500 000 $ Geek Cyberheist [crime]

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AdrianChen – yesterday, a man woke up to find out that nearly $ 500,000 in the value of virtual cash napíchal from your own computer as a thief. The first of the great robbery Bitcoin is on us!

If you have spent time in nerdier parts of the Internet in the last few months, you know, that is, the trends of the Bitcoin hyper virtual currency, championed by geek warriors, hackers, and drug dealers. Completely decentralized, open-source and almost anonymous, essentially as a function of the Bitcoin digital money. Compared to users can store their wallet in the bitcoins file on your computer, in the Bank or Paypal account. Unfortunately, such as money, Bitcoins are gone forever, theft, or computer are on is destroyed.

Rolling high fanatic, who goes by the Allinvain claims that on Monday afternoon, someone blew us 25 000 Bitcoins from his wallet and put into another anonymous account. At the current exchange rate of $ 6.72 for Bitcoin is $ 467,500. (Although the exchange rate reaches as high as ~ 29 dollars in the last few days.)

"I feel I will kill, and now," said Allinvain wrote the Bitcoin Forum after the discovery of the theft. He was an early adopter of the Bitcoin in 2010 and held its currency from when it was worth just pennies. "I remember that track the price like a hawk," he writes. His plan was to eventually use its cash and profit to the opening of the Bitcoin business. "Needless to say, I feel like I've lost faith in the Bitcion," he wrote.

Allinvain says that he noticed was hacked some special activities with his computer, which suggests that. Although he could not rule out the possibility that someone physically stole his wallet Bitcoin file from your computer.

Geeks everywhere, for theft, debating whether it was possible to Bitcoin security or stupidity on the part of Allinvain. Another user of the Forum, said that he was hit by a hacker, who was his Bitcoins to the same account that was used to empty the Allinvain 's, which has led to speculation that a serial thief is on the loose. Bitcoin

"It is one thing, bitcoins. There is no FDIC or SIPC tracking back, "wrote commenter Hacker News. "It's the Wild West with train robberies and heists of all coach."

What made the theft of more dramatic, because the Bitcoin transactions in the public record all protocol, anyone can watch stolen from a hiding place in real time, that's around to different sloshed anonymous accounts, probably in an attempt to Bitcoin Wash is.

It is the only possible fraud in the Allinvain. Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik says that "it is literally impossible to determine whether a post is B.S."– because of the Bitcoin is anonymous, someone may argue that own any of the account and there is no real way to prove it. But he adds: "it is true, as well as the actual wallet in your pocket, can be stolen bitcoin wallet."

Even if a hacker can attack your wallet with a Trojan horse. Also, your wallet will last almost 500 000 dollars. If for some reason, the half a million dollars from Bitcoins, it is stored in the computer locked in a large vault, twenty feet below the ground, you disconnect from the Internet, safe from the mysterious Bitcoin cat-burgler. Maybe in the Bank?

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Microbursts are as well as Tornado [Video]

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Casey Chan-Golf ball size hail. Intense, driven by the wind to break down and spreading out, wants to play in his own way. Torrential rain, which makes it impossible to see farther than a click away. My God, microbursts are previews of the Apocalypse.

It was filmed in Norman, Oklahoma. I will never complain about the heat or the snow again. Mother nature, you have too many weapons in your arsenal. [Tornado Titans over @ MattHardigree]

James Franco wants to sell US $ 550 and Switchblade knife [James Franco]

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Mat Honan — you want to buy Brad Renfro Forever knife from James Franco? Of Course! The quarterly (which is the magazine cost 75 USD per issue) will sell you for only $ 550.

We don't understand completely [Brad Renfro connections updated: now we're doing. , See below.] or who would have thought that it would be a good idea to have medical marijuana, the side effect of victim James Franco play with knives, but come on, man! Franco!

Details directly from The case:

Switchblade order the legendary Italian cutlery LATAMA and Walt Halucha will highlight. When fully open, the knife measures 11 inches. The swivel the bolster and the Black and White Brazilian Horn handle. The blades will be numbered in each factory in Italy and then laser etched and hand painted Moon Edition here in SF.

Act quickly. On the e-mail that went out today are left only 74. Why 74? Franco! Franco! To Francø!

Update: Flavorwire has a story about a connection, Franco/Renfro and how it relates to the magazine:

Renfro had died of a drug overdose on heroin in 2008; He was 25. As part of the aspect of the performance of the piece, Franco, "BRAD" carved into his right arm with the Italian Switchblade tattoo-legend Mark Mahoney. The letters are embossed, creating a red wound, and lasted for about twenty minutes from beginning to end. Through this Act, Franco becomes a physical representation of a thing. In addition, Franco sketched "Brad Forever" in red lipstick on each of the 6 x 8 1/2 inch table mirror in the first run of this problem. The Text is situated above the small photos, wild hair Renfro, shirts and gazing into the distance, forever young.

Yes! That explains everything. Franco!

Sony's Cloud music Superstore beats rivals on the Punch [application]

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BrianBarrett – you've waited months for iCloud. Years waiting for Spotify. But Sony had just beaten as those to blow on the phone with a cloud-based, all-the-can you hear the music buffet available right now in the Android market.

Music Unlimited was previously announced in September from Sony – and it's available to other Sony products – but this is the first time you have access to the phone via 3 G or Wi-Fi. And from the Sony siloed in the past, it means that any Android phone, not just the dressings bin Xperia.

There are two levels of services, which allow you to access a library of more than seven million tracks from all four major labels in the us. Four dollar per month base package gets you, Pandora clone that ad free of charge, as well as the ability to scan and correspond to the music library (including iTunes) for playback on other unlimited music devices. For $ 10 per month premium service network that all of you, as well as the ability to create playlists, listen to any song you want, whenever you want and access to additional radio channels.

