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Donghae and Son Eun Seo are seen holding hands on a double date – allkpop
Jan 19th
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Donghae and Son Eun Seo are seen holding hands on a double date
allkpop by mintpepsi – 9 mins ago On January 19th, an online community board featured a posting titled, “Donghae and Son Eun Seo's Amusement Park Date.” In the photo, Donghae and Son Eun Seo are seen on a double date at an amusement park with 'We Got Married's … Leaked Photo of Donghae and Son Eun Seo Reignites Rumor of WGM Casting Super Junior's Donghae and actress Son Eun Seo Getting Married? |
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Infographic: Black Friday As Seen Through Foursquare Check-Ins
Nov 22nd
Black Friday is only three days away, and some people are already camping out in front of stores. Judging from Foursquare check-ins from last year in the US, peak shopping will happen at 2pm, Target & Best Buy will be swamped and department stores will be busiest. These stats and more from an…
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Rich Snippets for Apps: A New Way to be Seen in SERPs
Nov 9th
The Android Market, Apple iTunes, and CNET were among the earliest sites to began using rich application snippets, which were announced in September. These snippets will be important and includable for any software developer website, software publ…
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Big Question (Answered): “You’ve Seen the iPhone 4S… What Do You Think?”
Oct 4th
Following today’s iPhone event, ReadWriteWeb writers took you through the paces. From Siri, snail mail cards, facebook integration and iCloud to what everyone expected, and why that was dead wrong, you know what we think about today’s Apple event. You saw our take, now we want yours…
You’ve Seen the iPhone 4S… What Do You Think?
We culled your responses from Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.
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InterDigital Seen as a Defensive Weapon Against Google Patent Juggernaut
Aug 18th
“Our technology is used in every mobile phone,” reads a leaderboard-style ad on the home page of InterDigital, a wireless technology company that holds some 8,800 critical patents. An independent assessment last April of the relative value of communications companies’ patent portfolios by equity market analysis firm Ocean Tomo LLC rated the key 4G and 3G patents held by InterDigital (of which there are about 20) as about 4% more valuable, and 6% more relevant to significant communications platforms, than Nortel’s 20 key patents.
Financial analysts last week had perceived an upcoming InterDigital patent auction as a key opportunity for Google to pull itself back to par after having lost both its bids for the Nortel and Novell portfolios. But that was before last Monday’s announcement of Google’s intent to acquire Motorola Mobility (MMI).
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Nearly all bets were on Google to be the prime bidder for this huge intellectual property prize package, which was to have taken place as soon as this week. But now that the InterDigital auction has been postponed until sometime after Labor Day, as Reuters reported this morning, there’s significant speculation that Google’s move this week may actually have opened the door for Apple to make a killing next month.
At issue here is standards and who will end up controlling them. It’s a common perception that the proliferation of standards in any industry, including communications, enables participants in the industry to develop their technology in accepted ways. Sometimes “standards” and “openness” are viewed symmetrically, if not synonymously.
But in one of the most well-phrased analyses of this or any intellectual property situation, last June, Seeking Alpha contributor Ben Strubel encapsulated in one short paragraph the truth that many contributors to presumably open standards are just now realizing, with InterDigital as the subject of his illustration:
InterDigital is not in a proprietary technology business. That means that InterDigital designs technology that conforms to existing communications standards. This is very important. It means that other companies are essentially forced to license InterDigital’s patents.
Or to put it more bluntly if less eloquently, he who holds the standards sets the fees. According to another Reuters report yesterday, at least half of all pertinent 3G technology licenses are payable to InterDigital, with Apple being one of those shelling out the fees. Google had reportedly already expressed interest in the InterDigital portfolio in prior months, but the reason for the auction’s delay, according to Reuters, is to give prospective bidders more time to do due diligence research on the portfolio’s value, particularly in the wake of the Motorola bid. This suggests that bidders other than Google are interested in the defensive value of the InterDigital portfolio. Reuters’ sources speculate the leading interested parties are Apple and Qualcomm.
Licensing is the key revenue stream for the telecommunications industry, and the only way for a company to move that stream in its own direction is to be owed more in license fees than it owes others. Ocean Tomo believes the InterDigital portfolio to be about 17% more valuable, and 15% more relevant, than the MMI portfolio that Google may acquire in its $12.5 billion bid. If that’s accurate, and the Google/MMI deal is consummated, then conceivably Google may end up owing more to Apple or Qualcomm than it would be owed – making its entire entry into the manufacturing business something of a wash.
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King of Spam Seen on Google Plus, Turns Himself in to FBI For Facebook Phishing
Aug 5th
Spam King Sanford Wallace has turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wallace is facing multiple counts of fraud and related activity and has been charged with three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt. Wallace, who is notorious in spam circles and has been advocating for spam since the 1990s, ran a phishing scam through Facebook that resulted in more than 27 million spam messages.
Wallace was released on $100,000 bail. In 2009 Facebook sued Wallace for his part in spam messages on Facebook and was awarded a $711 million settlement. Most recently, Wallace has been seen on Google Plus where the majority of his pictures and posts are from nightclubs. He currently lists his occupation as “nightclub business / poker” and Google Plus lists his current residence as Las Vegas.
