br just to clear this up.. because i have been getting a lot of emails asking me this one question.br samantha ronson and lindsay lohan (me) are NOT breaking upbr :)br take carebr xxLL/blockquote Oh thank God. I don't know about you guys, but I sit around all day constantly fretting over Lindsay and Sam's fake lesbian relationship. I mean, if these two can't fake-make it in this crazy world, then none of us fake-can, fake-dammit! div style="width: 425px; margin: 0 0 0 30px; padding: 0;"ul style="list-style-type: none; display: block; width: 425px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"li style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/lindsay_lohan_not_ready_to_giv.php" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Lindsay Lohan boots/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_lindsay_lohan_boots_00.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/lindsay_lohan_not_ready_to_giv.php?bfm_index=1" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Lindsay Lohan boots/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_lindsay_lohan_boots_01.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/lindsay_lohan_not_ready_to_giv.php?bfm_index=2" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Lindsay Lohan boots/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_lindsay_lohan_boots_02.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/lindsay_lohan_not_ready_to_giv.php?bfm_index=3" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Lindsay Lohan boots/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_lindsay_lohan_boots_03.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/li/uldiv style="clear: left;"/div/div div class = "credit"Photos: a href="http://www.splashnewsonline.com"Splash News/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/P7TXj-ThnX6qhKD6TxCmnRCL_sI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/P7TXj-ThnX6qhKD6TxCmnRCL_sI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesuperficial/SNxk/~4/yENK7ja8tDw" height="1" width="1"/

The closure of Pownce, which was announced Monday via posts by co-founder Leah Culver and her new employer, blog software company Six Apart, didn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who’s followed Pownce since its launch last year. Despite help from co-founders like Kevin Rose of Digg and usability guru Daniel Burka, the service never really found an audience, or at least not one big enough to make a go of it. In the end, Pownce was just too much like Twitter (and Jaiku and Plurk, for that matter); the added features it had — including the ability to transfer files — weren’t enough to set it apart in people’s minds, much less turn it into a must-have utility.

So why did Six Apart, the blogging software provider founded by husband-and-wife team Ben and Mena Trott, decide to buy the company? It’s possible that they just saw Culver and her fellow Powncer Mike Malone as valuable hires in the programming department, and decided to acqu-hire them, as Google has done with so many startup founders over the years. But while the Pownce service is being shut down, could its features live on inside Six Apart and its Vox blogging service? I think that’s a very real possibility. Culver, for example, notes in her blog post that she hopes to “come back with something much better in 2009.”

Twitter and its ilk are often referred to as platforms for “micro-blogging,” because (in the right hands at least) a 140-character message posted to the service can be almost as good as a blog post. More than one blogger has said that the frequency of their blog posts has decreased since they began Twittering, and some have given up full-blown blogging altogether. Others, however (myself included), use Twitter as a kind of feeder system for their blogs. Not only do they use it to find ideas, links and conversation that spark longer blog posts, but they use it in reverse — to alert potential readers to their posts. And in many cases the conversation extends from the blog to the chat service and vice-versa. There’s an almost symbiotic relationship between the two services, with each feeding off and benefiting from the other.

Six Apart has made a number of acquisitions that indicate the company is thinking about how to extend its services, including social media application maker Apperceptive. Much like its blog software competitor Automattic, the home of WordPress (see disclosure below), the company seems to be looking for tools that can be incorporated into its platforms to make them more robust as media publishing services. Could a Twitter-style tool be part of that vision for Six Apart? It would make a lot of sense, just as WordPress buying Buddypress (a startup that added social networking functionality to the platform) and launching a Twitter-style chat theme called Prologue made sense.

There are already a variety of plugins and tools that allow WordPress and Movable Type bloggers to incorporate Twitter into their blogs, either by posting their messages automatically in a sidebar, or in some cases, by allowing them to post to Twitter from their blog dashboard. But having someone who understands how such services operate could help Six Apart integrate these kinds of features more fully into their platforms, as well as making it easier to develop new ones that could merge micro-blogging and “real” blogging. At the end of the day, Six Apart and Automattic aren’t just blogging services but content-management and content-publishing companies, and Twitter messages are just another form of content that needs to be managed and published.

Auttomatic is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.

