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<title>Google Reigns as World&#x27;s Most Powerful 10-Year-Old</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc., the internet powerhouse was little more than a pipe dream. But, today, Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Safe and Sexy: Motorcycle Helmets With Bluetooth, MP3 Players, and GPS</title>
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Riding a motorcycle while talking on the phone is just plain dumb. But if you really must take that call, Mr. President, please consider a Bluetooth helmet. Some connected headgear can even tie in to your GPS and MP3 player, pausing tunes for directions on long trips. Might we suggest "Freebird"? 


Nolan N102 N-Com

$740


Every new N102 works with Nolan's N-Com connection kits, so if you're not ready to ride into debt, you can get the base helmet for $350 and add Bluetooth when the next paycheck rolls through town. Modular models like this &mdash; where the entire front flips up to expose your face &mdash; are in vogue only with the AARP set, but as the demographic profile of the classic Cadillac owner proves, old men know how to live it up: This incredibly nerdy brain bucket is also incredibly comfortable and incredibly capable.

Wired: More hookups than JDate: Bluetooth, intercom, even a 3.5-mm jack for your iPod. Quick-release chin strap is mega-convenient. Flip-front easily accommodates bifocals. Volume control. Tough paint hides scratches well. Can I get this Geordi La Forge-style flip-down sunshade installed on my skull?

Tired: Noisy, but all modulars are. Microphone boom requires constant relocation when taking the helmet on and off &mdash; and apparently makes you sound like you're trying to eat it. Can't we get some Bluetooth stereo? Fulfills its destiny as the Winnebago of the helmet world by being one of the largest headpieces on the road.






	
		
		Garmin Zumo 550
		
		$964, garmin.com
		
		
		The fullest-featured, most motocentric GPS on the market, the Zumo 550 can do it all: MP3 player, Bluetooth integration with your cell phone, traffic monitoring (optional), satellite radio (optional), and many other functions to explore before you hit the road. It's also water-resistant, so if you're brave enough to ride in a deluge, your GPS will be there to guide you, turn by slippery turn.
		
		Wired: Left-hand-mounted hard buttons give quick access to zoom, volume, and ... uh ... "square"? (It's the compass.) More mounting options than a [bleeep!]: brackets for your car and bike, plus the wiring for both.
		
		Tired: Text-entry screen is alphabetical instead of QWERTY, which is just A-B-C-Dumb. Battery life tops out at about two hours. Optional features can rack up quite a bill &mdash; and the Zumo is already expensive.
		
	
	
		
	



Dainese Airstream Course D-Nect

$599, dainese.com

The Airstream Course is Dainese's premier skull shield, sharing its shell with the models pro racers use; the D-Nect version adds Bluetooth. Despite it having fewer connectivity options than the Nolan, we found ourselves grabbing the Airstream more often. Why? It's simply better at its primary job: motorcycle helmet. It's lightweight, comfortable, and quiet. No, it won't jack into your MP3 player, and yes, the interface is maddening &mdash; but after a few hours in this composite sanctuary, we really didn't feel the need to call anyone to complain.

Wired: Gorgeous lines draw more compliments than a playoff ring. Outstanding ventilation and polystyrene foam liner keep your head cool &mdash; until someone cuts you off. Top-mounted spoiler stabilizes your noggin at speed. 1-900 operators reported excellent sound quality. Rear reflective patch makes up for the too-stealthy matte paint job.

Tired: Limited techno-functions: All it does is pair with your cell phone or GPS. One-button interface responds only to Dainese's Morse Code-ish tap-language. Available in any color you like, so long as it's black. 



    
    
    
    
      
  
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<title>Mashup DJ Girl Talk Deconstructs Samples From &#x3C;cite&#x3E;Feed the Animals&#x3C;/cite&#x3E;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh-based computer maestro Girl Talk (aka, Gregg Gillis) turns the cut-and-paste process of mashups into a jams-packed jigsaw puzzle. His latest release samples 300 songs.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Gallery: Cosmic Motors From Another Galaxy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[: Image: Daniel SimonDaniel Simon is an automotive futurist. He's interned with Lamborghini and worked on concept cars for VW. But the auto industry -- indeed, the galaxy -- could not contain his imagination.

In a time of all talk and no action by car companies promising us the car of the future, Simon's new book Cosmic Motors: Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy satisfies our future-lust with hyper-real fetish vehicles.


Most artist renderings of futuristic vehicles are so outlandish they verge on cartoonish. Simon avoids that trap by incorporating automotive and industrial touchstones -- steering wheels, rivets, turbines -- everyone can recognize. It feels like you could reach out and touch them.


Click through the gallery to check out these amazing vehicles and the stories behind them.


Left: Simon hasn't just created cool vehicles, he's created an elaborate back story for them. Most are built by Cosmic Motors, which could be called the General Motors of Nembi, a planet in the distant galaxy Galaxion.


The Camarudo is CoMo's first vehicle, built from parts salvaged from wrecked cargo ships. Its small size and nimble handling made it the perfect vehicle for hunting, and CoMo adapted them to racing. Many famous pilots started their careers flying them on Oosfera.

: Image: Daniel Simon"A 'real' futuristic ship does not need anything but a seat and a plug," says Simon, who worked in the auto industry before launching Daniel Simon Studios two years ago. "The pilot steers via mind and feels the input via brain injections. Design-wise, that's dead boring. Without all these real-world details, my fantasy vehicles would be less desirable because they're less recognizable."


