tarima de abeto, tarima de pino melis, friso de abeto, friso de pino melis
tarima de abeto, tarima de pino melis, friso de abeto, friso de pino melis
La tarima de abeto se encuentra en todo el centro de europa. El color de la albura varía entre blanco y blanco-rosado pálido, con un aspecto mate y el del duramen varía del canela al marrón rojizo o marrón amarillo claro
La tarima de abeto Es fácil de trabajar destaca por su gran densidad, dureza, facilidad de curvado y resitencia al impacto, pero tiene tendencia a agrietarse si su secado es demasiado rápido
Nosotros como fabricantes y distribuidores vendemos tarima de abeto de primera calidad a precio de fabrica, no lo dudes no tenemos competencia en precio y calidad
La Madera de nuestro Friso de pino melis es bastante estable… Continue reading
tarima de abeto tarima de pino melis friso de abeto friso de pino melis
tarima de abeto, tarima de pino melis, friso de abeto, friso de pino melisLa tarima de abeto se encuentra en todo el centro de europa. El color de la albura varía entre blanco y blanco-rosado pálido, con un aspecto mate y el del duramen varía del canela al marrón rojizo o marrón amarillo cla … Continue reading
Tarimas tropicales de interior y macizas de exterior
Tarima Tropical fabrica suministra e instala Tarimas sinteticas de exterior (composite) y tarimas macizas de exterior de primera calidad de las especies mas bellas del mercado (teca, merbau, iroko, cumaru, sucupira, wenge, jatoba, massaranduba, ipe, pino tratado…)… Continue reading
madera de exterior
Nosotros como fabricantes y distribuidores, vendemos e instalamos madera de exterior tanto de ipe como otras muchas especies de primera calidad a precio de fabrica, no lo dudes no tenemo … Continue reading
Tarima de abeto
Tarima de abeto
En tarimas y maderas GasMerlin tenemos mas de 15 años de esperiencia en la venta e instalacion de Tarima de abeto y de muchas otras especies de primera calidad, que le daran un toque muy acogedor a cualquier rincon de tu casa a la vez que le dara una gran calidez al mismo, ya que nuestras tarimas estan especialmente diseñadas para aislar termicamente incluso las estancias mas frias de tu hogar
La madera de abeto se encuentra en todo el centro de europa. El color de la albura varía entre blanco y blanco-rosado pálido, con un aspecto mate y el del duramen varía del canela al marrón rojizo o marrón amarillo claro
Es fácil de trabajar destaca por su gran densidad… Continue reading
Friso de madera de pino melis
Friso de madera de pino melis
En tarimas y maderas GasMerlin tenemos mas de 15 años de esperiencia en la venta e instalacion de Friso de madera de pino melis y de muchas otras especies de primera calidad, que le daran un toque muy acogedor a cualquier rincon de tu casa a la vez que le dara una gran calidez al mismo, ya que nuestros frisos estan especialmente diseñados para aislar termicamente incluso las estancias mas frias de tu hogar
Las aplicaciones mas comunes del friso de madera de pino melis son:
Forrado de paredes y techos, buhardillas, altillos, restaurantes, locales comerciales, aticos, casas de madera, casas rurales, bares, decoracion infantil,… y tambien las tipicas saunas finlandesas
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Friso de madera de abeto
Friso de madera de abeto
En tarimas y maderas GasMerlin tenemos mas de 15 años de esperiencia en la venta e instalacion de Friso de madera de abeto y de muchas otras especies de primera calidad, que le daran un toque muy acogedor a cualquier rincon de tu casa a la vez que le dara una gran calidez al mismo, ya que nuestros frisos estan especialmente diseñados para aislar termicamente incluso las estancias mas frias de tu hogar
Las aplicaciones mas comunes del friso de madera de abeto son:
Forrado de paredes y techos, buhardillas, altillos, restaurantes, locales comerciales, aticos, casas de madera, casas rurales, bares, decoracion infantil,… y tambien las tipicas saunas finlandesas
La Madera de nuestro Friso de abeto es bastante… Continue reading
Tarima flotante parador parquet parador tarima parador
Tarima flotante parador parquet parador tarima parador
En Decoracion de interiores GasMerlin suministramos e instalamos todo tipo de tarima de madera, y somos expertos en la recuperacion y cuidados necesarios de la madera tanto de exterior como de interior, Madera de exterior grapa vista y oculta asi como tarima de composite y tenemos mas de 10 años de experiencia en la instalacion y distribucion de tarimas de alta calidad como la Tarima flotante de parador, parquet parador o tarima barnizada parador
Parador tiene una gran cantidad de colecciones de tarimas de alta calidad como la Tarima flotante de parador, parquet parador o tarima barnizada parador en especies de madera naturales tratadas con unas terminaciones que te sorprenderan
Cualquiera de… Continue reading
Grapas para madera friso acero inox
Grapas para madera friso acero inox
En Decoracion de interiores GasMerlin suministramos e instalamos todo tipo de tarima de madera, y somos expertos en la recuperacion y cuidados necesarios de la madera tanto de exterior como de interior, Madera de exterior grapa vista y oculta asi como tarima de composite y por lo tanto tenemos mas de 10 años de experiencia en la fabricacion y utilizacion de Grapas para madera friso de acero inox
La peculiaridad de la madera de exterior es que la tarima se instala sobre rastreles de pino cuperizado de alta duracion y separada cada tabla de la anterior unos 4 milimetros mediante unas fijaciones llamadas grapas (de acero inox y con tornillo de acero inox… Continue reading
Descargar juegos de nintendo snes
Descargar juegos de nintendo snes
Hoy vamos a recordar viejos tiempos posteando los juegos de la otra mitica consola de Nintendo, la SNes (la SNes fue mi segunda consola y me trae recuerdos increibles) , y buscando buscando encontre un pack con todos los juegos para la Nintendo Nes (mas de 10000 juegos-roms), que seguro que os va a dar cientos de horas de diversion
Bueno los packs de juegos de nintendo snesestan aqui abajo y aunque pesan bastante os aseguro que merece la pena descargarselos, estan todos los juegos
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Descargar juegos de game boy color GBC
Descargar juegos de game boy color GBC
Aqui os dejo mas de un millar de juegos de Game Boy color con un emulador incluido para que recordeis viejos tiempos ;) , y para que aquellos que no la han llegado a conocer vean y disfruten con los juegos que jugabamos hace años, menos entorno grafico, pero muy divertidos, jugables y entretenidos
Estan todos los mejores, perdonadme que no ponga la lista de juegos ya que son mas de 1000 y llenariamos la pagina entera de juegos de game boy color GBC
Son “solo” 62 MB :) Que los disfruten
