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Farewell Address

Andrew Jackson

March 04, 1837

The necessity of watching with jealous anxiety for the preservation of the Union was earnestly pressed upon his fellow citizens by the Father of his Country in his farewell address. He has there told us that “while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who, in any quarter, may endeavor to weaken its bonds;” and he has cautioned us in the strongest terms against the formation of parties on geographical discriminations as one of the means which might disturb our Union, and to which designing men would be likely to resort.

The lessons contained in this invaluable legacy of Washington to his countrymen should be cherished in the heart of every citizen to the latest generation; and perhaps at no period of time could they be more usefully remembered than at the present moment. For when we look upon the scenes that are passing around us, and dwell upon the pages of his parting address, his paternal counsels would seem to be not merely the offspring of wisdom and foresight, but the voice of prophecy foretelling events and warning us of the evil to come. Forty years have passed since that imperishable document was given to his countrymen. The federal Constitution was then regarded by him as an experiment, and he so speaks of it in his address; but an experiment upon the success of which the best hopes of his country depended, and we all know that he was prepared to lay down his life, if necessary, to secure to it a full and fair trial. The trial has been made. It has succeeded beyond the proudest hopes of those who framed it. Every quarter of this widely extended nation has felt its blessings and shared in the general prosperity produced by its adoption.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success, the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident, and the signs of evil are sufficiently apparent to awaken the deepest anxiety in the bosom of the patriot. We behold systematic efforts publicly made to sow the seeds of discord between different parts of the United States, and to place party divisions directly upon geographical distinctions; to excite the South against the North, and the North against the South, and to force into the controversy the most delicate and exciting topics upon which it is impossible that a large portion of the Union can ever speak without strong emotions. Appeals, too, are constantly made to sectional interests, in order to influence the election of the chief magistrate, as if it were desired that he should favor a particular quarter of the country instead of fulfilling the duties of his station with impartial justice to all; and the possible dissolution of the Union has at length become an ordinary and familiar subject of discussion.

Has the warning voice of Washington been forgotten? or have designs already been formed to sever the Union? Let it not be supposed that I impute to all of those who have taken an active part in these unwise and unprofitable discussions a want of patriotism or of public virtue. The honorable feeling of State pride and local attachments find a place in the bosoms of the most enlightened and pure. But while such men are conscious of their own integrity and honesty of purpose they ought never to forget that the citizens of other States are their political brethren; and that, however mistaken they may be in their views, the great body of them are equally honest and upright with themselves. Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility, and artful and designing men will always be found who are ready to foment these fatal divisions and to inflame the natural jealousies of different sections of the country. The history of the world is full of such examples, and especially the history of republics.

What have you to gain by division and dissension? Delude not yourselves with the belief that a breach once made may be afterward repaired. If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and be determined by the sword. Neither should you deceive yourselves with the hope that the first line of separation would be the permanent one, and that nothing but harmony and concord would be found in the new associations formed upon the dissolution of this Union. Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition. And if the recollection of common dangers, in which the people of these United States stood side by side against the common foe; the memery of victories won by their united valor; the prosperity and happiness they have enjoyed under the present Constitution; the proud name they bear as citizens of this great Republic,–if these recollections and proofs of common interest are not strong enough to bind us together as one people, what tie will hold this Union dissevered?

The first line of separation would not last for a single generation; new fragments would be torn off; new leaders would spring up; and this great and glorious Republic would soon be broken into a multitude of petty States armed for mutual aggressions, loaded with taxes to pay armies and leaders, seeking aid against each other from foreign powers, insulted and trampled upon by the nations of Europe, until, harassed with conflicts, and humbled and debased in spirit, they would be ready to submit to the absolute dominion of any military adventurer, and to surrender their liberty for the sake of repose. It is impossible to look on the consequences that would inevitably follow the destruction of this government, and not feel indignant when we hear cold calculations about the value of the Union and have so constantly before us a line of conduct so well calculated to weaken its ties.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision. Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States, argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and, when convinced, they will be ready to repair them. If they have no higher or better motives to govern them, they will at least perceive that their own interest requires them to be just to others as they hope to receive justice at their hands.

But in order to maintain the Union unimpaired, it is absolutely necessary that the laws passed by the constituted authorities should be faithfully executed in every part of the country, and that every good citizen should at all times stand ready to put down, with the combined force of the nation, every attempt at unlawful resistance, under whatever pretext it may be made or whatever shape it may assume. Unconstitutional or oppressive laws may no doubt be passed by Congress, either from erroneous views or the want of due consideration; if they are within reach of judicial authority, the remedy is easy and peaceful, and if, from the character of the law, it is an abuse of power not within the control of the judiciary, then free discussion and calm appeals to reason and to the justice of the people will not fail to redress the wrong. But until the law shall be declared void by the courts or repealed by Congress, no individual or combination of individuals can be justified in forcibly resisting its execution. It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles. It would cease to be a government, and be unworthy of the name, if it had not the power to enforce the execution for its own laws within its own sphere of action.

It is true that cases may be imagined disclosing such a settled purpose of usurpation and oppression on the part of the government as would justify an appeal to arms. These, however, are extreme cases, which we have no reason to apprehend in a government where the power is in the hands of a patriotic people; and no citizen who loves his country would in any case whatever resort to forcible resistance unless he clearly saw that the time had come when a freeman should prefer death to submission; for if such a struggle is once begun, and the citizens of one section of the country be arrayed in arms against those of another in doubtful conflict, let the battle result as it may, there will be an end of the Union, and with it an end of the hopes of freedom. The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty; it would avenge their wrongs, but they would themselves share in the common ruin.

But the Constitution can not be maintained, nor the Union preserved, in opposition to public feeling, by the mere exertion of the coercive powers confided to the general government. The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people; in the security it gives to life, liberty, character, and property, in every quarter of the country; and in the fraternal attachments which the citizens of the several States bear to one another, as members of one political family mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other. Hence the citizens of every State should studiously avoid everything calculated to wound the sensibility or offend the just pride of the people of other States; and they should frown upon any proceedings within their own borders likely to disturb the tranquillity of their political brethren in other portions of the Union.

You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons. It is from within, among yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition, and inordinate thirst for power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you, as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May he who holds in his hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors he has bestowed, and enable you, with pure hearts, and pure hands, and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge he has committed to your keeping.

My own race is nearly run; advanced age and failing health warn me that before long I must pass beyond the reach of human events and cease to feel the vicissitudes of human affairs. I thank God that my life has been spent in a land of liberty, and that he has given me a heart to love my country with the affection of a son. And filled with gratitude for your constant and unwavering kindness, I bid you a last and affectionate farewell. is a project of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Wheels on the Robot Go Round and Round

Today was not the best day ever. After working really hard the past three days and having a ton of success picking up balls and shooting them, we finally started to tackle our other issues. Those being: bringing down the bridge (so we can drive over it) and changing the wheels (so we can drive over the bump). The problem is that these issues are not as easily fixed. We also fixed some programming issues, worked on the mascot some more, and finished up getting ready for the Ice Fishing Tournament fundraiser.

Before we started working on the robot again, the team got together and had a meeting. During the meeting, we discussed some important upcoming dates. The dates included the ice fishing tournament, a team movie showing (Real Steel), the last day of build season, the Duluth regional visit, and the U of M Regional. We also discussed a media release form and, in general, how the team is doing. Good times and lots of laughs also occurred.

After that, we moved down to the robot room to start working. Our first task was the completely take apart the bot. This was necessary to fix our wheel situation. Initially, we just threw the kit wheels on but they have a 3" radius. The bump in the middle of the field is 4". This will not work. Our plan is to put 4" radius wheels on stilts and then have two of the 3" radius wheels at the very front of the robot. The small wheels will help the big wheels get a little bit off the ground and then the big wheels will push the rest of the way (that's the plan anyway.........). The mental fatigue of build season definitely showed. Bydlon and Bryce took off and put on the big wheels about 6 times because they kept forgetting to do something or how something would change. For example, the wheels got put on but then they had to make a new hole for the smaller wheels. Then they put the frame pieces on backwards. Then the frame was too low so that had to fixed. We think we finally have a plan that will work which will get done tomorrow.

