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At a time when there are few news organizations with the capital to put reporters on the ground in Haiti, social media is helping to fill the gap with information and financial relief for victims of the earthquake.
A number of citizen journalism projects are providing news and media from the ground. Global Voices, a non-profit blog aggregator for international news, has created Twitter lists of people on the ground in Haiti. So has The New York Times. The Boston Globe’s Big Picture also has a truly heart-wrenching collection of photos, which is where the top picture comes from.
Ushahidi, a non-profit project that uses mobile phones to crowdsource news and information in times of crisis, started up a Haiti site where hospitals can show what services they offer and people can post messages to search for family or friends.
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Bellevue, Wash. startup Visible Technologies announced it has raised $22 million in a fourth round of funding. The investment surely shows significant growth potential for social and digital media monitoring companies. It also suggests that big companies and brands might be starting to take out their wallets.
The ability to provide companies and brands with a way to monitor and measure is the stepping stone for them to take the leap of faith into social and digital media. While they may know that customers are having “conversations” about them, they want to make sure they have a good beat on who, what, where and when before they develop a presence on, say Twitter or Facebook.
Visible Technologies claims to have a strong data set in its TruCast platform, revolving around a listen, learn, engage and protect motto. The platform includes several additional solutions. TruPulse, an RSS feed web app, lets users listen to real-time discussions and determine influencers and activists. TruVoice, a set of response apps, allows the user to develop responses to any online conversations without having to leave the Visible Technologies platform. Finally, TruReputation is a set of services that helps you to maximize the positive information about your brand so it’s found by web searches.
Other social monitoring companies are working to strengthen their data sets as well. Yesterday, we saw two social monitoring companies Trendrr and Klout decide to share data to help strengthen each other’s platforms for users to better track trends and determine key influencers on the social web. Companies like Radian6 or Buzzlogic do the same type of analytic analysis and have similar solutions.
The funding was led by new investor Investor Growth Capital (IGC) and existing investors Centurion Holdings, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and WPP. Financing will be used to strengthen it’s technology platform, discover news uses and expand into international markets. Added to a previous third round, Visibles Technologies now has a total of $34 million.
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Maybe we’re oversimplifying here, but we never really got the impression that Google was intending to blow out the launch of the Nexus One. Sure, you could argue that seeding the phones to employees ahead of the announcement was an effort to build buzz — but it didn’t really make any attempt to capitalize on the move, and last week’s subdued press conference in Mountain View (sans the holy trinity of Eric, Larry, and Sergey) wasn’t the wild, crazy event it could’ve been had Google wanted it to be. That’s why we’re not particularly surprised to see that the app analytics peeps over at Flurry are estimating (based on usage of the apps that it instruments) that just 20,000 Nexus Ones were sold in the first week of retail — a far cry from its 250,000 figure for the Droid, much less the iPhone 3GS’ staggering 1.6 million. As Flurry notes, Verizon pumped (and continues to pump) millions upon millions of dollars into advertising the Droid in print, television, and the web; that alone boosted broad consumer interest, something Google earned to a far lesser extent through media coverage alone. Furthermore, the Droid instantly relieved much of the “if only the iPhone were on Verizon” pressure that had been building over the prior year, whereas the Nexus One brought nothing fundamentally new to the table for T-Mobile — and many folks on other networks either won’t or simply can’t switch to the number four carrier for business or coverage reasons. The bottom line is that we suspect Google isn’t sweating the Nexus One’s sales figures one bit, no matter how high or low they may be; whether that’s a smart strategy for Android as a platform in the long term, though, remains to be seen.
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This one has been flying under the radar for the past day or so, but talk is starting to heat up on some forums that Segway Inc. has effectively been bought out by one of its own dealerships. That initial word seems to have come from a Segway Inc. shareholder, who says he recently received a stockholder letter informing him that Segway Inc. would be “merging” with JWH Holdings, which is apparently a company formed by Segway UK simply for the purpose of this merger. What’s more, while the deal is apparently being called a merger, the letter itself reportedly confirms that it’s more of a complete buyout, with current CEO Jim Norrod supposedly set to be replaced by Tricia Laidler, and Segway UK’s Wayne Mitchell stepping up to be the new COO. Still nothing in the way of official statements from either party just yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything one way or the other.
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Here is an ASIL Insight I did on the Seal Products dispute, previewing the legal issues. (Keep in mind that I only had 2,000 words, so it's a fairly brief preview!) An excerpt:
One might expect that core WTO principles, such as non-discrimination and necessity, would have clear legal standards. However, trade adjudicators have gone back and forth over the years on the issue of non-discrimination, while the “necessity” standard has evolved and has yet to be examined in the TBT Agreement context. There is a great deal of uncertainty as to how a WTO panel would address these issues in the context of the seal products ban in dispute. Thus, the outcome of a panel dispute would be far from sure.
