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pimg alt="Thumbnail image for cloud_picture_aug10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/assets_c/2010/08/cloud_picture_aug10-thumb-150x112-20107-thumb-150x112-21024.jpg" width="150" height="112"/Is a cloud utopia possible? The idea being that someday everything will be elastic. Services scale up and down based on usage. You would never have to worry about updating an application on your laptop. Security would be taken care of and devices would be smart enough to know what data to process and what should be rendered in the cloud./p pSure. We are already seeing some of these scenarios unfold. But it's not common. In reality, the builder has a big job ahead. /p pa href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cloud-builder/"Intel/a is here at a href="http://vmworld.com"VMWorld/a with a message about how this plays out. In their view, it comes down to three factors. The cloud and correlating devices should be federated, automated and client-aware./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21594amp;cb=21594' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21594amp;n=21594' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Federated Cloud/h2 pA federated cloud means an open cloud. It's a cloud that can be connected. Virtual machines work in the enterprise as well as they work in the data center. Communications, data, and services can move easily within and across cloud computing infrastructures. Identity is seamless. Interoperability is without question./p h2Automated Cloud/h2 pAn automated cloud means cloud computing services and resources can be specified, located, and securely provisioned with very little or zero human interaction. This is a data center with intelligence. It does not have to be as manually operated as it is today. It allocates resources and is optimized in terms of its utilization and power efficiency./p h2Client-Aware/h2 pThis represents one of the most significant challenges and in many ways represents the emergence of the intelligent network. In this scenario, the device and the cloud are optimized to work with each other. The client-aware chip technology know when to process on the device or in the cloud. In today's world we do see some level of data intelligence but for the most part the service provider looks for the lowest common denominator. That's why it is often difficult to use services on a handheld device because they were written for a PC, not a mobile phone. The trick is to know the device attributes that include location, policies, and connectivity. Security is taken care of in this scenario as the device and the cloud are synchronized to meet policy requirements./p h2Developer Challenges/h2 pA developer always has to choose a platform. Once the platform is chosen, the developer then has to consider what different versions are required for the various devices on the market. This is increasingly complex as the types and total number of devices continue to multiply. A client-aware scenario could mitigate the issue. Further is the issue about when to use the cloud and when to use a device for processing. For example, should a video be rendered on the device or in the cloud? It all depends. But client-aware technology could help bring a level of data intelligence that would mitigate the issue. It would be capable of determining if the video should be rendered in the cloud or on the device./p pIs this all far off into the future? Intel says the disruption in the enterprise market is helping advance innovation. As the impetus for moving to the cloud increases, so should the advancements in these various scenarios./p pWe may never reach a utopia but at least we may find some ways to make it a bit easier for the builder trying to optimize the relationship between the cloud and the devices people use./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/intel-and-the-cloud---federate.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qUlvIpiXsQMzMRrlqaZptp45-c/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qUlvIpiXsQMzMRrlqaZptp45-c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qUlvIpiXsQMzMRrlqaZptp45-c/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qUlvIpiXsQMzMRrlqaZptp45-c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=3hjhnBO1G6c:chj3RA6liWo:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/3hjhnBO1G6c" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="help_wanted_sept10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/help_wanted_sept10.jpg" width="150" height="112" class="mt-image-none" style="" /There's a lot of talk about the ways in which cloud computing will impact the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/07/skeptical-cloud-study-small-bu.php"IT job market/a - changing demands for the numbers and the skills of employees./p pAs James Urquhart notes in an article in a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-20015267-240.html"CNET/a today, there have been a number of interesting signs lately pointing to the health of the cloud-related job market: 181 jobs advertised at a href="http://aws.amazon.com"Amazon Web Services/a last week, for example, and 175 at a href="http://www.rackspace.com"Rackspace/a. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21593amp;cb=21593' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21593amp;n=21593' border='0' alt='' //a/p pBut it may be the recent release of Elance's a href="http://www.elance.com/p/online-employment-report-it.html"quarterly employment report/a that has raised the most eyebrows. The report looks at IT job listings overall, examining the demand for certain skills. And notably, it's a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/"Google App Engine/a that has shown the largest growth over the last quarter, increasing demand tenfold and surpassing Amazon Web Service as the the most sought after cloud skill./p pCloud Ave's a href="http://www.cloudave.com/link/is-google-app-engine-silently-gaining-traction"Krishnan Subramanian/a has an excellent analysis on why this might be, noting that the recent partnership between Google and a href="http://www.vmware.com/cloudportability/index.html"VMWare/a might explain the jump in demand./p pDoes the increase in employment opportunities for those with Google App Engine experience mark a shift in the sorts of IT jobs we'll see in the future?/p pscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/3704836.js"/scriptbr / noscriptbr / a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/3704836/"The future of cloud-oriented IT jobs will require these skills:/aspan style="font-size:9px;"a href="http://polldaddy.com/features-surveys/"survey software/a/spanbr / /noscript/p piPhoto credits: Flickr user a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gottgraphicsdesign/4543701893/"Brenda Gottsabend/a/i /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/weekly-poll-whats-in-store-for.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jRjAIz1j_1kbK-fZV_pWKG0PLt0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jRjAIz1j_1kbK-fZV_pWKG0PLt0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jRjAIz1j_1kbK-fZV_pWKG0PLt0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jRjAIz1j_1kbK-fZV_pWKG0PLt0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eDuCRixF6iI:agKxmZ1pF9w:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/eDuCRixF6iI" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="fashionstake_logo.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/fashionstake_logo.png" width="150" height="54" /Five months after we a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fashion_stake_crowdsources_haute_couture.php"first wrote about/a a href="http://www.fashionstake.com/"FashionStake/a's decision to crowd-source the rag trade, the site is out of beta and wide open. Has it succeeded in its goal to "democratize fashion"? Not yet. That's a tall order in an extremely hierarchical industry. But it is exciting the fashion crew. /p pAnd now that it's not so hush-hush, we can mention some of the 30 designers involved. They include Lauren Merkin, Nicholas K, Lewis Cho, Alice Ritter, AIRA and Yotam Solomon. The a href="http://fashionstake.onsugar.com/Hey-good-lookin-7785217"old screenshot/a from the site showing Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Donna Karan and Jeffrey Montero was clearly no indicator of who would be involved./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21592amp;cb=21592' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21592amp;n=21592' border='0' alt='' //a/p pIt makes more sense, I suppose, that more adventurous, less high-profile brands would find the undertaking more worth the risk. /p pThe site, led by Harvard Business School alumni Daniel Gulati and designer Vivian Weng, brings designers and consumers together. Financially, an investment in a designer can earn a user discounted pre-orders, store credit and perks such as Fashion Week tickets. Critically, viewers may browse collections, vote them up or down and suggest ideas for new garments or lines and praise or criticize designer directions. /p pThe hope is that lovers (and customers) of fashion will cherish the personal investment in a designer's collection and career. If there is a punk streak in the fashion industry (philosophically, not aesthetically) this is part of that movement: Away from gatekeepers, away from enforcers, snobs and ghouls; forward into the breach, taking chances, leveling, engaging. Democratizing fashion, maybe./p pimg alt="fashionstake_screen.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/fashionstake_screen.png" width="610" height="324" //p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fashio_stake.