One of the major advantages of using Mega, at least according to Kim Dotcom, is that it has world class encryption that blocks anybody from snooping on the files you’re downloading. Now Dotcom wants to apply that same encryption to the world of email.
The Guardian reports that Dotcom plans to launch “an end-to-end encrypted email service” in the future. He says the email client would be fully secure so users “won’t have to worry that a government or Internet service provider will be looking at [their] email.”
A fully private email client would be welcome as more people are starting to look for more ways to secure their privacy. Microsoft may think that it’s a privacy warrior in its new Scroogled campaign, but the real threat comes from the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA.
A pro-privacy email client could be very popular around the world, especially in developed nations where fears of email surveillance are high. The demand might be high enough for people who don’t use the Mega file storage service to at least use the email service.
So, when will this Mega email service become available? Dotcom’s talk at London, where he announced the service, didn’t go into details. He did, however, post this wonderful picture of his disembodied head on a projector screen:
There’s a time and place for every notification in Android. Consumers won’t be happy if you constantly spam them, but smart notification design is key to enhanced engagement. Learn more about it in this week’s Android Design in Action.
This week’s video tackles not only notification design, but the design process behind Google Now:
Join Nick Butcher, Adam Koch and Roman Nurik as they discuss various elements of Android Design. This week, Alex Faaborg from the Android UX team at Google stops by to talk about the when and the why of notifications and walks through a design process case study for Google Now.
In the past, Sony has experimented with free to play by making Killzone 3′s multiplayer free to play to a certain point. The experiment must have worked pretty well because Sony is now offering the multiplayer component from Uncharted 3 for free.
Naughty Dog announced that Uncharted 3 will be broken up into parts and sold separately from each other on the PSN starting today. That means players will be able to play the multiplayer experience separately from the singleplayer experience, or they can buy it all in one big pack. The big change, of course, is that multiplayer is going free to play with some freemium elements thrown in for good measure.
So, how is this gonna work? Naughty Dog says that everybody can play multiplayer for free, no strings attached, up until level 15. After that, the game will continue to keep track of your experience points if you wish to upgrade to the next level cap. According to Joystiq, upgrading to level 25 will cost $5 and removing the level cap entirely will cost $20.
Here’s all the extra add-ons players can buy to augment the free-to-play experience:
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Co-op Adventure Add On – Unlocks Co-Op Adventure mode including the Fort Adventure DLC
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Co-op Arena Add On – Unlocks to gain access to the Co-Op Arena Playlist including the Co-Op Shade Survival Mode DLC for Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Free to Play
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Competitive MP (No Level Limit) – Removes the level cap for Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Free to Play
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Competitive MP (Level 25 Limit) – Removes the Level 15 cap and allows you to play Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Free to Play up to Level 25
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer Split Screen Add On – Unlocks Co-Op Adventure mode including the Fort Adventure DLC
Uncharted 3: Multiplayer DLC Map Packs – Unlocks all three DLC map packs released for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Includes Flashback Map Pack 1, Flashback Map Pack 2, and Drake’s Deception Map Pack
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Single Player Experience – Uncover the Truth. Unlock the Single Player campaign
Those who already purchased Uncharted 3 will be given a special Naughty Dog Paw on their rank icon as well as a special Naughty Dog Paw shirt for their in-game character.
Naughty Dog also promises that more than 40 additional DLC items will be added to the game in the coming months. Here’s hoping one of them is a Donut Drake skin that’s easier to unlock.
Sony says its next console will accomodate all business models, including free to play, so it’s better to start experimenting in the field now. Uncharted 3 should prove to be an excellent test field to see how well a free to play game performs on consoles.
Bad Piggies, Rovio’s fantastic Angry Birds spinoff, hasn’t been getting as much love as its Star Wars inspired cousin recently. That’s all going to change tomorrow, however, as Rovio has a beefy updated planned for the game.
