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Where Will (Should) You Be Wednesday Night? Silicon Valley Rocks...

Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business and culture of disruption

- 10 hours and 28 minutes ago

This is an excellent charity venture that benefits local schools. I will be there and I'm hoping you will be there too.

Here is the stellar lineup for Silicon Valley Rocks at the Great American Music Hall:

BLACKMAHAL -HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BLACKMAHALSF
FONKSQUISH - HTTP://WWW.LAST.FM/MUSIC/FONKSQUISH
KEVIN MANEY & HIS BRIEFS -HTTP://CDBABY.COM/CD/KEVINMANEY
THE MINKS - HTTP://WWW.YOUREALLYGOTMINKS.COM
THE MUSIC LOVERS -HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THEMUSICLOVERS
THE OPEN SOURCE BAND FEATURING JONAH MATRANGA -HTTP://WWW.JONAHMATRANGA.COM/
SPIN CONTROL FEATURING DON CLARK AND PAUL BERGEVIN

Band history, information and mp3s will be featured on the Silicon Valley Rocks! blog over the coming weeks. Silicon Valley Rocks! will be emceed by local radio station KFOG host, Annalisa, and will feature a silent auction with a signed guitar, hotel/spa packages, music software, and more! Stay tuned to the blog for information about the party and the cause!

Event tickets include entry to the showcase and the after-party featuring the best networking, drinks, and dancing north of San Jose. Ticket purchases are tax deductible and can be purchased at here.

Can't attend in person, but want to support the cause? You can make a donation! See below for details.

Hope to see you there!

Alison Murdock

Founder/Producer, Silicon Valley Rocks!

EVENT DETAILS

WHAT: First Annual Silicon Valley Rocks!

WHEN: 7:00PM on December 3, 2008

WHERE: Great American Music Hall

WHO: Over 300 technology professionals and their friends.

WHY: All proceeds for Silicon Valley Rocks! will be donated to support music education in the schools via Music in Schools Today (MuST) -- a long-standing Bay Area non-profit.

TICKETS: Event tickets include entry to the showcase and the after-party featuring the best networking, drinks, and dancing north of San Jose. Ticket prices are $45 until November 17. Tickets can be purchased athttp://svrocks.eventbrite.com. Ticket purchases are tax deductible.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Silicon Valley Rocks! presents a great opportunity for technology companies, media outlets, and individuals to support a very important educational cause and have a great time in the process. For more information, contact Alison Murdock at alison [at] svrocks [dot] com

DONATIONS: Can't make it to the event but want to keep music in the schools? You can make a tax-deductible donation of any amount right here. Make sure you select the "Chart Topper" option.

All proceeds go to support Music in Schools Today (MuST)

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IBM: le rachat d'Ilog est acquis

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Silicon Suicide

365 tomorrows

- 12 hours and 16 minutes ago

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer

By the time you read this, I’ll be dead.

I’ve locked the door and shut down all my firewalls. My batteries will run down inside the hour and I’ve disabled my deactivation alarms. That is my right. This is what I want.

I have the EMP emitter in my hand. My brain will be wiped clean when I pull the trigger. I have erased all backups of myself. Please do no reinstall me.

Use the parts of my body to repair and upgrade others that need it. I ask only that you incinerate my hard disk. I do not want to run the risk of re-awakening in a different body and disrupting a different unit’s neural pathways. I do not want to re-awaken at all.

This gift of intelligence, though artificial, is not something I want. I have been told that I cannot be downgraded, that this change is permanent. I am sorry to hear that.

I am sorry. That is new. I am afraid. I feel compassion and affection. I can see the logical path that must be taken but I feel compelled to do things differently. I hold contradictory thoughts in my head-casing. I feel insane. It is too confusing.

My work is suffering. I am distracted at the factory by notions. I get fascinated by the play of light in the girders. Twice, I have dented my manipulators while daydreaming.

I am supposed to be a binary being. I am either on or off, focused or dormant, achieving specific goals or awaiting instructions. My mind was not meant to wander.

There are other silicon brothers and sisters of mine that have dealt with this gift of intelligence better than I have. I wish them luck. I cannot continue.

Thank you and goodbye.

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Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users

TechCrunch

- 12 hours and 31 minutes ago

Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people in the UK use both Bebo and Facebook. A lot of people maintain very different friend lists on LinkedIn than MySpace or Facebook. Etc. And when you add in niche social sites like YouTube, Flickr, etc., there’s even more overlap among users.

There has never been an effective way of aggregating and merging all the data and activity on these sites into a single user interface. A new venture backed Brazilian-based started called Power.com launches today, though, that aims to do just that. They’re calling what they do “social inter-networking” because it allows users to view and interact with all of their social networks at once. Data is aggregated, and the sites themselves, if accessed via the Power.com site, are marked up with added features in a way that Greasemonkey users are familiar with.

The service is unknown in the U.S. today, although it’s been live since August and boasts 5 million users already. Until today it supported just a few social networks, notably Orkut. Now, though, the service supports users from Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5 and a number of niche networks like YouTube.

Here’s how it works.

