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Mashable: Latest 29 News Updates - including “Run a Website or Blog? You Can Help Japan With One Code Snippet”

Run a Website or Blog? You Can Help Japan With One Code Snippet

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:30 PM PST


If you run your own site — and we know lots of you do — you can use your pageviews and influence to help Japanese people struggling to recover from yesterday’s devastating natural disasters. All you need is a couple lines of code from the Hello Bar.

We showed off the Hello Bar a while ago; it’s a slender bar that floats at the top of your website, giving visitors a brief message and a link.

Best of all, you only have to insert the code snippet on your site once. From a convenient web dashboard, you can customize the bar with your colors and text. You can also tweak the behaviors of the bar and easily turn it on or off from the dashboard. All of this makes it incredibly easy to solicit donations for Japan now, then turn the bar off or change the message and link later, if you so desire.

For example, you might set your Hello Bar to read something like, “Japan has been hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Click here to make a Red Cross donation.” Then later, when Japan is well on its way to recovery, you can change the bar to contain a message about your favorite charity instead, or simply switch the bar off for the time being.

You can set the bar to appear for a brief interval at the beginning of a website visit and hide itself afterward. If you run multiple websites, you can run multiple Hello Bars, again controlling them all from the same dashboard.

The Hello Bar comes from UK design shop digital-telepathy. If you haven’t used Hello Bar before, you’ll need a new account; just sign up with the invite code “helpjapan.”

And if you don’t feel like signing up for a new app, you can just use this code anywhere in the <body> tag of your site to display a standard donation request:

That code can be used on a Tumblr, WordPress or Blogger blog, too; here are some detailed instructions.

As for which links to use, that’s largely up to you. Here are a few reputable organizations that are collecting funds and working with organizations in Japan to meet the needs of Japanese people:

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The iPad 2 Takes Over SXSW [VIDEO]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:02 PM PST


One of the biggest events the first day of SXSW 2011 wasn’t even an official part of the schedule. That’s right, we’re talking about the iPad 2 launch.

Apple has two Austin-area retail locations but in anticipation of all the gadget junkies (and Apple fanatics) at SXSW, the company decided to put up a temporary pop-up store to coincide with the launch of the iPad 2.

The line might have started off a bit slow but by 4:45PM it easily wrapped around the city block anchored by the makeshift Apple Store.

Mashable was there to talk to line takers, many of whom spent the better part of the first day of SXSW in line. Check out this video to get a glimpse at what the action was like.

Music:
Artist: duckett
Song name: Another girl Instrumental
Source: Creative Commons, via freemusicarchive.org

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Twitter to Devs: Don’t Make Twitter Clients… Or Else

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:09 PM PST


Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver.

In an API announcement post, Sarver finally made clear what third-party developers have known for months: The company does not want developers to make Twitter clients any longer.

Sure, you can make a Twitter analytics tool like Klout or a Twitter-integrated CRM platform like HootSuite. And the company loves it when startups like Instagram and Foursquare let their users plug in their Twitter accounts.

But if you’re thinking about making an app that displays and sends tweets, Sarver and company suggest you think again. Especially if that app has a different look and feel or uses different terms than Twitter uses itself. In other words, Twitter wants devs to build apps that use Twitter, not Twitter apps.

So why is Twitter cracking down — at least verbally, for now — on apps that look like and function like but aren’t Twitter?

Twitter’s Official Position on Third-Party Apps

Sarver on stage at Twitter’s developer conference, Chirp.

For some time now, developers have been asking Twitter for clarification on how they can avoid getting in Twitter’s way when building services on Twitter’s API. When Twitter decided to make “official” mobile and desktop apps in the spring of 2010, many third-party shops that had been using the API got burned badly; and nobody wants to repeat that performance.

What Sarver said to developers today was direct: If you don’t want to get burned, don’t build pure-play Twitter clients. And if your app displays and sends tweets, make sure it looks and feels like Twitter.

“Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience,” he wrote.

“The answer is no.”

Twitter expects that it will be most consumers’ client — that means it wants to be the only app users interact with on mobile devices, personal computers, tablets, etc. And as of today, Twitter’s official apps are used by 90% of Twitter’s users.

However, Sarver noted, “If there are too many ways to use Twitter that are inconsistent with one another, we risk diffusing the user experience.”

How important is it to consumers that tweets look like Twitter? Sarver argues that the average end user will tend to be “confused” by changing UIs across various apps. He maintains that not only the design but also the core functions need to be the same across all Twitter apps.

“For example,” he writes, “a number of third-party consumer clients use their own versions of suggested users, trends, and other data streams, confusing users in our network even more.”

Sarver says that users might be confused by terms such as “like” and “comment” rather than “favorite” and “reply.” These distinctions may seem trivial to Twitter power users, but Twitter staffers say these little things mean a lot.

Twitter corporate communications staffer Jodi Olson wrote to us in a separate e-mail, “Our own research indicates that people get confused when the experience isn’t consistent, so we’re taking steps to ensure users can interact with Twitter the same way everywhere.”

A more egregious issue has been several apps’ violation of the Twitter API terms of service in ways that violate Twitter users’ privacy. Of these transgressions, Sarver writes, “Twitter has to revoke literally hundreds of API tokens [and] apps a week as part of our trust and safety efforts in order to protect the user experience on our platform. ”

On the other hand, Sarver gave a sort of whitelist of apps the company feels is using the API appropriately and in ways that make good business sense for both parties. Publisher apps like SocialFlow, curation apps like Sulia, real-time data apps like Klout, brand-focused apps like HootSuite, and “value-added” apps like Foursquare all got a hall pass.

But conspicuously missing from the list were clients such as TweetDeck, the UberSocial family (which includes UberTwitter and Twidroyd), DestroyTwitter, Plume (formerly Touiteur), PowerTwitter, TwitBird — all the apps that give consumer-level Twitter users a slightly different user experience without adding too many bells and whistles.

App Makers’ Initial Backlash

Laura Fitton speaking at Chirp.

Understandably, not every third-party dev has been thrilled with Twitter’s announcement. In an e-mail discussion with Laura “Pistachio” Fitton, founder of Twitter app marketplace OneForty, Fitton took the side of the 750,000 apps that make up the Twitter ecosystem.

“Twitter is full of genuinely earnestly awesome people who want to do the right thing,” she wirtes, “but it has resolutely failed to create the conditions for real business success on their platform.”

When it comes to business success, Twitter responds that the kinds of apps it censured today aren’t the kind that would be most likely to turn a profit, anyhow.

“We outlined what we see as the top five categories of business opportunities for developers,” wrote Olson, “and explained that we do not think that building mainstream consumer third-party clients is one of them.”

As for the different UIs between official and non-official Twitter apps, Fitton objects to Sarver’s rationale. “There’s enough confusion just switching between the various [official] Twitter apps — they all have UI inconsistencies.

“This argument was not at all convincing.”

On the one hand, we’ve seen users flip out and come to some pretty daft conclusions over relatively minor UI changes. Then again, if users like one Twitter “skin,” should they really be forced to give it up just because other users are “confused” by its knobs and buttons?

How Third-Party Apps Can Still Succeed

Identi.ca founder Evan Prodromou and Loic Le Meur at Chirp.

We spoke on the phone with Loic LeMeur, founder of Seesmic. During the Chirp debacle, when many app developers felt similarly betrayed, LeMeur spoke with a positive message that devs could still find success by creating diverse and valuable services that included but did not solely rely on Twitter’s API.