After all, not bad for everyone who thinks Apple iCloud looks a bit grey color. [Sony]

"Music Unlimited" powered by Qriocity ™ "App now available on Android market

Listen to more than seven million songs on anywhere and anytime

Tokyo, 15. June 2011/PRNewswire/— Sony Corporation ("Sony") announces the immediate availability of "Music Unlimited" powered by Qriocity ™ "App on the Android market in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand (i).
http://m.qriocity.com
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110615/AQ20272)
Based on the cloud, a digital music service provides streaming access music lovers anywhere at any time and (ii) still expanding catalog of currently over seven million licensed songs from the big labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music, as well as the leading independent labels and major publishers around the world.
Users can enjoy service on Sony Ericsson Android-based mobile devices, including the Xperia ™ Xperia ™ arc, play, Xperia ™ X 10, Xperia ™ Xperia ™ neo X 8 and third-party Android-based devices (iii). Users can also continue to have access to the service on a wide range of Sony devices connected to the Internet, including the 2010 and 2011 BRAVIA ® HDTV models network, Blu-ray Disc ™ Blu-ray Disc Home Theater as well as the PlayStation ® 3 computer entertainment system, PSP ™ (PlayStation ® Portable) systems and personal computers, including VAIO ® (iv) personal computers.
"' Music Unlimited power, would Qriocity ' offers wide-ranging content, easy music discovery and personalization experience synchronized music of various compatible home entertainment and portable devices," said Kazuo Hirai, Executive Vice-President, President, Sony Corporation. "Music Unlimited" powered by Qriocity ' for Android is the further development of the service, which extends the offer of value for our customers. "
The Server service are Omnifone and Gracenote. Omnifone under their services platform to develop and deliver excellent services for a wide variety of platforms, devices and services with the holder of the licence rights around the world to provide global catalog more than seven million tracks, while the Gracenote's music for the identification and the discovery of the technology and the global media database to create rich experiences for subscribers, let them enjoy their existing collection of digital music and discover new artists and albums.

Lomography LC-Wide: nenazývá toy camera [Lightning review]

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Kat Hannaford — as many filters as you want, in the Instagram, but you don't do art. On it you need a 35 mm film, updated Lomography is the latest view of the old Soviet classic, LC-Wide.

As: it's lightweight, yet durable enough can be thrown into the most dangerous of the bags. Photography with LC-Wide cannot be easier, if it is a lot to learn (or needed) when photographing with the delicacies of the movie. You can switch between the square and half-frames using frame masks, foot orthoses, plus shoot in standard full-frame, which displays the tabs widescreen frames 103 degrees. My full-frame footage (the film Fuji T64 cross processed) have great vignetting, while Kodak Portra 400VC I chose for the square, a framework which contributes to the natural color reproduction.

Not like: new features worth the extra $ 100? LC-A + is already too expensive $ 250, but it seems that push $ 350 LC-Wide, bracket and dangerous folly fun ok-now-you 're-costing method-as-much-as-an-entry-level DSLR-redzone. These cameras should not be seen as a replacement for the digital, but is, however, pill to swallow. With the cost of film and developing suddenly becomes very expensive hobby. [LC-Wide]

Technical data
Lomography LC-Wide
Price: US $ 350
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: x 4.25 "2.68" x 1.75 "
ISO Range: 100-1600
Focal range: 0.4-infinity
Type of film: 35 mm
Maximum aperture: 1: 4.5
Maximum length of the exposure: 1/500
The minimum shutter speed: unlimited

Google Wants To Mix Your Business With Social Network [Orkut Badge]

A lot of businesses do use Orkut/Facebook to share information about their business/product and Google is now urging businesses to create profile on Google Places and grab a badge that they can embed on Orkut.

“If you own a business and have an Orkut profile but you haven’t received this badge yet, simply add your listing to Google Maps. Keep in mind that your business doesn’t need its own website to be listed on Google!

Google Places allows business owners to manage information about their listings if they’re already on Google Maps, or to add them to the map if they’re not yet listed.
Once they’ve verified that the basic information about their business is correct and up-to-date, and added details like hours of business and photos, business owners can count on their listings being shown to Google users to grow their customer base. Their listing will appear among search results across Google, including Google Maps, even if they don’t have a website. And of course, this is all completely free.” [blog]

Once you create your business listing in Google Maps, your Orkut profile will earn a badge for your business (read: Google Brings Badges to Orkut–Too late in the Game?).

This is an interesting service where Google incentivizes small business owners to add their business data on Google places and is automatically integrated with Orkut, giving it the necessary ‘social’ push (though relevance of Orkut itself is a big question).

Do you think a Facebook app (that pushes Google Places data to Facebook) makes more sense for Google?

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Shooting challenge: summer solstice [photograph]

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Mark Wilson-ncient civilization buit monuments dedicated to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. This week's shooting challenge, will just have a picture.

Capture pictures from the summer solstice-it's June 21st-sorry, not at the weekend, but the universe somehow ignores 7 days calendar. And Yes, we'll push back deadline for shooting challenge shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Maybe it's a pagan cult, do you have in mind. Maybe it's just a glass of sweating in the Sun on the first day of summer. This call is open to a lot of artistic interpretation, but the chances are, the Sun will be in the picture.

Our East and West Sun shooting challenge has links to plenty of tips and tricks for managing to capture the exposure and colors of this giant fireball in the sky.

Our main focus is on flickr tarotastic. Photography is, despite its position as soon as the Sun. Interesting components are in a burning Red texture, dotted with silhouettes.

1. Submissions must be your own.
2. the the photos must be taken, since the competition was announced (read more on the above).
3. Explain, briefly, equipment, Setup, technology, and in the morning.
4. e-mail submission contests@gizmodo.com, not me.
5. the Include a broad picture (970px200 KB or less) and 2560 × 1600 in the e-mail. I know that your photo may not fall into the high offers the exact dimensions, so whatever the native resolution, which you use is fine.
6. One submission per person.
7. use the correct e-mail subject line (more information below)
8. do you agree with the standard rules of competition- If the parties ' submission resident outside the United States.
9. If the image contains any material or elements that are not owned by you or which are subject to the rights of third parties or persons will appear in the image, are responsible for obtaining, prior to the submission of photos, all releases and consents necessary for the exhibition and use of the image in the manner referred to in these rules, without further compensation. If the person in any image under the age of majority in their province/territory of the State of residence, signature/parents or legal representative is required on each release.

Send your best photographs from Wednesday 22. June at 8 pm Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with "Solstice" in the subject line. Save files as JPGs, and FirstnameLastnameSolstice. jpg (970px wide) and FirstnameLastnameSolsticeWallpaper. jpg (2560px wide) of the Convention. Include shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) in the body of the e-mail with the narrative, was shot in a few sentences. And I don't want to skip this part of the story, because it is often the most enjoyable part for us outside the scope of, alone!