Rovio announced today that Bad Piggies will be getting an update called Road Hogs tomorrow. The update adds 30 new levels and new time attack modes to the game. Beyond that, it’s still the same wonderful game from last year that proved Rovio is more than just a one-trick pony.
The Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden, and has remained in the country since. That all changed this week, however, as the most infamous site on the Internet has been forced to move.
TorrentFreak reports that The Pirate Bay has decided to move its operations to Norway and Spain after its previous host, the Pirate Party of Sweden, was targeted by anti-piracy group Rights Alliance. Why does The Pirate Bay have to move though? It’s hosted in the cloud, so it’s technically not tied to the Pirate Party or any other group, right?
As some of you may know, where 99% cloud based today. We have though, enjoyed the great company of the swedish Pirate party. As they have gotten a severe legal threat (that will cost a lot to defend against) we’ve taken the decision to move on to Norway and Spain.
This is not permanent though. Next week (hopefully), we’ll announce some MAJOR changes to the site. Now don’t worry, everything will look the same to you. The changes are all under the hood.
Let’s just say that it will change a lot of things for a lot of people. When the bomb goes off, remember that we did it with love in our hearts and with hope of humanity. We believe we can change the world by doing this. We’re kinda aiming for the nex Nobel peace prize…
//Winona, Winston & Winnie.
The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain | TorrentFreak Following threats of legal action in its traditional home of Sweden, a few hours ago The Pirate Bay set sail for pastures new. Sweden’s Pirate Party had been providing bandwidth to the site for the last three years but came under intense pressure last week when a local anti-piracy group threatened t…
The Pirate Bay is now hosted by the Pirate Parties of both Norway and Spain. Of course, these aren’t the only parties hosting The Pirate Bay, but these are the official hosts for the time being. The reason being that Norwegian courts have so far refused to block The Pirate Bay, and Spain, despite having some strict anti-piracy laws on the books, does nothing to block file-sharing sites.
To reflect its resilience, The Pirate Bay has momentarily changed its name to The Hydra Bay. I wouldn’t say that losing its host in Sweden is equivalent to having a head cut off, but it’s still appropriate to say that The Pirate Bay has withstood more legal threats and take downs than any other file sharing site on the Internet.
The Pirate Bay has also taken to its blog to say the current campaign against the site in Sweden, and Europe at large, is equivalent to a big game of Whac-A-Mole. The kicker is that anti-piracy groups are bad at this game:
A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a large, waist-level cabinet with five holes in its top and a large, soft, black mallet. Each hole contains a single plastic mole and the machinery necessary to move it up and down. Once the game starts, the moles will begin to pop up from their holes at random. The object of the game is to force the individual moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with the mallet, thereby adding to the player’s score. The quicker this is done the higher the final score will be.
Current score: 0
As for the Swedish Pirate Party, its leader, Anna Troberg, told TorrentFreak that it’s happy the site is in the hands of its “two sister parties.” She continues the hyrdra rhetoric by saying that “every cut connection to The Pirate Bay will generate two new connections.” The Swedish Pirate Party also revealed that it may issue a police complaint against the Rights Alliance to “determine precisely how forgiving the system is to those who try to abuse the judicial system to silence others.”
After launching with Windows 8 in October of last year, Internet Explorer 10 has only been available as a release preview on Windows 7. That all changes as Microsoft pushes out the final release to all Windows 7 users starting today.
Just like Windows 8, IE10 will reportedly speed up your browsing experience on Windows 7. Microsoft says that internal benchmarks put it about 20 percent faster than IE9. To test it out for yourself, you can try out Microsoft’s Minesweeper benchmark test. It’s built entirely in HTML5 and will measure your browser’s performance.
