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On the evening of May 10, 2010, the second #140conf LA Meetup took place at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA. To get a sense of the evening, please look at the following blog posts: From our speakers : Simon Mainwaring: 140conf LA meet-up: Social media inspiring social change Krupali Tejura: Incredible Twitter, Incredible People And our guests : Greg Pincus: Taking Social Media Offline Chris Foley: 140Conf LA Meetup | A Night to Remember Ashley Smith: #140conf LA Meetup at The Comedy Store – VIDEO – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , LA , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Recap: #140conf LA Meetup #2 (May 10, 2010)

On a PC, I have become dependent on the Hootsuite Hootlet which allows me to rapidly post links to social networks immediately or at a preset time. It also automatically shrinks the URL making it oh so easy to post the page you are on to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other social networks you like to share on. The process is pretty easy – you just create a Bookmark – any bookmark and then rename it Hootlet and paste this Javascript code as the URL

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Hootsuite Hootlet on the iPad

Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we have been collecting, and during our review we discovered that a statement made in a blog post on April 27 was incorrect. In that blog post, and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day, we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network).

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WiFi data collection: an update

My mother received an iPad from the family on Mother’s Day and when she opened the box I noticed there was no user manual but there was an Apple sticker. How amazing I thought that customers are accepting of being marketing vehicles for a company – and in this case accept getting a sticker instead of instructions – or headphones for that matter. This week I had my MIS team get me a Griffin Technology PowerBlock Wall Charger for the iPad as I read it was the fastest way to charge the device

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Apple Shows the Success of Sticker Marketing

Microsoft has just unveiled the Kin Two along with the Kin One for Verizon Wireless customers. Both targeted at the social-media-savvy youth, they share quite a number of common features such as strong integration of social network and the Zune-powered music player.

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Microsoft Kin Two – Designed for the Young, Socially-connected Crowd (Comparing with Kin One)

In regard to the responses his ad has generated so far, he resists breaking down percentages by serious inquiries versus goofs. “That’s a judgment call, right?” he asks, laughing. But he’s been impressed with the quality of quite a few contacts — although, thus far, the best of the batch are folks who weren’t listed as independents prior to the aforementioned deadline.

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CO Lt Governorship up for grabs

Posted by Jen Chen, Software Engineer (cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting the videos publicly because she didn’t want the whole world to find them (frankly, neither did her students)

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More Choice for Users: Unlisted Videos

Google’s Android operating system continues to demonstrate its striking momentum as it outsold Apple’s iPhone during the first quarter of 2010, making it the second most popular OS among U.S. smartphone consumers, the NPD Group reported

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Android Surpasses iPhone in U.S. Consumer Market Share

According to research firm IDC’s latest numbers, Research in Motion has managed to move into the top five of worldwide cell phone manufacturers for the very first time, thanks to global economic recovery and the increasing demand for smartphones. RIM, now the world’s fourth largest handset vendor, shipped 10.6 million devices around the world in the first quarter of 2010, surpassing both Motorola and Sony Ericsson. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 and Bold 9700 sold particularly well across multiple markets.

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RIM Moves into Global Top 5 Cell Phone Maker List

The Kin One is one of the two Microsoft’s first self-branded phones released with Verizon Wireless. Designed with a focus around social communication, the Kin One appeals to the younger generations with its deep social networking integration and fun user interface.

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Microsoft Kin One – A Cute Social Networking Device for Teens and Tweens

A little known phone card feature that is popular with many international callers is speed dial. Using the speed dial feature a caller can pre-program phone numbers and dial them by pressing two keys. This is a very nice time saving feature for people who make frequent international calls to friends, family or business associates overseas.

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Phone Card Features: Speed Dial

Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager More mobile app developers — the folks who use mobile ad networks like Google, AdMob, Apple/Quattro, Millennial, Jumptap, Greystripe and others to make money from ads within their iPhone and Android apps — are joining Wertago in sharing their views about our planned acquisition of AdMob. Wayne Skipper of Concentric Sky, a developer of iPhone and Android apps, blogged that he was asked by the FTC for his views on Google/AdMob, and told the agency: Like many in the industry, we believe [that blocking the deal] would be a serious mistake.

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Mobile app developers talk Google-AdMob

Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Today, we responded to a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular.

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Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy

Verizon Wireless has recently unveiled the Samsung Reality SCH-u820 , a sleek, easy-to-use and feature-packed messaging phone that can keep up with your social life. Thanks to the 3.0-inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen and the horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, you can interact with the world easily via instant messaging and social networking.

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Samsung Reality SCH-u820 – the Real Social Networking Device

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s said that change comes through the concerted efforts of small groups of people who dream of better times ahead. And then do something about it

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Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

After weeks of speculation about Palm’s fate, HP announced late last month that they plan to purchase the struggling PDA maker at a price of $1.2 billion, surprising both the PC and mobile phone industries. The computing giant will pay $5.7 in cash for each share to current Palm shareholders, representing a 23 percent premium above Palm’s closing price.

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HP to Reshape Mobile Market with Palm Acquisition

The HTC Droid Incredible is Verizon ’s new flagship touchscreen smartphone that embraces the latest Android software and HTC ’s Sense user interface. With a sharp 3.7-inch touchscreen display, 8.0-megapixel camera, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 8GB of internal storage, it lives up to its name and outmatches other Android devices on the market

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HTC Droid Incredible – Dazzling, Powerful and Blazingly Fast

Posted by Yariv Adan, Product Manager (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) Six months ago, we launched the Google Dashboard to help you view and control information stored in your Google Account.

