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Mobile handset manufacturer CSL Group is unheard of here, but in Southeast Asia they claim to sell more handsets than anyone besides Nokia. CSL stands for “Commitment Service Loyalty,” and Malaysians buy a lot of CSL’s flagrantly-named Blueberry smartphones.

They’re more than big enough to handle manufacturing of Fusion Garage’s JooJoo tablet computer, which began life as TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad. Compared to Apple’s iPad tablet, the JooJoo has a much larger screen that also boasts widescreen movie resolution, and much simpler software than Apple’s gesture-driven applications. On the JooJoo, everything is done in a browser window. There are no downloadable apps. Unlike the iPad, it eagerly supports Flash animation in Web pages.

Let’s be clear: The JooJoo will be built across the ocean, but its target market is very much the United States of America, where people blow $500 on a Kindle.

JooJoo’s maker, Fusion Garage, began taking orders for the $499 units — same price as an entry-level Apple iPad — in mid-December, with a promise to ship in “8-10 weeks.” It looks like the deal with CSL will enable that to happen. In a phone interview Sunday, Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan pledged that the first JooJoos will be in customers’ hands before the end of February.

The arrangement between Fusion Garage and CSL Group, Rathakrishnan told me, removes all of Fusion Garage’s upfront costs of manufacturing, in exchange for a royalty that CSL will receive on each JooJoo tablet sold.

I’ve followed the JooJoo story avidly because it’s a real-life example of the stuff Wired magazine talks about nowadays: Anyone with an idea can get a product built and sold by outsourcing everything but the idea itself.

In the case of the JooJoo, Arrington has filed a lawsuit claiming that Fusion Garage, the 13-person Singapore company that built the first prototype CrunchPads, stole his idea and renamed it JooJoo so they could sell it themselves and cut Arrington out of the picture except as a product evangelist.

Lawsuits are boring, but the fact that one guy’s blog post can turn into a mass-market product that challenges Apple and Amazon is pretty cool.

Update: Fusion Garage has put out a press release about their partnership with CSL.

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Wuh-oh! Considering its popularity and the number of handsets floating around out there compared to the number of security exploits discovered thus far, I’d say Apple has done a pretty good job of keeping things locked down.

As this just-discovered flaw proves, however, nobody’s perfect.

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There was some hoopla yesterday about the news that Hulu had broken the 1 billion videos viewed in a month threshold in December. And rightfully so, it’s the first video service to do that other than YouTube. But there’s another hot property that is rising fast in the streaming video realm as well: Netflix.

The movie rental giant crossed into the top 20 video sites on the web for the first time in December, according to numbers for ComScore. Specifically, they now sit at number 19, just ahead of Break Media, and just behind Justin.TV. And with over 127 million views last month, and rising fast, it shouldn’t be long before they’re in the top 15 with the likes of Facebook and ESPN.

As a streaming service, Netflix has seen huge growth over the past year as it continues to cut deals to get its content on different living room set top boxes. The service clearly believes that streaming is its future, even as it alienates some of its current break-and-butter DVD rental customers by doing things like agreeing not to rent new DVD releases until they’ve been out for 28 days (something which hurts the availability of the most popular movies on the service). And that’s the right stance, but they’re going to have a hard time convincing the studios to ever give them newer release films to stream since those guys still believe they can sell DVDs no one really wants to own.

This week, Netflix also announced the addition of a bunch of new indie films to its streaming catalog. And during their quarterly earnings report last week, they revealed that nearly half of their subscribers are now streaming some content.

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If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in 2003, and launched his latest startup, Factual, last October. He doesn’t really need the money, but so many all-star investors were clamoring to get in that he raised just over $1 million in an angel round.

His angel investors include Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz via their Andreessen Horowitz fund, Bill Gross via Idealab, Esther Dyson, Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, Danny Rimer of Index Ventures, former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos, as well as New York City seed fund the Founder Collective.

Factual is setting out to get people to create as many open databases as possible by providing tools for creating table son any topic, embedding them and sharing them. There are already hundreds fo thousands of tables on Factual, dome large some small. For instance, Creative Commons created a database filled with Websites using Creative Commons licenses that contains 4 million rows. All the data in Factual is editable in a wiki-like fashion and is available through Factual APIs.

Chris Dixon, founding partner of Founder Collective (and CEO of Hunch) says they invested because of Factual’s “huge ambition.” In order for the Web to become programmable, it needs data and lots of it. “I think of it as Wikipedia for structured database-like information,” says Dixon. It joins many other efforts pursuing similar ambitions, include Freebase, Wolfram Alpha, and even Google.