IE10 is also a marked improvement over its predecessors by finally adding a number of HTML5 and related Web technologies to its repertoire. Developers and consumers now have access to the following features in IE10:
Create rich visual effects with CSS Text Shadow, CSS 3D Transforms, CSS3 Transitions and Animations, CSS3 Gradient, and SVG Filter Effects
More sophisticated and responsive page layouts with CSS3 for publication quality page layouts and responsive application UI (CSS3 grid, flexbox, multi-column, positioned floats, regions, and hyphenation), HTML5 Forms, input controls, and validation
Enhanced Web programming model for better offline applications through local storage with IndexedDB and the HTML5 Application Cache; Web Sockets, HTML5 History, Async scripts, HTML5 File APIs, HTML5 Drag-drop, HTML5 Sandboxing, Web workers, ES5 Strict mode support.
Beautiful and interactive Web applications with support for several new technologies like CSS3 Positioned Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop, File Reader API, Media Query Listeners, Pointer Events, and HTML5 Forms.
Improved Web application security with the same markup and support for HTML5 Sandbox for iframe isolation.
You can grab IE10 for Windows 7 right now. If you want Microsoft to do the work for you, you’ll be upgraded to IE10 automatically in the coming weeks. Those who took part in the IE10 Release Preview will get first dibs, with everybody still on IE9 coming later.
It was widely reported that the Copyright Alert System was “turned on” yesterday. The CAS, or more widely known as six strikes, detects the illegal sharing of copyrighted materials over P2P networks and alerts users via their ISP. There are a few glaringproblems with it, but inaction on the part of government suggests lawmakers are fine with it. One politician, however, has recently spoken up against it.
“The internet has become an essential part of living in the 21st century, it uses public infrastructure and it is time we treat it as a public utility. The electric company has no say over what you power with their service, the ISPs have no right to decide what you can and can not download”.
Bergmanson says that he doesn’t condone piracy, and added that he finds it unethical. That being said, he says that piracy is a result of bad laws.
“…it is not surprising that as the law evolves to disrespect the public domain, that the public would grow to disrespect copyrights.”
I think we can add fair use to the number of things that laws continue to “disrespect” that lead people to piracy. The Internet has changed the consumer/provider dynamic, yet the content provider refuses to update their business model to reflect this new reality.
Aside from the argument against more restrictive copyright laws, it’s far more interesting to see Bergmanson address the idea of the Internet being a public utility. Some of the Internet’s most outspoken proponents have suggested such a reclassification in order to ensure that more people get access to affordable Internet. It’s not going to happen anytime soon, however, as major telecommunications companies have powerful lobbying arms.
All that being said, Bergmanson and his ideas will probably not see the light of day in New Jersey. Current governor Chris Christie is a local favorite, and he has the support of some powerful people in the Internet business if his recent fundraiser hosted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is any indication.
The next two match ups in the Injustice: Gods Among UsBattle Arena will go live on Friday. Before that, DC Comics announced two new characters for the game that will make their debut on Friday in the latest fights.
DC Comics announced today that Hawkgirl and Sinestro will be joining the ranks of playable characters in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Neither character hardly needs an introduction, but here’s a nice rundown courtesy of the Injustice channel:
Sinestro will be taking on Sinestro in the first round, while Hawkgirl will be taking on Green Arrow. Both fights should be incredibly interesting. We’ll find out who wins and moves on to the next round on Friday.
Injustice: Gods Among Us will be out on April 16 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U.
As an added bonus, here’s Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes talking about this week’s match up:
It’s been quite a while since Facebook last updated its iOS SDK. The last update came out around the launch of the iPhone 5 to include support for iOS 6. The latest SDK update doesn’t have a major iOS update to piggyback on, but it includes a number of features that iOS developers will surely appreciate.
Facebook announced that version 3.2 of its SDK for iOS is now available to developers everywhere. The big update this time around is better mobile analytics so iOS app developers can get a better idea of how well their app’s Facebook integration is working out.