In related news:
Canadian Inuit have filed a lawsuit in the European General Court to overturn EU legislation which would ban the import of seal products into EU countries. The lawsuit seeks annulment of Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 of the European Parliament and Council of September 16, 2009 on trade in seal products.
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Retribution is set in the universe fans know well from the video game and novel series?one in which humanity has explored the very farthest reaches of the universe, only to discover the ruthless Reapers, a race bent on extinguishing all organic life. One man is bent on discovering the Reapers’ secrets, the mysterious Illusive Man, the leader of a pro-human, black ops group, Cerberus. And he’s devised the perfect plan: implant a human subject with Reaper technology in order to study the enemy.
He also has the perfect test subject–Paul Grayson, an ex-Cerberus operative. Grayson betrayed Cerberus in order to save his daughter. So when Grayson is kidnapped and made the subject of Cerberus’ evil experiments, the Illusive Man will finally have his revenge…
Retribution is already available for pre-order on Amazon for $7.99 with a scheduled release date of July 27. Yes, that means you’ll have to wait upwards of six months after you’ve already played Mass Effect 2 in order to learn more of the backstory, but hey — that’ll give you reason to play through the game once again in the latter half of the summer.
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Sony’s latest update to the Bravia line is as a feature rich as it is visually appealing. Bravia’s now sport a new Monolithic design concept that is focused on being functional as well as minimalist in appearance. The most highly touted new feature is Sony’s Active Shutter glass technology which for the first time delivers a realistic 3D experience to your home. Built-in Wi-Fi connects your Bravia TV to the Internet and allows for streaming of on-demand video content. Download-able widgets are available to provide interaction with Facebook, flickr, and Twitter.
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EAGLE Street in Brisbane city is Queensland’s most expensive place to park – but inner-city shopping car parks aren’t far behind, leaving Brisbane parkers feeling the financial pinch more than most.
The city is the fifth most expensive place to park in the world, according to the Colliers International 2008 Global CBD parking rates survey. It costs more to park in Brisbane than it does in midtown New York.
The survey, which covers a broad selection of 138 major metropolitan cities across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, placed Brisbane behind London City, London West End, Sydney and Hong Kong.
In Eagle St, most car parks charge $50 for more than four hours.
The same time spent at car parks on Tank, Ann, Charlotte or Adelaide streets will also set parkers back anywhere up to $49.
Brisbane’s most expensive places to park
Eagle Street Pier, 1 Eagle St, 3.5 hours for $50
Central Plaza, 345 Queen St, 4 hours for $50
Central Plaza, 66 Eagle St, 4 hours for $50
Queens Plaza, corner of Adelaide and Edward streets, 4 hours for $49
Emirates House, 167 Eagle St, 4 hours for $49
Boeing House, 363 Adelaide St, 4 hours for $49
World’s most expensivemonthly parking ($A)
1. London City, $1191
2. London West End, $1160
3. Sydney, $791
4. Hong Kong, $758
5. Brisbane, $604
6. New York – Midtown, $597
Colliers International research director Felice Spark said there had been a correlation between plummeting office vacancies in Brisbane and increasing parking costs.
"As the economic crisis takes hold, we might see this turn around but at the moment city parkers are paying the price for high demand," Ms Spark said.
Former Sydneysider Carol-Anne Nelson said the cost of parking in Brisbane seemed to rival Sydney’s notorious price tags.
"To come here on Eagle St and pay $35 after just a couple of hours is ridiculously excessive," Ms Nelson said. "This seems worse than Sydney."
Queensland’s most expensive shopping car park is Queens Plaza, where it costs $49 for four hours or more. The Myer Centre car park is slightly cheaper, maxing out at $43 for 3½ hours or more.
Parking at Queens Plaza this week, the Leighton family had to bring two cars to accommodate seven people, doubling their parking fee. They were shocked when they piled out of their cars and realised they would be paying $98 to shop for about four hours.
"We had no idea it would be anywhere near that much," Jumee Leighton said. "Parks are impossible to find on the road at this time of year, and with so many of us public transport is hard."
Weekends offer better rates for city parking, with Queens Plaza costing no more than $18 and Myer Centre no more than $15.
Parking is cheaper across the river at South Bank where it costs a maximum of $25 to park for more than four hours in a Cordelia St car park and $36 for five hours at the South Bank underground car park.
Some centres offer discounts for spending.
The cheapest Brisbane car parks are the council-operated parks at King George Square ($25 for more than four hours) and Wickham Terrace ($23 for more than four hours).
Hospital parking is also cheaper than parking to shop, with $14 the maximum charged at the Wesley, $15 at St Andrew’s, $15.50 at the Mater, $13.50 at the Princess Alexandra and $23 at Brisbane Private Hospital.