Pack Roms de GBC
P.D. Para los amantes de las consolas Nintendo (o para todos los que Descargar… Continue reading
Descargar juegos de Game Boy Advance GBA
Descargar juegos de Game Boy Advance GBA
Continuando con los juegos de Nintendo, hoy vamos a postear todas los juegos de Game Boy Advance que hay por la red dando vueltas (2803 juegos de gba para descargar concretamente), debo decir que tanto esta como otras recopilaciones de juegos antiguos de las consolas de Nintendo son para bajarselas completas (tenemos todos los juegos de Nes, Snes, GBC y nintendo 64, a parte de las de Nintendo DS ) por que no pienso poner los nombres de todos los juegos (son demasiados ;) )
Bueno al grano, alla van los 2800 juegos de GBA para descargar y disfrutar recordando viejos tiempos
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Descargar juegos de nintendo nes gratis
Descargar juegos de nintendo nes gratis
Hoy vamos a recordar viejos tiempos posteando los juegos de la mitica consola de Nintendo, la Nes (la Nes fue mi primera consola y sus juegos me traen muy buenos recuerdos) , y buscando buscando encontre un pack para descargar todos los juegos para la Nintendo Nes (mas de 10000 juegos), que seguro que os va a dar cientos de horas de diversion
Bueno el pack de juegos Nes esta aqui, pesa bastante,(217 MB) pero de verdad que merece la pena, estan todos los juegos
descargar Nes Roms
Ademas y para que despues de Descargar los juegos de nintendo nes gratis no os volvais locos buscando encontre un emulador Nes (sin el… Continue reading
Descargar Emuladores de nintendo Ds
Descargar Emuladores de nintendo Ds
Como ya me habeis pedido vartias veces que pongamos Emuladores de nintendo Ds para descargar y luego nunca los encontramos me he decidido a hacer un recopilatorio de los que mas me gustan
Emulador nintendo Ds No$gba
Aquí les dejo el mejor emulador hasta el momento que hay para DS el No$gba
Sólo descompriman y abran la aplicación (No$gba o No$gba 2X)
Es un emulador de Gameboy Advance y Nintendo DS con el que puedes jugar a casi cualquier videojuego de estas dos plataformas
No pongo ningun manual por que es muy sencillo de usar ;)
Descargar Emulador nintendo Ds No$gba para windows 7 vista y xp
Emulador nintendo Ds WinDS PRO
Aquí les dejo el mejor emulador para… Continue reading
Descargar juegos de nintendo 64 gratis
Descargar juegos de nintendo 64 gratis
Hoy vamos a a dar un paso adelante posteando los Juegos de la otra mitica consola de Nintendo, la Nintendo 64 (La Nintendo 64 era la unica que me faltaba por postear, y tiene juegos buenisimos) y buscando buscando encontre un pack con todas los juegos para la Nintendo 64 (mas de 2614 juegos-roms gratis), que seguro que os va a dar cientos de horas de diversion
Bueno, los packs de juegos de Nintendo 64 estan aqui abajo son muchisimos y estan ordenados por orden alfabetico , no pienso poner la lista por que es demasiado grande, pero podeis hacer descargar todos los que querais :)
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Descargar Call of Duty modern warfare black ops pc
Descargar Call of Duty modern warfare black ops pc
Cuanto mas juego al Call of Duty modern warfare mas divertido me parece (le pasa lo mismo que al gta) asi que vamos a hacer un recopilatorio de todos los Call of Duty que hay por la red (ojo que no los subo yo )
Primero y para todos los que estuvieran viviendo en un planeta muy lejano vamos a explicar por encima la tematica de de la saga Call of Duty :
Los primeros títulos de esta saga de videojuegos de disparos en primera persona, que van desde el original Call of Duty hasta Call of Duty 3, están ambientados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y… Continue reading
tarimas macizas, tarimas de exterior, tarimas de exterior
Tarima Tropical fabrica suministra e instala Tarimas sinteticas de exterior (composite) y tarimas macizas de exterior de primera calidad de las especies mas bellas del mercado (teca, merbau, iroko, cumaru, sucupira, wenge, jatoba, massaranduba, ipe, pino tratado…).Tarima de exterior macizaTarima Tropical fabrica suministra e instala Tarimas macizas de interior y tarimas macizas barnizadas de primera calidad de las especies mas bellas del mercado (teca, ipe, merbau, iroko, cumaru, sucupira, wenge, jatoba, massaranduba, bambu, pino melis, nogal, roble americano,…).Tarima de exterior sinteticaTarima Tropical fabrica suministra e instala Tarimas flotantes de interior y laminados sinteticos de primera calidad de las especies mas bellas del mercado (teca, ipe, merbau, iroko, cumaru, sucupira, wenge, jatoba, massaranduba, bambu, pino melis, nogal, roble americano,…).Tarima
Vacaciones 2011: Tipos de Señales: Colores
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Vacaciones 2011: Botiquín 1º aux. Automóvil
[align=center][size=18]Es muy importante contar en el auto con un botiquín bien provisto. Antes de realizar un viaje debes revisar que todos los elementos estén en condiciones (controlar vencimientos, higie… Continue reading
La naturaleza en todo su esplendor 35
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La primera calculadora astronómica
PERMITÍA PREDECIR LOS ECLIPSES LUNARES Y SOLARES
Imagen de uno de los engranajes de la calculadora primitiva. (Foto: Nature)
EUROPA PRESS
[size=18]MADRID.- Investigadores de la Universidad de Cardiff, en el Reino Unido, han desvelado la enorme c… Continue reading
Nueva vulnerabilidad afecta a todos los Win…
[size=16]Hay una nueva vulnerabilidad en Windows que afecta a todas las versiones con soporte a la fecha; es decir, afecta a Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, y Server 2003 y 2008. El error está en el componente MHTML (o MIME HTML), que es básicamente un formato usado para combinar ciertos recursos como por ejemplo imágenes, animaciones Flash, applets de Java o cosas así, y distribuirlas como un solo archivo HTML… Continue reading
"Cual es la lógica del número arabigo"
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Si bien algunos testimonios permiten opinar que durante la época védica (1500 a 1000 a. C.) y brahmánica (siglo V) existió en la India una ciencia matemática, no obstante fue durante la época clásica (siglos I al VIII) cuando los matemáticos hindúes llegaron a la madurez.
Con anterioridad a este período, los hindúes tuvieron algún contacto con el mundo griego. La marcha de Alejandro Magno sobr… Continue reading
Frases Con Humor
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Normalmente no rezo, pero si estas ahí…salvamé Supermán!!! (Homer J. Simpson)
Mi novia es una perra
(Pluto)
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Madeira: La isla misteriosa
Estas fotos son la prueba viviente de que Madeira es "La isla misteriosa"? de Julio Verne.