Ryan and Brandon worked hard on getting an arm mechanism working for pushing down the bridge. We have called them "tusks" in the past but the new mechanism looks remarkably like the minibot arm deployer from last year. It's an arm that swings down with an angle on the front to slide the bridge down. We will test it tomorrow.

Colin and Megan worked their tails off fixing programming issues. We are learning as we go and the new thing we learned today was how to program in a spike relay so we can make a motor got forward and backward. Awesome work by them.

Jesse and Gabe worked on the mascot some more. They finally an upper body piece that seems to work. Jenna worked on sending out emails to the PMMC and arranging the Ice Fishing Tournament. She also started editing the video for student profiles on the website. Sertoma Club in Alexandria puts on an Ice Fishing Tournament every winter. This year, they asked us to sell pizzas during the tournament. We are working with Dominos on this fundraiser. We get some of the profit for selling the pizzas. It is a really good opportunity for us to make some money and to get some more community exposure.

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Vegas Bets Big on Joe Straus, Texas Speaker of the House

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It looks like Vegas is betting that Joe Straus will be able to legalize gambling in Texas during the next legislative session. Grassroots groups have been warning Texans of this dating back to 2010. Here is an excerpt from an article in December of 2010 entitled “TEA Parties Unite to Oust Joe Straus.”

The Kaufman County Tea Party protested at the office of Representative elect Lance Gooden and had representation from Kaufman, Henderson, Cherokee, Van Zandt, and Smith counties. Many in the crowd were carrying signs that read “Slot Machine Joe Has Got to Go.” Legislators are expected to discuss the possibility of legalizing gambling in the state of Texas during the next session which would allow the installation of slot machines in race tracks across the state. The problem as stated by the Kaufman Tea Party is that Joe Straus has interests in Retama Park which stands to profit mega-millions if the legislation is passed. Strangely, Speaker Straus has “recused” himself from official discussion of gambling in the State House and has transferred his interests in Retama Park to another individual, his father.

The campaign of Straus’ challenger in the Republican primary, Matt Beebe, sent out the following press release.

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(San Antonio) Thursday morning Pinnacle Entertainment Corporation, based out of Las Vegas, announced a series of transactions which joins them with Joe Straus’ family business interests. The corporation acquired much of Retama Park for $22.8 million dollars in cash and debt acquisition.  Pinnacle Entertainment Corporation commented on the risky business decision stating, “We believe Retama Park provides significant strategic value for our shareholders given the potential approval of gaming entertainment centers at Texas pari-mutuel facilities¹”.

Matt Beebe commented on the expanded partnership saying, “Many voters I have talked to are worried about Joe Straus’ conflict of interest given his deep family ties with Retama. This recent partnership should concern San Antonio residents even more. WOAI’s story on the partnership made it clear that Retama Park ‘needs some form of pari-mutuel betting in order to thrive²’. These Vegas casino owners have bet big on Straus’ intention to legalize casino gambling in Texas.”

Beebe continued, “District 121 voters don’t want a State Representative whose special interest masters now include Vegas casino bosses who need him to deliver for their bets to pay off.”

A recent article in the San Antonio Express News³ claimed the debt Retama Park currently holds consists of 7.2 million in senior bonds, and a 1.6 million dollar note. The Retama Development Corp. (RDC) also owes $87 million in subordinate bonds, plus more than $150 million in unpaid interest. These debts will only be paid if the casino gambling lobby is able to legalize casino gambling, and in-turn produce positive cash flow.

“The Texas gambling industry has a failing business model and are now seeking to change the rules after the bets have already been placed.  As a small business owner I understand that when your business is failing you don’t go to the government looking for bailouts in the form of changes to the Texas constitution.  When the Vegas casino bosses cash their chips, it will be hard working Texas taxpayers left holding the bag.” Beebe concluded.

Matt Beebe resides in San Antonio with his wife and two children. You can learn more about his candidacy at his website

I’m sure that Joe Straus’ handpicked Ethics Committee Chair and recipient of over 40k in campaign contributions from Straus and a PAC he helped found, Chuck Hopson, will find no problem with ethics in this situation. In 2010, Mineola Representative Bryan Hughes testified before a meeting of the House Ethics committee. The meeting was about Speaker Joe Straus ally Rep. Larry Phillips, who also sits on the Ethics Committee, threatening Rep. Bryan Hughes with being draw out of his seat during redistricting if he did not support the incumbent speaker Joe Straus. Even though Hughes testified under oath, Committee Chair Chuck Hopson, who switched from Democrat to the Republican Party in 2009, found Phillips “innocent of any wrongdoing.”

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As I’ve said before, I prefer to remain neutral on the issue of gambling in Texas – that is up to the voters to decide. However, gambling is not the issue here – profiting off the legislation passed under your watch is. Yes, I know it happens all the time, but is it right? Texans deserve better.

Fortunately, the voters of HD-121 have the opportunity this May to remove Joe Straus not only as Speaker of the House, but out of the House of Representatives altogether. Matt Beebe is challenging Joe Straus for the nomination of the Republican Party for the State Representative of House District 121. The voters of HD-121 need only answer one question, “Do I want a representative or a profiteer?”

Full disclosure: On March 19th of this year, I personally endorsed Matt Beebe to replace Joe Straus.

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Michael KinzieMichael has been actively involved in the Tea Party Movement since attending his first rally on April 15, 2009 in Sulphur Springs, Texas. He is the founder of the Lake Fork Tea Party Patriots and Our goal at is to inform and educate the public on the pressing issues of today and assist conservative groups around the country in doing the same. We provide updates on issues concerning the Tea Party as well as news, op-eds, articles, group information, training and much more.View all posts by Michael Kinzie →

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With mobile and broadband internet connectivity proliferating, a raft of content producers and OTT cos are looking to cash in on this new opportunity.
How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz proposition
In a crusty industrial estate in Andheri West, a northern suburb of Mumbai, the office of Pocket Aces Pictures provides a sharp contrast to the general air of decay in the neighbourhood.

A modern office with sweeping floor-to-ceiling windows, bright furniture and wooden flooring, this 2,000 sq ft space is a beehive of activity as a motley crew of 20 churns out an assortment of content, fuelling an explosion in the delivery of streaming video services in India.

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz propositionWith mobile and broadband Internet connectivity proliferating, and smartphone prices dropping by 40-50% in the past five years, a raft of content producers, technology and analytics companies and over-the-top (OTT) content distributors are looking to cash in on this new opportunity.

They are also counting on shifting consumer sentiment, as browsers reposition their focus from text to photo to video-driven communication — the decade-old YouTube has piled up content in 76 languages, even as Facebook turns its vast resources to this massive opportunity, having notched up eight billion video views a day.

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz proposition
Anirudh Pandita, a former investment banker and hedge fund manager, who co-founded Pocket Aces, a video content developer, almost two years ago with his college roommate Ashwin Suresh, thinks the way India consumes content is set for a sea change.

"There is yet a lot of consumption on the TV, but this is set to change because of mobile phones," he says. "Like a lot of things in technology, this won't be a linear change, but a sharp, sudden shift."

This change may be precipitated by the sharp drop in smartphone prices (one analysis by CMR Research expects smartphone shipments in India to outpace those of feature phones in 2016; currently feature phones account for 70% of the mobile phone market) and improving mobile Internet and broadband connectivity. These changes have pushed companies such as Pocket Aces to shift into top gear - it has generated 30 videos in the last three months.

What Can Spoil the Party

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz propositionPocket Aces has two businesses - Dice, a premium video content unit, and Filter Coffee, a platform for shareable content. "We are building content, which India lacks .... good fiction programming for 15-35-year-olds," says Pandita. "We have five web series in the pipeline, which we wanted to launch in December 2015, but we're now speaking to content distributors to figure a more effective way to air it."