Mark Wilson is the founder of Philanthroper, the daily web nonprofits that deal.

Popular Articles This Week–Youtube India Launches Block Buster

* The UnPluggd event is scheduled for July 9th in Bangalore and here are few important links:

- Early Bird discount on tickets. Navigate here and block your seat [the discount is available only till June 20th (use the code “PI”)].

- Startups who would like to demo their product at the event need to apply for the slot. Navigate here.

- For those interested in updates regarding UnPluggd event, do join this group.

Coming back to the weekly recap, following are the most popular articles of the week:

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

Mobile/Internet

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Now Android users can pay for their straightforward Venti soy run small anything with application [application]

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Kat Hannaford – joined the iPhone app, Starbucks now allows customers for their high caloric beverages and pastries with a QR code to create the application. It works only on Android 2.1 + and 6800 national stores that support the phone. [Android via Engadget]

Insta7 – The Super Efficient Homepage For Your Mobile Browser

We recently discussed whether mobile apps are the new web and the appstores new browser. There is an interesting tool that is bringing apps and appstore back to the mobile browser.

Insta7 is a mobile site that works as an aggregator or bookmark service for the most popular browsing actions on your mobile. The app is actually a WAP site that works out of your browser and aggregates links to sites like Facebook/ Twitter or custom tools for news (through IBNLive) and Wikipedia / image search etc. 

Developed by 2 young kids, Insta7 comes with a set of default apps including email access, following celebs on twitter, Cricket, Movies timings, Celeb Gossip, Horoscope, JustDial etc. and additional apps can be added from the ‘app store’. The list of apps is completely customizable as one can add or remove any app from the list.

What impressed me is that the team really understands the browsing habit of Indian users and has come up with the right list of apps. They have put in efforts develop app for whatever was not available/optimized for mobile access otherwise. Insta7 is amazing and works for the all sorts of users. When you think of it, you will realize it is dead simple and that is why it is useful.

Do try Insta7 and let us know your views.

Enjoy this promo rap song from the team.

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HTC changes his mind and decides to wish it is possible to gingerbread [blip]

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Kat Hannaford – HTC done within 24 hours, complete their former flagship the desire the phone after public pressure (we assume), announced the UK through its Facebook page that "contrary to what we said before, we must bring the gingerbread HTC desire." Great news for owners of the year-old phone, but we wonder how the deal make sense UI down? [Facebook]

moneysights Raises $270K From Blume Ventures & Naveen Tewari

We earlier profiled Moneysights, a Bangalore based startup that is trying to change the way an average investor makes decisions regarding investing in Stocks & Mutual Funds. The site’s USP as Santosh (cofounder) shared in detail (in the comment section earlier) is the set of tools that the product provides to an average investor enabling him/her to make informed decisions vis-à-vis investing in financial instruments (Stocks & Mutual Funds).

What we do & do in a unique way is help users take decisions on investments in Stocks & Mutual Funds. an average investor just has 1 question in mind – is this stock/MF good? does it make sense for me to invest in it? we answer these questions in an unbiased way. And in future, we would help the user invest directly from moneysights.

And NO, we AREN’T for people who like to research companies thread-bare. in fact, on the contrary, we are for users who are looking to CUT DOWN time they spend in researching & planning investments. we automate everything for them – right from discovering, planning, deciding & managing. you would notice we don’t have industry reports, balance sheets or P&L statements & plethora of information that adds confusion. we do all the complex math & come out with our views in form of ratings.

Started by ex InMobi employees, Moneysights has raised $270K from Blume Ventures and InMobi founder, Naveen Tewari. The funding was raised in February 2011 but is being made public only now. moneysights raised angel round from Prasad Duvvuri, who has held leadership positions in IBM India & Hewlett-Packard.

The funds are being utilized to grow the team and plug the online transaction platform.

moneysights intends to be a tech-led, low cost, online distributor of financial products (starting with Mutual Funds). Pre-buying, the biggest problem is to identify which product (from 1000s of choices available) is best suited to one’s need and risk profile.

moneysights helps users solve this problem through their smart product recommendation & discovery engine. The recommendation engine creates a portfolio of high performing Mutual Funds that minimizes investment risk & at the same time is well diversified across sectors, market capitalization, etc. You can also customize the recommendations based on your risk profile. During-buying, the product intends to provide a simpler, faster and reliable buying experience.

Post-buying, one of the biggest problem is a clear visibility into one’s investments. moneysights helps users track all their investments at one place and give them actionable insights by intelligently combining user’s data and product performance data from the markets.

Online as a channel of distribution is at early stages – only 5% of them are bought online (on an average,Online sales accounts for 18% of total financial products sales in India). The recent lowering of sales-commissions have put the current high-cost offline distribution channel at a big disadvantage. At the same time, consumers have started adopting internet for researching financial products in a big way. This has led to an aggressive push from the industry side to develop & support online Mutual Fund transaction platforms & keep transaction costs low.

According to a KPMG report, assets under managemnet of Mutual Fund companies are slated to grow to $430 Bn by 2015 which translates into distribution market size of $2.25 Bn, which is what moneysights.com is eyeing through their Mutual Fund offering. These trends combined with the clear tech-led differentiator make moneysights an interesting play.

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Do give moneysights a spin and share your review of the product.

Recommended Read: Interview with moneysights team.

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A Visual study of loneliness For photographer [Video]

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Kat Hannaford — in stunning video documentary on Brad Kremer photographer Michael Levin, somehow captures the loneliness of life photographer, but also the beauty of Kyushu, Japan, where it was filmed. Canon 5DMKII, filming the Hasselblad H4D. Beautiful.

Synthesized Communication–Even Startups Need To Get This Right

With more and more communication taking place electronically, one would think that marketing folks would be looking into each leveraging every interaction as a means of building a brand relationship. However experience suggests that there are miles to go before e-communication gets integrated into the traditional marketing plans of even leading brands.

