Google Penguin Update News

• ...bleep!SEO Company Surviving Despite the Deep Freeze - PR Web (press release)

  

  PR Web (press release)SEO Company Surviving Despite the Deep FreezePR Web (press release)Hundreds of company websites have recently noticed alterations in their search engine ranking, due to Google's most recent Algorithm update. The new algorithm up…
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• Google's Penguin Update Continues to Smack Small Business - Marketing Pilgrim

  

  Marketing PilgrimGoogle's Penguin Update Continues to Smack Small BusinessMarketing PilgrimThe story focuses on two small online business who have suffered devastating losses since the latest Google search update known as Penguin. The owner of Oh My…
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Web Pro News

• ...bleep!Iran Might Sue Over Google Map

  

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• Can Negative Parameters Tell You If You Were Hit By Google’s Penguin Update?
  Barry Scwhartz posted this week about a Google query hack, which may or may not enable you to confirm that your site was hit by Google’s Penguin update. Schwartz credits WebmasterWorld member Martin Ice Web with the find. The user …
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Groupm News

• ...bleep!Focus on advertising effectiveness - Malaysia Star
  Malaysia StarFocus on advertising effectivenessMalaysia StarGroupM Malaysia, believed to be the countrys largest media agency group, fully realises this. It is therefore coming out with several insights products this year to ensure that its clients (…
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• No more monkey business at NBC, time for Revolution | The Republic - The Republic
  No more monkey business at NBC, time for Revolution | The RepublicThe RepublicLyle Schwartz, managing partner at media buying firm GroupM, said small victories are all NBC can hope for right now. "They need to develop solid programming and build upon…
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• Ecommerce Booming Down Under - The FINANCIAL
  Ecommerce Booming Down UnderThe FINANCIALIn the April 2012 issue of GroupM's semi-annual report “This Year, Next Year,” the media investment management firm forecast total ecommerce in Australia to reach AU$36 billion ($37.1 billion) in 2012, up…
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• Mindshare Shuffles Executive Deck, Doyle To Agency President - MediaPost Communications
  MediaPost CommunicationsMindshare Shuffles Executive Deck, Doyle To Agency PresidentMediaPost CommunicationsDoyle is a longtime GroupM veteran who served as CEO at MEC from 2007 until stepping down in late last year. He was replaced by Marla Kaplowit…
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• When Data Gathering Gets Creepy - MediaPost Communications
  MediaPost CommunicationsWhen Data Gathering Gets CreepyMediaPost CommunicationsBut as John Montgomery, COO of GroupM Interaction, North America pointed out, the real problem is that people are largely ignorant about what marketers and agencies are do…
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• Behind The Brand: GroupM President Dominic Proctor Explains Media's Evolution - Forbes
  Behind The Brand: GroupM President Dominic Proctor Explains Media's EvolutionForbesNewly named GroupM President Dominic Proctor, who oversees GroupM media shops globally, started his ad career 30 years ago, and he's witnessed industry changes he neve…
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• Happy Birthday MEC - MediaPost Communications
  Best Media InfoHappy Birthday MECMediaPost Communicationsby Joe Mandese, Yesterday, 10:48 AM That's right, GroupM media services network MEC turns 10-years-old today, and it's marking the occasion with a press release (re-pasted below). Of course, it…
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• Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry - New York Times
  Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising IndustryNew York TimesAmerican Eagle also selected MediaCom, part of the GroupM division of WPP, to be its worldwide media agency. And ArnoldNYC, the Arnold office in New York, was chosen as the lead cre…
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• Xaxis Launches Asia-Pacific Headquarters to Provide Global Advertisers with ... - MarketWatch (press release)
  Digital Market AsiaXaxis Launches Asia-Pacific Headquarters to Provide Global Advertisers with ...MarketWatch (press release)Mark Patterson, CEO GroupM Asia Pacific, commented, "We have ambitious plans with Xaxis in the region. Our drive for value an…
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• WPP PLC : GroupM cross-chanel attribution capabilities cited by independent ... - 4-traders
  WPP PLC : GroupM cross-chanel attribution capabilities cited by independent ...4-tradersNEW YORK - GroupM's Business Science unit and its LIVE technology platform have been cited by a leading independent evaluator as a top provider in the cross-chann…
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Asia One Tech News