While this sounds good in theory, there are a clutch of factors that could play spoilsport. For one, the video business is a costly one to be in - entrepreneurs need to have nerves of steel and deep-pocketed investors to stay the course. Despite falling costs of technology and production, producing content is prohibitive and added to that distribution costs too are significant.

Second, regulation remains fluid and evolving as regulators come to grips with an unfolding market. Third, the state of the Internet remains a gnawing concern, with broadband speed and spread spotty , and costs, according to most users, arbitrary.

Finally, the proliferation of streaming video services - and the allied ventures around it - may be stymied by the rampant use of illegal torrent services in the country.

Investors are cautious even as they pursue potential deals in the content and technology space; a few feel that the OTT space is overcooked.

Aakash Goel, a vice-president with Bessemer Venture Partners, argues that users are spending more and more time watching streaming video content (ranging from short-duration content to more immersive stuff from the likes of Netflix), with multiple monetisation opportunities at hand.

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What Works for India

"While the opportunity in video can be three or four times that of other mediums, some segments such as OTT are already overcrowded with a dozen or more players and not an ideal target for investors," says Goel.

Despite these concerns, there are many factors working in India's favour. Consumers are devouring video in the country ( just look at the popularity of content producers such as AIB and TVF), as smartphones get cheaper, mobile broadband usage burgeons, albeit stutteringly, and content producers devise a wider assortment of content tailored to Indian audiences.

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz propositionThen the ecosystem itself is becoming more robust as a rush of content producers, technology specialists and OTT distributors race to tap this opportunity. From 30-second ads to immersive streaming video content, a rush of companies are all looking to cash in. Most tellingly, streaming content giant Netflix unveiled its India unit in January 2016.

Karthik Vaidyanathan, co-founder of InstaLively, a Delhi-based live streaming startup, believes that the opportunity for video in India may eventually exceed that of the e-commerce sector.

"Existing businesses focus on taking legacy businesses online...the next big opportunity is providing content to make these purchase decisions," he explains. While consumers have the opportunity to make some of these choices using text and pictures, video may help them take clearer decisions. "Video will bridge the gap between content and commerce," Vaidyanathan says.

Founded a little over a year ago, InstaLively has over 30 businesses signed on to use its live streaming app and some 50,000 downloads for its fledgling app on Android Play.

Reaching this far hasn't been easy; the company spent over six months releasing the first version of its product and has been hounding an assortment of businesses to try it out.

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz proposition"How do you shortlist a house for rent based on a random set of pictures, or how do you choose a dance instructor based on these images? These are the challenges the onset of streaming video will solve," adds Vaidyanathan.

Entrepreneurs sense other shifts too. "We believe that a lot of media consumption has moved to the mobile and consumers will spend two to three hours on their handsets," says Puneet Johar, founder of #Fame, a live video content provider.

"We believe we are ahead of traditional OTT players, because we not only let users discover and demand content, we also let them interact with it and create their own," he says.

In barely seven months of its launch, #Fame has got some strong traction online. It has over 1.3 million active users, 40,000 people create content on the platform actively, with around 600 creating content daily.

"Streaming video will become a strong mainstream media platform soon," adds Johar. While the availability of content is the key to success, regional language offerings could make or mar #Fame's chances of success in this increasingly cut throat space.

The Next Breakout Star

For much of the past decade, Naveen Sadarangani has been an entrepreneur and investor in a bunch of earlier internet ventures such as Cleartrip, Vizury and Tripvillas. Now, he thinks video streaming ventures can be the next breakout star. "There is a new medium being created by streaming digital video," he contends.

His latest venture, formed with Zubin Sarkari, a close friend from the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, focuses on delivering videos to women, an often passed over demographic for India's internet commerce industry.

"After TV and radio, there is a new medium being created with streaming digital video," he reckons. "We are building content that is helpful, relatable and inspiring ... the young Indian woman is empowered like never before, but there is very little relatable content for her."

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His venture Glamrs (pronounced glamorous), is gaining some strong initial traction, he claims, with seven million unique visitors daily, a YouTube channel with 600 videos and 2.3 million fans on Facebook.

This surge of content has convinced veteran banker Subin Subaiah that his nearly four-year old OTT content provider Spuul is on the right track. This company, with over 1,000 movies on its database and dozens of TV shows too, is focusing on the 18 to 35 age group.

"Digital content providers today have the opportunity to far overshadow traditional TV viewership - in 2014 India had 168 million TV households - as a new wave of users consume this content," Subaiah adds.

Rather than purely immersive and streaming long-duration content that has netted Spuul its 12 million subscribers thus far, Subaiah is also going out on a limb and using a FMCG-like strategy and allowing users to download "sachets" of content — 50 MB compared to a typical Hindi movie download of 200-250 MB.

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Other OTT providers too want a piece of this action. For example, BoxTV (owned by Times Internet, part of the same company that publishes ET Magazine) has over five million subscribers (in India and in a few countries overseas) and has a catalogue of over 1,000 movies in nearly a dozen languages, besides a growing TV content line-up.

There are barely 1,700 movie screens in India and people will today look for alternative means to watch their favourite movies, contends Subaiah of Spuul. And, Indians appear to have skipped one step in the technology and media evolution that the more developed markets went through.

While in the West, people went from a single TV to multiple TVs and then to the mobile, India seems to be jumping directly from TVs to watching content on their smartphones, leaning on improving mobile Internet to consume digital content.

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz propositionThis process took the better part of a decade in the US, says Pandita of Pocket Aces, as consumers went from consuming limited content (a couple of episodes of series such as Entourage or Sex and the City on your cable subscription if you lived in the US); to then streaming content on an Xbox or Apple TV; to now making the mobile phone the centre of their media universe. Pandita believes this pace of technology change will be accelerated in India.

The increased adoption of streaming video content has convinced startups that they too may stand a chance to profit. When Rohit Sharma ran the digital business of Reliance Entertainment, he had a first-hand view of the emerging opportunities in India, as a content and technology provider. Now, with his own venture Pokkt, Sharma is looking to cash in on this fast evolving market.

Pokkt, a firm founded in October 2012, focuses on providing streaming video ads in mobile games, in India and a handful of south-east Asian countries. The firm has delivered 1-1.5 million such mobile video ads to ardent gamers, not just as an unwanted distraction while playing, but also as a means of staying alive, earning bonuses and extra lives.

"Gaming is by far the biggest consumption point for mobile internet in India, bigger than news and video too," he says. "There are over 100 million gamers in India alone and watching a video is 10 times more effective than a banner ad."

Adopt-Adapt, Survive-Thrive

As consumers and companies adopt and adapt to streaming video content more, they are looking for someone to more accurately measure this activity, says Subrat Kar, chief executive and co-founder of Vidooly, a 15-month-old provider of video analytics.

"We provide content creators with an actionable format, telling them what to create and how to target a specific audience - say the 18-35-year-olds in Delhi for a brand like Myntra," he says. "We have built a dashboard that allows companies to track their rivals online, and enterprises with a raft of channels can accurately track their performance and payouts on each one."

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Vidooly trawls 15 lakh channels on You-Tube and expects to add 30 lakh more in the next 12 to 18 months, adds Kar. "As others such as Facebook, Twitter's Vine and Instagram wade into the video market, the biggest challenge is discovery of content by highly distracted online browsers."

Much of the challenge for these startups is trying to understand audience preferences - what works for a Punjabi at prime time may be starkly different from a Tamilian, says Sameer Pitalwalla, chief executive of Culture Machine, a leading video content and technology developer.
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He says that Culture Machine has been able to build both video content and wrap a layer of technology around it to more accurately target users. The firm, backed by over $21 million in funding from the likes of Tiger Global, Zodius Capital and Times Internet today claims to be the largest multi channel network in the country, with over 400 million views a month - translating to a billion watch minutes.

Along the way, Culture Machine's Pitalwalla contends, companies like his are creating segments - for example there isn't a beauty offering on conventional TV. "With a lot of money coming in and a dozen or more OTT players on hand to distribute your content, this is in some ways the perfect storm for the content business," he says.

