Acute outs RW-T107 tablet with gingerbread NFC RFID &

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Sharp just did the unthinkable. Gingerbread RW-T107 Tablet actually useful and gives businesses a new way to interact with consumers with built-in NFC and RFID reader. The future of children.

The tablet itself has a 7 inch gingerbread varieties. This is a standard build and include microUSB, HDMI port, SIM card slot and headphone jack. Sharp plans to produce 5000 a month starting next month and it will likely be reserved for the commercial market and did not hit the consumer channels. It is intended only for the Japanese market, where RFID payment cards are common and NFC mobile wallets are gaining traction.

Think of it this way: you are in Japan (the Tablet is a Japan only) and your FeliCa card money. Sales associate will handle the transaction with this tablet. Or maybe you have a membership card for some random arcade; You can check your bonus points on one of these tablets. It's like the unmanaged client interaction system.

Other markets are likely to see such devices, since the NFC entering the market. Platform allows retailers to get rid of checkout kiosks and more to interact directly with customers. Of course there is always a solution to the Apple Store and equipment trading partners with credit card reading iPod touches. But it's not as fun as fully functional and Flash-enabled Android tablet.

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Delay on Hulu have more than doubled piracy Fox show

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A week ago, Fox changed their licensing to non-users of the Hulu will not be able to watch new episodes of their show to eight days after the date of their air. On your hat and think about what analyst consequences this could have, say, piracy of those shows. You know that it will improve the piracy? Congratulations, you better judge the effects than Fox. Because piracy Fox show grew up on a enormous amount during this last week.

Actually it is quite likely that Fox is expected to increase in piracy and simply considered it worth the trade-off. Worse options free users, more will watch the live broadcast, they say, and ad rates, go with the increased projections. Query: If these people can watch on TV, why they watch on Hulu in the first place?

For busy and budget conscious observers expensive cable TV and a DVR is not an option. Hulu is located. Hulu Gets a show there, allows for focused on unskippable commercials and with reasonable one-day delay, adds a lot of inconvenience for the deal to the user. This eight-day punishment, and while "getting something for nothing" is a fairly new substantive law, we all seem to have it feel bait and switch for millions of viewers.

So what do they do? They google "download ..." and halfway down the first page of the public, well-seeded torrent, which loads the entire episode — with no ads in minutes and allows them to use their favorite media player or take them anywhere. Wow! A great way to watch your favorite shows!

TorrentFreak piracy tracking two concerts Fox after a delay of the entry into force. Hell's kitchen downloads increased by 114% and MasterChef climbed a massive 189%. This number will grow as more people discover the restrictions.

Will depart the Fox? Unlikely. But Hulu is working, and maps to change hands in this business. What seems like a good case for Fox now, improving their broadcasting relationship could be a ball and chain through the year as the practicability of cord cutting grows.

Sometimes companies need to do something that don't like their customers. Raise rates, for example. Ugly but unavoidable. However, decisions are clearly detrimental to your satisfaction with the mysterious reason will have consequences. In this case, they simply lost many thousands of loyal visitors who enjoy their products, many of whom consider themselves abuse and never return.

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HP Pre 3 never will come to us, but this is crazy cheap in Europe

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On the heels of HP in the first and probably last webOS fire sale, the word came from across the pond thatthey are also deeply discounting the value of the new started before 3 Smartphone in most European markets.

Although initially available for the princely sum of £ 299 in the UK and € 349 in France (both are about $ 500), HP price dilute brings value to surprisingly reasonable $ 75 without a contract. Germany did not benefit from price cuts because all units already sold, believe it or not.

Phenomenal thing, although it may be, it comes with a bit of bad news for webOS fans. HP had pinned hopes for webOS ecosystems from beginning to end, and without the touchpad, it would seem that they saw no need to run until 3 in the United States. It's a shame, really: Pre3 was the last chance to HP on the relevance of the Smartphone market, and more than a few diehards webOS more or less patiently waiting for him.

If you have money in your pocket, and the pursuit of webOS in your heart, you can import it when it goes on sale "soon." keep in mind, despite the Pre 3 specification 's upper, expect some spottiness when it comes to coverage. T-Mobile users will be relegated to the edge of the speed and AT&T will be partial coverage 3 G at best.

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YC-funded Proxino: automated error reports for client-side JavaScript

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Here is a new start with the support of the Y Combinator to necessarily catch they eye the abundance of Web developers: Proxino, a new service that promises to allow developers to detect errors at all their client-side JavaScript, without the need to manually move their code with errors handling commands.

First, a little high-level background. Unlike languages such as Python, which run on servers that you access the Web site, the JavaScript code is usually performed locally in a Web browser. This allows for quick response and excellent effects, but there are drawbacks: developers are much harder to find out if their sites raise problems for some users. Each browser executes the code differently — and if something goes wrong, the developers will not automatically receive the error message.

There are several ways to do so. Developers can create their own set of tests that automatically check the numerous tests for different browsers. And they also can wrap each of the functions in their code with exception handlers. But Proxino's the founders say test suites are not perfect (the worst mistakes are the ones that slip through those tests), and that many developers do not want to manually add error handling.

That's where Proxino. Developers to allocate them to the JavaScript application through Proxino in the proxy server that automatically migrates each part of the application code that generates the exception reports, so they get pinged every time the user's browser has an error. Proxy server can also reduce the code to reduce download time and caches JavaScript apps to further expedite things. And they will automatically be converted to other languages like CoffeeScript, instrumented, the exception catching, JavaScript.

Of course, the proxy servers have the potential flaw: If the server goes down, your application can go down and you are not in direct control to get it working again. To fix this, Proxino uses a backup method if the Proxino goes down, you just start the service application JavaScript from your own server as you normally would.

Proxino recognizes that there are already some tools out there to optimize JavaScript like Google's closure compiler. But they say that there aren't many tools that do a good job, allowing developers to detect bugs in browsers — and they say their competitors behave inconsistently in different browsers, such as Webkit and Opera.

Draws a Proxino charges based on amount of traffic your Web site. There is a free version for low traffic sites with less than 1000 page views per month; The first level of pay is $ 30/month for up to 10000 page views (you can see the complete price list here).

In the long term, Proxino has some pretty ambitious: they say they want to "serve the Javascript in the world".

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Android Devs can now begin to optimize their applications for Google TV

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In the autumn of last year, Google made a first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV is a platform that combines online using television content to create promising to usher in a new era of convenience and interactive experience.

