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Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
Dec 12th
Holiday deal sites that Bing banned from its search listings just before the busy shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday have now been allowed to return. They include a site run by the group that created the entire Cyber Monday concept. Banned: Not Your Usual Suspects We reported previously…
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Daily Wrap: The Return of Reasonable Debate and More
Nov 29th
ReadWriteWeb commenters continue to teach us lessons. Today’s lesson is one of reasoned debate in the age of ad hominem attacks. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. This is a new feature at ReadWriteWeb so we covet your feedback. If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments below or reach out to me directly at robyn at readwriteweb.com.
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3 Lessons Learned from the SOPA Debate Last Week
Last week we published a legal analysis of SOPA. Two commenters, e-novel publisher, Rowena Cherry, and TechDirt founder, Michael Masnick, engaged in a lively debate that inspired Scott Fulton to write up the lessons we should learn from such an intelligent, if not always perfectly polite, conversation. Since so many internet communities have thrown away vigorous but reasoned debate and turned to personal attacks instead, I hope we can learn from Rowena’s and Michael’s example.
Here are a few more must read posts, chosen by your fellow community members.
Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware Back Puppet Labs with $8.5 Million
Now You Can Tether Your iPhone to Your Laptop Without a Monthly Fee [Updated: Not Anymore]
BradBell is amazed that we’re still dealing with this issue in 2011.
Who would ever imagine, with all the innovation in digital communications, we’d be paying the lions share to the poor, dumb, half-assed telephone companies for the thumb on our wind pipes.
Google Opens the Door to Mobile Maps Inside Buildings
Google Ditches The Black Bar, Puts Search Atop All Pages
How Facebook Screwed With Everyone’s Privacy And What It’s Doing About It
The Five Signs That an Application is Ripe For the Cloud
EU Advocate General: You Can’t Copyright a Programming Language
The iPad Isn’t Just Killing PC Sales – Memory Chips Take a Hit Too
Tom Foremski, a ReadWriteWeb reader, added:
DRAM makers have always been losing money, way too much over-production is the cause, not iPads. Otherwise you would see an effect on microprocessor sales, and you don’t, Intel is killing it every quarter.
Windows Phone Outperforms Android and iOS In Mobile Advertising, Smaato Reports
ReadWriteWeb commenter, Jonathan Neumann wondered:
I’d be very curious to know what other mobile developers think too. I just released an iPhone app following the traditional paid scheme, but I am wondering if I shouldn’t also offer this app with ads. Would you recommend ad-supported apps, fellow coders?
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MLB.com Challenge 4th Inning: The Point of No Return
Nov 11th
Hinds Hall, Syracuse University campus, 2:48 am ET November 11 – Three in the morning is a magical time. There’s a certain weightlessness about 3 am, when you’re up all night working on a huge project, after midnight has hurdled you into the great unknown, when you realize you’re reaching maximum altitude and every action seems effortless. Inertia seems to carry you forward, and for a few moments, it’s as though your body were floating in front of you.
From the point of view of 3 am, everything seems equalized. The pressure subsides, a new rhythm enters your head, and only tomorrow exists. For the students cranking away at the MLB.com University Challenge, there’s no question any more about which way to go. That decision was already made, the booster stage has already blasted off, and from here until the rest of the project, they’ll be feeling more and more like passengers.
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Team “Winston” is now committed to a Flash-based interactive mockup of its “game within a game.” They’ve moved from one of the conference rooms to one of the open iLabs, where each terminal has dual monitors, the air circulates a little more, and there’s the sound of other students in the hallways to keep you from feeling you’re in a cavern.
Ross is driving “Winston’s” vision with his trademark laser-like precision and intensity. You get the feeling that, if he were your younger brother, he’d still be badgering you like your older one.
Elsewhere in the iLabs, the “Web Gems” have hit upon an HTML5 motif. They’ve seen some impressive demos of layering, where separate elements can scroll at different speeds, creating a Disney-like rotoscoping effect.
Right now, they’re scrolling everything they can find, and they’re raiding the Web for photos. What they don’t have in mind quite yet is an application for their vision, but they know they have a technology and they’re storing up the energy to drive it. Which makes “Web Gems” like a great many Silicon Valley startups.