Mobile analytics now include a number of new metrics and features that will help you get the most out of it:
App Usage Metrics: We’ve enabled additional metrics such as iOS 6 native share sheet and built-in native UI controls usage that can now be logged through our SDK. We’ve also added support for showing these metrics on App Insights to help you understand how people are interacting with your app.
Ads Optimization: Similar to our current conversion measurement product for websites, we are currently working on a solution for native iOS apps. Integrating with our SDK will let you log conversion events from your apps. Conversion measurement helps businesses measure and optimize the return on investment of their Facebook Ads by reporting on the actions people take after viewing those ads.
Purchase Events (Beta): We’re previewing support for logging in-app purchase events with select partners.
Aside from additions to analytics, the new SDK features enhanced error handling. In short, all classes of error responses will now receive SDK support and documentation. Facebook says that the “SDK will now automatically categorize errors by common application handling behavior and provide helpers to simplify some common error response cases.” Version 3.2 will also handle a larger number error cases, including those introduced in iOS 6.
Version 3.2 also adds improved Web dialog support and improvements to the API. For Web dialog improvements, the SDK now integrates Web, Feed and Requests dialogs without invoking deprecated headers. As for API improvements, Facebook is adding a new FBAccessTokenData type that should make it easier to open a session from token data.
Despite some early concerns, Google Drive has proven to be pretty awesome. Developers may find it especially awesome as it can easily be used to store documentation. You may also want to make these files searchable by others, but how would you go about doing that?
A new video released on the Google Developers channel today walks us through the process of making documents searchable on Google Drive:
During this event we’ll take a look at how you can make your Google Drive files searchable. In more details we’ll see why, when and how you need to set the indexable text on a Google Drive file. We’ll also talk about some brand new features that will make it easy for you to make your files searchable.
Google Glass has kickstarted a craze of wearable computing. Apple might even get in on it soon. Now others are getting into the fray with devices that may interact with other wearable computers like Glass in really unique ways.
One of those other devices cashing in on the wearable computing scene is the MYO. It’s an armband that uses the electronic impulses of your muscles to control electronics remotely. In short, it translates body movements into commands.
It’s probably better if you see it for yourself. Here’s a demo of the product in action:
Now, can MYO do all of the things in that video? It’s certainly possible, although I highly doubt that Mass Effect 3 will get MYO support any time soon. The other uses, however, are entirely within the realm of possibility right now. It all comes down to how well the technology can interpret muscle movements as separate actions.
On an aside, the final demo shows a skier using something similar to Google Glass in conjunction with MYO. If they could work together, I can see many people doing some extraordinary things with Google Glass and MYO combined – extreme sports recording being just one of many.
MYO will initially support Windows PCs and Macs, but the developers are working on Android and iOS APIs right now. After that, it may be used to control any piece of equipment that accepts Bluetooth input.
The MYO will only cost $149 when it launches late this year. It’s a far cry from the $1,499 price tag on Google Glass. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see what developers can do when the human body becomes the method of input.
Cubes are relatively stationary objects. You can throw them around, sure, but it’s hard to see them as being autonomous. One robotics lab did just that, however, with its newest invention.
Robohub reports that the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich have created Cubli, a robotic cube that can walk, jump and balance on its corners. The most amazing part is that the cube is built out of nothing but off-the-shelf motors, batteries and electronic components.
You can see Cubli below balancing on its corner through the use of spinning flywheels that maintain its balance, even when slightly nudged:
So, what’s next for the Cubli? The researchers are already working on a version of Cubli that can walk on flat surfaces, or jump. It can already do these things, but it was found that some internal components were damaged when it jumps. These flaws have been mostly fixed, and now the team is working on “controlled maneuvers of jumping up, balancing, and falling over to make the Cubli walk across a surface.”
I think Zynga learned its lesson about studio closures after it tried to sneakily layoff over 100 employees during an Apple event. Now the company is being more open about its closures and layoffs with the latest round affecting many of its operations around the country.