Unfortunately to date, he was mainly a dud. The platform too complex user interface and content issues (some of the main channels specifically blocking access to their Web sites from Google TV devices) has resulted in low adoption. Google is reportedly giving platform for major revamp, and there is at least one more bright light in the future: coming soon, Google TV will support Android applications.

Now, Google has been promising platform will receive Android support since it was first announced that until now has not been strong indication as to when this will happen in reality (most specific got Google was "summer"). Today we are one big step closer to seeing that promise come off: Google just released a preview version of Google TV plugin for Android SDK.

This does not mean that you can install Android applications yet. Rather, it means that developers can begin to configure their existing Android applications for so-called "10-foot experience", in such a way that their application will be ready as soon as the update of the Google TV ship to users.

With the Android blog:

It is still early days, Google TV, and this release is another step in the developer tools for on the big screen. While initially a small number of applications available on TV, we expect that through the early release of the add-ins, which you will be able to bring optimized TV apps in ecosystems more quickly. To start doing this, load the add-in to Google TV today. In addition please continue to contact us in the Android developer community forum Google TV. We look forward to your input!

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Refurbished 16 GB iPad 1 drops to $ 299

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While $ 300 for a Tablet may seem insanely high after this weekend $ 100 TouchPad frenzy, it's still a worthy buy. I still found it difficult to recommend that the existing budget honeycomb tablets on the iPad when I say to people who are not in the tech, and this makes his case even stronger. iPad or netbook? For some people the choice is obvious, others not so much. At $ 300, but not both good deals.

Still not sure? Let's take a look at other options. The new Acer Iconia A100 is only $ 20 more than the iPad's specs, but 7, 16: 9 screen may not be enough for people. Lenovo K1 does not strike me as the quality of the Tablet, and ThinkPad Tablet (while it looks great) is not in the same League. Sony S1 and S2 would be interesting, but not for awhile.

The only real competition, I would say is a refurb corner color. I never had much good to say about these things, but at $ 180, they come with the support and the community of hackers who all can be proud of. (E) the reader I am not a fan of LCD stuff, in the form of a pill, this budget is not half bad.

And of course, you can get a coin for a hundred bucks, but you'd better buy RIM stock. Well not he

Get your $ 299 iPad here at the Apple Store. Yes you could make Craigslist, but you don't know what they did to this stuff.

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Source: IPhone 5 will really be dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone world

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The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a phone that supports multiple networks, namely: CDMA (such as Verizon or Sprint in the United States of America), as well as GSM (used in AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States).

The rumors before, and even at one point half confirms Verizon Executive, but nothing like some good old evidence from the field to make the rumor in near certainty.

Recently I was approached by some of the most popular applications on the iOS today, who asked not offered solid evidence supporting the above claim and name.

According to this person and journals using the application, I was sent to the tiny number of people recently registered for one of their applications from a single, new Apple device that clearly dual-mode – meaning that it supports the CDMA and GSM.

The logs show that application briefly tested a handful of people use and almost certainly the iPhone 5, it is clear that running iOS 5, sporting two separate sets of mobile network codes (MNC)/mobile country code (MCC). These codes can be used to identify the mobile operators.

Of course some registrations for your application that the developer has also asked not to call – it was flown from the new Apple device, using the MCC MNC codes with Verizon and AT&T.

The first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, exclusively in the AT&T network GSM phone in the United States. 10 February 2011, the CDMA version of iPhone 4 to Verizon made its debut.

Now that Apple food carriers (and their respective networks), it makes all the sense in the world to combine in one device, turning it into a "world phone" or "global phone", as would say cool kids support CDMA and GSM.

In addition, rumors have been circulating since last year, Qualcomm will replace Intel as the main provider of Smartphone iPhone 5. In particular, Qualcomm is already supplying basic CDMA version of iPhone 4, but not the original GSM device.

Apple made the phone of the world "will be good news for consumers, especially in countries where some carriers use CDMA (United States, India, Japan, Argentina, Brazil and more). In particular, travelling abroad with a phone that only supports CDMA, is a major pain in the ass.

With the iPhone dual-mode 5 users can easily navigate between the two networks.

If all the above checks – and all signs point to Yes, mostly because – this would soon be unveiled iPhone 5 LTE device probably won't be possible disappointment to some, who still does not exclude the possibility of 4 G iPhone, despite mounting evidence of this phone is coming out this year.

It is expected that the 5th generation iPhone worldwide will be released in Q3 2011, inline with the release of iOS 5, the next generation of Apple's operating system.

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Five years later, Twitter rolls out image galleries

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Over the past few months, Twitter is rolling out some key improvements to their users by adding an improved search functionality and the ability to upload images directly from your Twitter stream. Photo update came through Photobucket hosted and appeared as pic. twitter links and images for the user's followers, as we reported in June and again two weeks ago, when this function was officially available for the full 100% of Twitter users.

Today Twitter keeps rolling by adding image galleries to everyday Twitter users update photos. Huzzah! According to the new Twitter support page of the image gallery users will gather the most recent 100 images that you downloaded to his or her Twitter stream during their recent Twittering career, organizing them all on one page and display them in chronological order.

The images included in user galleries can come from Twitter, yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and other image sharing services is supported on Twitter Details» Twitter said through the Help Center. Twitterers are likely to be grateful for this opportunity, as this means that users no longer have to click over to a third party sharing application for viewing photo twit friend photos. This new feature is also a Twitter well in their quest for stickier users. Users on the site for all of their photo sharing needs without doubt will be great for Twitter stats and a useful addition for users.

To technical limitations of image galleries display (as mentioned earlier) will include 100 most recent photos and, unfortunately, video thumbnails will not be enabled there will be Tweets with links to videos. Moreover Tweets with images that were sent before January 1, 2010 will not be included in the image gallery.

For those looking for new galleries users they can be found on your profile page. According to the Twitter Help Center by clicking the "show all" open gallery in the current window. There are two options for viewing as a grid view and remote from the first and the last is show you the latest images, complete with the body of the tweet is displayed below and sketches for the other images above it, Twitter said.

Personally, it's hard for me to believe that Twitter is just rolling out this feature in the August of 2011, but that being said, I am glad that here. It would be nice to have the same photos, view the version of the above "similar to you at our Facebook above our wall channels.

For those who are not seeing new photo option in the user profile is more lenient, galleries of images should be popping up within 24 hours if they have not already done so. I do not see the galleries for the Web client or Twitter desktop applications for Mac, but I'm sure they will soon be surfacing. In the end we waited several years for this, what is a few hours?