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Royal Pains [HDTV Temporada 2 VOSE] [14/18]…
Royal Pains se centra en el joven Hank Lawson, un doctor que parece tenerlo todo… una emocionante carrera, una atractiva novia y un lujoso apartamento en Nueva York. Pero tras una equivocada decisión en la sala de urgencias, Hank lo pierde todo. Meses después, soltero y situado en… Continue reading
Portal [1 Link][600mb]
Portal PC es un shooter en primera persona del desarrollador Valve para un solo fullero. Ubicado en los misteriosos Laboratorios de Ciencia de Apertura, Portal PC esta llamado a ser solo de los juegos mas innovadores de los ultimos tiempos.
La especialidad de Portal PC y lo que lo diferencia de otros shooters es el arma que usaremos. Se trata de un generador de portales que nosaccedera acceder a otras zonas al a… Continue reading
iPad 2 Seen Xoomin’ To BestBuy.com For February 17th Launch?
The yet-to-be-launched iPad 2 has created enough pent-up demand to make
analysts, techie bloggers and the digital savvy world at large to
salivate. Those that didn’t purchase its predecessor the first go-around
are now ready to pony up for the device so aptly nicknamed the "Jesus Tablet." While Apple has not released an official sale date, a curious report appeared at Buzz Bizz News by a writer named "Nitin" indicating he had the inside scoop.
10 Anti-Valentine Gifts That Say ‘I Hate You!’ Louder Than Words
If you’ve been shot by Cupid’s arrow and you can’t get pull the darn thing
out of your heart, you’re in pain. Cupid must have been in a
particularly facetious mood the day he brought that babe or dude into
your life. Lucky you; there are so many ways to let those stinkers know
just how you feel on this Anti-Valentine’s Day. Here are some of my recent favorites.
Push-Up Underwear Options On The Horizon For Men
Ever since the Wonderbra first hit the market fashionable women
everywhere have been on a quest to have the most up-to-date uplifted
look available. I never imagined that there would one day be a male equivalent. Amazingly, push-up underwear for men is a
reality! No, I am not referring to butt-lifting underpants; we are
talking about men getting a little boost in the front.
Social Media’s Whistleblowing In The Wind To Become Decentralized
Ever since WikiLeaks came under global scrutiny, whistleblowing has
taken a somewhat negative turn. Daniel Domscheit-Berg who had a falling
out with its founder, Julian Assange believes its due to whistleblowers
not having control over the secrets they want to spill. To remedy the
situation, he and his team are building OpenLeaks, a new platform that will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously.
Sweatband Headphones For Athletes
The perfect set of headphones for athletes. Never choose between music and sports again.
‘Beer Hour’ Portable Personal Beer Dispenser Gives You Head
The “Beer Hour” beer dispenser from Takara Tomy helps wannabe bartenders pour a perfect, foamy-headed glass of beer every time from any beer can.
Will Social Media Get Last Laugh When Zuckerberg Satirizes Himself On SNL?
Rumors abound, whether or not Lorne Michaels will be successful in luring Mark Zuckerberg to his SNL TV show January 29, when Jesse Eisenberg is scheduled to appear as host. With all the bad blood that has passed between Team Zuckerberg and the producers of ‘The Social Network’ movie, fans of both the network and the flick are wondering if the FB founder will be ‘man enough’ to show the world he can laugh at himself.
Row, Row, Row Your Bike, Gently Down The Road
A bicycle that you "pedal" with your entire body, the Rowbike is a like a rolling gym, giving you a complete workout while getting you from place to place.
Pet Park’s Indoor PetZoom Pet Potty: Train ‘Em Young
I’ve resisted getting an indoor potty for my dog. But the weather was just horrible lately, and he sooo did not want to go out in it. After many previous experiences ended in home ‘accidents,’ I finally broke down and bought a Pet Park PetZoom Indoor Potty and now I realize why I should have done this a long time ago.
"Mussel Gel" Will Give Muscle To Medical Implants And Tissue Repair
A new gel that the inventors say you can play
with like Silly Putty, can repair torn skin, bond implants, or act as
an adhesive for underwater machinery. The invention, under development
for several years, is now patent pending, and it’s all thanks to the
biomimicry of a mussel’s byssus, the hair-size filaments that form a
sticky foam enabling the mussel’s fierce attachment to rocks,
substrates, and beds on the sea walls and floors.
What is “Internet” anyway?
This video popped up on YouTube last month, but has been making the blog rounds in the past few days. It’s a clip from a 1994 episode of The Today Show, featuring Brian Gumbel trying his best to wrap his head around this “Internet” thing (and that weird little @ symbol).“What, do you write to it? Like mail?”So, fess up. For those of you who are old enough to not have grown up with it, where did you first hear about the Internet? Did the concept make any sense? As for me, I saw an ad for Prodigy in the back of a Babysitter’s Club book.
Paper Airplanes Launched from Edge of Space
Apparently, no longer content with just tossing them from the back of the classroom, a team of amateur scientists with an origami fetish decided to make it rain paper airplanes from over 36,000m up.The Paper Space Planes team, led by Joel Veitch, a British web animator, launched a weather balloon carrying 200 of the planes from a barn near Wolfsburg, Germany. A video camera attached to the balloon captured the space litter being dumped in the upper atmosphere at about 36,700m. The balloon burst at about 37,300m and fell back to earth just 40 minutes later. The team then recovered the balloon over 300km away from the launch site.Samsung, not missing the opportunity for a publicity stunt, provided SD cards… Continue reading
Crime Cops
Comedian KassemG and sketch-comedy troupe Good Neighbors poke seriously geeky fun at all the pseudo-technology Hollyweird is deploying these days. Take THAT CSI!
How To…? 6 Nifty Rube Goldberg Machines
A Rube Goldberg machine is, of course, a machine engineered to perform a simple task in a very (or very, very, very) complicated way. I’m not sure I would recommend any of these “how to” videos for efficiency’s sake, but they sure are fun to watch.How to Unroll Toilet Paper: How to Creme an Egg: How to Cook Ramen: How to (Not) Bust a Myth on Christmas: How to Open Curtains: And of course, no list like this would be complete without…How to Make the Most Awesome Music Video Ever: And if you’re dying for even more Rube Goldberg awesomeness, here are some videos featured on [GAS] in days gone by:How to Do NothingHow to Start a Fire
So a geek walks into a bar… Science Jokes!
