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robinw13 DIC 2010 09:14A.M.

iYogi, an independent remote consumer tech support company based

in India and New York, this morning announced that is has secured

$30 million in a fresh round of financing, led by Sequoia Capital

India, with existing investors Canaan, SVB Capital Partners, SAP

Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson participating.

The round comes less than a year after investors injected $15 million

into the company – iYogo has raised a total of $57.6 million to date.

iYogi says it plans to use the proceeds to expand its on-demand

remote tech support services outside the existing consumer market

and the Windows OS platform, and to address the growing need for

supporting mobile consumer devices.

iYogi’s planned roll-out to new geographies include launching its tech

support services in Europe, the Middle East and India, in addition to

its existing services in North America, Canada, the UK and Australia.

The company says it has solved more than 2 million tech problems for

consumers since its inception – it claims 300 percent growth for its

premium annual subscription service in the past 12 months alone. To

support its growth, iYogi this year increased its force of “Global Tech

Experts” from 1,200 to more than 5,000, across eight new centers in

multiple geographies.

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Multitouch Pioneer Jeff HanStarts to Think Small (Devices)[Mobilized]13 DIC 2010 09:00A.M.

For years now, Jeff Han has been working on large-screen multitouch

displays.

Han and his company, Perceptive Pixel, are best known for creating

the giant touch wall that John King and others at CNN use to break

down the elections.

While Apple, Microsoft and others have targeted consumers,

Perceptive Pixel has focused on niche professional markets, especially

the defense and government sector.

But, after years of watching the small touch-screen device market

from the sidelines, Han said he thinks he is pretty close to creating his

first products that will run on those devices.

“Mobile is interesting,” he said in an interview last month at his New

York offices (They are in the Manhattan building that Google is

buying with an amazing roof view seen below). “How can you ignore a

billion devices being sold every year.”

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Han said there is a reason he has stayed focused on the high end of

the market.

“I have a personal bias,” he told Mobilized. “I want computers to be

functional, not just playful.”

The modern tablet, he said, is the first consumer device that has

enough pixels and the precision sensors to potentially be of interest to

Perceptive Pixel. In particular, Han said he is intrigued by the idea of

using tablets to allow meeting participants to interact with a nearby

larger touch screens that might be in use by someone leading a

meeting.

“We’re looking at mobile and slate devices as a way to tie into this

family of collaboration (products),” he said, noting that’s where it is

spending its energy when it comes to mobile, as opposed to coming up

with some killer app that works only on smaller screens. “There are a

lot of smart people creating mobile apps.”

Han said his first mobile efforts should come out early next year–in

the first quarter or early in the second quarter, though he wouldn’t

give more specifics.

Whatever Perceptive Pixel ends up doing in the tablet space, Han said

his plan is to eventually have it support multiple operating systems,

though Han said the company will probably only qualify certain

devices. So far, he said, Apple’s iOS and the iPad seem best suited to

the applications he has in mind, while the real-time touch

performance on Android has certain issues.

“We’re not going to just let it run on anything out there,” he said.

“Some of them just can’t guarantee a good user interface.”

[ See post to watch video ]

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db13 DIC 2010 09:00A.M.

When DailyBooth finally released an iPhone app back in July, it made

a lot of sense. After all, the iPhone 4 had just been released and it

featured a front-facing camera for the first time — the perfect tool for

a service which asks you to take pictures of yourself. Unfortunately,

while the idea was right, DailyBooth’s first iPhone app just wasn’t very

good. So the completely redid it. And I’m happy to report that version

2 is finally one worthy of your gaze.

While the first app was a basic way to scan DailyBooth and upload

simple pictures of yourself, version 2 includes many more of the

service’s core features. This includes a live feed, profile views, activity

views, messages, following/follower views, friend finding, and

“ghosting”.

The first and the last features are really cool. The live feed

automatically refreshes as new DailyBooth pictures come in. Not too

many iPhone apps utilize this live view, but it works for DailyBooth as

pictures are quick scan items — and they come in slightly slower than

text-based messages.

The other excellent feature is “ghosting”. A big part of DailyBooth is

looking at someone’s picture then mimicking it in the replies. The

ghosting feature allows you to easily do this as it shows you a slightly

transparent version of the picture your trying to mimic, so you can

line yourself up with it.

While DailyBooth could technically be lumped into the latest craze of

picture taking apps, CEO Brian Pokorny likes to distinguish it as a

“front of the phone” app versus the others which are “back of the

phone” apps. Obviously, he’s talking about the camera there.

It is interesting just how DailyBooth users utilize pictures to

communicate through images of themselves, rather than of other

things. And now they finally have a solid app to do it with. You can

find the new app here in the App Store.

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dailybooth313 DIC 2010 09:00A.M.

Brian Pokorny, CEO of DailyBooth

DailyBooth, a San Francisco-based social photo sharing service is

making the much-awaited leap from the web to the mobile Internet by

launching the final version of its iPhone app. The company had

launched a beta version of its app earlier this year. This new enhanced

version of the app replicates DailyBooth’s web features such as a live

feed, comments and follow/following on the small screen.

“We’ve started over and built this from the ground up,” said CEO

Brian Pokorny, who before joining the company was a well-known

Silicon Valley investor with Ron Conway’s SV Angel. “In addition to

the iPhone, the app will be great for all of the new iPod Touch

(devices) launched a few months ago that all have a front facing

camera,” he added.

DailyBooth, co-founded by Ryan Amos and Jon Wheatley and initially

incubated by YCombinator, was able to raise $1 million in seed

funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Betaworks and angel

investors such as Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and ex-Googler,

Chris Sacca.

Android Coming Soon

The company is planning on releasing an Android app soon. “Android

is currently in the works right now,” Pokorny said, pointing out that

with more smartphones coming to market with front-facing cameras,

it makes more sense for DailyBooth to support them. There has been

an explosion in the number of mobile photo sharing applications, with

well-known venture capitalists opening their checkbooks for such

companies.

Frankly, I have been surprised that DailyBooth hasn’t pushed into the

mobile arena more aggressively, a question I posted to Pokorny when

I ran into him a few weeks ago. After all, DailyBooth is growing at a

rapid clip on the web. This Twitter-meets-Flickr like service is a

lightweight social network that has found favor with the younger

demographic, one of the main reasons it has grown so rapidly. It

works well because it allows folks to easily share their daily lives

through pictures and short pithy comments.

Front Camera Revolution

However, as much as it has been successful on the web, it has been

noticeably missing on the mobile front, giving opportunity to new

mobile-only photo services such as PicPlz and Instagram. Pokorny

doesn’t see those services as his competitors, mostly because he sees

DailyBooth as a “front of the phone” app” while others are “back of the

phone apps.” (Nevertheless, no one can take Instagram lightly, which

has been growing at a breakneck speed.)

“The content generated from these apps are primarily objects while

the content from DailyBooth is all about people and faces,” he argued.

“The user base is also different, as our users are predominantly under

the age of 25 and view the Internet as an extension of their lives. They

are comfortable with face communication, as many of have grown up

with web cams as the norm.”

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Just as YouTube is about broadcasting videos and Apple’s Facetime is

about communication, DailyBooth is about communication through

the medium of pictures. Pokorny said DailyBooth is much more “of a

new type of platform for social communication through pictures via

photo comments back and forth between users,” versus back-of-the-

phone apps, which “offer a broadcast style communication or

a window into what your friends are currently looking at.”