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Precedenti discussioni su ROMA / Previous "ROMA" threads on SSC Italian Forum
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Roma sconosciuta: quartiere COPPEDE’
Una passeggiata per Roma, tra strade, vicoli e scorci caratteristici
Roma – Foto centro, periferia,area metropolitana
ROMA | Google Street View
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Roma – Progetti
ROMA | MAXXI: Museo per le arti del XXI secolo
ROMA | MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
ROMA | EUR: ieri, oggi, domani – II
ROMA | "Città dello Sport" di Calatrava a Tor Vergata
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ROMA | Aggiornamento vari cantieri
ROMA | Centro Congressi "Nuvola" (Fuksas) – U/C
ROMA | Aggiornamento Porte di Roma e dintorni
Roma, città dell’acqua e del benessere (ex velodromo olimpico)
ROMA | acquario virtuale mare nostrum
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ROMA | Aeroporto di Fiumicino "Leonardo da Vinci" (FCO-LIRF) – II – III – IV – V – VI – VII – VIII – IX – X
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Terzo Aeroporto per Roma
2010: Chiusura dell’anello ferroviario di Roma
corridoio intermodale: autostrada roma-latina
Il G.R.A. di Roma
Roma-Lido
Tangenziale Est di Roma
Roma: il ritorno del Filobus
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Belgian architecture firm dmvA Architecten created this modern extension of an existing row house in Mechelen, Belgium. Due to strict local building codes, the architects were bound to height restrictions and the use of a traditional saddle roof. However, that didn’t stop them from designing an innovative addition for the inhabitants.
The front façade of the row house is a dark, screened surface that ensures privacy in an urban environment. The rear façade, on the other hand, is a rectilinear white volume with sliding glass doors and substantial windows that look out onto the narrow backyard.
To ensure natural light would be allowed into all interior spaces, a central void was cut through all three floors. In order to maximize space, the void was filled with a transparent glass floor. In addition to the transmission of light, the architect explains that “By means of the glass floors, a spatial transparency is created through which all spaces are connected.”
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Do Renato Trindade do blog Quiosque Azul, recebi vários selinhos. Alias, adorei o modo como postou todos os selos que recebeu. Conheça um pouco sobre o Renato em seu perfil no dihitt:
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Video Games Live is pretty much the best video game concert event outside of the Dear Friends (Final Fantasy) concerts, and PBS is the station that brought us Yanni: Live at the Acropolis, which is easily the best live music event in recorded history, so it looks like there’s some kind of blood-tinged Faustian pact afoot. The February 5th, 2010 performance of Video Games Live at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans will be taped and aired on PBS during June of next year. Tickets to the event are going on sale this Friday (the 18th), so snap them up if you’re interested.
If you don’t want to make it down to N’awlins for the event, firstly, I don’t blame you. Last time I went, everything was coated in a thin layer of insanity gravy. But more importantly, a Blu-ray and CD of the event will be released next year for your mushy consumer brains to slurp up and toss into your PS3. However, the last performance I saw had Steve Vai playing the Halo theme on his guitar, which until then had been the stuff of maladjusted, failed musicians on youtube, so it might just be worth the trek.
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Thank you for your energetic responses both in the comments section here on the Thrive blog and on Children’s Hospital Boston’s Facebook page to my recent post about Call of Duty and other violent video games; this is exactly the type of public dialogue that I was hoping for when I started my Ask the Mediatrician Web site last year. We all use media in different ways and have very personal opinions about the value it brings into our lives, but their use also impacts society as a whole, and my hope is for all of us to continue to question if we’re using them in a beneficial way.
Related to the some of the responses to the post that said I misrepresented some of the things that happen in the game, I acknowledge that, even though I play video games, I have neither the skills nor the practice time to be a great gamer, so Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was demonstrated to me—I have not played it. I used the air terminal scene as an example of the game’s content, about which those of you with greater gaming experience have far more precise information and experience.
I apologize for any inaccuracies in my description of where certain events occur or how points are scored. These mistakes were not intentional and distracted from the goal of the post, which was to offer parents information about the effects that research has shown violent video games to have, and to encourage them to make their own decisions about how to parent their children using that information.
Setting aside the specifics of this particular game, it’s important to address what the research shows about violent video games in general. As individuals, we draw conclusions based on our experience, but health research is necessarily held to a higher standard—it must be based on observations of large groups of people. Therefore, physicians advise against smoking not because every individual who smokes gets cancer, but because smoking cigarettes increases your risk of getting cancer. Similarly, many research studies have shown (here, here and here) that the majority of violent video game players do not go out and start shooting people—but they do show that those who view violent movies or play violent video games experience a consistent, measurable shift in their attitudes and behaviors toward greater fear and anxiety (especially in children), desensitization to suffering, and, in some, increases in aggression.