Left: Here's a different Camarudo, shot from above. The first Camarudos were assembled by farmers, a heritage reflected in its simple design. A turbine provides thrust, and forward visibility is by means of a virtual 3-D display, rendering a windscreen unnecessary. Despite its humble beginnings, Camarudos often are customized to reflect the personalities of its pilots. 

: Image: Daniel SimonSimon, now 33 and living in Germany, is a lifelong gearhead who's been drawing since he was 4. He got serious about it when he was 17 and earned a degree in transportation design from the University of Applied Science in Pforzheim. He kicked around the auto industry for six years before launching his own design studio because, "I have to experience much more than car design." Working in the auto industry "is a boy's dream come true," he says, "but there is much other cool stuff, like jets, rockets, boats or movies." He's done some consulting and design work and he's currently in Los Angeles working on an undisclosed movie.


Left: The Detonator was a styling exercise never meant for production, but it proved so popular at CoMo's annual party that the brass approved a limited run of 10. Each has a 6-liter V8 engine good for 155 mph. Most are owned by collectors who display them on the show-car circuit, but the fate of No. 5 remains a mystery after it vanished without a trace. 

: Image: Daniel Simon
The 700-foot-long Incisalis is the centerpiece of the Djado fleet that carries the princess of Pangha-Ipoh, a desert planet of simple technology. The Incisalis travels with an identical decoy ship and is always accompanied by a fleet of smaller, lighter-than-air ships and ground caravans that carry servants, cooks, mechanics and others in service of the princess.

: Image: Daniel SimonThis drop-dead gorgeous coupe is the Galaxion 5000, the most technologically advanced vehicle in the CoMo lineup. A xenoramium fusion reactor provides blinding acceleration to 330 mph. Available only in translucent white, unauthorized "Black Edition" models with mile-deep black paint and extensive weaponry have surfaced in the underworld of Tarra 1.

: Image: Daniel SimonThe Gravion was built to dominate the Gravion Cup races of Glancory. The asymmetrical design accommodates the massive engine used in the Sexy Magrela aerial racers, creating a vehicle capable of 1,300 mph. Taking turns at that speed generates huge G-forces, so the off-center cockpit rotates to keep the driver from snapping his neck. Heated coils in the rear tires keep the rubber hot for optimal adhesion. 

: Image: Daniel SimonPatrolling the trade routes of the ice planet Nala is nasty work best done in an Ice Train Series 3. The huge vehicles -- the entry door is 24 feet above the ground -- feature giant heated wheels that cut through the ice and snow to solid ground. Much of the space inside the vehicle is reserved for the massive turbine engines, leaving just enough room for the captain, the navigator and a crew of 12 dwarfs. 

: Image: Daniel SimonThe ultra-luxurious Nembiquarer started out as a military vehicle developed by CoMo's main competitor, Astrocon, but the project was abandoned when peace came to Tarra III. CoMo bought the blueprints and created a go-anywhere, do-anything vehicle favored by the obscenely wealthy. Two versions of the 45-foot-long truck compete in the Trans Terra Rally.

: Image: Daniel SimonThe Sexy Magarella is an aerial racer based on Astrocon's Railton Bomber military ship. The powerful bombers are popular among racers who strip them down and trick them out for the daring -- and dangerous -- Railton Cup races on Oosfera. This particular model is flown by Roketa Fleetza and Lagata Donner, the daughters of CoMo founder Osni Redooa and two of the cup's most-successful pilots.

: Image: Daniel SimonOf all the planets of Galaxion, only Mujofa remains wracked by war. Taooa are powerful laser gunships that feature two 505-mm light rays capable of destroying anything that might give it trouble. The warships often sport nosecone art similar to those that graced warplanes on a distant planet called Earth. 
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Jobs E-Mails: Are They Real?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A close look at e-mails supposedly sent by Steve Jobs to customers shows inconsistencies that make it likely that some are fakes.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Meet the Latest Copyright Scofflaw -- the GOP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the Republican Party seeks to control the Oval Office, it has become a copyright scofflaw along the way. On Friday, the publishers for the Seattle rock "Heart" sent the party a cease-and-desist order to stop it from using the band's hit song "Baracuda," which was blaring at the Republican National Convention late Thursday. That marks the third time in as many months the GOP has been accused of hijacking intellectual property.
    
    
    
    
      
  
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<title>Teach Your Kids the Basics of Hydro Power By Building a Waterwheel</title>
<link>http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/384569252/Build_a_Plastic_Cup_Waterwheel</link>
<description><![CDATA[Water wheels have been powering factories and mills for centuries, and now
they can power your kids' weekend activities. Follow our guide to build a
water wheel out of cups and picnic plates. It's a simple enough project for
kids of all ages; more ambitious minds can modify the design to generate
electricity or power more complex machines.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Weekend of Web Apps, Tech Talks Awaits at DjangoCon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The open source Django web framework gets its very own coming out party this
weekend at the first-ever DjangoCon. More than 200 web developers will converge
on Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Saturday and Sunday to mingle and discuss the future of the fast, flexible web app framework with the funny
name.
    
    
    
    
  

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First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article, "crowdsourcing" describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. 