Societe : ABRAXAS - Lieu de travail : Paris - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : A négocier - Detail : As an ASM Service Manager you will be responsible for: Coordinate the activity and control the quality of the work performed by the support Engineers in the provision of ASM services and ensure a balanced workload among the support teams Manage change requests and control the development and implementation of approved change requests Pre-sales and sales support Interacts with other teams (internal and customer’s teams) to identify and clarify requirements or problems, manage conflicts... Informs the customer about exceptional situations that may impact the daily operations and presents plans to avoid/minimize problems Communicates and reports normal activity as well as exceptional situations Discusses plans with peers on the customer side to exploit and detect new opportunities, informs Functional Business Development Manager so as to plan adjustments to service scope or ASM services evolution Assesses client IS current situation and prepares service setup Develops/supports the development of Software License Agreement’s or contracts Anticipate adjustments of the team to accommodate the new reality Controls the execution and quality of the work performed and the results produced by the support engineers against SLA as well as against requirements specified or solution identified to problems reported Coaches the execution team, provides technical support and know-how promotes a service attitude, whist allocated to servicing his/her customer. Experience required: You have +4 years of experience in Oracle Retail in a least strong experience in one of these following Oracle Retail modules: ORMS, ORDW, ORSIM, ORWMS, ORPM, ORIB. Strong technological knowledge and strong Knowledge on retail business – at least one area is required MUST BE fluent in French and English Maturity level on costumer relationship management its needed. If you are interested in this opportunity please send your CV to Sandrine INAUDI, recruitment consultant, sandrine.inaudi@abraxas.com or +44 207 255 56 03. Abraxas plc is a leading specialist recruitment agency for the IT industry. Due to the high level of applications we receive, please be aware that you may not hear from us immediately, as we can only respond to those applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. If you would like Abraxas to help you find a similar position, or for a complete listing of all our current vacancies, please visit our website at www.abraxas.com and register your details. Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role

[size=25][b]16th Annual NEW GENRE Art Festival - [::ART.net::] [/b][/size]br / [size=25]Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2009[/size]br / br / Living Arts of Tulsa is currently accepting submissions from artists working with the internet as an artistic medium for possible inclusion in the upcoming 16th Annual NEW GENRE festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.br / br / As this new component of the festival will largely introduce the concept of Net Art to the populace of Tulsa,  the works accepted should be highly engaging and accessible to a large portion of a large and highly diverse viewing audience.br / br / [b]ENCOURAGED ACTUALIZATIONS:[/b]br / websitesbr / email worksbr / networked installationsbr / interactive worksbr / animated .gifsbr / networked performancesbr / data visualizationbr / br / [b]IMPORTANT DATES[/b]br / Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2009br / Show Opening/Duration: Febuary 26th, 2009 - March 26th, 2009br / [b]br / HOW TO SUBMIT[/b]br / All works and proposals should be submitted as links. Documents may be emailed in .pdf format. Please email all submissions and/or questions to: newgenrenetart@gmail.com br / br / CURATOR: J.D. McPherson, Jr.  br / Tel: (405)412-4396 br / Email: newgenrenetart@gmail.com br / br / [b]ABOUT NEW GENRE AND LIVING ARTS OF TULSA[/b]br / The New Genre Festival presents a diverse range of artists, many of whom cross disciplinary lines, to create exciting new art works. These works push the limits of traditional media while incorporating the new media made possible by today's technology. The Festival is now in its 16th year. Artists previously featured: Meredith Monk, Dan Kwong Peng Jingquan, Marina Abramovic, Rollin Marquette, George Kucharbr / [b]NEW GENRE ARCHIVES WEBSITE:[/b] [url]http://www.livingarts.org/genreArchive.htm[/url]br / br / Since 1969, Living Arts of Tulsa has been steadfast in its mission of "presenting and developing contemporary art forms in Tulsa". Living Arts’ focus is on newly evolving ideas and concepts, in the creation of art forms, and exploring the relationship of art to other disciplines and fields of knowledge. Through the presentation of creative workshops, performances, exhibitions, films/videos, demonstrations of current art, lectures, related educational activities and research, Living Arts shares its interests with the community.br / [b]LIVING ARTS OF TULSA WEBSITE:[/b] [url]http://www.livingarts.org[/url]img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/472715780" height="1" width="1"/