Some of Culture Machine's content - like the five-minute video short The Printing Machine, starring Kalki Koechlin on its women's channel Unblushed with over a million views - has been a significant hit.

"As the TV becomes more than a dumb screen in your living room, consumers want customised viewing experiences," says Pitalwalla.

As these enabling factors all fall in line, startups across the board boast of ambitious expansion plans. Johar of #Fame says regional languages will play a key role in finding new audiences.

"We just launched in Tamil and we will expand further, including Telugu and Bengali content soon," he says. "We notice two peaks in content consumption — one between 4 and 7 pm and another at 9 pm — and the spread of mobile internet, especially 4G, should only catalyse this growth."

How a bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to make video streaming services a successful biz propositionSharma of Pokkt says his company will deliver some 200 million mobile ads to gamers in the next 12 months, even as he thinks mobile services operators will be compelled to invest in stouter networks to keep pace with this burgeoning demand for video.

Vidooly, meanwhile, is looking to expand beyond its focus on YouTube to consider analysing trends on other platforms, most noticeably Facebook.

Pandita of Pocket Aces also agrees that the social media giant could be the big disrupter in this market. "Facebook is going to crush this is going to be the content discovery engine of the world," he says.

Vaidyanathan of InstaLively is closing in on a first serious round of funding (he'd like to raise $3-5 million), as he goes about attempting to "build a global app from India".

On the ground, InstaLively has tied up with Airtel to pre-install the service on its DTH service, in some way making it a TV channel.

Elsewhere, Sadarangani of Glamrs ambitiously believes his video venture for women will have 50 million users in the next two or three years, even as he builds out audiences in newer verticals related to women.

With enhanced connectivity around the corner in the form of a nationwide roll out of 4G services, it's little wonder that these ventures believe Indians will go gaga over video.

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In a first, researchers have developed a robot that can write and play its own music compositions using artificial intelligence and deep learning. The robot – named Shimon – with four arms and eight sticks can play harmonies and chords on marimba. It also thinks much more like a human musician, focusing less on the next note, and more on the overall structure of the composition.

The researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US fed the robot with nearly 5,000 complete songs – from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis – and more than two million motifs, riffs and licks of music.

Aside from giving the machine a seed, or the first four measures to use as a starting point, no humans were involved in either the composition or the performance of the music. “Once Shimon learns the four measures we provide, it creates its own sequence of concepts and composes its own piece,” Mason Bretan, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said in a statement.

“Shimon’s compositions represent how music sounds and looks when a robot uses deep neural networks to learn everything it knows about music from millions of human-made segments,” he added. As long as the researchers feed it a different seed, the robot produces something different each time – music that the researchers cannot predict. In the first piece, Bretan fed Shimon a melody comprised of eighth notes. It received a sixteenth note melody the second time, which influenced it to generate faster note sequences.

This leap in Shimon’s musical quality is because it is using deep learning, which is enabling it to create a more structured and coherent composition, the researchers said. Shimon’s debut as a solo composer was featured in a 30-minute video clip in the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) keynote and will have its first live performance at the Aspen Ideas Festival at the end of June, the researchers said.

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Create Bootable Ubuntu 10.04 Installation Disk with Unetbootin

Ubuntu 10.04 is available from the Ubuntu homepage in various flavors. You can chose the one best suited to your need but the problem here is that most of them are ISO files and you will go around looking for a CD to burn the ISO.

Let me tell you, that is not necessary. You can install Ubuntu from a portable hard-drive or a thumb drive also. All you need is a simple application named Unetbootin which is available for Windows and is built into Ubuntu.

In Windows

Go to the Unetbootin SourceForge hosting page to download it. The download is sized at under 500 KB and has options to create a bootable drive for installing Ubuntu from a downloaded ISO. It can also download Ubuntu and create the bootable disk automatically.

In Ubuntu

Go to the Create Startup Disk option under System->Administration->Create a USB startup disk. Here you will find a simple interface explaining it all.

These are the two methods to create bootable Ubuntu disks in both Windows and Ubuntu. Now that you know how to install ,get hold of a thumb drive, download the ISO and follow this installation guide.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 Release for 10.04 Lucid Lynx

With the Ubuntu 10.04 release, software developers are responding quickly to this. Ubuntu Tweaks 0.5.4 has been released for Ubuntu 10.04 and it has tweaks specially built for Lucid.

The homepage describes Ubuntu tweak as,

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.  It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.  With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu!

A new improved feature is the ability to choose the background and logo on the login screen. Otherwise, Ubuntu tweaks allows you to set hot regions on the screen edges which can be used to perform compiz operations, install more software not found in regular repositories and tweak Ubuntu settings to the fullest. It also allows easy adding of nautilus scripts. This makes it the best Ubuntu tuning software.

If you want to know more, head over to the Ubuntu tweak website and check it out.

Download Ubuntu tweaks here.

Ubuntu 10.04 Feature Tour Video

With the release of Ubuntu 10.04, feature tours, installation and other videos have started springing up. You can read about them all you want but nothing works like a visual.

The 10.04 Lucid Lynx has some nifty new features and this video will tell us about most of those features in details.

Although this release is in high speculation it is not as perfectly designed as the version 9.1 was. This is because of some core changes which will need time for a better overall integration with the overall environment. Lets hope for the best with the next release.

FOSS Friday: Ubuntu, Ubuntu and More Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has already crawled into my hard dive and boot sector. To tell you the truth, I just let it in. This week in FOSS Friday, we will talk about Ubuntu and some other topics, whose thunder Ubuntu stole with its launch.

  • Ubuntu Release

Ubuntu 10.04 is here. Get Ubuntu by download from the server today.  The latest version features removal of HAL, better GPU support and better looks. Get more release and download information. Already have the CD? Install Ubuntu following a guided walk-through.

  • Ubuntu CD

Ubuntu Shipit is Open. Order your free CD at Shipit. You will need a Launchpad account and get your CD within 10 weeks of order.

  • Sony gets a class action  Lawsuit for removing Other OS Support

An individual from San Francisco has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony for removing the Other OS support with its latest firmware for PS3. This is a bold move by an aware consumer and should be supported. Get more on this at  Wired.

  • Ubuntu Installation Walkthrough

Are you planning to install Ubuntu on your system? This detailed walk-through will take you to installing Ubuntu on your computer safely without destroying any data. Follow the steps given here.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Installation Guide

Ubuntu 10.04 is out and it is here to stay for another five years. If you have not downloaded Ubuntu already, you can see this post to choose the best edition suited to your needs and get your hands on a copy.

Although, if you have downloaded your copy of the ISO, it is time to install Ubuntu. This step by step guide will take you through the installation procedure. To start with, get hold of a 4 GB thumb drive and create a boot-able image with Unetbootin. Now, plug the thumb-drive into your USB port and restart the computer.

Set boot device to the USB drive from BIOS options and you are good to go.

Let the live system fire up. Now, click on the install icon on desktop and proceed as shown below.

Select a desired language to install Ubuntu.

Select your region and and time zone.

Select your keyboard layout. You can alternately, detect your keyboard layout if you do not know it already.

Select a partitioning option. Unless you want to format all the hard drive and install Ubuntu afresh, select the last option and proceed.

Select the partition to install Ubuntu into and click on the change button.

Set the formatting options.

Provide account information and sit back and watch.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx is Here, Choose Your Edition

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has just been released and is available for download at the official website. We have been quick in covering the release and are probably the first to cover this release. As we have already told you, there are two options to get Ubuntu. One is through the ISO download and other through the Shipit CD ordering service. Read the release coverage here.

If you have any confusion as to which distro you should opt for, here is some quick help. Ubuntu is available in three editions.

Ubuntu Desktop Edition

This one is for regular PC users and simple everyday computing. It has all the basic applications for common tasks and has got the looks and feel everyone around is talking of. Basically, this version is for regular people with home PCs and for Ubuntu beginners. You can use it full fledged as your primary OS. Download page goes here.