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/msq6eFqbBUVtNtIFJ-S9gb2IoZw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/msq6eFqbBUVtNtIFJ-S9gb2IoZw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/msq6eFqbBUVtNtIFJ-S9gb2IoZw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/msq6eFqbBUVtNtIFJ-S9gb2IoZw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=_y2cxW7wmcE:R25WDKburQs:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/_y2cxW7wmcE" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/curatedbylogo-20100901-153420.jpg" alt="curatedbylogo"/a href="http://Curated.by"Curated.by/a is a new Twitter curation tool that makes it easy to gather and share collections of messages on any topic. The service is slowly letting more and more people create accounts, and I really hope it will launch soon so I can make public use of it./p pIt's quite simple: create a collection and drag Tweets into it, or use the service's new Chrome Extension to curate Tweets right from Twitter webpages. Then share your collections, embed them on a web page and subscribe to the collections of other users. Founder Bastian Lehmann, for example, curated a really good a href="http://curated.by/bastian/apple-september-event"collection of Tweets about today's Apple event/a that I would have embedded below if the service had launched yet./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21595amp;cb=21595' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21595amp;n=21595' border='0' alt='' //a/p pOther interesting examples of collections saved for posterity include a href="http://curated.by/bastian/all-yc-demoday-startups-as-seen-by-davemcclure"All YC DemoDay Startups as seen by @davemcclure/a and a href="http://curated.by/bastian/chevy-volt"Tweets about the Chevy Volt/a./p pCuration is a beautiful thing and something that's still too hard to do online. Curated.by is likely to make a nice addition to any content curator's toolset. (See also a href="http://Curated.info"Curated.info/a, a very cool blog subscription bundle sharing service.) The service still has some rough edges, and these sorts of tools tend to require more investment than most users are willing to make, but I'm personally very excited for it to finally launch. "Soon," Lehmann says./p centerimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/curatedbyextension-20100901-152953.jpg" alt="curatedbyextension"//center pemClick to enlarge./embr / a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2010/09/curatedbydashboard-21420.php" onclick="window.open('http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2010/09/curatedbydashboard-21420.php','popup','width=1202,height=624,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2010/09/curatedbydashboard-thumb-610x316-21420.jpg" width="610" height="316" alt="curatedbydashboard.jpg" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" //a/p pscript src="http://beta.curated.by/embed/embed.js"/scriptbr / scriptbr / _bundleWidget({br / bundle_id:387,br / title:'Apple September Event',br / subtitle:'curated.by/bastian',br / scrolling:true,br / update:true,br / shell:true,br / auto_width:false,br / per_page:20,br / font_size:'11px',br / border_color:'666666',br / heading_text_color:'ffffff',br / heading_bg_color:'666666',br / link_color:'666666',br / text_color:'333333',br / content_bg_color:'ffffff',br / content_divider_color:'cccccc',br / width:300,br / height:450br / });br / /script/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tweet_curation_tool.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tlooT9uiqp-vbUlsTGTlEnxJNCU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tlooT9uiqp-vbUlsTGTlEnxJNCU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tlooT9uiqp-vbUlsTGTlEnxJNCU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tlooT9uiqp-vbUlsTGTlEnxJNCU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Zr2OZDGISOg:OgiDrUaAk1E:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/Zr2OZDGISOg" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="Full of Ideas by Bart" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/images/lightbulb_head_0910.jpg" width="100" height="100" class="mt-image-none" style="" / Idea management software seeks two "holy grails" of enterprise collaboration technology: 1) innovation and 2) the breaking down of silos. Enterprise idea management has been around for over 10 years, but according to a href="http://markturrell.wordpress.com/about/"Mark Turrell/a, co-founder of pioneering idea management company a href="http://www.imaginatik.com/"Imaginatik/a and current CEO of Orcasci, there's been an "a href="http://markturrell.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/forrester-update-poor-use-of-idea-management-systems/"explosion of interest/a" in the field in the past 18 months. Here are a few of the trends in the area that we've noticed./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21585amp;cb=21585' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21585amp;n=21585' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2SharePoint Integration/h2 pimg alt="Imaginatik Sharepoint integration screenshot " src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/images/Imaginatik_Sharepoint_0910.jpg" width="510" height="303" //p pStand alone enterprise idea managment platforms are increasingly integrating with a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/"Microsoft Sharepoint/a. Imaginatik recently a href="http://www.imaginatik.com/webdoc_prod_idc_sharepoint"added/a Sharepoint integration to its flagship Idea Central product./p pa href="http://spigit.com/"Spigit/a (a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/10/spigit-another-example-of-shar.php"our coverage/a) and a href="http://www.kindlingapp.com/"Kindling/a, newer players with big name customers, have both announced SharePoint integration in the past 12 months as well. Kindling actually a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/kindling-revamps-user-interface-offers-sharepoint-office-integration-007428.php"took it a step further/a with Outlook integration./p pSince Sharepoint is the most popular enterprise collaboration platform, it makes sense for vendors to focus on Sharepoint./p h2Vendors Baking In Idea management/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/images/mangoideas_screenshot_0610.jpg"/p pMeanwhile, other enterprise collaboration vendors are baking idea management into other products. a href="http://mangospring.com"MangoSping/a has an idea management solution (a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/3-enterprise-collaboration-suites.php"previous coverage/a) and a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/"Jive/a added an a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/technology/modules/ideation"ideation module/a to its offerings in March./p pa href="http://www.newsgator.com/"Newsgator/a is fusing both trends by adding a href="http://www.newsgator.com/products/social-sites-for-sharepoint-2010/ideas.aspx"Ideas/a to its a href="http://www.newsgator.com/products/social-sites-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx"Social Sites for SharePoint/a offering./p pBringing ideation into existing collaboration tools - whether it's SharePoint, Jive or something else entirely - is a logical strategy for enterprises hoping to encourage not just innovation but collaboration on ideas./p h2Customer Facing Tools Being Turned Inwards/h2 pimg alt="RWW UserVoice screenshot 510px" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/images/rww_uservoice_0910.jpg" width="510" height="382" //p pMany times departments and business unit managers want to gather ideas from staff but don't want to deal with complex solutions or wait for the IT department to purchase and deploy a solution. Other times, they find that the systems like Spigit are too complex. /p p"Most employees don't three hours a day to spend in these systems," says a href="http://uservoice.com"UserVoice/a (see our a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_we_love_uservoice.php"previous coverage/a) CEO Richard White. UserVoice started as a customer-facing web application, but White says the company has been getting more inquiries from enterprises wanting to use it for internal purposes./p pa href="http://www.deloitte.com/"Deloitte/a is now offering a a href="https://www.deloittedigital.com/portal/site/deloittedigital/productsandsolutions/innovate/productdetail"Deloitte Innovation Academy/a service that combines some of its own tools, UserVoice, and education to provide all in one innovation solution to enterprise customers./p pDon't be surprised to see a href="http://salesforce.com"Salesforce.com/a customers turn the Salesforce.com Ideas platform, used by companies like a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/my_starbucks_idea.php"Starbucks/a and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dell_20.php"Dell/a to solicit consumer feedback, inward for more ideas./p h2Are You Using Idea Managment Software?/h2 pAre you using idea management software in your organization? Which software? 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pimg alt="Command line" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/command_line_0810.jpg" width="100" height="80" /Today is a slight departure from the usual emHack of the Day/em, as we recommend a site that's bursting with Linux goodness. Bumper Link of the Day, if you will./p pIf you're an avid user of the Linux command line, this one's for you. A growing collection of handy hints, a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes" target="_blank"commandlinefu/a, makes light work of tricky commands. You can quickly find the top commands or simply browse through the list. There are thousands, so it may take a while./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21373amp;cb=21373' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21373amp;n=21373' border='0' alt='' //a/p pNaturally, there's a search facility ("grep the archive"), so you should be able to isolate the bits you need. For instance, here's a search of, um, a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/grep/Z3JlcA==/sort-by-votes" target="_blank"grep/a itself./p pCheck out a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes" target="_blank"commandlinefu/a - let us know your favourite commands./p pemsmallPhoto by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/protohiro/85504626/" target="_blank"Stephen Woods/a/small/em/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/09/commandlinefu-linux-command-he.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvGVKTJHl3bLzu8ugFrBDAOeW5I/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvGVKTJHl3bLzu8ugFrBDAOeW5I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvGVKTJHl3bLzu8ugFrBDAOeW5I/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvGVKTJHl3bLzu8ugFrBDAOeW5I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=B9WzaNkkPxY:Rjr_0GVJ6Ro:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/B9WzaNkkPxY" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="mike wise.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/mike%20wise.jpg" width="138" height="129" /Washington Post sports columnist a href="http://twitter.com/MikeWiseguy"Mike Wise/a decided to do an experiment. It's analogous to the kind of "experiment" a kid might do in dropping a glass of milk to see if it will fall. He knowingly Tweeted false information to see if other media would copy it. emGasp! /emThey did. In its ceaseless pursuit of poetic justice, the Washington Post a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ombudsman-blog/2010/08/post_columnist_mike_wise_suspe.html"suspended Wise/a in turn. /p pHe Tweeted "a href="http://twitter.com/MikeWiseguy/status/22536074714"Roethlisberger will get five games, I'm told/a," talking about the NFL quarterback, who was suspended for a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-01/roethlisberger-to-meet-nfl-commissioner-goodell-over-six-game-suspension.html"six games/a. Sure enough, some in the media did RT it, though very few and those who did mostly credited him. So, you know, dumb. He a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/08/mike_wises_statement.html"admitted/a as much. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21591amp;cb=21591' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21591amp;n=21591' border='0' alt='' //a/p pGrand-standing about the unreliability of Twitter transmission or of journalism is about as daring as taking a stand against shotgunning kittens. But Twitter is as a href="http://www.sportsin140.com/?page_id=13"huge among sports figures/a as it is a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sorry_the_real_shaq_nba_bans_twitter_at_games.php"anathema to sports organizations/a. So perhaps the power of the tool in his context seemed to justify the attention he devoted to it. /p pStill, it begs the question, are social media tools so much different than any other media? Maybe yea, maybe nay. But every new way of speaking to our friends, peers and fans requires some sussing out. This is a painful step in that process. What does it teach us? Being a tool in one medium is not unlike being a tool in another. Companies don't like it when you make them look like tools. Credibility is no less valuable in one medium than another. /p pimg alt="mikewise.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/mikewise.png" width="314" height="225" class="alignright" /What do you think about how we use social media tools in terms of our day jobs? Is the world of sports, of entertainment, of media, different than others in quality or quantity? Does the ethics of social media go through a color shift depending on where it's used or by whom it's used? /p pBy the way, are we sure Roethlisberger's charges of "a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5121614"sexual misconduct/a" are not maybe more important than the credulous media's relationship with Twitter? I get my coffee money from it if not my a href="http://marshallk.com/twitter-is-paying-my-rent"wages/a and I'm still pretty sure (alleged) rape (the police a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-16/justice/roethlisberger.incident_1_bar-patron-door-capital-city?_s=PM:CRIME"declined to arrest him/a) trumps Twitter. Maybe Wise should have stayed on point. After all, we media boobs may buy into another reporter's (alleged) credibility, but apparently the NFL believes one of its multi-millionaires (allegedly) attacking a 20-year-old girl is worthy of a emsuspension/em, instead of impalement. Well, it's not like he took emsteroids/em, right? /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_gets_sports_columnist_suspended.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AGlnzbBheoYJop7bIszmydptYIY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AGlnzbBheoYJop7bIszmydptYIY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AGlnzbBheoYJop7bIszmydptYIY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AGlnzbBheoYJop7bIszmydptYIY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=odLqWOHN9p0:LFOQzUmtCcc:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/odLqWOHN9p0" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/images/techstars_logo_dec09a.jpg"In what's bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator a href="http://www.techstars.org"TechStars/a announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth city into which the program has expanded, joining Boulder, Seattle, and Boston./p pTechStars is a href="http://www.techstars.org/apply"accepting applications/a now for the NYC Class of 2011. The deadline for applying is November 21, and the inaugural program will kick off in New York in mid-January of next year./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21588amp;cb=21588' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21588amp;n=21588' border='0' alt='' //a/p pTechStars provides participants in the 3 month program up to $18,000 in seed funding ($6000 per team member), office space, and mentoring. /p pAnd the list of mentors for the New York program is impressive, including a href="http://www.foursquare.com"Foursquare/a's Dennis Crowley, a href="http://foundercollective.com/"Founder Collective/a's Chris Dixon, a href="http://getglue.com/"GetGlue/a's Alex Iskold, a href="http://www.firstround.com/"First Round Capital/a's Charlie O'Donnell, and a href="http://www.unionsquareventures.com/index.php"Union Square Venture/a's Fred Wilson, to name just a few./p pTechStars takes a 6% equity stake in each startup and has demonstrated a solid a href="http://www.techstars.org/results/"track record/a for those who've participated in the incubator program. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/techstars-comes-to-the-big-app.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1tGmvwPj7ZoS_VUFoiCrngEJUj0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1tGmvwPj7ZoS_VUFoiCrngEJUj0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1tGmvwPj7ZoS_VUFoiCrngEJUj0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1tGmvwPj7ZoS_VUFoiCrngEJUj0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=eFEh-D0uaO8:JWzMnQ_eoeM:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/eFEh-D0uaO8" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="steveiosd_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/steveiosd_sep10.jpg" width="150" height="99" /There was a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_event_announcements_rundown_ios_41_new_ipods.php"flurry of activity/a today at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco as Apple unveiled a whole slew of new products and services to the public. With all of that information to remember, it's no surprise that Steve Jobs may have let something slip out that he perhaps wasn't intending to say. While discussing the latest version of the iOS software, Jobs said something that may hint that cameras will be coming to the iPad. So what was it that he said?/p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21589amp;cb=21589' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21589amp;n=21589' border='0' alt='' //a/p pimg alt="stevesaythat_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/stevesaythat_sep10.jpg" width="243" height="268" class="alignright"/One of the tent poles of Jobs' keynote today focused on the iOS software and upgrades being made on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Next week, owners of these devices will be treated to some new features, including the ability to upload HD video over WiFi, TV show rentals, multiplayer Game Center and various bug fixes for hardware issues. But the most interesting new feature is the inclusion of high dynamic range (HDR) functionality into the iPhone's (and the new iPod Touch's) camera./p pHDR photography is a practice by which three photos at varying exposures are blended together into one image. By picking the best parts of each photo, the picture becomes much richer as detail in shadows and light are more visible. a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chcameron/4866344502/in/set-72157624595786483/"Here's an example/a from a photo I took and ran through an HDR app on my iPhone. It's a cool feature, but what does that have to do with the iPad getting a camera?/p pWhen Jobs went over some of the features of iOS 4.2 - the iteration in which the iPad would get all of the 4.0 and 4.1 goodness - stronghe said the iPad would have all of the new features the iPhone is getting from 4.1, including HDR photography./strong As far as the rest of the world knows, the iPad doesn't have a camera, so one could assume that either the iPad is getting a camera, or Jobs just misspoke when he rattled off the list of the features the iPad would be getting./p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/hdr_jobs.jpg" width="300" class="alignright"/The later is possible, but why emwouldn't/em Apple put a camera on the iPad. When the iPad was first dissected, a placeholder frame for mounting a camera was found built into the design of the current model. A forward-facing camera on the iPad certainly makes sense (for things like FaceTime), and with all the extra room, they could make the quality of the camera match that of the iPhone's outward facing camera. And hey, why not slap another on the outside to take photographs in beautiful HDR for viewing on that big lovely screen Apple loves to talk about?/p pApple seems to be in love with cameras these days, anyhow. The iPod Touch now has a two-camera system just like the iPhone - a push by Apple to get more people using FaceTime. Why not get people FaceTiming on their iPads too? Rumors of a smaller 7-inch iPad have been circulating as well, and what better time than November to launch that when iOS 4.2 is released?/p pWhat do you think? Did Jobs let one slip? Or was it a mental error as he rattled of features? Let us know what you think in the comments below!/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/did_steve_jobs_accidentally_confirm_cameras_for_next_gen_ipads.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VXNn9BMUbJJ_lXB1953jB8ZGsZk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VXNn9BMUbJJ_lXB1953jB8ZGsZk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VXNn9BMUbJJ_lXB1953jB8ZGsZk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VXNn9BMUbJJ_lXB1953jB8ZGsZk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=ZKuT2Vi1m8k:MaXznnuuZfw:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/ZKuT2Vi1m8k" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/newitunes-20100901-130041.jpg" alt="newitunes"/The new iTunes social network a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/ping/"Ping/a will let you connect directly with your favorite artists, but Apple's promotional image for the new feature conveniently omits a string of Tweets from Lady Gaga's timeline in which she protests anti-gay marriage legislation Proposition 8./p pIt's a little thing, but given the controversies Apple has faced around app store censorship, and the direct-to-audience promise of both Twitter (and presumably Ping), it certainly seems notable. Apparently the company wanted to have its cake and eat it too when it came to one of the world's most famous, and outspoken, musical artists. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21590amp;cb=21590' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21590amp;n=21590' border='0' alt='' //a/p centerimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/itunesgaga-20100901-124556.jpg" alt="itunesgaga"//center centerimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/gagatweets-20100901-124950.jpg" alt="gagatweets"//center div class="pullquote"a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_event_announcements_rundown_ios_41_new_ipods.php"Full coverage of today's Apple news./a/divSurely we'll get the real deal on Ping itself, right? Lady Gaga with all her sex, politics and sensationalism - in addition to her musical thoughts? Dear Gaga, please don't break the new iTunes. It has retina display! pThanks to the always observant a href="http://twitter.com/kevinmarks"Kevin Marks/a for pointing this out on Twitter./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_hides_prop_8_tweets_from_lady_gaga_promo_page.