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will protect the nation's counterintelligence and declassification would show that Hilton Collins of Government
computer networks from cyber d e t e r r e n c e s t r a t e g i e s . the government has a workable Technology Magazine agrees. Peter Parker, aka Spiderman,
warfare. For the first time the strategy for protecting the "The private sector has so much has been fired from his job as a
T h e a n n o u n c e m e n t b y government has published a nation's computer systems in the knowledge, power and money photographer because he
cybersecurity tsar Howard general description of what they event of a cyber attack. that for them to help the photoshopped some pictures.
Schmidt was made at the are on its website. Parts of the initiative that deal government innovate more Spiderman, the story goes,
world's biggest security event. The aim of the programme is with the nation's offensive plans technology security solutions is knows newspaper publisher J.
T h e m o v e i s a i m e d a t threefold: for cyberwarfare have not been the right way to go." Jonah Jameson, now mayor, is
e n c o u r a g i n g g r e a t e r c o - • to establish a front line of made public. The Electronic Privacy innocent of something heinous
operation between academia, d e f e n c e a g a i n s t t o d a y ' s 'Common sense' Information Centre (Epic), (it’s always something heinous,
government and the private i m m e d i a t e t h r e a t s Reaction to the announcement which had demanded the full isn’t it?), but the only way he
sector. • to defend against the full ranged from caution to praise. text of the CNCI, said it was can persuade people of that is to
"We have to fully recognise the spectrum of threats One supporter is Michael pleased about the digitally manipulate photos.
importance cybersecurity has in • to strengthen the future Markulec, chief operating declassification. He does and loses his job, so
our lives," Mr Schmidt said. cybersecurity environment officer for Lumeta, a company However the group said it still Spiderman becomes a victim of
"We must continue to seek out that provides large organisations wanted to see the full document the recession, although in these
innovative new partnerships - The CNCI funds a number of and government agencies with and what privacy safeguards are days of widespread layoffs at
not only within government, but sensitive projects including the secure network solutions. in place when assessing cyber newspapers prompted by
also among industry, government's Einstein "This move brings more people threats. economic forces, the superhero
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December 2009. that traditional security the government.
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unions nationwide and allowed
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service attacks. stressed the need for more that expanding Einstein 3 to the capable system called Einstein 2 we are surrounded by dumb
On the other hand, civil cooperation between the private sector would amount to a --which aimed to do intrusion devices and machines that
libertarians are sure to raise government and the private partial outsourcing of security. detection and not prevention-- cannot think for themselves.
questions about privacy, access, sector on cybersecurity, saying "It's clearly a win for people but has not done so for Einstein But he said an "Internet 3" will
and how Einstein could be used that "we need to have a system without the security know-how 3. be a "collaborative Web" that
in the future. If it can perform that works together." to protect their own networks," The department did, however, will have at its root a
deep packet inspection to During a House appropriations Appelbaum said. "It's also a prepare a general set of cooperation between people and
prevent botnets from accessing hearing on February 26, clear loss of control. And guidelines (PDF) for privacy our machines.
certain Web pages, for instance, Napolitano refused to discuss anyone with access to that and civil liberties in June 2009. His vision of an "Internet 4"
could it also be used to prevent a Einstein 3 unless the hearing monitoring system, legitimate or In addition, the Bush Justice will include evolutionary
human from accessing illegal were closed to the public. "I otherwise, would be able to Department wrote a memo networking that has a major self
pornography, copyright- don't want to comment publicly monitor amazing amounts of (PDF) saying Einstein 2 -organizing principle and which
infringing music, or offshore on Einstein 3, per se, here in an traffic." "complies with" the U.S. has human reproduction as an
gambling sites? unclassified setting," she said. Einstein grew out of a still- Constitution and federal wiretap inspiration. And "Internet 5"
"It's one thing for the "What I would suggest, perhaps, classified executive order, called laws. will mimic living ecosystems
government to monitor its own is a classified briefing for National Security Presidential That justification for Einstein 2 and feature smart and aware
systems for malicious code and members of the subcommittee Directive 54, that President "turned on the consent of physical spaces, embedded
intrusions," said Greg Nojeim, who are interested." Bush signed in 2008. employees in the government intelligence and systems that
senior counsel at the Center for Some privacy concerns about While little information is that are being communicated can do things like transfer
Democracy and Technology. Einstein have popped up before. available, former Homeland with, and on the notion that a energy amongst themselves as
"It's quite another for the An American Bar Association Security Secretary Michael person who communicates with they need them.
government to monitor private panel said this about Einstein 3 Chertoff once likened it to a the government can't then "It's not that far out," Canton
networks for those intrusions. in a September 2009 report: new "Manhattan Project," and complain that the government said. "I believe it's already
We'd be concerned about any "Because government the Washington Post reported read the communication," said started."
notion that a governmental communications are that the accompanying CDT's Nojeim. "How does that Five Filters featured article:
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control? considered." of the order.
