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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Eventbrite Launches First Industry-Specific Ticketing Platform For Races And Walks, Endurance
Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is debuting a new vertical today, called Endurance, which focuses specifically on selling tickets for races and walks, including marathons, triathlons, races, fundraising walks, and more. As you may know, Eventbrite, which has sold 57 million tickets and hosted over 500,000 events in the past year, has been used as a registration and ticketing platform for a broad range of events, from large fundraisers, festivals, tech conferences, and concerts to cooking classes and HTML workshops. But this is the first time the company has launched a dedicated, industry-specific ticketing manager for a vertical. The company says they realized there are a couple of key markets that have more advanced feature requirements, and in order to take advantage of more opportunities in these markets, the company is building an expertise in select verticals.bowl games abc store nate diaz vs donald cerrone ufc 141 lesnar vs overeem appetizer recipes alistair overeem
Is The Brydge Finally the Perfect iPad Keyboard Case?
The Brydge iPad keyboard case, a Kickstarter project, looks very promising.? It features a full-sized keyboard in an aerospace-grade aluminum body, and it has a patent-pending hinge system that uses friction and magnets to securely hold your iPad – even when you try to shake it apart.? The hinge rotates through almost 180-degrees, so you’ll [...]
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Guns N? Roses Drummer Steven Adler Has Harsh Words For Axl Rose
Guns N’ Roses Drummer Steven Adler Has Harsh Words For Axl Rose
Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler has opened up about Axl Rose snubbing his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Axl declined to [...]
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Yes, the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is a Nexus; no, you can't build it from AOSP
With the Sprint Galaxy Nexus finally seeing its release today, it's worth a reminder of where, exactly, it stands in the world of Nexus and the Android Open Source Project. And Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru has done exactly that this weekend.
The short version is that, no, you can't compile a pure AOSP build for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus directly from Google. That's because there are licensing issues with some files for CDMA devices that keeps the code from being released under AOSP. And because compiling without those files would leave you with a phone that doesn't quite work (if data and voice are important features, anyway), it remains not quite as open-source as GSM Nexus devices. That's just the way it is.
This isn't new, of course. It's what got folks all sorts of frustrated earlier this year when Google changed up the AOSP documentation and everyone went off half-cocked about whether Verizon's Galaxy Nexus was a real Nexus, or whether Google still supported CDMA devices or whatever.
To recap: Yes, the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is a "Nexus." Yes, it's supported by Google. Yes, it'll likely get newer versions of Android more quickly than other devices. (And maybe even more quickly than GSM versions.) Is it something to stay up nights worrying about? Nope.
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Vodafone Buys Cable & Wireless For $1.7B, Gives Mobile Carrier Bigger Window On Enterprise, Broadband
Big news from the UK this morning: Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest mobile operators, has made a formal offer to buy up the assets of Cable & Wireless Worldwide for ?1 billion ($1.7 billion), a deal that catapults Vodafone into running its own fixed line network in the UK and specifically will give it a much bigger view to winning enterprise business -- a big challenge to BT and a mark of further consolidation in the space. Cable & Wireless, first founded in the nineteeth century and one of the biggest operators in Europe, has fallen on hard times more recently and has run through three chief executives since a restructuring in 2010. The deal will make Vodafone the UK's second-largest operator, with ?7 billion ($10.5 billion) in annual revenue.miami heat celtics sinead oconnor braylon edwards jimmer fredette mall of america mennonite
Demo 2012: Looking for the Next Google, Facebook or Apple
Demo is a fascinating show. What you see is a string of companies that each have six minutes to pitch their products to an audience of media, investors, other companies (who might buy them), and peers. My initial thought is that my friend Carmine Gallo, who wrote The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and teaches people how to present, could make a living helping these folks present properly.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Tomatometer Watch: The Avengers
Will Marvel's superhero tag-team assemble a Certified Fresh?
While the film doesn't open 'til May 4 in the US, international Avengers fans get to see their heroes a week earlier -- and there are plenty of reviews coming in. If early buzz is any indication, this one's likely to go down as one of the best critically-reviewed comic book films ever.Empire magazine's James White calls it "A joyous blend of heroism and humour that raises the stakes even as it maintains a firm grip on what makes the individual heroes tick," while for Leigh Paatsch, writing at Australia's Daily Telegraph, it's a "truly epic action picture [that] positively pulses with panache, wit and excitement throughout."