I think Pokorny makes a good point, though I wouldn’t call

DailyBooth a means of communication. I see it more as asynchronous

interaction. I find it fascinating how different demographic groups

adapt the Internet to interact differently. Nevertheless, it would be

interesting to see how successful DailyBooth is on mobile. It certainly

has the makings of what I think is a good mobile photo service – it is

“a unique and more immersive, two-way service” that is designed

from the perspective of the “mobile user.”

Related GigaOM Pro Research (sub req’d):

• How to Market Your iPhone App

• App Developers Are You Ready for HTML5 and Metered Data?

• Why Google Launched App Inventor

DailyBooth @ Web 2.0 2010

View more presentations from DailyBooth.

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Dell To Acquire Compellent[NewEnterprise]13 DIC 2010 08:21A.M.

Three months after losing a bidding war for storage company 3Par to

Hewlett-Packard, Dell said today it has reached a deal to acquire

Compellent, another storage company. Dell will pay $27.75 a share, or

about $960 million. This is higher than what Dell said it expected to

pay when it announced that talks were underway last week.

It’s the latest move in the roll-up of storage companies by larger IT

providers. The wrestling match over 3Par had driven up Compellent’s

share price, and prior deals by IBM for Netezza and EMC’s grab of

Isilon Systems. Something tells me it won’t be the last.

Here’s the press release:

Dell to Acquire Compellent

* Fast-Growing Compellent Technologies, Inc. Provides an

Intelligent, Powerful and Easy to Use Virtualized Storage

Platform

* Compellent’s Channel Focus Will Further Extend Dell’s

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PartnerDirect Relationships, Offering New Set of Storage

Products to All Members

* Transaction Expected to Be Accretive to Dell Non-GAAP

Earnings in Its Fiscal Year 2012

ROUND ROCK, Texas & EDEN PRAIRIE,

Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Dell (NASDAQ:DELL –

News) and Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:CML –

News) today announced they have entered into a definitive

agreement for Dell to acquire Compellent, a rapidly

growing provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions

with automated data management features, including

tiering and thin provisioning, for enterprise and cloud-

computing environments. The acquisition is the latest

strategic investment by Dell as it expands its portfolio of

enterprise-class storage solutions and is consistent with

Dell’s strategy to help customers better manage data

growth, reduce storage costs and dramatically simplify the

management of IT infrastructure.

The acquisition of Compellent will deliver on Dell’s

commitment to provide its customers solutions that are

open, capable and affordable. Dell delivers an open and

integrated approach to data management that drives

efficiency and dramatically reduces costs by streamlining

operations.

Upon closing the transaction, Dell will quickly make

Compellent an integral part of its industry-leading storage

portfolio, including PowerVault, EqualLogic and

Dell/EMC. Compellent expands Dell’s award-winning

storage solutions, which now offers customers innovative

systems and choice at every storage tier, from direct-attach

to highly-virtualized SANs.

Dell also plans to keep Compellent’s existing operations in

Eden Prairie, Minn., and will invest in engineering,

support, operations and sales capability to grow this

business.

Compellent sells its solutions through an extensive

network of channel partners. Dell plans to maintain and

enhance the strong channel program that Compellent has

developed. Dell also signed a reseller agreement with

Compellent that extends the storage portfolio it can offer

its worldwide customer base, effective immediately.

Quotes

“Compellent is a natural complement to Dell’s expanding

enterprise storage portfolio. The Compellent storage

platform will enable Dell to provide customers additional

mid- and high-end network storage solutions that simplify

and reduce the cost of data management,” said Brad

Anderson, senior vice president, Enterprise Product

Group. “Compellent’s design focus on intelligently

managing data to increase efficiency, agility and resiliency

is consistent with Dell’s approach of building solutions

that can quickly scale to meet the most demanding

enterprise environment.”

“We are excited about our merger with Dell. This is the

next logical step in our goal to scale our products, channel

and team worldwide,” said Phil Soran, President, CEO and

Chairman of Compellent. “With Dell’s scale and

technology leadership, we accelerate the adoption of our

virtualized platform, Fluid Data, to redefine the value of

enterprise storage for data centers and cloud computing.”

Terms and Closing

Under terms of the agreement, approved by the boards of

directors of both companies, Dell will pay $27.75 per share

in cash for each share of Compellent for a total equity

value of approximately $960 million, and aggregate

purchase price of approximately $820 million, net of

Compellent’s cash. The transaction, which is subject to

approval by Compellent’s shareholders and customary

closing conditions, is expected to close in early 2011.

About Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL – News) listens to customers

and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business

solutions and services they trust and value. For more

information, visit www.dell.com.

About Compellent

Compellent Technologies (NYSE:CML – News) provides

Fluid Data storage solutions that automate the movement

and management of data at a granular level, enabling

organizations to constantly adapt to change, slash costs

and secure information against downtime and disaster.

This patented, built-in storage intelligence delivers

significant efficiency, scalability and flexibility. With an

all-channel sales network in 35 countries, Compellent is

one of the fastest growing enterprise storage companies in

the world. For more information and news, visit

www.compellent.com and www.compellent.com/news.

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robinw13 DIC 2010 08:17A.M.

Fabulis, the social network for gay men, is now Fab.com, a far more

memorable (domain) name. The young company behind the site,

which is designed to help gay men discover people, places and

activities all over the globe, has also raised $1.75 million in Series A

funding from First Round Capital, The Washington Post Company,

Baroda Ventures and Zelkova Ventures.

The financing comes on top of an earlier $1.25 million in angel

financing, bringing the startup’s total of capital raised to nearly $3

million.

Fab.com has also gotten a number of enhancements, coinciding with

the revamp.

Now over 110,000 members strong, the company has just launched a

global directory of “gay-friendly places” with accompanying rankings,

reviews, tips and photo uploads, complementing the site’s interactive

profiles and database of gay-relevant events.

Fab.com also offers an iPhone app, which includes the ability to check

in, identify your current location, rate places, name the people you’re

with, upload images and more.

The startup says 40% of its members log in at least 10 times per

month, while 25% visit more than 50 times per month. The site

welcomes more than 5,000 new users on a weekly basis.

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Judge Deals Paul Allen aSetback in Patent [Voices]13 DIC 2010 08:00A.M.

By Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Billionaire investor Paul Allen’s patent lawsuit against some of the

biggest names in high technology ran into a stumbling block as a

federal judge in Seattle dismissed the complaint for not describing its

allegations specifically enough.

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman on Friday set a Dec. 28 deadline

for the plaintiff, a company controlled by Mr. Allen called Interval

Licensing LLC, to file an amended complaint. A spokesman for Mr.

Allen said it plans to do so soon, calling the judge’s order a

“procedural issue” that won’t halt the case.

The suit, filed in August, names tech companies Google Inc., its

YouTube subsidiary, Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc.,

eBay Inc. and Netflix Inc., as well as OfficeMax Inc. and Staples Inc.,

as defendants. The complaint accuses them of infringing four patents

covering technology developed at Interval Research Corp., a Palo Alto,

Calif., lab and technology incubator that Mr. Allen financed but that

closed down about a decade ago. Mr. Allen is a co-founder of

Microsoft Corp.

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Former AOL Media Boss BillWilson Rounds Up the OldGang [MediaMemo]13 DIC 2010 07:55A.M.