Howe reveals that the crowd is more than wise -- it's talented, creative and stunningly productive. Crowdsourcing activates the transformative power of today's technology, liberating the latent potential within us all. It's a perfect meritocracy, where age, gender, race, education and job history no longer matter, where the quality of work is all that counts and every field is open to people of every imaginable background. If you can perform the service, design the product or solve the problem, you've got the job. But crowdsourcing has also triggered a dramatic shift in the way work is organized, talent employed, research conducted and products made and marketed. As the crowd comes to supplant traditional forms of labor, pain and disruption are inevitable. 



When the original article was published, crowdsourcing still constituted a nascent business model. A few small companies had achieved limited successes with it, and large companies had only begun to test the waters. In this excerpt, Howe argues that in just two years crowdsourcing has revolutionized an entire industry -- stock photography -- and may well be poised to create disruption in other fields as well. 



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Adapted from Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, by Jeff Howe.



More at Howe's Crowdsourcing Blog.





Chapter 7: The Canary in the Coal Mine



There's a story people like to tell about Bruce Livingstone. In late 2005, Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, was looking to acquire Livingstone's company, iStockphoto, the world's most successful crowdsourcing company. Long before the contracts were drawn up, Livingstone, to show his commitment to the deal, tattooed the word "Getty" in cursive across the tender flesh on his inner wrist. Then he e-mailed Getty CEO Jonathan Klein photos of the tattoo under the message: "Don't make me write another word after this!" It's just the kind of tale -- emblematic of determination and just the right amount of quirky eccentricity -- that tends to burnish the reputation of its subject. In Livingstone's case, it has the added benefit of being demonstrably true.  



With his penchant for muscle cars, rockabilly haircuts and, yes, tattoos, it's tempting to call Livingstone an unlikely CEO. But I prefer to think of Livingstone as a perfectly reasonable chief for some corporation from, say, the year 2020. A company not unlike iStockphoto. Located in a single, cavernous room inside a former factory in downtown Calgary (Alberta, Canada), iStockphoto houses a tiny fraction of its actual workforce. And Livingstone, dressed in T-shirt and jeans, occupies a desk -- chosen, it would seem, at random -- in the middle of the floor. The corner office clearly loses significance in a company that thrives on decentralization.  






 

 Jeff Howe explains crowdsourcing, which activates the transformative power of today's technology, liberating the latent potential within us all.

 Video: Courtesy of Jeff Howe

  




Westeel Rosco built the factory in 1925 to manufacture nails, screws and other bits of hardware. Unlike Westeel Rosco, iStock's products -- stock photos, illustrations and videos -- aren't manufactured on-site. They're created by a global, fluid workforce of 60,000 part-time photographers and artists, only a fraction of whom make a living from the work they sell on iStock. Yet they have a devotion to the company matched by few traditional firms. The full-time staffers who spend their days in the old Westeel Rosco plant play a support role for the community -- and community is the only applicable word -- that is making the product iStock brings to market every day. And that community has been very, very good to Livingstone and his investors. In the course of several years iStock has grown from a hobby to the third-largest purveyor of stock images in the world. When Getty purchased iStock in early 2006, Livingstone took home more than half of the $50 million Getty paid for the company.



The first stock photo agency was founded in 1920, and for most of the 20th century the industry was an afterthought, trafficking in the outtakes from commercial magazine assignments. Very few photographers tried to make a living off the market in preexisting images alone. This changed after the desktop publishing revolution of the mid-1980s led to a rapid growth in the publishing industry, and to a commensurate demand for images. Suddenly photographers were making six figures a year selling photos they'd already been paid to shoot. It was like minting money. Stock photography is, in relative terms, a tiny industry. The annual global gross for the entire business is estimated to be around $2 billion, which makes it a bit bigger than the market for gift baskets, but a little smaller than the annual sales of orchids.  But this little industry has undergone big changes, and could well be a case study in how the crowd will impact much larger businesses. 



In just the last few years the influx of talented amateurs armed with inexpensive, high-resolution digital cameras has upended the economics of stock photography. Five years ago, a professional-quality image was still a scarce resource. No more. This isn't to say the market for high-end photographs has disappeared. A gifted photographer will always find work. But the professional no longer has a lock on the middle and lower ends of the stock photo business. With a modicum of training, just about anyone can take a decent shot. Sophisticated cameras and photo-editing software do the rest. iStock exploits this fact. Design firms and other small companies working on a budget quickly embraced what became known as the "microstock" model. One graphic designer told me he went from paying hundreds of dollars an image to less than $10. "I pass on some of the savings to my clients and keep the rest. We're both delighted."  



iStock might be great for buyers, but it's caused all sorts of headaches for professional stock photographers. In my original Wired article about crowdsourcing I quoted a Los Angeles-based photographer, Mark Harmel, saying that this influx of cheap images had caused a slight decline in his income from stock photo sales, which had dropped to $60,000. But in the two years since that decline has fallen off a cliff, to $35,000 in 2007. "If I look at the trend line, it just keeps going down. I'm really concentrating on getting assignments now," says Harmel. "I recently came back from London with 70 really wonderful shots. I'll probably use them on my website, but it's not worth my time to bother submitting them to a stock agency. They won't sell." 



Harmel's far from alone. In fact, Getty's other businesses have struggled in the crowdsourced era. In the year I spent writing this book the company's stock slid 60 percent, falling to just under $22 by February 2008. That month Getty was acquired by the private equity firm Hellman Friedman for $2.4 billion, a considerably lower figure than the company had originally sought. According to a report released at the time of the sale, Goldman Sachs estimates that Getty's core business -- the sale of rights-managed, professionally produced images -- will continue to suffer an irreversible decline, falling to just 29 percent of its revenues by 2012. In the same period the investment bank projects iStock to continue its rapid rate of growth. iStock sold $72 million worth of images in 2007, a figure expected to jump to $262 million by 2012. 