His main message to third-party devs today was simple and common-sense: Communicate, cooperate and adapt.

“There are two types of Twitter apps,” he said, “the ones Twitter likes and the ones that are competitive and don’t have good communication with them.

“We’ve been talking almost daily with Twitter… We’ve been very open with our roadmap.” While he says the startup never directly asked Seesmic to make any changes to the product, he said, “They know what we’re building, and they have no concerns.”

LeMeur notes that Seesmic has two factors that keep it out of Twitter’s way: support for other services (such as LinkedIn and Facebook) and a focus on enterprise and professional users.

“Twitter can’t do what we’re doing; Twitter will never support Facebook pages. In that way, we don’t compete at all,” he said.

We discussed some of the apps that do aggressively compete with Twitter, which is an odd proposition in itself. Think about it: Why would you build an interface for another company’s platform, then attempt to divert traffic and ad revenue to your interface, all while using the other company’s underlying service?

“Competing with your number one partner is a little dangerous,” said LeMeur, “and Twitter doesn’t want that to happen.”

How We Got Here & What Comes Next

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams on stage at Chirp.

Back in 2007 when Twitter first opened up its API, the company was a model of what the social web was supposed to be — a collection of web services rather than websites — and its founders were lauded for their open approach to their own technology and evolving business model.

At the time, co-founder Biz Stone said, “The API has been arguably the most important, or maybe even inarguably, the most important thing we’ve done with Twitter. It has allowed us, first of all, to keep the service very simple and create a simple API so that developers can build on top of our infrastructure and come up with ideas that are way better than our ideas.”

We’ve certainly come a long way since those days. Twitter has already adopted many of the ideas third-party devs brought into the system. For example, the impressive interface of the “New Twitter” felt more to us like a really great third-party app than anything else. And Twitter’s mobile apps, which were a boon to overall Twitter usage, were informed and inspired by existing third-party apps, too.

But as the company continues to refine its product and search for its revenue, it’s closing the door to apps that thrive on its API while stealing its traffic.

Even the most optimistic developers, folks like LeMeur, for example, have had to struggle to keep up with Twitter’s shifting actions and attitudes. “I wasn’t expecting such dramatic changes,” said LeMeur, “but instead of complaining, I have to adapt to it.”

While Twitter wouldn’t comment on what might happen to some of these pure-play, competitive Twitter clients in the future, the company is a business, and its API is intended to help the business grow, not to make a charitable donation of Twitter’s userbase and technology. It’s fully conceivable that Twitter could revoke API access for apps like these in the future.

We’ll be keeping an eye out for any possible fallout from Twitter’s announcement today; in the meantime, take to the comments section to let us know how you feel about this situation.

Lead image based on an illustration from Flickr user matthamm.

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HANDS ON: iPad 2 Takes Tablet Computing to the Next Level [VIDEO]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:53 PM PST

How much can technology change in a year? Take a close look at the iPad 2, and you have your answer. It’s thinner, faster, and it costs the same. That’s progress.

When you have extended physical contact with a product, the way you feel about it is more important than the way you think. That’s where the iPad 2 excels, but there’s nothing magical about it – it’s well made, powerful, and gives you choices of where, when and how you’ll compute that you’ve never had before. Apple has made an already-good device even better.

What Does It Feel Like?

My first impression when I picked up the iPad 2 was that it was impossibly thin. It’s 33% thinner than the iPad 1. How could a device with such a slim cross-section still feel so solid? Gone are the semi-sharp edges of the old model, replaced by curved angles that feel better in the hand. When you set it down, it lies flat, with no rocking like its predecessor. The downside? It’s harder to plug Apple’s universal connector into the slightly curved surface created with this new roundness.

Weight was my main complaint when I reviewed the original iPad last year. The iPad 2, at 1.33 lbs, feels a lot lighter than its older brother at 1.5 lbs.

Its front face changed for the better as well. Before, you could see a band of aluminum around the front edge when you looked at the iPad straight on. However, it looks like the front of the iPad 2 is almost all glass, with just a tiny band of metal visible on the outside of the glass.

Speed

Maybe you’ve seen the iPad 2 specs. But when you feel the speed difference between the iPad 2 and its predecessor, you realize that having a dual-core A5 processor under the hood makes a big difference. Besides its slimmer form factor and lighter weight, this is the juiciest part of the new iPad 2. Where things happened quickly before, now they happen instantly. There’s a noticeable difference, particularly in apps such as Need for Speed that formerly took a long time to launch.

The numbers agree. Running Geekbench 2 on the iPad results in an overall score of 746, compared with 447 for its predecessor. That’s a 66 percent speedup, and believe me, you can feel every bit of it. Bravo, Apple.

Cameras

Much has been said about another new feature of the iPad 2, its front and rear facing cameras. The VGA-resolution front-facing camera is okay for videoconferencing. The much-maligned rear camera, with a mere 0.7 megapixels, is not much better but at least it can shoot and record video in 720p. Both seem to work well in low light, but they’re not good enough for picture taking, and why would you even want to with a tablet? That said, if people want to take pictures with iPads, at least there should be a couple of quality cameras on board, and they’ll have resolution to spare for even HD videoconferencing. The poor quality of the cameras must have been due to a space or cost consideration, something that might fix itself before the iPad 3 shows up.

App Choices

The basic question for all computer buyers: What will you run on it? I can’t leave out the fact that Apple offers more than 65,000 apps specifically designed for the iPad. Many new iPad users tell me that there is too much choice. This is a good position to be in, as developers fall over themselves to create applications for any whim or desire. Buy an iPad, and you’re plugging into an entire ecosystem of software with surprising depth and breadth.

Disappointments

What’s missing? Given all its user-friendly technology, how hard could it be to bestow wireless synchronization onto the iPad 2?

If Apple insists that we synchronize all its electronics with its clunky iTunes application, the least the company could make it an effortless undertaking. The Achilles heel of all of Apple’s products, from iPhone to iPad 2, is iTunes. The first thing you must do with any new iOS product after removing it from its gorgeous packaging is load up this loathsome software. Although iTunes runs okay on Macs, on the PC it’s especially bloated — slow to launch, cumbersome, and stuffed with come-ons that benefit Apple a lot more than its customers, such as Ping and the “Genius” sales-enhancement tool. Its tedious Windows install routine feels the need to ask you twice if you want to install it, and has this sneaky way of nagging you to install Safari and MobileMe. Apple, you’re better than that.

Another slight disappointment is the iPad 2′s screen, the same one that I liked more when I first got the original iPad last year. Now, it’s a year later, and I’ve been spoiled by the super-high-rez screen of the iPhone 4. When I spot individual pixels, it seems like a throwback to old times. I know, Apple would’ve had to raise the price of the iPad if it had matched the pristine dot-pitch of the iPhone 4′s “retina display,” so maybe last year’s touchscreen will have to do.

Pricing

Here’s where Apple has conjured up a cost-effective witch’s brew, choosing components for the iPad 2 that are just good enough. That results in the lowest-priced iPad 2 (16GB Wi-Fi) costing just under $500 and the most expensive model with 3G and 64GB of storage costing $829. Even while keeping the price low, Apple made all the right choices, increasing the iPad 2′s processing and graphics speed, while keeping the 10-hour battery life constant.