• New lawsuit takes aim at Facebook privacy
  Alleges that Facebook was improperly tracking Internet use of its members. -AFP
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• Fossil of giant turtle found in Colombia
  Turtle with a shell the size of a small car that lived 60 million years ago. -Korea Herald/ANN
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• Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option
  However, the code can only be enforced by websites that the user chooses to visit. -Reuters
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• People are more truthful in text messages: Study
  Text messaging yielded more precise answers because there was less time pressure as compared to a phone interview. -AsiaOne
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• Nokia Lumia 900 to hit Singapore on May 26
  The Windows phone with a 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor has a retail price of $849. -DigitalOne
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Clickz Asia

• Xerox Selectively Testing Emerging Marketing Platforms
  A Twitter campaign increased followers by 50%.
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• Pinterest Could Expand Into Asia Pacific
  Japanese e-commerce giant leads a $100 million investment in the social network.
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• Europe and Asia: Email Marketing on Two Continents
  How Asia can look to Europe and Europe to Asia for email marketing best practices.
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• Approaches to Information Architecture and Digital Campaigns
  Three practical tips to tackling IA and usability for your digital campaigns under time and budget constraints.
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• Interest vs. Social in Japan
  How the interest graph has shaped the Japanese social media landscape
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Pen Olson Tech News

• Startup Communities in Indonesia [#StartupAsia Preview]
  A tech ecosystem usually consists of startup founders, angel investors, VCs, government, universities, media, and communities. What often happens is that most people focus only on the entrepreneurs and the ones who invests in them — angels or ventu…
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• Hello Investors: Free Facebook Shares if You Open An Account With 8Securities
  Facebook has gone public today (as NASDAQ:FB), and Hong Kong-based financial trading startup, 8Securities (who just announced $1.5 million of additional funding this morning), is offering something of a treat. 8Securities will provide US$200 worth of…
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• Japanese Web Service Helps us Identify First Signs of Depression
  It’s a stressful world we live in. A report indicated that one in every fifteen people is depressed in Japan [1]. Perhaps you have noticed a friend or a colleague showing signs of depression? Maybe it shows in a tweet or in a post on Facebook, or s…
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• China Mobile Has 15.6 Million Users in Pakistan
  I’m going to be honest — I didn’t even know China Mobile operated in Pakistan (we don’t cover central Asia too often). But it does — via a subsidiary company branded “Zong” — and apparently the company has been enjoying impressive gro…
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• After a Record Quarter, China’s Tencent Reorganizes Business Structure
  There’s been talk of this happening for a few days now, but we finally received official word from Tencent (HKG:0700) today to confirm that it will be reorganizing its business into six business groups. These will be based on its existing business…
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SG Entrepreneurs

• ...bleep!Shedding light on future mobile and wireless trends at UNWIRED 2012
  Hear it from the industry leaders. As mobile broadband adoption continues unabated in 2012, the telecom industry is facing a new era of opportunity and challenges to deliver a smooth experience in the increasingly important mobile cloud. Listen to th…
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• ...bleep!Latest Startup Jobs in Southeast Asia – 19 May
  If you are reading SGE, you are probably already partial to startups, perhaps having founded one yourself or are working in one. If not, why not consider joining a dynamic startup to see for yourself what it is like working with just two other people…
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• ...bleep!Connecting Europe and Southeast Asia at the 5th Seed Forum Singapore
  Seed Forum is a global organization hosting investor conferences in more than 30 countries and is considered as one of the most professional and experienced venues for presentations of investor ready start-up companies. The mission of Seed Forum is t…
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• Chatworthy lets you see nearby Instagram posts, in full retina glory
  The last time we saw mobile app Chatworthy was at DEMO Asia 2012, where Keeran Janin, co-founder of Brunei startup MeSixty, gave a pitch about the product they’re developing (watch a short video interview with Keeran at DEMO Asia). Now, they have l…
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• Web Wednesday: The Past, Present and Future of Location Based Media
  Come to the Web Wednesday Singapore to find out what you need to know about “The Past, Present and Future of Location Based Media”. Join us for a conversation about this topic with Constantine Frantzeskos, Regional Digital Engagement Director, As…
  - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 7:14am -