In this light, paying $50 million for a crowdsourced photo company looks like the smartest decision Getty ever made. The company is in the midst of transforming its business, from one reliant exclusively on professionals to one that is at least equally reliant on amateurs. As the Goliath of the industry, where Getty goes its competitors are sure to follow, which is to say, stock photography itself has been utterly transformed through crowdsourcing, in which a once-scarce commodity has become abundant. The question to ask is whether the upheaval roiling stock photography is only a leading indicator, like the minor volcanic eruptions that can precede a catastrophic earthquake.



Already the trend is migrating to other fields. Most immediately, the same dynamics that made the stock photo ubiquitous -- affordable digital SLR cameras and burgeoning communities of enthusiastic amateurs -- are affecting other markets for visual images. So-called "citizen paparazzi" use cellphone cameras to snap impromptu shots of stars and then sell them to new photo agencies such as Scoopt, which specialize in buying up and marketing their work. Amateurs can beat professional paparazzi for the simple reason that they vastly outnumber them. It's a question of probability: The throng of pedestrians in Greenwich Village, for instance, have a much better chance of catching an unkempt Gwyneth Paltrow than a single paparazzo. 



And photography may well be just the beginning. iStock itself is doing a burgeoning business in the sale of stock video footage, and the crowd is also making commercials, collaborating on TV scripts, and recording and distributing their own music. They're writing political analysis, creating their own video games, and making feature-length movies. For the time being, all this activity has taken place in something of a parallel universe, without causing any of the economic upheaval visited on the stock photo or pornography industries. But those universes are beginning to collide as more companies attempt to package all this outpouring of creativity into a marketable product. 



While crowdsourcing has already emerged as a potent force in the media and entertainment industries, it's also profoundly influenced the way even Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble do business. Once famous for its insular culture, Procter & Gamble now crowdsources much of its R&D process, using global networks of scientists such as InnoCentive and NineSigma, which boast a combined membership of 2 million professional and amateur researchers. Even companies operating in a conventional field such as mining have found crowdsourcing applications. The Canadian gold-mining group Goldcorp put geological survey data online and offered a $575,000 prize to anyone who could identify likely areas for exploration. Goldcorp says the contest produced 110 targets that yielded $3 billion in gold. Following its lead, the mining giant Barrick Gold Corporation recently offered $10 million to anyone who could improve its silver-extraction process. The open call of crowdsourcing is also being used by companies such as Google (to develop applications for its Android mobile platform) and Netflix (to improve its recommendation system). The question is whether the iStock secret sauce can be applied to industries like television and journalism and, possibly, even beyond to any business that traffics in bits and bytes. To answer that question, it helps to know what's in the secret sauce. 

 

The Community Is the Company  



iStock has been compared to a cult, and the analogy isn't entirely unfair. It's no accident that the most successful companies in the web's second coming -- most of whom traffic in the crowd's creative output -- are led by outsize personalities. "Bruce is to iStock what Tom is to MySpace," notes Garth Johnson, iStock's VP of Business Development. (Johnson resigned his position after this book went to press.) For those readers over the age of 30, Tom is Tom Anderson, the president of the social networking behemoth MySpace and the first "friend" to greet any new user. Under this new archetype of a company -- in which the community, as much as the customer, comes first -- the cult of personality plays a crucial role in community building, and Livingstone has been as essential to the growth of the iStock community as Anderson has been to MySpace's. "Bruce has a really strong, extremely charismatic personality online," says Johnson. "And that's really helped us build the community."  



It's safe to say that iStock has left the community-building phase behind: Sixty-thousand people have combined to create an enormous portfolio of over 3.5 million images and 100,000 videos. By contrast, Getty's other divisions combined only use 2,500 photographers. The iStockers offer the company their artwork, and in return iStock goes to extraordinary lengths to keep the iStockers happy. The site offers the budding photographer all manner of free tutorials, and the forums buzz -- at a rate of 38 posts per minute -- with questions about lens sizes, polarized filters and F-stop settings. iStock doesn't offer a chance to get rich. It offers the chance to make friends and become a better photographer.  



"We don't own anything, the community does" says Johnson. "Everything we do affects these people, whether they're just earning enough to pay for their equipment, or they're making mortgage payments from their photo sales. They all want a voice, and we have to give it to them, because really, the community is the company."  



The upside to this state of affairs should be obvious -- a dedicated, efficient workforce with no expectation of receiving a living wage -- but there are downsides as well: Even the smallest changes can roil the fickle, passionate community of iStockers. In March 2006, iStock launched a new feature on its web forums, a "forometer" which measured an iStocker's popularity through "bafflingly complex scientific methods" including the date and number of posts to the forum. The forometer displayed its results through a set of red, yellow or green bars. It did not go over well. The community questioned the principles behind the feature, as well as its functionality. Not long after its launch, the feature had been removed. Employees may be hell on overhead, but they're paid to accept all but the most draconian policies with a polite nod. Communities, on the other hand, aren't paid to stick around, and nothing stops them from selling their photos to one of iStock's many competitors. "They don't work for us," Livingstone laughs. "We work for them." If the iStocker feels a sense of ownership over the site, that's understandable: The iStock community predates iStock the company.  