Though not a science joke, my favorite bar humor is this bit of music geekery:Three notes walk into a bar – a G, an E flat, and a C. The bartender looks up and says “We don’t serve minors.” So the E flat leaves and the other two have a fifth between them.What’s your favorite geeky joke?[via Failbook]
Twitter’s Twaggies Web Comic
Have you guys discovered Twaggies yet? They take tweets and illustrate them into funny Web comics. Tweets that would normally disappear into the ether are persevered for posterity in a sort of Twitter Hall of Fame. Here’s some of our recent favorites: For all the funnies, check out the site or follow them on Twitter @twaggies.
The Best Workout of All Time [Video]
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Tabletop RPG Fans Behold: A Self-Loading LEGO Dice Tower
Rolling your dice by hand is SO yesterday, here’s the cool new way to do it.
New Hoth City [Pics]
First, there was Hothlanta, and now, here’s New Hoth City.[Via]
Motricity To Buy Mobile Ad Firm Adenyo For $100 Million
Some more consolidation among the mobile middle-men: today, mobile data solutions provider Motricity announced that it purchased mobile marketing and advertising firm Adenyo for $100 million in cash and stock, with a further $50 million to be paid out depending on performance over the next twelve months.
The deal is a sign of how companies working in pure-play mobile internet solutions are looking to leverage their scale with more revenue-generating activities, such as serving advertising and marketing campaigns.
Motricity provides a platform called mCore—which it sells to mobile operators, brands and content publishers—to deliver and monetise mobile internet content. The company works with operators like AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon, Sprint (NYSE: S) and Vodafone… Continue reading
KIT Digital Buys Trio Of Firms, Including KickApps And Kewego
Online video services provider KIT Digital is continuing to roll-up other firms in its market. The Prague-based company is paying $77.2 million to purchase three companies, KickApps, Kewego and Kyte, in moves it says will help it become a “one-stop shop” for corporations’ video needs.
Two of the companies are squarely in the online video management space: Kewego, which reported $10.2 million in sales last year, provides white label online video tools to European companies including telecom firm Orange and sports site L’Equipe. The company has more than 400 clients. Kyte, meanwhile, provides online video services to more than 100 companies, including CBS (NYSE: CBS)… Continue reading
Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone platform war to Android, according to research from Canalys. In the fourth quarter of 2010, shipments of the Google-backed OS were 32.9 million, compared to Symbian at 31 million. In the U.S. Android’s dominance is now even more pronounced: according to stats from NPD today, Android was on 53 percent of all handsets shipped in the quarter, its next closest competitors, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), are both at 19 percent.
This is very much a story about the power of crowds: Android… Continue reading
Facebook Deals Comes To Europe; Users Now Get Offers When They Check In
Facebook today took one more step in its ownership of the mobile space: today it expanded its Facebook Deals service into five markets in Europe. This service, part of Facebook Places, lets participating brands offer users deals on goods when they check in to a location using Facebook Places. This is the first international expansion extension of the Deals service since it launched in the U.S. in November.
Facebook has not given many status updates so far on how well Places is doing; this morning at the press launch in London, when asked, a spokesperson said “millions” were using the service.
Enhancements like Deals certainly give mobile check-in services an added dimension of usefulness, and stickiness, particularly… Continue reading
A News Corp. Digital History Lesson For The Daily
Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development director at News Corp.‘s iGuide.
As I watch the coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s upcoming iPad publication, The Daily, my mind races back to 1995, when I worked on Murdoch’s last effort to create a new digital publication for a new medium.
Known as “iGuide,” the effort I worked on was one of the first attempts by a major media company to build a unique and original offering for the then-nascent world wide web. For about 15 wild months, News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) brought together some of the brightest editorial… Continue reading
MLBAM Building Mobile Ad System For Live, In-Game Ads
Major League Baseball Advanced Media plans to pick a vendor next week to build a mobile ad platform and have it in place within a month after the season begins. In an interview with paidContent, MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman said that even though mobile advertising and streaming have achieved a lot more prominence in the past year, “There hasn’t been any company capable of serving and trafficking ads for the amount of live streaming games we have, so we’re going to build it ourselves.”
MLBAM has already been using FreeWheel to manage its video ad sales, while Auditude has been serving ads for the audio-only, both on the PC side.
The importance… Continue reading
Handset Rankings: Nokia Leads, And Android’s Not A Panacea For Competitors
No less than three analysts houses have posted their global handset rankings for the last quarter, and, despite losing overall market share (as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) itself admitted last week), Nokia still heads the the lists for IDC, Strategy Analytics and ABI Research—both in handsets overall and smartphones. Something else that these results highlight: Android is not necessarily a panacea for other handset makers that are also losing market share.
ABI Research says that 390 million mobile handsets were shipped in Q4, a 15.6 percent increase compared to the same quarter a year ago; IDC puts the number at 401.4 million units, at a rise of… Continue reading
Google Reaches Deal With State AGs Over WiFi Data Breach
Last month, it looked like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was at an impasse with Connecticut state authorities over what kind of data it would hand over related to last year’s WiFi privacy snafu. Now the company has reached an agreement on the issue with George Jepsen, Connecticut’s new Attorney General, who who is heading up a coalition of 40 state attorneys general who are examining the Google WiFi data breach. The breach occurred when Google’s Street View cars collected private data that was transmitted over public WiFi networks; Google apologized for the collection last year, saying it was a mistake and it would delete the data.
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Mobile Ad Firm Velti Raises $150 Million In U.S. IPO
Mobile marketing and advertising company Velti made its debut on the NASDAQ market today, where shares closed at $15, or 25 percent above their opening price of $12 as it traded under the ticker “VELT.”
On Thursday, Reuters reported that Velti and its shareholders sold 12.5 million shares priced at $12 each, raising $150.2 million. That sum fell short of the $200 million Velti had been hoping to achieve when it first announced the IPO in May 2010.
But it’s a measure of the mobile ad industry’s growth—and Velti’s transformation and expansion—when you compare this week’s U.S. debut with Velti’s debut on
Yahoo Loses Mobile VP Michael Shim To Groupon
More upheaval in the upper ranks of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ‘smobile division. The company’s VP of mobile business development, Michael Shim, will be leaving the company and joining Groupon to help the daily deals site sharpen its focus on the mobile market.
The news was first reported by AllThingsD and we have confirmed it directly with Yahoo.
Shim had been one of the main people responsible for Yahoo’s carrier and device maker relations—Yahoo relies on deals with them to preload Yahoo links and services on to devices and make it the default search engine on mobile web browsers. At Groupon, writes ATD, he will also be working on partnerships to help… Continue reading
Unevenly Distributed: Gadget Blogging, The Human Centipede
So you want to be a gadget blogger!
“That calling of kings!” you say. “But to spend my days playing with magic boxes, worshipped and collecting riches for my warrantless opining; the nights, ensconced to the hilt in the honeyed folds of supermodels. That… that… is the life for me!”