“The Walkoffs” have the most experienced talent in the game: two of them graduate students, one of them a senior majoring in aerospace engineering, one a senior majoring in architecture. And Reynaldo, the only sophomore, is the expert on the Android SDK. Chris, a library science major, is a JavaScript expert. His vision is to create a fully working mockup, not using Flash, but real events captured by the browser, processed, then rendered using jQuery.
Like a battle cry for the ages, Chris has emblazoned along the top of the whiteboard in his cramped lab room, “Flash is dead!” You can see the remnants of impromptu lectures he’s been giving on JavaScript events architecture. He’s teaching Deven, a computer science major but not yet the jQuery expert, how the jQuery syntax simplifies itself by chaining new methods onto the end of the results of earlier ones. The trick they’re working on at the moment, apparently, is knowing the variable type of the returned value before passing it to the next method.
It’s not the type of subject matter that keeps Deven’s eyes from glazing over at 3:30. He’s starting to switch to autopilot mode, as they engage the help of Reynaldo’s Droid phone, which is hooked up via USB cable. They’re trying to find which events fire at what times, so they can chain the events to one another in jQuery in the right order. This way, if they’re successful, they might be the only team to show their real-world mockup not on an SDK, but with an actual, live smartphone demo.
They’re not seeing the results they’re looking for, and they’re starting to blame the Android operating system. There’s too many simultaneous versions, Chris notes, so some phones may fire events that are recognized by jQuery 1.7, and some won’t. That’s a problem in the end, because Chris wants believability. He doesn’t want to say his team’s demo can do something, if it can’t work on a Droid.
“Rubin’s Army” is spinning out. They’ve abandoned their previous ideas, and now they’re scanning through the history page of the existing MLB.com in search of clues for where to go now. Their palms are telling them the only place they’d really like to go contains pillows.
“SRFA” is made up of management and entrepreneurship majors, who also happen to be dedicated console gamers. They know the Asian games market as well as, if not better than, the U.S. market. And German (pronounced “H-herr-mann,” he tells me, with Ricardo Montalban’s accent) has hit upon a market need he’d like to fill: There’s no franchise game for smartphones in the U.S. based on Major League Baseball. Ironically, there is one in South Korea, and it’s a huge hit.
From German’s perspective, it’s a no-brainer: Obviously the MLB franchise needs a smartphone game. So instead of writing one, think like a businessman, he proposes. Buy the two existing games that are already written and already supported. Merge the best parts of both into a single unit, and market it as “MLB: Challenge.” Launch it online with a downloadable component at a low $5 price point.
It would solve the problem of having to create a mockup, German reasons, as he begins listing the reasons for doing it on the whiteboard he is now the unchallenged master of. Why mock up something that’s already a huge hit? There is the problem of tying it in with the MLB.com Web site, the others point out. Don’t focus on it as a problem, German posits like a marketing specialist, but recast it as a solution. MLB.com doesn’t have a smartphone game. That’s a market void. Here’s something to fill it. Bam.
For some reason, it’s hard to sit through marketing jargon when the clock on the wall says 4 am. Funny, but at 3 am, the world seemed so effortless. Now all of a sudden, “vertical” is a direction that takes many opposing angles at once. And horizontal is starting to look like the best one of all.
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How To Measure The True Return On Your Ad Spend
Nov 11th
Proprietary campaign management systems (eg AdWords, AdCenter, Facebook, etc) allow advertisers to track conversions and manage towards efficiency metrics such as Cost per Acquisition or Order (CPA / CPO). Some, such as AdWords and AdCenter, take performance management a bit further and allow…
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GOLF: LPGA event will return to La Costa in 2012 – North County Times
Oct 24th
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GOLF: LPGA event will return to La Costa in 2012
North County Times Hee Kyung Seo, from South Korea, kisses the trophy after winning the Kia Classic at La Costa Resort and Spa on March 28, 2010. The Kia Classic will return to La Costa in 2012. File photo Hayne Palmour IV/North County Times The LPGA announced Monday … LPGA makes return to La Costa official Kia Classic returns to La Costa Resort and Spa in 2012 LPGA's Kia Classic to return to La Costa after 1-year absence |
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The Return of Phone Tag
Sep 29th
Many of us remember when the new fangled fax machine was first called a telecopier and was going to revolutionize office communications. How far we have come since then. But with all the various waves of tech to revolutionize our offices, I think we have almost come full circle back to the lonely telephone. (You can still buy one at Amazon, of course.)