Zynga COO David Ko announced today that the company would be closing or consolidating a number of studios around the country to cut costs and remain profitable. The good news is that hardly anybody is losing their jobs this time around as Zynga is only closing studios, not actually letting go of people.
The big news, of course, is that Zynga Baltimore is no more. The studio will be closed, and the employees that requested a transfer will be able to relocate to another one of Zynga’s studios. It’s not said what became of those who didn’t relocate, but Zynga says the “overall impact of the consolidations on our team is minimal.”
Speaking of consolidation, Zynga also closed its McKinney, Texas, downtown Austin and NYC offices. Team members in these offices will be moved to Zynga’s existing offices in Dallas, North Austin and NYC mobile studio respectively.
Besides closing down studios, Zynga has also shut down a number of games. The latest casualties included CityVille 2, The Friend Game and Party Place. Games like FarmVille 2 and its mobile gambling titles continue to bring in revenue. Future games from the company will probably focus more on simulated gambling going forward, but the company will also be investing in mid-core titles.
Back in November, Nokia announced that it would be relaunching its maps service as Here. Despite its silly name, it was an effort on the part of Nokia to become a major player in the Maps app scene. Now the company is starting to roll it out to mobile devices.
Nokia announced today that its Here app services, which includes Drive, Maps and Transit, will be launching exclusively across Windows Phone 8. That being said, Nokia says the best Here experience will be had on its own Lumia hardware, including the recently announced Nokia Lumia 720 and 520.
The most exciting part about Here is the integration of Nokia’s AR technology. In essence, a user can hold the phone up, and have the name of restaurants and other locations displayed across the landscape. It might not be exactly useful in a real word setting, but it’s incredibly cool nonetheless.
Here is already available on iOS, and will be launching on Firefox OS later this year. An Android version was apparently available via Amazon’s Appstore for Android, but the link to it is longer working.
When the PS4 was announced last week, Sony listed a number of developers working on the platform. The list was huge, and it was pretty exciting to see such a large number of developers working on games for the system. Unfortunately, Sony screwed up, and the list is actually much smaller than what was initially presented.
Joystiq reports that the number of European developers working on PS4 game has been reduced by half. The initial report from Sony showed that 53 developers were working on games, but now the list only features 28 developers. That’s still a large stable of developers, but a number of high profile indie developers originally listed have confirmed that they’re not working on Sony’s hardware.
Among those big indie names include Mojang and Rovio, the studios responsible for Minecraft and Angry Birds respectively. Minecraft is exclusive to the Xbox 360, but Mojang is working on a number of other titles that could be made for the PS4. They haven’t decided on anything yet, however, so all hope is not lost.
Here’s the newly revised list of European developers working on PS4 games:
Avalanche Studios
Blitz Games Studios
Bohemia Interactive
CD Projekt RED
Climax Studios
Hello Games
Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.
Deep Silver
Lucid Games Ltd
MercurySteam
Ninja Theory Ltd
Nixxes Software BV
Paradox Interactive
Rebellion
Saber Interactive
Creative Assembly
IO Interactive
Starbreeze Studios
2K Games
Team 17 Digital LTD
Yager
Zen Studios
keen games
Splash Damage
Stainless Games Ltd
Sumo Digital
Codemasters
TT Games
Despite losing a few heavyweights, the current stable of European developers is still pretty good. There are some talented studios represented here, and it’s exciting to see what they come up with on Sony’s next generation machine.
It should be noted that the current list of U.S. and Japanese developers have not changed. Even with the reduction in Europe, the PS4 still has plenty of developers making games for it.
For the past year, we’ve seen delay after delay for the Center for Copyright Information’s six strikes Copyright Alert System. For a while, it looked like it would never become a reality. Not it looks like the system is finally in place, however, and it may be launching today.
The Daily Dot reports that the CCI plans to launch the six strikes Copyright Alert System across all the major participating ISPS – AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon – this week. Each ISP will reportedly launch on a different day this week which Comcast reportedly launching its system today.