I hear you. I once thought much the same thing. But much as I’d like to fancy myself some sort of modern-day James Bond type furnished not so much a license to kill as a license to pedantically explain the differences between GSM and CDMA, blogging about tech for a living is not particularly glamorous.
In fact, if we’re to equate gadget blogging to some occupation in a… Continue reading
Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
This Taste of Tech post is the fourth in a series exploring the science and technology of food in partnership with Gearfuse. Don't miss last week's post on the complicated relationship between industrial production lines and pure food by Matthew Battles.
Earlier this week, Popular Science published a step-by-step guide to building genetically modified seeds. The six stage process they outline, from finding a new trait to the genes expressing themselves, takes at least a decade—and doesn't even include gaining regulatory approval. The mechanical processes of genetic engineering, shorn of any debate over ethics, safety, or intellectual property, are a curious blend of painstaking grunt-work and… Continue reading
Towers in the Mist
The space shuttle Challenger makes its way to the launch pad through a heavy mist in advance of its January 28, 1986 launch and subsequent destruction, which resulted in the deaths of Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik… Continue reading
Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (1)
ADAM ROTHSTEIN is a blogger, an unaffiliated, deeply-read thinker, and a member of the loosely-joined tribe of feral techno-intellectuals I prize following. In a Google Reader post, he mentioned that he was the recipient of one of Google’s Cr-48 Chrome Notebooks, my interest was piqued. Gearfuse already has featured stellar commentary on the Chrome notebook, in John Brownlee’s Unevenly Distributed column. Adam has been using the computer for awhile now, and so I was eager to learn more about the beta experience from him. We conducted an interview in the blank, open, ticklishly agonistic space of Google Docs; the posts that result aren’t meant as finished prose, but preserve the extemporaneous nature of Adam’s riffs and ruminations on the… Continue reading
Automated Infrastructure
—It will probably need to be lightly weaponized, to keep people from screwing with it or riding on it.
—There’s no reason for the middle connector piece. As long as it’s fictional, there’s no reason we can’t imagine putting the cpu and batteries into single-rail units traveling independently up and down the line.
—These things are going to exist. Versions of them will be everywhere: bahn-bots annotating potholes; citywide roombas snuffling up cigarette butts and shopping bags; Meadowlands-minders vagrantly scanning for illegal garbage dumps and the putrefaction of dead bodies. The infrastructure will be automated, ambient, and invisible.
—When you start imaging these things broken down and lying in the damp with weeds poking up around them, then you’re thinking about the future. —via… Continue reading
UFO on Tape: Imagination as the Original Augment
The rudiments of the game UFO on Tape are as modest as they are rich. On startup, your iPhone or Touch becomes the viewfinder of a video camera trained on a cottony, vaguely metropolitan sky. You’re looking out from the smudgy, out-of-focus interior of an automobile; as you turn or peer upward the window pillars and ceiling block your view. A UFO appears—a classic, hoax-ish, tin-pan UFO—and the game is on, as you spin and twist to keep the flying saucer in your frame while it flicks, hovers, and passes behind buildings, lamp posts, and flocks of birds. The longer you keep it in frame, the better your chances are of convincing someone you’re not a liar or a crazy… Continue reading
Know Your Anomaly
If you live in western Canada or the Continental U.S., your problem has a name: the Arctic Oscillation. Normally, low air pressure over the Arctic keeps cold air trapped at high latitudes. But if southern-latitude barometric pressure drops, the atmospheric dike between north and south weakens and arctic air leaks out, chilling the continent’s middle and giving the Arctic a bit of a break from the cold. Not that that’s always a good thing: Iqualit, Nunavut’s New Year snowmobile parade was cancelled due to the unusual warmth.
In the image from NASA above, deep red indicates a surface-temperature anomaly of 18 degrees above normal; deep blue marks locales 18 degrees above their average temperature for this time of… Continue reading
The Peaceable Network
We show that the extinction of one species can often be compensated by the concurrent removal or population suppression of other specific species, a counterintuitive effect not previously tested in complex food webs. These compensatory perturbations frequently involve long-range interactions that are not evident from local predator–prey relationships. In numerous cases, even the early removal of a species that would eventually go extinct is found to significantly reduce the number of cascading extinctions. These compensatory perturbations only exploit resources available in the system, and illustrate the potential of human intervention combined with predictive modelling for ecosystem management.
From the abstract for “Rescuing Ecosystems… Continue reading
Scryberspace: Art-Hacking the Search Experience
From Yahoo to Alta Vista to the Google imperium, search has become more and more magical in its powers. But what if what you’re really looking for isn’t an answer, but a question? What if you’re not calling up data, but evoking spirits?
Over at HiLobrow, Gearfuse friend Peggy Nelson describes Scryberspace, which might best be described as an uncanny search engine:
#scryberspace plays with the sense of occult anticipation that we bring to even our everyday computer use. To scry is to search, and to interpret the signs. And to scribe is what much of our online interaction is literally composed of: we write, and write, and write again. We write acronyms, long rants, hyperlinks, emoticons. We code both communication… Continue reading
Makes the Man: Serialized Scifi on Twitter
Gearfuse readers may not know that among other things, I also write fiction.
For awhile now, I’ve toyed with the idea of telling a story in Twitter. But I’ve been reluctant to plunge in; too few Twitter fiction experiments have worked (while those that have inspired me are not as well known as they should be).
I’m taking the plunge, though. My model is the serial story of pre-golden age science fiction, although the setting is contemporary, and scheduling will be tweaked for today’s social media.
Over three days I’ll be spinning a yarn in tweets; called “Makes the Man,” it will feature narwhals, neural hacking, uncanny wearable computers, and mayhem on the Arctic ice. Ultimately, I’ll aggregate the… Continue reading
The iPad’s ripple effect
As we approach the iPad’s first birthday, much has already been written about how the iPad is a game-changing device. But the iPad’s success goes beyond the hardware — it’s also opened the tablet market and ushered in new forms of applications and media. Pete Meyers (@petermeyers), author of “Best iPad Apps,” discusses these shifts in the following interview.
Content consumption is a big part of the iPad, but are there options for people who want to create on the device?
Pete Meyers: From what I’ve seen, those with creative urges have plenty of ways to
express themselves. Top of my list includes pottery making (Let’s Create Pottery HD), drawing (SketchBook Pro, Drawing Pad), music making… Continue reading
Four short links: 31 January 2011
BBC Web Cuts Show Wider Disconnect (The Guardian) — I forget that most people still think of the web as a secondary add-on to the traditional way of doing things rather than as the new way. Interesting article which brings home the point in the context of the BBC, but you can tell the same story in almost any business.