Verdict

The iPad 2 is a significantly improved version of a product that was already excellent. As it usually does, Apple figured out precisely which details needed the most attention, leaving out features that wouldn’t make as much difference. Beyond that, now Apple wields its buying clout — its ability to leverage economies of scale and make expensive items cheaper. That’s going to make this product hard to beat. Apple has topped itself. The difference between the iPad 1 and iPad 2 is not subtle. However, the factors that made the original the most popular consumer electronics device in history are amplified in this new version. Let’s call it the “wow” factor — which Apple has nailed once again.


Same screen, faster innards






Compare Old and New




Compare the thickness of the iPad 1 (left) and iPad 2


A New Shape





Bigger Speaker




It sounds noticeably better.


Back Camera




Not great for stills, but it records video in 720p.


Less Heft




Whoa! This feels a LOT lighter.


Compare




The iPad 2 is even better than its predecessor.

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Memolane Creates an Automatic Scrapbook of Your Social Media Activity

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:12 PM PST


The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Memolane

Quick Pitch: Memolane automatically creates a searchable, visual timeline using your history from various social media accounts.

Genius Idea: If you want to record any aspect of your life in real-time, you have your pick of services: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picassa, Instagram, Myspace, Foursquare, TripIt, SPotify, Last.fm, and Youtube, to name just a few.

But if you want to reflect upon these moments that took so many taps to record, for the most part, you’re out of luck.

“There is a gap on the internet today that we are drowning in the success of social media services, capturing the moment, yet we are neglecting the opportunity to capture all of the great moments and make them memorable,” explains Memolane co-founder Eric Lagier.

His solution to this gap, which launched its public beta on Tuesday, compiles posts from all of your social media accounts into a searchable, scrollable timeline. When you want to remember, let’s say, a vacation, you can search for that point in the timeline to see Foursquare check-ins, photos, videos and updates you made during that time period.

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Lagier built the first version of the product at a hackathon. He says it’s been useful during business trips to recall fond memories of his family, which the web app instantly provides when he types in their names.

Beyond just recalling good times (or the name of that restaurant that you ate at last month) Memolane also enables users to collaborate on shareable “stories” by selecting posts from their timelines to create a scrapbook-like timeline for an event or topic. During SXSW, Memolane will be challenging conference attendees to build the best such story in order to win an iPad 2.

As of now, the Denmark and San Francisco-based company has no defined plan for revenue intake and is running on a $2 million round of funding from August Capital and Atomico Ventures. The team’s first priority at the moment is to create an API that will allow the platform to include even more social media accounts within its users personal timelines.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, sjlocke

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark, a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today.

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The ‘Godzilla’ Incident: Did Twitter Users Gang Up on CNN Earthquake Anchor?

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:37 PM PST


To hear Twitter users tell it, last night on CNN was one of the most disreputable in the network’s history. “You might prefer streaming Al-Jazeera to watching CNN anchor giggle about Godzilla,” wrote blogger and NPR contributor Maud Newton, in a widely retweeted statement. “Disgusting,” chimed in hundreds of tweets. “F– you @CNN your anchor is giggling & talking about monster movies while you’re showing waves sweep entire homes away,” read another widespread retweet, originating from filmmaker and writer Aaron Stewart-Ahn. Many others called for the anchor to be fired.

In its defense, CNN tweeted today: “RE: questions about a CNN anchor laughing while covering the Japan earthquake, we checked. It appears it was a false post.” Moments later, the network’s Twitter feed added, “We checked on the Godzilla references too. That also appears to be a false post.”

So who is correct — CNN or the Twittersphere? An analysis of the transcript and the Twitter record by Mashable brings us to the following conclusions:

1) The anchor in question, Rosemary Church of CNN’s International Center in Atlanta, did not make any “Godzilla jokes.” One of her guests, an American eyewitness named Matt Alt, describing the video footage, said “these waves of debris, it is almost like a monster movie.”

Tweets at around this time slammed Alt, misidentified as a CNN reporter or anchor, for making a “Godzilla-esque” reference. Later retweets removed the “-esque.”

2) Church’s words could not be accurately described as “joking”. Her tone, clearly irksome to many viewers, is another question. An anchor with some serious news chops — she covered 9/11 and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, among other major events — Church also has a bubbly, Australian-accented voice. Some of her statements around 2:15am ET, according to the Twitter stream, may have sounded inappropriately jovial. That’s when the earliest cluster of results for “CNN laughing” appear:

It was around this time that Church paraphrased Alt’s comment about his Japanese wife being used to earthquakes and issuing orders. “She made a small joke about a caller’s Japanese wife being calm,” tweets journalist Michael Corey. “The joke wasn’t offensive, just a joke in that situation was weird … But live TV is hard, so I cut her a little slack. Not much.” A CNN spokesperson admits that Alt “lightly chuckled,” but that there was no laughter.

Some minutes later, Church interrupted a reporter on the scene to say that she was being “flooded with tweets.” That set off another mini-firestorm on Twitter. Given the scenes of devastation on screen at the time, it was clearly a poor choice of words, but it does not appear to be an intentional joke.

3) In ascribing the criticism to “a false post,” CNN is incorrect. That suggests a single influential Twitter user was behind the criticism. In fact, as the screen above shows, it emerged spontaneously from multiple independent sources at the same time.

Granted, Twitter is something of a digital echo chamber. Stewart-Ahn’s tweet is still being retweeted, even after he admitted the misattribution (though he still believes Church covered the story “rudely and ignorantly” and still swears he heard her laughing.)

But pressed to locate the “false post” it tweeted about, even CNN itself admits there’s no single source. “I don’t know if anyone could point specifically to the flash point on social media that started the rumors,” says Bridget Leininger, a spokeswoman for CNN. “All I can say is that no one at CNN joked, laughed or made a Godzilla reference on our live coverage.”

Here, courtesy of Mediate, are some video clips of Church’s coverage:

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First Impressions From An iPad 2 Owner: Should You Wait? [PICS]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 06:59 PM PST


After months of rumors, nine days of greedy anticipation, and two-and-a-half hours in line (something I haven’t done since the Indiana Jones ride came out at Disneyland), I have an iPad 2 in my hands.

The tablet is the second iteration of what was arguably the most successful device launched in 2010. Apple sold 15 million first-generation iPads in just nine months last year. Before the iPad, no one was sure that consumers wanted tablets.

Now it is a multibillion-dollar category in its own right. Recent research from eMarketer estimates that consumers will purchase 81.3 million tablets in 2012, 69% of which will be iPads. Gartner estimates 19.5 million tablets have been purchased this year, and will multiply to 54.8 million in 2011 and more than 208 million by 2014, “driven by sales of the iPad.” In the U.S., Forrester expects 24 million tablets will be sold, a full 20 million of which will be iPads.

But will the iPad 2 maintain Apple’s lead ahead of newer competitors, bringing in enough first-time holdouts over the likes of the HP Touchpad, Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab? Will iPad 1 owners find it worth the upgrade? Let’s take a look.

Overview

The iPad 2 is by no means a drastic improvement over the iPad 1. Its dimensions (9.7 x 7.3 inches), buttons, software and battery life (10 hours, ahead of all of its competitors), are almost entirely identical. It’s a full third thinner (0.34 inches at its widest) — even thinner than the iPhone 4, as evidenced below — and ever-so-slightly, but not quite noticeably, lighter (1.3 pounds versus the iPad 1′s 1.5 pounds).