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Happy half-birthday Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day

Posted by Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement and Information Security Just over a month ago , we helped launch Digital Due Process , a coalition of technology companies, privacy advocates and academics working to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 to ensure traditional privacy protections are applied to new and emerging technologies. Today, we move one step closer as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties holds its first hearing on the issue

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An important step toward updating ECPA

Posted by John Hanke, Vice President of Product Management Ben and Jerry turned a $5 correspondence class in ice cream making into a multi-million dollar business.

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Google & Small Business Administration partner to share tips with businesses

Just a couple of weeks back I was contemplating to write about the journey of Indian stock markets with Sensex crossing 18000 levels. But, to my surprise, I am finding myself writing over here about journey of Sensex from 18000 to 17000 points, a steal of 1000 points from the recent peaks. Without any doubt it can be pointed out that the contagion risks of Greek crisis are now spreading to other weaker European countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and now even Hungary; regarding their susceptibility of exiting the vicious debt traps

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Indian Stock Markets: From 18k to 17k in no time !

Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager We’ve been talking with the Federal Trade Commission for the past six months about our planned acquisition of mobile advertising start-up AdMob, which we believe will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising. We’ve told the FTC about how new and highly competitive the mobile advertising space is, and the FTC has been talking to others in the industry about their views as well

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What people are telling the FTC about Google-AdMob

Moneycontrol.com , India’s leading financial portal has goes local with Hindi Language . Hindi site is exact replica of the English version and literally every part that is available in English is available in hindi as well. Especially for the market which moneycontrol caters to, I think it is a great move.

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Moneycontrol.com goes hindi – Localization a trend now?

Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy Analyst Today we’re joining Internews , the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and others in recognizing the critical, and often dangerous work that print journalists and bloggers do to bring us information from the most inaccessible corners of the world. Groups like these help make it possible for journalists like John Musa , who is covering the first Sudanese election in 24 years, to give a first-hand account of what is happening at the polls. CPJ just released its 2010 Impunity Index , which shows where legal systems have failed to protect journalists against violence and murder.

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Celebrating World Press Freedom Day

The HTC HD2 for T-Mobile with a luxurious 4.3-inch touchscreen is the entertainment powerhouse that every media geek wants. Taking advantage of the huge display, T-Mobile has bundled the phone with a wealth of extra entertainment features, making it the top multimedia device in the carrier’s lineup to date

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HTC HD2 – Immerse Yourself in the Best Mobile Entertainment Experience

Yeah, its starting of the brand new week and its that time again to look back at some of the most happening posts of the past week. If you have missed it earlier, now is the time to catch up Popular posts of the week 8 Time Management Tips for Entrepreneurs! 45 new TV Channels to be launched R.I.P Floppy Disks 71% of companies keep tab on Employees Social Media activities & for a good reason… India’s Mobile Internet traffic growth maximum across the world WOW ! Google Maps now shows 3D imagery with Google Earth! Social Media withdrawal symptoms: Anxiety, Loneliness & boredom ! Top 100 most valuable Brands in the World – India has only one WOW ! A Windows Netbook for Rs

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Popular Posts of the week [wrap-up]

There is a lot of talk about rupee appreciation in recent weeks. It is claimed that rupee appreciation is bad for exports growth and that RBI must trade in the rupee-dollar market so as to force the exchange rate back to (say) Rs.50 a dollar. I wrote a piece in Financial Express yesterday , about the real effective exchange rate, exports growth, and the Chinese exports miracle.

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The bogey of exports growth

Now this is sure to make your jump and take notice – Datawind Ltd., a leading developer of wireless web access products and services has announces ultra – cheap UbiSurfer Netbook in Indian market . The Cost of this Netbook? Just 7999 rupees (around USD 180 ) Even if this is quite cheap – It does pack a lot of features in this.

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WOW ! A Windows Netbook for Rs. 7999 only !

What fate did those investors meet who shunned the shares of the Infosys during 2007-08, at a time when the Rupee had inched higher around 40s against the Dollar on the back of robust inflows into the country? Infosys is currently quoting at all time highs even as Indian benchmark Sensex is still way off from its peak levels.

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Finance Friday: Why Investors Should Buy Bharti Airtel stock ?

I don’t normally find it easy to read tarot blogs – I just don’t know enough about tarot to ‘get’ it most of the time – but I’m delighting in Ginny Hunt’s post about Intuition and Making Shit Up . She’s definitely talking about people’s experience with the I Ching, too: What is this thing we call Intuition?  So many, including myself, urge tarot novices to rely on this intangible concept, that “other knowing” “gut feeling” “flash” that some label psychic and others intuition, but what if you stare at the cards and see nothing but pretty, or not so pretty, pictures?  No flash, no nothing?   You rely on the ascribed meanings, you read the cards by rote, but what if you can’t see or feel or sense or intuit anything else? For ‘what if you stare at the cards and see nothing but pretty pictures?’ read ‘what if you stare at the words and see nothing but weird old imagery?’ For ‘you rely on the ascribed meanings,’ read ‘you do the rounds of the books of commentary in search of something that makes sense.’ Then comes one of my favourite bits: A still picture doesn’t provoke much in me but questions.  Little did I know then that those questions were precisely the place to start listening

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Making up the answers