40p Off a Latte (Chris Heathcote) — One of the bits I enjoyed the most was unpacking the old ubiquitous computing cliche of your phone vibrating with a coupon off a latte when walking past a Starbucks. This whole presentation is brilliant. I’m still zinging off how data can displace actions in time and space: what you… Continue reading
Need faster machine learning? Take a set-oriented approach
We recently faced the type of big data challenge we expect to become increasingly common: scaling up the performance of a machine learning classifier for a large set of unstructured data.
Machine learning algorithms can help make sense of data by classifying, clustering and summarizing items in a data set. In general, performance has limited the opportunities to apply machine learning to understanding big or messy data sets. Analysts need to factor in time for speeding up off-the-shelf algorithms or even whether a machine learning pass would complete in a timely manner. While using smaller random samples can help mitigate performance issues, some data sets lend themselves to improved results when applied to more data.
Here we share our experience implementing a set-oriented… Continue reading
Publishing News: Week in Review
Here’s what caught my attention in this week’s publishing news. (Note: These stories were published here on Radar throughout the week.)
What is DRM for, exactly?
Last week in an interview with Brian O’Leary about the current state of piracy in the book industry, the subject of digital rights management (DRM) and its relationship to piracy came up. Brian said:
I’m pretty adamant on DRM: It has no impact whatsoever on piracy. Any good pirate can strip DRM in a matter of seconds to minutes … DRM is really only useful for keeping people who otherwise might have shared a copy of a book from doing so.
To be clear, Brian wasn’t saying he’s against DRM — he actually didn’t state his opinion… Continue reading
Four short links: 28 January 2011
NiftyUrls — open source elegant wee RSS dashboard. I haven’t looked into the source yet, but I’m already thinking of applications.
The PirateBox — small piece of hardware that creates a wifi network for local filesharing. Not connected to the Internet. (via BoingBoing)
More Hammer, Less Yammer (Julian Bleecker) — If you’re not also making — you’re sort of, well..basically you’re not doing much at all. You’ve only done a rough sketch of an idea if you’ve only talked about it and didn’t do the iteration through making, then back to thinking and through again to talking and discussing and sharing all the degrees of material — idea, discussions, conversations, make some props, bring those to the… Continue reading
Loathe your Kindle? Swap it for a bunch of books
If you’re an extreme curmudgeon who deems the Kindle to be a “soulless faux-literary technology,” the Microcosm Publishing Book and Zine Store in Portland, Ore., has a solution should you somehow come into possession of the device. Trade your Kindle — dollar for dollar — for old-school paper books.
I spoke with Matt Gauck, a bookseller at the store, on the phone Wednesday night. He said the plan is to add the Kindles to the store’s collection of outdated technology. So far, storage limitations haven’t been an issue because they’ve had just two participants in the exchange program. If the trade-in catches on, however, they’ll need a plan B.
One potential solution: Consider a tax-deductible donation to Worldreader.org. The… Continue reading
Social data and geospatial mapping join the crisis response toolset
A new online application from geospatial mapping giant ESRI applies trend analysis to help responders to Australia’s recent floods create relevance and context from social media reporting. A screenshot of the Australian flood trends map is embedded below:
This web app shows how crowdsourced social intelligence provided by Ushahidi enables emergency social data to be integrated into crisis response in a meaningful way.
The combination of Ushahidi and ESRI in Australia shows that “formal and innovative approaches to information collection and analysis during disasters is possible,” said Patrick Meier, “and that there is an interface that can be crafted between official and non-official responses.” Meier is a research fellow at the Harvard… Continue reading
ePayments Week: Facebook’s focus on mobile
Mobile, hyperlocal, privacy, and a PayPal departure topped the list of notable topics in the payment space this week.
Mobile is Facebook’s top priority
Facebook’s forays into mobile commerce are all around this week, as the social leader begins to tie together the elements that would make its Places app and other mobile functions into significant earners. On Tuesday, CTO Bret Taylor was at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco explaining that it was all about mobile this year for Facebook. Electronista has a good write-up, saying mobile is Facebook’s fastest growing segment and that mobile users are twice as active as others. Given its prominence as the primary messaging system for so many people, expect to see Facebook… Continue reading
The "dying craft" of data on discs
To prepare for next week’s Strata Conference, we’re continuing our series of conversations with innovators working with big data and analytics. Today, we hear from Ian White, the CEO of Urban Mapping.
Mapfluence, one of Urban Mapping’s products, is a spacial database platform that aggregates data from multiple sources to deliver geographic insights to clients. GIS services online are not a completely new idea, but White said the leading players haven’t “risen to the occasion.” That’s left open some new opportunities, particularly at the lower end of the market. Whereas traditional GIS services still often deliver data by mailing out a CD-ROM or through proprietary client-server systems, Urban Mapping is one of several companies that… Continue reading
Will data warehousing survive the advent of big data?
→ Introduction
→ A taxonomy for data
→ Data architecture
→ Data warehouse rebirth
→ Conclusions
For more than 25 years, data warehousing has been the accepted architecture for providing information to support decision makers. Despite numerous implementation approaches, it is founded on sound information management principles, most particularly that of integrating information according to a business-directed and predefined model before allowing use by decision makers. Big data, however one defines it, challenges some of the underlying principles behind data warehousing, causing some analysts to question if the data warehouse will survive.
In this article, I address this question directly and propose that data warehousing, and indeed information management as a whole, must evolve in a radically new direction if… Continue reading
Active Storage Announces Xserve Replacement
On the eve of Apple’s cancellation of the Xserve, Active Storage, makers of the ActiveRAID storage system, announced the ActiveSAN appliance to provide an upgrade path for Xsan users. ActiveSAN is a drop-in replacement for an Xserve metadata controller tuned for media and creative shops that can leverage their existing investment in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBA), switches, and storage arrays. The ActiveSAN appliance is built using Intel Nehalem hardware and utilizes Linux and the Quantum StorNext SAN file system. On top of this enterprise-grade platform, Active Storage has provided a management suite that provides the ease of use that Xsan users have come to expect from an Apple-centric solution.
The Fibre Channel storage environment was one of the… Continue reading
Spotify Runs Up Against Apple in U.S. Expansion Attempts
Setting up a streaming music service in the U.S. isn’t an easy task, and to find out why, you need only look as far as the company holding the music industry’s purse strings. That company is Apple, and according to Spotify‘s head of business development Faisal Galaria, it’s a force that may be impossible to reckon with.