Ubuntu Server Edition

Ubuntu server edition is another version focussed on the server capabilities like better speed, uptime and RAM support. This edition is for web-administrators and Ubuntu will roll out certification for this soon. Download page goes here.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

This one is for those who are interested in trying out Ubuntu on their netbooks. This release has an extremely fluid and fast interface and is worth checking out. Download page goes here.

Want to see a page to choose whats best for you? See here.

Download Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx ISO (Final Release)

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has finally been released as per the homepage and is available for download. You can get it at the official website as an ISO.

Get your Copy Of Ubuntu

Download ISO

The download of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx ISO is available now. Download Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx ISO here.

Sized at just around 700 MB, the ISO can be burnt to a CD or you can create a bootable USB drive following  this tutorial.

Order Free CD

The free CD order takes quite some time to arrive which ranges from 7 to 10 weeks. Order this if you do not have a fast internet connection. Order at this page.

Things to know about the Latest Version

This latest release of Ubuntu has some cool new features and has been developed for a long time now. It is appealing in both visual aspects and performance. There are new versions of most software like Firefox and Empathy. If you are not aware of this, you can get an overview of some exciting new features included in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx final release.

Along with that, Ubuntu 10.04 also features a Ubuntu Manual which will guide you through the installation process and makes using Ubuntu fun. The manual is only 4.5 MB in size and is highly recommended if you are beginning with Ubuntu.

An earlier X.Org memory leak seems to have been fixed in this final release and you can also order you free Ubuntu copy. Learn more about ordering Ubuntu by free CD.

New Features that Rock in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Edition

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Desktop Edition will be here soon and has a list of some exciting new features. If you have ever used Ubuntu before, you will be able to tell, this is the best Ubuntu distro ever.  Here are quite a few reasons to use this latest product.

The boot speed brags

A test conducted by Phoronix in December 2009 reported that Ubuntu 10.04 should break another boot barrier in its product lineup. The 10.04 beta version booted in 24 seconds on a Dell Mini 9 as compared to 54 seconds of Karmic Koala. Since then, Ubuntu has included the latest kernel and has also applied a Moblin patch. Moblin, as we know boots extremely fast and Ubuntu will get a share of that boot speed. Another improvement, the removal of HAL will be a major factor behind boot enhancement as HAL takes up a considerable amount of time to load and is the biggest boot hog apart from NFS.

The MeMenu is all about you

The new MeMenu designed my Mark Shuttleworth included in the panel will appeal to all social networking junkies. Ubuntu has never been this right. With a larger section of Internet users, at times, being there for the sole purpose of socializing, the MeMenu will completely rock. MeMenu provides an integrated access to all you social channels on Digg, Twitter, Facebook and good old messengers like MSN, Google Talk and the Stone Age IRC.

Gnome improvements

Gnome in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is of the latest version and it has a new and improved Nautilus which looks classy. New features have been included in Empathy and Tomboy notes can now be synchronized to the cloud. Copy-pasting of rich HTML is also supported now. The full changelog is available at this page.

Ubuntu One Music Sync and File Store to make you feel at home

Ubuntu One is Ubuntu’s desktop integration for online services. It lets you sync your files, directories, bookmarks and contacts anytime and anywhere. Now, access your files on the fly and purchase and listen to music from 7Digital  right within your favorite music players with Ubuntu Music Store. The PC is now all about Personal Computing.

Better nVidia Support for viewing pleasures

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has an improved support for nVidia graphics drivers. The Nouveau video driver is the default on Ubuntu with Lucid and this new driver has better resolution detection. This driver is being developed upstream and this will ensure better support. Drivers already supporting this are available as nvidia-current (190.53),  nvidia-173, and  nvidia-96.

Apart from this, there is a new kernel based on the version and the all new KDE SC 4.4 for Kubuntu. The version of popular software products like Firefox is also expected to be seen.

Ubuntu 10.04 Manual Released

We have talked of the Ubuntu Manual earlier. Finally, the Ubuntu release team has announced the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx manual.

This manual goes by the title of “Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04″. This manual is targeted at all Ubuntu users but can be of special interest to Ubuntu beginners. It will help them save those extra clicks and get things done easier and faster.

It is more like a walk-through where you are taken through a series of steps. There are no scary technical details in this manual. The manual is divided into chapters and it proceeds from a  beginner  to go up to an advanced level. It includes common troubleshooting problems and is available in over 50 languages.

Sized at only around 4 MB, the manual can be easily downloaded from the Ubuntu manual website.

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro and is the easiest to use. It is focused more on users than developers and the manual goes a further step in extending user support. With the manual release coming just hours before the release of Ubuntu 10.04, I would say Ubuntu is on a perfect roadmap.

Canonical Will Provide Strong ISV Open Source Ecosystem Support For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is just a few hours away and Canonical has thrown in another strong reason to use Ubuntu. Canonical has revealed its plans of software vendor support for this release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (Long Term Support) release which is supported for a long period after release. This usually ranges from three to five years. This LTS will be a driving factor behind application development for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

Jane Silber, the CEO of Canonical said,

A strong and varied ISV ecosystem is critical for Ubuntu to thrive and grow both on user’s desktops and in the world’s datacentres. We expected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to be popular with existing and prospective software partners, but response is fantastic. Users considering switching to Ubuntu or upgrading to 10.04 LTS will be encouraged by this industry support and reassured that they can use many of their favourite applications on what we are sure will become their favourite operating system

Marten Mickos CEO, Eucalyptus remarked saying that  Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is seeing considerable acceptance in the industry. Dell has already announced its wish to support the Server version of Ubuntu 10.o4. Many others like IBM, VMware and Adobe are expected to follow suite.

You can see a list of applications and testimonials from the industry at this page Canonical has put up.


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Wizard Rock: A Sneak Peek at Jingle Spells 3

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The new album Jingle Spells 3 is up at The Leaky Cauldron. If you’re into wizard rock, you’re already over there. If you’re not into wizard rock, this will mean nothing to you. Let me help.

First, read this, in which I try to explain what wizard rock is. Second, read this: Jingle Spells is Leaky’s annual holiday-themed wizard rock compilation, the profits from which go to charity. I spent this past weekend listening to it, and it’s got some pretty good stuff.

Such as:

— “House Elf Party,” by the Blibbering Humdingers. A B52’s-style party anthem. Gay Dumbledore joke in three…two…one…

— “Sonorus!,” by Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons.
Mellow, lyrical, non-jokey.

— “Light the Castle Up,” by The Remus Lupins. An obligatory hannukah-themed jam by one of my favorite wrock bands. Hagrid is half-Jewish, apparently.

— “My Wish List,” by MC Kreacher.
OK, this track is by MC Kreacher. I think that’s all the annotation it needs.


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Sorry Nexus One, No Ice Cream Sandwich for You

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Alas, the Nexus One, we knew it well…back when Samsung was still updating the thing with the latest in Android finery. No longer: The Nexus One will apparently not enjoy an Ice Cream Sandwich along with last year’s Nexus S when Google’s Android OS upgrade arrives for the latter in the next few weeks. Mark your calendars: January 5, 2010, the day the Nexus One emerged into the sunlight, now ancient history, by Google’s reckoning.

Google’s Hugo Barra said as much while chatting with Telegraph, confirming Ice Cream Sandwich would arrive, gratis, for Nexus S users “within weeks,” but adding that the Nexus One—the first honest-to-goodness Google phone—won’t get the update because it’s not powerful enough.

(MORE: Motorola Promises New Android Software Six Weeks After It’s Out)

But wait, hold on a second…Tom’s Guide says there may be hope. The tech site notes that the Android developer community already managed to port an early version of Ice Cream Sandwich to the Nexus One. I’m less optimistic than Tom’s that this means Google might renege—Hugo Barra is the product management director at Google, after all, so he’s probably not guesstimating—there may be life after death for the Nexus One via its development community.

Like in this video, where a Nexus One enthusiast demoes the phone running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich SDK.

Assuming Google’s position is firm, keep your eyes peeled for Ice Cream Sandwich source code, due out shortly after the launch of the Galaxy Nexus in early November, and the inevitable succession of community-led Nexus One ports.

