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	<title>Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0</title>
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	<description>Orginal Signal aggregates the 17 most popular Web 2.0 sites. The main purpose of the site is to provide 
a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your 
last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey. All credits go to the authors of these weblogs. 
Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. Original Signal was inspired by Popurls and the Web 2.0 Workgroup.</description>
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  <title>Android This Week: Google Maps Nav on the Droid; Saygus Who?</title>
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  A new Android phone was popping up all over the web this week, one that looks like a chubby Droid. The V1 has all of the standard features you&#8217;d expect in an Android smartphone plus the promise of a unique video calling function, and is due to be launched next year, according to the   ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Tumblr Shares Stats: 20 Million Uniques, 420 Million Impressions Per Month</title>
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  High-school dropout and Tumblr founder David Karp is doing a presentation today at the Eventoblog conference in sunny Sevilla, Spain. In one of his first slides, Karp shared some statistics about Tumblr, which appears to be growing pretty well, pretty quickly.Last August, the Tumblr team shared some growth statistics and claimed 50 million visitors and a healthy 255 million impressions in July 2009. This month (which I reckon is not actually this month but rather October), Tumblr self-reports 20 million unique vistors and 420 million impressions.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Android 2.0 Source Released, Already Ported To The G1</title>
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  While Android 2.0 has been floating around on Motorola DROIDs for over a week now, one important chunk of it has been under lock-and-key: the source. Even amongst manufacturing partners, we're told, Google hasn't been completely open; outside of Motorola (and more recently, HTC), most of the other handset manufacturers have been left out in the cold with nothing to keep them warm but Android v1.6. Until tonight, that is.As the sun set over the Silicon Valley last night, Google pushed the source code for Android 2.0 to the Android Open Source Project. Within two hours, the endlessly able Android community had it up and running on the eldest Android of them all, the T-Mobile G1.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Rackspace Says it Is Closing the Gap with Amazon</title>
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  The chief executive of Rackspace says the company has closed the gap with Amazon, gaining significant market share in its cloud computing compared to a year ago. In an interview with Reuters, Chief Executive Lanham Napier said a year ago Amazon was "incredibly far ahead," of Rackspace in the cloud computing market. But this year he said Rackspace has closed the gap with Amazon's web services business.SponsorNapier did not provide details about the gap nor how much Rackspace has gained on Amazon. He did say the Rackspace cloud business contributed 10 percent to the company's revenue in the third quarter. Business for cloud computing services has been growing in excess of 100 percent per year. In the second quarter, the Rackspace cloud business grew 17 percent.The cloud business does have its pitfalls, in particular in respect to the tight margins that come with offering the service. Napier said those tight margins have been offset by its hosting business. Rackspace provides hosting to large enterprises. Cloud computing services are primarily provided to customers for hosting websites and renting servers that can be scaled up and back down at any time.But can this scenario continue? Competition is only starting in the cloud computing market. Rackspace competes with other cloud computing providers such as Joyent. Microsoft will soon enter the game. The key will be in how to add margins to the cloud business. Depending on traditional hosting business may get tricky if more of that business goes to the cloud, too.Amazon seems to be fighting that battle on a daily basis. They continue to add features but have to respond to market pressures with competitive pricing. The company recently announced it was dropping prices for its EC2 service.Discuss         ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Palm Pixi Review: Not For Everyone, But It Fits A Niche</title>
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  Palm and Sprint have taken a very different approach to the launch of the Pixi than they did with its slightly older and slightly brawnier brother, the Palm Pre. In the days leading up to the Pre, both parties were on full attack mode; keynotes were held, massive tradeshow booths were built, full page newspaper ads were run, and countdowns ticked away. With the Pixi? They've got a commercial. Compared to Palm's last run, the marketing campaign surrounding the Pixi is decidedly more average - and after spending a few days with the phone, I'd say they made the right decision there.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>MakeMyTrip.com: Is eCommerce in India Finally Happening?</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:34:00 CET</pubDate>