In an interview with StrategyEye, Galaria suggested that one of the main reasons behind the long delay of Spotify’s U.S. launch (originally rumored for 2009, then set for 2010 by the company itself) is that the labels depend too heavily on revenue from… Continue reading
Follow the Civil Unrest in Egypt on Your iOS Device
If you’re away from a computer or just having trouble connecting to a live stream source on your desktop browser, you may still be able to find news on the civil unrest in Egypt on your iOS device. In fact, Al-Jazeera streaming source Livestation is recommending people use its app instead of the website to ease bandwidth issues.
Protests in Cairo and other parts of the country continue in Egypt, despite the institution of a 6:00 p.m. EET (8:00 a.m. PST) curfew and the calling in of Egyptian army reinforcements (whose intentions remain unclear). Both app and web-based video options are available for those interested in keeping abreast of the situation on their mobile devices, including:
Al-Jazeera’s free official iPhone and iPod… Continue reading
How to Manage Your Mac’s A/V Settings for Voice & Video Chat
A few times every week, I’ll play World of Warcraft with some great friends. Rather than type, we’re much more comfortable using a VOIP solution like Skype. Nothing beats actually hearing the sarcastic abuse your friends heap on you.
VOIP and video chat solutions are becoming much more common and user-friendly. While I’m going to go over multiple programs (Skype, iChat, and FaceTime), my preferred app is Skype because it’s available for most platforms, allowing you to talk to people on almost any kind of hardware.
Managing Your Default Preferences
If you’re using the built-in microphone and iSight camera, you can skip over this part. Please, for the love of Steve Jobs, don’t use the built-in… Continue reading
Tips and Tricks: iTunes
It’s time to welcome back another installment of Tips and Tricks. These articles aim to teach you some handy things you might not know about your Apple stuff. Let’s continue the series by looking at iTunes.
Search the Store From Anywhere
If you want to find something in the iTunes Store, ordinarily you have to open up iTunes, click on the Store link in the sidebar, then enter your search term in the search field on the page that appears. But there’s a simpler way to search the store from anywhere within the iTunes application. All you have to do is type your search query into the search field that always resides at the top right corner of your iTunes window, then instead of just… Continue reading
Luminaries Talk ‘State of Apple’ at Macworld Industry Forum
One of the new features at Macworld 2011 this year was a day (Wednesday, to be exact) set aside before the show floor opens for an Industry Forum where various Apple luminaries were invited to deliver their own “State of the Union” about where the market is headed. The quality of presentations varied, with some speakers providing a rehash of what we already know, but there were a few standouts that managed to convey some truly interesting ideas. Here are some highlights.
Bill Atkinson
Member of the original Macintosh team at Apple Computer; photographer; app developer
Trends in Human-Computer Interface
Bill Atkinson, a legend in the Mac community for his work on the original Macintosh team, used his time to talk about the… Continue reading
Majek Pictures Talks iOS as a Production/Distribution Platform
With Apple itself not in attendance, the focus of Macworld has shifted, and is now more about how the Apple user community is applying the company’s technologies than about the technologies themselves. There’s no better example of that kind of application in action than what Majek Pictures is doing.
When Majek Pictures, one of this year’s Featured Artists at Macworld, released Apple of My Eye — a short film shot and edited on an iPhone 4 – back in June 2010, that was just the beginning. Since then, the studio hass been hard at work on Goldilocks, a series shot entirely on iPhone 4 and iPod touch devices, and distributed via an app in the App Store. We… Continue reading
The Unlikely Story of the iPad, One Year In
Jan. 27 marks one year since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at a special event held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. At the event, Jobs repeatedly referred to the device as both magical and revolutionary. It seemed hyperbolic at the time, but does it still, after a year of living with the iPad?
For me, the answer is no. The iPad has changed every aspect of my life, from how I do my job to how I communicate with others, and it accomplished all of that in a way that was so natural it left me virtually unaware it was even happening. Some of us may have moved on to greener (only as it pertains to… Continue reading
Skype 5 for Mac Now Out of Beta
Skype 5 for Mac left beta today, bringing with it new group video chat features, improvements, and a new design. The development team behind Skype for Mac listened to user concerns and complaints, which were numerous, and made changes to the final version accordingly.
While Kevin found the beta version of Skype 5 released in November of 2010 to be a big improvement, I agreed with many others that Skype 5 brought in a lot of questionable design elements, including too much whitespace. The app felt ungainly and ugly, despite bearing many new elements that helped it look and feel much more like a native Mac app. The new version makes a number of small changes that add up to… Continue reading
Apple Hiring NFC & Mobile Payment Personnel
No sooner do rumors start flying about Apple’s plans for near-field communications (NFC) and mobile payments systems in iPhone 5 and iPad 2 than job listings appear to back up the claim. Apple is now advertising for three jobs, including one engineer position and two global mobile payment platform managers.
The first listing is for an iPhone hardware test engineer, but lists the unusual requirement of “Good practical IR and RFID (ISO/IEC 14443) knowledge and experience.” Neither technology is currently among the iPhone’s specifications. RFID is a form of NFC that is often used in retail and payment applications, like MasterCard’s PayPass . As a side note, IR is most often used for remote control… Continue reading
ISA 2011: Photos from Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011
We held Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 — our conference on growth and monetization in the social apps ecosystem — this past week in San Francisco.
The event saw a great turnout by attendees and speakers from around the world, and featured some lively on-stage discussion. Check out some photos from the event.
This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Pinball and Social Games
Ravenwood Fair, Boyaa’s Texas Hold’Em on This Week’s List of Top Gainers by MAU
Facebook Sets July, 1, 2011 Deadline to Make Credits Sole Canvas Game Payment Options
An In-Depth Look at the Social Gaming Industry’s Performance and Prospects on Facebook
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
ISA 2011: Maturation on Facebook, Growth on Mobile
ISA 2011: Live-Blogging Monetization & Customer Acquisition on the Facebook Platform
ISA 2011: Fireside Chat with Google Android Group Manager Eric Chu
ISA 2011: Small
Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: Meteor Games & Facebook
Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Meteor Games and Facebook.
2d Artist w/ Flash Experience (Beverly Hills, CA)
Contract Technical Writer (Palo Alto, CA)
Account Manager / Account Executive (Burlingame, CA)
Lead Product Manager/ Director of Product (Millbrea, CA)
Listings on the Inside Network Job Board are distributed to readers of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games through regular posts and widgets on the sites. Your open positions are being seen by the leading developers, product managers, marketers, designers, and executives in the Facebook Platform and social gaming industry today.