MORE: Will Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich Take a Bite Out of iOS 5?

Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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Why Twitter?

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What’s the point of Twitter?

That’s a question I asked my own Twitter followers yesterday, prompted by ambivalence and confusion after reading two recent Pew Institute studies relating to what was once called a “micro-blogging” service. Don’t get me wrong; I know why I am addicted, but I doubted that many other people saw Twitter as the necessary delivery system to force people to watch videos of old Monkees songs or whatever Britpop reference happened to be floating in my head at that particular moment.

So I asked everyone else, and got what was a surprisingly coherent response.

Before I get to the response, though, the first of the studies that made me wonder about Twitter in the first place: According to Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, the media is doing Twitter wrong. The problem, the study argues, is that most media outlets look at Twitter as an alternative to an RSS feed, and just push links to stories and other information that’s available elsewhere, instead of trying to engage with other Twitter users (93% of all tweets from the thirteen media outlets studied during the course of a week for the survey were links, according to the results), which seems to be missing the point and potential of Twitter altogether. While individual journalists may use the service to solicit information or retweet comments from others, institutional Twitter accounts exist, it seems, merely to be a voice of authority. And that, I’d argue, isn’t what Twitter is about.

(MORE: Are Companies Being Anti-Social with Twitter and Facebook?)

This is where my own, entirely unscientific, research comes in. When I asked my own followers why they were on Twitter, it wasn’t long before patterns in interest became apparent. Twitter appealed because it was informal, because it was concise, and because it was conversational. One person called it “the world’s best self-selecting cocktail party [with] fast breaking news, good conversation, low commitment,” with another replying that “it’s either the watercooler or the watering hole, depending on which metaphor you wanna run with.”

“Twitter is far less time-consuming [than other social media],” said a friend, “plus the 140-character limit forces people to be more concise and clever.”

“Twitter is, for me, a conversational medium where I select those I converse with while ignoring barriers of class, age and locale,” wrote another.

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Glimpse: A Facebook-Powered Pinterest Clone Without the Human Feel

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Pinterest, which lets you collect and share images and links from around the web, is quirky, addictive — and wildly popular. So it’s not surprising that it’s also proving to be influential. It sure influenced Glimpse, a new Facebook app being launched by shopping search engine TheFind.

Like Pinterest, Glimpse lets you peruse a never-ending grid of pictures of stuff that other folks like — particularly items at shopping sites. But TheFind hasn’t built a new system that lets people choose what to share. Instead, items show up in Glimpse because people clicked Facebook’s Like button to express approval of them, either on Facebook itself or elsewhere on the web. (According to TheFind, 70 percent of major shopping sites put Like buttons on their pages; its index includes products from 200,000 online stores.)

Glimpse does let you organize your Likes into catalogs, which are similar to Pinterest pinboards. But it’s not a social network unto itself: it’s a reflection of the tastes of the members of Facebook, the world’s largest social network. TheFind plans to make money by collecting affiliate fees when users click through to shopping sites to buy items they spotted on Glimpse.

The company says that it personalizes what it shows on Glimpse to fit each user, and I did notice that it showed me men’s clothing and accessories — mostly, although I also got some random women’s shoes — which it apparently did after using my Facebook information to determine that I am indeed a guy. (My wife got photos from many of the same online stores, but of women’s items.)

But while Pinterest is so much fun because it’s so clearly based on the preferences and passions of large numbers of idiosyncratic individual human beings, the Glimpse that I experienced felt both generic and random. When I looked at the default catalog of stuff after I logged in, Victoria’s Secret was there — and with 18 million Facebook likes, it certainly qualifies as popular. It wasn’t a link to anything specific on Victoria’s Secret, though, just one link to the site in its entirety.

The catalog also included a pair of shoes that had only been Liked once — and only by the online shoe store that was selling them. How that qualifies as sufficient reason to put that footwear into Glimpse, I’m not sure.

In between Victoria’s Secret and that pair of shoes were scads of items that had been liked by someone — often lots of someones. But most of them weren’t intriguing, at least to me, and the selection didn’t feel like it had any particular organizing principle. It was neither engagingly eclectic, like Pinterest, nor comprehensive, like TheFind itself. (You can search Glimpse for stores and brands, but not for specific types of products such as “iPad stands.”)

It may be difficult to gauge Glimpse’s potential based on using it on launch day. As more people begin to use the app, it could get better at deciding what to show. It seemed to be suffering from some technical hiccups, too: at one point, when I clicked on a link to Carter’s clothing, it said that nobody had Liked any Carter’s products — and then a couple of minutes later, it had plenty of items. And I may be a worst-case scenario as far as potential users go: I don’t think I’ve ever bought an item of clothing online, ever.

Then again, I get a kick out of browsing Pinterest, even though most of what I see there are items I’d never buy, mostly chosen by women I don’t know. That site just has a human touch that’s engaging. Glimpse doesn’t. But if TheFind can make more sophisticated use of all that data about what people like on Facebook, its new service might evolve into something that’s interesting not because it’s similar to Pinterest, but because it’s different.


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Why Some 7-inch Tablets Will Eventually Be Given Away Free

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About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon’s business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was looking at selling the tablet at cost or even below cost and then make up the profit through products and services offered to customers.

Sure enough, when the first Kindle Fire was announced at $199, my sources in Taiwan said that the tablet’s actual bill of materials (BOM) cost was probably close to $212. That means that Amazon would have to rely on customers buying music, books, videos, and hard goods and then amortize a portion of the profit from those sales to make any money on the device itself.

Since then, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said that Amazon doesn’t plan to make money on hardware. Instead, the company will make money from the goods and services consumers buy while using products like the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD tablets.

(MORE: Why PC Companies Fear Amazon)

What Bezos understands well is that his tablets — or any tablets, for that matter — can act as front ends for delivering content, services and, in Amazon’s case, physical products. While Amazon has made the new Kindle Fire HD tablets valuable in their own right, the real reason they exist is to spotlight all of the offerings Amazon has for its tablet users.

In April of this year, I wrote an article here called “A Tablet in Every Room: How to ‘Think Different’ About the Future.”

In it, I emphasized the fact that someday a home might have four or five tablets scattered around the house and those tablets would just act as screens to access all types of content and services. And I also suggested that a lot of these might be subsidized by the likes of Wal-Mart or even Procter and Gamble to drive the users of their tablets to buy products and/or services they have to offer. But when I initially wrote the article, I still thought that the companies offering these tablets would subsidize a portion of the cost of each device and just sell them at a discount like Amazon has done in order to get customers tied into their product ecosytems.

But in talking with various folks involved with the supply chain as well as consumer brands, the possibility is now real that in the future, companies that have an especially rich ecosystem of product could actually give out tablets to their best customers — or at least those who sign up for a set of services that might have a recurring cost. But in essence, the tablet or screen that serves as a front end to buy things from these companies would actually be free.

(MORE: The Future of Personal Computing: Cloud-Connected Screens Everywhere)

A good example of this would be Amazon itself. The company offers a $79-per-year “Prime” service where Amazon basically offers two-day shipping of any product covered by Prime free of charge. (By the way, this is one of the greatest bargains on the planet for anyone who buys a lot of products from Amazon every year.) What if Amazon increased the cost of Prime to $99 or $109 a year and threw in the Kindle Fire for free? I don’t know about you, but since I’m an avid Prime customer, I would do this in a heartbeat.

I was recently at the local Fry’s store here in San Jose (Fry’s is a large consumer electronics superstore) and saw a 7-inch tablet for $79. It was an Android tablet and while it was not of the quality of the Kindle Fire or more expensive 7-inch tablets, it was very functional. It could run Android’s web browser and most Android apps. But since it was a hardware-only brand and not tied to any services that could add profit for the tablet maker, this suggests that perhaps the BOM cost on the tablet might be about $65-$70 if the vendor planned to make any profit at all.

This low BOM cost is important. If it is $65-$70 today, it will be under $50 within 12-18 months. That would mean that a company with a lot of products and services to offer — and is tied to perhaps a retail store with broad distribution — could create a special service like Amazon Prime or some type of yearly premium service. The company would charge a small subscription fee and then just give away a 7-inch tablet to each subscriber.