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  GURGOAN, INDIA-- Back in 1995, Deep Kalra knew that India had burgeoning consumer promise. So he took a risk, quit his safe-but-boring banking job and joined AMF Bowling—an American company that was aiming to bring bowling alleys and billiard halls to India for the first time.It didn’t quite scratch his entrepreneurial itch and the hobby was ahead of its time for Indians. So after four years, he headed back into the safe world of banking. And then, in 2000, with some money saved up, he decided to leave again and do things his way. Enamored by the Internet and frustrated by how hard it was to travel in India he opened MakeMyTrip.com. The site—as you might guess from the name—was like any of the online travel brokers started during the dot com bubble, only it was in India.Of course, that was a pretty crucial difference. What Kalra didn’t know back in those dark days was that he was about to benefit from a global Internet truism: Online travel is the ecommerce gateway drug.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Murdoch to Hide News Corp Content from Google Within Months</title>
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  A couple of days ago, in an interview with Sky News Australia, Rupert Murdoch explicitly said he plans to make News Corps content invisible to search engines.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Singularity University Executive Program: Ray Kurzweil’s Opening Address</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:03:28 CET</pubDate>
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  Over the last week Singularity University, an educational institution based at NASA Ames that draws some world's top technologists and futurists, has been holding an Executive Program with the goal of preparing executives for the "imminent disruption and opportunities resulting from exponentially accelerating technologies".  The roster of instructors is impressive, with a number of top professors and executives covering fields ranging from stem cells to robotics.Singularity has been posting a series of articles from reporters who have been attending the event, and over the course of the next few days we'll be posting full videos of the lectures, as well as some 1-on-1 interviews with the instructors.  You'll be able to find these videos by clicking the 'Singularity University' logo in the right sidebar, or by clicking this link.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>“This Lottery Machine Gonna Get Someone Killed”</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:33:34 CET</pubDate>
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  Over the past month or so, New York State has started rolling out a new lottery machine at lottery retailers around the state. The old machines were in service for (as best as I can remember) at least 15 years. I&#8217;ve also learned that the lottery in New York is the largest lottery in the U.S.From   ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>It’s Not Just You: Twitter Pages Massively Broken</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:33:30 CET</pubDate>
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  Update: Twitter seems to have fixed the issue. If your pages are still having the issue, make sure to refresh and/or clear your cache. You may still see broken pages for a while.-If you&#8217;re taking a look at Twitter.com right now, you&#8217;re going to see some very messed up web pages.  Images gone, design layouts borked, text overlapping, and missing fonts are just the start.  Now thousands of Twitter users are complaining or completely confused.From our perspective, it looks as if the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) of Twitter.com is broken in some way (or the servers aren&#8217;t loading them).  We&#8217;ll figure it out and update you when Twitter is fixed and why this massive error occurred in the first place.  In the meantime, here&#8217;s a screenshot of you&#8217;ll find on Twitter profile pages if you haven&#8217;t visited already:Reviews: TwitterTags: twitter  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:33:30 CET</pubDate>
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  Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable&#8217;s sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers!Advertise with us and get noticed.Help us to help you.  Mashable is seeking out site sponsors for our large, diverse audience &#8212; social media users, venture capitalists, early adopters, developers, bloggers, and many more.  