Photo sent by a reader who lives nearby, 10 minutes after accident occurred. A reader was dining nearby and is saying that the car went into Keren’s Restaurant.
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Car Crashes into Restaurant at 18th and Florida Ave, NW in Adams Morgan – Several Injuried
“Dear PoP, What does everyone think of cheap, but delicious, Mexican options in DC? Everyone seems to rave about Lauriol Plaza, but to be honest – the long wait for a table just isn’t made any better by the fact that the food is subpar and, while the margaritas are pretty good- they aren’t anything special or unique. I tend to be the only person in DC with this viewpoint.
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Dear PoP – Where are the cheap but delicious Mexican options in DC?
Photos Courtesy of Vikrum Aiyer and the office of the Mayor This looks awesome! Between this and the Georgetown waterfront development we’re finally getting some sweet river front options. From a press release from the office of the Mayor: Nestled between Nationals Park and the historic Navy Yard, The Yards provides residents with additional outdoor green space along the water to visit and enjoy.
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The 5pm Post – Grand Opening of The Yards Park
The new restaurant, Terasol, will be located in the former Dahn Yoga Studio (across the street from Politics and Prose bookstore) at 5010 Connecticut Ave, NW. According to the liquor license application this will be an: “Authentic French Cuisine for all ages with a seating capacity of 55 for patrons and a total occupancy load of 70. Request a sidewalk café with a seating capacity for 15 patrons and entertainment endorsement with live band, jazz, and classical music.”
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If you have a good animal/pet photos or news (including lost pets, pets for adoption, dog park news or any other interesting animal sightings) please shoot me an email with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title or upload to the PoPville flickr pool . Photo by PoPville flickr user super b “Dear PoP, I was wondering if you’ve ever posted about cat sitters in the neighborhood
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Animal Fix: Cat Sitter Recs and a very Dignified Zebra
Posted by David Green, Public Affairs Fellow My father was in the Army while I was growing up and I moved around a lot. It was fun and exciting but occasionally a little sad since every two years I packed up my things and said goodbye to my friends. We always promised to stay in touch but as addresses changed and phone numbers got lost we eventually drifted apart
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Military families and digital literacy
For more information about any of the events, just click on the links below. Updated #140conf Event Calendar: Sep-Oct 2010: Sept 14 – #140conf: Boston Sept 15 – Orange County #140conf Cocktail Party / Birthday Bash (for Jeff Pulver) Sept 20 – #140conf Mixer in London Sept 27 – #140conf Cocktails in Toronto Sept 28 – #140conf Cocktails in Montreal Oct 4/5: #140conf: Los Angeles Oct 20: #140conf: Detroit Nov 1: #140conf: Small Town Note: “Early Bird” Registration for #140conf Detroit ends on Sept 10th.
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Updated #140conf Event Calendar: Sep-Oct 2010
Since 1997 I have provided access to college students (both Graduate and Undergraduate) to many of the events which I have been associated with. In keeping with this tradition, General Admission tickets are now available for College Students to attend: #140conf: Boston (Sept 14), #140conf: LA (Oct 4/5), #140conf: Detroit (Oct 20), #140conf: SmallTown (Nov 1) at no charge. These tickets are available on a first come, first served basis
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#140conf: University – Invitation for College Students to Attend #140conf Events
After visiting Montreal at the end of May, I’ve have been looking forward to a chance to return to the city and catch up with some of the amazing people I met with while I was in town for Webcom Montreal. I’m happy to announce that I will be hosting #140conf Meetups in both Montreal and Toronto at the end of September. On September 27th I will be in Toronto and on the 28th I will be in Montreal.
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Posted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Long, complicated and lawyerly—that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies.
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Trimming our privacy policies
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications YouTube’s Margaret Gould Stewart recently gave a TED talk about how YouTube’s Content ID system cross-references over 24 hours of uploaded content a minute with our rights holder database to give copyright owners choices. In the video, she shows how the Content ID technology works and explains, “The scale and speed of the system is breathtaking… We’re talking about over a hundred of years of video a day.