There is precedence for this already in the cell phone market. Many feature phones or even some newer smartphones are given away for free if the buyer signs a two-year service contract that covers a monthly fee for voice, text and data. The phone companies gladly eat the cost of the phone knowing that they will have a steady stream of revenue for two years; they’ll easily make up the cost of the phone within the first two or three months the services are being used.

While Wi-Fi-only tablets would not work like a smartphone plan does today, if the BOM costs of these 7-inch tablets continue to fall, we could see big players like Wal-Mart or even someone like JC Penny or Bank of America create subscription services of some type and then offer the tablets for free as part of the service. In fact, the financial services companies might be the first to offer free tablets if customers commit to perhaps a two- or three-year program of buying stocks and other financial offerings from them exclusively.

How soon could this happen? I suspect that a lot of companies will test or play around with a whole host of subsidized or premium-type subscription programs to see what sticks over the next two to three years. But things are moving very fast in the tablet world and I would not be surprised if we see the first wave of “free” tablets being offered during the 2013 holiday season.

I do believe that we will have tablets in many price ranges and sizes that will still carry up-front costs for many years to come. But I also think that the 7-inch tablet form factor, serving as a window into a set of services or being offered as a part of a subscription, will become a significant part of the tablet market in the not-too-distant future.

MORE: A Tablet in Every Room: How to ‘Think Different’ About the Future
Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market-intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to Big Picture, an opinion column that appears every Monday on Techland.


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The Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine paper sketchbooks and journals wise up

Evernote has trotted out an update to its iOS app and accompanied the software release with an announcement of a collaboration with Moleskine. Yes, you read that correctly. The digital note-taking application has teamed up with the analog sktechbook maker to produce the Evernote Smart Notebook. Designed specifically for the refreshed iPhone and iPad software, the notebooks allow users to snag written notes or drawings right off the paper and archive them with the app -- making them searchable and organized for future reference. So where exactly does the tech angle come in? First, pages are lined using a dotted pattern that is optimized for the upated mobile software.

With the new Page Camera feature, photos of pages are shot and automatically given a proper contrast adjustment. The add-on also finds the aforementioned dots are corrects a skewed photo. Last but certainly not least, each Smart Notebook comes with a set of Smart Stickers. Evernote will now recognize each of these and apply the appropriate tags before sorting. While the stickers come with pre-defined tags, they are customizable to accomodate your particular sensibilities. These pseudo-digital Moleskines will be available in both pocket (3.5 x 5.5 inches / 8.89 x 13.97 cm) and large (5 x 8.25 inches / 12.7 x 20.96 cm) sizes, carrying $25 and $30 price tags when they hit shelves October 1st. If you can't contain your excitement, head on to the coverage link below to pre-order yours now.

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Has your antivirus told you that you have a certain type of virus on your computer, but you didn’t know what it means?

Here is a list of most virus terms, and types of viruses.
Any type of malicious coding, scripting, programs etc.  Designed to cause harm to you in one way or another.(Virus)

A trojan is a program that appears to be legitimate, but actually has a virus attached to it.

Adware is a type of virus designed to display ads to you, usually so a third-party can make money. If you are getting a lot of pop ups, or being redirected to sites that are trying to advertise to you, you probably have adware on your computer.

Drive-By Downloads:
Every internet browser has flaws. That’s why they’re being constantly updated. What a drive-by download does, is it takes advantage of those flaws or errors in the web browser, and uses that flaw to download malicious (virus) programs to your computer and runs them.

Keyloggers are malicious programs which are run on your computer, which send all your keystrokes, (basically everything you type) to a server, or email, usually to the person that gave you the keylogger. This is commonly used to steal people’s passwords.

A RAT, (or, Remote Administration Tool) is a virus which gives the person that gave it to you total control over your pc. These are very hard to get rid of, because they can reinstall themselves after you remove them. However, if you believe you have a RAT on your computer post here and we can help you. Some ways to tell you have a RAT on your computer is if you are being sent to random sites, your webcam light comes on, you see your mouse or keyboard taken control of, your computer shuts down randomly, or if you get constant popups.

Scareware: Viruses that try to scare you into giving them your credit card number. Fake antivirus programs, which will tell you that you have a lot of viruses (you really don’t, the only actual virus is the program itself) in attempt to scare you into “buying” their fake antivirus software, which will usually end up with your credit card being stolen. Never fall for these scams.

Spyware: A type of virus that spies on your computer, and sends personal/confidential information to a third-party.

Worms: A worm is a type of virus that is designed to send itself out to other computers, most commonly through email.

Trackware: A type of virus that tracks you, such as what websites you go to, how long you spend online on certain sites, etc.

Phishing: Phishing is where you are tricked into entering your password, where it is sent to the phisher to be stolen. When you enter in a password, always make sure the link at the top of the page is the legitimate one, to avoid being phished.

Now that you know of all of these, how about protecting yourself from them with Norton 360?


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Prudent Investments Ltd. was celebrating silver jubilee of its operations and in this connection sent invitations by post to 250 top businessmen for a special dinner at a 5-Star Hotel. Due to delay in delivery and/or non-delivery of invitation cards by the postal authorities, only 100 invitees attended the dinner. Advise the company whether it can make a complaint for compensation to the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum against the postal authorities for deficiency in service

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Traffic Report: November 2009

crowdWebsite visitors this month         283

Facebook Friends                            65

Twitter Followers                             357

LinkedIn Connections                    83

Email List Members                         12

I’ve worked this month on building traffic to the website by submitting articles I’ve written to Article Ezine. I also comment daily on various blogs on the internet, and I do see visitors from those places from time to time.  I’ve also seen traffic from Google searches which means my Search Engine Optimization efforts are working.

My Facebook list of friends stayed static this month. In December I want to expand that circle of friends, pay some attention to inviting friends to increase that network.  To do that, I will look through the friend lists of my friends to see if there are people I know who I can invite.

I’ve been trying out tow new strategies for increasing my Twitter followers. It is working well. I think I incresed followers by about 100 this month. I will be introducing these new strategies to you very soon.

My LinkedIn Connections stayed about the same this month. In December I will work to increase this by participating in discussions in my LinkedIn Groups and connecting to those people that are involved in the discussions as well.

The email list grew by a couple people this month.  In December I will be launching my new ebook “Pump Up Your Profits with Social Networking”.  If new members sign up for the email list, they will receive the book for free. Come back in a few days to receive this free gift!

What do you think of my traffic report?  Is this useful information to you? Leave me a comment.

  1. Mirika Gray

    I really like the way you keep it simple Deborah.

    I am in the same boat, still learning, haven’t yet got the gist of all this stats stuff but I certainly am getting there.

    I look forward to following your progress and thanks for the EBOOK, Ive only read a couple of paragraphs but its looking like a fantastic tool for me to add to my arsenal of learning.

    Regards and all the best

  2. Deborah Richmond

    So glad you are finding the book useful. The stats are fun once you’ve got them set up. It’s great fun to watch them grow.

    Keep reading the blog and you’ll get lots of good information on all aspects of social marketing. I’ve got some good things coming up!

    Thanks for the comment!!

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Even Entrepreneurs Need Mentors

When I look back at my past, I realize there were times when I could have used a mentor.   Having someone who has been through an experience before you who can help you make the right decisions is a huge advantage.

In running my business, I know that a lot of the challenges I face are things I have never experienced before.  I know that, if I have someone more experienced who can answer my questions, I will save myself a lot of time and frustration. I can avoid wasting time going down the wrong direction.

When I started looking into creating online e-courses to teach social media marketing, I knew this was an area I knew little about.  How do I put together the website, the payment system?  How do I set up the courses?  Where should I start?  I needed a mentor.

Listening to podcasts on iTunes, I came across two podcasters who ran a membership site called Internet Business Mastery.  This site taught exactly what I was tryng to learn, how to set up a membership site.  I immediately enrolled.  It was a great move. I was able to work through the lessons at my own pace and create a really good site called My Social Marketing Class.