Former AOL content boss Bil Wilson, who left the company early this

year and landed in September at radio owner Townsquare Media, has

been a busy guy.

High up on his to-do list, apparently: Hire a whole lot of people who

worked at his old company. Wilson, who is heading up digital for his

new employer, has brought on 10 former AOL team members, and put

them to work building out new sites.

You can see some of the results today at Taste of Country , a new

music portal meant to compete with the likes of Viacom’s CMT.com,

among others.

And Wilson’s group is also launching new local sites for 30 of the 171

radio stations Townsquare operates. They’re scheduled to overhaul

the remaining 141 stations within the next 3 months.

It will be interesting to see if Townsquare has any luck breaking open

the market for local Web sales. Radio is traditionally driven by local

ad sales (which is one of the reason that Internet radio still hasn’t

really taken off yet after all these years), but radio owners have largely

been content to let their Web assets languish.

Wilson’s team that’s trying to solve that includes Jared Willig, who

used to run Moviefone at AOL; Sun Sachs, formerly VP of Design and

product at AOL Media; and Pete Schieke, former head of AOL Radio.

Wilson was one of the last high-profile AOL execs to leave after

former Google sales boss Tim Armstrong took the reins in the spring

of 2009; he has since restocked the company with a long roster of ex-

Googlers.

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robinw13 DIC 2010 07:43A.M.

Dell has officially announced that it aims to pick up Compellent, a

provider of storage solutions with automated data management

features for enterprise and cloud environments, for $27.75 per share

in cash for each share of Compellent (a total equity value of

approximately $960 million). The aggregate purchase price is about

$820 million, net of Compellent’s cash. This is slightly more than

what Dell initially named as the terms of the merger agreement last

week.

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Who Wants Nortel’s 4GPatents? [Digital Daily]13 DIC 2010 06:15A.M.

Nortel was once a cornerstone of the telecom industry. These days it’s

little more than an estate sale, a now-bankrupt company auctioning

off the valuables of a fallen titan.

Last year, Nortel sold its optical networking and carrier ethernet

business to Ciena for $769 million and its wireless business to

Ericsson for $1.3 billion. Soon it will sell off its patents as well, among

them some thought to be essential 4G wireless technologies like Long

Term Evolution (LTE) and Service Architecture Evolution (SAE).

And that IP is drawing a lot of interest from the likes of Research in

Motion, Nokia, Google and Apple, none of whom wants to see it in the

hands of a rival, particularly as 4G’s commercial availability broadens.

Sources tell me all three companies are participating in the auction

and Reuters reports that final bids are due in a matter of weeks. Said

one, “whoever buys these patents is buying a hell of an advantage.”

Reached for comment, Apple and RIM declined. Google and Nokia

did not respond.

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trends on twitter13 DIC 2010 04:16A.M.

Twitter has just released their list of top trends on Twitter for 2010.

Surprisingly, Justin Bieber did not dominate the list. Instead, the Gulf

oil spill did. The service says that 25 billion tweets were sent in total in

2010.

Below, find the lists of the top overall trends following by the top

trends for different categories:

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. FIFA World Cup

3. Inception

4. Haiti Earthquake

5. Vuvuzela

6. Apple iPad

7. Google Android

8. Justin Bieber

9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

10. Pulpo Paul

News Events:

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. Haiti Earthquake

3. Pakistan Floods

4. Koreas Conflict

5. Chilean Miners Rescue

People:

1. Justin Bieber

2. Dilma Rouseff

3. Lady Gaga

4. Julian Assange

5. Mel Gibson

Movies:

1. Inception

2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

4. Despicable Me

5. Karate Kid

Television:

1. MTV Music Video Awards

2. Pretty Little Liars

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3. True Blood

4. Walking Dead

5. Grammy Awards

Technology:

1. Apple iPad

2. Google Android

3. Apple iOS

4. Apple iPhone

5. Call of Duty Black Ops

World Cup:

1. FIFA World Cup

2. Vuvuzela

3. Pulpo Paul

4. Dunga

5. Diego Maradona

Sports:

1. Lebron James

2. Wimbledon

3. Manchester United

4. Brock Lesnar

5. Celtics

Hashtags:

1. #rememberwhen

2. #slapyourself

3. #confessiontime (Hashtag started by Usher)

4. #thingsimiss

5. #ohjustlikeme

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Viral Video: Groupon’sAndrew Mason Doesn’t KissGoogle and Tell! [BoomTown]13 DIC 2010 03:16A.M.

It seems as though there is no one that Groupon’s Andrew Mason

won’t talk to, in the wake of the failed acquisition of his social buying

site by Google.

In a series of interviews over the last week, the Groupon CEO and Co-

founder chit-chatted about start-up’s growth, waxed poetic over its

Chicago roots and marveled on what it’s like riding a rocket ship to

the moon.

Plus, Mason is quite charming doing it, making all kinds of quips and

crazily endearing statements that reporters eat up with a big spoon.

Except that he goes all coy about the single biggest gorilla in the

room–or shall we say, Borg? That would be telling us exactly why the

search behemoth did not gobble Groupon up, despite a $6 billion

price tag.

At least Mason is funny, as you will see here on a segment last week

on the “Charlie Rose” television show.

The interview includes Mason’s explanation at the end about how not

talking about what happened with Google is like not talking about old

dates (Personally, I am a veritable blabfest about old dates, Andrew,

so call me sometime, as I have some very good stories!).

Enjoy:

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What’s Really Wrong WithBlackBerry (And What To DoAbout It) [Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:05A.M.

By Michael Mace, CEO, Cera Technology

Just a couple of weeks after Research in Motion turned in a good

earnings report, the death watch over the company has resumed, with

Business Week magazine running a long article that mocks co-CEO

Jim Balsillie (even picking on his duck-emblazoned tie) and saying

that RIM needs to learn how to market as well as Apple (link).

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What It’s Like to Participate inAnonymous’ Actions [Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:04A.M.

By Gabriella Coleman, Professor, New York University

Anonymous, who have been on a week long sprint/spree to paralyze

website sites like Mastercard and Paypal, are often described in the

news as a “group” with “members.” This is usually followed by a series

of prolonged qualifications and caveats because many characteristics

we usually associate with groups don’t seem to apply comfortably with

Anonymous: there are no leaders, anyone can seemingly join, and

participants are spread across the globe, although many of them can

be found on any number of Internet Relay Chat Channels where they

discuss strategy, plan attacks, crack jokes, and often pose critical

commentary on the unfolding events they have just engendered.

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Telling a Mother’s StoryThrough Her Facebook StatusUpdates [Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:03A.M.

By Ian Shapira, Staff Writer, The Washington Post

Several weeks ago, my wife Caroline and I were stuck inside Chicago’s

O’Hare airport, waiting for a flight home, and, to burn some time, she

logged onto Facebook. She tapped my arm and pointed at her screen.

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Why WikiLeaks Is Bad forScholars [Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:02A.M.

By Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics, Tufts

University

Let me share one of my recurring nightmares with you. I’m delivering

a paper on why the United States pursued a particular strategy during

an international negotiation.

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Why Drudge Is a Poor Targetfor Copyright Vigilantes[Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:01A.M.

By Jeff Bercovici, Blogger, Forbes.com

There’s undeniably something wrong with the current state of the

digital media ecosystem, which lets aggregators and bloggers free-ride

profitably on the efforts of newspapers that themselves are often

losing money. But suing Matt Drudge and trying to take control of his

website, as one plaintiff did yesterday, is a funny way of going about

fixing it.

