No Cards, No Cash: No Problem! Get A Google Wallet

First Google was after search engine domination, then world domination, and now? YOUR WALLET! But they’re not going to steal it — trust me, they don’t need the money. They want to replace it.

No cards, no cash: no problem! Get a Google Wallet

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Apple Announces Oct. 4 Iphone Event

Apple has officially announced its iPhone event, to be held on Oct. 4 as previously reported. The event will take place at Apple's Cupertino Campus in California, beginning at 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern), according to press invitations issued by Apple on Tuesday.

Shortform’s Social Channels Add Videos From Facebook, Twitter

ShortForm has added a new way for its VJs to find and share videos, adding new social channels into the mix. Those channels will surface videos that have been shared on social networks like Facebook and Twitter or uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo.

ShortForm’s social channels add videos from Facebook, Twitter

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A Review Of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-channel Attacks, And Management

In recent years cloud computing has become a growing interest for organizations looking to reduce their IT costs by offloading infrastructure and software costs onto 3rd party organizations who offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (e.g. Google Apps), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (e.g. Google App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (e.g. Amazon EC2). However, due to the relative infancy of cloud based computing services, there exists uncertainty about the level of information security offered by these services. IaaS cloud services are largely reliant on virtualization technology, which is seen as providing all the security and process isolation a customer might want.

A Review of Cloud Computing Security: Virtualization, Side-Channel Attacks, and Management

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Instagram-powered Art Show To Open In London

Instagram, the free iPhone photography app that's grown like a weed, has a lot of both fans and critics. Some critics allege that the app's photo filters ruin perfectly good images and will be looked back at later in the photographer's life with regret. Surely there are some great photos on Instagram though, right? I've seen some great stuff posted by others in my experience using it. I wish I was a better photographer myself so I knew how to use the app better.

One group of fans in London believe they've learned to use the app very well and they've gone from geographically nearby to each other, to having regular in-person meetups to what's now perhaps the next logical step: their own gallery art show. Here at ReadWriteWeb we love democratized publishing online and we love art, so we had to take a look at MyWorldShared - a gallery show of Instagram photos that opens in London on October 22nd.

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"My World Shared captures the concept of Instagram," the group says, "to record in images our world around us, our lives, our outlook, our views, and share that view with the rest of the world. It is an individual view, but one that others can relate to, like postcards from a friend."

Instead of postcards from exotic far-away places though, Instagram photos are often taken from right nearby your home. You've always got your phone on you. If you see something visually interesting - why not record it in a snapshot? It's an interesting intersection of ideas: Unusual sights, but in the usual places, perhaps with a slight tweak of a color filter and often of things that other people pass by regularly. It's a system of visual interpretation that anyone (who has an iPhone) can participate in.

Is this some kind of symbol of today's celebration of mediocre, unconsidered, shallow, frivolously decorated amateur art? Not if it's curated well! If most of the content on Instagram brings joy to no one but the people who post it - so be it. But the large body of images that the app makes easy to create are clearly leading to some great photos.

Why not put the best of it in a gallery? There are certainly Instagram users here in my home town of Portland whose work I would enjoy seeing printed large and on a wall.

I don't know if MyWorldShared is the first Instagram art show but I'm sure it won't be the last.

The show also got a write-up by Josh Wolford at WebProNews, who writes about his love of Instagram frequently. I found out about it from Ricky Yean of Crowdbooster.

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Travel Photography Tips: What Should I Pack?

From the new book,

Travel Photography Tips: What Should I Pack?

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Foss4g 2011: Starts Your Mapping Engine

While the FOSS4G 2011 just began Monday, it looks that the number of attendees for the overall conference would beat the best ever in Spain last year. The first two days of the Conference started with one of the moment always appreciated by the community: the workshops. This year in USA around half of the audience of the workshops were newbies in geospatial open source community (mainly from the Colorado area) and the other half were developers, users and experts of the FOSS world.

I have attend two workshops on Monday, the first one was: Introduction to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. This organisation has been involved manly since the Earthquake in Haiti by sharing mapping resources with the affected people when needed. I found particularly interesting at the workshop is the “Walking papers” application. This idea is a way to “round trip” map data through paper, to make it easier to perform the kinds of eyes-on-the-street edits that OSM needs now the most, as well as distributing the load by making it possible for legible, easy notes to be shared and turned into real geographical data.

Walking Papers is a website and a service designed to close this final loop by providing OpenStreetMap print maps that can be marked up with a pen, scanned back into the computer with a cellphone, georeferenced automatically by the service and traced using OSM’s regular web-based editor, such as Potlatch or JOSM.

