The San Francisco Giants will host the event at a baseball game in late April. But ticket costs $20, party and social-media panel discussion included.
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Since 2001, the hit user-created encyclopedia has maintained basically the same look and feel. But now, in a bid to broaden participation, the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out some big changes to Wikipedia.
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From a piano player serenading strangers to a Canadian indie band announcing its next album, the popular Internet service has become a place where artists, musicians and game players can be truly inspired.
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On Thursday, Microsoft sent out save the date invitations to the ‘world premiere’ of its motion-sensitive control system. Given that the company unveiled off Natal at last year’s E3, one wonders what it will show.
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Film has been king in Tinsel Town for decades, but a new form of storytelling known as transmedia is forcing studio executives to rethink the way a complete story is packaged.
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ultra conservative matt drudge sour grapes post
The conservative media and the Republican Party that often seems to run it are having a very, very bad day today. The US House of Representatives passed President Obama’s health care legislation by a good margin last night (7 votes over), and so the law will likely hit the President’s desk soon and become the law of the land.
What is disappointing is to see the sour grapes. Matt Drudge who runs the Drudgereport has been particularly horrible in how he has covered the administation, and now with the passing of the law he has gone into a sort of conservative mourning. I guess they manages to “Rahm it through”, right Matt?
Conservative media as a whole needs to grow up, stop calling people names, stop throwing mud, and deal with the issues!
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At the South by Southwest Interactive festival, a Ford systems engineer opines on what consumers may be able to expect in terms of hardware/software platforms in their cars five years from now.
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Devo’s presentation at SXSWi was a no-doubt-about it business pitch, yet it was so silly that people were nearly falling out of their seats.
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At SXSWi, two band members tell CNET that Chatroulette is a natural home for Devo and note that the Net is a lot cheaper than TV for promoting a big project.
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No question Twitter is still huge here, but Foursquare and Gowalla have to be considered a major part of people’s organizing principle.
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Designed to help SXSW attendees exchange profiles with a smartphone scan, the system was seen by many as requiring too many steps. However, it is likely a good first step toward something strong next year.
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It may not mean anything, but a check reveals that the account ID associated with Twitter’s newly announced platform was registered more than two years ago.
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One of the most anticipated talks at SXSWi failed to deliver on that energy. After the @Anywhere news was announced, the audience left in droves.
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The “IMAX: Hubble 3D” film–a feast for the eyes–details the risks and rewards of keeping the Hubble Space Telescope functional.
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At Digg’s packed South by Southwest party Saturday night, CEO Jay Adelson surprised the audience by announcing a revamped version of the service with a big slate of new features.
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At about 8 p.m. central time Saturday night, the word spread on Twitter like wildfire that Conan O’Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. But it was actually a hoax that hundreds participated in.
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Recent PR debacles surrounding Google Buzz and Facebook’s privacy settings have put the spotlight on basic misunderstandings by tech companies about how people use social media.
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After last year’s network meltdown at the hands of thousands of iPhone-toting geeks at the interactive confab in Austin, Texas, AT&T promised it would do better. People were skeptical, but they’ve been won over.
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We might never know if a Twitter feed purporting to be by a woman left behind on her anniversary weekend by her SXSW-bound husband is real. But it’s very funny stuff.
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Maybe it’s a sign of SXSW excess or perhaps it’s a prank, but RSVP While You Sleep is advertising a $37 service that tasks overseas virtual assistants with responding to your party invites.
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At GDC 2010, InstantAction follows rival OnLive in announcing a service that lets gamers quickly rent or buy console games over the Internet.
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The PlayStation maker gives those gathered at a press conference during the Game Developers Conference a sneak peek at its motion-sensitive controller.
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The company said it will launch with partners like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and THQ, and will begin unveiling its games lineup before E3. But will it work?
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When simple games like Farmville snag 83 million users, designers who are used to working for years on a project have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook titles.
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It’s nearly impossible to keep from finding out what happens at live events like the Academy Awards, the Olympics or the Super Bowl if you’re a Twitter or Facebook user.
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For the first time, the leading game development conference will feature a summit devoted entirely to topics about iPhone games. But GDC is also changing in other important ways.
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For industrial designer Scott Summit, the ability to make perfectly fitted, custom prosthetics is a major goal. But 3D printing is also changing the industry for one-off lamps, shoes and more.