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In a puzzling move, Comcast announced today that they are going to be rebranding their broadband services under a new moniker: Xfinity. Seriously. Starting next week, Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet, and Xfinity Voice will be rolled out to current Comcast customers in 11 markets, those being: Boston, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, and Chatanooga, along with parts of the Bay area. Don’t expect any changes in the actual services you receive, this is just a name change, similar to when CableVision rebranded their services under the Optimum banner.

Expect a marketing blitz in the markets named above to start next Friday, including TV ads during the Olympics, print, and radio spots.

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Discover Magazine has a great article on the real science and logic of the paradoxes of time travel. Just what is possible and what isn’t? Prepare to have your brain at least partially melted.

Sure, it doesn’t address anything pesky like parallel timelines, but it does talk about the impossibility of changing something that’s already happened.

The nub of the problem is that you cannot have a consistent “arrow of time” in the presence of closed timelike curves. The arrow of time is simply the distinction between the past and the future. We can turn an egg into an omelet, but not an omelet into an egg; we remember yesterday, but not tomorrow; we are born, grow older, and die, never the reverse. Scientists explain all of these manifestations of the arrow of time in terms of entropy-loosely, the “disorderliness” of a system. A neatly stacked collection of papers has a low entropy, while the same collection scattered across a desktop has a high entropy. The entropy of any system left to its own devices will either increase with time or stay constant; that is the celebrated second law of thermodynamics. The arrow of time comes down to the fact that entropy increases toward the future and was lower in the past.

But what the hell is that temple all about, science?! [Discover]

Jim McDonnell, who served for most of the decade as one of former Chief William J. Bratton’s top assistants at the Los Angeles Police Department and was among the short list of finalists to be his successor, was named Wednesday as the next chief of the Long Beach Police Department.

McDonnell, 50, who currently oversees the detective bureau at the LAPD, will become the 25th police chief of Long Beach, a 52-square-mile city of about 463,000 people, when he is sworn in next month. He succeeds Anthony Batts, who commanded the force of more than 1,000 officers for seven years before leaving late last year to become chief of the Oakland Police Department.

A 28-year veteran of the LAPD, McDonnell was viewed as an ambassador who helped the department build bridges with the city’s diverse communities and political leaders as Bratton’s chief of staff and second-in-command.

As a candidate for LAPD chief in 2002, McDonnell presented a blueprint for community-based policing that was adopted by Bratton and served as the foundation to overhaul and reform a proud but troubled organization in the wake of the Rampart corruption scandal.

In Long Beach, McDonnell takes over a department that struggled last year with a surge in officer-involved shootings as well as continuing and entrenched gang crime. McDonnell said he plans to emphasize strategic crime-fighting, using analysis and emphasizing state-of-the-art technology to help supplement traditional policing.

"I’m looking forward to working with the men and women of the Long Beach Police Department and the community to help make a great city an even safer city," McDonnell said in a phone interview. He added that he will continue to emphasize "respectful and compassionate policing," a philosophy he said he has maintained his entire career.

[Updated at 12:43 p.m.: Long Beach City Councilman Robert Garcia said he looks forward to working with McDonnell.

“I hear he’s had a pretty stellar record in Los Angeles, and there’s a lot of challenges in Long Beach,” Garcia said. "He’s going to be coming into a force where morale has been typically good, but I think there’s always more challenges for someone coming in from the outside.” ]

McDonnell joined the LAPD in 1981 and worked his way up the ranks, holding a variety of assignments in patrol, detectives, vice, gang, organized crime, homicide and other divisions.

A decade ago, as a commander, he gained attention for his efforts to revitalize the LAPD’s senior lead officer program and to build the forerunner to the Compstat computer crime-mapping system.

McDonnell incorporated those initiatives in a blueprint to remake the department when he applied for the chief’s job in 2002.

When Bratton was named chief, he cited McDonnell’s blueprint and used it as the foundation of his bid to reform the LAPD beginning in 2003. McDonnell served as Bratton’s transition team leader before Bratton named him one of three assistant chiefs, first serving as his head of operations and later as chief of staff.

McDonnell was among the final three candidates — along with Charlie Beck and Michel Moore — selected by the Los Angeles Police Commission to take over for Bratton after he announced he was leaving to become chairman of a newly created security consulting firm.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ultimately selected Beck to head the department.