Technode

• ...bleep!The Most Bizarre Tech Startup: Bury Your Deceased Loved Ones in Space and Get a SMS Every Time They Pass Over You
  When I was in Seoul recently I met a tall French man named Thomas Civeit. The usual chatter popped up, “What are you doing?” I asked. “A start-up.” He replied. But he proceeded to tell me about his idea which is definitely the most bizarre on…
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• ...bleep!Sina Debuts Social Magazine Sina View
  Sometimes I am such a fossil, when I want to read news I’ll only refer to news sites, and when I feel like interacting with friends I’ll use SNS apps. And if I incidentally have access to too much irrelevant information while I’m reading news o…
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• Infographic: Tencent Restructure 2012′
  Tencent today officially announced its restructure plan to reorganized the heavy-weighted company into six business groups, including TEG (Technical Engineering Group), SNG (Social Networking Group), CDG (Corporate Development Group), IEG (Interacti…
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• China’s UC Browser to Branch out into U.S.
  UC Browser, the largest mobile browser in China by adoption will be opening an office in the U.S. in the second half of this year, according to Yu Yongfu, founder and CEO of the company. Not only UCWeb will compete with those homegrown rivals in the…
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• Tencent to Restructure into Six Groups
  Tencent, the Chinese Internet juggernaut was rumored to undergo a major overhaul of its businesses through which the company would be reorganized into six groups, local portal site Sohu reported citing sources. The six groups include: TEG (Technical…
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e27 Tech News

• ...bleep!Upcoming UNWIRED 2012 Conference will explore opportunities in mobile
  With the mobile industry exploding and more opportunities unveiling itself in this industry, companies are no longer undermining the mobile phone.Singapore’s independent wireless and mobile conference, UNWIRED…
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• ...bleep!Microsoft Corporate VP Hadba urges app designers to think of cloud design before anything else
  A  session held on the 15 May for Indonesian local startups, “Microsoft BizSpark Startup Night” witnessed the presence of a special guest speaker, Walid Abu-Hadba.The Palestinian-born tech executve, who was also the main presenter, is the Redm…
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• ...bleep!Adobe Camp Indonesia to showcase skills of local developers and designers
  Adobe User Group Indonesia will organize Adobe Camp Indonesia to raise the awareness of the local Adobe community and introduce attendees to the local user groups.On the 24th of May 2012, participants of the Adobe Camp Indonesia would hear…
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• ...bleep!Klik-Eat, Indonesia’s online food delivery portal, talks about doubling up as a B2B and a B2C company
  Have you ever been caught in the following situations?“It’s raining outside, I don’t feel like…
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• ...bleep!Ex-Director of Cookpad, Yongfook, builds Tinytrunk to help SEA independent fashion brands go online
  Yongfook is a serial web entrepreneur. He was previously a Director of Glamour Sales, a high-end commerce  flash site with operations in Japan and China, which was funded up to Series-C. He was a consultant for Dentsu, Avenue A and Razorfish,…
  - 8 hours ago, 19 May 12, 1:00am -

ZDNet Asia

• Gartner: Mobile CRM gives better ROI than social
  Mobile strategy for customer relationship management not only "imperative", but offers better returns on investment from improved sales conversions and cost efficiencies, analysts say.Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the…
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• High-end IT helping automakers design small cars in India
  Tech tools cut launch cycle from 10 to 4 years, allowing car manufacturers to reduce time-to-market and offer better features in small cars.
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• GPUs offer analytics boost
  Graphics processing good fit with data analytics but enterprise uptake will take time to peak due to lack of optimized software and expertise to build such apps, industry insiders say.
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• Nvidia: 'Genius' for Microsoft to split Windows
  Redmond clever to provision Windows for ARM-based tablet devices as it is more likely to succeed than Windows 8 on x86-based mobile devices, CEO reckons.
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• Creating a liquid layout for an Agile Platform theme
  Justin James details how he used one of Matthew James Taylor's "The Holy Grail" liquid layouts to create a modern, CSS-driven OutSystems Agile Platform theme.
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Campaign Singapore