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New Verizon Wireless CEODashes Into 4G Service[Voices]13 DIC 2010 03:00A.M.

By Shayndi Raice and Roger Cheng, Reporters, The Wall Street

Journal

Verizon Wireless’s new chief executive, Daniel Mead, is pulling right

into the fast lane.

Two months after he took the job Oct. 1, Verizon plunked down its

biggest bet in years by launching an expensive new fourth-generation

wireless broadband network. It promises super-fast Web surfing that

will make it easier, for example, to watch video on smartphones and

tablets.

Mr. Mead will have to cut through the noise from competitors

claiming similar capabilities and persuade customers Verizon’s is

better. He will also have to keep Verizon’s lead as the industry shifts to

relying more on data services.

Then there are the reports that the country’s largest wireless carrier,

which has built a deep and lucrative relationship with Google Inc.,

might soon get to carry Apple Inc.’s iPhone. (A spokesman declined to

comment.)

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Shocking Bieber Upset: OilSpill Tops Twitter’s 2010Trends [NetworkEffect]13 DIC 2010 03:00A.M.

Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and

infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on

Twitter in 2010 was actually the Gulf Oil Spill, the San Francisco-

based company said tonight. The South Africa-hosted World Cup

came in at No. 2.

(Of course, Twitter hasn’t revealed the secret formulas that helped it

aggregate, tabulate and rank these topics.)

In the Twitterverse, after the BP oil spill and soccer, the next most

popular topic of conversation in 2010 was the movie “Inception,”

followed by the Haiti Earthquake and the Vuvuzela. The iPad,

Android, Justin Bieber, Harry Potter and Pulpo Paul round out the

top 10. It’s an odd list, indeed.

The person most discussed on Twitter in 2010 was obviously he-of-

the-dedicated-servers, Mr. Bieber. (It’s somewhat shocking that world

events and tech gadgets were able to keep the teen phenom out of the

top spot overall.) Beating out her royal highness Lady Gaga, the No. 2

person on Twitter was Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff

(pictured).

Here’s the full 2010 list, courtesy of Twitter, followed by 2009’s list

for comparison.

2010 Twitter Trends

Overall Top Trends

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. FIFA World Cup

3. Inception

4. Haiti Earthquake

5. Vuvuzela

6. Apple iPad

7. Google Android

8. Justin Bieber

9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

10. Pulpo Paul

News Events:

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. Haiti Earthquake

3. Pakistan Floods

4. Koreas Conflict

5. Chilean Miners Rescue

People:

1. Justin Bieber

2. Dilma Rouseff

3. Lady Gaga

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4. Julian Assange

5. Mel Gibson

Movies:

1. Inception

2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

4. Despicable Me

5. Karate Kid

Television:

1. MTV Music Video Awards

2. Pretty Little Liars

3. True Blood

4. Walking Dead

5. Grammy Awards

Technology:

1. Apple iPad

2. Google Android

3. Apple iOS

4. Apple iPhone

5. Call of Duty Black Ops

World Cup:

1. FIFA World Cup

2. Vuvuzela

3. Pulpo Paul

4. Dunga

5. Diego Maradona

Sports:

1. Lebron James

2. Wimbledon

3. Manchester United

4. Brock Lesnar

5. Celtics

Hashtags:

1. #rememberwhen

2. #slapyourself

3. #confessiontime (Hashtag started by Usher)

4. #thingsimiss

5. #ohjustlikeme

2009 Twitter Trends

News Events

1. #iranelection

2. Swine Flu

3. Gaza

4. Iran

5. Tehran

6. #swineflu

7. AIG

8. #uksnow

9. Earth Hour

10. #inaug09

People

1. Michael Jackson

2. Susan Boyle

3. Adam Lambert

4. Kobe (Bryant)

5. Chris Brown

6. Chuck Norris

7. Joe Wilson

8. Tiger Woods

9. Christian Bale

10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)

Movies

1. Harry Potter

2. New Moon

3. District 9

4. Paranormal Activity

5. Star Trek

6. True Blood

7. Transformers 2

8. Watchmen

9. Slumdog Millionaire

10. G.I. Joe

TV Shows

1. American Idol

2. Glee

3. Teen Choice Awards

4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)

5. Dollhouse

6. Grey’s Anatomy

7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)

8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)

9. BET Awards

10. Lost

Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)

1. Super Bowl

2. Lakers

3. Wimbledon

4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)

5. Superbowl

6. Chelsea

7. NFL

8. UFC 100

9. Yankees

10. Liverpool

Technology

1. Google Wave

2. Snow Leopard

3. Tweetdeck

4. Windows 7

5. CES

6. Palm Pre

7. Google Latitude

8. #E3

9. #amazonfail

10. Macworld

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Hash Tags

1. #musicmonday

2. #iranelection

3. #sxsw

4. #swineflu

5. #nevertrust

6. #mm

7. #rememberwhen

8. #3drunkwords

9. #unacceptable

10. #iwish

TECHCRUNCH

mike-butcher13 DIC 2010 02:39A.M.

Today TechCrunch Europe is coming to Moscow, Russia, for our first

ever TechCrunch Moscow event (to be held in English).

The Live video stream is here.

TechCrunch Moscow is at the first Russian private tech incubator, the

Digital October Center, located in a historical manufacturing building

Krasny Oktyabr (or “Red October” / Красный Октябрь in Russian).

The event is sold out but there’ll be full day packed with speeches by

the leaders of the industry and a chance to preview promising Russian

tech startups.

Co-organised by TechCrunch Europe together with Kite Ventures and

Telemarker, our partners have also put together a dedicated event

web site and a dedicated Twitter feed. We’ll be using the Twitter

hashtag #TCMoscow.

ALL THINGS DIGITAL

What Privacy Problem? WebAd Targeter Media6DegreesRaises $17 Million[MediaMemo]13 DIC 2010 12:00A.M.

One way to gauge what’s really going on with privacy and Web

advertising: Follow the money. If investors really think privacy

problems are going to weigh the industry down, it’s going to be a lot

harder to get checks out of them.

So use that context to think about this news: Media6Degrees, a

behavioral advertising technology startup, has raised a $17 million

funding round led by Menlo Ventures.

Earlier investors U.S. Venture Partners and Venrock, who had helped

the 2-year-old company raise another $12 million before the new B

round, are re-upping.

The money is supposed targeted for general expansion, not M&A, says

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CEO Tom Phillips, who joined the company in 2009 after a 3-year

stint at Google.

Phillips says his company will end up booking $20 million in revenue

in 2010. And he says that by Q4 it had ramped up to a $30 million

annual run rate — that is, it will do about $7.5 million in the last 3

months of the year.

Media6 describes what it does as “Social Targeting”, which makes it

sound as if it’s trying to find links between your various social

networks. But the company’s work has nothing to do with your

Facebook or Twitter profiles. While it doesn’t like the term

“behavioral targeting,” that’s essentially what it’s doing.

In a nutshell, Media6 Web marketers track the surfing behavior of

their existing customers, then trying to find similar behavior patterns

— a matching “social signature” — for other surfers, so it can show

them ads.

Depending on your perspective, that’s either creepy, or a common-

sense strategy to help advertisers spend their money more efficiently.

If it does weird you out, you can go ahead and opt out. But Phillips

and his company would like you to know that the company never

tracks individuals – only their anonymized browsers.