There are two noticeable additions in the form of two cameras, one on the front and a larger one on the back. These aren’t the iPhone 4′s cameras; they’re better for video chat than picture-taking.

The speaker has been moved to the back of the device, and sounds the same.

The hardware is pretty similar, too. The iPad 2 sports the same 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768-pixel display. (The iPhone 4′s retina display, it seems, has been saved for the iPad 3.) The A4 CPU has been replaced with a new, dual-core 1GHz dual core chip (called the A5). RAM has reportedly been doubled to 512 MB — an improvement, but a far cry from the 1GB sported by other tablet competitors.

That being said, apps — including new, graphics-intensive ones, like GarageBand and iMovie — load so much more quickly on the iPad 2 than they did on the iPad 1. It’s hard to be anything but pleased.

The iPad 2 comes with the same accelerometer and light sensor, but also includes a three-axis gyroscope for better gaming.

Like the first-generation iPad, the iPad 2 comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions with built-in Wi-Fi, both with and without 3G. This time, the iPad is also available in white as well as black, and with a data plan from Verizon.

Smart Case

Apple’s Smart Case is fantastic in many ways. It’s slim and pleasant to the touch, like suede. It adheres firmly to the iPad using magnets, no slippage or misalignment problems to be had. It can also be folded back to situate the iPad on a roughly 30-degree incline.

I won’t be keeping my Smart Case, however, because it doesn’t have a back. For whatever reason, Apple decided not to include one — thus leaving the aluminum side of the iPad exposed to scratches and other kinds of damage. I could, I suppose, pair the case with a hard shell, but I’d rather select a similar version with a back and that allows me to prop it at a steeper angle, as I sometimes use my iPad as a second monitor. Fortunately, my colleague Amy-Mae has compiled a list of 25 different cases for the iPad 2.

Conclusion

The iPad 2, in my opinion, is still best in class. It’s a beautifully designed, sleek device, and its software offerings alone ensure continued success over its competitors.

That being said, if you’re on the fence about whether to upgrade from the iPad 1, I’d advise you to wait. The iPad 2 simply doesn’t offer enough in the way of advancement to justify the purchase, especially when the iPad 3 is likely only a year away. (Then again, you might have more disposable income than I do, or use your iPad as your primary computer, in which case I’ll say: It’s up to you.)

For those of you who are already iPad 2 owners: What do you think of the device? iPad 1 owners, are you considering an upgrade, or will you sit this round out? Let us know in the comments.

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U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PST


A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.

Earlier this year, the Department of Justice subpoenaed Twitter, asking the social media service to hand over information related to the Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks and some of its supporters. The subpoena targeted Birgitta Jonsdottir, Rop Gongrijp and Jacob Appelbaum, known for their support and contributions to the whistle-blowing website.

In a 20-page opinion, Judge Theresa Buchanan rejected the arguments of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and attorneys representing the WikiLeaks backers, declaring that first and fourth amendment rights would not be violated by turning over Twitter account information to the government.

Buchanan did, however, make some of the case’s documents of the case public, though documents with “sensitive nonpublic facts, including the identity of targets and witnesses in an ongoing criminal investigation,” will not be included. Among the revelations from the unsealed documents: Twitter filed a motion last month requesting permission not to turn over data related to WikiLeaks’s official account, despite that WikiLeaks has made no objection to the government’s subpoena.

It’s unclear whether the order encompasses private messages sent by the WikiLeaks supporters. The government’s request for access is limited to content such as e-mail and IP addresses, but private Twitter messages could potentially come into play, which could spark another legal battle. The ACLU intends to appeal today’s ruling.

“Twitter’s policy is designed to allow users to defend their own rights. As such, Twitter will continue to let the judicial process run its course,” Twitter said in a statement to Mashable.

[Via CNET]

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Google Stops Shipping CR-48 Chrome OS Notebooks

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST


Google has stopped shipping the CR-48 notebook, the first pilot Chrome OS device, and is preparing for the next phase of its release.

Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai spilled the beans earlier today on Twitter. “Sorry we have shipped all units for now,” Pichai said.

The Google exec also reconfirmed that the first Chrome OS devices will go on sale this summer. Acer and Samsung were among the first companies to commit to shipping Chrome OS devices back in December.

First announced in 2009, Chrome OS is an operating system designed for the web. It boots up in seconds and can update itself, but most importantly, it only runs web apps. It is Google’s attempt to get people to ditch their desktops and use the web even more.

Since its debut in 2009, however, tablet devices like the Xoom and the iPad 2 have dominated the market and changed the computing landscape. Netbook sales are plummeting while tablet sales are skyrocketing.

So Google is entering the next phase of the Chrome OS development cycle — but it’s unclear whether there’s a market for a web-based OS in an iPad world.

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28 Cases For Your New iPad 2 [PICS]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST

Getting in line for an iPad 2? Looking for a cool case to cosset it in chic? We’ve got you covered. The slideshow below features a wide selection of cases, sleeves, skins and covers specifically designed for the iPad 2.

Unfortunately, many of the cases aren’t available immediately. Apple’s super-secretive launch process means accessory makers don’t know the specifications or dimensions of a new product until the general public does. We spoke to one accessory maker, Speck, about this situation.

“The big challenge for designers is keeping pace with Apple,” says Andy Eakins, director of European operations for Speck. “We’re based just around the corner from Apple but just like the rest of the world, we have no real idea of what's coming until it’s launched. That’s when the race to get product to everyone starts.”

“Our engineers will constantly be developing concepts and playing around with materials, function, color and pattern,” Eakins says. “But until the item is in the Apple store in downtown Palo Alto, we’ll be waiting on the blocks ready to create a product within weeks and sometimes even days of launch.”

So if you’re in the market for an iPad 2 case, take a look through the slidesnow. There’s almost certainly a solution to suit you. Let us know which one that might be, and whether you can stand to wait for it, in the comments below.


1. Apple iPad Smart Cover





In a choice of two finishes and in a variety of colors, Apple's new Smart Covers are going to be a very popular choice with iPad 2 purchasers. If however, you want something a little different, then click through for alternatives from accessory makers from all around the world.

Available: Now

Cost: $39/$69


2. GEAR4 Angry Birds Family Shot Case




The whole Angry Birds crew is represented on this fun snap-on case that's coming soon.

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£39.99


3. Booqpad iPad Agenda




Available in a choice of colors and finishes, the booqpad combines your iPad 2 with a pen-and-paper notepad (refills available) offering a great, portable digital/analogue organizer.

Available: Late March

Cost: From $49.95


4. Speck iGuy




This fun fellow offers a kid-friendly design as his arms serve as comfortable handles. He's also capable of free-standing for easy viewing.

Available: Mid April

Cost: $39.95/£36


5. Case-Mate Versant




Available in black, brown and pink, this stylish case folds back to become a stand for both viewing and typing.

Available: From late March

Cost: $39.99


6. Proporta Shine Case




A document pouch and stylus holder head the feature list for this glossy case that leaves all ports and controls accessible. It will be available in black with zebra stripe innards and red with a floral design.

Available: Early April

Cost: $54.95/£39.95


7. DODOcase




Made using traditional book-binding techniques, the DODOcase for the iPad 2 comes with a choice of eight color linings, as well a special limited edition DODOcase commemorating the launch of the iPad 2 with a "white aesthetic."