• Mindshare Singapore to launch mobile marketing team
  SINGAPORE - Mindshare Singapore will be launching a mobile marketing team in July, in response to the growing mobile spend among the agency’s clients.
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• SMU's revamped website to provide consistent experience across all devices
  SINGAPORE - Singapore Management University (SMU) will launch a revamped website using fully responsive web design (RWD), by the end of this year.
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• CASE STUDY: How Nokia captures the Qwerty device category
  Nokia Indonesia used an online campaign, entitled the “Qwerty Challenge', to promote its new product Nokia Asha 303 with a fun twist.
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• Y&R opens doors to four start-ups in bid to enhance innovation
  SINGAPORE – Y&R is to open its doors to a DJ, a talent manager, a gamification company and a social media loyalty start-up as part of a strategy to enhance its digital capabilities.
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• Branded reappoints Fulford PR for Music Matters event
  SINGAPORE - Branded has reappointed Fulford PR as the PR agency of record for Digital and Music Matters and Music Matters Live showcase, to handle the trio of events in the 2012 installment.
  - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 2:35pm -

Campaign Asia

• Fonterra's regional digital pitch narrowed to three agencies
  ASIA-PACIFIC - Multinational New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra has narrowed its digital pitch to three agencies: Tribal DDB, Ogilvy One and incumbent Proximity.
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• Fairfax Media makes its papers interactive with AirLink
  SYDNEY - Australian media company Fairfax Metro Media has launched a new feature for its iPhone App, which will allow readers to scan selected images in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun Herald to view additional content on their phones.
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• Yili campaign tells tales of Olympic spirit demonstrated by ordinary Chinese
  BEIJING - Dairy brand Yili is using a series of outdoor print ads, microfilms, and TVCs in its 'Let’s Olympic Together' campaign to tell stories of the Olympic dreams of ordinary people in China and continue to capitalise on its involvement with th…
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• OPINION: The curious case of Kru Angkana
  RamKrishna Raja, digital managing director at IPG Mediabrands, looks at how a child's innocent YouTube rant went viral and woke up marketers to the potential of viral and earned media in Thailand.
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• Singapore mobile shopping grew 660 per cent in 2011: PayPal
  SINGAPORE – Mobile commerce market in Singapore skyrocketed by 660 per cent between 2010 and 2011, fueled by a rise in mobile shoppers and increase in spend per head, a PayPal study shows.
  - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:36pm -

Adage

• ...bleep!Facebook's $38 IPO at End of First Day of Trading Worth ... $38
  Shares Rose 23 Cents, Giving the Company a $104.2 Billion Market Value
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• Top 10 Twitter Trends of the Week: 'Little Monsters' Multiply and Pop Grips the Chart
  HootSuite's Twitter Week in Review, May 11-18
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• Yahoo Taps Mollie Spilman as New Chief Marketing Officer
  Another PayPal Exec and Thompson Ally Shrauger, Will Leave Company
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CMO.com

• ...bleep!April Is Another Record-Breaking Month For Video Advertising: 9.5 Billion Online Video Ads Served
  181 million people who watched almost 37 billion video segments on top of those 9.5 billion ads.
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• ...bleep!GM Says Super Bowl Ads Too Expensive And Bows Out
  For GM, it's the second major advertising change it confirmed this week. On Tuesday the company said it would pull $10 million in ads from Facebook, saying they weren't effective.
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• The New Muzak: Scent Marketing
  Scent marketing is becoming as ubiquitous as piped-in Muzak -- one company claims its business is growing 50 percent annually.
  - 15 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:02pm -

Clickz

• E-commerce May Not Come Soon to Pinterest
  A Japanese e-commerce giant led $100M VC investment.
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• Women and Swing State Visitors Big on Facebook
  Hitwise said 1 in every 5 page views in the U.S. happened on Facebook.
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• Study: Websites Managing Average of 14 Third Party Tags
  Survey measures tags from ads, analytics, email and social media firms.
  - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 10:18pm -

Net Imperative

• More stories? Follow links to our mirror website
  Netimperative is currently in the process of upgrading its publishing platform. Growth in audiences mean we’ve reached capacity on some of our servers so if you can’t find the story you’re looking for on these pages then try our mirror site, he…
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• Data: Most downloaded mobile apps by sector
  The most downloaded mobile apps by sector in the UK, among those who reported downloading an app during August 2010.
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• More stories? Follow links to our mirror website
  Netimperative is currently in the process of upgrading its publishing platform. Growth in audiences mean we’ve reached capacity on some of our servers so if you can’t find the story you’re looking for on these pages then try our mirror site, he…
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• Right to reply: The New Twitter – a sticky, revenue-rich service that blitzes the third-party apps
  Twitter is now a 'destination website' and that means it is gunning for Facebook, but cleverly avoiding a direct dogfight. It’s more an information network than a social network and so is offering much, much more. Tanya Goodin, CEO of search and so…
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• Sainsbury’s online video campaign introduces the ‘Tiny Taste Team’
  Sainsbury’s is launching a month long digital campaign on Facebook, billed as “Junior Masterchef meets Ready Steady Cook”, with the twist that the contestants’ summer themed recipes will be judged by three nine year olds.
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Gizmag