After checking mail in my “Inbox”, I usually review the mail in the “Junk” folder to ensure that no important message has inadvertently been routed to this folder. Upon a recent review, I came across a mail from “Webmaster” and had “Despatch of documents through electronic mode” in the subject line. Even though it seemed like this mail was in the right folder, wanting to be doubly sure, I clicked on it and was surprised to learn that it was a message from the Investor Services Division of a company where I am a tiny shareholder. The message contained an attachment – a circular informing me that all communication (including notices and copies of the annual reports) henceforth would only be done electronically and, to quote the cold officialese, that “in view of the above, it would not be necessary to respond to the attached Circular”.

Why couldn’t the company – ironically, a top player in the hospitality business, no less – have communicated to me in a manner that was more personal, friendlier and more importantly not be confused with junk or spam mail? Why couldn’t the name of the company be mentioned? Why wasn’t the subject line different and one that would make me read it? Instead, the mail was in my “Junk” folder and worse, there was the real danger that subsequent, more important communication could get diverted to that folder with me perhaps losing out? Did the letter have to sound cold, impersonal and distant? How could a leading company in the hospitality business communicate so unthinkingly?

I received an e-bill from bill@tataindicom.com. After making the payment, I received an acknowledgement from Tata-Indicom-Support@tatatel.co.in. Why the two different domain names? Why isn’t e-communication with customers an important branding tool? Were customer support and marketing two different silos in this company?

Startups too aren’t immune. The official names of startup companies isn’t as well known as the “market names” or brands they represent. So why have this unknown company name in the email id of the employees? Why not use the brand name in all communications? Still several startups make the mistake of using both the brand and the official name and some make the bigger mistake of just using the official name. For example, imagine receiving an email from infoedge.in as opposed to naukri.com!

Few governments, certainly not the Indian one, can be accused of being innovative, citizen friendly and brand conscious. Consider this:

A senior Central government functionary from Ministry of Science and Technology used to use email to communicate very courteously, promptly and knowledgeably. The only issue I had was that his official email id (even printed on his letterhead) was “dept@rediffmail.com! Recently, I was informed by the gentleman who replaced this functionary that henceforth all communication was no longer to be sent to the rediffmail.com address but to another. Only this was a Yahoo.com account! How come the Govt of India doesn’t provide an official email id to its officers? The point is not whether it can (of course, it can) or should (of course it should!) but what it reveals about the mindset behind such efforts. Isn’t anyone in Government thinking of issues like security, storage or the impression this creates of a so-called IT Superpower (even discounting for hyperbole)? Isn’t there a CIO or CTO for the government who lays down, implements and enforces such simple policies and guidelines across ministries and departments? And this is the government that is implementing the world’s most ambitious IT project, namely the UID!

India’s great leap forward will be driven by a mix of policy, attitude, procedures, technology and governance. Someone once described India as a country with its head in the 21st century and its body in the 19th. While it is perhaps natural to wax lyrical and get all pumped up about the coming Indian dawn, it is important to note that it is in the minutest of details that the devil lies. Details that, for example, harmonize activities across departments, that showcase a single brand, that highlight a common set of values and propositions.

And in spite of this nation with its millions of gods, the devil can easily trip us all up.

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Sanjay Anandaram is a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship in India; He brings close to two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, venture investor, faculty member, advisor and mentor. He’s involved with Nasscom, TiE, IIM-Bangalore, and INSEAD business school in driving entrepreneurship. He can be reached at sanjay@jumpstartup.net. The views expressed here are his own

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I can put up with ads while I hang, thanks. [Application game day]

app game day Just latest-Schiller increment Zynga on game family is hanging with friends, the application for the gadget and both large and small. It's an unusual classic Kate, with elements of Scrabble, and other word games. "you can only choose from a ... [Kotaku]

Adepto Raises $300K USD From Blume Ventures And Rajiv Dadlani Group

Mumbai based Adepto has raised $300,000 in its first round of funding from Blume Ventures And Rajiv Dadlani Group.

Founded by two ex-Googlers, Kiran Kumar and Prem Pillai, Adepto Solutions is a product-focused social media application development company. Their flagship product Trol.ly is pitched as the ‘Default Social Commerce Solution’ to the online retailers, helping them improve sales via social networks. Once integrated with an online retailer’s website, Trol.ly works as a completely automated Social Commerce solution.

We earlier profiled Trol.ly on Pluggd.in and the company is also working on products in the travel, media and entertainment verticals.

Like we said earlier, it’s always fun to see Google hiring on Facebook and Googlers building products on Facebook – a sure sign that social media has changed the way marketers look at brand engagement.

What’s your take?

Also, take a look at how top brands use social media.

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A new time capsule and Airport extreme with the software update cache, saw in the code again [blip]

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Kat Hannaford – we want some new WWDC Airport extreme and time capsule I left, but according to the code that 9to5Mac dug the latest AirPort Utility, new models are coming at a given time.

Specifically, as the fifth-generation AirPort Extreme base station, and the fourth gen time capsule with .11n were referred to the aid. With regard to the previous update to airport Utility confirmed that both models would include the software update cache no closer to knowing when these two new devices will fall yet. [9to5Mac]

Introducing PowerPlug Winner for May Month

At Pluggd.in, we simply heart the PowerPlug contest. The entire concept revolves around bringing ‘solid’ Indian startups to the world and show them what’s really happening in India.

As a token of appreciation, we do give PowerPlug winners awesome gifts (an iPad2 every month + loads of goodies like media mentions etc), but this unique contest brings a different perspective regarding Indian startups and we continue to deliver the real Indian startup stories to the world.

If you look at the last two contests, winners were companies who have been in business for quite sometime (3+years) , but this time it’s different. This time, we have a company which is relatively new, really building a cool product and has executed it very well.

In no particular order, here is the list.

- IIMJobs

- Muziboo

- Recruiterbox

- SMSTadka

- FindMyMatch

PowerPlug winner is a startup that inspires others (to kick ass! to go beyond the norm). PowerPlug isn’t about a startup raising fund etc etc – it’s about a company being the underdog and creating a business that delivers immense value.

And the winner for May month is..

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Mark Zuckerberg new speaker works well with the liar [Flackery]

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RyanTate – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired a new spokesman, Joe Lockhart. The choice drew murmurs of approval in Washington, DC, and no wonder: it's a guy who handled the scandal with Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton.