At the RSA Conference here on Jacob Appelbaum, a security Homeland Security has
Wednesday, Homeland Security researcher and programmer for published (PDF) a privacy
Secretary Janet Napolitano the Tor anonymity project, said impact assessment for a less
Beatles, you won't be able to get desktop and BlackBerry BlackBerry app (and reappear in testing it for a couple of days, Android 2.1 Update
them from iTunes to the versions of the app. Whenever I the desktop app the next time the BlackBerry Thumbplay app Available For Motorola
Thumbplay service. (That's created or updated a playlist in you open it). You can't scroll froze completely and stopped
because you're not actually one place, it was almost through a currently playing song working. I had to remove and Droid and Droid Eris
importing physical tracks from immediately updated in the on the Blackberry app. In the reinsert the phone's battery Via Leaked ROM
iTunes, you're importing other. This is one of the greatest desktop app, there's no shuffle before I could get Thumbplay to [Android]
metadata.) benefits of using a cloud-based command. Some of these work again. The company
But the whole point of a music service, and it's nice to missing features will be added blamed this problem on last- Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
subscription service is to get see it working so well here. in future releases, the company minute updates to the service Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:12:55 AM
away from the songs you own There's also a nifty "save confirmed. before it emerges from beta.
and explore other music. That's offline" feature, which lets you The catalog also has some holes To sum up, if you've got a Droid owners have been
where the excellent autoplaylist cache playlists on the phone so --all the usual big names are BlackBerry and aren't satisfied waiting and waiting for 2.1 to
feature comes in--select any you can play them when you're available, but when I tried to with your musical options on the materialize, but fortunately a
currently playing song, and it away from a wireless create a playlist to prepare me device today, Thumbplay is firmware update has leaked for
will create a 15-song playlist connection--great for subway for Coachella 2010, some acts definitely worth trying, but bang both handsets. Motorola and
based on that song. It's like commutes or plane trips. like She and Him and The on it a lot to make sure you're Verizon have both promised
having Pandora or Slacker Unfortunately, there are also a Temper Trap were missing or satisfied before subscribing. The OTA updates, but it's anyone's
mixed in with your personal few areas that don't seem very sparse; both had more free trial lasts for three days and guess as to when they'll be
music collection and on-demand finished. The search engine is songs available on Rhapsody. does not require a credit card to out—so this may just be the
searches. (This feature is sketchy--querying "I'm New That's not completely surprising, get started. fastest way to get the latest
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permanent MP3 and charge you releases. You can't delete the major labels and a lot of
standard download rates playlists from the BlackBerry indies, so hopefully these gaps
(between $0.79 and $1.29). app, and if you delete them will be filled soon.
I was also impressed with the using the desktop application, Finally, I have to mention that
speed of sync between the they still appear on the as I was writing this post, after
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) The skit features Fred Armisen, and stereotypes, offering current In his speech today in the White
Submitted at 3/3/2010 10:44:26 PM who currently plays Barack President Obama advice on how House East Room, President
Obama on SNL, Will Ferrell to fix Washington. The ending Obama clearly indicated that he
Comedy site Funny Or Die has bringing back his George W. features an ad for Main Street is going to press for a
brought together current and Bush, Darrell Hammond (Bill Brigade, an organization calling comprehensive, and not a
former stars of Saturday Night Clinton), Dana Carvey (Bush for financial reform. Check it piecemeal or “skinny,” health
Live (plus Jim Carrey) to create Sr.), Jim Carrey (Ronald out below: care reform bill. He also made it
a skit called “Presidential Reagan), Dan Akroyd (Jimmy Tags: barack obama, funny or abundantly clear that he will
Reunion” that has racked up Carter), and Chevy Chase die, politics, saturday night live, accept, if necessary, a party-line
more than one million views in The video itself pokes fun of
(Gerald Ford). Maya Rudolph snl, viral video simple majority vote in the
less than 24 hours. each president’s idiosyncrasies
plays Michelle Obama. House and the Senate in order to
get the bill through.
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Reconciliation here we come. Obama got was not an amicable of insurance they can sell. I alone. I believe that doctors and get his programs through
Obama’s speech represents a agreement but a summer of disagree with that approach. I'm nurses like the ones in this room Congress, but he doesn’t yet
major departure from the discontent, highlighted by concerned that this would only should be free to decide what’s have the vocabulary that will
politics of his presidential Senator Charles Grassley’s give the insurance industry even best for their patients. The allow him to convince wide
campaign and of his first year in denunciation of Democratic freer rein to raise premiums and proposal I’ve put forward gives swaths of Americans that these
office. In his campaign, Obama “death panels” and by the deny care.” And in summing up, Americans more control over programs are essential. And
pledged to defy partisan emergence of the Tea Party Obama said that that if their health care by holding that’s not an uncommon failing.