Still don’t want any part of this stuff? In theory, companies like

Media6 will be in trouble if lots of surfers really do start opting out of

data collection. They can do that by telling individual Web sites and

ad networks not to track them — or, more ominously, by using

browsers with “do not track” filters built into them.

But we’re a very long way from that kind of change. And the startup’s

investors seem to be betting that it’s never going to come.

TECHCRUNCH

ch212 DIC 2010 07:04P.M.

Every piece of technology has both good and bad attributes. Nothing

is perfect. Not even the iPhone. (Well, at least not until that AT&T

exclusivity ends.) But until three days ago, I had never used a product

with attributes that are both insanely awesome and shockingly awful

at the same time. Welcome into the world, Cr-48.

Now, Google has made it very clear that they don’t intend to release

this product as it stands. As such, they’ve more or less asked those

they’ve sent it to not to review it as a completed product. But it’s

pretty much impossible to avoid talking about the hardware here

because for most of us, it is the first and only gateway we’ve had into

Chrome OS. Plus, there’s a lot of interest in this particular device

among our readers, so I’m going to talk about it.

Simply put: the hardware is pretty bad. Actually, maybe not so much

bad, as annoying as all hell. But the only reason it’s so annoying is

because Chrome OS, even in its very early, fairly rough stage, is that

good. Well, potentially that good.

While Jason wrote up his initial thoughts after a day with the device,

I’ve been using it as my primary machine for just about three days

now. Also, I likely have a different perspective as I’m currently

traveling — something which a Chrome notebook should be perfect

for.

The Design

Initially, when I took it out of the box, I sort of wanted to laugh at the

Cr-48. Jason compared its look to that of one of the old 12-inch

PowerBook G4s. But actually, I think it’s closer to a combination of an

old 12-inch iBook and one of the previous generation MacBooks — the

one that came in black. In fact, when you open it up and start typing

on it, it feels very similar to that MacBook.

Of course, that MacBook is also a few years old already. And when

compared to the new MacBook Air, this thing looks like a bloated dog.

One covered in some kind of rubber blanket. The fact that it has a

VGA port, an ugly side grill for the fan, and yet only one USB port,

doesn’t help.

But again, this is a prototype device. So we have to cut Google some

slack here. As far as I know, they haven’t said which of their

manufacturing partners made this thing, but let’s hope it was the

cheapest device possible for them to produce and that’s why it exists

as it does.

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I really do hope that’s the case.

The Setup

Okay, so I took it out of the box and laughed. But then I opened the

lid. Immediately, the thing booted up. No need to press the power

button. 15 seconds later, it was walking me through a very easy-to-

understand tutorial on how to use Chrome OS. After a few minutes

reading it, I was asked to take a picture of myself (for my profile

picture) with the built-in camera (above the screen), then I was all

ready to go. That’s it.

I signed in with my Google account, and the browser launched. My

bookmarks, extensions, and web apps were all automatically synced. I

was ready to go pretty much instantly.

Now I was impressed. Very impressed. This is absolutely the future of

computer set-ups.

The Trackpad

But the love affair quickly turned sour when I started using the Cr-48

trackpad. Jason called it a “turd”, but I think that’s being too kind. It’s

maybe the worst excuse for a piece of technology that anyone has

created in the past five years. It’s so much worse than any other

trackpad I’ve ever used in recent memory, it’s almost unbelievable.

Those bug reports from a few weeks ago make sense now.

And it also makes sense why Google isn’t selling the Cr-48 at all,

despite the high demand. If they sold this product with this trackpad,

Google may not be allowed to ever attempt to make another branded

product ever again. If you think I’m exaggerating, use one.

Everytime I point at something and click down, the cursor moves

below or above where I had originally pointed. I’ve now taught myself

to aim slightly higher or lower than where I want to click. But I have

to guess which it will be. It’s a crapshoot.

Trying to double click with two fingers is ever worse. If you’re used to

casually doing it with ease on a MacBook, this will be your hell. To get

it to work, you essentially have to lift two fingers about a foot in the

air, then bring them down in a perfectly straight line at a rapid speed

while making sure that they both hit the pad at the exact same time.

Okay, I may be exaggerating a bit there, but it’s really bad.

Two finger scrolling? It’s perfect if you like randomly jumping to

various parts of webpages for no reason.

Okay, I’ve made my point. This trackpad is a disgrace. It’s an

abomination. I don’t know if it’s hardware or software or both (likely),

but it’s just terrible. I’m tempted to do the unthinkable: buy a mouse.

The Keyboard

Moving on. So, the trackpad quickly soured my Chrome OS

experience. But after I figured out little tricks to

better maneuver (mainly using the excellent keyboard and its

shortcuts), I was back on track. After a day, I was frustrated. But after

two days, I was really, really liking Chrome OS. And even certain

things about the Cr-48 specifically.

For example, every computer should absolutely have a search button

in place of caps lock. I can’t remember the last time I’ve used caps

lock. And yet, there it is, right there in a vital place on the keyboard.

On the Cr-48, I think the search button rivals the spacebar for my

most-often-hit key. You click it an it launches a new tab reach to

search away in the omnibox. It’s fantastic.

Also awesome are the window-switching and full screen mode buttons

on the Cr-48. OS X, with Spaces, essentially allows you to do this type

of window-switching, but I’d argue that it’s better on Chrome OS

because everything is simplified. If you want to open a new window

(as opposed to a new tab), it will reside on another screen. That said,

it is a little tricky to navigate if you have more than two windows open

— hitting the button will cycle through them in order.

Full screen mode has existed on Chrome for some time, but the

keyboard shortcut makes it more accessible than ever before. And on

smaller screens (like the 12-inch on on the Cr-48), it’s very nice.

The Speed

Speed is the other major weakness of the Cr-48. It’s running an Intel

Atom chip which is apparently clocked at 1.66 GHz. That may seem

like it would be fast enough to run a web browser, but it’s not. Well,

not if you’re doing anything with Flash turned on.

When we initially reported on the Flash issues that Cr-48 users were

having, many of our favorite commenters (who may or may not make

a living developing for Flash) were quick with the typical “bias!”

nonsense. Of course, a few hours later, none other than Adobe

themselves admitted the performance of Flash on the Cr-48 was

unacceptable, and said they were working on it.

Good, because beyond watching a small YouTube clip with no other

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tabs open, Flash is basically unusable on the Cr-48. And that’s

annoying because Google has decided to bake Flash into not only

Chrome, but Chrome OS as well. So extensions like Flash Block are

your friend here — or go to about:plugins and disable Flash directly

until Adobe gets the mess sorted out.

But even beyond Flash, the Cr-48 just feels very slow when compared

to any other modern computer. Typing, for example, often lags on

sites such as WordPress (which I’m using right now). And opening

new tabs and windows takes a few seconds longer than it would on a

normal machine.

All of this is would seem to be because Google included only 2 GB of

RAM in the Cr-48. But I have a MacBook Air with only 2 GB of RAM

and it flies. Google really needs to work with their OEM partners to

get this lag sorted out before these Chrome notebooks start shipping.

And I have to believe they will.

Beyond Prototype

In fact, in many ways, the Cr-48 reminds me a lot of the G1, the first

Android phone Google shipped (with HTC) a couple years ago. They

both were clearly step one of a platform that would quickly evolve.