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Co-founder of SimpleGeo Matt Galligan as steps down; Will focus on assisting the TechStars and non-profit

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In November last year, the location of the launch, SimpleGeo, former CEO of Digg's Jay Adelson has replaced co-founder Matt Galligan, Director-General. While Zach Galligan slid as Chief Strategy and became a public face of the company. Now he is leaving the company altogether.

You can read news on the SimpleGeo blog here, as well as Zach Galligan own thoughts here. But in fact it is something that has been in the works since Adelson took over these many months ago, Zach Galligan said. The company is now moving into the next phase of Zach Galligan believes that the time has come to step aside. He will continue to act as an adviser, but Sheldon Adelson and SimpleGeo co-founder Joe Stump will continue to steer the ship.

While Zach Galligan figures that he wants to do next, he's going to take an extended period of time. He dove right into SimpleGeo (then known as Crash Corp.) following the resignation of AOL in May 2009. He sold his first startup, Socialthing, AOL in August 2008.

But Zach Galligan did not fully away from the scene at the time of its launch. He'll be helping out of TechStars incubator, giving much needed voice and presence on the West Coast. Zach Galligan has long had ties with TechStars community as Socialthing first class in 2007.

In addition, he will soon be starting a non-profit foundation with Shervin Pishevar, longtime businessman and currently the Managing Director of Menlo Ventures. "1% of nothing", the Fund will request the founders to commit one percent stake in their company should be given to charity in the event of a liquidity event. Zach Galligan did it himself, giving a percentage of the sale of Socialthing Foundation in Boulder, Colorado.

SimpleGeo has raised about $ 10 million in funding so far. As they enter the next stage whispers have them there more.

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From mobile games to the connected car: Sneak peak at Gazelle laboratory first 6 startups

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Earlier today, new TechStars Network member, the Tampa Bay-based Gazelle Lab, announced its first full round of program participants. This 3-month, mentor-driven program based on the TechStars model is one of the first of its kind to emerge in the Tampa Bay region –  a region that’s been pushing to become a new home to technological and entrepreneurial innovation.

This first group includes some unique companies, like a location-based mobile platform for sharing digital media, an app that connects to your car to diagnose those baffling “check engine” messages and an online ordering system for restaurants that puts big company technology into the hands of SMBs, just to name a few. We got a sneak peak at all 6 of the new companies today, and are now eagerly awaiting their launches later this fall.

While a group of 6 is small compared with other accelerator programs’ outputs, for Tampa Bay, it’s a notable number. This under-the-radar geographic region, which was previously home to Wikipedia before its 2007 relocation to California as well as the recently acquired website builder Wufoo, isn’t really on the map of notable “tech hotspots.” But Gazelle Lab is hoping to change that with its new program for early stage startups.

Below are today’s Gazelle Labs’ first participants, all of which are in various stages of development. The startups will launch this fall, when they present to potential investors at Gazelle Labs’ Demo Day event.

AutoIQ

AutoIQ is a combination gadget and HTML5-based mobile application that listens to your car in order to save you money. The company sells an off-the-shelf diagnostic gadget that connects to the onboard diagnostic (OBD) port of your vehicle. There are several different payment options for the service’s users. For $50, you receive the gadget and a year of service. You can also choose to buy your own gadget from a third-party and pay just $3/month for the service, or you can choose to pay $5/month for both the gadget and the service on a subscription basis. The OBD port is a standard port, accessible on all modern vehicles without having to get your hands dirty poking around under the hood. The gadget, which the company calls the “translator,” listens to the car’s computer and then “translates” those mysterious error messages into understandable language. Messages can come to you through push notifications, text messages, emails or via the AutoIQ online service. How bad is that “check engine” message, for example? Do you really need an air filter, as your mechanic says?

In addition, AutoIQ not only makes it easier to understand what your car is trying to tell you, it will also help you find the best prices for servicing your vehicle in town. Repair shops will eventually be able to tap into the data AutoIQ generates and target offers to groups of customers. Pricing for that aspect of the service is still being worked out, however. The service will launch first in Tampa Bay and will then roll out to Southern California, followed by the rest of the U.S.

CityQuest

CityQuest is a new (in-development) mobile application that transforms normal metropolitan landscapes into adventure-filled mini-games that “promote local commerce and vanquish boredom.” While operating in the same general space as Foursquare and Gowalla, the app doesn’t see itself as competing directly with those “check in” based networks. Its goal is slightly different – promote local discovery, encourage users to “get out of the house” and explore their city, visit popular landmarks, discover new businesses and patronize those which are their favorites.

Instead of checkins, the game will utilize “quests” – simple and fun tasks that enable users to earn badges and points and acquire gold. But unlike other apps that employ gamification techniques, CityQuest doesn’t want the rewards users earn to be meaningless. That’s why players can choose to donate gold they earn to local charities, community groups or schools in the form of actual cash. And regular users who acquire “experience points” will actually be able to help shape the game’s future development, suggesting businesses that should be included in future quests, for example. Of course, there may be a “deals” angle, too, where gold could lead to discounts at local stores, but that’s further down the road. The app will initially launch on one mobile platform this fall, and will then be ported to more platforms in the future. CityQuest also tied for first place at Tampa Bay’s Startup Weekend last month.

Dropost.it

Dropost.it, another mobile app that emerged from Tampa Bay’s first Startup Weekend, allows you to “drop” text messages and media in a geographical area for others to receive when they get there. That media can be music, video, photos, games, or any other digital file. The best way to understand Dropost.it is to think of it as sort of “location-based graffiti.” It’s not designed to be a niche experience, but rather a location-based platform for sharing media. There are several possible uses for this sort of technology, ranging from geo-fenced location-based reminders to in-store promotions where the app’s users receive discounts at local businesses. But the most intriguing thing about this app is how it attaches a real-world location to the online, virtual world.

Using Dropost.it, you could see a video of an interesting event that happened at particular spot. Or maybe you discover a simple game to play while waiting in the long line at the bank. Or you arrive at the grocery store, and get a message from your roommate to pick up some milk. Messages posted to Dropost.it can be set to public or private, as desired. It will also integrate with social networks, like Twitter, Facebook and Google+, to enable friend discovery. Dropost.it will be available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone when it launches later this fall.

Leads Direct, Inc.

Leads Direct, LLC is an online lead aggregator and cost-per-lead provider for multiple service-based verticals. That description is being kept fairly high-level because the company’s founders are still at their day jobs. This company is taking a different approach from the other startups in Gazelle Lab in that it isn’t disruptive in terms of the core service being offered, but in the way that the service works. Lead generation is a business that’s been around for some time, and has a sound business model, the founders explain, but the company plans on making some changes to address specific needs in each vertical they target. The company will initially target property management and real estate, where it will provide advertisers with more control over budgets, a better understaning of where ad dollars are being spent and itemized billing – all things its competitors currently lack. In short, Leads Directo will offer a Google AdWords-like toolset for acquiring leads.