Livingstone didn't set out to revolutionize an industry, he just wanted to fill a personal need and help a few friends at the same time. In 2000 Livingstone was running a small graphic design and web-hosting firm in Calgary. Bruce is an avid photographer himself, and over the years he had developed an extensive network of photographers and designers. Early in the year he took 2,000 of his images and put them online. Anyone could download his photos in exchange for giving him an e-mail address. Livingstone's friends decided they wanted to share their images with the public, too. That June the budding community instituted a credit system: A user could download one image for every image of theirs that had been downloaded by someone else.  



It was a classic example of the gift economy, the non-monetary exchange that grew up alongside the internet. During iStock's early years, everyone took something and gave something in turn. "The feeders and the eaters were the same people," as Livingstone puts it. Everyone profited by acquiring new images, though no one made (or spent) a dime. Soon friends of friends heard about Bruce's nifty idea and started uploading their images, too. Then around 2002 a wider public got wind of iStock, and the site began to hit critical mass. Soon Livingstone was paying $10,000 a month for the bandwidth to support it. He could have taken advertising to cover the cost of hosting, but he felt that would violate the spirit of the site. "The focus was on the community, and good design. Advertising would have cluttered the site," says Livingstone.  



Instead, he started charging a quarter for each image, and he opened the system up to the public. This proved to be a momentous decision. Word quickly spread among publishers that there was a site offering cheap, usable images, and photographers began flocking to iStock to upload their portfolios. Traffic to the site skyrocketed, and soon Livingstone raised the price to $1 per image. "I thought it might become a sideline business," he says. It quickly became much more than that. The quality of the images wasn't always as high (or as consistent) as a traditional stock agency's, but the differences were indiscernible to the general consumer, and after all, you couldn't beat the price. By 2004 a host of other so-called "micro-stocks" had sprung up with strategies similar to iStock's. The professionals panicked. Microstock photos, they charged, were flooding the market with subpar images. At first, the industry aligned itself against iStockphoto and other microstock agencies such as ShutterStock and Dreamstime. 



Then in early 2006, Getty announced it would buy iStockphoto for $50 million. "If someone's going to cannibalize your business, better it be one of your other businesses," Getty CEO Jonathan Klein told me shortly after the sale. Smaller magazines, nonprofit organizations, and all manner of websites have continued to flock to iStock's high-volume, low-cost model. As of February 2008, iStockphoto had 2 million regular customers purchasing photographs, video footage, illustrations and animations. "Bruce's brilliance," Jonathan Klein once told me, "is that he turned community into commerce." Livingstone uses a slightly different formulation: "I turned commerce into community," 



iStockphoto has perfected the Jedi Mind Trick that's at the heart of crowdsourcing. It's an incredibly cost-effective strategy -- iStock boasts a 55 percent profit margin. And yet, Livingstone stumbled into this business model by creating a context -- a community of like-minded enthusiasts -- in which financial measures take a backseat to considerably less tangible concerns. Ask someone in the office, and they'll tell you: It's not about the money. Ask an iStocker and they'll tell you the same thing. In fact -- would-be crowdsources take note: If it is about the money, it won't work. It will fizzle, not sizzle, as one of iStock's designers put it. "What's funny is, the money people, they pretty quickly get pulled aside in the forums by the core people. Or they just don't have a voice. People will ignore them, like 'Oh, that's just so and so, they're just here to make money.'"  



That doesn't mean the iStockers are unmotivated by self-interest. The more a photographer's images are downloaded, the more recognition they receive in the community, and the more credits they earn to download other people's photos to use in their own designs. And the additional income is also welcome, of course. Unlike other cases in which large corporations have attempted to monetize community, iStock does reward its contributors. It paid out $21 million in 2007. It's significant that people in online communities like iStock's react with great hostility to the idea that crowdsourcing is a form of cheap labor -- despite the fact it demonstrably is. After all, no one wants to feel exploited. In the end, what iStock provides is an invaluable if impossible-to-measure currency: meaning. The crowd will give away their time -- their excess capacity -- enthusiastically, but not for free. It has to be a meaningful exchange.

    
    
    
    
      
  
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Love 'em to death, but here's the thing to remember about Google: Your business is its business. 

Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a touch nervous about installing Chrome, its new browser software.

Of course, Google already collects mountains of information about you from your searches (you do realize they keep track of those, right?), and from the huge cookie collection delivered fresh daily by their ad bakery (the cookie gathers information from all Google products and affiliates -- and doesn't expire until 2038). Gmail users may also have long ago realized they were conceding privacy for convenience and bells and whistles.

Indeed, Google has far more and better data about your habits than the relatively modest amounts that set of privacy firestorms for AOL and DoubleClick (which Google now owns) back in the day. But so far, with Google, it's been like successfully boiling a frog: the temperature has gone up very slowly, so nobody's jumped out of the pot just yet.

Perhaps that's because Google offers so many wonderful services. Who wants to head out without checking the traffic with Google Maps (oops, more footprints)? Or plan an event without checking everybody's calendar (oy...)?

At first glance, Chrome seems just another browser -- and between us, who cares? IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome -- one has more cup-holders, another has leather trim. So is the idea really just to take a piece of the "browser business," as many say? I doubt it, largely because there isn't one: Nobody's paid for browser software since about 1998. Firefox, remember, is the product of a nonprofit -- one that, interestingly, has been heavily funded by Google, for reasons previously unknown.