gridlock and to “change the way movement. Republicans “truly believe that insurance companies more It’s not as if he lacks a
Washington works.” During the But it’s not an easy job being less regulation would lead to accountable. vocabulary that other liberals or
campaign, some liberal president. It took Bill Clinton higher quality, more affordable Well, yes, I suppose, we don’t Democrats (like the writers on
commentators believed that he most of his first term to figure health insurance, then they want a government these pages or his fellow
was merely employing a clever out how to do domestic and should vote against the proposal bureaucrat—one of those evil politicians) possess. How to
tactic to highlight the rigid foreign policy. Like Clinton, I’ve put forward.” fellows with a green eyeshade frame government initiatives in
partisanship of his opponents. Obama has stumbled, but his Those are strong words. They sitting behind a desk piled high a way that acknowledges but
“If we understand Obama's slip-ups have been more make clear that Democrats and with unread complaints from also overcomes American anti-
approach as a means, and not dramatic because, with the Republicans don’t share the angry citizens—to have control statism has been, and remains, a
the limit of what he understands economy cratering and two wars same politics. Obama portrayed over our health care. But this major political challenge for
about American politics, it has raging, the stakes have been Democrats as the patrons of a kind of formulation concedes Democrats. But in beginning to
great promise as a theory of higher from the first. “middle class that gets too much to the anti-statist draw clear distinctions between
change,” Mark Schmitt wrote in However, in Obama’s speech squeezed” by higher insurance rhetoric of the Tea Parties. the Democratic and Republican
The American Prospect. today, and in his artful costs. Republicans, on the other Let’s be clear about what approaches, Obama has taken
But it is now evident that performance at the health care hand, were tarred as friends of national health care reform does. the first important step toward
Obama’s approach was what he summit last week, he showed the insurance industry who are It narrows peoples’ choices, and meeting that challenge.
understood about American that he has learned something willing to let the WellPoints of limits their control over their And let me say one other thing.
politics—it was the guiding from his first year in office. the world run amok. health care, in one very I hate political predictions, and I
light gleaned from his years as Obama is now using the rhetoric Where the speech still rang important way: It requires them have certainly heard my fill of
an Illinois state senator—and he of bipartisanship as Schmitt and somewhat hollow was in to buy health insurance. That is them lately. The recent
planned to apply it to other liberals thought he was Obama’s presentation of his how social insurance works. Conservative Political Action
Congress. And it was, of course, doing in 2008: He is using it to own policy. Here’s how he put You couldn’t have Social Conference echoed with
nonsense. Republicans were paint Republicans as it: Security or Medicare if predictions that the Republicans
able to use Obama’s naiveté intransigent. He clearly no I don’t believe we should give everyone eligible didn’t have to would obliterate the Democrats
about their motives to longer believes that a bipartisan g o v e r n m e n t sign up. But by virtue of this in November 2010. And the
undermine his initiatives. As agreement on health care is bureaucrats or insurance requirement, the esteemed Charlie Cook has
Noam Scheiber explains in his possible. company bureaucrats more government—bureaucrats and recently pronounced the
profile of Rahm Emanuel, the Moreover, he is now drawing control over health care in all—improves, and in some Democrats to be toast in 2010.
principal obstacle to getting clear lines between the politics America. I believe it’s time to cases, vastly improves, the But—and there are some “ifs”
health care reform through of Democrats and the politics of give the American people more choices Americans have in coming— if Nancy Pelosi and
Congress last year was Obama’s Republicans. "Republicans," he control over their own health obtaining health insurance. Harry Reid can get the health
dogged insistence last summer said, "believe the answer is to insurance. I don’t believe we Health care reform doesn’t care bill through Congress and
that Senate Finance Chairman loosen regulations on the can afford to leave life-and- bypass government; it enlists it on to Obama’s desk, and if
Max Baucus continue to plug insurance industry--whether it's death decisions about health on the people’s behalf. Obama has truly learned his
away at nailing down a state consumer protections or care to the discretion of Obama has now adopted a
bipartisan agreement. What minimum standards for the kind insurance company executives strategy that will allow him to ROUND page 36
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Muscle Shoals
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Republican ideas to their would pass under a simple appropriate to use reconciliation whom the service bill was
Republic - All Feed) proposals. Obama said he was majority vote would be a series "to improve or perfect the named.