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4oEMFuIA4TfAfL4t8OvkTO2BQU8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4oEMFuIA4TfAfL4t8OvkTO2BQU8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4oEMFuIA4TfAfL4t8OvkTO2BQU8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4oEMFuIA4TfAfL4t8OvkTO2BQU8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=0qsomajmwXY:AdnJfXCfRFY:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/0qsomajmwXY" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/cbinsights.jpg"Last week, we looked at one of the latest reports from the investment research firm a href="http://www.cbinsights.com/"CB Insights/a, tracking the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/report-lists-top-10-most-activ.php"top venture capital firms/a across the U.S. in terms of their deal activity. According to that report, over the past year the top 30 firms participated in 663 unique deals (almost a quarter of all deals) with amounting to almost $9 billion in investment./p pCB Insights has broken down these deals further to examine the trends in terms of deal flow by sector, and no surprise, investment in Internet technologies led the pack, comprising 36% of the deals and 26% of the dollars the top VC firms invested. (Healthcare was the number 2 sector for both the deal numbers and deal size.) /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21581amp;cb=21581' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21581amp;n=21581' border='0' alt='' //a/p pWithin the Internet sector, there are numerous sub-industries where VCs invested - monitoring, security, web development, video. But despite this diversity, four of these sub-industries dominated, accounting for 40% of the funding from VC firms: social; advertising, sales and marketing; e-commerce; and gaming. Social, advertising, and gaming were the top three sub-industries in terms of deal flow as well./p pimg alt="subindustry_1.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/subindustry_1.png" width="590" height="310" class="mt-image-none" style="" //p pimg alt="subindustry2.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/subindustry2.png" width="590" height="320" class="mt-image-none" style="" //p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/report-examines-where-the-top.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vuaKNVE6wvX7idIZlabTMz52dUY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vuaKNVE6wvX7idIZlabTMz52dUY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vuaKNVE6wvX7idIZlabTMz52dUY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vuaKNVE6wvX7idIZlabTMz52dUY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Ps_LEklbN0E:xlztuctBe4w:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/Ps_LEklbN0E" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="steveguitar_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/steveguitar_sep10.jpg" width="150" height="95" /It was a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/live_blog_apples_fall_event.php"a busy day/a at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco today as Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services to its crowd, and to those watching live on the Web. We saw upgrades to the iOS software for all iOS devices (even the iPad), a new line-up of iPods for the holiday season, iTunes 10 with its social network Ping and of course, the new $99 Apple TV. Here's a run down of everything that happened in one handy-dandy list in case you missed it!/p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21587amp;cb=21587' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21587amp;n=21587' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Retail Store Update/h2 ulliApple has opened three new stores internationally in Paris, London and Shangai. They now have 300 stores in 10 countries, with their 11th, Spain, coming soon./li liApple has single days where over 1 million people visit their stores, and more than 50% of their customers are buying their first Mac./li/ul br/ h2iOS 4.1 and 4.2/h2 ulli120 million iOS devices have been sold since the first iPhone launched. 230,000 new activations occur each day./li li6.5 billions apps have been downloaded from the AppStore, which now hosts 250,000 apps. 10% of those apps are iPad apps. 200 apps are added tot he store each second./li img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/hdr_jobs.jpg" width="300" class="alignright"/listrongiOS 4.1/strong - The next iOS iteration will be available strongnext week/strong for iPhones and iPod touches and features bug fixes for issues associated with the proximity sensor, Bluetooth and iPhone 3G./li liiOS 4.1 also features stronghigh dynamic range (HDR)/strong photographs within the camera app, which takes three photos at varying exposures and blends them together to make rich photographs./li listrongGame Center/strong will finally be lauching with the 4.1 release. It allows game enthusiasts to network with friends, get matched up for multiplayer games, see leaderboards and get push invitations to play online. Mike Capps from a href="http://www.epicgames.com/"Epic Games/a (makers of Gears of War) demoed a new game, "Project Sword," which features Game Center functionality./li listrongiOS 4.2 Sneek Peak/strong - Apple also provided a first-look at iOS 4.2, which will bring all the functionality of iOS 4.1 to the iPad. Folders, multitasking, and other familiar features will hit the bigger screen in November. Also, 4.2 will allow for strongwireless printing/strong to networked printers on the iPad./li /ul br/ h2New iPods/h2 pimg alt="ipods_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ipods_sep10.jpg" width="300" height="190" class="alignright" /ulbr / liApple has sold strong275 million iPods/strong to date./libr / liA new strongiPod Shuffle/strong is a "best of both worlds" approach, which combines buttons and voice controls in a new small design. It will be in 5 colors, will get 15 hours of battery life and will hold 2GB of music for just $49./libr / liNew strongiPod Nanos/strong have eliminated to the click-wheel and gone touch screen with a square-shaped miniature iOS device. It also features a clip on the back like the shuffle, and the screen can be rotated with a pinch-and-twist motion. It has the same colors as the shuffle, plus granite and red versions. $149 for 8GB, and $179 for 16GB./libr / liThe strongiPod Touch/strong, the #1 portable game player, is now thinner and gets all the hardware upgrades from the iPhone 4, including the Retina Display, the A4 chip, the gyroscope. Also, it features forward and front-facing cameras, and can now run strongFaceTime/strong for chatting with iPod and iPhone owners. $229, $299 and $399 are the prices for 8, 32 and 64 GB models./strongbr / liAll of the new iPods are available next week, and can be reordered starting today./libr / /ulbr / h2iTunes 10 and Ping/h2/p pimg alt="ping_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ping_sep10.jpg" width="610" height="328" //p ul liA new iTunes is available today and features a new logo (finally) and Apple's foray into social networking with Ping, a place to discover music and follow friends and artists./li liA new strongHybrid View/strong lets you view album artwork when browsing your library in list view. It only activates when you have more than 5 songs in an album as to not waste space./li liPing, the iTunes social network, will feature a stream of activity and customized Top 10 lists based on your friends' music tastes. It can be accessed on-the-go from iPhones and iPod Touches./li /ul br/ h2One More strikeThing/strike Hobby: New Apple TV - $99/h2 ul img alt="appletvhand_sep1-.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/appletvhand_sep1-.jpg" width="300" height="278" class="alignright"/liApple unveiled a $99 Apple TV that is a fourth the size of the original and features a dark black design. It has strongno local storage/strong and streams all of it's content from the Internet and your local machines./li liIt has HDMI, ethernet, 802.11n WiFi and a remote./li liUsers can stream music, TV shows, movies, podcasts, radio stations, photos and more with the device./li liUsers can now rent first-run HD movies for $4.99, and HD TV shows for $.99 from FOX and ABC. Jobs thinks more networks will "see the light" soon./li liIt also supports a href="http://netflix.com/"Netflix/a, a href="http://youtube.com/"YouTube/a, a href="http://flickr.com/"Flickr/a and Apple's a href="http://mobileme.com/"MobileMe/a./li liIt will retail for just $99, and is available in roughly 4 weeks./li pWow! That sure was a lot from Apple. Those new iPods look pretty slick, especially the new square Nanos that look like a watch-face (some one please make a watch strap accessory!). Ping and iTunes 10 should be fun to play around with, and I don't know about the rest of you but that $99 Apple TV looks very enticing. Oh yeah, and iOS 4.1 looks cool too - the HDR photos is sure to excite the photo bugs out there./p pLet us know what you think in the comments below!/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_event_announcements_rundown_ios_41_new_ipods.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1hwjvX4-UkPhz287NZvri2_Eco4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1hwjvX4-UkPhz287NZvri2_Eco4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1hwjvX4-UkPhz287NZvri2_Eco4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1hwjvX4-UkPhz287NZvri2_Eco4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=6hn1_6_oK8Y:6piei3Xl3qs:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/6hn1_6_oK8Y" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/jolie-facebook-logo.png"Facebook Credits is continuing its march from the virtual into the real world today, with the a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-09-01-target01_ST_N.htm"introduction of Facebook Credits gift cards/a at Target stores nationwide. /p pThe move follows a number of recent steps by Facebook to redefine its Credits, from getting rid of its a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/closing_the_gift_shop_facebook_redefines_credits.php"virtual gift shop/a to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_giving_out_free_facebook_credits_to_greas.php"handing out free Credits/a to grease the wheel a bit. Now, Facebook Credits will be something you can buy your kids for Christmas./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21584amp;cb=21584' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21584amp;n=21584' border='0' alt='' //a/p pStarting this Sunday, Facebook will be getting into the real, instead of virtual, gift giving business with gift cards available for purchase at all of Target's 1,750 stores and on a href="http://www.target.com"Target.com/a. The cards will come in $15, $25 and $50 denominations and the timing is perfect, of course, for the upcoming holiday season./p p"We think (the cards) will be incredibly popular as a holiday gift," Dan Rose, vice president of partnerships and platform marketing at Facebook, told a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-09-01-target01_ST_N.htm"USA Today/a. /p pRight now, Credits can be used on more than 150 games and applications and already 200 million people play free social games on Facebook each month. The next step, we expect, might be for Facebook to begin offering an app market of its own, as we've seen with numerous other major platforms and companies. We also have to wonder when Facebook Credits will make the switchover into purchasing not virtual but real-world goods, such as tickets to events. /p pNow that we have a Facebook gift card, how long can it be until we see a Facebook credit card? /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_credits_coming_to_a_target_near_you.