Red Hawk Interactive, Inc.

Red Hawk Interactive plans to integrate restaurant listings and menu ordering systems into streaming video services. While it can’t discuss specifics, the company says it’s in talks with a well-known streaming video brand. And it’s currently reaching out to others in the same market. To give you an idea of the clients RedHawk has in mind, streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, or Boxee are the types of targets the company is interested in talking with. RedHawk would provide a way for these service to display links to restaurants via the screen that loads before you start the movie. For example, under the movie’s description, would be a simple option that read something like “Order Food.” Clicking the link would take you to a list of participating restaurants with online ordering systems. The way this interface would look and operate is up to the streaming video provider, as this would be a white label product only.

However, RedHawk’s goal is not to function as an ad platform. That means local restaurants are not buying the links, or paying for a higher position. Instead RedHawk pulls from menu providers’ lists, and filters those by zip code in order to suggest the available restaurants to end users, along with delivery times and delivery areas. The customer would then be walked through a simplified online ordering system. RedHawk isn’t the final product name for the service, which has been in development since April.

Teburu

Teburu (Japanese for “table”) provides a web-based and mobile platform for restaurants to easily manage their online and mobile ordering services. For small to medium-sized restaurants, it’s still a challenge to get the information from the ordering system to the kitchen, says Teburu. Typical third-party systems often forgo expensive point-of-sale (POS) integration and instead phone the restaurant, fax in orders or send orders via email. Teburu makes POS integration a more affordable option, or restaurants can opt for the company’s specially designed HTML5 tablet application which runs on locked-down mobile hardware and software, like a customized version of Android, for example. The app will alert order takers to incoming orders via flashes or beeps. Then staff simply inputs the order in their own system.

The overall goal is to provide SMBs with the same level of control over their menus and online ordering presence as larger companies have. The product will be white-labeled so restaurants can control own branding. A mobile app framework is also in development which would allow restaurants to take orders via a branded mobile application. Teburu already has a large chain testing the service right now, but will open up to others later this year.

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Placecast brings location-based retail trade signals Smartphone applications

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Placecast's ShopAlerts service that provides retail and commercial offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, today announces the new functionality, integration with Mobile Smartphone apps.

As we wrote in the past, ShopAlerts is a white-label geofencing platform for businesses that want to deliver the GEO work offers to its customers on their mobile phones. Consumers can sign up to receive text messages in different ways — in-store, online, via text message, mobile Web sites, or on Facebook. Geofences virtual cause around physical location; When the user selected in the geofenced area, it receives a message from the business, including discount, sale, shop or other content.

With the new feature, retailers have deployed mobile applications can allow users to obtain from the nearest store, retailer or other appropriate location, location-based communication without the app being open in the same way as ShopAlerts programs work on any phone, this new feature works on any Smartphone platform.

Once a retailer integrates with ShopAlerts, clients (who are in receipt of alerts) will have location-based push notifications when they are in the area of geofenced. Retailers can also use the preferences expressed by the consumer, such as loyalty or past purchase data to improve the relevance of the message or transaction. Time of day and weather can also be taken into account for the creation of added value, and brands could also enable location-based notification when a particular product is available in a nearby store.

Placecast says that he will work directly with retailers to integrate ShopAlerts into their applications, helping them to develop a programme and a messaging strategy, choose the number and size of geofences and activate the field.

Integration with retail Smartphone applications makes a lot of sense for Placecast. With the increase in offline and online commerce Placecast gives retailers another way for consumers and offer relevant transactions and information. The aim is to bring the user in the repository, and messages sent via the Smartphone app can help do that.

Placecast is already used by a number of high-profile brands such as North face and even AT&T.

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New study of antenna Omnidirectional clothing weaves

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Antenna, a bit like underwear. All their needs, but you typically want to hide them, and when you have a problem with them, it gets embarrassing. Since we lost sliding nub and previous years on our antennas, telephones and radios, antennas and more and more integrated with the construction of the device, but sometimes it is not advisable to do so.

Take our clothing, for example. As a rule receive antenna to play nice with bending and restructuring has led to a decrease in performance (and then there's these things). But from the Ohio State University to the next big step towards the creation of a sweater.

They have thin, flexible plastic substrates and etched brass on him, forming a kind of flow easy antenna. Then they wove this thread four panes waistcoat: front, rear and both shoulders. The controller about the size of a deck of cards was mounted on the belt. This device keeps track of the signal from each antenna and switch between them on the fly to keep these bars. During the tests it performs much better than the existing style of whip antenna. Most importantly it allowed secure connection regardless of the direction of person faces.

It's not quite ready for the deployment of a banana Republic just yet, but there are a lot of applications. Chen ChiChih, one of the researchers, said: "our primary goal is improving the reliability of communication and mobility of soldiers, but the same technology can work for police officers, firefighters, astronauts – people who need to keep their hands free for important work". A good signal can mean the difference between good and bad copies when the building goes down and smaller footprint means one more device or log can be another tool a soldier or a fire. I think this can be useful for espionage and police work, though. No more wires sticking out to breast secret guy.

It's not cheap: tech costs about $ 200 per person for implementation, which is probably from NASA'S budget. Researchers believe they can reduce the price and eventual integration of antennas with normal clothing for security purposes.

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Miramax launches Facebook application for streaming movies

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After the example of Warner Bros., Paramount and universal Miramax jumped on the bandwagon Facebook application, offering the film in exchange for Facebook credits. In addition to watch videos and play games, users will have access to full-length feature films from the library of Miramax, including Secretaries, kill Bill, good will hunting and no country for old men.

As of right now, the application is still in beta. It was built in just eight weeks, "so you should expect some bugs and glitches in the beginning. US Facebook users will have the choice between 20 films, each of which is worth 30 credits, Facebook's lease is the equivalent of $ 3. The service was also available in the UK and Turkey this morning, with France and Germany on the deck, according to Miramax blog.

Once you rent, you'll have a full 30 days access to the film. However, after the beginning of the film, only you have 48 hours to finish it before it expires. The IPad and Google TV are also working with the application. For a complete list of movies available right now (all 20 of them) can be found here.