• ...bleep!One Street Tweeter - the Twitter-powered road-painting printer
  The G8 Summit, the annual meeting of leaders from eight of the world’s largest economies, is always a popular venue for protestors who don’t like what some of those leaders are doing. While you may not be able to make it to this year’s upcoming…
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• ...bleep!One-room London apartment transformed into a two-level luxury home
  When it comes to urban living, architectural innovation is very much about maximizing use of space. This example from London based firm Hogarth Architects does just that by taking a simple studio apartment and transforming it into a luxury multi-leve…
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• ...bleep!Wind-prospecting balloon could seek out locations for turbines
  There’s wind in that thar sky ... That’s the sort of thing that – conceivably – might be wistfully said by someone who is tasked with looking for locations in which to locate wind turbines. Their job could soon be getting a little easier, how…
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• ...bleep!Backer Capper allows for one-handed lens-swapping
  Have you ever tried changing lenses on a DSLR, in a situation where you weren’t able to put the camera down? The problem is that it essentially requires three hands. You need two hands to twist off the old lens and put its rear protective cap on, a…
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• Architects transform submarine into a bar
  Two hundred and fifty years ago, brewer Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for his St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. To commemorate this event, the Guinness company could have rolled out a stretch limousine, but it decided to go one…
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Wired Top News

• ...bleep!A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 19
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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• ...bleep!Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again
  The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.
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• ...bleep!Kickstarter of the Week: A Portable Scanner for Smartphones
  Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isn't. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then there's the flash: on, it's too bright and washed out; off, it'…
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• ...bleep!Full Coverage, Including Livestream: Historic SpaceX Launch to the ISS
  Check out Wired's full coverage of the historic SpaceX launch on our new commercial-space portal, Open Space. A live feed will begin an hour before the scheduled launch, which is at 1:55 a.m. PDT on Saturday, May 19.
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• ...bleep!ITC Awards Microsoft an Import Ban on Motorola Phones, Tablets
  The ITC decided on Friday that Motorola's phones and tablets should be banned from sale in 60 days due to a violation of a Microsoft patent. President Obama could possibly overturn the sale ban.
  - 9 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:18pm -

Technologizer

• Remembering Andrew Fluegelman, a Quiet Giant of the PC Revolution
  A recently-uncovered video and an awards ceremony pay tribute to Andrew Fluegelman — programmer, editor and radical thinker.
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• The Knowledge Graph: Google’s Next Frontier for Search
  Google's major new search technology, launching today, aims to understand millions of things -- not just strings of characters.
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• Browser Wars on iOS? Seems Unlikely
  I'd love to see Google's Chrome browser arrive for iOS devices. I'd be even more thrilled if an all-out browser war broke out on Apple's mobile operating system, with multiple players going all-out to win the hearts and minds of users.
  - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 3:40pm -
• Battle of the Steve Jobs Movies
  Sony snags screenwriting superstar Aaron Sorkin to write its screenplay about Apple's cofounder.
  - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 2:42am -
• Now Flipboard Does Audio, Too
  The "social magazine" for iPad and iPhone now has a slick audio player and content from Soundcloud and public radio.
  - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 1:00am -

Slashdot Latest

• ...bleep!Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China
  First time accepted submitter ourlovecanlastforeve writes "Those of you still hanging on to Jaguar and Land Rover as the last vestiges of the truly British automobile in the States may find yourselves grasping at straws as Chery announces a nearly t…
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• ...bleep!MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds
  An anonymous reader writes "MIT researchers have developed a highly articulated robotic manipulator based on soft materials that can harden to reposition the device. The technique is known as jamming, and it relies on pouches filled with granular ma…
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• ...bleep!With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall
  snydeq writes "With WWDC around the corner, iOS 6 rumors are taking center stage, but the real action for developers may be around iCloud. Forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion will integrate iCloud into the formal file system, making iCloud usage much eas…
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• ...bleep!India Lurches Toward Internet Censorship
  First time accepted submitter ixarux writes "India is at a crucial crossroad at the moment. Internet censorship laws are getting stricter as it begins to ban file-sharing and video-sharing websites. It started with Indian courts allowing censorship…
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• ...bleep!Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies
  First time accepted submitter eGuy writes "ZDNet sparked a debate about password policies when John Fontana wrote about my open source (LGPL) password policy project that rewards XKCD-like passwords. Steve Watts of SecurEnvoy replies that it is too…
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Techcrunch Top Stories