— Andrew Blankstein and Tony Barboza

Photo: LAPD Deputy Chief Jim McDonnell, shown in 2008, was named to take over as chief of the Long Beach Police Department. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

More breaking news in L.A. Now:

Man arrested for impersonating federal agent and ‘deporting’ distant cousin’s wife

Hundreds show up to speak against L.A. city worker layoffs

Former teen idol Leif Garrett arrested on charge of possession of heroin

Baby gray whale ‘putting on quite a show’ off Malibu Pier

Stanford is top fundraiser among U.S. colleges in 2009

Marijuana seized in banana shipment at San Diego border crossing

Crews work to repair water main breaks in Northridge, Gardena

L.A. wants to double red-light camera program: safety measure or revenue generator?

Michael Jackson death investigation may be coming to a conclusion

L.A. activists float idea of ‘freeway’ system for bikes

Mystery man wanted for questioning in slaying of Southern California model

Over the last few months my post about all the aggregator sites owned by Rupert Murdoch as he was complaining about aggregators “stealing” his traffic has received a fair bit of attention. Yet it hasn’t stopped similar hypocrisy from Murdoch and others. This week, Mark Cuban got a ton of attention for his silly claims that Google is a vampire and media publications should all opt-out. Cuban is a smart guy and has to know that this is so wrong that it’s laughable, leading some people to wonder if he’s pulling some sort of trick on these media publications.

Danny Sullivan comes to the rescue by pointing out that while Cuban is telling sites that Google traffic is worthless, he’s invested in Mahalo, an aggregator site that lives off of Google traffic and still tries to do some similar aggregation efforts, such as IceRocket.com (which is a direct competitor to Google News… though no one uses it). Meanwhile, an old interview dug up by Michael Arrington has Cuban talking about how much he’d like to invest in TechMeme — a similar aggregator. Clearly, Cuban is playing some sort of trick on media companies.

The thing that I can’t figure out is what sort of trick he’s playing. He’s simply wrong about Google traffic being worth nothing. While much of Google traffic might not convert to regular users, enough of them do to matter. But, even more to the point, we’ve found that the ads shown on archive articles (i.e., those found via Google searches) tend to get a much higher number of clicks than those shown on front page articles. And it’s pretty obvious why once you think about it. People coming from Google are searching for something — and so they’ll look around your whole page, meaning that they don’t suffer from the same sort of ad blindness that regular visitors do.

Sullivan posits a conspiracy theory that even he doesn’t believe in, that by getting news publishers to pull out of Google News it could help Cuban’s investments, but even he admits that seems pretty far-fetched. So is Cuban just really really confused or is he playing at some game?

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Two of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar’s dozen sons are being hailed heros after they saved a little girl’s life following a collision in Springdale, Arkansas last week. Joshua Duggar -– the 20-year-old son of TLC’s Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar — was at work in a Springdale car dealership on Jan. 28 when three vehicles rear-ended each other just outside the establishment’s doors, according to local news station 40/29 TV.

Joined by his brother John, Joshua hurried outside and found 6-year-old Maddye Plascensia in the front seat of one of the cars unconscious and not breathing. Joshua and John immediately called 911 and brought the child into their office where they began performing CPR.

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“I thought, ‘Oh, fender bender. No big deal,’” humble new dad Joshua told 40/29 on Wednesday. “It happens quite often here actually. [Then] I realized there was a little girl. The little girl was unconscious and not breathing,” he explained. “We realized there was something blocking her airway. She had been eating chicken nuggets when the accident happened and it caused a blockage of the airway.”

Paramedics arrived on scene, and along with the help of the Duggar brothers, were able to revive Maddye, who remains hospitalized in critical condition at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.

Way to go, Duggars! Best wishes to Little Maddye. May she make a full recovery…..

The Tough Guy Challenge is an annual competition in England that pits its participants against mud, ice, and fire. Sounds terrible—unless you’re part man, part machine. But how did RoboCop fare against Superman and the Spartans?

From the looks of it, pretty well!

The winner of the race, though, was a man named Paul Jones, who made it through the hellish obstacle course in an hour and eighteen minutes. Congratulations, Mr. Jones! You’re officially the toughest crazy person in all of Wolverhampton [The Big Picture]

The Institute Of Contemporary Development [EN], a think-tank related to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, recently presented a policy report “Russia of XXI Century: Image of the Desired Tomorrow” [RUS]. Recommending massive reforms of police, electoral system and strategic partnerships with the U.S. and E.U., the report provoked a big discussion [RUS] online.

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Kia has been teasing us over the last few weeks with the Ray concept car bound for next week’s Chicago Auto Show, and today the Korean automaker has lifted up the skirt just a few more inches to show off what appears to be the concept’s front fascia and headlights.