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Urbandig the application wants to take you to the experts local tours

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The newest addition to the app space in local detection, an iPhone app Urbandig is designed to help you find a Novel local experience. To make this team, which consists of former Myspacers Mike Macadaan, Daniel Lehman and others pulled the domain expertise of local bloggers like LA Weekly Assistant music editor Rebecca Haithcoat and Bay Area foodie Daria Pino summer tomato, with a view to creating thematic tours as where you can see the amazing live music in La or grab a taste of local SF food.

Co-founder Macadaan tells me that this expert curation as an application intended to compete with crowdsourced tips and advice features apps like Yelp or Foursquare.

"We create original experience on picking the curator site and what to do once you're there," he said. It also underlines the fact that Urbandig, the Village Voice "Best Of" app focuses on unusual activities as "Cougar Dens" tour, spotlighting places to find the "Cougars" (oh just Google and search for the Urban Dictionary definition) on the prowl in SF or "Heaven" hangover, "escape, where to scoop up the best food hangover in La. "This is quality over quantity, uncensored voice expert," he said.

Users can open the Urbandig application and view the collection place for SF, New York, LA and Vancouver, sifting tours through both the city of GEMS, drink, movies, food and music, or curator and proximity. In addition to a small tour description and tutors notes on each page where you can see each tour stop on the map, and check out at various locations on the tour through Urbandig.

Because the application will do anything these days without some sort of social function, Urbandig allows you to save tours and places outside and share them with friends on Facebook. After friends (going to the profile and clicking on the parameters of the wheel) will allow you to fill in your feed to their activities.

Urbandig hopes to eventually support at least 30 locations, to Portland, New York, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago and DC before the end of the year and also plans on coming to Android in early 2012. Initialization commands and Angel.

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Weekend Wacky jumble a picture: what's wrong with this touch panel ads?

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The software is also eaten all vacancies

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A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship among inner city kids. My immediate answer was teach coding– even basic app building skills– along with English and Math in every public school. I was surprised that my brother– an engineer who worked for many years in Silicon Valley before relocating to the Midwest– didn’t necessarily agree. “That depends on whether there are still enough coding jobs for them, or they’ve all gone overseas,” he said.

It was then that the great American panic of a few years ago came rushing back to me. Somehow I’d forgotten all those business school reports and magazine covers warning the US that it wasn’t just the factory jobs going overseas; the white collar engineering jobs were all leaving Silicon Valley too and going to Eastern Europe, India and other pockets of the emerging world. These reports screamed that kids lulled into computer science degrees by the great late 1990s were graduating into the work world out of luck. Just like the Detroit factory worker, there was just no way for them to compete with the thousands of engineers graduating annually in India and China.

It’s amazing just how wrong so many people could be. Just a few years later, one of the only bright spots of employment in the entire country is for coders. In California, the latest numbers show unemployment at a staggering 12%. Yet if you are a coder in Silicon Valley, the world is your oyster.

You can apply for Y-Combinator, you can raise money from hundreds of angels and VCs, you can bootstrap a simple Web or mobile app off of your credit cards, you can work at Google, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, or one of the thousands of other startups desperate for coding talent. Every entrepreneur tells us hiring is the single hardest challenge they face right now.

Those wacky offices you see Jason Kincaid parading around on TC Cribs are getting wackier as companies like DropBox and Airbnb want their companies to stand out even more to in-demand recruits. Why do you think everyone wants to their company on Cribs? COME LOOK AT HOW FUN IT IS TO WORK HERE!

Recently I asked Dustin Moskovitz–  the Facebook and Asana co-founder and the world’s youngest billionaire– to come be a judge at San Francisco Disrupt. He joked that he was going to tell the smartest entrepreneurs their startups were doomed so they’d give up and enter the workforce instead. At least I think he was joking. (By the way, he’ll give you a $10,000 allowance to pimp your desk if you come work for him.)

As someone who used to work for one of those magazines, let me apologize if you decided not to learn to write software because of all of those covers. But you probably shouldn’t rely on the media to tell you what to do for a living anymore than you should listen to CNBC for investing advice. Either could have screwed you out of a goldmine in recent years.

The idea that all the software jobs would leave the Valley was the second great lie of the early press and excitement around globalization. The first was that America would always stay the “brain” of the global workforce, while everyone else in emerging markets just did our grunt work, leaving us all the innovative, high-paying jobs. I wrote an entire book refuting the implicit naiveté-mixed-with-raciscm of that view, so I won’t argue it again here.

At first blush, it’s strange that both of these myths so fervently believed a few years ago both appear to be false, because they seem at odds. Either you believe people in the rest of the world are smart enough to do the higher level work and freak out about white collar jobs leaving the US as the rest of the world’s worker base gets more sophisticated OR you believe the rest of the world will forever just do the grunt work and more sophisticated US jobs are safe.

But as it turns out there was a fundamental flaw with that either/or dynamic that Marc Andreessen articulated perfectly in his recent Wall Street Journal oped: Software is eating the world. (Ironically, Andreessen became a coder because he read in US News & World Report it was a good way to make money. Lucky for him, he wasn’t born a decade or so later.)

What that means is software jobs are not the zero sum game we anticipated back in the early 2000s when many companies were sending them overseas. Instead, they’ve expanded exponentially as more industries have become fundamentally about virtual delivery.

And the trend isn’t just about a company like Pandora, Zynga or Amazon pushing music, gaming and books to be software-only  products, rather than physical things packaged on shelves. Nor is it just about the new globally exploding market of social media. We’re also seeing the biggest resurgence in companies disrupting the real world since the early days of the Internet, with Airbnb, Uber, Groupon, GetTaxi, and a host of other names taking on long-neglected, fragmented industries in new digital ways. Andreessen and his partners are betting that healthcare and education are next. Accel, too, has been placing some big bets on education.

Not only have software jobs expanded dramatically by industry, they’re expanding dramatically within industries too. You can’t overstate the impact of two billion people being online, and estimates that five billion will have smartphones within the next ten years. Even today, more people have basic mobile phones than have toilets, and those phones can provide a staggering array of digital services from banking to education to news and information.

Because digital companies reach so many more people than the days when we were fretting about the demise of software jobs, the handful of companies that dominate a category like social media are building massive organizations. And, unlike the dot com days, most are doing so profitably.

Silicon Valley isn’t the only place benefitting. Ask entrepreneurs in China how hard it is to recruit and keep video game developers. Or ask me how hard it has been to recruit Chinese bloggers over the last few months. It’s no longer an age when a Web company launches in the US, and years later the rest of the world is ready for those products and features. It’s an age when a Web company launches in the US, and a version of it launches in Germany, Russia, India, China, Brazil and a host of other countries within days, creating a smaller amount of jobs than we have in Silicon Valley but certainly more than those countries had ten years ago. More important: Those jobs are working for local companies, not doing low-level engineering for big US multinationals. That’s a much more meaningful way to break the poverty cycle in the long term, as multinational jobs will only employ so many people with limited upside potential.