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Pj1yPaHCqBXitqY2jnkOjl9JbW8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Pj1yPaHCqBXitqY2jnkOjl9JbW8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Pj1yPaHCqBXitqY2jnkOjl9JbW8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Pj1yPaHCqBXitqY2jnkOjl9JbW8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=kgUAf1ggE_E:14Qh7Qx3Xek:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/kgUAf1ggE_E" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="apple_guitar_logo_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/apple_guitar_logo_sep10.jpg" width="150" height="132" /a href="http://apple.com"Apple/a is holding its annual Fall event today. Historically, these events have always focused on the iPod line. While we definitely expect to see a revamped iPod lineup, the rumor mill also points towards a new Apple TV and a major update for iTunes. A number of pundits also expect Apple to release iOS4 for the iPad today./p pTo find out what really happens, check out our live blog below. The event is scheduled to start at 10am PT/1pm ET./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21579amp;cb=21579' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21579amp;n=21579' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Live Streaming/h2 pFor the first time in years, Apple plans to provide a a href="http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event"live video stream /aof today's event. By default, this stream will a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_only_mac_users_can.php"only be available/a to Mac, iPod and iPad users. There are some workaround for this for Windows users, however, and we also expect to see numerous rogue streams on sites like a href="http://www.ustream.tv/"USTREAM/a and a href="http://www.justin.tv/"Justin.tv/a. h2Live Blog/h2 pb9:42 AM:/bThe live video stream will be available a href="http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event"here/a./p pimg alt="apple_event_setup.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/apple_event_setup.jpg" width="610" height="408" class="mt-image-none" style="" //p pb9:55 AM:/b Audience is settling in. Eric Clapton playing in the background./p pb10:00 AM:/b Steve Jobs takes the stage.Perfectly on time./p pb10:01 AM:/b Steve points out that Woz is in the audience. His "old partner in crime."/p pb10:03 AM:/b Update on Apple retail. New stores in Paris, London and China. There are now 300 Apple stores. On some days, more than a million people visit Apple's stores on a single day. Apple teaches 80,000 one-on-one classes in its stores per week./p h2iOS Update/h2 pb10:05 AM:/b iOS update: Apple has shipped 120 million iOS devices. Apple activates 230,000 new iOS devices per day. Steve Jobs notes that some of Apple's competitors seem to count upgrades as well./p pb10:06 AM:/b 200 apps per second being downloaded from App Store./p pb10:07 AM:/b iOS 4.1 Coming today (iPhone and iPod): bugs fixed: proximity sensor, bluetooth, iPhone 3G speed. /p img alt="apple_newios.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_newios.png" width="610" height="326" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pstrongNew features/strong: High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos, HD uploads over WiFi, TV show rentals, Game Center./p pb10:11 AM:/b Game Center: play games with friends online. Showing how it works in Angry Bird./p pb10:09 AM:/b shows off HDR photos - very standard implementation of HDR with three different exposures. /p pComing next week./p img alt="hdr_jobs.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/hdr_jobs.jpg" width="610" height="388" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:12 AM:/b Epic on stage to demo new game: Project Sword. Role-playing game (looks great on the iPhone). Uses Game Center. Show how easy it is to find other players (friends and strangers) to play with. /p img alt="apple_games.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_games.png" width="610" height="325" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pGoing to be available in time for the holiday season./p img alt="apple_ios42preview.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_ios42preview.png" width="610" height="338" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:15 AM:/b Sneak Peek at iOS 4.2: Update for iPad/p pb10:17 AM:/b Air Play: stream audio, video and more over WiFi./p pNew feature: wireless feature and something called Air Play ("we will talk about this later")./p pDemo of printing: iPad will get an option to print - print queue will be in the multitasking bar at the bottom./p pb10:18 AM:/b Demo of iOS 4.2 on iPad. Steve shows off multitasking, folders, etc. Everything looks just like iOS 4 for the iPhone./p pRelease date for iOS 4.2: November for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad./p h2iPod Update/h2 pb10:20 AM:/b 275 million iPod's sold to date. /p pb10:21 AM:/b "We have gone wild." All-new designs for all models. /p pstrongShuffle/strong: "It's been a really big hit." Recaps history of the Shuffle. People missed the buttons on the last generation shuffle./p pNew Shuffle: buttons, voice over and playlists. Also includes Genius mixes./p pWill come in five different colors. Will sell for $49./p img alt="apple_shuffle.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_shuffle.png" width="577" height="458" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:24 AM:/b strongiPod nano/strong: "How do we make this better. The iPod nano has been super popular. We want to make it smaller and better. /p pThe nano is now a really tiny iPod touch. Space for four icons. Comes with FM radio, volume buttons and 24 hour battery life./p img alt="apple_nano.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_nano.png" width="581" height="473" class="mt-image-none" style="" / p"One of our board members plans to use this as a wrist watch./p pb10:26 AM:/b Demo of new iPad nano. /p img alt="ipad_nano_update.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ipad_nano_update.jpg" width="610" height="308" class="mt-image-none" style="" / img alt="apple_nanodemo.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_nanodemo.png" width="610" height="343" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:30 AM:/b New nano will come in 8 different colors, including a Product RED edition. /p pPrice: $149 for 8GB and $179 for 16GBp pb10:30 AM:/b strongiPod Touch update/strong: "It's an iPhone without a contract." Also: most popular game player in the world. Now Apple's most popular iPod./p img alt="apple_touch.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_touch.png" width="610" height="340" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pOver a 1.5 billion games and entertainment devices have been downloaded to the iPod touch./p pb10:32 AM:/b New iPod touch won't get the iPhone 4 look. Instead: thinner, Retina display ("the best display in the world"), A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1, front-facing camera. Support for FaceTime (also between iPhone and iPod touches)./p pAlso: rear camera with HD video, 40 hours of music playback./p pPricing: 8GB for $229, 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399./p pAvailable next week. Pre-order starts today./p pb10:37 AM:/b Showing new ads. /p h2iTunes Update/h2 pb10:38 AM:/b "People have downloaded over 11.7 billion songs from iTunes." 100 million movies, 35 million books, 450 million TV episodes. /p p"It's clearly the #1 digital media store in the world./p pb10:39 AM:/b iTunes 10/p img alt="apple_ituneslogo.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_ituneslogo.png" width="588" height="477" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pNew logo/p pb10:39 AM:/b New feature: hybrid view - instead of long list with the same album title, you can now choose to see cover in the list view instead./p pDiscovery: "How do you find out about new stuff?" "What are my friends listening to? What concerts do my friends go to?"/p pFind out what your friends are listening to and downloading. With status updates, too./p pPing: a new social network all about music. Right in iTunes./p img alt="apple_ping.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_ping.png" width="610" height="332" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:42 AM:/b Custom Top 10 chart based on what your friends and the people you follow are downloading from iTunes. "Just for you."/p pShows Lady Gaga's Ping page. You can follow her, Twitter-style. If you want to, you can also allow anybody to follow you./p p"It's super easy to use. Most of us will live in our feeds and all the music from people we follow will be delivered to us."/p pb10:44 AM:/b Strong privacy controls: choose who can follow you, follow and be followed. "You can be as private or as public as you want." /p img alt="apple_pingitunes.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_pingitunes.png" width="610" height="342" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pAvailable immediately./p img alt="apple_pingdetails.