Mobile Music Soars In Usage After Adding GeoSocial Features

This from Skyhook wireless as the company notes that mobile apps apps ShareTunes and SongStumblr, mobile music apps that use Skyhook’s location technology managed to grow their user base and loyalty thanks to Geo social.  Intersect World LLC’s music apps have now been downloaded over 2.5 million times with huge growth experienced after adding geosocial [...]

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Blog Post: BizTalk WCF Adapter: Require a "Disable Receive Location after n failures" option

When using WCF-Custom Adapter one can check the box 'Disable Location on Failure' under the 'Messages tab'. While this is a useful functionality there might be cases when we wouldn't want the receive location to get disabled for particular known faul

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After the Spill: Walking Florida's Coastline

Gulf Coast tourism was hit hard by last April's BP oil spill. Hotel cancellations spiked as vacations were put on hold. But last Saturday nearly 4,000 volunteers walked Florida's 825 miles of coastline to prove that months after the spill, their beaches are oil-free, and they want you to come "share a little sunshine" with them.

The Great Visit Florida Beach Walk rallied local Floridians and visitors to take real-time photos of the current beach conditions across the state. Beginning at sunrise and over the course of the day, more than 4,600 photos were shot and uploaded to the Visit Florida website, organized by mile marker. The celebration didn't just include photography. A seaside wedding, sand sculptures, beach parties, kite flying, and concerts were also in full swing to celebrate the Sunshine State's sandy beaches.

"We're gratified by this great response from fellow Floridians who wanted to get out and show the beauty of this part of paradise that we enjoy every day-- 825 miles of beaches that are clean, clear, open for business, and as amazing as ever," said Chris Thompson, president and CEO of Visit Florida.

Log-on to the Visit Florida website to view additional beach walk photos, and for Florida trip-planning resources visit Traveler online.

[Florida Guide]
[Family Trips: Everglades]
[Miami City Guide]
[Road Trip: Florida Keys]

Photo: Mile 113 Courtesy of Visit Florida


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Repeat After Me: Investors Are Never the Story

As we've seen in recent coverage of RockMelt, it has become commonplace in the Valley to shift focus away from founders and put it on the investors. But the investors are the wrong reasons to pay attention to a company and its technology.

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Jim Brady, Boss Of Hot Local News Site TBD, Out After Silly Fight About "Content OR Aggregation"

The general manager of hot local-news site TBD, Jim Brady, is out after what sounds like a disagreement with TBD publisher (and owner) Robert Albritton.

The cause of the departure appears to have been an argument about whether TBD should grow by adding more "content" (original reporting) or "aggregation" (links to third-party content).

(Brady disputes this, but Albritton's memo makes it sound like it was an issue.)

In a reversal of the usual positions in this argument, publisher and money-man Albritton appears to want more original content, and Brady, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, wants (or wanted) content AND aggregation.

In case anyone's wondering who's "right" about what TBD should do, the answer is...Brady. 

The online medium has made the distinction between "content" and "aggregation" irrelevant. Or, more specifically, it has turned aggregation into a form of content--and a very valuable one at that.  The most successful online media companies, such as Huffington Post and Gawker Media, incorporate both original content AND aggregation.  And that's why they are drubbing both the pure aggregators and the pure "content" companies.

And before you fall for the whining about how "aggregation" is a sort of parasitical behavior that steals the work of others, note that "aggregation as a form of content" is nothing new: TV and radio news outlets have been "aggregating content" for decades--by broadcasting news gathered by newspapers. And newspapers themselves have been reporting the work of other newspapers for centuries.

So this whole argument about "content vs aggregation" is silly, especially in a world in which millions of sources are only a click away. 

If Albritton wants TBD to win a couple of Pulitzer prizes, fine, he should hire a few more Washington Post reporters.  But if he wants the site to become a huge, influential commercial success that helps support a network of hundreds of local bloggers, he should ALSO keep investing in aggregation and technology.

Fishbowl has Albritton's memo >

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• Washington Post Is Condescending And "Passive Aggressive" About Its Newest Competitor: D.C. Startup TBD.com
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The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All

An anonymous reader writes "John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, has confirmed this afternoon that The Hobbit will be filmed in NZ, after weeks of uncertainty. From the article: 'The future of the $670m production hung in the balance after an actors union issued a no-work order on the films last month. Talks were held overnight with studio executives from Warner Brothers to resolve concerns about industrial laws in New Zealand.'"

Comment on After Verizon, Skype Friends Japan’s KDDI by Skype Boots Nimbuzz, Tightens Grip On Ecosystem: Tech News «

[...] deals with phone companies like 3, Verizon Wireless and KDDI are making it clear where Skype sees its future revenues. Similarly, Skype has found major success [...]

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After Verizon, Skype Friends Japan’s KDDI

Skype today announced that it has signed up KDDI, a Japanese phone company, which will integrate Skype into some of its handsets. This makes KDDI one of the handful of cellphone companies (including Verizon Wireless) Skype is looking for growth, ahead of its IPO.

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Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were spotted taking a walk together after having dinner together at Jobs' house.

Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were spotted taking a walk together after having dinner together at Jobs' house.

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