And the Cr-48 even sort of feels like the G1 to the touch.

I still have a G1. Looking at it now compared to the newer Android

phones is pretty humorous. The platform has clearly come a long way.

And that gives me a lot of hope for Chrome notebooks as well.

As it stands now, two things about this the Cr-48 currently standout:

the boot-up time and the battery life. Both are excellent.

The Cr-48 goes from being off to the log-in screen in 15 seconds.

That’s slightly above Google’s stated 10 second mark, but it’s still very,

very good. When you log-in, it takes another 15 seconds or so to load

all your profile information and Chrome preferences from the web. So

you’re looking at a total time from zero to working in 30 seconds.

For comparison, the new MacBook Air, with its new solid state drives,

goes from zero to working in about 18 seconds. But that’s without

booting up Chrome (or your web browser of choice on OS X) and

waiting for it to load a page. That adds another 5 seconds or so. So

they’re very close in terms of startup speed between the two systems.

And again, that’s on Google’s prototype machine.

But as I indicated above, the Air runs circles around the Cr-48 in just

about everything else when it comes to performance.

The one area where the Cr-48 does seem to have the MacBook Air

beat is battery life. Google claims 8 hours, but I think it actually may

be more. Because I’m in Europe, I turned off the cellular antenna

(since Verizon connectivity obviously won’t work here) and I’m seeing

closer to 10 hours of battery life on a full charge when connected to

WiFi. The MacBook Air has fantastic battery life as well, but Cr-48 is

definitely better.

And again, just imagine what that will mean when someone actually

creates a Chrome notebook that they intend to sell. The Cr-48 is a

little bit bulky, but if they trim it down to around Air size, I bet they

could still get at least a solid 7 or more hours out of the system. This

seems to be one huge benefit of only running a browser.

Chrome OS

And let’s finally talk about that browser. Quite a few people were

shocked when Chrome OS was revealed to be little more than Chrome

— and that’s it. But that simplicity is the OS’s strength. It removes

several layers of junk that most people these days never use on a

computer.

I know that personally, roughly 95 percent of what I do on a computer

these days is in the web browser. Of the other 5 percent, 4 percent of it

could probably be done in the browser too (light image editing, taking

notes, etc). The other one percent is more difficult but those are

mainly things (iTunes media management, Photoshop) that I only

need to do some of the time and can use a desktop machine for.

That’s the thing: Chrome OS isn’t going to fully replace anyone’s

desktop anytime soon. But it could become a very viable on-the-go

computing solution.

Even in its current beta state, Chrome OS has definitely been a

perfectly adequate travel companion these past three days (Cr-48

trackpad aside). And it’s only going to get better. And if Chrome’s (the

browser) evolution is any indication, it’s going to get better very

quickly.

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Panels

As Jason hit on quite a bit in his post, one of the most interesting

things about Chrome OS will be how developers support it. Right now,

most Chrome Web Store apps are little more than mildly glorified

extensions, or just links to web apps already in existence. Meanwhile,

one of the coolest features of Chrome OS, panels, are barely used.

Developers can and should change this quickly.

Prettification

Another thing that bugs me about the OS currently is that Google

seems determined to maintain some of Windows awful aesthetics.

More directly: fonts look like shit.

Chrome on Mac easily looks much better than Chrome OS does for

this very reason. Hopefully Google will add some polish here as

Chrome OS pushes forward.

Also, the look and feel of the top toolbar (the area to the right of the

tabs) is pretty poor. Google could and should do a much better job

here.

And while we’re on the subject, Chrome’s already dicey themes all

look even worse with Chrome OS. Google should just stick to some

simple color options and leave out all the BS. No, I don’t want my

Chrome OS to look like an ice cream cake any more than I wanted

Windows to look like a hot dog stand. But that, of course, is just my

opinion.

Connectivity

The biggest factor holding up Chrome OS is mostly out of Google’s

control: WiFi infrastructure. While WiFi is fairly widespread, it’s far

from everywhere. And Chrome OS is worthless without connectivity. I

mean, it’s completely and utterly useless.

That’s exactly why Google teamed up with Verizon to offer back-up 3G

connectivity. But beyond the paltry 100 MB they give you for free each

month, that type of connection can get expensive quickly just to be

able to simply use your computer.

Further, many deals will have to be worked out in various different

countries for that level of connectivity. That’s why my Cr-48 isn’t fully

travel-ready here in Europe, for example (there is no Verizon here).

So what happens when you boot up your Chrome notebook without a

connection? Well, you get an error — a very confusing one. This has

happened to me a few times in the past few days. I boot up the

computer, enter my password, and it says there’s a problem with my

password. Only that’s not true. It’s just that I’m not connected to the

network, so it can’t verify my password (Google really needs to

change the wording there).

The problem here is that if you’re on a network with a password, you

have to log-in to Chrome OS as a guest, connect to the network and

entire the password, then log out and log back in to your Google

account. A pain. And something that a lot of users are going to

experience again and again.

The Connected Computer

So while Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the world is now ready for

Chrome OS, I think we’re still at least a year — and maybe a few years

— away from this type of system being viable for most average

consumers. But I think it’s fantastic that Google is willing to go out on

a limb now to help the transition along.

Of course, the payoff for them looks be huge if they lead this new era

of computing. And the risk is fairly minimal. Even if Chrome OS takes

a while to take off, Google has more than enough capital to keep the

project going for a long time — just like they did with Android at first.

In many ways, smartphones have and will continue to help us with

this transition. The assumption of always having a connection to the

web is now built into most of our daily lives. What good is a

smartphone when you’re not connected? Maybe just for playing some

games. Computers will eventually be the same way. Until games are

fully online as well — something which the Chrome Web Store is

trying to make happen.

I don’t think anyone disagrees that computers that are always

connected to the Internet are the future, it’s just that Google is taking

it to the extreme right now with these machines. It’s Internet or

nothing. It’s bold.

Price

While Google hasn’t yet stated how much they (and their OEM

partners) intend to sell Chrome notebooks for, that price is going to be

crucial. It obviously needs to be low. Very low.

If Google wants these to compete with Windows machines, sub-$500

should do the trick. And if they can bring them in with better

hardware than the Cr-48 for something like $300, I think they’re

going to sell a ton of them next by next holiday season.

And Google keeps reiterating that they intend Chrome OS to work on

other platforms as well. You can imagine desktop machines running

Chrome OS might be perfect for schools and libraries. And Google

could of course bundle Google Apps with them. Hell, I could even see

them subsidizing Chrome notebook costs to get them available to all

students in certain school districts that commit to Google Apps.

Actually, a big competitor for the Chrome notebooks may end up

being the new MacBook Airs. Both are now trying to redefine just

what exactly portable computing is. There’s no denying that the Air is

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a much, much sexier device both in look and feel than the Cr-48. But

it’s also likely to be several hundred dollars — and maybe even a

thousand dollars more expensive in some cases.

Again, that’s why Google needs to nail the price points and nail the

execution with their OEM partners on these. I have some doubts as to

whether that will happen or not initially, but even a mediocre Chrome

notebook should put quite a bit of pressure on low-end Windows

machines, at the very least. As I wrote a year ago, it would be the

Microsoft squeeze.

Back Offline

To finish up this post, I actually moved back from the Cr-48 to my

MacBook Air. One reason is that the typing lag was driving me insane.

The other is that image insertion — and image management, is still

pretty tricky with Chrome OS. So I’m back to a machine with more

than just a browser.