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_pingdetails.png" width="610" height="339" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:46 AM:/b Demo time. Jobs shows how ping works. /p pb10:48 AM:/b Posts to Ping can include text, video, audio. Shows profile pages. Looks a lot like Facebook./p pb10:49 AM:/b Ping will be available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Will show up right in the iTunes store on iOS (but not the iPad yet, apparently). /p pb10:50 AM:/b iTunes 10 will be available later today./p h2One More Thing/h2 pb10:51 AM:/b "We've got one more thing. Actually - it's one more hobby." /p p"We have sold a lot of them, but it has never been a huge hit." But the people who have them tend to love them./p pb10:51 AM:/b "What do Apple TV users want? Hollywood movies and TV shows ("they don't want amateur hour" - a little swipe at YouTube), lower prices for content. Consumers don't want a computer in the living room. Don't want to manage storage. /p pb10:53 AM:/b People don't want to manage storage. Want a silent, cool and small device. /p pb10:53 AM:/b strong2nd generation AppleTV/strong. /p pExtremely small. One-fourth of the size of the original. Black. Built-in power supply, 802.11n wifi, Ethernet, HDMI./p img alt="apple_tvwideshot.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_tvwideshot.png" width="610" height="342" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:56 AM:/b No more downloads. All HD (when available). /p pstrongPrices:/strong/p pFirst run HD movies for $4.99 the day the DVD comes out./p p$0.99 cent TV show rentals. Only ABC and Fox for now. Jobs hopes others will get on board soon./p pNetflix support. YouTube streaming./p img alt="apple_tv_netflix_etc.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_tv_netflix_etc.png" width="610" height="342" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb10:58 AM:/b New UI - includes ratings from Rotten Tomatoes for movies./p pb11:00 AM:/b Jobs shows demo of Netflix (instant queue, etc.), photo slideshows, movie rentals. /p pb11:03 AM:/b Apple TV demo continues with TV rentals (Jobs apparently like 'Glee'). The user interface looks very slick. /p pb11:04 AM:/b "This is by far the easiest implementation of Netflix to use." (a swipe at Roku)/p pb11:05 AM:/b With Air Play, you can stream movies from iOS devices to Apple TV. Seamlessly switch back and forth between iPad and Apple TV. See photos from your iPhone on your Apple TV. No apps, though./p pb11:08 AM:/b Pricing: "$200-$300 price range was a bit too high" New lower price: $99. /p pb11:08 AM:/b Available in about four weeks./p img alt="apple_tvprice.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/apple_tvprice.png" width="610" height="340" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pb11:10 AM:/b Recap of today's announcements. /p pb11:11 AM:/b Obligatory music performance at the end of the event: Coldplay's Chris Martin ("I have no new products to reveal.")/p pb11:14 AM:/b And while Chris Martin plays "Yellow," that pretty much wraps it up for today's event. 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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ie8_logo_box_mar09.png"These days, even Microsoft is awaiting the demise of its nearly decade-old Internet Explorer 6. Today, the company looked at a href="http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=12qpcustom=3332sample=35"August's browser usage numbers/a according to Net Applications and announced that "Internet Explorer 6 is at or below 5% in many developed markets", calling the drop "overall goodness". /p pAt the same time, the company is a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2010/09/01/internet-explorer-usage-share-in-august.aspx"celebrating/a its continued dominance in the browser market, calling IE8 "the fastest growing browser worldwide."br / /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21583amp;cb=21583' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21583amp;n=21583' border='0' alt='' //a/p blockquoteAs Net Applications is reporting that IE6 share is now at its lowest point ever, I thought it would be a good time to address how we think about the aging browser.� As we have�said in the past, one of our main missions is to get people off IE6 as fast as humanly possible.� And while IE6 was a great browser for its time, we all need the web to move forward.� First, this is good for developers who we want to be able to write thesame markup�across their sites. It's good for consumers who should have the�protections�afforded by a modern browser. Finally, it's good for the web, particularly as we�look ahead�to IE9 and begin to see what's possible.� /blockquote pAccording to Net Applications' August numbers, Internet Explorer 8 grew by just over 1% to account for 32% of the browser market worldwide and it's growth was nearly three times that of Google Chrome. /p pAs we noted when looking at a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/internet_explorer_8_takes_the_top_spotor_does_it.php"similar numbers/a last February, Net Applications doesn't always agree with other browser stat sites, such as a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200908-201009"StatCounter/a, which shows IE8 dropping by 1% over the past month and IE6 actually increasing its share by 1%./p pPerhaps the most interesting statistic to note from Net Applications, however, is one involving IE6 and China. There, the browser we all love to hate continues to hold 46% of the market (just over 50% if you include various editions of IE6), which the company says is "significantly skewing global share". Overall, however, Net Applications finds that IE6 has declined by 1%, bringing its share to just under 17% worldwide. /p pOf course, all of this may change when Microsoft releases the beta of its latest browser, IE9, which a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_microsoft_join_the_future_with_internet_explo.php"looks to bring the company into the future/a with a clean-cut, slimmed down design and a number of advanced features./p pWhat do you think - what will the browser market look like when Microsoft brings out the latest? Will Chrome continue its climb? 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pimg src="http://s.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/hosted_images/justintv_logo_148_40.png" style="border:0px;"a href="http://www.justin.tv"Justin.tv/a is finally breaking into the mobile broadcasting business with a href="http://blog.justin.tv/justintv-android/"today's release/a of its first a href="http://www.justin.tv/p/android"Android application/a and with an iPhone version soon to follow. The company admits that it's not the first to do mobile broadcasting - competitors like UStream and Qik have been around for some time - but it's the first company do it at this quality. According to CEO Michael Seibel, Justin.tv wanted to wait until the hardware on smartphones would be able to support their vision for what a mobile broadcasting experience should be like. And now, thanks to modern smartphones, features like support for hardware encoding, high quality cameras, sufficient CPUs and more, Justin.tv says it has been able to develop the best live streaming mobile application yet. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21580amp;cb=21580' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21580amp;n=21580' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2How Justin.tv Does High-Quality Mobile Broadcasting /h2 pThe major drawback to mobile broadcasting is having to deal with network connectivity issues. Mobile users in an area of poor network coverage or who are moving in between areas of good coverage and bad, have typically faced video quality issues like stuttering, stops and starts. But with Justin.tv's mobile applications, both on Android and the soon-to-launch iPhone version, connectivity issues have been addressed through the use of smooth streaming and adaptive bitrate technologies. What this means is that the mobile app can ping the phone to determine how much upload bandwidth you currently have available and then make adjustments to the quality of the encoded video on the fly, adaptively reducing or increasing the bitrate of your stream as the network coverage gets better or worse. /p pAlthough the app can't record high-quality video when cell towers simply aren't providing your device with a good signal, the app can seamlessly make adjustments for varying coverage. In addition, it can perform hand-off from Wi-Fi to 3G and vice versa without dropping the connection. /p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/justintv android.png"/p pa href="http://www.justin.tv/p/android"The app/a also takes advantage of hardware developments like hardware encoding, a feature common on many of today's smartphones. Your phone doesn't have to offer hardware encoding (a separate chip that handles video) in order for you use to app, it makes the experience better if you do. /p pGiven the talk of all the hardware and mobile advancements that have made the Justin.tv application finally possible, you may think that it's limited only to select devices or those running the latest version of the Android operating system, for example. But the company says that's not actually the case. The Android app runs on over 95% of the devices in the marketplace today. Justin.tv itself tested the app internally on ten different phones then ran a beta program where it was tested on a number of other handsets, too. When asked what phones it emwouldn't /emwork on, Seibel wasn't sure. Maybe the G1?, he wondered. We suppose we'll find out today as the app is released to the official market. /p h2Other Features: Social Networking, Unlimited Storage, Chat/h2 pIn addition to focusing on video quality, Justin.tv also strived to make an app that mainstream mobile users could embrace, even if they had never heard of the company. All registration and social networking integration setup, including direct broadcasting via links to Facebook and Twitter, is configured within the app itself. You never have to visit the company website. Other features introduced today include built-in chatting and unlimited video storage, at no additional cost. The app itself isn't monetized yet - it's free, has no ads and it may remain that way for good. The company says it's focused only on the product for now. The links created by the app drive traffic to the Justin.tv website which is already successfully monetized, so there may never be a need to charge for the app or insert ads within it, we're told. /p pOf course, a lot of companies claim their apps are "the best" at what they do, so Justin.tv released a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIHmGtrl2o"this comparison video/a that positions their Android app head-to-head with its competitors. Will it perform as well for you? a href="http://www.justin.tv/p/android"There's only one way to find out./a /p pobject width="600" height="345"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LeIHmGtrl2o?fs=1amp;hl=en_US"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LeIHmGtrl2o?fs=1amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="345"/embed/object/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/justintv_launches_mobile_broadcasting_app_competes_on_video_quality.