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img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Madonna concert/post_image/post_image-1202_madonna_concert_00.jpg" border="0"br Madonna and Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez are doing a super job keeping their relationship on the down low. Because you know what's always incredibly discreet? Shopping for $60 million mansions together in New York City. They should be spies. a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022008/gossip/pagesix/madge__a_rod_hunt_love_nest_141739.htm"Page Six/a reports: blockquoteA knowledgeable real estate source tells us the kabbalah-crazed pop queen and the skirt-chasing power hitter are "discreetly looking at properties between Fifth and Park avenues, from just above 60th Street through the 80s.br "Madonna personally came to look at one house a couple of months ago, and Alex has been looking recently," the insider said. "We're talking about private, double-width mansions in the vicinity of $30 million to $60 million."br Madge and A-Rod are also interested in scoring a house "with a garage that you can drive into for additional privacy - although those are rare and hard to come by," our spy added. Another source said they were also looking in the Hamptons. /blockquote So, wait, $30 to $60 million for a "double-width" mansion and it doesn't even come with a garage? Christ, even my strikeshitty, dilapidated/strike quaint, child-friendly place has a garage. *light bulb* Excuse me, folks, I suddenly feel the need to move some real estate. Anyone know how many zeroes are in $50 gajillion? div style="width: 425px; margin: 0 0 0 30px; padding: 0;"ul style="list-style-type: none; display: block; width: 425px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"li style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/madonna_arod_shop_for_30_mil_m.php" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Madonna concert/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_madonna_concert_00.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/madonna_arod_shop_for_30_mil_m.php?bfm_index=1" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Madonna concert/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_madonna_concert_01.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/madonna_arod_shop_for_30_mil_m.php?bfm_index=2" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Madonna concert/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_madonna_concert_02.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/madonna_arod_shop_for_30_mil_m.php?bfm_index=3" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1202 Madonna concert/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1202_madonna_concert_03.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/li/uldiv style="clear: left;"/div/div div class = "credit"Photos: a href="http://www.splashnewsonline.com"Splash News/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FpfTRMdQpLSa5cKSIQlbPiD_EVE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FpfTRMdQpLSa5cKSIQlbPiD_EVE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesuperficial/SNxk/~4/vnWaC0FYy3Y" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/open-source/" rel="tag"Open Source/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag"Social Software/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/browser/" rel="tag"Browsers/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/12/openidcew.png" alt="" /a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/openid/"OpenID/a is a really great concept. The ability to use a single digital identity across the web and avoid having to sign up for yet another user account is a real productivity boon. More and more high profile sites and services are adopting a href="http://openid.net"OpenID/a, but the project still hasn't gained the traction that many of us think it deserves. This is partially because it still isn't easy to use OpenID -- or even find out if a site supports OpenID -- on all services. MySpace, Flock and Vidoop think they've come across a solution: let the browser handle it.br /br /Back in June, a href="http://myspace.com"MySpace/a a href="http://openid.net/2008/07/25/myspace-announces-support-for-openid/"announced support/a for OpenID and also became an OpenID provider. In order to help users more easily manage their online identity across other sites and services, MySpace teamed up with a href="http://vidoop.com/"Flock/a and a href="http://vidoop.com/"Vidoop/a to create OpenID for Flock, available today at a href="https://extensions.flock.com"https://extensions.flock.com/a. OpenID for Flock is an open source plugin, part of the larger Identity in the Browser (a href="http://code.google.com/p/idib/"IDIB/a) project which is focused on having the browser, not the user handle, authenticate and mange multiple user identities.br /br /I had the chance to demo the plugin yesterday and it is pretty cool. Essentially, once installed an OpenID icon appears on the right of Flock's chrome bar. The extension scans a page for OpenID compatibility, and if a site supports OpenID, the icon starts to glow. You can then automatically choose to populate the OpenID fields with your designated OpenID URL or associate that site with a specific OpenID account. You can manage all of your OpenIDs, choose what sites to associate certain profiles with and view the login history and OpenID-to-site-relationship with each site.br /br /br /pa href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/myspace-flock-and-vidoop-release-openid-for-flock-plugin/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMySpace, Flock and Vidoop release OpenID for Flock plugin/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/myspace-flock-and-vidoop-release-openid-for-flock-plugin/"MySpace, Flock and Vidoop release OpenID for Flock plugin/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:12:00 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=https://extensions.flock.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/myspace-flock-and-vidoop-release-openid-for-flock-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1388421/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/myspace-flock-and-vidoop-release-openid-for-flock-plugin/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/J_vjH2BbC7GyfFNuec8jCqk2e1s/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/J_vjH2BbC7GyfFNuec8jCqk2e1s/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=1Gc5Ga2l"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=1Gc5Ga2l" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=QJkc5cfT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=QJkc5cfT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/bytnxcl9FbU" height="1" width="1"/

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop have developed OpenID for Flock. I’ll skip the talk about standards which you don’t care about, cut to the chase and tell you what it does.

Now, when you browse with Flock and open a web site that has OpenID support, Flock will collect and manage OpenID credentials, and automatically alert you if you can use a stored OpenID to log into it. You can choose which OpenID you can use to log into a particular site and later view the login history for each OpenID-to-site relationship you’ve created.

Or, if you’d like an even shorter version: Flock now has a password manager for OpenID.