The second workshop I went to on Monday was: FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools, OpenStreetMap road data and GeoExt. This workshops has been given in previous edition, but this time in Denver new improvement have been made. One of the topics discussed in the workshops was that pgRouting functions is an effective way to trace in one or two seconds a shortest path based on more than 500000 features by using the wrapper with bounding box. Even if pgRouting was quite effective for the OpenStreetMap data of Denver during the workshop, it does not mean that all parts of the world are well covered with topological streetsline. The osm2pgrouting is a great tool to prepare OSM datasets to routing and show if the datasets needs be cleaned and snapped. At the same time, Daniel Kastl from Georepublic, as one of the trainer at the workshops, said that pgRouting was made first for geospatial analysis and will never be as effective as the one implement in Google Maps, because the Google routing engine is precalculated and can be effective for entire continent. This pgRouting has not published a new releases since 2010 and any developer involvement or corporate supports is welcome. The entire workshops can be found at this address: http://workshop.pgrouting.org/.

I have made a pause and I went to see the Monday Night football at the Mile High Stadium in Denver were fans were predominantly in orange jerseys to support their home Team! It was great game, in a very nice Stadium that has quite a lovely view of the City by night.

On Tuesday, An Introduction to Geospatial Open Source was the last workshops have been to before the formal presentation part of the conference starting on Wednesday. This workshops is given an overall tour of FOSS4G world and its business model and main open source projects.

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Checkin At Social Media Week With The Nokia Foursquare Vending Machine

There’s been some clever uses of the foursquare API to date, however, this one just may take the cake… or the candy bar in this case! The clever “Heads” at 1000Heads and the always innovating minds at Nokia have dropped a way cool bombshell on the attendees of a Social Media Week event in Glasgow [...]

Checkin at Social Media Week With The Nokia Foursquare Vending Machine

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Juice Up The Battery Life Of Your Android Device

Discussion on Juice up the battery life of your Android device | TechRepublic

Juice up the battery life of your Android device

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Google Geo Developers Blog: Quick And Simple Street View With The Google Street View Image Api

The Google Maps API family includes the Google Static Maps API, which delivers maps as fixed images in PNG, GIF, or JPG format. It’s great when you want to quickly add a map to a page without writing a JavaScript application, when you need maps on a device with no JavaScript support, or for generating lightweight thumbnail maps or maps for printing. In fact we’re so delighted with the popularity of the Static Maps API that today we’re launching an accompanying service for Street View imagery.

The Google Street View Image API brings the simplicity of the Static Maps API to Street View, providing a way to add a Street View image or thumbnail to any application without the need for JavaScript. Simply construct a URL in accordance with the documentation, and the API returns the corresponding Street View panorama as an image in JPG format:



You can use the Street View Image API in both web based and mobile apps, and the size limits and daily quotas match those of the Static Maps API for both the consumer Maps API and Maps API Premier. You can display Street View images in your apps using this API without a corresponding Google map, but if you do choose to display a map it must be provided by Google. For more details on how to use the Street View Image API please refer to the documentation.

To make it easier to find help using the Street View Image API and Static Maps API, we’re also launching a new forum today dedicated to these services. If you have any questions regarding use of these APIs going forward we recommend you head over to the new Google Maps Image APIs group. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Google Geo Developers Blog: Quick and simple Street View with the Google Street View Image API

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Chart Of The Day: Steve Jobs Leaves, Apple's Stock Soars (aapl)

Since Steve Jobs left his post as CEO of Apple, the stock has taken off, rising 10%. Somewhat surprising, since you would think the stock would tank after the company lost its visionary leader.

Apple is trading at an all time high, closing today at $413. The company's market cap is $390, and it will soon be over $400 billion, giving it a very good chance to be worth more than Google and Microsoft combined.

But, the Jobs situation was hanging over the stock, keeping it in a holding pattern. With him out, that uncertainty is out of the way.

Also holding the stock in check -- the company deviated from its normal pattern by not releasing a new iPhone this summer. The next iPhone launch is expected in weeks, which is getting investors excited.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Steve Jobs Leaves, Apple's Stock Soars (AAPL)

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10 Android Apps To Boost Your Productivity

There’s no questioning that the Android OS is gathering momentum and the mobile ecosystem (in North America) is pretty much a 2 pony horse race.  IT’s tough for anyone to tell you which apps are the best as that’s totally subjective, however, it is possible to share 10 suggested apps that will likely help increase [...]

10 Android Apps To Boost Your Productivity

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I’m Leaving Techcrunch. Here’s Why.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

To those who have been following the recent TechCrunch drama, this post won't come as much of a surprise. A little over a week ago I wrote that, unless Mike Arrington was allowed to choose his own successor as editor of TechCrunch, I would no longer write for the site. Sure enough, this past Monday, a statement from AOL announced Erick Schonfeld as the new editor. A lot of outside observers assume that Schonfeld, who has been with TechCrunch since 2007, was Mike's choice to take over. But, in the interests of transparency, it's important to clarify what really happened. The truth is, Erick was Arianna Huffington's choice, not TechCrunch's.

I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why.

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No Microsoft Email Client?

Q&A;: No Microsoft email client? | TechRepublic

No Microsoft email client?