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When email first became a part of my corporate life, many bemoaned the death of the hierarchal organization. The notion, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, went like this: since anyone can email his or her boss, there was a flattening of the corporate structure. We could send memos up the corporate food chain at will, and this took some of the authority from our direct managers as well as the nature of reporting relationships. But there was a benefit: No more phone tag. People sitting next to each other in the same office would rather email each other than pick up the phone. Those that got really good at email would set up email listservs, one-to-many conversations.
One big change in the email era was that the notion of an administrative assistant, or a departmental secretary, became rarer. Workers typed their own reports, and filed their own correspondence in their electronic inboxes. I don’t think I have been in an organization with any secretaries for more than 20 years.
Enter the fax machine and IM
Before email there was this thing first called a telecopier that would take six minutes to send a page of text. That was going to remove the spatial dimension and allow work teams to be located around the world. Well the fax machine did help, but it wasn’t until IM became popular for business use that we could instantly get in touch. Email wasn’t fast enough. And, by the way, even less phone tag, since you can just message someone.
I saw folks IM each other that were sitting three cubes away. Those that got really good at IM would do group chat discussions, many-to-many conversations. Those organizations that got really, really good at IM would hire people anywhere, it didn’t matter where, because they were instantly part of the hive mind. You just needed an enlightened boss who could feel comfortable about managing remote staffers.
But email, fax, and IM seem so last year. Now we are in the social networking era. That extended the notion of who is your colleague, because now you have insight into the social graph of a company. With just a few keystrokes, we can find the resident expert in Middle Eastern business, or who knows how this plastic part is fabricated, or where to go to get this analysis run, or who can help me with fixing my PowerPoint slides. And even less phone tag, since we don’t talk anymore on our phones to anyone. I had a discussion on our text chat line earlier this week where we made fun of PR folks that actually had the nerve to call us. In real time. On the telephone.
Return of the phone
But this brings me to my point: we have eliminated so much telephone time that now when someone does dial us (and the verb is still used despite the fact that phones haven’t had dials for some time), it becomes singular and noteworthy.
Well, organizations have become flatter, and certainly some have become more innovative and inclusive in their decision-making. But the hard part is not to be flat, but to be effective, no matter what the structure. Here is the thing: as companies succeed, they need to have more middle managers. As a manager, you can’t have 30 direct reports if you plan on spending time with each one. So you have to set up some structure, no matter whether you use email, Facebook or carrier pigeon. Even our most hyper-communicative companies like Microsoft and Google have lots of middle managers today.
So we have almost come full circle, back to the phone. When it rings it is either a PR person trying to follow up on an earlier email (bad) or someone really important, who wants to jump ahead of my email inbox, my unread Facebook feeds, and my latest tweets. Sigh.
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SEO Offers Better Return Than Pay Per Click Says IM3.co.uk – PR Web (press release)
Sep 13th
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SEO Offers Better Return Than Pay Per Click Says IM3.co.uk
PR Web (press release) Targeted campaigns usually take a different format according to SEO company IM3.co.uk. With so many specialist industries and companies which offer a very specific answer to a infrequent requirement, paying for clicks or organic SEO is the only answer … |
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Google Upgrades Image Search: New Recent Image Filter & Old Filters Return
Jul 14th
Google has recently been emphasizing current/fresh images in its image search product, and that effort continued today with the announcement of a new time-based filter. And unannounced is the re-appearance of other filters that went missing in Google’s recent redesign. Let’s start with…
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Flaherty’s return sparks Lady Wrecker laxwomen in Class L playoff win – Westport-News
Jun 4th
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Flaherty's return sparks Lady Wrecker laxwomen in Class L playoff win
Westport-News Photo: Contributed Photo / John Seo / CT Staples junior Jessie Ambrose scores a goal against Southington in the Class L playoffs Thursday. Ambrose had four goals and four assists in the Lady Wreckers' 19-9 victory. Photo: Contributed Photo / John Seo … |
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