The Guardian's Henry Barnes is also impressed, noting -- for the non-fanboy element -- that the movie "carries the mark of a piece of expensively assembled fan fiction, albeit stitched together with a lightness and wit that will just about carry the casual viewer through two-and-a-half-hours of comic geek nirvana."
Todd McCarthy concurs over at The Hollywood Reporter: "Whedon pulls off a stunning feat in bringing balance to this superhuman circus, engineered to charm the geek core and non-fans alike." Meanwhile, Variety's Justin Chang writes: "Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, Joss Whedon's buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order."
Not everyone will succumb to Marvel's juggernaut, however, as Amy Nicholson illustrates at Box Office Magazine. "The Avengers needs more ambition," she writes. "Prehistoric metal monsters smashing up skyscrapers? We've seen that before. For Avengers 2 (because there will inevitably be an Avengers 2) ask not what Michael Bay would do to New York -- ask what Hieronymus Bosch would do to anywhere he damn well pleased." A Bosch-fueled epic? Genius. That we'd definitely pay to see.
The Avengers is out in theaters on May 4.
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71 Toes: Friday Q & A -- parenting stuff (part 4)
Would you consider answering how you went from being very shy to being outgoing (referenced in your family's recent birthday post) in a future Friday Q&A?
I have a whole post written about this that I'll post soon, but the short answer is that it was my friends who pulled me out of my shell. Really, really good friends.
A random question for you, coming from such a close tight-knit family, when did you start doing things just with you, Dave, and your kids? My husband and I are the only ones in our families that are trying to start our own holiday traditions and branch off a little bit and we are getting some flack for it. Right now we just have one child, so part of me thinks, lets take advantage of this time and spend as much time with our extended family as possible, and part of me says this is the best time to settle down and start our own traditions. What do you think?
This is a really tough one because I adore my family and want to be with them as much as possible. BUT years ago (probably when Max was five) we decided we wanted our own family to be as strong as my family is so we needed to start our own family traditions too. We started staying home for Christmas. I thought I'd be so sad about that, but I loved soaking in my kids on Christmas Eve and morning so much that it made it easier to break away for other things too. We have started doing our own things at the end of each summer too. Last summer we went just with our own little family to Park City. It was short, but there were no extra friends. No extended family. I LOVED it. This year we're taking Max and Elle to India at the end of the summer (much more about that later, we're going to volunteer with this amazing organization). It's not our whole family, but the start of a family tradition hope to start doing: service in different countries as we help save up enough money for that together.
Of course, starting family traditions does not have to be a trip, and certainly does not have to be extravagant. It can just be small things that start forming a new family identity.
One thing I have learned is that if you have a good supportive extended family that wants to do things together go for it! How great for your kids to have those memories together. I can never give up Bear Lake because I want my kids to have that strong identity with their cousins. It's just important to do your own things too.
I'd love to know how you navigate Sunday play, especially with club. We are in So Cal, and it's tricky in all sports. And way more tricky than when I was playing a few years ago....
I probably don't have a good answer for this one because the only time we have had the possibility of sports things being scheduled Sundays was last week when there was a possibility Elle's tennis tournament could extend over the weekend. We just haven't had that conflict probably because of two things: 1) we live in an area where there are a LOT of families who stand up for no Sunday play, and 2) our kids aren't' at the level of sports or extracurricular things that requires additional weekend play.
And boy I'm sure happy about that.
Love that your talked about the no sleepover rules. It seems pretty easy for your family and the kids are ok with it. Does it ever happen though where the guest they are leaving still has friends there and they are sleeping over. Does this upset your kids?
Absolutely. But I honestly think it upsets me more than it upsets them. I loved sleepovers growing up. But Dave and I decided that in our family (because of a long list of reasons) sleepovers are reserved for very special occasions, and because we both felt strongly about that, we have to stand firm on it. If parents are wishy-washy (which I am guilty of sometimes) I don't think kids feel as safe. For example, I had such a strict curfew growing up and yes, it bugged me. A lot. But deep down those rules made me feel safe. And loved.