A small recap for those unaware, the Copyright Alert System is a joint operation between ISPs and major content holders around the country. In essence, these content holders will be scanning Internet connections looking for people downloading pirated content via BitTorrent. If you’re caught, the content holders will send your a notice through your ISP. There are three tiers of warning with two warnings per tier, hence the six strikes.
The first two warnings are “educational alerts” that tell consumers they’ve been caught. The email will then direct them to legitimate sources of content with the hopes that the early warnings are enough to scare people into buying content.
The next two warnings step it up a notch with what’s called “acknowledgement alerts.” The first two alerts were simply emails, but these next two will actually hijack your browser. You will be hit with a message telling you that you’ve been caught yet again, and must acknowledge that you’ve been caught before you can start browsing again.
The next two tiers, and presumably every alert afterwards, will be “mitigation measures.” In essence, the ISPs will begin throttling your bandwidth or blocking Web sites you frequently visit. The ISPs will not be able to cut off your Internet connection under the plan.
Of course, the real fun of all of this is that the copyright holders have all the power in this relationship. They can simply accuse you of piracy with little proof, and the ISPs must hit you with whatever tier of alert you’re on. Sure, you can appeal the accusation, but it costs you $35 up front and goes before the American Arbitration Association. In short, it’s not worth fighting, and the content holders know it.
Despite being anti-consumer and potentially damaging to small businesses, the CCI wants you to know that it’s your friend. The group put together a small video that says it only wants to be your friend as long as you purchase all your content legally.
I’m sure that the CCI will announce that P2P sharing is down in a few months from now, but we’ll know what’s really up. The number of VPN subscriptions in the U.S. is already on the rise, and more people will presumably start using Mega, Usenet and other non-P2P networks.
Nonetheless, It will be interesting to see the response from Internet users not aware of these programs once the first alerts start rolling in. The response may be so vitriolic that ISPs and the CCI call it off until it can formulate another plan. The consumer is king in the U.S. and corporations have been known more than once to back down when programs like this only serve to piss off their most loyal consumers.
Barnes & Noble looked like it was on its way back to relevancy after a number of quarters of profitability thanks to its Nook tablets. That all ended last year as the company began posting losses, and it looked like its Nook business was starting to come up short against Amazon. Now the company may be breaking apart its various businesses in a bid to save the company.
Leonard Riggio, founder of Barnes & Noble, Chairman of the Board and largest shareholder, announced this morning that he plans to buy the brick and mortar retail business of the book store. There’s nothing set in stone just yet, but it would be the second time in the past few months that an ailing business was bought by its founder. The first, of course, being the acquisition of Dell by its founder Michael Dell for $24.4 billion.
Riggio’s plan is to only buy the company’s retail business. The Nook business was spun off last year so where does this plan leave that? According to a report from The New York Times, the company is looking into winding down its Nook business.
It doesn’t mean that the Nook brand, which was spun off from the retail business last year, will be dead. It only means that Barnes & Noble might stop making its own hardware in favor of licensing its own Nook software to other manufacturers. In essence, we’d see tablets and eReaders from other manufacturers running the Nook software. The company would also presumably focus on its software presence on other platforms like Windows 8, iOS and Android.
If Riggio is successful in his bid to buy the retail operation, it could give Microsoft an opening to purchase the Nook operation. Nook is already closely tied to Windows 8 after Microsoft pumped $300 million into the business last year. Nook is already the best eReader app on Windows 8, and further cultivation at the hands of Microsoft could turn it into a worthy competitor to Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle.
All of this is purely speculation for now, and the Barnes & Noble board may not even approve Riggio’s bid to buy the company’s retail operation. Still, it does look like the company will at least be winding down its Nook hardware operations. A focus on its digital business could just be what Nook needs to become profitable again.