Submitted at 3/3/2010 12:19:22 PM open to four more that came up of amendments that fit package," which is exactly what It was Kennedy, you'll recall,
during the health care summit. comfortably under the Obama is suggesting. who insisted that health care
WASHINGTON -- For those What he's unwilling to do, and "reconciliation" rules Hatch said that reconciliation was "a fundamental right and
who feared that Barack Obama rightly, is to give the minority established to deal with money should not be used for not a privilege." That's why it's
did not have any Lyndon veto power over a bill that has issues. Near the very end of his "substantive legislation" unless not just legitimate to use
Johnson in him, the president's deliberately and painfully article, Hatch concedes that the legislation has "significant reconciliation to complete the
determination to press ahead worked its way through the reconciliation would be used for bipartisan support." But surely work on health reform. It would
and get health care reform done regular legislative process. "only parts" of the bill. But then the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax be immoral to do otherwise and
in the face of Republican Republicans, however, don't why didn't he say that in the first cuts, which were passed under thereby let a phony argument
i n t r a n s i g e n c e c a m e a s want to talk much about the place? reconciliation and increased the about process get in the way of
s o m e t h i n g o f a r e l i e f . substance of health care. They Hatch grandly cites "America's deficit by $1.7 trillion during his health coverage for 30 million
Obama's critics have regularly want to discuss process, turn Founders" as wanting the Senate presidency, were "substantive Americans.
accused him of not being as "reconciliation" into a four-letter to be about "deliberation." But legislation." The 2003 dividends E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
tough or wily or forceful as LBJ w o r d , a n d m a i n t a i n t h a t the Founders said nothing in the tax cut could muster only 50 ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
was in pushing through civil Democrats are just "ramming Constitution about the filibuster, votes. Vice President Dick E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
rights and the social programs of through" a health bill. let alone "reconciliation." Cheney had to break the tie. the recently published Souled
his Great Society. Obama It is all, I am sorry to say, one Judging from what they put in Talk about "ramming through." Out: Reclaiming Faith and
seemed willing to let Congress big lie -- or, if you're sensitive, the actual document, the The underlying "principle" here Politics After the Religious
go its own way and was so an astonishing exercise in Founders would be appalled at seems to be that it's fine to pass Right. He is a Washington Post
anxious to look bipartisan that hypocrisy. the idea that every major bill tax cuts for the wealthy on columnist, a senior fellow at the
he wouldn't even take his own All of the Republican claims should need the votes of three- narrow votes but an outrage to Brookings Institution, and a
s i d e i n a r g u m e n t s w i t h were helpfully gathered in one fifths of the Senate to pass. use reconciliation to help middle professor at Georgetown
Republicans. place by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- Hatch quotes Sens. Robert Byrd -income and poor people get University.
Those days are over. On Utah, in an op-ed in Tuesday's and Kent Conrad, both health insurance. (c) 2009, Washington Post
Wednesday, the president made Washington Post. Right off, the Democrats, as opposing the use I'm disappointed in Hatch, co- Writers Group
clear what he wants in a health piece was wrong on a core fact. of reconciliation on health care. sponsor of two of my favorite For more TNR, become a fan
care bill, and he urged Congress Hatch accused the Democrats of What he doesn't say is that bills in recent years. One created on Facebook and follow us on
t o p a s s i t b y t h e m o s t trying to, yes, "ram through the Byrd's comment from a year ago the State Children's Health Twitter.
expeditious means available. Senate a multitrillion-dollar was about passing the entire bill Insurance Program. The other, Five Filters featured article:
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the majority, have already added process. The only thing that this week that it's perfectly late Edward M. Kennedy, after
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Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) hard drives. They fit snug and
Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:00:00 PM they give you a little "bump"
protection without you having to
Readers offer their best tips for go buy an expensive portable
playing just the audio of video hard drive case. I've never had a
files on the iPhone, cushioned case where the hard drive got
sleeves for external hard drives, too hot from being in the koozie
and making sure your alarm but it's more about the transport
clock wakes you up in the anyways.
morning. The best part of all is that they
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we receive boatloads of great virtourist shares his tips for
reader tips in our inbox, but for waking up in the morning:
various reasons—maybe they're The problem with my alarm
a bit too niche, maybe we clock is that I've gotten so used
couldn't find a good way to to the 'off' button that I can turn
present it, or maybe we just off the first alarm and cancel the
couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't second in my sleep. I have a
make the front page. From the roommate, so I can't do
Tips Box is where we round up something ridiculous like put
some of our favorites for your the alarm clock on the other side
buffet-style consumption. Got a of the room.
tip of your own to share? Add it My solution: Wrap the alarm
in the comments, share it here, clock in a t shirt and always
or email it to tips at place the clock in a different
lifehacker.com. TEDTalk video podcast where can press play and lock the play, and unlock the phone. It orientation/location on the
Play Just the Audio of iPhone the visuals don't add much to the phone again, allowing me to brings me to my home screen nightstand. That way, I have to
Video Files content: if I lock my phone or listen to my video file with the while the audio continues to be awake and coherent enough
Photo by Dan Taylor. press the home button, playback screen locked. play. to do some searching for the off
Rick Betita shows us how to will stop (rather than continue If I want to do something else Use Drink Insulators as Hard button without just using muscle
stop the video from playing and underneath like an audio file). on my iPhone while the audio of Drive Sleeves memory.