So, what do we know so far about the Kia Ray? Pretty much nothing other than the fact that it will be a plug-in hybrid of sorts, and that it looks pretty small. There may or may not be solar cells on the roof – naming it the Ray may have something to do with the sun, right? – and it may use the underpinnings from parent company Hyundai’s Blue-Will concept.

So, now that we’ve gone over what we don’t know, take a gander at the two teaser images that Kia’s provided so far and try your best to wait patiently for the rest of the goods next week.

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Underneath the small town of Folx-les-Caves in Belgium, are six hectares of manmade caves that can only be reached using a narrow staircase, 15 meter below the ground.

Room after vaulted room, resting on mighty pillars carved out of the tuff stone. It is unknown when exactly they were constructed, and though some suggest they were made in prehistoric times using aurochs horns, it is more likely that they were begun between the late Roman times to the early middle ages. Nonetheless, the size of the ancient mine is quite incredible, and the caves are certainly large enough to get lost within.

Made from tuff, a kind of soft, easy to carve volcanic rock, the tuff, rich in calcium carbonate, was mined to serve as fertilizer. Later the caves harder rock was mined for use in local building projects.

Over time, the caves have served as a refuge and hiding place from various occupants, from possibly as early as the Romans up to the Nazis. Some occupants left sculpted graffiti in the stone, and it can be difficult to tell which era those date from. Among those who hid in the caves was Pierre Colon, a famous robber who has gained a reputation as the Belgian Robin Hood.

The 1965 Flemish youth television series Johan and Alverman (a mix of history and fantasy) was also shot in part in the caves. Today the cave is also used to grow mushrooms.

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Proof that there are other automakers also under the scrutiny of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration: The Chevrolet Cobalt is under federal investigation for steering-related safety issues. To date, the NHTSA has reported 1,132 consumer complaints about a sudden loss of power steering in 2005-09 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2008-09 Chevrolet Cobalt SS models. While a loss of steering assist should not immediately lead to a crash, consumers have reported “difficulty controlling the vehicle, such as departing from the desired travel lane.”

The NHTSA has recorded 11 crashes and one injury attributed to the power steering failure, with potentially 905,000 vehicles affected by the investigation. There have been no deaths reported. “We are cooperating with the agency in the investigation,” said GM. The automaker will replace the Cobalt with the Chevrolet Cruze for the 2011 model year.

[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.]

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Booyah’s MyTown, a mobile game that’s like Monopoly for the real world, has zoomed past 800,000 users and is accumulating 3.5 to 4 million check-ins a day.

That momentum makes it more than double the size of Foursquare’s reported 360,000-person user base, but shy of Loopt’s 3 million users.

Compared to other competitors, MyTown is more like a classic game that has location elements, rather than a social network that happens to have gaming incentives like badges and mayorships. In MyTown, you can “buy” real places in the game like your local coffee shop. If you manage them properly and upgrade them from time to time, you can earn rent and amass a virtual real estate empire.

Booyah CEO Keith Lee, a gaming veteran behind franchises like Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo III, attributes MyTown’s growth to a few key points. The company is aggressively focused on optimizing the first 15 to 30 seconds of the game. It’s quick to load and there’s only one option for a user’s first move — the check-in, which is a way of sharing your location temporarily when you arrive at a place like a restaurant or coffee shop. They’ve found that if they can get a player to Level 2 of the game, they’re almost guaranteed to get to the end of Level 20.

Booyah also provides the user with constant, ongoing feedback. Once a player “owns” a location like their local pizza place, MyTown gives them ongoing notifications usually within the next hour or day about the volume of visitors their location is attracting. It also helped that they reached the Top 25 list for free apps in the iTunes store and then maintained momentum from there.

Location-based services like Foursquare and MyTown are in a race to accumulate users and offer unique value-adds that make them loyal to their network. Initially, Foursquare attracted a lot of attention because it helped popularize the check-in. But what’s become clear over the last six months is that the check-in is now a commodity — it’s a ubiquitous feature that has popped up everywhere from Yelp to perhaps Facebook in the future.

It’s now about staying one step ahead in the game, by acquiring partnerships with brands and marketers, or in MyTown’s case, offering unique gameplay to keep users loyal and to benefit from network effects. MyTown says that nearly 40 million virtual goods are consumed through the game each week.

Booyah is backed by Kleiner Perkins with $4.5 million in funding.

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As the national unemployment rate continues to linger around 10%, there is no shortage of people looking for jobs. Popular employment website, Monster.com might be looking to snatch up some market share as today it announced the acquisition of Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million.