• ...bleep!Personalization Is Not A Feature
  We’ve all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize. This begs the question - what are the factors that drive a co…
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• ...bleep!Real Tech Alert: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 Ready For Takeoff To International Space Station
  SpaceX, the private space exploration company founded by PalPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk, is ready to boldly go where no private company has legitimately attempted to go before: The International Space Station. (Live video of the rocket…
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• ...bleep!ClarityRay Battles Ad Blockers With $500K In Funding
  Some of you are probably reading this post with ad blocker right now — and to be honest, I don't blame you. Sure, there's the occasional amusing or genuinely useful ad, but not terribly often, so why not install a plugin and avoid the whole mess? O…
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• ...bleep!Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today
  Facebook's IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conc…
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• ...bleep!Facebook Reveals How Much Stock Each Bank Got, Morgan Stanley Nabbed $6 Billion Worth
  Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell. Morgan Stanley, the lead-left bank, received 162.1 million shares ($6.15 bill…
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Digital Trends

Mashable

• ...bleep!Hey Space Geeks: Help This Guy Build a Real Starship Enterprise [VIDEO]
  There are those who look up at the stars and decide to become astronomers, while others want to be astronauts. Then there are those who want to build…
  - 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 1:22am -
• ...bleep!Get a Ride in the Synergy Airplane for Pledging $100 or More [VIDEO]
  It’s been called sexy and jawdropping — and it’s also incredibly high-tech. It’s a new type of sleek airplane called Synergy…
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• ...bleep!The State of Windows 8: Cheap Upgrades, Better Apps [RUMORS]
  While we haven’t heard much from Microsoft about Windows 8 lately other than the coming launch of the Release Preview in early June, a cou…
  - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:04pm -
• ...bleep!Google Further Integrates Google+ Profiles Into Gmail [VIDEO]
  Your Google email account is changing — it’s getting even more social.A new Google update will make “people front and center in Gm…
  - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 10:51pm -
• ...bleep!Improve Your Android Home Screen With This App [VIDEO]
  Chameleon, an Android tablet enhancement that makes the home screen easier to use, started off as a company-wide design exercise. After receiving wor…
  - 11 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:48pm -

TeshDirt

• ...bleep!Hollywood Talent Turns To Kickstarter To Escape 'Institutional Censorship'
  In discussions about artists like Amanda Palmer using Kickstarter, plenty of people continue to insist that their success was made possible by their traditional industry backgrounds. We've already gone over lots of reasons why this is silly, most not…
  - 6 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:39am -
• ...bleep!How Does Fair Use Fit Into The Critique Of Copyright?
  Here is Part II of our excerpt from Chapter 1 of Reframing Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, which is our May selection for the Techdirt Book Club. You can read Part I here. We'll have another excerpt soon, and will be scheduling t…
  - 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 1:29am -
• ...bleep!One Area Where China Should Definitely Stop Ripping Off The West: Copyright Law
  When it comes to ACTA and TPP, China is the elephant in the room -- or maybe that should be the dragon in the room. For without China's participation, these treaties designed to reduce counterfeiting will have little effect. And despite rather desp…
  - 8 hours ago, 19 May 12, 12:27am -
• ...bleep!DailyDirt: Hot Dogs!
  The weather is warming up, and backyard barbecues are getting dusted off. What's easier to grill than a good old hot dog? Absolutely nothing. Here are just a few links to get you in the mood for some delicious dogs. The Brits have outdone themselv…
  - 9 hours ago, 19 May 12, 12:00am -
• ...bleep!London Police To Extract Data From Suspects' Mobile Phones -- And Keep It Even If No Charges Are Brought
  As the mobile phone moves closer to the center of daily life in many parts of the world, combining phone, computer, camera, diary, music player, and much else all in one, it becomes a concentrated store of the digital DNA that defines us -- who we ta…
  - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 10:52pm -