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Yandex Launches ‘yandex.appsearch’ Mobile Apps Search Engine

Yandex, Russian search engine has launched a new beta feature to search for mobile apps dubbed "Yandex.AppSearch".

Yandex Launches ‘Yandex.AppSearch’ Mobile Apps Search Engine

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Apple Ios5 – Brand New Features

Apple has rolled out its brand new version of its operating system, iOS 5, which will be available Fall 2011. On June 6th, Apple announced the release of the fifth upgraded version iOS5.0 beta version, during the WWDC annual event. Packed with some cool revolutionary features, not few, but around 200 brand new features to [...]

Apple iOS5 – Brand New Features

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Will Love-hate Relationship Continue With Flash 11?

The love-hate relationship that millions of computer geeks around the world have with Flash is about to change. Flash Player has gotten a makeover and released its version 11. The widely-used browser plug-in from Adobe got an overhaul, undoubtedly due to threats to its monopoly from rapidly-growing web standards competitors like HTML5, Silverlight and Java FX. Web standards coming to market is the only threat to Flash’s supremacy though, Adobe’s brainchild has also been locked out of iOS devices and has only a small foothold with Android.

Will love-hate relationship continue with Flash 11?

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Is Google Being Anti-competitive?

It's not new to suggest that Google is too big, too influential, or trying to glom onto too many important bits of the Web. But some recent discussions on Reddit and news of Google Dart has raised the question again. Is Google being anti-competitive or threatening the open Web? More precisely, can Google do what makes sense as a business and not be (or be perceived as) anti-competitive?

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Google is, quite literally, involved to some degree in almost everything online. It started out as a search company and has branched into everything from the lowest levels (DNS) to the operating systems users employ to consume Web services (Android, ChromeOS). Along the way they have taken interest in alternatives to HTTP (SPDY) and created their own codecs (Web-M) and their own browser (need I say Chrome?), an API for browser plugins. And the list goes on. And on.

Taken one way, these forays into new areas look like Google trying to control the Web. One wonders, for instance, why Google found it more advantageous to build its own Web browser rather than continuing to contribute to Firefox. Does Google really need to offer DNS? Its own codecs?

The Case for Expansion

In many situations, Google makes a good case for branching out further. Take Web-M, for instance. Google has good reason to avoid the H.264 patent minefield, particularly when it offers one of the largest video sites on the Web and its own operating systems. Web-M might also be a competitive advantage for Google at some point, but it looks primarily like a defensive position.

The discussion on Reddit that sparked this most recent flare-up cites an email from Google's Mark S. Miller about the future of JavaScript. It includes a bit about targeting Chrome first, which sounds a lot like Google giving their own properties an unfair advantage. But the cited parts don't tell the full story. I recommend reading the full email, but here's the full piece from which the scary part was excised:

We will strongly encourage Google developers start off targeting Chrome-only whenever possible as this gives us the best end user experience. However, for some apps this will not make sense, so we are building a compiler for Dash that targets Javascript (ES3). We intend for existing Google teams using GWT and JSCompiler to eventually migrate to the Dash compiler... Our approach is to make an absolutely fantastic VM/Language and development environment and build great apps that fully leverage it in order to help other browsers see the wisdom in following. Once Dash has had a chance to prove its stability and feasibility, we are committed to making Dash an open standard with involvement from the broader web community.

Is this an argument for Google being anti-competitive or against an open Web? I don't think so. It could be poor strategy, but it's not anti-open, at least given just this email as evidence.

Our approach is to make an absolutely fantastic VM/Language and development environment and build great apps that fully leverage it in order to help other browsers see the wisdom in following.

I've been, at times, fairly critical of Google. Their "open" strategy with Android, for example. The rather unpleasant pricing changes with App Engine. I'm not convinced that Chrome is a good thing. And I've quite a few issues with Google's policies and enforcement around pseudonyms on Google Plus.

Not Attributing to Malice...

You've no doubt heard the quote, "never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity." Or some variation thereof. In this case, I'm reluctant to attribute to malice what is adequately explained by Google's developer-driven culture.

For the most part, Google's touch-everything approach is not about squelching competition and openness. It's about being an developer-driven culture that finds many areas on the Web in need of optimization. It's not so much about putting roadblocks in front of others, but removing roadblocks that Google sees in front of its path. Why create, for example, Android? Because a phone ecosystem controlled by Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and Nokia didn't bode well for Google with so much action moving to mobile.

Why create a competitor to JavaScript? Because Googlers have decided that they can do better. This is not unusual for developers to look at a language and be dissatisfied, and to decide it can be done better. What is somewhat unusual is to be in a position to do it again and make it succeed on a large scale.

Maybe I'm giving Google too much credit, but I just don't see the company as "the next Microsoft" or whatever. The company bears watching, and a change in leadership could very easily take Google down a bad path. But the company as it is today seems to have its heart in the right place. What do you think?

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