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Content ID explained at TED
I see you’ve now gotten around to requesting an interview with me or a company spokesperson, 90 days after you ambushed our namesake and founder, Craig Newmark , following his May 20th talk on veteran’s affairs and other issues unrelated to craigslist, at a conference in Washington. You knew Craig was not in management or a company spokesperson, but setting CNN’s ethical code aside, you sidestepped company channels in favor of ambushing our semi-retired founder, complete with a misleading “set up” for your surprise questions. Now that CNN has aired your highly misleading piece dozens of times, mischaracterizing your stunt as a serious interview on this subject, and you’ve updated your “bio” to showcase this rare jewel of investigative journalism, you’re ready to try actually interviewing the company itself on this subject.
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Posted by Andrew Silverman, Senior Product Manager Last month we announced our plans to acquire ITA Software. Today, after meeting with many companies in the industry, we’re even more excited about building new tools that will make it easier for consumers to search for flights, compare flight options, and get you quickly to a site where you can buy a ticket. We’ve been encouraged by the travel industry support we’ve seen for this acquisition — from airlines to online travel agencies.
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An update on our ITA Software acquisition
craigslist is committed to being socially responsible, and when it comes to adult services ads, that includes aggressively combating violent crime and human rights violations, including human trafficking and the exploitation of minors. We are working intensively as I write this with experts and thought leaders at leading non-profits and among law enforcement on further substantive measures we can take
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Manual Screening Matters
An interesting Facebook page recently came to our attention, dedicated to the proposition that one can literally “stop human trafficking” by using eBay’s “family friendly” classifieds instead of craigslist . eBay touts the advanced filtering technologies eBay employs to “make sure all of our categories and content are family-friendly,” technologies it no doubt applies to the “broader eBay Classifieds family including Gumtree, Marktplaats, Mobile.de and Loquo, which extends the reach of eBay Classifieds to more than 20 countries.” As a practical example of eBay’s “advanced filtering” and “family friendly” classifieds, we’ve been shown some ads currently live on eBay’s Loquo.com classifieds site, which features thousands of paid ads offering various sexual acts in exchange for money (NSFW).
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“Family Friendly” eBay classifieds
Malika Saada Saar, We saw your performance on CNN, and have read your recent letter. You claim to be “appalled that [craigslist is] requesting the police reports from young victims as proof of their trauma.” As you must know, because it was quite clear in my letter to you, we asked for the police reports for the **perpetrators** of these crimes, not for personal information about the victims.
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Advocate Indeed
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become a very contentious issue, and we think it could help move the network neutrality debate forward constructively. We don’t expect everyone to agree with every aspect of our proposal, but there has been a number of inaccuracies about it, and we do want to separate fact from fiction.
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Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg have an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that further explains our joint policy proposal for an open Internet. They describe our policy proposal in detail and explain how our conversations were “guided by two principles: our commitment to an open Internet, and the need for continued investment in broadband infrastructure.”
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Google and Verizon op-ed: a path to an open Internet
Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications The original architects of the Internet got the big things right. By making the network open, they enabled the greatest exchange of ideas in history. By making the Internet scalable, they enabled explosive innovation in the infrastructure.
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A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
It’s been a while since we chewed on some sweet scuttlebutt and I wanted to update our last Mt. Vernon Square scuttlebutt discussion from June. At the time I had heard that the City Vista sales center located at 1045 5th St, NW was looking like it might become a wine bar, a Chipotle, or something else
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Seriously Sweet Mt. Vernon Square Scuttlebutt – Chipotle and Rays Coming Soon?
“Dear PoP, The large apartment building at 11th & Monroe seems to have hit a stand still since its insides were removed in May. While walking to the metro this morning, I noticed that the sign advertising the condos that were slated to go there is no longer on the building. Please tell me that the wind blew it away and construction will resume as soon as the parts arrive?