At first, Google's goal will be to change the software game and speed your transition from a desktop-driven environment to its "cloud computing" applications: word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Google hopes that soon, you'll create these documents on one computer, leave them on their servers in the sky, and then continue working on them later from any other computer. Natch, you'll collaborate, share and deliver the docs this way, too. And Chrome will be the interface for it all, on top of serving more mundane web surfing functions.

And all the while, Google will be doing the usual, capturing your data, your documents, your habits.

And, how will they use all this information? To do what they do: deliver ever more precisely targeted ads, with concomitant higher response rates, and thus generate more dollars. Maybe we'll see "This cell sponsored by Fidelity" in our spreadsheets soon.

Sure, other companies are in position to track your data, too. The difference is that, for the most part, their business models don't require them to exploit that knowledge. And certainly nobody has the reach that Google has and will have -- especially after they eliminate your last ability to hide with the G-phone this fall.

Now we know Big Brother's real name, do we care? Free software and services are great, and I'd rather see relevant ads than irrelevant ones. But make no mistake: this lunch, too, has a real cost. It's called privacy.

So that's the question consumers have to answer: Is it worth it? If they genuinely don't care about one company controlling a complete catalog of their surfing and working, talking and texting, and meetings and greetings, fine. For me, I think I'd rather pay cash and avoid a virtual peeping Tom who only makes money if he predicts my private behavior well. But, then, I admit it: I'm so 2005.

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The automobile was yet to be invented, and gasoline was a byproduct of refining kerosene for stoves and lamps. Some of that equipment could use gasoline, but it wasn't much in demand.



You bought fuel in a general, hardware or grocery store. You had to bring your own gallon (or whatever) can, and the storekeeper would ladle the flammable fluid from a barrel. Wasteful. Messy. Dangerous.



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The self-contained unit included a wooden storage barrel, marble valves, a wooden plunger, a hand lever and an upright faucet lever. It was a success. Bowser formed the S.F. Bowser Company and patented his pump in 1887.



The Bowser pump soon became known as a "filling station," and Bowser started selling an improved model to the first automobile-repair garages in 1893. 



Most places that sold fuel to motorists used the "drum and measure" method. Gasoline was gravity-fed from a large steel drum into a five-gallon measuring can. The motorist then carried the can over to his automobile and poured the fuel into the car's tank through a funnel that was lined with a chamois filter to remove grit and impurities. A big bother all around, and not awfully safe, either.



Bowser came up with a big improvement in 1905: He enclosed a square, metal tank in a wooden cabinet equipped with a forced-suction pump. A hand-stroke lever pumped the gas. This pump featured air vents for safety, stops that you could set to deliver a predetermined quantity and -- wonder of wonders -- a hose to dispense the gasoline directly into the vehicle's fuel tank. He called it the Bowser Self-Measuring Gasoline Storage Pump. (Rival John J. Tokheim of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had fitted a pump with a direct-delivery hose in 1903.)



The word bowser soon became a generic term for a vertical gasoline pump. That usage has dropped away in the United States, but lingers in Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Canada. A bowser is also a tank truck that delivers fuel to airplanes on the tarmac, and in Britain the term applies as well to self-propelled tanks carrying any fluid that is delivered directly to the end user -- for instance, water after a disaster. 



Bowser's later career was quirky and litigious. He invented and personally marketed a backscratcher and a sit-down enema. He also sold postcards of himself next to the "Stone of Scone," part of the coronation throne on which British monarchs sit while being crowned in Westminster Abbey.

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<description><![CDATA[: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to detect disease and purify water using tiny stills.

The creation of the still around A.D. 500 was one of humanity's earliest, and still quite popular, technological advancements. Traditionally, a still boils liquids in order to vaporize and separate them. Now, using nanoparticles and lasers, liquids no longer need to be boiled to be separated.

Removing the heat requirement from distillation means the process could be used to separate living cells without killing them, which could lead to advanced disease detection. Other applications include extracting water cheaply and efficiently from sea water in low-energy saltwater distillation plants.  

How do they do it? Take a tour through professor David Boyd's lab and go behind the scenes of this revolutionary process.

Left: A green laser evaporates the water from a liquid. This is the final stage of nano distillation. 
: Here is a diagram of the basic nano still technique. At top is the initial setup with gold nanoparticles sitting on top of a glass slide. The fluid waiting to be distilled is enclosed from above by a silicone rubber chip.

In the bottom diagram, a green laser operating near the resonant frequency of the gold particles is applied. The laser heats the gold nanoparticles, which then transfer the heat to the surrounding fluid. This small amount of heat is just enough to cause controlled evaporation over the gas bubble barrier, leaving pure water on the right-hand side of the diagram.

Click through to the next photo to take a closer look at each of these steps.

Illustration: Chemical Separations by Bubble Assisted Interphase Mass-Transfer, David A. Boyd, James Adelman, David Goodwin, and Demetri Psaltis: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis spin coater is used to spread out the thin layer of gold nanoparticles on the glass slide. A drop of the gold solution is placed on the slide and the coater spins extremely fast. This spinning spreads the solution evenly and coats the slide with a nearly uniform 15-nanometer layer of gold.  

