It's official: the Internet is the greatest ongoing success story of all time

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Earlier this summer at e-G8 Conference in Paris, Jeff Jarvis implored French President Nicolas Sarkozy's "do no harm" to the Internet. But Jarvis not only want the Government to stay out of the business Internet. Take, for example, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Robert McDowell, who believes that "the Internet is the most carried out by the success of all time" and thus, as Jarvis used directive "does no harm" in the definition of State legislation.

I interviewed McDowell earlier this week in Institute policy Aspen Forum, where he appeared in conversation with colleagues FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. In addition to the range of policies, innovation and privacy, we have addressed the thorny issue of whether the complete FCC down – the script didn't seem to bother seemed unflappable Commissioner. Is it just me or McDowell really looks like George Clooney?

Robert m. McDowell was first appointed a member of the Federal Communications Commission by President George w. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in the 2006 year. When he ...

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Immodestly now allows you to check the official events, but still you cannot create a formal event itself

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Foursquare announced today that people can now check out the events officially, that is strange, because people have actually (unofficially) was checking in for a long time. I mean just look at NYC Mayor Bloomberg, check-in to something called Equalitocalypse. Conceptually, the "hack" is fairly easy for a politician to do is simply a masquerading as a place of the event. In fact I I checked in informal event right now.

So what gives Foursquare, we was checking in for a while? Well basically what was announced today as more immodestly partner events; Foursquare hooked up with ESPN to sports events, MovieTicket.com for movie tickets and Songkick concerts to populate its database with official events.

These events partner will offer users more functionality-registration as an opportunity to detail individual movies in the cinema, and even the inclusion of real-time data, such as sports.  Foursquare, said that she plans on offers hundreds of thousands of "official" events for more than 50 000 jobs in the next few months.

Although right now the event is limited to the three partners, I hear that in the long term, this would apply to any owner site. Immodestly PR representative Erin Gleason said to me: "we think about the sites and users create events, but we want to make sure that we do it right so that this functionality is not currently available."

At the same time, you can keep the ghettos, returning to the event by searching for your event in a nearby field and add it as a place where it inevitably does not show.

Foursquare is a location based social network that includes gameplay elements. Users share their location with friends check in via the Smartphone app "or text message.

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It's official: HP kills off webOS phones and touch pad

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Brace yourselves, webOS fans.

In the hours before the Conference call Q3 later today, HP has just confirmed that they would cease operations associated with the touch pad and all the phones webOS.

According to their press release:

HP announced that it plans to announce that it will cease operations for webOS devices, specifically the touchpad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options for optimizing the value of the webOS software, go ahead.

This news will come as a huge hit in the gut for fans of webOS (including me, although you can't say that we could not see it coming), many of which were the product of years — the first in the hope that eventually the Palm will be worthy of a pretty fantastic device's operating system, and later in the hope that the HP purchase of Palm could spark a fire, which simply never seemed tolight.

On the upside, webOS, the itself is not dead – at least not just yet. HP wording up above leaves things a bit blurred, with at least two potential routes remains open: licensing webOS to other other, phone/tablet device sticking webOS (HP has already made plans to put it in the printers and cars). Until further notice, however, this is essentially dead in the water.

One for webOS devices this evening, my fellow geeks.

Update: If HP output still saving face, here's a way to do it.

Update: HP Stephen Dewitt says, "we are not going from webOS." they will continue their efforts to advance and may license the OS, but his life as we know that it is definitely over.

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