Facebook Roundup: Prineville, Zynga, Android, Verizon, Egypt, Tunisia, Japan, Zuckerberg and The Oscars
Facebook’s Murphy Back, At Zynga, Too - Facebook’s first advertising sales chief Mike Murphy left the company in October to take time off, but now he’s back. Specifically he’ll be doing part-time ad consulting with the Facebook and Zynga, according to AllThingsD. [Image via Facebook]
Facebook Working On Tablet Interface – Facebook is set to improve its tablet interface, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor told TechCrunch this week. That might not mean native apps, but it does mean some interface changes: “We could do more with click-targets,” he said about the current interface on the iPad. “Certain elements are very small.”
Access Facebook Deals with Android - Facebook Deals, the company’s… Continue reading
Facebook’s Redesigned Page Creation Flow Helps Admins Choose a Category
Facebook has redesigned its Page creation flow to be more intuitive and user friendly. The different Page types are represented with images that when clicked reveal fields for required information and a drop-down menu of specific Page categories.
The redesign should reduce the likelihood of new admins miscategorizing their Pages — a costly mistake that confuses potential fans and can’t be undone without deleting the Page. Below we include a guide for admins with tips on selecting a category.
The old design lumped all Pages into either local business; brand product or organization; artist, band or public figure; or community. The new “Create a Page” breaks Pages up into the following types:
Local business or place of interest: Things with a physical… Continue reading
Platform Update: Developers Site Reorganization, Deprecations Reminder
Facebook announced it the Friday Platform update announced that it has reorganized the Developers site to make information easier to find. It has also posted a final reminder about January 31st being the termination date of several features and APIs.
The Developers site was previously divided into different sections that required multiple clicks to navigate between. The new version is more like a dashboard, with a sidebar of unfolding navigation links for faster browsing.
All Documentation pages now show navigation links to:
Getting Started: Introductions to what can built on the Facebook canvas, Platform, and Open Graph
Core Concepts: Explanations and code for Social Plugins and central features like the news feed and authorization
Advanced Topics: Instructions for how to use Facebook’s more complex APIs… Continue reading
Facebook Confirms Removal of Suggest to Friends Feature from Pages, Reducing Virality
Facebook removed the Suggest to Friends link from Pages last week when a bug caused the feature to load incorrectly. However, an article in the Help Center confirms that the option will not be returned to users, and that they should now use the Share button to ask Friends to Like a Page. The closing of this viral channel should reduce Page suggestion spam, but may also stunt the growth of Pages unless they pay for more ads.
Suggest to Friends was originally implemented in March 2009 to help admins grow their Pages, which had launched the month before. Admins would often use the About box located beneath the link to encourage users to invite friends. Users were limited to… Continue reading
ISA 2011: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor on The 2011 Facebook Platform Roadmap [Video]
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor joined us at our conference Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 to shed light on how Facebook is thinking about the core questions facing the future of the Platform. The full video of the discussion is available below. Highlights include his discussion of Facebook’s plans for mobile, its focus on HTML5, and its efforts to combat spam and improve the platform.
The Facebook Platform is just three and a half years old, but has been widely adopted by web application developers, mobile app developers, and web publishers around the world.
Past changes to the Platform have exerted significant impacts on the developer ecosystem. This year, between mobile, Credits, the Open Graph, Instant Personalization, and updates to communication channels, developers… Continue reading
Dating and Pictures Appear on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
The latest dating app is on the rise on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users. Social Connect leads it off with over 600,000 new MAU:
1.
Social Connect
901,832
+603,092
+202%
2.
Profile Banner
816,826
+479,775
+142%
3.
Draw My Thing
505,457
+386,896
+326%
4.
Birthdays Reminder
441,461
+329,912
+296%
5.
鋤大地(大老二)
695,147
+297,347
+75%
6.
Dog Show Friends
312,317
+249,135
+394%
7.
Facebook Live
953,690
+195,963
+26%
8.
Pizza World
370,107
+191,100
+107%
9.
The Pokerist club — Texas Poker
526,701
+171,481
+48%
10.
朋å‹å¤§é…å°
576,508
+171,213
+42%
11.
Contests
984,551
+169,903
+21%
12.
Bandsintown
547,866
+166,652
+44%
13.
Günlük Burç Yorumları
439,903
+166,179
+61%
14.
Cooking Mama
452,941
+157,103
+53%
15.
We’re Related
775,427
+148,878
+24%
16.
PicBadges
905,036
+140,806
+18%
17.
Photo Sticker
631,824
+134,574
+27%
18.
Social Empires
297,575
+130,854
+78%
19.
SpeedDate
717,402
+128,633
+22%
20.
Funmoods
492,704
+124,953
+34%
Made by VisionSync, Social Connect is a little different from… Continue reading
Facebook Ups Application Security with Roles, Whitelists, and Notifications
Facebook today introduced new security features and a roles system to help developers prevent unauthorized changes to their applications. Developers can set up IP address whitelists for making requests or setting changes to their apps, receive email notifications of changes, and establish which privileges each of their team members has.
The application security announcement follows yesterday’s revamp of user security. As applications can touch tens of millions of users, preventing their control from falling into the wrong hands is essential to making users feel comfortable trying new apps as well as attracting developers to the Platform.
Application Roles
Developers can now access a Manage Users section in the About tab of the Developer application. It can help them minimize the impact of having a… Continue reading
Framerate Fest: a Microsoft HTML5 art gallery
Ever since Internet Explorer 9′s unveil late last year, Microsoft has been touting the HTML5 flag high and proud with its industry-leading GPU acceleration feature (which to this day is yet to be matched by any other browser in development).
The latest demonstration of its prowess is a competition by Microsoft Netherland for web designers to showcase their HTML5 masterpieces in just a frame of 300 pixels squared, thus the name Framerate Fest.
Since the website just launched days ago there are currently only 8 submissions showcased. At the time of writing the most voted for is a dynamically generated and playable “Amazing maze“, and my personal favorite is an interactive bacteria-like visualizer “Pixel
ChevronWP7: All I got was this lousy shirt
In our first meeting with Brandon Watson and members of the Windows Phone 7 team about homebrew on the WP7 platform on-campus at Redmond, we received a “I was the first to jailbreak Windows Phone 7, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” Our meeting is now complete. Just kidding.
Microsoft kicks off “Be what’s next” tagline with Golden Globes TV ads
Microsoft has began promoting its new “Be what’s next” tagline with a duo of TV ads scheduled to air during the 68th Golden Globes awards presentation on January 16. This will be the first time Microsoft promote it to the public since its trademark late last year.
To fit in with the theme of the event Microsoft is sponsoring, the two ads – one briefly mentioning Windows Phone 7 and the other Bing, shows off a number of aspiring actors hoping to make a name for themselves. The text “You don’t know them. But you will” appears before the voiceover “Windows Phone pre-congratulates the Golden Globe winners of tomorrow” is heard.
Although the ads are motivating, especially to screen actors… Continue reading
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