draining battery on iPhones: To get around it, I lock my the video plays in the kamosaurus gives us a nice grewal12 adds his solution to
One of the most annoying phone while I'm watching the background, I press the home clever use for our portable the mix:
things about the iPhone is that video (stopping the playback) button during video playback external hard drives: I have the same thing going
you can't listen to the audio of a and double-tap the home button and lock the screen immediately I have found that the collapsible on...kind of. I have two alarm
video file unless the video is to bring up playback controls on afterwards. Then I double-tap koozies are perfect cheap
playing. Let's say I'm watching a the locked screen. From there, I the home screen as before, hit sleeves for portable external FROM page 46
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submit new content to Google about a Hub that it will notify those PuSH feeds to discover right away.
for indexing within seconds of every time new content is US chain stores saw more
new content when it's published. A richer, faster, more efficient evidence of a cautious readiness
that content being published. published. Subscribers then tell PuSH wouldn't likely replace internet would be good for
Search industry analyst Danny the Hub "when this Publisher by US consumers to spend
crawling, in fact a crawl would everyone, but the benefits in during February, with
Sullivan told us today that this posts new content, please be needed to discover PuSH search wouldn't be limited to
could be "the next chapter" for deliver it to me right away." So department stores and luxury
feeds to subscribe to, but the G o o g l e , e i t h e r . The
retailers reporting sales gains
Google. instead of the Subscriber real-time format would be used PubSubHubbub is an open
Last Fall we were told by c h e c k i n g b a c k w i t h t h e despite severe winter weather.
to augment Google's existing protocol and the feeds would be Gap, the largest US clothing
Google's Brett Slatkin, lead Publisher all the time to see if index. as visible to Yahoo and Bing as
developer on t h e there's new content, they just sit store chain, continued its sales
As Danny Sullivan told us they would be to Google. recovery, reporting a 3 per cent
PubSubHubbub(PuSH) real time and wait to be told that there is today, Google would have to " I a m b e i n g t o l d b y m y
syndication protocol, that he by the Hub. The Publisher gain in comparable sales across
implement some sort of spam engineering bosses to openly it business. Sales at its low cost
hoped Google would some day publishes something, then tells control and not just let content promote this open aproach even
use PuSH for indexing the web the Hub that it's available, then Old Navy stores in the US were
be pushed live to the index to our competitors," Slatkin up 5 per cent, while Banana
instead of the crawling of links the Hub goes and delivers it to unvetted. That was what says. That's a very good sign.
that has been the way search all the Subscribers. This can Republic was up 6 per cent. Its
happened in the earliest days of We expect this will be a very North American Gap brand
engines have indexed the web take as little as a few seconds. search and it was a real mess, he big deal and we'll be covering it
for years. Google senior If Google can implement an stores reported flat sales, as did
told us. The Advantages of a more extensively in the coming its international business.
product manager Dylan Casey Indexing by PuSH program, it Real Time Google Index days, as well as whenever
said yesterday at Sullivan's would ask every website to Five Filters featured article:
P u S H i s m u c h m o r e Google has something to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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insights during this interactive Panelists will share both the Robinett of Bubble Foundry, the sand in South Florida. Learn non-Valley startups of all
panel." With Nigel Dessau of highs and lows of their startup Felix Petersen of Plazes and tips and tricks for growing your stripes. If you've got suggestions
AMD. lives and will answer questions Reshma Sohoni of Seedcamp. own tech community even in the or feedback, let us know in the
Innovation Overseas - The regarding funding opportunities, Coconut Valley - Building a most unfriendly/untechy areas comments! See you in Austin,
European Startup Environment cultural idiosyncrasies, Tech Community on the Beach of the world." With Brian folks! Discuss
"U.S. companies often know legislation and differences "Starting from a mere handful of Breslin of infinimedia and
little about the European startup between Europe and America." people and growing into the Davide Di Cillo of Thirtynine.
environment and the With Marten Mickos of thousands, come learn how we Those are our SXSW
opportunities to be found there. Benchmark Capital, Peter grew our tech community out of Interaction recommendations for
46 Tech News/ Game/ E-reader News Edition
U.S. in how Renren and other Facebook clone called Facebook clone when it started, very popular in China is 51.com,
sporting the same shade of blue which Kaiser said is mostly used It's not that the first screens
Chinese SNS are used. The Xiaonei.com - which means 'on
a n d t h e s a m e l a y o u t . by people who live in "lower from Shinji MIkami and
bread and butter of these sites is campus' in Chinese. In August
ReadWriteWeb guest writer tier cities" and even rural areas. Platinum Games' Vanquish look
social games using virtual items. 2009 it changed its name to
Gang Lu wrote on this blog in He noted that it has a "lower bad necessarily -- far from it. It's
Indeed, Farmville originated in Renren, which means
June 2008 that Xiaonei.com brow offering." just that ... well, they look a
China! 'everybody.' Renren had 70
"was like a simplified version of Each of these three hugely little common, don't they?