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Wallace was banned from Facebook, which court documents show he violated by creating a fake profile and logging into Facebook on a Virgin airlines flight from Las Vegas to New York. Wallace also violated the ban by creating a profile called David Sinful-Saturdays Fredericks that was active from Jan. 26 to Feb. 16, 2011.
Wallace started his reign as the self-styled Spam King in the mid-1990s when he formed a company called Cyber Promotions (Cyberpromo) that was one of the first companies on the Internet to be widely blacklisted for sending unsolicited emails. The company was dissolved shortly thereafter. In 2004 the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Wallace alleging that his new company put spyware on users’ computers and then offered to fix the problem for a fee. The FTC filed suit again in 2006 and ordered Wallace in his associates to pay more than $5 million in fees.
Wallace turned to social networks a year later and was sued by MySpace in 2007 for phishing and spamming by creating 11,000 or so profiles that attempted to push users to porn and gambling websites. A judge fined Wallace $230 million after he did not show for a court date in 2008.
Contacted on Google Plus and then on email, Wallace said “I can’t comment on any of this at this exact moment but I will be asking my attorney if I can send out a general comment in the next day or so.”
Wallace’s first post on Google Plus came on July 11, about two weeks after the initial invite only rollout of the service. His first post was “I am allowed to use this service.” Of which, the first comment was “for now lol jkjk.”
Sanford goes by the name DJ MasterWeb and was a disc jockey in Rochester, New Hampshire during the early 2000s. He is also known as “Spamford.”
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Slight Increase in Paid Android App Downloads Seen Again, Says Chomp
Aug 1st
Mobile application search and discovery service Chomp has released its June 2011 report on app search trends and found that, for the second consecutive month, paid app downloads on Android have increased. The increases are small – paid Android app downloads increased just 2% from April to May and only 1% from May to June.
And in total, only 6% of all Android downloads on Chomp’s network were paid.
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In other words, these small jumps don’t seem to signify any major shift in the overall trend involving the dominance of free apps on Android. However, it will be interesting to watch this space to see if this trend continues. After all, over time, even small increases can add up.
The 1% increase on Android was spread out across multiple price points, but the $4.01 – $5.00 range saw the largest jump, from 0.1% to 0.6%. The most popular categories were games, utilities and entertainment.
In comparison, iOS app developers saw a 4% increase in paid app last month, over May. The ranges seeing the most growth there were the $0.99 and $1.99 price points. The $4.99 price point also saw an increase, going from 0.8% in May to 1.0% in June, while the $9.99 price point declined from 0.3% in May to 0.1% in June.
In addition, the word “free” was the number one search term across all countries sampled on Android, through the Chomp app for Android.
On iOS, the company saw much more diversity on search terms, although “games” was a popular query.
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Twitter’s Importance to SEO Seen as Growing – PCWorld
Jun 7th
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Twitter's Importance to SEO Seen as Growing
PCWorld She also recommends using a company's existing SEO keywords in Twitter messages. Four Seasons now has a brand account plus an account for each of 85 hotels, he said. All the accounts follow each other and repost Twitter messages when appropriate. … Twitter's importance to SEO seen as growing |
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4 API Trends Seen in Programmable Web’s Milestone Numbers
Mar 8th
The numbers of APIs on Programmable Web has shot to 3,000, up from 2,000 one year ago. The numbers show trends in the overall use of APIs, the way they are being applied and the now dominant place that REST and JSON have compared to other APIs and data formats.
The increase is testament to Programmable Web and the excellent service that the group has provided and the increasing popularity of APIs in all kinds of use cases.
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The increase in APIs has been steady and steep over the past few years. It took three years to get to 1,000 APIs and less than two years to reach the 2,000 mark. Now it is on its way to 4,000 after cresting the 3,000 total in less than nine months.
Executive Editor Adam DuVander posts that some trends are emerging as APIs increase in popularity:
- The Service is the API: APIs are launching from scratch without any associated service. The service is the API and the company is the API.
- Services Are More Useful: Urban Airship and SimpleGeo represent how services cater to developers to make their work easier. Urban Airship adds push notifications and in-app purchases to mobile applications. The SimpleGeo API stores location data for developers, in addition to providing business listing data.
- REST and JSON Are Rising in Popularity: SOAP APIs are relaunching as REST APIs. That in itself says quite a bit. XML is still tops in the directory as a data format but developers are swarming to JSON. DuVander says JSON makes it easier to read data into JavaScript without a complex parser. He also says many are also going JSON-only.” In the last year 281 APIs were added that support JSON and don’t provide XML.”
- APIs Fuel Internal Usage APIs are turning services into one giant mashup. For example, Twitter’s website is the most common way to use Twitter. That is followed by Twitter for mobile and Twitter for iPhone. All three are built on the same API available to developers.
The APIs on Programmable Web show how infrastructures are affecting the way applications are deployed. An API infrastructure means developers can use lots of services to create apps. All live in the same ecosystem.
As more APIs enter the stream, we will see more diversity in how services reach people and by extension will affect how people interact in a Web and app oriented universe.
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