You&#8217;ll receive hundreds of thousands of views a day in addition to weekly recognition to thank you as our premium sponsors. Are you interested? Contact us for more information and to receive our media kit and rate card.This week, our valued sponsors are Leapfish, Web 2.0 Expo New York, nimbb, Streaming Media West, MOTOBLUR, Conduit, Clickatell, Influxis, EdgeCast, Microsoft BizSpark, MailChimp, Sun Startup Essentials, and Eventbrite.LeapFish is an evolved search engine that provides a single, connected, multimedia experience for both searching and sharing traditional, social and real-time content making the new web easier to navigate, more integrated and ultimately more efficient.Web 2.0 Expo New York brings together the designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketing professionals, product managers, and business strategists – from start-ups to enterprises – that are building the next-generation web. Along with a dynamic Expo Hall and plenty of networking opportunities, ten main topic areas discussing a spectrum of Web 2.0 topics from business strategy to web design, user experience, developer hacks, community building, security, mobile, web ops, user-generated content, and more. Register today and save 25% (code: webny09bd5) or get a free Expo Pass (code: webny09bde) at web2expo.com/ny.Nimbb is the easiest way to add video recording to your Web projects.  Using our Nimbb Player and API, any developer can integrate webcam video recording in their site easily.  Our Flash player can be embedded using a few HTML lines and we host everything on our server.  Developers can create a free account and our subscription prices start at only $9 per month.  Our company is located in Montreal.  We created Nimbb to answer our own needs to have a video recording widget that we could use in many projects to lower our development cost.  Anyone that subscribes to our “Platinum” package before November 13th will get 5000 additional videos as a bonus (that’s a $599 value)!  To get your videos, simply use our contact form, specify your account’s email, and mention “Free videos with Mashable”.Attended by more than 2,500 executives last year, Streaming Media West is the only show that covers both the business of online video and the technology of streaming, downloading, Webcasting, Internet TV, IPTV, and mobile video. Covering both corporate and consumer business, technology, and content issues in the enterprise, advertising, media and entertainment, broadcast, and education markets, Streaming Media West is about more than just streaming!  Go to streamingmedia.com/west to secure your free pass or discounted conference sessions access.  Go to streamingmedia.com for future conference dates and locations.MOTOBLUR from Motorola was built expressly for the way people communicate today. It’s the only service that automatically delivers and organizes your conversations, contacts and content from all your favorite sites and sources in easy-to-manage streams. Whether it’s Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, text messages, Gmail or work e-mail, MOTOBLUR keeps track of it all and serves it up on a customizable home screen and integrates it through the phone. Plus, with MOTOBLUR you have peace of mind, because all of your info is backed up and secure. Discover MOTOBLUR on Motorola CLIQ available at T-Mobile. It’s time to spend less time managing life and more time living it.The Conduit On-Demand Marketing Platform offers web publishers of all sizes various solutions, including creating and publishing a branded community toolbar, sending your community desktop alerts, sharing and distributing content from the Conduit Marketplace, and much more. The platform is free, easy-to-use and very powerful, and is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers. Anything you can put on a website can also be deployed on a community toolbar and offered to your users wherever they are on the web, including: your logo, content, gadgets, feeds, social media tools, chat windows, games, services, links, and more. Every community toolbar also comes complete with a search-box powered by Google, to ensure your users have easy access to the most popular search on the web. Click here for more information on how to set up your own community toolbar, send desktop alerts, and find cool content and gadgets &#8211; for FREE!Clickatell offers bulk sms and mobile marketing solutions. Over 700 networks and over 200 countries covered.Influxis is an official Adobe hosting partner and resource for the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server.  Influxis provides Flash hosting plans for all levels of use – beginner to enterprise.  With a reputation for exceptional customer service, Influxis provides an extremely reliable international network of FMS servers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany.EdgeCast Networks offers a superior, cost-effective, global content delivery service that gives our customers competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Our world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from ISP contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.BizSpark is a program which offers new software businesses and entrepreneurs access to Microsoft design, development, and production tools with no upfront costs for up to three years. Members can also connect with a nationwide community of Network Partners – investors, incubators, service providers, and entrepreneurial organizations – who are keen to help.For more information, or to connect with a Microsoft BizSpark advisor, please visit MicrosoftStartupZone.com/BizSpark.MailChimp is a powerful, easy-to-use email marketing service. You design, me deliver.If you&#8217;re working for a startup, Sun can help you get it off the ground fast. We created the fee-free Sun Startup Essentials program offering deep discounts on industry leading, power efficient systems and storage products, optimized open-source software, massively scalable Web hosting services, plus free visibility via Sun&#8217;s co-marketing engine. It&#8217;s time to build your business on the kind of infrastructure that can scale right along with the skyrocketing demands of success. Find out about Sun Startup Essentials today!Eventbrite is an online events marketplace where tens of thousands of individuals, businesses and organizations of all sizes manage, promote and sell tickets to their events.  