The two companies also signed a traffic agreement stating that Monster will supply all career and job content to the Yahoo homepage in the United States and Canada for a period of three years. Monster will have a chance to negotiate similar traffic deals with other global Yahoo properties once the acquisition is complete. According to a Monster.com announcement, the deal is expected to be finalized sometime within the third quarter of 2010.

By adding to its database, Monster.com should be able to help employers and job seekers to find more diverse employment opportunities, while bringing Monster some fresh traffic. Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of competing employment sites for job-seekers to scour, including CareerBuilder.com, which says it has more job listings than any other site.

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Gartner recently published a list of five new predictions about “social software” that show mix of optimism and pessimism about whether these tools will be embraced by businesses.

The most grandiose prediction is the first — that by 2014, social networking services will replace email as the primary communication tool for 20 percent of business users. Companies will either build out their own corporate social networks, or they will allow greater use of existing networks for work, Gartner says. Over time, a sizable minority users will rely less on email and more on social tools, especially for status updates and tracking down a coworker with the right expertise.

Now, even if that 20 percent prediction comes true, there will still be many more people using email. Nonetheless, Gartner suggests that social networking sites will cause a major shift in the way businesses communicate. Last May, Gartner analyst Matt Maoz expressed similar ideas more forcefully in a blog post titled, “Email is dead, taken out by Twitter, chat and communities,” though though the statement sounds less over-the-top when you look beyond the headline, see he was focused mostly on customer service.

“The combination of chat, advanced self service and knowledge cases, together with community case / problem identification and resolution … and now Twitter, mean that email as a way of customers contacting us for support will begin a slow slide,” Maoz wrote. “That isn’t to say it will disappear, but it will take on a Zombie state of the undead.”

In the new predictions, research Gartner also argues that the distinction between email and social networks is disappearing, with social networks adding email-like capabilities while email adds social data. Perhaps, mutation and evolution, rather than zombification, might make for a more a more accurate metaphor of what’s to come, where eventually social networking and email become one and the same.

Given the above predictions, you might think Gartner would be optimistic about microblogging, and sure, it says that by 2012, 50 percent of enterprises will be using activity streams with a microblogging components — basically, team members will be sharing status updates. However, most of those companies won’t be using microblogging-focused tools such as Yammer (which just raised another $10 million), and enterprise microblogging services will only see 5 percent market penetration, Gartner says.

Why the disconnect? Twitter took off because of its scale, the firm says. In other words, when you’ve got millions of users, there will be probably be a number of folks tweeting things you find interesting. That dynamic doesn’t carry over when the entire user base exists within one company.

And here’s the full list of predictions:

• By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.
• By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but stand-alone enterprise microblogging will have less than 5 percent penetration.
• Through 2012, over 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail.
• Within five years, 70 percent of collaboration and communications applications designed on PCs will be modeled after user experience lessons from smartphone collaboration applications.
• Through 2015, only 25 percent of enterprises will routinely utilize social network analysis to improve performance and productivity.

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A blog campaign saved the life of Alexey Kalabin, a Russian tourist bitten by a snake in Indonesia, Svpressa reported. Desperate to contact a Russian insurance company, Kalabin's daughter Anna asked one of the top RuNet bloggers to spread the word online and that led to a happy ending.

MacBook decals aren’t new to us, heck I have mine decked out in the Snow’s Revenge vinyl myself, but this Iron Man decal kind of takes the cake in the awesomeness department. What do you think? Are you a fan of the decals? We like them way more than stickers, because they can be easily removed without leaving any sort of residue.

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If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in 2003, and launched his latest startup, Factual, last October. He doesn’t really need the money, but so many all-star investors were clamoring to get in that he raised just over $1 million in an angel round.

His angel investors include Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz via their Andreessen Horowitz fund, Bill Gross via Idealab, Esther Dyson, Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, Danny Rimer of Index Ventures, former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos, as well as New York City seed fund the Founder Collective.

Factual is setting out to get people to create as many open databases as possible by providing tools for creating table son any topic, embedding them and sharing them. There are already hundreds fo thousands of tables on Factual, dome large some small. For instance, Creative Commons created a database filled with Websites using Creative Commons licenses that contains 4 million rows. All the data in Factual is editable in a wiki-like fashion and is available through Factual APIs.

Chris Dixon, founding partner of Founder Collective (and CEO of Hunch) says they invested because of Factual’s “huge ambition.” In order for the Web to become programmable, it needs data and lots of it. “I think of it as Wikipedia for structured database-like information,” says Dixon. It joins many other efforts pursuing similar ambitions, include Freebase, Wolfram Alpha, and even Google.

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