This is actually the first time I’ve extensively used this machine in

three days. It’s a little weird seeing the browser shrunk into a window.

And I actually like it taking up the full screen more (that’s easy

enough to do on a Mac or PC with Chrome, the browser). In a slightly

weird twist, I actually don’t like seeing all the, yes, chrome. What’s the

point?

Of course, I do cherish the speed of this Air versus the Cr-48. Oh and

the trackpad. My god the trackpad. It actually works! It’s a thing of

beauty that I will never take for granted again.

So there you go, I’m pretty divided right now on Google’s first take at

the Chrome notebook. It’s both brilliant and bewildering. It’s both the

future and a nightmare. But it’s definitely not boring, which is more

than you can say for a lot of “new” technology these days. Watching it

mature will be fun. But first the hardware needs to grow up.

If I could buy the Cr-48 right now, would I? No. But I’d download

Chrome OS and install it on some cheap netbook. Or maybe even this

Macbook Air…

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Gawker Hacked. If You’ve Lefta Comment on a Nick DentonSite, Change Your PasswordASAP. [MediaMemo]12 DIC 2010 03:47P.M.

Have you left a comment on one of Gawker Media’s sites? If so, you

should change your password there, and on any other sites where

you’ve used the same login/password combination, as soon as

possible. Gawker says its “user databases appear to have been

compromised” by hackers. More background from Mediaite.

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GIGAOMTECH

meters12 DIC 2010 03:00P.M.

Ed.: This is the second of a two-part post. The first post ran on

Saturday.

In yesterday’s post, I outlined arguments from a much lengthier

analysis (PDF) regarding recent carrier announcements concerning

tiered pricing for broadband services. Not only is such pay-per-use a

clear trend, but arguably the natural outcome of rational consumer

decision-making, as light users actively choose not to subsidize heavy

ones by paying for more capital-intensive resources than they use.

However, if pricing plans are no longer “unlimited,” but increasingly

granular and usage-sensitive, one can predict massive disruptions in

the current ecosystem and reversal of some trends of the last few

years. However, as with all such shifts, this will create new

opportunities and drive new technology breakthroughs. Here are

some thoughts on such a future:

• Fewer Ambient Applications. There will be less live

streaming video from coffee pots. In other words, less passive

push, more active pull.

• Truth in Labeling. Foods and beverages need to disclose

calories from protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Apps and content

may need to disclose total data transferred or peak data rates.

Drugs need to disclose potential side effects (may cause

congestive heart failure), apps and content may need to do the

same (may cause congestive network failure).

• Certifications and Guarantees. It’s easy to blame a network

provider for high charges, but you don’t blame the electric

company when your kids leave the lights on or the water

company because a broken faucet ran up your bill. Similar to

Energy Star labeling for appliances, programs may be developed

to certify “bandwidth-efficient” endpoints. Or, guarantees: “This

app will never transfer more than 50 MB per month or double

your money back.”

• Real-time and Projected Monitoring and Billing. Taxis

provide visibility into the amount owed in real-time. You have

electricity, gas, and water meters at your house. Providing

ubiquitous access to your current data consumption, rated to

provide visibility into your projected bill, is next. You may be

calling from the airport to tell the kids to turn down the

resolution on their web video.

• Price Caps. The EU has already been active in capping

roaming fees and monthly bandwidth charges.

• Network Enhancements and Trade-Offs. The same way

that increased gas prices drive fuel efficiency, usage-sensitive

pricing will drive enhancements in compression algorithms, less

chatty protocols, and less predictive caching. Drivers pay

thousands more for hybrids to save on gas, similarly, it may be

worth spending processing resources to save on network

resources.

• Application Design Changes. Rather than dumping a

voluminous amount of data, expect more, well, more buttons,

such as at the top of this article, requiring continuous positive

acknowledgement. Higher interactivity demands lower latency,

therefore greater application dispersion.

• Increased Caching and Premises Appliance Sharing. No

matter how many times my kids stream the same movie, our

players fetch all of the content anew. Expect more caching,

subject to laws and DRM. And, expect players from various

manufacturers to query each other.

• Congestion Pricing. A number of cities have instituted

dynamic congestion-based pricing for tolls and roads, and it has

been proposed to do the same for the Internet. Simplified

congestion pricing might mean free nights and weekends. They

knew to wait until after 9:00 p.m. to call Aunt Martha, and may

learn to have an immersive multi-screen 3-D, high-definition

video call with her after 9:00 p.m. as well.

• Security. Letting your neighbor tap into your wireless access

point may not seem like such a good idea anymore. Expect more

users to turn security on, and more access point vendors to focus

on simplicity and usability of security administration.

• Peer-to-peer. If letting your neighbor uncontrollably increase

your monthly data bill is unwise, perhaps neither is letting

everyone on the planet using your peer-to-peer client do the

same. Some telcos are implementing edge optimization for

content delivery, using peer-to-peer in the set-top box. Usage-

sensitive plans will drive a need to differentiate traffic which a

user generates vs. traffic that the provider generates.

• Intelligent, Policy-Based Optimization. Better to cache

that movie now or download it tonight, when the forecast is for a

twenty percent chance of lower data transfer rates? A predictive

optimizer that believes rates will drop but knows you won’t stay

awake long enough to watch the movie anyway may make the

decision for you.

• End-to-End Open Interoperability and Integration.

Some TVs can talk to media players via “HDMI Consumer

Electronics Control,” others can’t. Expect device manufacturers

to increasingly support interoperable control so that a streaming

media player doesn’t rack up charges when no one is watching.

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• Conservation Culture. People have learned to turn their

thermostats down in the winter, and to wait for sales on Black

Friday and Cyber Monday. Lack of concern for usage under flat-

rate plans is sometimes referred to as “moral hazard,” but I

would just describe it as “rational indifference to consumption

at zero marginal cost.” Reduced consumption is a well-known

effect of metered pricing.

• Cost-Based Adaptivity. Technologies such as Scalable Video

Coding degrade gracefully to smaller screens and lower frame

rates and quality due to network congestion. Future

technologies may do the same based on real-time network data

pricing.

• Return to Ownership. Recent trends have favored on-

demand rental over ownership. Shifting breakeven points may

cause these trends to moderate or even reverse. Don’t toss that

DVD shelving unit yet. If you can rent a house with an option to

buy, perhaps similar models will emerge where streaming a

movie will entitle you to a discount on purchasing it on physical

media.

• Shifting Business Models and Ecosystems. People who

drive to the video store for a DVD (as some still do) expect to

pay for the data transport costs (e.g., fuel, car wear and tear).

People who rent by mail expect that the cost of delivery and

return postage is borne by the video service. Expect a variety of

customer-pays, provider-pays (i.e., bundled pricing), and

advertiser or other third-party supported models to vie to

become accepted industry practice, although in any event, the

consumer ultimately pays with either eyeballs or hard dollars.

Creative partnerships between content providers and network

service providers will also materialize. “With connection

charges, this movie will cost $1.57 to view. This offer expires in

five minutes and prices are not guaranteed until you press

‘Watch Now.’”

The counter-argument to this whole chain of thought is that the cost

per bit (stored or transferred) is approaching zero. That sounds

compelling, but the inverse of that argument is that the amount of

bandwidth per user is approaching infinity, so the real question is

which trend outweighs the other. The answer can be found in the fact

that carriers’ annual capital expenditures are well north of a hundred

billion dollars globally on network infrastructure and they’d like to see

a return on that investment.