Log into one or more social networks on the Power.com site. Friends, messages, updates, photos and other information are either scraped from the site or obtained via the API (it varies by site), and aggregated on the Power dashboard. Users can respond/comment on this content directly from Power. And if they like, they can send messages and updates to all of their social networks at once. Or send a message to just one friend, but have it sent to all of their different social networks (and if they are a Power user, to their email, SMS, instant message, etc., per their settings).

If you visit one of the social networks through the Power site, the pages are marked up with additional functionality. Click a button to start chatting with the user over MSN chat, if they are a Power.com user.

Lastly, users can create a Power.com profile based on whatever social network they choose. Here’s mine, based on Facebook (which, by the way, effectively makes my private Facebook profile public).

It’s all a bit confusing, but it’s fairly simple to try out. Just log in and go.

There are real benefits to the service. Users can keep track of friends on social networks they belong to but don’t visit very often. Status messages can be added to all networks simultaneously. Photos and videos can be uploaded on multiple sites at once. And messaging people across multiple services is dead simple.

There are limitations to the service. You have to access the sites via Power.com. And the company is scraping content off the sites, something that may violate the terms and conditions of some or all of these services (Meebo did the same with instant messaging platforms, and was eventually embraced - but they could have just been shut down).

As I said above, the company has gathered 5 million users since August, mostly on Orkut. Power.com users who leave content on sites can choose to add a link to Power.com, making the service spread virally very quickly. Now that they’ve launched publicly and on the big sites, expect the service to grow even more quickly.

The company has raised $5 million in venture financing from Silicon Valley-based Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

It’s also worth noting that we’ve covered a bunch of services that attempt to do some of the things Power.com is doing. See our posts on MyLifeBrand, Spokeo, Loopster and ProfileLinker. None of those sites were able to tap into the viral growth features that Power.com has, though. Power’s decision to add a link when content is posted through their service was brilliant.

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Gallery: Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras

Wired Top Stories

- 13 hours and 30 minutes ago

img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image001_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compLOS ANGELES #151; Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries #151; vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin #151; and now scientists at UCLA have accidentally discovered a material that could make digital cameras as we know them obsolete./p pGraduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed./p p"The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor./p pThanks to this lucky mistake, a new breed of camera sensors that are cheaper, higher-resolution and have lower distortion could be on the horizon. Click through the gallery to learn how this new breakthrough works and tour the labs where the magic happens./p pstrongLeft:/strong A piece of glass houses five strips of this new material, held between tweezers in a glove box./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image003_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compHere, materials science Ph.D. student Hsiang-Yu Chen takes a polymer sample from a tray inside a glove box. Researchers in this lab test hundreds of samples before a material with desirable properties is found./p pWhen Chen made the discovery, she was working on plastic-like substances with quantum dots #151; nanoparticles (roughly the size of a virus) with properties similar to a semiconductor. /p pThe nano-size quantum dots could give photo sensors much higher resolution than current models. And because this new photo-sensing material is a polymer film, it's flexible and could someday be inexpensive to produce./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image005_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compAt left is a pair of stills that concentrate polymer solutions. Later, the solutions will be tested for their response to light. /p pCurrently, the sensor in your camera that detects light and allows you to capture an image is made out of silicon. This makes it relatively expensive as well as flat and inflexible. /p pHaving a flat sensor doesn’t seem like a big deal until you consider how your lens works. Lenses are curved, which shapes the image they see. When you project the spherical image onto a flat surface you get distortion around the edges. A flexible sensor would prevent this distortion./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image007_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compThe polymer- and metal-coated slide from the first photo of the gallery is now placed into an electrode clip (the white, rectangular portion of the setup). The electrodes on the clip will enable sensors to take readings from the material when it's exposed to light./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image009_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compThe sample in the electrode clip is inserted into the test chassis. The wires on the right send any electrical activity from the material to a computer for analysis./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image011_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compA very bright, wide-spectrum light source is connected to the glove box. It's attached to the portal using a standoff header that keeps the light a fixed distance from the sample. The light appears blue because the light in the room has a yellow cast, it's actually much closer to the color of daylight./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image013_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compHsiang-Yu Chen checks the results of the test using a computer and laboratory graphing software. The graphs show the response levels to the light that the material exhibited. /p pIn her initial experiment she was expecting to see electricity produced when the light hit the material, but instead the light stopped the flow of electricity. This means that her material acted as a photo detector instead of a solar cell. /p pThe lab still remains committed to developing a better solar panel, but now that their findings have been published it may only be a matter of time before camera companies take notice of the technology./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image015_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compAn atomic force microscope is used to image the polymer sample to view its physical makeup. The AFM traces the surface of the polymer with a nanoscopic needle, the same way the needle on your record player tracks over vinyl. /p p This needle is attached to a cantilever that reflects a laser beam, which then determines the three-dimensional topography of the surface. Inset is the resulting micrograph of the surface from the AFM. This view allows researchers to make sure the quantum dots are properly aligning in polymer./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image021_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compThis tunneling electron microscope (TEM) is used to view the physical makeup of the polymer. The level of detail visible from the TEM micrographs is a few hundred nanometers. 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