Will all of those software jobs be safe? In both the Valley and overseas, the answer is most definitely not. The bulk are being created by startups, and the nature of startups is to IPO, sell or go out of business. They are supposed to be risky, and everyone going to work for one should remember that. The two latter categories could easily result in a huge wave of layoffs in coming years. That’s a far bigger risk for emerging markets just building their startup ecosystems than it is for the Valley.

There will be the regular commenters wringing their hands about a “job bubble”– and while we’re clearly not in a financial or psychological bubble right now, we may well be in a job bubble. It’s way too easy to start a company now, and the gulf between winners who get big enough to go public and everyone else is wider than it has ever been in Silicon Valley. (That’s one reason we’re not in a financial bubble.)

Still, if you are a recipient of that job bubble would you trade places with any the tens of millions of people out of work in the United States right now? I doubt it. Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it’s an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem. The entire city of Detroit has the right to punch you in the face if you believe that’s the biggest macroeconomic problem the US faces right now.

If you’re worried, save some of that cash you’re raking in for the potential rainy day, and thank God you work in software. In a market like this, better to be the eater than the eaten.

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I hope Amazon with Groupon challenge Groupon "goods"?

Robin Wauters is currently staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com. In addition to its activities, professional blogging, he is an entrepreneur, the organizer of the event, from time to time the Council consultant and an angel investor, but the most important champion of the full launch. He lives and works in Belgium, a small country in Europe. He can often be found work from their home or ... ? Read More

Last week, the daily Groupon giant registered a bunch of domain names with "groupongoods" (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and wondering. fr). Obviously these domain names does not necessarily mean the company is going to debut by the name ' Groupon goods soon or even in the distant future, but let's assume for a moment that this is exactly what they plan to do.

Imagine if Groupon begins with his extensive sales force, which are located around the world to start focusing on opportunities in addition to restaurants, spas, massage and Pilates classes.

Better yet: what if they end up finding mutually beneficial partnerships with companies like Alice.com, Drugstore.com, Pets.com, Overstock.com, or Newegg.com, in order to be engaged in selling discount groceries, household supplies, consumer electronics and whatnot.

In theory, the fastest growing companies can apply its successful "local Chamber model and harness its huge international subscribers (about 120 million subscribers and counting) go into offering deals for groceries, household supplies and other goods, regularly purchased online. Actually, it would make sense in my head.

For example, it would be way to Groupon to diversify their income sources and to accelerate the growth of sales as the company prepares to go public without necessarily adding a lot of overhead (especially if they go on partnerships, rather than building a domestic service).

In particular it will not be the first time Groupon makes such a move. They are already cooperating with the juggernauts Expedia and Livenation is fully thanked offer online deals at travel (Groupon Getaways) and event tickets (GrouponLive), respectively.

We contacted Groupon – perhaps they cool enough not to refuse to comment on rumors or speculation. Hope springs eternal, etc.

"Goods", Groupon correctly can potentially be contenders on Amazon, which is not only known for its Amazon.com e-commerce business, but also for their grocery shopping Amazon fresh site and (acquired) Niche Internet shops for example, Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com and Zappos.com.

Amazon also owns Woot, which offers daily deals on a number of points (mostly electronics).

On a sidenote: this will not be a unilateral attack. In the end, Amazon now after Groupon bread and butter, with a quiet car AmazonLocal in the United States.

GroupOn announced recently that it took a net loss of $ 102.7 million in the second quarter of 2011 to 878 million income (and lost approximately 205 million dollars in the first half of the year). GroupOn currently employs about 10 000 people worldwide.

Thus, any Groupon cats on hand to feed or deprive the above-mentioned goods Groupon rumors?

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LinuxCon: the open source ecosystem is not a zero-sum game

Linux and open source development is not a zero sum game. This was a clear message from the Ubuntu technical architect Allison Randal in speech at LinuxCon, but sentiment had been formulated in several ways-week round of all here. Processes in which the company makes a great open source a better world for all.

"Free software is fundamentally superior model for software development," Randall repeated several times. In addition to the classic Linus Bill ("given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"), Randall made the claim that people long to be part of something greater than themselves, and free software development met, in spades.

According to Randall, the future of technological innovation is not theft limited resources away from each other, but the creation of new resources and new opportunities for the creation of new resources — together in a rich ecosystem. The term "ecosystem" made several times in my chat with Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of technology and Dan Frye, Vice President IBM open systems development. FRY, it is clear that the efforts of IBM Linux should be a "solution" as opposed to a product company. IBM does not make their own Linux distro, but they work hard to make the kernel and other key open source projects that bring value to IBM customers.

It's all about collaboration and working together with other members of the open source software. Sometimes this means cooperating with direct competitors, but IBM "gets it" that this collaboration on open source creates new resources for all, and they are cutting the throat of competition for a finite number of clients. Of course they strenuously compete in various markets, and sometimes they strenuously compete with companies with whom they collaborate with open source. But this is not a zero sum game.

Wladawsky-Berger continued the explanation of "solutions", indicating that the skyscraper ever built by a single company. Legions of small companies specializing work together under the leadership of the project manager to coordinate and implement their specific tasks in the correct order. This ultimately how IBM provides yourself as a leader in the ecosystem of open source work to enable new workloads for their clients.

There are many ways to thrive in the open source ecosystem. Whether his continued commitment to excellence of the kernel (a la Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman) or commitment to the preparation of viable, use tools for all users to avoid reinventing the wheel. Yocto project works on this for the embedded space, like SUSE, under the leadership of fresh Attachmate, allocates them open build services help people roll packages for several distributions. SUSE also exchange their SUSE Studio to enable ISVS and companies to develop and maintain their own Linux for use in devices and a "golden master" to create images. You do not need to be SUSE customers use these tools.

But all this cooperation is not always natural. Companies are still beholden to shareholders and their bottom line, after all. So sometimes it takes a neutral third party to get together the parties concerned, neutrality and Shepherd communication channels. It is here that the Linux Foundation comes into play. They provide most of the framework and management of communications between competitors, which have led to unprecedented technological progress in many industries.

"Free software is fundamentally superior model for software development," said Allison Randal. Eucalyptus systems Marten Mickos took it one step further: "any company with the strategy IT should open source strategy. It is important to recognize and embrace! is a large ecosystem of Linux and open source software and find a way to work within it to increase the number of available resources, for which to compete.