Many industries have providers offering pay-per-use and/or flat-rate

plans. Other industries seem to gravitate to unlimited pricing, and

then swing back to usage-based models. The evolution of pricing

models for fixed and mobile bandwidth will offer challenges to some

businesses, but opportunities for others to differentiate themselves

with greater transparency or by developing new features and products

that implement some of the ideas above.

Joe Weinman leads Communications, Media, and Entertainment

Industry Solutions for Hewlett-Packard. The views expressed herein

are his own.

Image courtesy Flickr user mugley.

Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):

• Report: The Connected TV Marketplace

• App Developers: Are You Ready for HTML5 and Metered Data?

• Mobile Operators’ Strategies for Connected Devices

TECHCRUNCH

Electrons revolve around thebrain. Concept of idea.12 DIC 2010 02:54P.M.

Living in Silicon Valley, one gets used to meeting people who are

optimistic and who talk about changing the world. But as I lamented

in this piece about the Valley’s obsession with Facebook and Twitter

apps, most of its entrepreneurs either think too small or are focused

on the wrong things. So, even though I am enthusiastic about its

ability to take risks and innovate, I’ve been skeptical about whether

Silicon Valley can really think big enough to solve global problems.

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That was until I visited Singularity University, located on NASA’s

Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, this week.

To say that I was blown away with what I learned and saw in just a few

hours would be an understatement. I left Singularity’s campus with

the same excitement that I used to feel as a child about how

engineering and science will, one day, save the world. The experience

recalled childhood fantasies of technologies that connect the human

brain to a central computer to share knowledge; bionic organs that

give people superhuman strength; and nano-organisms that monitor

and repair the body and cure disease. And I was reminded of my

childhood fears of cyborgs becoming smarter than humans and taking

over the world. All the great stuff from sci-fi movies.

Singularity University was founded by futurist Ray Kurzweil and X

Prize founder Peter Diamandis, in 2009. It has a who’s who of the

scientific community on its board and notable backers like Google.

The name of the university comes from a Ray Kurzweil book, The

Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. In 2005,

Kurzweil postulated that technology is hurtling humanity toward the

next great evolutionary leap. By 2029, according to Kurzweil,

computers will achieve human intelligence, and by 2045 we’ll be able

to upload our consciousness into what, today, is called the cloud. So

even if our bodies don’t live forever, our minds will.

No, the school doesn’t teach science fiction. It aims to solve the grand

challenges that humanity faces—such as poverty, famine, disease,

global warming, and dwindling energy supplies—by teaching select

groups of business executives, technologists, and government leaders

the advances that are occurring in “exponential technologies”. It

challenges its students to think about radical new innovations that

will affect the lives of a billion people within 10 years. “Exponential

technologies” are those technologies that don’t grow gradually, but at

light speeds—in fields like robotics, artificial intelligence (AI),

computational neuroscience, and nanotech.

The university runs a 10-week graduate studies program and shorter

executive programs. Classes are taught by the foremost experts in

each field—like Dan Barry, three-time NASA astronaut; Vint Cerf,

internet pioneer and Google executive; Daniel M. Kammen, UC

Berkerley energy resources professor and Nobel Peace Prize winner;

and Daniel Kraft, Stanford professor of stem-cell biology. Students

learn about disruptive innovations and their implications and

brainstorm on the sequences in which the next technology revolutions

will happen.

During my visit to Singularity University, I attended Dan Barry’s class

on robotics and AI, Daniel Kraft’s lecture on advances in stem-cell

biology and genome testing, and a demonstration of a new device

being developed by Berkeley Bionics.

I don’t know why, but I had long believed that AI was a legacy of the

70s and was a failed technology. I was surprised to learn that AI

techniques are actually becoming commonplace today: in cyber-

warfare, in Google’s new car, and even in new generations of toys. And

a genome test—which would have cost over a billion dollars two

decades ago—will soon cost less than $100. Advances in genome

testing, it is postulated, may make it possible to create personalized

drug formulations. In other words, rather than standard medicines

that are formulated for everyone, it may be possible to create personal

prescriptions based on a person’s DNA. Medicines that can’t be

brought to market because they cause an adverse reaction in a tiny

proportion of the population can be prescribed to those who benefit. I

was also delighted to learn how Berkeley Bionics will soon make it

possible for people who are paralyzed and confined to wheelchairs to

start walking again. I saw one person who already is.

The university is hardly two years old, and I didn’t expect it to have

enjoyed any successes. But its executive director, Salim Ismail, says

that the school has already inspired many. It had four team projects

start companies last summer, and 15 this summer. These startups

include Acasa, which constructs houses through 3D printing;

www.getaround.com, which provides peer-to-peer car sharing; and

one that is looking to use beamed power to launch spacecraft. One

student even returned to Israel and caused the country to change its

energy policy to focus more on solar rather than nuclear sources (and

as a result, solar-energy use is going exponential).

So there is lots of hope for Silicon Valley and the world. But we need

to get our top technologists, academics, and political leaders to spend

a few days at Singularity University so that they start thinking big

again. We also need to get American children excited again about

studying engineering and science. And we need to reignite the passion

in graduates of engineering programs at schools like Duke, Berkeley,

and Stanford. Too often, they choose to become management

consultants and investment bankers.

Editor’s note: Guest writer Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur

turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior

Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research

at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization

at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa

and find his research at www.wadhwa.com.

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ALL THINGS DIGITAL

No Lumps of Coal for Retailersas Shopping Soars to $22Billion Online [eMoney]12 DIC 2010 02:36P.M.

With five to eight days remaining for consumers to take advantage of

free shipping offers before Christmas, the online shopping season still

has a lot of legs left.

In the first 40 days of the holiday shopping season, comScore

estimates that more than $21.95 billion has been spent online,

increasing 12 percent vs. last year.

The most recent week saw a spike in sales with $5.15 billion in

spending, an increase of 11 percent over last year, as two days each

pushed passed $900 million.

But still, it’s likely that the biggest shopping day online has yet to

occur. The industry would like you to believe that its “Cyber Monday,”

the Monday following Thanksgiving, is the busiest, and while

spending hit an all-time record of $1.03 billion on that day this year,

procrastinators typically spend more as we get closer to Christmas.

This Monday, Dec. 13, has been coined “Green Monday,” presumably

after the color of money. EBay came up with the term after that day in

2007 kicked off one of the busiest shopping weeks online.

This year seems particularly robust, as shoppers become even more

comfortable seeking discounts online. ComScore chairman Gian

Fulgoni, surmised: “This coming week, beginning with Green

Monday, should see some of the heaviest online shopping activity of

the season and we expect at least one more day to surpass the billion

dollar spending threshold.”

But the holiday shopping season will naturally slow down starting on

Friday, Dec. 17, as free delivery offers expire and it becomes more

difficult to get guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve. Until then, the

post office can assume its sleighs will be packed full of cardboard

boxes.

Amazon.com is offering free shipping on purchases of $25 or more

until Friday, unless you have an Amazon prime subscription. Wal-

Mart is offering free shipping–with no minimum–on 60,000 items

until Dec. 20. And, Dec. 17 has been coined Free Shipping Day with

lots of merchants trying to get shoppers to do last-minute spending

online without the penalty of shipping costs.

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