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YUI84f5N4pNWKip-_Vsb3Xx0Gd4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YUI84f5N4pNWKip-_Vsb3Xx0Gd4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YUI84f5N4pNWKip-_Vsb3Xx0Gd4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YUI84f5N4pNWKip-_Vsb3Xx0Gd4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=C6kmq5rQonw:WJ5yhRHkpjI:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/C6kmq5rQonw" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/skyfire-logo.JPG"Steve Jobs a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/steve_jobs_speaks_why_we_dont_allow_flash_on_iphone_and_ipad.php"doesn't like Flash/a. He says it has poor security, kills your battery and performs poorly on mobile devices. For those reasons and more, Apple doesn't allow Flash applications or video to run on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. /p pToday, a href="http://skyfire.com"Skyfire/a will try to break through Apple's Flash blockade with the submission of its mobile browser, which transcodes Flash into HTML5 in real time, to the App Store. And according to its creators, Apple is going to accept it. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21578amp;cb=21578' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21578amp;n=21578' border='0' alt='' //a/p pimg alt="skyfire-iphone-screens.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/skyfire-iphone-screens.jpg" width="241" height="472" class="mt-image-none" style="float: right;" /According to an email from the company, "this submission is the tech industry's first test of whether Jobs' 'thoughts on Flash' ban is actually political rather than technical" and it will be approved for several reasons. The company maintains that the app has been developed with "significant oversight and feedback from Apple" and that "it adheres to every guideline put forth by Apple regarding HTML5 video playback for iOS". The process of transcoding Flash to HTML5, the company contends, will allow Apple users to "play millions of Flash videos on Apple devices without the technical problems for which Jobs banned flash."/p pThis a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ripcode_brings_streaming_flash_video_to_iphone_ipa.php"isn't the first time/a we've expected to see Flash on the iPhone, but aside from a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_install_flash_on_your_iphone_the_easy_way.php"hack for jailbroken phones/a and a program that a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20006163-233.html"uses your home computer as a proxy server/a, Flash has remained off-limits for Apple's mobile users./p pSkyfire operates similarly to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/opera_takes_a_back_seat_to_safari_on_the_iphone.php"Opera Mini for the iPhone/a, basing its Web-browsing capabilities off of a Webkit browser core shared with Safari and using cloud-computing to transcode Flash into HTML5 in real time. Flash video is translated every three seconds, with video data being compressed by up to 75%./p blockquoteSkyfire also avoids the concerns raised in Steve Jobs' recent essay regarding Flash on mobile devices. By optimizing Flash for iPhones and network conditions in the Cloud, Skyfire improves performance and maximizes battery life while playing video. The browser also avoids alternate runtime environments and other security vulnerabilities./blockquote pOpera may have already broken the non-native browser barrier, but we'll have to wait and see if Skyfire can use this sort of end-around to bring Flash video to Apple's mobile devices while thumbing their nose at Jobs all the while. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/skyfire_submits_flash-enabled_browser_to_app_store.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LIu_hpgtqWhE-K1_zFisAY0DARg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LIu_hpgtqWhE-K1_zFisAY0DARg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LIu_hpgtqWhE-K1_zFisAY0DARg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LIu_hpgtqWhE-K1_zFisAY0DARg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=pe_QfvErOSI:sDmGPIaKaRw:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/pe_QfvErOSI" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="YQL.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/YQL.png" width="137" height="123" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /If you haven't played with a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4_google_buzz_hacks_for_users_developers_and_haters.php"YQL/a before, put down that Hot Pocket and head over the a href="https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/" target="_blank"Yahoo Developer Network/a. At the YQL console you'll find a collection of resources to quickly attack problems with cut- and-paste simplicity instead of having to digest several pages of API documentation. You'll also find examples with source code for putting your queries to work./p pBelow are five great YQL one-liners to get you thinking about the possibilities./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21320amp;cb=21320' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21320amp;n=21320' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2YQL One-Liners/h2 pemNote: For the following examples simply follow the link and select the "TEST" button to review results./embr / a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/yql-example.jpg"img alt="yql-example.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/assets_c/2010/08/yql-example-thumb-360x176-20909.jpg" width="360" height="176" //a/p ol liWe all love Techmeme. Techmeme also loves their tips. Sometimes you just want to know who Techmeme thanks for those "tip @techmeme" tweets. With YQL you can use a simple query to a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=SELECT%20content%2Chref%20FROM%20html%20WHERE%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techmeme.com%22%20and%20xpath%3D'%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22mlk%22%5D%2Fa'" target="_blank"see who Techmeme thanks/a./li liOf course, you might want priority access to tips before they make it to Techmeme. Here's another very simple query to a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20from_user%20from%20twitter.search%20where%20q%3D'tip%20%40techmeme'%3Benv=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys" target="_blank"isolate Twitter users sending "tip @techmeme" tweets/a./li liThere is more to life than Techmeme. In fact, there is also Hackernews. However, sometimes you just want to know if an article is worthy of your time. With this simple query you can limit your reading to a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20title%2Curl%2Cscore%20from%20hackernews.frontpage%20where%20score%20%3E%3D200%3Benv=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys" target="_blank"high-scoring Hackernews articles/a/li liThere are a lot of ways to find out the location information of a given IP address. YQL provides a resource for geolocation by IP address as well. With this simple query you can find the a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20City%2CRegionName%2CCountryName%20from%20ip.location%20where%20ip%3D'8.8.8.8'env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys" target="_blank"city, state, and country associated with 8.8.8.8/a/li liLast but not least, YQL is there for you after you step away from your computing haven. Now you can keep track of those memorable times at the pub when you a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20craigslist.search%20where%20location%3D%22raleigh%22%20and%20type%3D%22mis%22%20and%20query%3D%22spilled%22env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys" target="_blank"spill something on someone/a./li /ol pThe last few examples are made possible by a href="http://datatables.org/" target="_blank"Community Open Data Tables for YQL/a./p pHopefully, if this was your fist time seeing YQL it won't be your last!/p pIf you were already familiar with YQL, what are your five favorite examples? 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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/webos_2_logo.png" /It looks like HP's investment in Palm is starting to pay off. Today, Palm's mobile operating system a href="http://developer.palm.com/blog/2010/08/announcing-early-access-for-webos-2-0"has been updated/a to a new version: a href="http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_contentamp;view=articleamp;id=2107"webOS 2.0/a. The refreshed OS, now released to the Palm developer community via a beta version of the webOS 2.0 SDK (software development kit), includes a number of updates and new features - features that already have a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/204617/why_webos_20_should_have_rivals_worried.html?tk=hp_new"some claiming/a that webOS rivals should "be worried." /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21577amp;cb=21577' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21577amp;n=21577' border='0' alt='' //a/p pVersion 2 features, now available to developers in Palm's Early Access Program, introduces support for HTML5, an improved multi-tasking interface through use of "stacks" - a feature for stacking related screens like a deck of cards, plus more advanced universal search capabilities, support for JavaScript services and a new set of APIs (developer tools) for Palm's "Synergy," the popular webOS feature which automatically pulls contact data from social networks like Facebook and webmail services into your phone for use with contacts, calendar and messaging programs. /p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/webos2.png" //p h2What's New in webOS 2.0/h2 pThe release of webOS 2.0 represents the biggest update yet, notes the page on a href="http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_contentamp;view=articleamp;id=2107"Palm's Developer Center/a detailing the new features. And, by the looks of it, the list does include several compelling upgrades: /p h2Stacks/h2 pThe new Stacks feature extends Palm's "card" metaphor that allows users to interact with screens as if they were individual cards. To close an app, for example, you just drag the card off the screen and "poof!" the program is closed. With Stacks, webOS 2.0 will automatically group related cards in an effort to reduce clutter and to allow for quickly switching between tasks. Users can also manually create stacks via drag-and-drop to manage them outside of operating system control. Developers don't have to do anything special to use Stacks - new cards resulting from user actions within an app will be automatically grouped with the app's main card./p h2Just Type/h2 pJust Type is the new name for webOS's Universal Search feature which allows users to search for things both on the device and the Web. One of the new enhancements to this feature is something called "Quick Actions." This lets users perform routine tasks like updating their Facebook status, setting reminders, adding items to a shopping list, start an email and