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Previously, members of the popular gaming service were prohibited for making references to sexual orientation, race, or religion. Now, a new policy will allow them to express their identities.
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According this story at Gizmodo, as well as writeups at ARS Technica, it looks like Microsoft is going to hit the market with Verizon on a new mobile phone called the Pink. I have to say that Microsoft isn’t exactly great on names, adding Pink to Zune in their list of 4 letter forgettable.
While some suggest that it is a windows 7 mobile phone, the interface apparently does not look like Win7. The phone in the example is a turtle style slider phone, with a nice looking keyboard, and the phone seems to be aiming at the social networking / texting market, which is pretty hot at this point.
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The Silicon Valley institution’s executive program students got a vision of an Internet that can predict what we want and act on it on our behalf from a noted futurist Wednesday.
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One of the interesting subtexts of the “FREE!” revolution is in order for musicians, artists, whoever to make a living, income still has to be generated. Since musicians are no longer suppose to sell their music on shiny plastic discs, and because of infinite distribution, the question comes up: How does a musician make money?
The answer, according to the Cynical Musician, is to find the Big Dope.
Who is the Big Dope? Well, the Big Dope is the one person out of a hundred (or thousand, or million) that is willing to pay you significantly more for something than it is really worth, because they are a “fan”. You know, they pay $90 for a band hoodie at a concert, even though it’s a $20 hoodie you could get at Wal-Mart with $1 worth of silk screening on it. They are the dope, because by paying for this hoodie, they have helped to pay for probably 200 people to enjoy free music.
The prices of concert tickets are on the rise as well. “FREE!” supporters like Mike Masnick at Techdirt will tell you it’s a good thing that artists are making more direct money, and that the increase in spending on live shows is a good thing that makes money for all artists. However, people rarely look at the increasing concert ticket prices, which see top acts often selling tickets in the hundreds of dollars for a 2 hour (or less!) show. In the UK, even acts like Bon Jovi are trying to push tickets at nearly $500us a seat. There is no indication that more people are attending live events, and every indication that people are just having to pay more for the same events. Key in this is that lower end artists (without the big followings) aren’t going to see any more of the money, because it is going to the top few percentage artists who are able to dramatically overcharge for their tickets, merchandise, etc.
Just as importantly, in the UK and Swedish studies, it has been shown that consumer spending on music has been flat for a number of years. The dollars gained in live music ticket sales is money lost on recorded music sales. What that means is that while music consumption is at an all time high, the income from selling music is dropping rather than rising. Everyone paying for the live music is in effect giving a subvention to those who choose to download music for free.
As the Cynical Musician points out, it’s the “anyone but me” syndrome. People don’t care who is paying, as long as it isn’t them. Everyone else is paying, but the actual music consumer isn’t.
Don’t be the big dope. Don’t buy the over priced merchandise, don’t pay for over priced tickets. Support your favorite bands by buying their music on CD, through Itunes, whatever, and show your dislike for a system that searches only for dopes.
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In what some see as a stunning admission of being crowded out of many of the smart phone markets, and perhaps as a preemptive strike against the upcoming Google Nexus 1, Apple and NeXT have filed suit against Asian smart phone maker HTC, alleging all sorts of patent infringement and the like. Public opinion on this is mixed, but many of the industry pundits are pointing to this as frustration on Apple’s part as they risk losing their dominant position in the smart phone market.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
However, it should be pointed out that the patents in question are entirely software related, and those sorts of patents aren’t always the strongest. Further, Apple appears to have unleashed the nuclear option as well, adding 10 more items to a list submitted to the ITC (International Trade Commission), attempting to shortcut the process and perhaps gain some sort of blockage against HTC phones coming into the US.
At the end of the day, Apple may or may not win this lawsuit and ITC action, but there is no doubt that many potential customers will now see them as bullies rather than innovators.
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Hard hit by the recession, the pioneering virtual world, which launched to the public in 2003, will shut down for good on March 9.
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Data gathered from a NASA radar on board an Indian spacecraft indicate that more than 40 craters permanently in shadows contain as much as 600 million cubic meters of ice.
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For one student at the elite institution, learning from thought leaders in a series of exponentially growing technologies will likely lead to a rich future helping to change the world.
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The organization that set private space travel a flight will soon roll out its five-year plan. But its chairman says there are a few likely competitions in the works that could change the world.
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