Firefox OS is Mozilla’s plan to bring an affordable, Web-centric smartphone to emerging economies around the world. At Mobile World Congress, Mozilla finally announced which countries will be getting their hands on the new OS first.
Mozilla announced that Firefox OS will be launching across 17 carriers around the world throughout the year. The first carriers to get the OS in the middle of this year are America Movil, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Telenor. These carriers represent a spread across the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Siberia, Spain and Venezuela.
“Firefox OS brings the freedom and unbounded innovation of the open Web to mobile users everywhere,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla. “With the support of our vibrant community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online.”
As for the hardware, Mozilla will be working with Alcatel, LG and ZTE to build the first wave of Firefox OS smartphones. Each phone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. If the phones are anything like the developer preview hardware, the Firefox OS phones will either come with a Snapdragon S1 or S4 processor.
Mozilla also announced at Mobile World Congress that its online marketplace – Firefox Marketplace – will be launching day one with Firefox OS later this year. It’s already available on Firefox for Android Aurora, and the final release will include a number of popular apps and games to give the platform a boost upon launch.
Some of the launch titles on Firefox Marketplace will include popular titles like Where’s My Water, Cut The Rope and MTV Brasil.
“Firefox OS will break down the walls between apps and the Web because Firefox OS apps are built using Web technologies, like HTML5. We expect to see lots of amazing apps people love built for Firefox OS because more developers are already creating for the Web than for any other platform,” said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla Senior Vice President of Products. “Firefox OS delivers a rich, delightful and personalized experience for users and people can search for anything that is on their mind to discover relevant apps that can be used instantly, even apps they’ve never installed or used before.”
If you want more information on Firefox OS, here’s a video of Jay Sullivan, Mozilla Senior VP of Products, talking about it at Mobile World Congress:
It’s Friday, and that means that the Injustice Battle Arena gets another two amazing match ups. The past few weeks have been incredibly exciting with match ups between the likes of Batman and Bane, and The Joker and Lex Luthor.
This week’s first match up is between Aquaman and Cyborg. The recently revealed King of Atlantis has quite a formidable move set. I might also mention that his special has him feeding Cyborg to a shark.
It should be noted that Injustice got Khary Payton, the voice of Cyborg in Teen Titans, to reprise his role in Injustice. Oh, and don’t worry, his trademark “Booyah” is still present.
The second match up is between Green Lantern and Solomon Grundy. Grundy puts up a terrific fight, and is even a little disgusting to boot. Hal Jordan came out victorious, however, after smashing Grundy with a fleet of buses and jet fighters summoned by the ring.
We’re almost at the end of the semifinal fights. After that, we can get on to the quarter finals. I can’t wait to see the match up of Batman and Wonder Woman.
Insights are a huge part of the Facebook developer’s life. As such, the social network has been consistently improving the product with new features and fixes. The latest fixes are coming after an extensive engineering audit.
Facebook announced today that it has discovered a number of bugs that impacted Page Insights impression and reach reporting. Facebook is now in the process of fixing these bugs, but wants developers to know that the impact of said bugs will be different for every page. To see the results of the fixes and the impact the bugs had, Facebook recommends you check your page Insights on Monday after a weekend of bug fixing.
So, what should you be looking for? Facebook says that most Pages will see the following changes on Monday following the bug fixes:
Total reach to stay the same or increase for most Pages
An increase in paid reach if you ran News Feed ads
An increase or decrease in organic reach, depending on many factors such as the composition of your fan base, when and how often you post and your spending patterns
A change in metrics computed from reach and impressions, such as engagement rate and virality
We know that accurate data is fundamental to building and improving your Facebook presence. We are taking this very seriously. We have already put a number of additional quality and verification measures in place to prevent future bugs and resolve them quickly if they arise.
Unfortunately, Facebook says that it won’t “be able to backfill Page Insights with historical data” as a result of the bugs mucking with its logging systems. Everything else should be working fine once the bugs are all fixed by Monday morning though.