Day after day in 1998, Lockhart, she stood up and defended Bill Clinton against the press, ruthlessly exposes all the methods, how the President lied when he said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Such was his work; his work will include defense of Zuckerberg and company built against the charge that broke privacy laws, shamelessly misled users and normally covered up their real motives. Zuckerberg, like Clinton, he has a disturbing history of practicing the art of deception.

Lockhart "is a type of lease that has a sense for the company," said a former Clinton political operative. This is true on many levels.

[Photo via AP]

What kind of Advisor Does A Startup Really Need?

I had a discussion with two entrepreneurs of a 3 year old startup in the travel space, who were looking for an advisor or mentor. They have both (along with another co-founder) run their web-based initiative for 3 years, and have done reasonably well to the point where they are starting at over 1.5 Million uniques monthly, and are actually profitable as a business. Their need for an advisor was to help them guide the next stage of the business and review their strategy for a few options to scale it to the next stage.

As a side note, I am consistently impressed by the depth of knowledge, and wisdom in most entrepreneurs (the current crop) who have started companies in the last 5 years. There are few questions that are “standard” or banal. They are more savvy about valuations, opportunities, and are seeking to actively grow their business to reach global scale, which has to be an awesome thing for all of us. Thanks to some excellent technology blogs, VC blogs, incubators, entrepreneur clubs, and many other sources of startup information, there are very few “basic hygiene” issues to ponder.

We got talking about the kind of advisor they needed. It was plain that they had they reviewed strategic options, learned about the market landscape and were clear on what  the pros and cons to each strategic choice they had in front of them.

Option 1 was to go for a “business advisor”. This would be a person who was a business executive from a larger company. I got the impression very quickly that any generic “business advisor” was going to run out of things to tell them within 6 months. This person would usually give you business advice that any experienced executive, CA or lawyer can, but with less of the specifics.

Option 2 was a “seasoned been-there-done-that entrepreneur” from the eCommerce industry with a company much larger. Most of these guys are running their own businesses and would rarely have any time to advice them. Worse, I have seen a few cases where mentors deliberately dont share key operational advice in the pretext of “competitive reasons”.

Option 3 was a “startup accelerator mentor” who was possibly a semi-retired, experienced technology executive at a large organization, who I definitely felt would help, but his lack of connections in the specific industry would make him fairly limited in use.

The final option was to look for an industry expert who can in phase 1) deliberate all the pros and cons of each strategy, then in phase 2) help connect the right people to the company based on her industry expertise and phase 3) help put some metrics and systems/processes in place to ensure rapid scale. It was obvious to me that for this team, this person would be the toughest to get, but would be the one with highest value.

I personally look for 3 things in advisors:

1. Can they give me time?

2. Can they help me with operational metrics and processes, not just strategy?

3. Can they help me scale my business from my current stage to the next “logical stage”.

I dont think I would ever look for an advisor from “cradle to growth”, since they are rare, but if I could get tremendous value from an advisor for 18 months, I typically consider that person a great advisor.

What’s your opinion?

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Celebrities (and Chewbacca) glazing of their Vinyl collection [music]

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SamBiddle – and what to Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Audrey Hepburn have in common, is not only beautiful and mostly dead? Apparently she loved their vinyl records, as captured in the wonderfully nostalgic Gallery. There is also a photograph of Chewbacca sexy relaxation (with records!).

The whole thing to the ice hockey and simply sentimental, but you kind of pine tree at the time when he was somehow "show off" your music collection. Beyond just scroll down iTunes or Spotify library, or placing the iPod gently on the table. Well ...? It is also possible that we just shit about the pride of the collection of music, as we take what we want from wherever we want and take it with you 24/7 digital as a mound of bacteria. Even I can't remember where it is the last CD I bought--probably somewhere in my couch. And it really doesn't bother me.

And, as promised, Chewbacca photos of the bonus.

Check out the rest of the collection of more black and white musical reminiscence, from Elvis to Della. [via the dangerous ideas, thanks to Nicko]

Daily Deal Site, Koovs Raises Funding From benefitsPLUS

Closed-group ecommerce site benefitsPLUS has invested in Koovs, Bangalore based daily deal site.

benefitsPLUS is a B2B player and works with corporates on their employee rewards/recognition programs. The Delhi based company creates and manages incentive, loyalty, privilege, reward and recognition solutions for brands, HR personnel, employees, dealers and distributors.

benefitsPLUS is foraying into B2C business and recently acquired snowball eRetail services. This investment in Koovs will probably give latter a foot-in-the-door in B2B segment, which is where a few niche deal sites (like open2save) operate.

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Facebook is sharing the secrets of iPhone photos App [application]

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Kat Hannaford — TechCrunch said Facebook's secret iPhone app "Looks cool" and "amazing", while most Android users would just be grateful for the Facebook app, really works. As some kind of merge paths, Instagram and colors that sounds pretty hot.

He is currently a stand-alone application, but Facebook may include into the main iPhone app to a later date, and even roll out the technology in a browser to Facebook too. As someone who regularly bangs his head against the wall, every time you save photos on Facebook, it would be great, thanks.

TechCrunch is still sorting through 50 MB of data and photos, which have been leaked, so one picture is all we have at present. But let us hope that we can find some more details about this groovy-sounding app, as soon as upload more and figure out whether it's Facebook at all now, that all of these photo-sharing applications are trampling on its floor ... or if it's a reaction to Apple baking Twitter so deep into the IDF 5. [TechCrunch]

10 Social Technology News You Should Not Have Missed!

Whenever you think of news, it should be fresh, hot and served on platter at the exact moment to have the impact and get the necessary reaction from the readers and the world. Social world has shown a changing landscape with news ranging from the evergreen privacy issues to the delightful iOS 5 announcement. Let’s sail through the ten handpicked news from the social and technological world in the last 2 months, which had everyone talking about them.

10.  The Apple Location Tracking Controversy
Now Apple landed in a soup when two data researchers publicly announced their discovery of a location database cache stored on the iPhone and backed up to Macs and PCs using iTunes. This did not stop here, it also led to a mud spilling session between Google (Android) and iPhone. Lawsuits have been slapped on both the companies; you can read more about that here . What was the result of all this? Well, Apple then officially responded with this, which takes the form of ten questions and answers, explains the issue and also acknowledges bugs for duration of data kept in the server.