If you’re wondering what MySpace and Vidoop’s role is in this, it’s simple: they’ve helped develop this because they want to ride the open/social/data portability buzzword train. One such buzzword is IDIB (Identity for the Browser), an open source project that is “focused on determining how OpenID in the browser will help OpenID gain overall adoption;” you can find out more about it on the official Google page.

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a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126927/netflix_qjgenth.jpg?847066" rel="lightbox[article126927]" title="Netflix 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126927/netflix.jpg 3F847066 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 style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Netflix - Image 1" title="Netflix - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126927/netflix_qjgenth.jpg?847066" align="right" border="0"/aCable, or consoles? At the rate a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a and a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/microsoft/94" id="tag" title="Xbox 360 Creator"Microsoft/a are going in expanding their video rental services, I'd go with consoles.br br According to research and consulting firm The Diffusion Group, most people would choose the same thing in the future, abandoning cable companies and satellite TV operators, and turning to consoles for on-demand video services instead:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"There is a bit of a value vacuum developing around today s PayTV offerings. Rising dissatisfaction with service value, the lack of flexibility implicit in tiered strategies, and a growing interest in watching online video on the TV have combined to create a unique opportunity for alternative video services -- an opportunity not at all lost on console vendors./pbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Microsoft and Sony know that today s console gamers are perfectly suited for new TV offerings. The segment is dominated by males between the ages of 18 and 35 -- a prized advertising demographic -- with little sense of loyalty to their 'local' cable or telephone company. They are also heavy viewers of online video and quite comfortable spending money for online digital media./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Simply stated, console vendors are inimitably positioned for success in the OTT (over-the-top) space because their gaming audience already owns the enabling device, and they are highly likely to already have an Internet-to-TV relationship with the vendor./pbrThey also predict that by 2012, 190 million households will own a next-gen console, with 80 of these connecting to the Internet. They also infer that 75 of these will use the console's video services at least a couple of times each week. Personally though, I think iTunes will be a more likely substitute for video services.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="Kaz Hirai: PlayStation 3's main premise is video games" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Kaz-Hirai-PlayStation-3-s-main-premise-is-video-games/pg/49/aid/124937"span title="Kaz Hirai: PlayStation 3's main premise is video games" style="font-style: italic;"Kaz Hirai: PlayStation 3's main premise is video games/span/a/lilia title="HD Netflix Streaming will hit Xbox 360 first" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/HD-Netflix-Streaming-will-hit-Xbox-360-first/pg/49/aid/125670"span title="HD Netflix Streaming will hit Xbox 360 first" style="font-style: italic;"HD Netflix Streaming will hit Xbox 360 first/span/a/lilia title="Hancock flies to PS Store, brings Fred Clause and others in movie holiday lineup" href="http://www.qj.net/Hancock-flies-to-PS-Store-brings-Fred-Clause-and-others-in-movie-holiday-lineup/pg/49/aid/126746"span title="Hancock flies to PS Store, brings Fred Clause and others in movie holiday lineup" style="font-style: italic;"Hancock flies to PS Store, brings Fred Clause and others in movie holiday lineup/span/a/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/IFcrc7kQkow" height="1" width="1"/

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest version of Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi (also now available). The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B even if there isn't a proper (routing) road system available. Pedestrian routes now take in footpaths and parks.
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route.
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version is now accessible from http://maps.ovi.com, though with some browser compatibility issues (it runs as a plug-in). Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
Of special note is that Maps 3.0 isn't directly compatible with previous versions, in that new maps and a new PC installer are needed. As a result (and presumably to avoid confusion), Maps 3.0 is only available via this new 'Nokia Maps Updater', which manages the process.
Existing navigation licenses are preserved, by the way.
Ewan's tried to install Maps 3.0 on the AAS N85 (the only non-N96 FP2 he and I have to hand), but failed, Maps Updater seems to be a little flaky at this stage.... If you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. more screens, from Nokia's data sheets:

More...

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest version of Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi (also now available). The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B even if there isn't a proper (routing) road system available. Pedestrian routes now take in footpaths and parks.
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route.
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version is now accessible from http://maps.ovi.com, though with some browser compatibility issues (it runs as a plug-in). Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
Of special note is that Maps 3.0 isn't directly compatible with previous versions, in that new maps and a new PC installer are needed. As a result (and presumably to avoid confusion), Maps 3.0 is only available via this new 'Nokia Maps Updater', which manages the process. Ewan's trying this as I speak - more later!
Existing navigation licenses are preserved, by the way.
We'll have more on the new Nokia Maps soon... and, once you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. more screens, from Nokia's data sheets:

More...

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest versionof Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi. The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wc