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GE unveils the geotagging 10 megapixel E1050, eight other new cams
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Digital Cameras
We’ve harshed on GE’s cameras before, but the company showed up at PMA with a new model called the E1050 (pictured) that’s actually pretty slick. The 10 megapixel shooter features a 5x optical zoom, HD-res video mode, HDMI out, a 3-inch touchscreen, and an integrated GPS radio that syncs up with your computer to automatically geotag your shots. All for just $249 — even if thing takes just average pictures, that’s quite a bargain. We’ll have a hands-on soon, and read on for specs on the rest of GE’s 2008 lineup, all of which include face and blink detection.
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NextoDI intros Nexto Extreme storage device with eSATA support
Posted by Donald Melanson under Engadget
Filed under: Storage
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MTV and Flixwagon Try Their Hand at Citizen Journalism
Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under Mashable
In addition to a unique and experimental debate coming up this Saturday, MTV is teaming up with Flixwagon for an experiment in crowd-sourced journalism. While most of us will be tuned in to Twitter (assuming it’s up and working) for the latest election results from Super Tuesday, MTV is sending out what they are calling an army of citizen journalists to pull some Scobles from the nation’s polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies and other political hotspots.
Just as Scoble used Qik to broadcast from the World Economic Forum, MTV Street Team members will be utilizing Flixwagon coupled with Nokia N95s to stream live from the various locations with what Flixwagon is calling “DVD-like quality.” I’m certain the quality may end up being a notch or two below that, but it’ll still be of a watchable quality.
Visitors to ChooseOrLose.com will be able to select the various streams from an interactive map that will show pinpoints where the various Street Team members are presently streaming live.
I’m certain both the MTV planned events are all about bringing in the young voters to the primaries, and that’s always an admirable goal, I suppose. In that, the citizen journalist efforts will fail miserably, as they always have. In that it is an interesting and new way to bring live political coverage to the masses utilizing a method of journalism I’ve been espousing quite vocally, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I say that, because if you recall, we’ve been bitten before when the mainstream media tries to imitate what it is we do organically on the front lines of technology. The Republican YouTube-CNN debates were a miserable failure because of the biases inherent in the Old Media screening process, and left New Media with some lasting egg on its face. I can see a number of ways that the citizen journalist efforts of MTV here can go horribly awry.
For instance, there are a number of laws regarding exactly where a member of the press can stand outside a polling place, and violation of those laws can be Federal offenses. Some of the Street Team members could turn out to be staffers from a candidate’s campaign (it’s happened before on a non-citizen journalist level - that it could happen here is not far fetched). The editorial process for what gets played on broadcast television could be completely skewed in terms of bias one way or the other so as to mar the reputation of the whole project.
I can only hope for the reputation of New Media as a whole that they’ve thought through and planned well this whole affair. Utilizing the bleeding edge of technology is one thing, and when it is a voluntary effort unorganized by a monolithic media company, certain allowances are there to be had. Because it is being headed up and broadcast in such a high-profile way, unless they mean to undermine the idea forever, they need to have an extra level of attention paid to the integrity of the process.
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Kingston joins the 16GB SDHC party
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Storage
The memory card announcements at PMA continue — Kingston has just announced its first 16GB SDHC card. Sure, we’re happy for them, but at $231, it’s more expensive than SanDisk’s $179 16GB card — which comes with a USB 2.0 reader — and it’s certainly not as impressive as SanDisk’s new 32GB card. Also, your hair is frizzy and you look fat. But have fun at the party!
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Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under Mashable
Live! This Saturday! At the colosseum! Hillary vs. Obama vs. Ron vs. Huckabee! That’s right, a four-way cage match for the White House! The ticket buys you the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge!
MTV and MySpace are collaborating this Saturday to put on what has to be the most interesting debate since the YouTube-CNN debates. In something generally unprecedented at this stage in a presidential campaign, candidates from both sides of the aisle will join each other in a debate to be covered as part of the MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue Series.
This bizarre event will take place live this Saturday at 6 PM Eastern Time, broadcast via radio, online and mobile. The Associated Press will be running the live video feed online. The debate will also be broadcast live on MTV, MTV2, MTV Tr3s and on mtvU, as well as also being streamed via MySpaceTV.
As if it weren’t being broadcast enough places, it’ll be on XM Radio, and translated to Spanish and broadcast on ImpreMedia’s LaVibra and shown on the MTV screen in Times Square.
It’s clear that this event is going to have an impact, and it’ll be truly surprising if this isn’t one of the more closely watched political events of the season. Interestingly enough, even though they were invited, McCain and Romney have yet to indicate their participation in the event, and are considered unlikely to join in, as they as the frontrunners theoretically have the most to lose by contributing to such an experimental forum at this point in the primary.
It is certainly clear why MySpace and MTV are putting the event on - this is clearly going to be an event of Ringling proportions, and without a doubt quite entertaining. Ron Paul and Huckabee have little to lose at this point in the race, so their voluntary involvement is understandable at this point.