This year my challenge is a different one. How do I tell more people about my e-courses?  Are there new ideas out there for driving traffic to my website and blog?  I have found another mentor to guide me through this very specific endeavor.  I’ve joined Carrie Wilkerson in the Barefoot Executive program.  I’m learning some new stategies and techniques for moving my business forward. I've got someone I can ask all of the questions, big and small, that I need answers to. She is teaching exactly what I need right now.

If you don’t have a mentor, it is time you get one. Now with the internet, you can find people who are teaching exactly what you need to learn. They will save you time and money since you won’t be walking down the wrong path. They will help you stay on the path to success.

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The first few minutes of the movie start out well enough but it all goes downhill from there. The story seems like a jumbled up mess of ideas that are poorly executed. The dialog in this movie is so horrible at times that one actually feels physical pain just listening to it.

The Acting was nothing to write home about but most of the time it wasn't even really the fault of the actors. Some of the lines that they had to deliver were so bad that it wouldn't matter how they were pulled off. The absence of rachel weisz and oded fehr only hurt the movie more. Maria Bello did well during action scenes but when it came to anything else she fell flat.

The special effects in this movie were good but that wasn't enough to carry the film. The final battle was a complete bust, there was no idea of scale of feeling that the world was in danger, in fact there was no feeling that anyone was in danger since it was undead soldiers vs undead soldiers (as seen in the trailer) so neither side needs to worry about dieing.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 @ 1:13 AM

You know what's bugging me in the middle of the night? To come to realize that someone has been copying me since God knows when. Oh wait, or should I be proud that there's actually people who appreciates what I write or do? I hate to be copied! People who copy are a bunch of people who's lack of creativity and probably should take up some classes to gain them! I might sound harsh, but I am just angry!

Look at what the person wrote? That's obviously taken by me.

She shouted Danell! and the photo was taken? Lick my cock if I had one. Another obvious picture taken by me. KNNCCB.

If you're a faithful reader of my blog, you'd know what she "wrote" about herself is obviously written by me. What the fuck?

Its not the matter of taking Daniel's picture or whatever. Its just that if something is not yours then don't simply claim that its yours. You can compliment a photograph and say you like it or whatever but don't simply proclaim something and think that people won't find out. And I'd most likely understand if you were young and immature. But you're 21. DAYMN.

Previously when friendster was the in thing, I always put a quote for each and every picture. Be it related to the pic or not. And guess where I found it? In her pictures descriptions. Please, is that all she can do? Copy and claim its hers.

I am too lazy to find any more of my "creation" in her blog or whatever. But please if you're ever reading this and think that those things you "wrote" or those pictures you "took" is really yours, then leave a comment alright? KNNCCB. I think she just gotta start being creative!

I hope we meet. (:

Cowards who make their blog private because she is obviously ASHAMED that she is not original. Ordinary girl leading an extraordinary life? Yeah I am sure of that, living a lie that is. Freaking liar.


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Sunday, February 27, 2011

She's got a ticket to ride!

Here are Quinn and Sandy on the antique carousel
at Menlo Park in Perkasie PA.
Look at Quinn holding the ticket in her little hand- so cute!
I made the title block a ticket - hee hee! - pretty proud of that!

This layout entered in the sketch challenge at Memory Lane PA,
the stitching challenge at Paper Variety, and the ticket challenge at
Chicken Soup (thanks for the link, Tina!).

The sketch by Jessica aka scrapbaby!

some closeups: (you can click on them to enlarge if you like)

Product list:
Paper, chipboard, border sticker: Crate Paper, Brook Collection;
Distress Inks: Tim Holtz; Silk Flower: Prima; Floss: DMC #726;
Letters: "SHES"- October Afternoon, Mini Market
              "TICKET" & "RIDE" - American Crafts, Remarks;
Music score: vintage

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your comments (and followers)!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

BoBunny February card challenge

This card entered in the BoBunny February Card Challenge using this sketch:

Also entered at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
her challenge this week is to use a sentiment.
I used BoBunny's beautiful Noel collection.
I kept the card "flat" as it will go to Operation Write Home
for one of our troops to send home.

Here is the inside (it is the reverse of the base paper)
with space at the top to write a note.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Valentine gift tags

I made these gift tags from the Making Memories Love Struck garland kit.
I entered them in the LOVE contest at Design Dollies!

for the Snyders: (Bryan, Jacob, Robin)

for the Kilborn's:(Quinn, Sandy, Joel)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Awesome (Zachary)

This is my brother's son Zachary in the summer of 2009
I've had this picture already printed in 8x10 for more than a year now and the perfect sketch finally came along! I knew the instant I saw this week's sketch at Sketchy Thursdays that I wanted to reverse it and that I wanted to use this photo! (It's scary the things that I remember that I have, and what goes on in my head with them!)

Patterned paper: Fancy Pants "Rusted Sun";
Ribbon: BoBunny "Annasophia";
Letters and blue dots: Cloud 9 Design "Rain dots";
Sun and Flip Flop Icons: Microsoft Word Clip Art;
Surfboard Icon: Unknown patterned paper from stash;
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz

Here is the sketch (I had to flip flop it (ha!) to accommodate my photo):

Angled close up to show dimension of pop-dotted icons and epoxy letters:

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your comments!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Sweet Aunt(s)

Here is Sandy holding Robin's son Jake and Robin holding Sandy's daughter Quinn.
My girls are so enjoying being mommies and aunties and raising their kids together!

This layout entered in a sketch contest at My Sketch World.

All of the patterened paper, rub-ons, die cuts, and stickers are
Fancy Pants Designs "Lilac House";
"sweet" is Cosmo Cricket Tiny type;
Felt bird and branch are Maya Road;
Brown pearl is Recollections;
Pearl Flourish is Kaiser (so glad I picked that up on a whim at Memory Lane PA on Friday night!)

Here is the sketch:

A close up of the flourish:
Thanks for looking!
I appreciate your comments!

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Miracle (Jacob's birth 5.4.10)

This layout is for the MLPA facebook sketch challenge.
Added challenge is that the picture be from 2010.

Base paper: My Minds Eye from the Laundry Line collection
Patterned paper: Bella Blvd from the Estate Sale collection
Brown cardstock: Bazzil;
Bling flourish: Gem Art;
Butterflies: jenni bowlin studios; Font: Sizzlits Cherish
Photograph: Bella Baby Photography

the sketch by Jess aka scrapbaby:

a close up:

Friday, February 4, 2011

Adah on her 4th birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday Adah!
(my sister's granddaughter)
 The paper, stamp, and cake die cut are all Imaginsice "B-day Bash" collection. Rhinestones are Basic Grey; Distress Ink is Tim Holtz; Pop dots are EK Success.

Here is a close up:

 Thanks for looking! I appreciate your comments!

This layout is entered in prompt 24 birthday layout challenge at Scrap That Baby, the banner challenge at Frosted Designs and
a sketch contest at My Sketch World
where the added challenge is for the layout to be a birthday theme.
Here is the sketch:

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Poem for Sarah

Dr. Sandy's assistant is leaving the practice and Dr. Sandy wrote her a poem.
I used BoBunny's "Flower Child" line to make it pretty!
I realize that center flower looks obnoxious in the picture, but it's really not! The lighting makes it look darker than it is.
Here are some close ups:

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Pitcarin House Westridge Girls School, Pasadena

Pitcairn House, one of the oldest and most architecturally-significant buildings at Westridge School. Work on the building will remain true to the design elements of Greene & Greene, the renowned architecture firm that built the original Craftsman house in 1906.

One of the most prominent historical buildings in Pasadena, Pitcairn House was pivotal to the evolution of Greene & Greene architectural designs. During its original construction, the Greene brothers developed methods and design elements later used in both the famous Blacker House and the Gamble House. These homes are architectural landmarks in Pasadena history as they combine the influences from the Arts and Crafts movement with Asian architecture and the shingle style to produce the Greene & Greene bungalow homes of the early 1900s.