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The Snackers become cord cutters; Change the TV world as we know it

Editor's Note: this is a guest post was written by Frank Barbieri, SVP of new platforms to YuMe. You can follow him @ frankba

Every five years over the past two decades, introducing the connection to the Internet to a new type of device creates a boom in disruptive companies. Most of these rods, computers and mobile phones, game consoles and now tablets — clearly a success. Other (remember network computer?) were ill-timed.

Now manufacturers and growing ecosystem of partners to support them, are betting big that consumers finally ready to accept connections to the Internet in their most cherished basis technology, living room, television. Players from Samsung, Sony and the so-called connected TV (CTV) market to the masses and you'll see a big push this holiday season. There are already more than 14 million KT in North America and about 65 per cent of television sets sold in 2012 will KT.

With each platform changes to try to grab a share of the transfer fee, which inevitably comes when consumers change their habits are both new and established companies. North America TV advertising is certainly no exception as many companies, the old and the new line up to try to grab their share of the advertising annual holiday that $ 62 billion.

Although some preparation to date, the incumbents have a very difficult time, cannibalizing existing revenue streams for cultivation, but nevertheless to reach maturity, new sources of income. We've seen it all from books for brokerages. And worldwide TV, we see it on display with the recent stuttering Hulu, pioneering the archetype, catching arrows at them back on once the obligation of partners as they boldly move forward.

That is the nature of distribution, when business advantage hinges mainly on the pricing and bundling and carefully limited access, not on real consumers showed desire and behavior.

Technology has always been in the side of consumers, especially in the field of view television. You may not remember now, but broadcasters brutally fought of the arrival of cable in the 1970s and although it is now seems absurd, he has created hundreds of billions of revenue, the Studio struggled against the arrival of the DVD in the late 1990s. The beginning of the title are a handful of b movies released by Warner Brothers in connection with Toshiba. This was all Toshiba can be obtained at the time.

We can see another violation today. With the new wave of CTV application content can dispel pricing and access the benefits of cable television. Imagine downloading the application directly from the programme, TNT, Turner rather than pay the cable company to access the contents of the Turner. Content providers are already, or soon will have the tools to their audience directly on the big screen. Turner can pocket 100% of any subscription fees and advertising revenue rather than to share with a partner distribution.

The traditional distribution of players, but not banking on the fact that the new television distribution will look much the old distribution of television. They are expanding their services include on-demand viewing and hoping that things will continue as before with consumers, content bundles.

But what if it isn't, it goes down? What if both mobile phones and PCS to consumers choose to snack on content delivered directly to their content providers, effectively removing the pricing, bundling and advantage of traditional distribution of cable and satellite television. In this world power delivery and advertising insertions, changes directly to content providers and device manufactures direct online business ecosystem of partners that they surround themselves with in this case Internet advertising businesses have a distinct advantage over traditional distribution businesses, as they are already on the market pumping billions of video ads through existing devices such as computers, mobile phones and tablets.

Of course the distribution of staff as Comcast can do IP set-top box connection consumers use to access content directly, loose or a la carte, but it undermines their existing revenue models around cable pricing. Industry calls on the people who run the end of the cable to get their content directly from the content of the company, "cord cutters" in a recent Morgan Stanley report concluded that cable companies will have to double charges for Internet access from the so-called "cord cutters" to compensate for lost revenue on packages of cable television.

There are changes brewing. Years in this business and witness the booms and busts have taught all of us to be careful of the absolutist rhetoric, opens at the end of any particular distribution channels. Consumers have demonstrated a remarkable opportunity to expand their appetites, and new consumption habits prove largely additive, not cannibalism (except my poor printing of friends, of course). So be suspect of those who argues that all programming or advertising will be fully implemented in a certain way. But the numbers are so huge and so large that even 10 percent swing in consumer viewing habits, cable and satellite TV connection and cord scissors would represent a shift in the $ 6.2 (b) advertising costs. It seems to me, is a script is prepared.

Sources include market analysis, GFK, Piper Jaffray and Deutsche Bank.

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ItsAlmo st time for decent countdown tool

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There are a number of online applications that allow you to create a timer that counts down to a specific date and time, but frankly, most of them suck. Enter the itsalmo st, appropriately named Web tool that allows you to quickly and easily create countdown essentially nothing (e.g. the day of judgment) and provides you with your custom URL to share with your friends.

Application, which has been hacked together last week, the type code is squeaky-clean and works as advertised (above shows a countdown to TechCrunch disrupt SF).

You can't tell from the screenshot, but the Strip at the bottom of the screen allows you to access all URL count, you have created, start a new or share it on Twitter or Facebook.

Several proposals for the guys who built it, to make it even better:

-There is a whole world outside the United States of America and the people who live there may also be interested in using your handy little tool. Perhaps users could be given the opportunity to change the settings in any way that they could note the date and time they are used.

-bar at the bottom is very difficult to see at first glance – try it up top, changing the color scheme to make it stand out and the default location, recognizable Twitter and Facebook sharing buttons underneath the timer once users have created countdown.

-Let people edit and thus to decide that the URL looks like.

-without touch clean look, consider some of the themes for people to customize their counters.

-consider making counters, embeddable and/or as spiffy widget.

You know you have an application that brings value when users want to see it improved. Nice work.

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Skype for acquisitions-summer group service GroupMe

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Skype will acquire GroupMe group service messaging service, was born in the hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.

The terms of the transaction, including the price, no disclosure.

Just a couple of months after TechCrunch Disrupt the company closed $ 850.000 round financing from Betaworks, SV Angel, first round capital, Lerer ventures and several prominent angels. At the beginning of this year, the company raised $ 10.6 million more from the enterprise better General catalyst and previous investors.

GroupMe lets you create on the fly private telephone group with others and then send text messages throughout the Group and create free conference calls.

Skype CEO of Tony Bates said that he had been talking to the company for several months, at the same time of Skype in the negotiations to be acquired by Microsoft.

Microsoft transaction is still pending.

They will keep GroupMe as a separate brand Bates said and search integration points with time. Group communications space in General is one of the most important markets for Skype ", he told me via Skype video call this morning. He added: "very tacky GroupMe creates an instant sensation. Skype is a daily interactive form of communication. Skype's goal is to reach 1 billion users. Mobile is the place for this. "

GroupMe, which has 20 members, will remain in New York.