9. Likester : The Global Popularity Engine
With facebook came the concept of likes and now it is huge and giant. People “like” things and let people know about their preferences. Now Likester is taking things a step forward so you know the likes of your friends, neighbors and millions of people.  In their own words: “They’re here to help you understand what people like. This includes your friends, your neighbors, and people you’ve never met from across the street or around the world. When you sign up with Likester, you contribute your anonymous data (what you like), in exchange for seeing what everyone else likes. What you have “liked” is publicly available information anyway, so you’re not giving up any privacy to play here. Once you join, our site is organized into six main areas, that we think will help you navigate the universe of likes most efficiently.” So just click here and experience the world of “likes”.

8. My Starbucks Signature
Now this is an innovative social campaign by Starbucks. My Starbucks Signature lets you build your drink, name it, and share it with your friends. My Starbucks Signature can also show you nutrition information. This has created quite a buzz in Google and Twitter and people are all excited about their own signature coffee with their choices down to even the cup !! So click here and get started !!

7. Facebook Turns on Facial Recognition For Tagging By Default
Facebook once again has breached into the murky waters of privacy with the new facial recognition for tagging. The feature basically means that whenever you’re offered the chance to tag groups of your friends in an album, Facebook will use its facial recognition technology to group similar faces together and automatically suggest the friend you should tag them with. Now if you want to deactivate it or want to get more about it read more here.

6. Facebook Deals
It’s been some time since people have an eye on this one. While New York Times had quoted it as Facebook’s Groupon/ LivingSocial “killer” there has been an air of mystery surrounding it. Maybe now you can use your credits not only in games but to redeem deals and buy real things. Read here and know what the deal is all about

5. HP revamping webOSApp catalog
It’s officially the war of tablets, Motorola coming with Xoom, the RIM playbook already creating waves and the market leader so far, iPad announcing its next version. Now HP with it’s tablet will have a long way to come. It has started impressively started with revamping the webOSAppstore. You can read more here.

4. Google Offers
Google Offers is the next big thing Google has to offer. Google Offers comes as a direct challenge to Chicago-based Groupon, which offers subscribers online coupons for discounts on a broad range of consumer goods and services. Within hours of the unveiling of Wallet last week, eBay and PayPal filed a lawsuit charging that Google tapped into the online financial transaction service’s know-how for the mobile payments project. Read more here.

3.  NYPL Bibilon: The Boundless Library
It is once in a while that you get to see an app which proves itself phenomenal. It will floor the user with its UI and take the whole experience of magazine viewing to a new level? This is highly intuitive and the presentation is too good. You can read about it here or  see it here or even the better download it from here for your iPad.

2. iOS 5 Twitter integration
We are very well going to talk about the iOS features in the next point but this one needs a special mention for its might and effect. Now it’s not only users but also developers can leverage on the integration. This deep integration will mean much more than superficial access. It will be a major step which can prove to be a game changer, Read more about it here.

1. Apple Announces iOS 5
Whether you are an ardent Apple fan or just an observer, you must have surely looked forward to Steve Jobs delivering the keynote in WWDC 2011, Apples’ developer’s conference. It is here that apple announces it’s latest products to come, and as expected Apple didn’t disappoint. If you want a minute to minute detail, you can read here . Now what is new in the new iOS 5 is the twitter integration (we have already talked about this one), the SMS killer announced as iMessage, Newsstand to keep all your magazines in a place, Reminders which are location based and of course the camera has been improved. iCloud was also in the news for the new cloud services. [more]

More campaigns and more apps are coming and adding new dimensions and solving challenges in the social and mobile space. Now more users have access to smart phones and social media is having huge impact in day to day lives. With the latest happenings, everything seems to be taking a social dimension.

[This post has been written by Aram Bhusal. Aram works at Kuliza – a Bangalore based social technology firm. You can more of his blog on the Kuliza blog.]

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Woman calls 911 because she got a bad Chinese food [Video]

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Matt Cherette — police in Savannah, Georgia today to remind residents that they should only use 911 for emergencies. Because apparently calls and requests coming into the Hong Kong restaurant on Largo drive say those "idiots", which did not have to get your order wrong doesn't make emergency. Audio, above. [via WMBF]

Go Ahead! Block Your Seat For UnPluggd Now! [+ Early Bird Discount]

Preparation for next edition of UnPluGGd (scheduled for July 9th, Bangalore) is in full swing and while we are ensuring that we recreate that magic, I am glad to announce that we have now opened up the event for attendee registration.

This time, we have limited seats (if you have ever been to UnPluggd, you’ll appreciate our focus on targeted crowd) and the early bird discount ends June 20th.

Normal ticket costs Rs. 650/ and early birds get to grab it for Rs. 500/.

Here is the link to book your seat right away.Early bird discount code is “PI” (without quotes).If you are on Twitter, do not forget to enter your Twitter handle in the ‘Attendee Detail’ section. We have something really cool planned for UnPluGGd3.

And for the startups who want to demo their product at the event, apply now! [link to the application form].

[FYI: Last year, we had 250 nominations out of which only 10 were selected to demo at the event. ]

And just like with other UnPluggd editions, expect amazing content + a rock solid visibility platform for startups, which Pluggd.in anyways provides (and with UnPluggd, we take that to the next level).

Like the last editions, we want to deliver great quality experience to you and we will share the agenda/speaker detail by June end.

Broadly speaking, here is how the day will progress:

a. 9 AM – 1 PM: Inspirational talks by selected entrepreneurs who will share their startup journey/experience with the audience. These are purely UnPluggd talks and are delivered straight from the heart (stuff like how valuation dropped, how they handled VC rejection etc, which otherwise is never shared in a public forum).

b. 2 PM – 6 PM: An intense session where 10 startups will demo their product in front of the audience. You will be exposed to some of the most inspiring and emerging startups from India.

- For more details, visit UnPluggd official site.

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Alright, There Is A Village in UP That Decided to Rename Itself To..Snapdeal.com Nagar

We earlier brought to your notice, a Facebook/Twitter chatwala, the famous Google Gola and Snapdeal has trumped them all with a real Snapdeal nagar in UP. That is, Snapdeal has adopted a village called Shiv Nagar, in Uttar Pradesh.

The initiative, which is first of its kind in this space, will involve partnering with the village in developing its infrastructure and basic amenities. To begin with, Snapdeal is resolving the foremost issue of unavailability of portable drinking water in the area by installing water pumps.