other common tasks. Also new is an ability for developers to expand their app's capabilities by hooking into Just Type either through indexing of data stored on the device or through the creation of their own custom Quick Actions. /p h2Exhibition/h2 pExhibition is a screensaver-like program that runs when the phone is docked. It can display slideshows, a clock, stock updates, news, or sports tickers but can also be customized through apps created by developers. /p h2Synergy APIs/h2 pSynergy is remembered as the feature which merged Facebook contacts into the Palm Pre's address book, but it also supports Google, Microsoft Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo. Contacts are pulled into the phone's address book to show things like birthdays, work and personal calendars side-by-side, IM and text messages combined into a single conversation and more. In webOS 2.0, Synergy APIs are being made available to developers for use with connectors for contacts, calendar and Messaging and later for other webOS data types too. For example, developers can use the connectors to connect a chat or IM app with the webOS Messaging app, access contacts stored on a social network or online community into the Contacts app, or access other calendars or online events within the built-in Calendar app. /p h2Under-the-Hood: HTML 5, JavaScript, PDK Plug-ins/h2 pOther advances in under-the-hood technologies include support for HTML5 features like enhanced canvas, Web storage, geolocation and application cache. Also new is built -in support for the Node.js runtime environment and PDK Plug-ins, which allow developers to build games and other immersive apps in C/C++. This latter feature is currently in beta, but with webOS 2.0 the beta period will end and developers can begin to distribute apps that use these plug-ins. /p h2Does HP Have a Shot with webOS? /h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/palm-logo1.jpg" align="right"Before Google's Android a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_mobile_web_use_up_400_percent_outpacing_apple_blackberry.php"emerged as/a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_shipments_up_nearly_900_research_firm_reports.php"the iPhone rival it is today/a, many saw Palm's WebOS as a possible contender to take the iPhone down a notch from its dominant position among smartphones. a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20090603/palms-new-pre-takes-on-iphone/"Wall St. Journal's Walt Mossberg/a even called the Pre "a powerful competitor" to the iPhone when it launched as well as a "beautiful, innovative and versatile hand-held computer." a href="http://social.venturebeat.com/2009/06/12/has-the-palm-pre-already-beaten-the-iphone/"He/a a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/palm-pre-can-it-trump-the-iphone-will-it-matter/11534"wasn't/a a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/early-palm-pre-and-iphone-comparisons-give-advantage-to-the-pre/449"alone/a in this sentiment. /p pThe idea of the Pre as an upstart "iPhone killer" soon lost its appeal, though, when the webOS-powered phone and its smaller sibling the Pixi, simply didn't sell. It was said that the lackluster sales may have had more to do with the a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/03/rip-palm-its-over-and-heres-why.ars"hardware used/a, a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/04/06/could-a-better-carrier-have-saved-palm/"the carrier/a or the a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/the-pre-app-catalog-is-tracking-way-way-behind-apples-app-store-and-its-palms-fault/"lack of developer buy-in/a, and not the OS itself, however. /p pBut HP, desperately needing to re-enter the mobile game, clearly thought webOS still had potential, and not just for mobile, but for tablet computing as well. In July, HP registered the trademark "PalmPad" and, earlier this month, a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2010/08/20/hp_webos_tablet_timeframe/"confirmed/a its plans to ship a webOS-based tablet early next year. For the most part, the tech community's a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/post_4.php"initial reaction/a was positive, upon hearing the acquisition news this April, with most hoping that HP could be the company to breathe new life into the dying, but delightful, webOS platform. /p pWhat remains to be seen, however, is whether or not tablet computing will actually take hold as a new trend in computing, regardless of the operating system powering the device, or if the iPad is simply another example of Apple releasing a product (like its iPod) that dominates a market. Android, although now outpacing iPhone shipments in many markets, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_shipments_up_nearly_900_research_firm_reports.php"most notably the U.S./a, has yet to emerge as the OS of choice on any iPad rival. There are many Android tablets in the works and some for sale in limited markets, but no major releases as of yet. It's far too soon to say if an Android tablet will overtake the iPad or vice versa. In fact, it's just as possible that HP's "PalmPad" could be the emreal/em iPad competitor, for that matter. That's what HP is hoping for, of course. But it is notable that HP, a personal computing powerhouse in this industry, has embraced a new operating system that's not Microsoft Windows. If marketed well, priced appropriately and - most importantly - if HP's brand name clout can attract developer attention, it's fair to say the "PalmPad" has a real shot. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/webos_20_now_available_for_download.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/A_ThWMPXjFdaEhHttA42TPyImk0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/A_ThWMPXjFdaEhHttA42TPyImk0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/A_ThWMPXjFdaEhHttA42TPyImk0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/A_ThWMPXjFdaEhHttA42TPyImk0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=X29vMlL7sEo:BP1avNF07NY:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/X29vMlL7sEo" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/moving_tales_logo.jpg" /Recently we've been exploring how a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_that_paper_books_are_better_than_ebooks.php"the book industry/a is a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_that_ebooks_are_better_than_paper_books.php"adjusting to electronic books/a. There are pros and cons to eBooks, but regardless the industry is moving to digital formats fast - even to the point of the Oxford English Dictionary considering a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/oxford_english_dictionary_may_never_be_published_a.php"not publishing another print edition/a./p pSome book publishers aren't just adjusting to eBooks, they're emembracing/em them with open arms. a href="http://moving-tales.com/"Moving Tales/a is one such publisher. It recently released a book as an iPad app, called a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pedlar-lady/id380527812?mt=8#"The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross/a. Moving Tales, as the name implies, is a producer of animated books. It's a mix of movies and books, but does it work?/p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21576amp;cb=21576' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21576amp;n=21576' border='0' alt='' //a/p pMoving Tales aims to quot;bring stories to life,quot; through multimedia features such as 3D animation, music, voice overs, sound effects, alternate views and animation of text quot;using the iPad's accelerometer.quot; The company also makes use of features native to a tablet-like device, such as page swipe or tap for page turning and what it describes as quot;extras to ensure no two viewings [are] alike.quot;/p pThe Pedlar Lady is a book about quot;the journey of a poor pedlar woman who, guided by the shifting line between the real and the unreal, discovers a surprising and wonderful treasure.quot; It costs $4.99 in the App Store./p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/movingtales2.jpg" //p pThe story is told almost as if it's an animated film, with voice over and sound affects optionally accompanying the animation. The words are also present of course, allowing you to read the text sans sound if you prefer./p h2Novelty, or The Future of eBooks?/h2 pThe overall effect of The Pedlar is akin to a graphic novel, in that the animation is a core part of the experience. /p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/pedlar_lady2.jpg" align="right" /With traditional works of fiction, the reader uses her imagination to bring the text to 'life.' And that's much of the fun, as anyone who has seen a movie version of a novel before reading the novel will attest. If you see the movie first, when you read the book you then have a set picture in your mind about what the characters look and act like. Whereas if you read the book first, you fill in those details in your own mind - even adding bits of yourself or people you know to the fleshed out characters in your head./p pReading this iPad book took some of that internal magic away from me, but arguably added enough magic of its own to compensate. /p pSo is this the future of eBooks? My answer is that it's emone/em future. There are certain works of fiction that would lend themselves well to animation and sound effects: childrens books, poetry books where the poet wants to augment their words with the help of animation, books with strong imagery where animation would enhance the experience (the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, for example)./p pMany other books will be best left to the reader's visual imagination, or are simply too wordy or complex to convert into an animated story./p pThis form of eBook also is very insular, in that it has no social features and no links to external Web content. This perhaps says more about what Apple allows an iPad application to easily do. Still, it's worth noting that eBooks are capable of a much more expansive experience than what Moving Tales presents./p pThe Pedlar Lady is an impressive eBook though, visually stunning and stylishly delivered. What are your thoughts on animated eBooks? Also let us know in the comments if you've come across similar eBooks - on the iPad, PC, or other devices./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/moving_tales_animated_ebooks.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9vYsZoOyD_G_c0uuN4ZZ5ChBrBM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9vYsZoOyD_G_c0uuN4ZZ5ChBrBM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9vYsZoOyD_G_c0uuN4ZZ5ChBrBM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9vYsZoOyD_G_c0uuN4ZZ5ChBrBM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5afDa5kyb-o:B1cBfGcFhsU:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/5afDa5kyb-o" height="1" width="1"/