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Luxemi — A, rent the podium to Indian clothing and jewellery

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Using the success of the model lease Luxemi starts off as a Commerce site, where customers can either borrow or buy Indian clothing and accessories. Site is focused on the niche audience of South Asian American women, who do not want to spend money on expensive Indian outfit, or who do not live near a store that sells Traditional Indian wear.

Instead of simply offering clothing and accessories for sale, Luxemi supports two completely different collections: one of the clothing and accessories for sale and the other in "take Cabinet" consisting of clothing and accessories are available for rent. When borrowing, buyers will choose their date of reservation, the rental period (the 4 or 10 days) and their size.

The price for the site starts at $ 78 for traditional Sarees, Salwars and $ 28 for jewellery (backup includes the size of the saree blouse to fit, Luxe Pack for clothes, including contacts, Bindis and clothing bag monitor, free return shipping). Luxemi, which was opened for the entire month, joined 4200 membership, and average order size is over $ 250.

While this certainly will be a hit among American women, it is doubtful whether the Luxemi will have the opportunity to create a market outside of this ethnic demographic. But the launch said that they had seen much interest outside of the South Asian community, with 40 percent of customer orders-Indian.

And Luxemi not the first retail site to meet the Indian-American trading community. Exclusively .in is another e-commerce site, which caters to the Indian diaspora, but with Flash sales model. The company just raised $ 16 million from the global Tiger and is growing fast for the site e-commerce niche.

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(Founder of stories) Kevin o' Connor: "exit strategy is total bullshit"

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Chris Dixon wraps up his interview with FindTheBest (DoubleClick) co-founder, Kevin o' Connor, asking him about his ultimate goal of FindTheBest. About ' Connor responds, "the exit strategy is total bullshit," it just does what he likes to do and notes that if you solved a big problem "you end up with many options."

About ' Connor also shows that people actually use the social web less intensively as novelty disappears and becomes an integral part of them on the Internet.

As the interview concludes in the video below, Dixon requests about ' Connor in the marketing channel for its "decision engine" FindTheBest. They discuss how all attempts to game Google makes it harder to be discovered. About ' Connor tells Dixon, the majority of his early efforts focused on SEO. Recognizing the SEO shortcomings (with people trying to manipulate the system) on the ' Connor notes Google is trying to clean up the SEO with Panda and Panda improve results FindTheBest's, 25% the next day after the start of the Panda.

At about 4: 25 in the video, Dixon notes that the market became flooded with FindtheBest B2C Web sites. Dixon asked about ' Connor if he was concerned "that there is so much noise out there that it makes it harder for you to compete?"

About ' Connor responds, "our competitors are 10 000 niche sites, we literally do everything from summer camps programs fractional aircraft that mercury levels in fish. He further States that their competitive advantage lies in the range of categories that compare and big winner in the space will be "who may recoup their R&D account through large base". He ends by saying: "for us to enter any one of these selected markets actually turns out to be very inexpensive.»

Make sure to watch the episodes I, II and III Dixon interview with Kevin o' Connor. Previous stories founder episodes here.

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How Discovery will make transactions

Editor's note: Guest correspondent Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @ semilshah.

All year round, I heard some variation of this phrase: "big transition from search to discovery, is now online. I still know what it means. I would like to share your thoughts on it and I would like to hear what discovery on the Web means to you.

Firstly I do not believe that there is a shift from search to discovery. Shift is not the right word, because people will continue to look for years based on a specific intention. Secondly, although the opening will not replace the direct search, detection can affect it significantly changing how or where we are looking for. Thirdly, there are two types of detection that are: (1) opening, resulting in a transaction; and (2) it does not end in a transaction.

With this working definition of "open", perhaps we can now say: "the big shift is underway is the Act of detecting can come online, can influence how we search and could help drive deals".

Before you consolidate social network when we bought something online, it seems, the decision-making process that kicked off this transaction began in offline mode (See Amazon and eBay for the fun of it though). Discovery, largely originated in the real world. Now, more people online (and in various social networks), the upper part of the "funnel" begins to create for many online, not offline. In other words, the origin of the decision to purchase something which can be started while we're online, most likely because we actively interact with or passively observe someone we know (friend), or somebody we are interested in (follow).

As Discovery comes online, it certainly will not replace search, but it may have an impact over time. One of the main challenges is our current online behavior. Google is so effective in helping us to find relevant information, skeptics warn that even if the user finds something online to buy, he or she will likely visit Google to find it. In such a way that the opening to the tangible benefits of social networks that help users discover things using data for personalization and targeted information, to create powerful incentives for users not to go on Google to satisfy their intention and to find a way to make a purchase.

For example, if you know what, we discovered, can he recognize the element and provide pricing options and keep appointments, as targeted advertising? What if the user who helped another person open something gets revenue search? In this scenario, the user does not have to visit Google in theory because the conversion from discovery to search for transactions happen on its own. Site that ignites discovery will be rewarded with this income, but to make a real impact, detection will occur to many people. It may take some time.

If you can scale, change behavior and drive another type of transaction in the future, you can also streamline transactions?

You're on Facebook or Twitter. Friend appear in your channel, excited about the new album it is purchased. This one affects your taste in music. Facebook or Twitter identifies the album and provides three options on the right guide for you to purchase the album from iTunes. You want to buy the album, and what to do if you could just click one button (for example, "apply Facebook credit") and let Facebook or Twitter drive transactions and settlement of payment through the service as just sell or Gumroad while you draw inventory from another site? In this scenario, the user finds and buys something in one swoop, never really leaves the site and bypass traditional search.

All this does not happen overnight, although it certainly is now. As someone begins to form the idea of buying and learns that buy something, social networks provide an extremely powerful signals and filters that can influence and purchasing decisions. Learn about the new product from the right person at the right time in the right context, such as the interests of (explicit or implicit) or location (mobile), can bring the entire decision-making process, from discovery to find the payment in full within the same site. Opportunities are so great, and that is why sites like Pinterest, Everlane and Svpply, inter alia, had caused so much interest from customers and investors.

Ultimately all this is going to come down to what users find it more convenient or delightful. Although the user might want to hunt for cheap price of the product, he or she may be willing to pay a little more if the product recommended by someone they know, and if they have reasonable assurance that they receive a fair price from the recommended merchant. The user may elect to stumble on something new, purchase or impulse buy without ever going through the entire process of "normal" online solution. With so many choices for each product, little noise and proposals can be enormous, and true detection can help both sides of the market to find better signals.

In addition, it is difficult to predict just what will happen, or how long it will take to unfold. This is only one point of view. That means online detection for you and how you see its evolution in the Internet?

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