The positive and negative effects of media on children deserve special attention because children’s brains are different than adults’ brains. For example, while children can say that an experience is “only make believe,” developmental psychology has demonstrated that until they are about 7 or 8, children’s brains have not developed to the point where they can reliably distinguish fantasy from reality. Even with older kids, the major concern is not that they will unthinkingly copy what they experience in violent media but that these media (like all media) will affect their expectations for normal human behavior. That means that experiences with violent media are more likely to contribute to everyday bullying than to the rare school shooting.
Video games, which present environments and conditions to which the player must respond in certain ways to do well, function as “behavioral scripts” which the player practices over and over. Interactive electronic media that immerse participants in a “virtual reality” are among the most effective teaching technologies we have. What children do, they will learn. Content matters. Therefore, as a pediatrician, I would steer parents and kids toward video games that are sports-, logic-, or strategy-based, instead of those that center on violence. And, as Steve said, in the end, it is parents themselves who know their kids best. They know what’s best for their family and we are offering them information with which they can make their own decisions.
It’s been great to hear from all of you. Let’s keep the conversation going!
“World News with Diane Sawyer” will air a special one-hour edition tonight; Wednesday, January 13th focused on the earthquake in Haiti.
George Stephanopoulos will anchor the broadcast. Good Morning America Weekend” anchor Kate Snow, “World News Sunday” anchor Dan Harris, Senior Heath and Medical Editor Richard Besser and Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz will all report from the region.
“World News Saturday” anchor David Muir will report on humanitarian efforts, Sr. Justice Dept. Correspondent Pierre Thomas will have the latest on the FBI investigation into fraudulent groups seeking aid donations. David Wright and Bianna Golodryga will also contribute reporting.
Also, Stephanopoulos will interview President Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy for Haiti.
Diane Sawyer is en route to Haiti from Afghanistan and will anchor Thursday’s “World News” from the quake zone.
“World News with Diane Sawyer” airs at 6:30pm on the ABC Television Network.
Earlier today Valleywag reported that Slingshot Labs, the News Corp-owned incubator that launched in early 2008, was in the process of being shut down. As it turns out, reports of their demise may have been overblown. We reached out to Slingshot to see if they could confirm the report and Diego Berdakin, Slingshot EVP Strategy & Product, gave us the following statement:
Without getting into detail about the inaccuracies of the Gawker story, the source was obviously very unfamiliar with today’s changes. We have had tremendous success with our projects including SocialPlan, which today is being acquired by MySpace – which includes not only the site but also its core team. Most of the remaining team from Slingshot will be focused on a venture for which there is tremendous excitement.
In other words, some of the people affected by today’s changes aren’t being laid off — they’re being shifted over to MySpace along with the SocialPlan project. SocialPlan was built by Slingshot as a replacement to MySpace’s underperforming events feature, and first launched in March 2009. It quickly gained steam, overtaking Evite in the number of invites sent by July 2009. Since then, it’s apparently done very well — Berdakin sent along a graph showing its growth, which we’ve included below. Doing the math, it looks like SocialPlan is now used to send around 4.3 million invitations a day (Evite reports 600,000 invitations sent per day). Given its success, it’s pretty obvious why MySpace would want to take over the project.
Berdakin wouldn’t comment on the project Slingshot is currently working on, but it seems likely that it’s the WSJ-linked “LinkedIn Killer” we first reported on last July.
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The biggest U.S. music service on the Web in December was Vevo, a new entrant which is a joint venture between Google, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music. Dubbed the “Hulu of music videos,” Vevo attracted 35.4 million unique visitors in December, 2009, putting it above the 33.1 million visitors who went to MySpace Music, according to estimates put out today by comScore. Considering that Vevo only launched on December 8, that is a pretty good showing.
A closer look at the numbers shows, that nearly all of that audience came from YouTube, which hosts a Vevo channel. Of the 35.4 million visitors which comScore counts for Vevo, 32.6 million (or 92 percent) are attributed to YouTube. In one fell blow, YouTube has helped to push MySpace Music from the No. 1 spot.
Not only does this illustrate the distribution might of YouTube, but it also shows how professional content is still hard to beat, even on YouTube. The Vevo channel is already the most viewed channel on YouTube, with nearly 13 billion views across all Vevo and all of Vevo’s sub-sites, which include the individual artist channels for Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon, Timbaland, and many others.
Here are the top ten music services as measured by comScore in unique U.S. visitors for December, 2009. The only real startup is Jango (No.7), with 9.6 million, but the comScore numbers include some lyric sites it also owns. ToneFuse Music, No. 8, is almost entirely a collection of lyric sites. Rhapsody rounds out No. 10 with 6.5 million (Last.fm would be No. 11 with 6 million).
Top U.S. Music Services On The Web (in unique visitors, December, 2009)
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