Available: Now

Cost: From $59.95


8. Cygnett Armour




A form-fitting, "double-strength shield," this case doubles as a stand with three viewing angles.

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£34.95


9. Macally SNAP2-MR




A metallic snap-on case, the SNAP2 offers super-sleek, all-over protection.

Available: TBD

Cost: $29.99


10. Belkin Access Folio Stand




Belkin's Access Folio Stand case offers some interest via texture, as well as a handy pocket for storing slimline bits and bobs.

Available: TBD

Cost: $39.99


11. Grove iPad 2 Case




With a solid 100% bamboo body and a vegetable tanned leather cover, Grove's iPad 2 case is ideal for anyone who prefers their materials natural and their products unusual.

Available: TBD

Cost: $79 including a $20 pre-order


12. Cygnett Lavish Earth




Due to be available in soft, earthy tones of ecru, eggplant or khaki, Cygnett claims its Lavish Earth offering is a more "soulful alternative" to the executive black.

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£34.95


13. Macally DUALSTAND2




This form-fitting case offers protection as well as a kickstand at two different heights -- one for typing and one for viewing media.

Available: TBD

Cost: $29.99


14. Proporta Aluminium Lined Leather Case




This leather case hides a tough aluminium plate lining to protect your iPad's screen whilst on the go.

Available: Early April

Cost: $84.95/£59.95


15. Case-Mate Simple Slab




Go retro with the Simple Slab, says Case-Mate. This two-toned case offers an angular take on iPad protection, but is actually made of "squishy and grippy" plastic. Due to be available in black, orange and blue, we predict it'll be a big seller.

Available: From late March

Cost: $34.99


16. Speck HandyShell




This unusual case boasts a multi-function handle for a firm grip on the go. You can use the flip-out handle as a thumb ring for one-hand grip, a stand for portrait or landscape viewing, or even to hang your iPad up.

Available: Late April

Cost: $54.95/£49.50


17. GEAR4 Angry Birds Pig King vs. Red Bird Case




The Pig King goes head to head with the Red Bird. Fight!

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£39.99


18. Macally PENCASE2




If you're partial to stylus input then Macally's PENCASE2, that comes complete with such apparatus, is perfect for you.

Available: TBD

Cost: $29.99


19. Case-Mate Gelli




The Gelli absorbs impacts and offers a soft grip. Available in red, pink and gray it's a simple solution for lightweight iPad protection.

Available: From late March

Cost: $29.99


20. iSkin Summit




The playful, space-age case will offer your iPad some seriously padded protection.

Available: Now

Cost: $95


21. XtremeMac Thin Sleeve




A real classic, XtremeMac's Thin Sleeve offers slim-fitting, subtle protection for your 'Pad and features an eject tab for easy removal.

Available: TBD

Cost: $39.99


22. M-Edge Cambridge Jacket




Made of cotton canvas and leather with a wool twill interior, the Cambridge Jacket is a little different from your average poly-plastic case.

Available: TBD

Cost: TBD


23. Cygnett Glam




Claiming "a chic defense against wear and tear," the Glam case certainly is that with its glossy finish.

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£34.95


24. Scosche SnapSHIELD P2




The snapSHIELD P2 is a low profile polycarbonate case, perfect for anyone who wants to keep it simple.

Available: Mid March

Cost: $29.99


25. Speck ComfyShell




This case's clever USP is its removable soft cushion for comfortable lap use. What a great idea!

Available: Late April

Cost: $49.95/£45


26. GEAR4 Angry Birds Red Bird Case




More Angry Birds fun with the focus here on ol' Red.

Available: TBD

Cost: $TBD/£39.99


27. Speck PixelSkin HD Wrap




A la Apple's Smart Case, Speck's PixelSkin's front cover stays shut with "magic microsuction" or folds into a viewing or typing stand.

Available: Mid April

Cost: TBD


28. Snupped Custom Sleeve




Finally, if you didn't see a case to fit in our selection then why not design your own? Snupped lets you choose from a wide variety of fabrics to make your own perfectly sized zipped sleeve, with or without handles.

Available: Now

Cost: $34.90

More iPad 2 Resources from Mashable

- Apple Offers Video Guided Tours of iPad 2
- Buying an iPad 2: What You Need to Know
- How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition? [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Hands-on With iOS 4.3 [PHOTOS]
- iPad 2: The Hardware

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Marissa Mayer: Google Will Connect the Digital & Physical Worlds Through Mobile

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:03 PM PST


Google’s recently appointed head of mobile and geolocation Marissa Mayer took the stage Friday afternoon at South by Southwest to discuss how Google’s maps and locations products are paving the way for a more digitally and physically connected future.

“The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical,” Mayer said during her presentation in which she also discussed Google’s location and mobile products and strategies. She segmented the talk into three sections: fast, fun and future.

Mayer spouted off impressive product stats and the improved speed of Google Maps for Mobile, highlighted how the company is applying Google Street View to art and concluded by hinting at a future when Google marries its fast array of mobile-friendly products — Calendar, Hotpot, Google Maps for Mobile and Goggles — with location to make life smoother. This is what she calls the “power of here.”

She also shared data on a few of Google’s applications: 40% of all Google Maps usage is on mobile, and Google Maps for Mobile has 150 million users. The app’s turn-by-turn navigation feature processes 35 million miles per day. Also, the newly added route around traffic feature is saving users two years of time every day, which equates to a potential $250,000 in fuel savings per year.

Mayer also talked up Google’s place recommendation product Hotpot. No specific metrics were revealed, but Mayer referred to its adoption as a success. She pointed to the fact that 20% of all Google searches are for local information to highlight why Hotpot — the product's data is incorporated into maps and search as well — is quite significant.

Ultimately, Google’s aim is to tie the digital world to the physical world through mobile and bring to life the “power of here,” Mayer said.

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Want to Understand JavaScript’s Quirks? Spend Time in the JavaScript Garden

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PST


Now here’s a tool we’d like to see applied to more languages. A handful of developers have just launched a site devoted to explaining the more intricate, difficult and quirky aspects of JavaScript.

Dubbed the JavaScript Garden, this project isn’t aimed at teaching JS noobs the ropes; rather, it’s supposed to refine the understanding of the language for current JavaScript programmers. Its creators, a handful of JavaScript experts, dole out well-organized advice on how devs can “avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices.”

[Note: If you're just starting out in JavaScript, the creators of the JavaScript Garden recommend Mozilla's guide on the subject.]

As many a commenter noted in threads from our recent post on the JavaScript-based Node.js, JavaScript isn’t “easy” by any means. Although it’s used quite widely outside the hardcore hacker communities (particularly by those on the design side of the web), it still has its own unique frustrations and complexities, even for experienced devs.

For example, within the JavaScript Garden, you can find detailed information on the for in loop or a detailed explanation of how this works.

The JavaScript Garden comes from Zynga JavaScript dev Ivo Wetzel and student/front-end developer Yi Jiang with contributions from Spotify dev Andreas Blixt and IBM engineer Caio Romão.

From what we can see, the Garden is still a work in progress. What other topics would you like to see explored in this resource?

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Request a Pedicab Ride With Your Smartphone at SXSW

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:09 PM PST


Uber, the San Francisco-based startup putting a digital twist on car service, is bringing the Uber flare to Austin, Texas, by piloting a pedicab version of its service during South by Southwest.

More than 100 pedicabs in the Austin downtown area have been outfitted with Uber equipment and are now capable of receiving ride orders via the Uber application or SMS.