Someone gave me some great advice a while back. And I loved it because in a way I felt like it "gave me permission" to be different. The advice is that you say, "That's great that s0-and-so is able to do that, but in our family..." (those dots represent anything you do different in your family, from sleepovers to waiting for a certain age for cell phones, to asking to be excused from the dinner table, you name it). Family rules are important. And following through with them is important too.
Sometimes my kids will say stuff like "but all my friends get to do that!!" or they'll wail "so-and-so got this new ______" (insert some newfangled gadget) but I try not to get emotionally involved and tell them hooray for their friends, but in our family we get to (insert fun thing we do here) or (insert another fun thing we do here).
So far so good if I keep it upbeat and light-hearted.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Himalayan glaciers could be growing, new study finds
A new study published in Nature Geoscience has discovered Himalayan glaciers that are not shrinking at all. They could be getting larger.
Glaciers and sea ice around the world are melting at unprecedented rates, but new data indicates that this phenomenon may be lopsided. It seems that some areas of the Himalayan mountain range are melting faster than others, which aren't melting at all, a new study indicates.
Skip to next paragraphSpecifically, the Karakoram mountain range is holding steady, and may even be growing in size, the study, published in the April 2012 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests.
"The rest of the glaciers in the Himalayas are mostly melting, in that they have negative mass balance, here we found that glaciers aren't," study researcher Julie Gardelle, of CNRS-Universit? Grenoble, France, told LiveScience. "This is an anomalous behavior."
Karakoram mountains
The Karakoram mountain range spans the India-China-Pakistan border. It is home to the world's second highest peak, K2, and has the highest concentration of peaks over 5 miles (8 kilometers) high in the world. It is home to about half of the volume of the Himalayan glaciers.
The researchers used satellite photos to analyze the extent of the ice in about a quarter of the total range ? about 2,167 square miles (5,615 square kilometers). The photos were taken in 1999 and 2008. The researchers used two computer models to translate the images, revealing the elevation of the glaciers and estimating the extent of the ice.
They found that the glaciers are holding steady and based on the numbers might actually be gaining mass. But Gardelle warns this doesn't mean global warming and glacier melt isn't happening elsewhere.
"We don't want this study to be seen as questioning the planet's global warming," she told LiveScience. "With global warming we can get higher precipitation at high altitudes and latitudes, so thickening isn't out of the question." [10 Global Warming Myths Busted]
Glacier growth
Glaciers grow and shrink based on how much snow falls and the temperatures in the area. Why this area isn't showing the melt seen in other areas is still a mystery. "For now we don't have any explanation," Gardelle said. "There's been a study reporting an increase in winter precipitation, this could maybe be a reason for the equilibrium, but that's just a guess."
Because of its location and physical characteristics of the glaciers themselves, it was been exceptionally difficult to study the glaciers in this region. Usually satellite photos are combined with physical readings of the ice extent, and Gardelle says they'd like to get the physical data in the future to validate their findings.
Previous estimates had suggested the Himalayan mountain range as a whole was contributing about 0.04 millimeters per year to sea-level rise. These numbers now need to be adjusted to account for the anomaly of the Karakoram region, and are probably more like negative 0.006 millimeters per year, the researchers say.
"Evidently, extrapolation and analogy have failed in this significant region," Graham Cogley, a researcher from Trent University, in Canada, who wasn't involved in the study wrote in an accompanying essay in the same issue of Nature Geoscience.
"It seems that, by a quirk of the atmospheric general circulation that is not understood, more snow is being delivered to the mountain range at present and less heat," Cogley wrote. "Gardelle and colleagues have demonstrated that the mass balance of Karakoram glaciers is indeed anomalous compared with the global average."
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Panasonic Eluga launches in Europe, ?365 off-contract
As promised, Panasonic's first Android smartphone, the Eluga, has launched in the UK and Europe. The Japanese manufacturer makes its first foray into the world of smartphones with a super-thin 4.3-inch Android device, powered by a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP chip. And as we discovered during our time with the phone at MWC, it also sports dust and water-resistence, a feature found in many Japanese phones, but less common in the West. Other highlights include a qHD (690x540) OLED display, an 8MP rear camera and Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with a promised upgrade to ICS this summer.
Some stores are already stocking the device, with prices starting at around £365 at UK online retailer Expansys. The black version is now shipping, while the silver model is expected in the next week.
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