In this first post of a series, we million registered users at that
Facebook in Chinese when it popular social networks in We've flipped through that
outline the most popular social point. The site is owned by Oak
was first launched." He noted China has its own niche; from gallery below a few times but
network sites in China. In Pacific Interactive and has had
that it had "the same layout, the mainstream Renren, to the couldn't find an image that got
follow-up posts, we'll look at over $400M pumped into it by
same color scheme and even a more prestigious Kaixin001, to us even a little more excited for
Twitter clones, online video, investors Softbank.
very similar logo," which he the populist 51.com. the futuristic shooter than we
and censorship. This series is The site was founded in
said "made people wonder if In our next post in this series, were yesterday.
based on a discussion I had with December 2005, shortly after
there was an official connection we check out China's Twitter It wouldn't be so bad if that first
Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based Facebook began to ramp up. Its
with Facebook." trailer for the game hadn't
expert on China's Internet. founder Wang Xing later clones. Discuss
Kaixin001.com is another very seemed like such a breath of
Sponsor founded Fanfou, a popular
popular social network. Kaiser fresh air. Oh well, these are just
Kaiser Kuo is a Chinese- Twitter clone (see our next post
said that its users are mostly a few still images. Let's
American who lives in Beijing. in this series).
"white collar middle class" and withhold judgment until we see
He currently works for one of Xiaonei.com was literally a
it in action, hmm?
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First screens of Platinum's
clocks. One is the regular kind, turn it off. Because if I don't, it work: down, use the restroom, then Vanquish aren't doing it for us
right next to my night stand. The goes off while I'm in the shower To get my heart rate up back up the stairs, two-at-a- originally appeared on Joystiq
other one is my phone which is and wakes everyone else up. multiple times during my time, as quick as possible. After on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:10:00
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XBRL
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Disconnect For Small Cap Is The good news is that They won't find them among
Temporary disconnect is temporary. The the big cap companies. They
XBRL was not any help when I second wave of new XBRL will find them among the
was compiling the data for the filers in 2010 is estimated to thousands of small cap, micro
14 companies in the SaaS Index include 1,500 - 2,000 reporting cap (and yes, even nano cap)
for the Saas Insights Report (a companies, and the final wave companies. When the value
paid report for investors
a v a i l a b l e f r o m
in 2011 is for about 10,000
additional companies. Imagine
surfaces, they can reach out to
IR who can them tell their story. HP EliteBook 8740w specs
CapitalMarkets.com. the Information Discovery Tools Of course, when all this pans
Disclosure: The guest author
wrote this report). The reason is
When I go to my local wine
store, the owner asks me what I
out, the opportunity to find the
bargains will disappear. That is
begin to take shape, ATI
simple. Only one out of 14
reported to the SEC in XBRL
want and we have fun with my
standard reply that I want
the price of an efficient market.
But the value to all the
FirePro M7820 revealed
format. That company is something "incredibly delicious companies trapped in small cap Vladislav Savov (Engadget) your lap has ever seen. This is
Salesforce.com (CRM). The and ridiculously cheap". hell will be immense. They can Submitted at 3/4/2010 8:26:00 AM aided by the low-voltage, but
reason for that is also simple: Investors want the same. Warren focus on building value highly potent Core i7-720QM
The SEC currently mandates Buffett got to be one of the knowing that the value they You've been wondering, we CPU and four DDR3 slots for
that companies with a market richest men in the world by create will surface. know, why the newly unveiled up to 16GB of RAM on the
cap higher than $ billion report finding a few of those. And that will have a great 2540p and 2740p EliteBooks 8740w. You have until the end
using XBRL. That is what When all companies file in impact on the innovation from HP weren't accompanied of the month to figure out what
creates the disconnect: XBRL (and some geeks have economy. by their heavyweight compadre, to do with all that power, which
1. XBRL will enable the good created some neat tools to help Photo credit: Chris Whiteside the 8740w, but as it turns out the is when the rumormongers
investments from small cap sip more effectively from that Discuss latter might be taking a bit expect this machine to be
companies to surface, but, firehose), ordinary investors will longer to launch due to its announced.