Make your event a success on Eventbrite.Additionally, thanks to the following partners for making Mashable happen:Thanks to ConVerdge for implementing our My Mashable social network and W3 EDGE for the development and maintenance of Mashable.comMashable would also like to thank AttentionPR for their PR support.  AttentionPR proves that PR today is measurable, transparent, and yes, social.  Learn more about AttentionPR.Rackspace is the better way to do hosting. No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. Learn why.ConcentricSky offers web development and strategic consulting services with a focus on emerging technologies such as Social Media and iPhone Apps. From simple websites to integrated web applications, we deliver innovative solutions that exceed your expectations &#8211; not your budget.We can get your name out there.Contact us for more information about supporting Mashable&#8217;s growth and development.  Alternatively, visit our advertise section for more details about:-Competitive direct ad sales-Sponsorship Opportunities for Events and other channels-Sponsored giveaways and contests-Custom ad deals and partnershipsCPM-based advertising is available through our partner, Federated Media, but if you contact us directly, you&#8217;ll be entitled to exclusive unpublished discounts.Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Internet Explorer, Mashable, MySpace, Safari, The Conduit, Twitter  ]]></content:encoded>
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  As any industry analyst will tell you, since its two journalists were returned from North Korea, Current.tv has been woefully overstaffed. The company simply doesn't require that many employees to edit YouTube clips for its audience of jobless hipster doucheballs who have fallen asleep in front of the television.And so it wasn't entirely surprising this week when TechCrunch reported on a 'bloodbath'  at the company, with 80 people being laid-off across all departments.Current's COO Joanna Drake Earl (who is herself three separate people) insisted to Leena that the layoffs aren't a 'cost-cutting measure' but rather a 'shift in programming strategy'. In most other companies, this would be classic corporate bullshit, but in Current's case Joanna, Drake and Earl might actually have a point. After all, by creating 80 new unemployed people - unemployed people who actually know what Current is - they've just doubled the target audience for their programming. How's that for a convenient truth?  ]]></content:encoded>
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  Google&#8217;s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they&#8217;ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone.If you check Google.com now though, you&#8217;ll see that the search giant is celebrating something different: the discovery of water on the moon!  NASA made the stunning announcement earlier today after its moon bombing mission successfully revealed water under the lunar surface.  And now the Google logo depicts the bombing revealing water.When you think about it, Google had a quick turnaround time for this logo.  As fellow space enthusiasts, our hats go off to NASA and the men and women behind the successful mission.  Hopefully this is only the beginning of something even bigger than ourselves.Reviews: GoogleTags: Google, google logo, moon, space, water  ]]></content:encoded>
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  At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco yesterday, I interviewed Sam Blackman, co-founder and CEO of Elemental Technologies, about trends on computing and storage costs. Elemental makes software that takes advantage of graphics processors to provide super fast transcoding, which is the process by which video content is formatted for different devices. The idea   ]]></content:encoded>
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  On Friday November 20, Scribd is teaming with a bunch of other well known startups in San Francisco to hold a new event called Startup Crawl, where they'll be taking shuttles to check out the offices (and meet the teams) of a dozen different companies, including Engine Yard, Justin.TV, and Yammer.The event is contracting three or four 56 passenger buses, which will be driving in a circuit between the startups (you can expect a bus every 15-20 minutes, but many of the offices are close enough to walk between them).  Each office will be doing something different, with activies including everything from hacking sessions to happy hours.  The first shuttle leaves the Embassy Suites SFO/Burlingame  at 5:30, and the last bus begins its last run around the circuit at 11 PM.  To participate you don't have to start at the Embassy Suites — you can also show up at any of the participating startups beginning at 5:30.  ]]></content:encoded>
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