The program, aptly named Uber Pedicabs, is now under way and gives riders the ability to more seamlessly hail a pedicab, negotiate a price and pay through the application.

The Uber Pedicab program makes for a cashless transportation experience and is designed to turn downtown transports into fun rides for the SXSW Interactive crowd. So far, so good, says vice president of business operations Ryan Graves. “People really love it,” he says, explaining that attendees are jubilantly tweeting and Instagraming (using the hashtag #uberspotting) about their pedicab rides.

Graves, who took me on a pedicab ride earlier, explained he’s been in Austin all week working with the drivers and their dispatch companies. All participating pedicabs are sporting Uber signs, using the application and riding around with a special “bike bag” that allows them to ride for 48 consecutive hours without needing to recharge.

The Uber Pedicabs experience is designed to replicate the regular Uber service, says Graves. The user can command a pedicab via app or SMS and pay for the ride through the app as usual. Pedicab drivers have been trained on the process and riders are encouraged to negotiate their fares. When all is said done, Uber will done 20% of ride fees to LIVESTRONG; it’s also opted not to take a cut of the action for the Austin test period.

SXSW attendees have a number of sponsored transportation options at the festival, so why would they choose Uber Pedicab? Apart from the promise of a more consistent pick-up time, Graves says, “It’s a blast.” Having just experienced my first pedicab ride, I see his point — there certainly is an element of fun and novelty to the entire experience.

Uber’s next car service destination is New York, but Graves hints that should the pedicab offering prove to be a hit, the startup may consider formally adding the alternative transportation method to its business.

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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The SXSW Edition

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:58 PM PST



If Brooklyn and San Francisco are a little empty this week, it’s because all of the tech folks and bands are in Austin, Texas, for SXSW.

That’s where a goodly portion of the Mashable staff is currently hanging its hat, which is why this week’s YouTube Roundup Theme is: SXSW (naturally).

From music videos to panel highlights, we’ve collected a cadre of vids that will get you primed and prepped if you’re heading down South. And for those of you staying put … we sincerley apologize for the ensuing jealousy. Oh, also, it’s currently 77 degrees over here.

Happy Friday!


The Vaccines - "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)"


Lauren Rubin: The band I'd most want to see at SXSW: The Vaccines.


Eclectic Method, "Charlie Sheen Remix"


Karen Hartline: Please can we add our friends Eclectic Method's Charlie Sheen remix before it gets too old?


The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, "Everything With You"


Brenna Ehrlich: Fellow Brooklynites, apparently playing EVERY party at SXSW this year.


SurprisedSXSW: Hangover


Erica Swallow: My favorite panel at last year's SXSWi was "How to Create a Viral Video." The panelists announced a contest for attendees to create the best "Surprised Kitty" spinoff. My friend and I entered three videos and won one of the prizes! Here's my favorite entry (of ours).


SXSW Timelapse


Amy-Mae Elliott: For any armchair tourists out there, this cool timelapse video shrinks the "SXSW experience" into five minutes.


Michael Jackson, "Thriller (A Cappella)"


Charlie White: I wish these guys were at SXSW.


The Kills, "U R A Fever"


Christina Warren: The Kills rock!


Winnebago Man at SXSW 2009


Ada Ospina: What's more social than a hermit living on top of a mountain?

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Super 8 Movie Trailer Hits Web via Twitter

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PST


Paramount released Friday via Twitter the first full-length trailer for the hotly anticipated Super 8.

Tweeted from the @Super8Movie Twitter account and utilizing TwitVid means that the trailer is viewable in streams on Twitter.com and in many popular Twitter clients. From TwitVid, users can also share the trailer with their friends on Facebook or Twitter. In less than 10 hours, the film has already amassed 1.5 million views on TwitVid.

Written and directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, the film looks like a throwback to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film opens on June 10, 2011 and is promising to be one of the bigger releases of the summer.

You can watch the trailer below. Let us know what you think about it — and the studio’s decision to release a trailer on Twitter — in the comments.


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Pitching 101 [COMIC]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:30 PM PST

Let’s face it. Your real-time, geo-location app for finding the nearest and highest rated drive-thru cat groomers (Pampurrr2Go, working title) doesn’t stand a chance of being made without funding.

But how can you, a lowly code-thumping peasant, hope to hobnob with the gilded elite for a chance at scoring that elusive venture cheddar?

I have no idea. Just don’t do this.


This comic was illustrated by Kiersten Essenpreis, a New York-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com.

For more laughs, check out our previous Mashable Comics.

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Dealery Flips Daily Deal Standard by Selling at National Level

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:15 PM PST


Since the meteoric rise of Groupon, local daily deals sites have launched for just about every niche, including ones tailored toward moms and gay men.

Startup Dealery has taken a different approach since its launch in August. Dealery pays its bills by aggregating daily deals for about 90 cities — providing those cities’ residents with an easy dashboard to check many daily deal site offers at once.

Now, as other daily deals sites aim to be more niche and hyper-local, Dealery is putting another twist on daily deals with “deal exclusives” that will be offered at a national level.

"Our deals will be available across the country and could include products, services, gift-cards or anything else that is not specific to a particular city or region," explains CEO Limor Elkayam in a press release.

The first national deal on the site is a Charlie-Sheen-inspired “Winning” T-shirt.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, zorani

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Instagram’s News Feed Gets a Facelift Just in Time for SXSW

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:07 PM PST


Among the apps to watch at SXSW, photo-sharing services are definitely situated firmly in the category of “hot.” Which is why it’s no surprise that Instagram is out with a smattering of updates today.

Perhaps the coolest addition to the photo-sharing app is its revamped news feed. The service has split the feed into “Following” and “You.” Now you can see what those you’re following are “liking” and commenting on.

Also, in addition to sharing snaps on Twitter and Facebook, etc., you can now e-mail a picture directly from the app (perfect for sending friends pics of themselves).

The update also includes a ton of smaller — but still cool — additions. For example, you now have the option to add the Tilt-Shift Effect. After you snap a pic, tap it to activate this feature. Basically, this effect lets you change the focus of the picture, and blur other portions accordingly. Mashable‘s Christina Warren — currently chilling in my room in Austin — took this picture of the city’s skyline.

Other changes include the option to tap and hold on a person’s name to mention them and the choice to add location without naming a specific spot.

While we’re certainly digging these changes, we wish Instagram had added something like “Collections,” which image-sharing rival Picplz introduced Thursday. Collections are basically groups of photos within the app that you can build and edit.

Still, with 2 million users and a ton of buzz (not to mention high-profile brand participation), Instagram is undoubtedly the favorite of the photo-sharing apps at present.

However, with PicPlz, Path, and Hipstamatic ramping up their functionality and services, we can see this race heating up during SXSW and beyond.

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Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:55 PM PST


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Hacktivism: Startup Mentality for the Non-Profit Sector

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:43 PM PST


Saad Khan is a hacktivist and Partner at CMEA Capital. He's a seed and early stage investor in companies like Blekko, Pixazza, Jobvite, and Evolution Robotics. He blogs at SaadWired and conversates on Twitter @saadventures. If you're a hacktivist, reach out to him — he wants to connect with you.

A young hacker is holed up alone in his apartment. His face is lit by a laptop screen, monitor split between a live video stream and a text editor filled with code. Fueled by Ramen Noodles and caffeine, he codes away through the night, monitoring the latest hashtags on Twitter, never a few seconds behind the newest exploding meme, instantly transmitting the latest news to others in his social graph.