Obama and Hillary’s involvement is a bit puzzling, though. The only character on the Republican side who would be likely not to be highly critical of what conservatives consider to be almost socialist policies of the Democrat front-runners, an image that certainly can’t be beneficial to the Democrats.
My initial thoughts are to write off the whole event as a media circus - it would certainly be more useful if all candidates participated. Still, if it is a successful forum event, having this type of debate take place more regularly in presidential politics could act significantly as a disruptive force from the normal image reshaping that happens in the US primary elections versus the general elections.
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31st
Olympus’ new FE series hands-on
Posted by Steven Kim under Engadget
Filed under: Digital Cameras
As the press release last week made clear, Olympus did a refresh across its lineup for PMA. We’ll hit up the entry-level, ultra-compact FE series here. Across the board, the FE-310, FE-340 and FE-350 get treated to an 8-megapixel sensor and LCDs ranging from 2.5 - 3-inches. The FE-350 trades off the 5x zoom for 4x, but you get a 28-mm wide angle perspective on the world, if that’s your sort of thing. And the “HyperCrystal” LCDs were certainly bright, we’ll give them that. One definite theme we’re seeing in digicams now is the inclusion of face detection, and the FE-series is in on the party there, too.
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MythBuster vents about common tech headaches, offers fixes
Posted by Donald Melanson under Engadget
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
They’re about as far from myths as you can get, but MythBuster Jamie Hyneman nonetheless took it upon himself to explore seven tech headaches that many of you are likely all too familiar with in the latest issue of Popular Mechanics, and he’s offered a few suggestions on how companies could fix ‘em. Those headaches include the ever-popular cordless tools with endless varieties of battery packs and chargers (which he suggests should be replaced by stackable 6-volt modules), fancy flashlights that use pricey batteries (which he thinks we’d be better off without), and cars with obnoxious electronics and near-impenetrable encasements. Of course, cellphones and their myriad of charges and connectors aren’t spared either, although Hyneman sees some hope in the Open Mobile Terminal Platform that aims to make micro-USB the standard, and, as you might have guessed, he pays particular notice to computers that come pre-loaded with scores of unnecessary software. On that last note, he also offers some action consumers can take themselves: switch to Ubuntu.
[Thanks, Niall]
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The Daily Poll: Are You Suffering from Social Networking Fatigue?
Posted by Adam Ostrow under Mashable
Chris Williams from The Reigster has penned a fairly critical piece about the state of social networking, based on some recent data from comScore that shows user engagement (the amount of time people spend on a site) falling at a number of leading sites including MySpace and Bebo. While the numbers are pretty grim for some sites, it should be noted that November and December are typically slow due to the holidays, and some networks such as Facebook and hi5 actually showed user engagement growth year-over-year.
The article is also laced with bubble talk, as Williams quotes Ted Dzuiba of Uncov, “I remember a time, long long ago, when tech companies spent their own venture capital on each other, so revenues were all booked from the same small pool of money. Yeah, as I recall, it didn’t end well,” alluding of course to the tech bubble of the late 90s.
In any event, today’s poll, to our highly unbiased audience of social networking aficionados, web startups, and VCs who back such companies:
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React’s Guitar Hero pedals mean you’re potentially taking this too seriously
Posted by Paul Miller under Engadget
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Here’s one that needs little explanation: one pedal activates Star Power, the other one fiddles with the whammy bar. That keeps your arms and fingers free to Guitar Hero, and since the React Standalone Pedal is wireless and works with any PS2 guitar, you shouldn’t have too much hassle tossing this on to your garishly patterned carpet and proceeding to rock. It’s available now for $25.
[Via Joystiq]
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Amazon Dishes Out $300 Million for Audible
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
Amazon has announced the acquisition of Audible, one of the biggest online providers of audio content, including audiobooks, radio and TV programme, and audio versions of magazines. Audible.com offers over 80,000 programs, and its roster includes audiobooks from authors such as Stephen King, Thomas Friedman, and Jane Austen. The $300 million dollar deal is expected to close by the second quarter of 2008.
Let’s hear that in marketingese:
“Audible.com offers the best customer experience, the widest content selection and the broadest device compatibility in the industry,” said Steve Kessel, Amazon.com’s senior vice president for worldwide digital media. “Working together, we can introduce more innovations and bring this format to an even wider audience.”
It’s not hard to guess that this acquisition has everything to do with Kindle, Amazon’s not-so-pretty but promising e-book reader, which can also reproduce audiobooks. The Kindle provides users with the ability to wirelessly download 90,000 e-books; together with Audible’s catalog this number is almost doubled. Now, if only the Kindle could be a bit more iphoneish in its next iteration…
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Meebo Rooms Launches API and an Ad Network to Monetize It
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
Meebo is adding an API to Meebo Rooms, as well as launching what it calls the Meebo Network so partners can share in revenue from advertising.
While Meebo already had an API and offered Meebo Rooms for integration with Facebook applications, this latest option from Meebo lets developers use the Meebo Rooms API for combining applications with the their existing user base. This means that if you run an online community and want to add Meebo chatrooms, your users will be able to seamlessly use their existing usernames and passwords.