Subsequently, Snapdeal will extend support to the local school and hospital as well.  In appreciation of Snapdeal’s efforts for Shiv Nagar, the residents have decided to rename the village to “Snapdeal.com Nagar”.

A first of its kind in India and like me, if you think this is a marketing gimmick, I’d still say hats off to Snapdeal team:

a. for supporting 1 village (and we believe this is for real), and

b. using lateral thinking to drive the CSR activities.

We have covered Snapdeal story in depth on Pluggd.in and following links will give you the insight behind the company

[The Snapdeal Story] From Selling Detergent to Building A Couponing Service

Kunal started his first venture. a detergent company from his dorm room in the college. Took the product to 4,000 stores – all bootstrapped. That’s where he figured out the big business in couponing/sampling space.

The Snapdeal Journey–Of Failed Experiments & A Lean Startup Story [Part 2]

Aggregated discounts from retailers and delivered door to door. India’s poor infrastructure of delivery (of offline mail) gotten in the way.

[Snapdeal Story] “Grabbon Acquisition Was The Turning Point For Our Business”

“The first instinct for us was not to build a website, rather the first instinct was to ‘how do we make money this month?’.

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A robust notebook you can cancel the still game [laptops]

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Kat Hannaford — Fortunately for adventurers, Getac appropriate to ensure internal Getac in X 500 was as well thought-out as military degrees outside, clutching the 2.66 GHz Core i7 processor into the prepared for NightVision laptop.

-4 MB Intel Smart Cache works in parallel with the NVIDIA GeForce GT330M JOSEFA SUDKA GPU and 512 MB of VRAM and outside view inches 15.6 measures. The standard configuration includes three USB ports, one USB/eSATA combo port, two serial ports RS-232, PCMCIA, ExpressCard two ports, SmartCard, dual years RJ-45 ports, HDMI and VGA.

More details below in the press release and if you are interested in actually get your hands on this model, bear with us while we wait for more details on prices and availability.

GETAC INTRODUCES the FLAGSHIP X 500 ROBUST NOTEBOOK COMPUTER

The most robust laptop Getac in combines Intel 2.66 GHz Core i7 advanced graphics and flexibility,

Provide the speed and versatility

IRVINE, CA.-15. June 2011 – Getac Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of rugged computers that meet the requirements of the applications based on field introduces its new flagship 500 X the rugged laptop. This machine combines the flexibility of their best-selling B300 with adaptation and i/o features his A790, and battlefield command screen size M230 create the most powerful notebook and ultra-rugged in the history of the company. New X 500 notebook is designed to work in the most extreme working environments and includes a powerful Core i7 2.66 GHz Intel to stellar performance and speed.

As an experienced manufacturer and supplier of rugged notebooks for ultra-army, Getac uses its extensive experience and advanced technologies to produce their strongest robust system-with an impressive graphics performance and scalability-the challenge of virtually all of the communication, that military personnel today.

"For our customers, the new military core X 500 is the most powerful and Configurable rugged notebook that we've ever done," said Jim Rimay, President, Getac. "New from the ground up, X 500, it is a signature design, combines the best features of our B300, models and all at the same time M230 A790 over twice the performance of A790."

In addition to his Executive Intel Core i7 2.66 GHz processor gives the Turbo Boost technology amounting to 3.33 GHz intensive applications in addition to the performance of an elevator. In addition, 4 MB Intel ® Smart cache, which is readily available for each of the cores of the processor, ensuring maximum performance. Getac in X 500 also offers 15.6 inch, 1000 nits QuadraClear HD display and NVIDIA GeForce GT330M JOSEFA SUDKA GPU with 512 MB of VRAM for multimedia performance. X 500 offers several options, additions to and modifications of the system including multi-touch screen, MIL-SPEC connectors and expansion drive, which can support two cards, PCI Express, or two full size PCI card for extreme's own needs.

X 500, you can easily edit, add USB 3.0 ports, fibre optical connection, RS-485 or high-powered WiFi booster. X 500, which is configured with dual storage units can act as the storage system with RAID.

The standard configuration of the X 500 is full i/o ports and connectors, three USB 2.0 ports, one USB/eSATA combo port, two serial ports RS-232, PCMCIA, ExpressCard two ports, SmartCard, two RJ-45 ports, HDMI, VGA, and full-sized keyboard with numeric.

In addition to its overall performance Getac X 500 is military certified for operation in extreme conditions. X 500 MIL-STD-810 G certified for shock protection and ruggedness, and IP 65 rating protects the unit water and dust. In addition, the X 500 is MIL-STD-2169B for high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (hemp) and its UL1604 certification guarantees that can be safely operated, where the potentially flammable or explosive materials may be present. Other certified military standards include MIL-STD-464A and MIL-STD-461F ready. Getac X 500 NightVision is prepared for use in environments, battlefield, and is certified by EPEAT gold.

Remember Government’s $35 Tablet? Launches This June [Will Cost Rs. 2,200/]

Remember the $35 tablet from Indian government? The project has gone through its own yo-yo cycle with government canceling the tender and delaying the project by more than 6 months.

The good news is that there is a light at the end of this tunnel and early this month, government announced that 10,000 (Sakshat) tablet will be delivered to IIT-Rajasthan in late June and over the next four months 90,000 more would be made available at a price of Rs 2,200/device.

Government will subsidize the cost by 50%, so a student would have to pay only Rs. 1,100/ for the device (though it’s hard to believe that the actual cost price of device is only Rs. 2,200/).

7 ‘’ Touch-screen2 USB ports32GB HD2 GB RAMVideo-conferencing facilityMultimedia content

Like we said earlier, we are ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the device and we certainly hope that this project lives up to its expectation.

If executed well, this can drastically change the way education is imparted and importantly, open up plethora of possibilities for startups/technology companies to build products around the education ecosystem.

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The complete guide to iPad Video iOS5 [Video]

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Brian a Barrett-iOS5 looked good on the iPhone, it's downright converge on the iPad. Here's a video guide of all our favorite new features – including that split the keyboard you dreamed of.