To get a controlled spacing of particles there needs to be a structure in place to hold them. To achieve this, scientists add a polymer to the gold solution. This polymer forms a uniform lattice to structure all the gold. But observant readers will notice there was no polymer in the previous diagram. Where does it go? Click to the next photo to find out.
: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is an oxygen etcher. Once the glass slide is covered with the polymer-and-gold solution, this etcher burns off the polymer, leaving just the gold behind. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is a sample slide covered with a matrix of gold nanoparticles. The purple streaks on the slide are the nanoparticles, visibly spreading out from the initial drop applied to the slide during the spin coating. For those readers expecting the entire slide to be purple, scientists actually need only a small portion of the slide to be covered uniformly by the gold, so these streaks will suffice.  

The particles have a unique property of rapidly dissipating heat, which is a key factor in how the still works.
: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn another part of the lab, the piece of silicone rubber is made. If you think back to the second image in this gallery, you'll recall that the silicone rubber encloses the fluid between itself and the glass slide. This piece of silicone is called the microfluidic chip because of the fluid channels carved into it. 

The machine pictured at left is called a mask aligner. It creates a mold for the microfluidic chip. It does this by exposing an image (in this case, the shape and design of the chip) to a photosensitive material. The unexposed portion of the material is discarded, and the shape of the mold is all that's left. It's similar to a photo enlarger, but instead of a two-dimensional image, a fully formed nano structure is made. The final mold is then used to create fluid channels in a piece of silicone rubber. This silicone rubber ends up being the microfluidic chip.
: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comHere, the silicone rubber chip is drilled to create ports for the nano still. These ports will be used to inject solutions for distillation and to extract the distilled liquid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comTiny plugs of silicone are the doughnut holes of the micro-fabrication world. Sadly, these plugs will remain uneaten.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comAfter fabrication of the microfluidic chip, we're ready to put it all together. The chip is glued to the gold-coated slide that we made earlier (pictured at center-left inside petri dish).  Now we have a nano still, which has an electronic sensor attached for measuring the conductivity of the fluid.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comSometimes science is messy. This workbench is covered with a collection of syringes and gold nanoparticle-coated glass slides. The syringes are used to inject fluids through the ports into the channels in the still, which we'll see in the next photo.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comIn this photo, blue "Smurf blood" food-grade dye is injected into the nano still through a syringe. The dye makes it easy to see when the liquid has been distilled. The distilled water will be clear and the remaining water will become darker due to the higher concentration of dye.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comA low-powered green diode laser shines down into the still. The laser is roughly the same strength as an off-the-shelf laser pointer. Very little energy is needed in the microdistilling process thanks to the heat-dissipating properties of the gold nanoparticles.

Professor Boyd, the lead researcher on the project, reveals that this process was largely discovered by accident. "We had this problem with [an] air bubble, so we started hitting it with a laser. Instead of getting rid of it, we saw that we were actually causing the distillation process to occur, which was completely unexpected," Boyd explains.

    
    
    
    
      
  
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<link>http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-217501.html</link>
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             Intel CEO Justin Rattner teased his Intel Developer Forum audience with technology of the not-so-disant-future that could take an object design of any imaginable shape, 'hit the print command,' and see the matter take shape.  SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically...  
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                Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities            
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<description><![CDATA[
             According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak.    Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1772">
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                Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1772</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak.    Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1772">
<title>
            
                Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1772</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak.    Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716">
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                Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716">
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                Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716">
<title>
            
                Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2716</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545">
<title>
            
                Intel backs Microsoft&#x27;s concurrent-computing play            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation computing model. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545">
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                Intel backs Microsoft&#x27;s concurrent-computing play            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation computing model. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545">
<title>
            
                Intel backs Microsoft&#x27;s concurrent-computing play            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1545</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation computing model. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903">
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                10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I won't add much commentary to Tim's excellent post up on the Register because I work for Adobe and I don't want to get into a bunch of nonsensical arguments about Flash versus Silverlight. But I will say that Tim Anderson is one of the very few tech journalists who...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903">
<title>
            
                10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I won't add much commentary to Tim's excellent post up on the Register because I work for Adobe and I don't want to get into a bunch of nonsensical arguments about Flash versus Silverlight. But I will say that Tim Anderson is one of the very few tech journalists who...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903">
<title>
            
                10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=903</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I won't add much commentary to Tim's excellent post up on the Register because I work for Adobe and I don't want to get into a bunch of nonsensical arguments about Flash versus Silverlight. But I will say that Tim Anderson is one of the very few tech journalists who...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721">
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                Microsoft investigating NSlookup.exe flaw, reported attacks            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild.    According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721">
<title>
            
                Microsoft investigating NSlookup.exe flaw, reported attacks            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild.    According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721">
<title>
            
                Microsoft investigating NSlookup.exe flaw, reported attacks            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1721</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild.    According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629">
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                LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME LWUIT has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a library that helps content developers in creating rich and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components, theming, transitions, animation, and more. Sounds similar to JavaFX doesn't...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629">
<title>
            
                LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME LWUIT has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a library that helps content developers in creating rich and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components, theming, transitions, animation, and more. Sounds similar to JavaFX doesn't...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629">
<title>
            
                LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=629</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME LWUIT has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a library that helps content developers in creating rich and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components, theming, transitions, animation, and more. Sounds similar to JavaFX doesn't...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867">
<title>
            
                Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I've been investigating Apple Cocoa API as I plan to complement my Windows and UNIX development skills with skills in Mac development.  That doesn't mean I am willing to accept weak attacks what I consider to be a superior development platform:  .NET. by John Carroll  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867">
<title>
            
                Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I've been investigating Apple Cocoa API as I plan to complement my Windows and UNIX development skills with skills in Mac development.  That doesn't mean I am willing to accept weak attacks what I consider to be a superior development platform:  .NET. by John Carroll  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867">
<title>
            
                Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1867</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             I've been investigating Apple Cocoa API as I plan to complement my Windows and UNIX development skills with skills in Mac development.  That doesn't mean I am willing to accept weak attacks what I consider to be a superior development platform:  .NET. by John Carroll  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684">
<title>
            
                Google releases open-source crypto toolkit            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684</link>
<description><![CDATA[
              Google's security team has released an open-source cryptographic toolkit aimed at making it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications.    The toolkit, called KeyCzar, was originally developed by Steve Weis Google and Arkajit Dey MIT and is available under an Apache 2.0...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684">
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                Google releases open-source crypto toolkit            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684</link>
<description><![CDATA[
              Google's security team has released an open-source cryptographic toolkit aimed at making it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications.    The toolkit, called KeyCzar, was originally developed by Steve Weis Google and Arkajit Dey MIT and is available under an Apache 2.0...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684">
<title>
            
                Google releases open-source crypto toolkit            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1684</link>
<description><![CDATA[
              Google's security team has released an open-source cryptographic toolkit aimed at making it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications.    The toolkit, called KeyCzar, was originally developed by Steve Weis Google and Arkajit Dey MIT and is available under an Apache 2.0...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523">
<title>
            
                Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack SP 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. VS 2008 SP1 -- and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 -- include a boat-load of new features, too, by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523">
<title>
            
                Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack SP 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. VS 2008 SP1 -- and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 -- include a boat-load of new features, too, by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523">
<title>
            
                Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1523</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack SP 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. VS 2008 SP1 -- and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 -- include a boat-load of new features, too, by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214">
<title>
            
                Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 It's not often when a piece ofÂ  technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214">
<title>
            
                Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 It's not often when a piece ofÂ  technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214">
<title>
            
                Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9214</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 It's not often when a piece ofÂ  technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216">
<title>
            
                Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 Last week I took a peek at the unfortunately named Flypaper Pro, a product that allows the creation of high quality Flash content but without all the programming skills that are normally associated with this kind of thing. I say unfortunately named because for me, it...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216">
<title>
            
                Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 Last week I took a peek at the unfortunately named Flypaper Pro, a product that allows the creation of high quality Flash content but without all the programming skills that are normally associated with this kind of thing. I say unfortunately named because for me, it...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216">
<title>
            
                Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=216</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                 Last week I took a peek at the unfortunately named Flypaper Pro, a product that allows the creation of high quality Flash content but without all the programming skills that are normally associated with this kind of thing. I say unfortunately named because for me, it...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661">
<title>
            
                MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products.    Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.    The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661">
<title>
            
                MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products.    Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.    The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661">
<title>
            
                MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1661</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products.    Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.    The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209">
<title>
            
                Welcome Zack and other good stuff            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             We're beefing up resources by adding in Zack Whittaker as a contributor. For those that don't know, Zack is already contributing under the iGeneration banner. That makes him the perfect candidate for Alley. Tough, knowledgeable, a great communicator and a product of the computing generation, he's the go-to guy on...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209">
<title>
            
                Welcome Zack and other good stuff            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             We're beefing up resources by adding in Zack Whittaker as a contributor. For those that don't know, Zack is already contributing under the iGeneration banner. That makes him the perfect candidate for Alley. Tough, knowledgeable, a great communicator and a product of the computing generation, he's the go-to guy on...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209">
<title>
            
                Welcome Zack and other good stuff            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=209</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             We're beefing up resources by adding in Zack Whittaker as a contributor. For those that don't know, Zack is already contributing under the iGeneration banner. That makes him the perfect candidate for Alley. Tough, knowledgeable, a great communicator and a product of the computing generation, he's the go-to guy on...  
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<item rdf:about="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919">
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                The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying            
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<link>http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts.    Technology  First...  
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<item rdf:about="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919">
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                The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying            
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<link>http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts.    Technology  First...  
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<item rdf:about="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919">
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                The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying            
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<link>http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3919</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts.    Technology  First...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565">
<title>
            
                An apology to the Vietnam vets out there            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On July 18, I wrote a post on Microsoft's search ambitions and how it was an unwinnable war. I made the connection to Vietnam and offended more than a few fine folks that served in that war. I had no intention of doing that but screwed up the following ways:...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565">
<title>
            
                An apology to the Vietnam vets out there            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On July 18, I wrote a post on Microsoft's search ambitions and how it was an unwinnable war. I made the connection to Vietnam and offended more than a few fine folks that served in that war. I had no intention of doing that but screwed up the following ways:...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565">
<title>
            
                An apology to the Vietnam vets out there            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9565</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             On July 18, I wrote a post on Microsoft's search ambitions and how it was an unwinnable war. I made the connection to Vietnam and offended more than a few fine folks that served in that war. I had no intention of doing that but screwed up the following ways:...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180">
<title>
            
                The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings;      "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180">
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                The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings;      "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180">
<title>
            
                The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life            
            </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=180</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings;      "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues...  
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