2. Only big cap companies be able to create really powerful inclusion of ATI's as yet [Thanks, Reznov]
report using XBRL (and they filters to find those "incredibly unannounced FirePro M7820 HP EliteBook 8740w specs
have no trouble reaching valuable and ridiculously cheap" GPU. Joining up with the earlier begin to take shape, ATI FirePro
investors). companies. leaked M5800, this is likely to M7820 revealed originally
form the backbone of ATI's pro appeared on Engadget on Thu,
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HealthCare
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Picture)
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and is out for the year. Last Wednesday night about why he
year, he cracked his vertebrae chose to come to Purdue out of
when Purdue was looking good. high school when the team was
Now, Purdue is not going to get awful.
a No. 1 seed, not going to reach "I could see the light at the end,"
the Final Four. Deep down, he said.
everyone here knows it, though
they say things like senior tough
guy Chris Kramer said
Bill Clinton-backed charity like Travelocity will give Greece’s ten-year bonds were
which raises money for global travelers, at the point of sale, the offering mouth-watering yields
health causes, brought out the option of giving just $2 towards of some 6%, twice the German
fashionable set (Becka Diamond fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria, level.
wearing a Thakoon dress and and tuberculosis. Click here to On March 3rd, however, the
Jen Kao spring 2010 runway join the MASSIVEGOOD mood changed. George
shoes: “I’m lucky that I’m a movement, and here to watch Papandreou, the prime minister,
sample size”) as well as music the Spike Lee-directed short at last threw his full weight
heavy-hitter Will.i.am. The film. behind austerity. His
Black Eyed Peas front-man was —Violet Moon Gayn or government announced some
on hand to record a song that Becka and her shoes severe measures: a rise in the
will serve as an anthem for the Photo: Kelly Stuart top rate of value-added tax,
global movement, while a short Follow ELLE on Twitter. from 19% to 21%, more
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fund you can stop worrying police cordon blocking the road pensions, which now eat up over
about where to get the money to to Mr Papandreou’s office as he 11% of GDP. A shortage of
finance the debt.” was announcing the new competent bureaucrats makes it
Greek trade unions are measures. They will soon be on harder to ensure that any new
predictably furious over the the march again, says their targets are met. If Greece is to
bonus cuts, which come on top union. “You cannot make ends stay on course, Mr
of a 4% pay cut they have meet on 400 euros a month,” Papaconstantinou and his team
already swallowed. Strikes will declared one retired plumber. So will have to keep putting in long
spread. Some strikers are Mr Papandreou’s approval hours. Readers' comments
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's
Job Creation Index -- based on
15,884 U.S. employees' self-
reports of hiring and firing
activity at their workplaces --
shows that perceptions of
current job market conditions
nationwide improved slightly in
February compared to January.
Conditions continue to be best
in the South and weakest in the
West, are improving in the
Midwest, and deteriorating
slightly in the East.
Twenty-five percent of
employees nationwide in
February told Gallup their
companies are hiring, an
increase from 23% in January;
23% said their companies are
letting people go (vs. 24% in
January). As is now well
recognized, firing is down
considerably from the level seen
during much of 2009. On the
other hand, hiring remains in the
same tight range it has exhibited
over the past year.
South: Remains the Best Job helped the keep the job situation -- up slightly from 22% in Midwestern job market West: Worst of the Regions but
Market in the South so positioned. January and 21% in December. conditions improved again in Showing Modest Improvement
Hiring in the South, at 27%, is East: Continued Deterioration The end of the financial crisis February. The source of the Conditions in the West
highest of any region -- and Job market conditions in the and the sharp gains on Wall improvement is an increase in improved modestly, with 22%
essentially the same as January's East continued to worsen in Street had led to a substantially hiring to 25% from 22% in hiring in February -- up from
26%, while the 22% "firing" is February, with 24% of improved job market in this part January; firing was unchanged 20% the prior month -- and 27%
tied for lowest with the employers hiring -- down of the country, but in recent at 22%. Midwest job market letting employees go (improved
Midwest. The South has slightly from 25% in January months, some of those gains conditions continue to benefit from 29%). While
generally had a stronger job and 26% in December. seem to have dissipated. from the improvement in the manufacturing and exports are
market than other regions over Simultaneously, 23% of Midwest: Continued manufacturing sector during
the past two years, and higher employers are letting people go Improvement recent months. FEBRUARY, page 69
year-over-year oil prices have
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FEBRUARY,
continued from page 68 Teleconferencing MeBot
helping job market conditions in also influence the government's random sample of
the West, this region continues
to suffer from some particularly
unemployment rate, while
Gallup's employment measures
approximately 500 current full-
and part-time employees each
Conveys Your Non-Verbal
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day.
Regional results for February Cues Over the Phone
Gallup's Job Creation Index based on a significantly are based on Gallup Daily Clay Dillow (Popular Science - glance, reproducing them via the
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job market conditions in Regardless of what numbers the more than 3,000 in each region. News, The Future Now) desk.