This is a scene that is played out in the rooms of countless hackers and their "lean startups" around the world. Only for the past few weeks, it could have just as easily described an entirely new, organic, philanthropic phenomenon: Hacktivism.

Hacktivism is the use of hacking and the startup mentality to tackle and support social good causes. Here’s a look at some of the minds behind hacktivism and ways that it is helping charities worldwide.

Welcome to the Hacktivism Era

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I was invited to Washington, D.C. for the Tech@State: Open Source event hosted by the Office of e-Diplomacy at the State Department. Rather than besuited C-SPANers, geeks from around the world had descended on D.C. to intermingle with practitioners of statecraft. It was also unusual for another reason — a hemisphere away, a million Egyptians had descended on a main square in Egypt and demanded of their government and the world that their voices be heard. A couple of hours into that Friday morning, they got just that when Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down after 30 years.



In a cosmic coincidence (the event had been planned for weeks), I was on a panel two hours later discussing the political implications of new media with people like Habib Haddad, one of the many volunteers involved with the AliveInEgypt initiative and recently vindicated friend of Wael Ghaneim (the Google employee who had, until very recently, been incarcerated). The panel also included Katherine Maher, ICT program officer at the National Democratic Institute, and Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the State Department.

Consider the propagation of organic efforts like AliveInEgypt. When Internet activity had been shut down in Egypt, volunteers from Google and Twitter launched international lines that one could call to leave voicemails that would then be tweeted out with location hashtags. The creators of AliveInEgypt set up a crowdsourced translation service to take those mostly Arabic voicemails and convert them to text in as many languages as possible in the Twittersphere. Loosely organized, geographically dispersed, and entirely volunteer-driven, hundreds of people contributed.


This Visualization of the Egyptian Twitter Sphere helps put into context the various efforts. Its designer, Kovas Boguta, called me a few days before I went to D.C. saying he wanted to do something useful for the Egyptian cause. We discussed what was possible over the phone, and three days later I was showcasing his #Egypt visualization on a big screen at the State Department.

Another interesting example is the OpenMesh project. It's a virtual collaboration with the objective of developing a communication solution for when Internet and/or mobile communications are shut down as they were in Egypt recently. Among the many options being explored are ad hoc mesh networking solutions that enable peer-to-peer communications.

These are just a few examples of how entrepreneurial creativity has been unlocked over the past few weeks to respond to a higher cause. Others are creating Gov 2.0 apps. I suspect countless ideas and plans are hatching in cubicles everywhere.

A New Kind of Activism

The events of the last few weeks have clearly galvanized a new kind of lean entrepreneurial activism. It's enabled by the same drivers as lean startups: Free software, pay-as-you-go data centers and social distribution channels. But these entrepreneurs aren't trying to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. What drives them is the desire to effect change, a sense of digital empowerment and an intuition that we are at a unique moment in history, one where generational transfers of leadership are at stake and increasingly possible.

Underlying much of this energy is an unprecedented global solidarity among people traditionally separated by thousands of miles of physical space and cultural artifacts. It's forged by a very visceral empathy that comes with directly shared images and personal connections that today's technology enables. Tens of thousands of people followed the unfolding saga of Ghonim's capture and redemption on Twitter and Facebook. They saw what he saw and read what he was thinking. They watch. They connect. And then they want to do something about it.

Make no mistake, these people are entrepreneurs. They are agitators, opportunists, and catalysts for change. They measure success one follower at a time. I for one, think it's time to get behind them. Let's start activist hackathons, organize StartupWeekend “.gov Edition,” and engineer for a higher cause. We just might start a new kind of revolution.

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iPhone 5: Clearest Picture Yet? [PICS]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:35 PM PST


We already have a pretty good idea of the iPhone 5′s appearance, but now here’s an engineering diagram that, if real, gives us the clearest picture yet of the upcoming handset from Apple.

From iDealsChina and Fast Company comes this “engineering image,” supporting rumors that the iPhone 5 will have a screen that stretches all the way to the device’s side edges.

Add this clue to that touchscreen pic we showed you a couple of weeks ago, and you get a pretty good picture of what might be shipping this summer.

Wait, there’s more: Digging deep into the code of iOS 4.3, eagle-eyed observers noticed tell-tale signs that point to an A5 processor inhabiting the new iPhone 5. Hey, that’s the same chip that gives the iPad 2 its newfound vigor.

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Hipstamatic Giving Away SXSW HipstaPaks

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PST


One of the best photo apps for the iPhone — Hipstamatic — is getting into the SXSW spirit. From March 11-20, Hipstamatic will give away free SXSW HipstaPaks that include a new “Tejas” lens and a commemorative case.

Hipstamatic is continuing a trend it started with Fashion Week, when the company offered a free lens and case to commemorate that big event.

Hipstamatic will also be at SXSW, holding a daily photo shoot at Macallan’s Registration Tent. Beginning March 16, Hipstamatic will team up with Esquire to take photographs of the celebrities in attendance.

Learn how to get a free HipstaPak by going to Hipstamatic’s SXSW microsite.

What photo apps are you using at SXSW this year? Let us know.

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CBS, SCVNGR Launch Spy Game at SXSW

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:13 PM PST


If you have some downtime during this week’s South by Southwest festival, you might consider playing spy.

A promotion from CBS for the new show Chaos will reward would-be spies with free drinks and possibly a free iPad for following a SCVNGR game based on the show. Operation Chaos begins Saturday with a challenge called “You May Call Me” that gives away a cup of coffee at Austin Java City Hall for those who create an alias for themselves.

At Maggie Mae’s on Sixth Street, players can get a free drink by naming their signature cocktail. Those who complete any of the challenges will also be entered to win an iPad. A full list of the challenges can be found here.

Chaos, a comedic drama about CIA spies, premieres April 1. Typically, location-based promotions don’t have a direct application to TV show premieres, but SXSW represents a rare opportunity to have lots of social media influencers in one place. In fact, CBS claims that it is the first network to launch a promotion on SCVNGR. Bravo, however, ran a promotion with Foursquare last January and then another for New Year’s Eve.

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HOW TO: Follow the Japan Earthquake Online

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:58 AM PST


Social media and the web have become the go-to for real-time information when disasters strike.

It’s no surprise that the news of Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spread rapidly on Twitter, while live video feeds and blogs kept pace.

With unreliable cellphone service, social media is the only form of communication consistently available to people in Japan, says Brian Gillespie of Texas. He has reached out to friends in Japan through Twitter and Facebook. Mixi, Japan’s largest social networking site, has also been used to located loved ones, he says.

Like Gillespie’s friends, many in Japan are updating us on the country’s status via the Internet. In addition, thousands of reporters and citizen journalists worldwide are distributing their knowledge of the situation on homepages and social streams.

Now, hours after the initial quake, information about the earthquake and tsunami abound. Here’s a list of some of the best Japan earthquake resources online, as suggested by our readers.

What tools are you using to track the crisis? Let us know in the comments which ones we’ve missed.

Social Media

Live Video and Blogs

Other Resources

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Google Earth Offers 3D Preview of Royal Wedding Route

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:45 AM PST

If the official Royal Wedding site isn’t doing enough to quell your aching, vicarious desire to envision Prince William and Kate Middleton’s big day, Google might be able to help you.