As for the ad network, the revenue split for the Meebo Network is 50%, and a licensing option is available for those that would rather have an ad-free chat room. As with many other integrated, media advertising options, Meebo will be testing ad placement within its new network in order to further automate the process with additional features of implementing optimal ad placement for future use.
Meebo has announced five partners for the launch of these two new programs: Piczo, Revision3, RockYou, Social Project and Tagged.
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Meebo Rooms Launches API and an Ad Network to Monetize It
Posted by Kristen Nicole under Mashable
Meebo is adding an API to Meebo Rooms, as well as launching what it calls the Meebo Network so partners can share in revenue from advertising.
While Meebo already had an API and offered Meebo Rooms for integration with Facebook applications, this latest option from Meebo lets developers use the Meebo Rooms API for combining applications with the their existing user base. This means that if you run an online community and want to add Meebo chatrooms, your users will be able to seamlessly use their existing usernames and passwords.
As for the ad network, the revenue split for the Meebo Network is 50%, and a licensing option is available for those that would rather have an ad-free chat room. As with many other integrated, media advertising options, Meebo will be testing ad placement within its new network in order to further automate the process with additional features of implementing optimal ad placement for future use.
Meebo has announced five partners for the launch of these two new programs: Piczo, Revision3, RockYou, Social Project and Tagged.
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31st
MacBook Air’s custom-built CPU going PC?
Posted by Thomas Ricker under Engadget
Filed under: Laptops
That special Intel processor found in the MacBook Air could be getting a lot less special. PC Advisor, citing “a source familiar with Intel’s plans,” claims that a pair of PC makers will use the MBA processor. Not that this would be unexpected. The custom-built 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz Intel procs remember, are 60% smaller and consume less power than the typical Core 2 Duo while using the same 65-nm manufacturing processes. Of course, with Intel’s 45-nm Montevina platform scheduled to ship as early as May, the advantages gained by the processor will likely be short lived, though glorious if a PC maker can dethrone Apple of its claim to the world’s smallest thinnest laptop.
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Researchers get nanotube chips running at commercial speeds
Posted by Nilay Patel under Engadget
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Carbon nanotubes have a ton of promise, and we’ve seen a lot of prospective applications for the tech, but researchers at Stanford, working with Toshiba, have managed to demonstrate the first use of nanotubes in chips that run at commercially-viable speeds. The chip features 256 ring oscillators and packs over 11,000 transistors in just one hundredth of a square inch. When wired with the nanotubes and powered up, the chip ran at speeds between 800MHz and 1.06GHz — not desktop speeds, to be sure, but still promising. The team says that while the experiment bodes well for the future, we shouldn’t expect any direct applications yet — but you know we’re dreaming of tiny implantable supercomputers anyway.
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RatingBurner Ranks Blogs According To RSS Numbers
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
Well, mainly. It also takes some other factors into consideration, like Google’s PageRank, and the presence of ads and sponsors (although I’m not sure what’s that got to do with anything), but the main criterion for ranking is the number of RSS subscribers (taken from FeedBurner) and recent changes in that number.
RatingBurner, a relatively unknown new site discovered by Louis Gray, currently has the problem (besides the awful design of the site) of being too selective: many big blogs with huge RSS numbers aren’t included. But, that’s why there’s an option to add a new blog feed, so whoever thinks he/she’s being neglected can add their blog, as long as they’re using FeedBurner to manage their feed.
The idea to rank sites according to FeedBurner is not, in fact, a new one; I once did it by hand which caused quite a positive feedback in the blogosphere. However, since then even I changed my mind about the usefulness of such ranking system, simply because RSS stats are quite volatile and not always a good indication of a website’s popularity. But, it’s a ranking system with positive sides and flaws like any other, and I guess it can’t hurt to have another one. If nothing else, RatingBurner is a good way to find some fresh feeds for your reader.
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RatingBurner Ranks Blogs According To RSS Numbers
Posted by Stan Schroeder under Mashable
Well, mainly. It also takes some other factors into consideration, like Google’s PageRank, and the presence of ads and sponsors (although I’m not sure what’s that got to do with anything), but the main criterion for ranking is the number of RSS subscribers (taken from FeedBurner) and recent changes in that number.
RatingBurner, a relatively unknown new site discovered by Louis Gray, currently has the problem (besides the awful design of the site) of being too selective: many big blogs with huge RSS numbers aren’t included. But, that’s why there’s an option to add a new blog feed, so whoever thinks he/she’s being neglected can add their blog, as long as they’re using FeedBurner to manage their feed.
The idea to rank sites according to FeedBurner is not, in fact, a new one; I once did it by hand which caused quite a positive feedback in the blogosphere. However, since then even I changed my mind about the usefulness of such ranking system, simply because RSS stats are quite volatile and not always a good indication of a website’s popularity. But, it’s a ranking system with positive sides and flaws like any other, and I guess it can’t hurt to have another one. If nothing else, RatingBurner is a good way to find some fresh feeds for your reader.
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