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Building at 11th and Monroe Streets, NW Still Becoming Condos
#140conf: Roadtrip will be taking place from August 22 to August 28, 2010 Cities : Cleveland, OH – Columbus, OH – Dayton, OH – Cincinnati, OH – Indianapolis, IN – Bloomington, IN – St Louis, MO- Kansas City, KS – Omaha, NE – Sioux Falls, SD – Fargo, ND – Minneapolis, MN – Dryersvile, IA – Milwaukee, WI – Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI I are going on the road to reach out and meet community members across the Midwest in advance of #140conf Detroit , which takes place at the Fillmore Detroit on October 20, 2010. Come join us in each of these communities and have your voice and your stories heard in “The State of Now.” We’ll be having breakfasts, lunches, dinners and events including the opportunity to sign up for test-drives of Buick cars
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#140conf: San Francisco will be taking place on August 19th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco #140conf SF as part of Connected Marketing Week. (visit website: http://sf.140conf.com/ ) Since the launch of the #140conf events, conferences have taken place in: New York City (twice), Los Angeles, London, Tel Aviv (twice), Barcelona, Austin (SXSW) and Washington D.C. At these events we have explored the effects of twitter on a wide range of topics including: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising, Politics, Fashion, Real Estate, Music, Education, Public Safety and Public Diplomacy
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#140conf San Francisco: August 19th
Flipboard the much heralded social magazine which allows users to flip virtual pages on the iPad as they search news and activities has a new addition to their app. As of today you can connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts and flip through them as easily as you might flip through tech news. I did notice the second of three times I entered the program it didn’t pull up my social networks and when I clicked through on a Facebook posted I had to login to the ubiquitous social network once again.
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Flipboard Finally Goes Social
Gary Kim does a great job explaining in an article that Customers will put up with a a lot of imperfection in service quality as evidenced by the 1% churn rate of AT&T versus the industry average of 3%. One wonders however if this staggering low rate isn’t just consumers not wanting to give up their iPhones.
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AT&T Churn Rate Insanely Low
It’s been a great day so far. Got up early, scanned hundreds of headlines, got caught up on email (for a while anyway, and that doesn’t include emails prior to today), found parking at the train station and I even found a train with some empty seats. I decided to purchase a an egg white flatbread sandwich at Dunkin Donuts in the train station and this caused me to miss my train.
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Conducting Video Interviews in NYC Today
Today we were honored to have wireless visionary, serial entrepreneur and CEO of both Xircom and Xirrus, Dirk Gates in the TMC Newsroom in our Norwalk, CT headquarters. Xirrus Arrays provide super high-capacity 802.11 access points by utilizing cell phone tower technology used by wireless carriers and are capable of sending signals in three directions, Having done a long-term review of one of the company’s products, I can tell you the AP we have works and works well
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Xirrus Doubles Sales Again
Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel Updated video added below How do you come up with solutions for online privacy when technology is constantly evolving? It’s a challenge that engineers face every day when figuring out how to make it intuitive, simple, and useful for Internet users to take control of their privacy and security. It’s also the topic that Dr.
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Empowering users to control their privacy
Rumors are beginning to surface regarding a new RIM device code named Triton which will theoretically scream on a 4G network which will help when uploading photos from its 5 megapixel camera. Expect the phone around the holidays or a few months after the upcoming 4G Wireless Evolution conference TMC is hosting with Crossfire Media in Los Angeles this October. Hopefully we will learn more about the device at the show.
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4G Blackberry by December?
Hi all, we have received lots of great feedback about our upcoming editorial open house at TMC on August 12, 2010. Here are the details if you are interested in reserving a spot. Tags: communications , open house , technology , tmc Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries ITEXPO West 2010 Starts in 68 Days – Jul 27, 2010 TMC Editorial Open House August 12th – Jul 19, 2010 TMC editors in San Jose Next Week – Jul 08, 2010 TMC Moves to New Headquarters Next Month – Jan 08, 2010 TMC Launches Blog Aid for Communications and Technology Markets: Those Out of Work Get a Voice – Nov 14, 2008 Communications and Technology Stories August 14, 2008 – Aug 14, 2008 TMCnet Hits 100 Sponsored Community Milestone – Apr 06, 2008 MyTMCnet – Mar 21, 2007 Communications in the Cloud Webinar – Jun 21, 2010 TMCnet Videos now More iPhone/iPod/iPad Friendly – Apr 21, 2010 TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com Home | Permalink: Reminder: TMC Open House August 12, 2010 Copyright Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com
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Reminder: TMC Open House August 12, 2010