Ahead of the April 29 event, the search giant has expanded its 3D imagery of central London in Google Earth to include the full Royal Wedding procession route. You can get a video tour of the route set to — you guessed it — “Here Comes the Bride” above.

The procession will begin in Westminster Abbey and pass the House of Parliament, Whitehall and the Prime Minister’s residence on 10 Downing Street before crossing through the Horse Guards Parade and the Mall to its final destination at Buckingham Palace.

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AOL Enters the App Business With Social Music App Play

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PST


AOL may be losing up to about 900 people during layoffs announced Wednesday, but it is gaining its first exclusively mobile product on Friday.

The company has launched a free Android app called Play, which AOL describes as “Instragram for music.” Like the popular photo-sharing app, Play allows users to follow each other’s activity to see what music their friends are listening to as well as “like” and comment on what they see. Specific songs are also shareable via Facebook and Twitter.

“It’s a music player with a social layer,” explains an AOL spokesperson.

Online music streaming company Rdio, which recently released an API, will provide 30-second samples of songs that users find in friends’ streams. If Play users also have a full subscription to Rdio, they’ll be able to stream entire songs from their friends’ lists instead of just samples.

Coincidentally, one of the new app’s competitors is Rdio’s own app, which also allows users to follow their friends’ recent downloads and favorite songs. Other social music apps include FlyCast, Pandora, Shazam, Tap Tap Revenge and OurStage Radio.

Play also has features that give users access to new music. Launching Play on the first day of SXSW was no accident, and promotion tied to the event is built right into the interface with an option to view live video of SXSW concerts. AOL’s music site, Spinner, will also provide free “MP3 of the Day” tracks for Play listeners.

Though Play is the first mobile-only product that AOL has launched, expect to see more of AOL in the future (starting with an iPhone version of Play within the next few weeks). In August, the company acquired one-year-old startup Rally Up and its team of mobile app developers in order to augment its new mobile-first approach.

“For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its popular desktop and web offerings, but also will include all-new products that launch first on mobile devices,” read the statement that announced the acquisition.

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Get a Personalized SXSW Show Schedule via App From Rhapsody & The Echo Nest

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:22 AM PST


More than 2,200 bands are performing at SXSW — which is why The Echo Nest and Rhapsody hooked up to create Festival Explorer Austin Edition, a free iPhone app that will help you navigate the fest based on your musical tastes.

Using The Echo Nest’s music intelligence API, the app [iTunes link] plugs right into your iTunes library to provide personalized recommendations. Simply click on “My Stuff” to access recommended shows (I tried it myself, and tons of my favorite bands came up), which you can sort by hotness (the app uses The Echo Nest's "hotttnesss" API to sort bands by online buzz).

Once you a find a show that looks interesting, you can check out some tunes from the band in question, and add it to your favorites. You can then add shows to your schedule, and check out where the venue is located on a map. (You can’t RSVP for shows within the app, though, sadly.)

And, once the fest has begun March 16, you can click on “Find Show Now” and see what’s going on at that very second at SXSW. You can also browse music by artist, venue and tag.

I tested out the app — in a limited way, considering the fest hasn’t started yet — and it’s extremely intuitive. I foresee it being a very useful addition to my SXSW-going arsenal.

Just a few weeks ago, The Echo Nest announced that all developers using its API would be privy to Island Def Jam’s catalog. Slick, wholly useful apps like this make us excited to see what devs will come up once the music starts flowing.

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Yahoo May Have Just Sold Delicious for $5 Million [REPORT]

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:15 AM PST


Yahoo has sold Delicious for the underwhelming sum of $5 million, according to one tech blog’s report.

Citing “a solid report from a reliable and proven source,” The Next Web says the service has been sold to a close competitor also in the social bookmarking space.

Yahoo inadvertently announced its plans to “sunset” Delicious when a slide from an internal meeting leaked to the web in December. Since then, many tech companies, including Google, have rolled out bookmark-importing tools specifically for Delicious users.

At this point, so many startups have been able to siphon off so many Delicious users that many have wondered whether Yahoo would even be able to sell the flailing web property, which was never really monetized in the first place, according to Delicious’s founder.

Yahoo acquired Delicious in 2005 for a reported $18 million. If both the $18 million and $5 million figures are accurate, the entire history of the service under Yahoo has been wildly unprofitable.

However, given the aforementioned leak of confidential information and pursuant hemorrhaging of users, we can’t say that $5 million is an unfair price.

We’ve reached out to Yahoo for comment and will update our readers as more details become available.

UPDATE: A Yahoo rep has just responded via e-mail that, although the company isn’t able to comment on rumor, “Part of our organizational streamlining involves shifting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond.

“We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service, our users and our shareholders. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and will communicate specific plans when appropriate.”

It’s beyond question that Delicious was not going to be profitable at Yahoo; we look forward to learning what will become of the service and whether it will continue to operate in its current form at “a home outside the company.”

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Mobile Faceoff: AT&T vs. Sprint vs. Verizon

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:53 AM PST


The SXSW Faceoff Series is supported by Pepsi MAX. Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on Twitter for the daily schedule of huge concerts, happy hours, BBQs, games and giveaways! And, well, lots of free soda.

When tens of thousands of technology nerds converge in one spot, it’s almost a given that their phones are going to pay the price.

There is no bigger gathering of web-browsing, app-downloading, iPhone-toting geeks than South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas. Countless technology junkies are hammering the major wireless networks with vast amounts of tweets, checkins and photo uploads. In fact, the strain is so great that it sometimes collapses cell networks.

AT&T found this out the hard way in 2009. During SXSWi, the nation’s second largest wireless network was the focal point of thousands of complaints when text, phone calls and 3G service all collapsed. AT&T heard the complaints though; it boosted its network in Austin and kept it up in 2010.

Verizon, Sprint and AT&T are taking no chances in 2011, though. AT&T has gone all-out, doubling temporary cell sites and adding more radio spectrum to handle calls. Verizon is doing something similar for this year’s festival.

Which network would you want to rely on for SXSW? Which of the big three will hold up under the pressure? Make your voice heard on this special edition of the Web Faceoff, and let us know what you think of Sprint, Verizon and AT&T in the comments.




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The SXSW Faceoff Series is supported by Pepsi MAX. Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on Twitter for the daily schedule of huge concerts, happy hours, BBQs, games and giveaways! And, well, lots of free soda.

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Motorola Xoom Tablet Sales “Underwhelming”

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:42 AM PST


Amid all the hype about the iPad 2, one of its chief rivals, the Motorola Xoom, is not selling well.

Analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Company tells ZDNet that Motorola’s tablet, even with its higher-resolution screen and faster processor than the Apple iPad 2, is not exactly flying off the shelves:

“Xoom sales have been underwhelming. While marketing has just started we believe MMI will likely have to cut production if it already has not done so. We believe the device has been a bit buggy and did not meet the magic price point of $500. We believe management knows this and is hurrying development and production of lower cost tablets. Importantly we believe management will likely have to make the painful decision to accept little to no margin initially in order to match iPad 2's wholesale pricing.”

So what if the Xoom’s sales aren’t exactly zooming right now? If Adobe Flash would work with the Xoom (a beta is coming 3/18/11, we’re told), if Google can fix the bugs in the Xoom’s Android 3 (Honeycomb) OS, and if Motorola can somehow lower its prices, in our opinion, the Xoom still has a chance. Competition is good.

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