Taboola raises $ 9 million power recommendations of online video

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Taboola, a service that supports many video recommendation widgets, you will find on the Internet, has raised, 9 million series b round of financing. Round led by Crescent point, which is based in New York and Asia, as well as Evergreen VC, who participated in previous rounds.

This round brings total financing of Taboola to 15 million dollars (she had previously raised $ 4.5 million round in November 2008, and 1.5 million round in November 2007).

Taboola gives publishers a turnkey product for consideration and for recommendation of any video platform, they use (integrated with Brightcove, Ooyala & other services). It is actually easier said than done — surfacing related videos is hard enough and then there's the question of assessing whether they people really want to watch the video. Taboola is in and he landed a lot of notable clients, including the New York Times, USA Today, CNN and Bloomberg.

Service makes extensive analytics on the performance of each video, creating the scores for each called ' EngageRank ' (he is also trying to adapt the recommendations for each user).  And this often leads to more clicks, the company said the disks as in 2.5 times more video, watch at Bloomberg.

In addition to financing, the company announced a new milestone: now generates recommendations 250 million per day throughout its publisher partner sites.

Taboola's mission is to organize collections in the world of online video and convert video discovery experience in a simple and pleasant. Taboola is a supplier in the world ...

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Facebook turns into a stack overflow in power developer forums

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If you've ever roved around Facebook developer forums, you may notice that — in addition to loaded with complaints and error messages-they are pretty basic. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but they feel like a pretty universal forum, not a hub for developer on one of the Web's most popular Web platforms.

Today, Facebook announced he is going to fix the situation: this is abandoning its old forums which he said "showing their age, and run custom site on stack overflow, hub, Q&A, which is very popular with programmers (and is loaded with useful content). You can find the new site at facebook.stackoverflow.com.

Benefits of swaps are obvious. Stack overflow has the reliable reputation system, more structured platform Q&A and generally easier to sift through.

Stack Exchange is the parent company of stack overflow, which is a network of 60 + Q&A portals. Post and discuss News stack Exchange Chief Alex Miller writes that this Facebook launch also marks the introduction of a new component to the platform, which allows you to create customizable mini sites.

But facebook. so it's not just a subdomain is a completely new set that we review and works for months. Since the beginning, we have received requests to start a dedicated programming communities for niche topics, but we have always been reluctant to do so for fear of balkanizing the great community we have already. So we came up with a solution that provides the best of both worlds. Now we can create a mini site, selecting the appropriate tags (in this case, anything related to Facebook) and merge only the content of those tags. When you visit the mini-site, you will only see the contents of these tags. Not only you will see only questions related to Facebook, but user pages ranking reputation on the show, earned a reputation only to questions tagged Facebook.

Facebook is the largest social network, with more than 500 million users. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004, originally as an exclusive network for students at Harvard University. She ...

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Stack Exchange is a network of free, community site Q&A. StackExchange was created by the founders of the StackOverflow function. The StackOverflow function is a knowledge sharing community for programmers.

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New USB Spec provides for up to 100 Watts of power, "Lightning" is the name of a cute

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I am sure that many of our readers come across situations where they would prefer USB for a little more energy for their device. Your phone or iPod, ever so slowly charging or external drive that works only on "food" USB ports — or should be inserted into the socket. Sockets, in this day and age! I ask you!

Fortunately, the SuperSpeed USB Group (or any shady illuminatus, it really defines the USB) Decides that the next generation USB 3.0 (PDF) will include support for shocking 100 Watts of power. This is enough to keep the 10 disks or LCD or even the entire laptop. And believe it or not, it uses the same cables and ports, which we have already received.

It's really quite a big jump from standard W 5 or 10 Advanced Watts, found in the normal USB ports. Even Thunder vaunted (and electric sounding) only supplies 10W. With 5 GB/s and 100 Watts of power USB specification, you can enter the second spring here. To keep the larger and more complex devices like printers, monitors and speakers can make it even more versatile than it already is. This is a real leg up on the peak of lightning and light structures, which, although they can handle data from ten external drives, most likely could not power more than two of them. Cables must be able to process about 1.5. It is not clear how the power load will change, but Division is reasonable to believe that they will increase the number of concurrent loads.

Currently, despite the fact that the new specification will use the existing cables, there are potential problems. Not all sources of supply and motherboards are prepared for this type of transfer of power and improperly managed, these high power can burn components, tax PSU and cause overheating. Carrying charge USB cables of low quality already melt and catch fire. But it is disingenuous of me to propose this as a weakness, when the authorities closely monitored USB controller and should be used only for power and currents, tested and known safe taking class USB devices. I'm more worried that several devices and computers will have power of overhead to support this, because they rather choose UPF, carefully taking into account the power draw requirements of the system.

Fears of obsolete equipment, the gap in the direction of the flame, I think it's quite interesting. This is a serious growth and may allow a different accessory ecosystems. Don't expect to charge ten times faster device just yet, but once the design is completed at the beginning of 2012 (it will look at the Intel Developer Forum in September as well), you might reasonably expect some very interesting USB-powered.

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