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and the unemployment rate been over the past year, and that margin of sampling error is ±3 - like the inability to get in a hand gestures so you can pat
improved slightly last month. about one in five Americans are percentage points. coworker's face and tell him coworkers on the back, point an
Wednesday's ADP report underemployed. It is little Interviews are conducted with exactly how little you think of accusatory finger or simply
showed private-sector surprise, then, that many respondents on land-line him. But MIT's MeBot ensures throw your hands up in disgust.
companies letting go of an Americans continue to see the telephones and cellular phones. your icy-cold stares, interested And since MeBot is mobile, the
estimated 20,000 employees in economy, including In addition to sampling error, nods and quizzical glances will u s e r c a n r o l l a r o u n d a
February -- the fewest in two unemployment, as the nation's question wording and practical never fall on deaf ears again. conference table or desk
years. In addition, the most important problem. difficulties in conducting Using a Web cam and a engaging more than one person
Challenger, Gray, and Christmas Survey Methods surveys can introduce error or specialized software package, in a conversation at a time while
report showed planned layoffs For Gallup Daily tracking, bias into the findings of public MeBot conveys all your controlling interpersonal
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with growing a feedstock like calculating the true carbon use? world. Deforestation and land ILUC. And while it is easy to
corn on an agro-industrial scale footprint of biofuels are indeed In Europe, the controversy over use changes are estimated to attack any environmental model
-- think farm equipment, complicated, the complexity is ILUC was reignited this week account for 12%-15% of global -- because by nature, models are
fertilizer, harvesting, raised to an exponential power when a British government C02 emissions. based on a series of
transporting the feedstock to the when the simultaneously report was leaked to the Times As such, when organizations assumptions, variables, and
biorefinery, converting the abstract and tangible concept of of London claiming that like the pro-ethanol lobby group projections -- something as
feedstock into ethanol/biodiesel, "Indirect Land Use (ILUC)" is although the European Renewable Fuels Association serious as climate change and
and further transporting the factored in. Commission requires each liter and Growth Energy publicly creating policy that seeks to
biofuel to a petroleum refinery The basic idea of ILUC is that of biofuel to reduce emissions cast doubt on the existence of mitigate it should not be left to
or service station -- require a as biofuels from crop plants by 35% compared to petroleum, Indirect Land Use Changes and special-interest groups that are
tremendous amount of energy, proliferate, there is less cropland biodiesel via palm oil actually attempt to mobilize their friends allowed to define science
especially when more than 10 available to grow food for increases emissions by 31% due in Congress to strip the EPA's according to their own agenda.
billion gallons of biofuel are human and animal to forests being converted into authority (see COP15: EPA's If science suggests that first-
being produced in any given consumption. As a plantations. Lisa Jackson Sings the Biofuel generation biofuels that come
year in the United States (see consequence, land, such as Why are forests so significant? Blues) to include ILUC in the from feedstocks like corn,
Ethanol and the Looming Blend forests, becomes converted into Forests can be thought of as the process of evaluating the carbon soybeans, palm oil, and
Wall). Similar to the need to crops. For example, the U.S. is lungs of the earth, serving a two footprint of biofuels, it is clear rapeseed are found to have a
view the carbon contained in the the largest grower and exporter -fold function in mitigating that such groups are more higher per-unit carbon footprint
adjacent processes that facilitate of corn in the world; it used 86.5 carbon. As deforestation interested in self-serving politics than petroleum, we need to have
petroleum production and million acres to grow 13.2 occurs, sequestered carbon than environmental stewardship. the courage to be authentic
distribution (and not just billion bushels of corn in 2009. contained in the tree is released These groups' categorical about it and examine whether
combustion), any authentic Approximately 30% of this crop into the atmosphere; dismissal of ILUC is the billions of dollars of
carbon audit of biofuels needs to is diverted to produce ethanol concurrently, those cut-down reminiscent of the Gore-Bush subsidies that we provide to
examine the carbon contained in (note that some of this is then trees are no longer able to debate in 2000, when Gore these industries could better be
the materials and components returned to the animal feed reabsorb C02 from the air. repeatedly cited economic data deployed to those advanced
embedded within the up-front market in the form of distillers More than one acre of forest is attacking the deficit biofuels -- such as algae -- that
fixed and operating costs. dried grains). The question is cleared every second on earth. consequences of Bush's do not need scarce cropland or
While this might seem whether the carbon footprint This translates to 100,000 acres prospective trillion dollar tax cut promote deforestation.
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(i.e., coal vs. renewable), the and oilseeds like soybeans that by new growth, the net loss is messy. The California Air
distance between the field and are no longer exported by the equal to 18 million acres. Resource Board (CARB) and
the processing facility, the way U.S. (due to ethanol and Indonesia and Brazil are the EPA (see EPA Issues
that the feedstock and biofuel biodiesel production) ought to third and fourth largest Renewable Fuel Standards) have
are transported (truck vs. barge be counted when considering contributors to global warming. vastly different conclusions
vs. railroad), etc. the GHGs of biofuels. If so, These two countries account for about corn ethanol's carbon
While the variables involved in what methodology does one 60% of all deforestation in the footprint when they factor in
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