It is all the more appealing-although if Apple nehlásá a new phone to go with him soon, I have a horror of this action will be what I'm already kýchavý 3GS. [More iOS5 news]

Video from Woody Yang

5 Powerful Twitter Research Tools [List]

Twitter has a wealth of information, news and opinions on every topic imaginable. Identifying and separating what is relevant, interesting or actionable is a tough task but fortunately there are numerous tools that help us navigate through the Twittersphere.

There is not a single Twitter app or tool that satisfies all research needs. Most of my Twitter use happens through the iPad Twitter app or Tweetdeck on my laptop. But there are still times when it is necessary to go beyond those platforms to find and research information or people and to engage in conversations relevant to your area of interest.

I have categorized Twitter research tools into 5 broad areas and selected tools that help analyse data and user behaviour, identify influencers, and engage with people.

Tool: TweetStats

If you want to figure out how often you tweet, when you do it, and your retweet and @ reply habits then TweetStats is ideal. It does this extremely well by presenting your behaviour in simple, clear graphs. It is divided into 3 sections:

Tweet Stats

This section analyses how you use Twitter. It displays in graphs how many times you tweet per month, allowing you to zoom in on a particular month and day to analyze your total tweets, replies and retweets. It gives you a break-down of your tweet density, aggregate daily and hourly tweets, who you reply to, who you retweet and what interface you use for Twitter.

Tweet Cloud

This section presents you with a cloud for both your retweeted hashtags and your most frequently used hashtags. If it is not something you have checked before the results can be a surprise.

Follower Stats

The final section allows you to track changes to your friend and follower count over time.

Tweetstats is ideal if you are curious about your tweeting habits and if you want to research what other users tweet about by using the Tweet Cloud feature.

Tool: Trendistic

Twitter’s ‘trending topics’ feature helps users see what’s being talked about, but there is not much you can do with it. TweetStats Trends feature provides a nice graph of the day’s top 10 trends and what is currently trending. But if you are trying to research topics in more depth then these tools are inadequate.

Trendistic, in contrast, provides a broader range of features that allow users to track trends on Twitter through a visual graph of the number of mentions along with random tweets about that topic. This helps you keep track of conversations over time to see how often they are tweeted about. For example, it is possible to see how popular ‘icloud’ is on June 7th among Twitter users and see what people are tweeting about ‘icloud’ over the course of the day.

The feature that I like most on Trensidtic is the ability to compare up to 6 words and graphs their popularity against each other across 24 hours or up to the previous 6 months. If you want to share your chart you can either embed it or share it on Twitter. You can also receive alert emails about a topic once it starts to trend.

There is also a list of trending topics over the last 7 days with details about when each topic was hot and when the maximum number of tweets occurred. You can view a graph of its trending history and selected tweets.

Tool: WeFollow
WeFollow is a great user directory with a clean and simple interface. It doesn’t stand out compared to other Twitter user directories, but what I like about is it gives a quick idea of who the most popular people in your industry or interest area are. It uses hashtags to categorize people and covers numerous popular categories such as Music, Sport, Tech, Politics, Fashion and Health. Anyone can add themselves to the directory by applying up to 5 hashtags to themselves.

When you search for your topic of interest it lists users based on who is the ‘Most Influential’ and who has the ‘Most Followers’. This is a simple and obvious way of organizing users and is effective when you want to find out whom to follow on specific topics. Often, however, the people you want to engage with are not those with the most followers or highest number of tweets (if you can even get their attention). Knowing who the influencers are in your interest area is better handled by a tool like Klout than WeFollow.

Tool: Klout

Klout is a measurement tool that helps you focus on how messages are spread through your network. It gives an indication of a person’s reach within their network and how engaged they are with their network. It achieves this by measuring aspects of Twitter usage and focusing on how messages are spread through their network.

To calculate your total social influence Klout measures users in three categories:

Network Influence

This measures how effective you are at capturing the attention of influencers. It measure a user’s list inclusion, influence of followers, influence of retweeters, influence of friends, influence of people who mention you, and your follower / following ratio.

Amplification Probability

This measures how often your content is reposted or retweeted by looking at your engagement level in conversations, how often your content is reported, and if your posts result in new followers and conversations. It measures uniqueness, likes per post, comment per post, retweet percentage, inbound messages per outbound content, and how often you update.

True Reach

This measures how far your influence reaches based on how engaged your audience is, how likely are they to read your content, and respond or share it. True Reach measures a user’s followers, retweets, unique commentators and likes, mentions, list counts, and mutual followers.

Klout is a great way to see how well you are building your influence especially by giving you more information about your social graph. It takes a fundamentally different approach to a tool like WeFollow. It adopts a bottom-up approach to measuring influence in contrast to looking at who has the most number of followers or tweets. Klout thus enables users to research who are the influencers that are listening and engaging with their network and so whose messages are going furthest. I see three specific benefits:

1. It allows users to research and target influential Twitter users to follow and – hopefully – engage with

2. It allows users who share a lot of content to track their online reach or influence and to see how active their followers are

3. It allows users to benchmark themselves against high influencers

Tool: InboxQ

So far we have covered tools that allow you to research your or other users’ Twitter usage and analyse and benchmark your social web clout. However, Twitter is also a platform where a lot of Q&A happens, and it is crucial both for brands and individual users’ own influence to engage with people. Finding the right questions and comments to respond to, and leveraging this for businesses and users, is a task made much easier by InboxQ.

It is a web browser extension (and a plug-in on Seesmic Desktop) that enables conversations by sending a real-time stream of Twitter questions related to brands, products, or subjects of your choice to your browser. Apparently only 1% of tweets with questions marks are real questions, so InboxQ uses natural language processing software to detect real questions.

I like the fact that InboxQ is an extension – one less website to open. This means it gets more attention than other tools. It is very simple to start a campaign by just adding terms or keywords that cover your area of interest. Relevant tweets are then sent to your inbox. You can also refer questions to your Twitter followers via a direct message, set-up questions to be answered later, and track answers. Expanding InboxQ to also crawl Quora, as it plans to, will be a great additional feature.

I hope this article will help users understand how they can use Twitter for research. There are many more Twitter tools than the ones discussed here, so if you happen to know some that you think can be added in the list, please let me know. Also, I have summarized my research below in a presentation.

[This guest post has been written by Diarmaid Byrne. Diarmaid works at Kuliza – a Bangalore based social technology firm. You can read more of his blogs on Kuliza blog]

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