Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Single Best Way to Avoid Getting Screwed on Craigslist [Craigslist]
Saturday, April 21, 2012
New Funding In Tow, Playsino Places Its Bet On Social Casino Gaming
Titan Gaming, the makers of a gaming platform that enables content sites and social networks to offer cash and prize-based game tournaments, is today announcing that it is embarking on a complete makeover that includes its rebranding as Playsino, along with a new focus, CEO, and some new funding. Under its new moniker, Playsino will look to leverage its traction in the tournaments and virtual rewards space and double down on another emerging vertical: social casino games.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Facebook Says ?Yo Google and Apple, HTML5 Apps Will Suck Until Your Mobile Browsers Improve?
Facebook has revealed that its HTML5 site has twice as many users as its iOS and Android apps combined. But that's actually a problem, because Apple and Google's mobile browsers don't support photo uploads or high-performance animation for HTML5 -- features that a crucial to getting Facebook mobile site users sharing more and convincing app developers to port to HTML5 where Facebook can tax payments. To encourage mobile browser advancement, Facebook formed the W3C community group, but Apple and Google, the two partners it needs most, have refused to join. Since these oft-rivals to the social network own the dominant mobile browsers Safari and Chrome, Facebook's efforts may have little impact, HTML5 apps and games will stay inferior, and both Facebook and the end user will miss out.
How your baby will be just like and unlike any other - Fit Pregnancy
04.20.12 How your baby will be just like and unlike any other
Every generation pioneers a new phase in humanity. The baby you?re raising will be part of a generation that will see and do things differently than anyone ever has before. As their parents, you?ll have a big say over what your baby experiences, but the world will have just as great an influence. So muster up your pioneer spirit. It?s going to be interesting.
Several events in recent weeks have brought the concept of pioneering home:
- I was at a screening of Oprah?s Lifeclass for the OWN channel a couple of weeks ago in New York at Radio City Music Hall. Tony Robbins (author, life coach and host of a new television show called Breakthrough,) shared the stage with Oprah and something he said has stayed with me ever since: ?Every life is either a warning or an example.? Robbins spent the next hour talking about how to be an example, break through your fears and recreate your life story.
That concept of warning versus inspiration applies to everyone, but more so to new parents than almost anyone else.? The way you model your life and raise your child makes the difference between being the family, parent and child who warn others what not to do or the family that models inspiration. As you raise the next generation of pioneers, ask yourself if your daily choices are creating the family you want?? That?s what pioneers do ? day by day.
- I recently spoke to Abigail Disney, executive producer of Women, War and Peace, (a series presented on PBS) about her upcoming projects.? She mentioned a new documentary she produced that?s premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, called Sexy Baby.? Here?s the synopsis:
In the age of runaway social media and "sexting," raunchy rap songs on pop radio and hardcore pornography at the click of a mouse?what's it like to be a woman? A girl? A teenage boy? A parent? Following a former porn star, a young woman undergoing a controversial surgery, and a 12-year-old girl who's growing up faster than her parents can handle, Sexy Baby is a startling look at the first generation to grow up [in the digital age].?
As the mother of an adolescent daughter, I found the storyline about the 12-year-old girl to be heartbreaking.?? This little girl calls herself a pioneer because she?s among the first generation to grow up with sex everywhere ? in her music, on her TV and computer?everywhere.?
Who knows what digital and social challenges your child will grow up with.? It?s hard to believe they?ll face overt sexuality before they?re old enough, but they will?they definitely will.? That is unless you keep the radio, television and computer turned off, and that?s probably not going to happen. You?ll be the pioneer parents who learn by trial and error how to balance between teaching your children how to live in a rapidly changing digital world and protecting them with old-fashioned common sense.? Bottom line ? the world may have changed because of technology, but kids really haven?t.?
- In another pioneering conversation this week, I spoke with Julie Lamb, MD, an OB-GYN who specializes in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Dr. Lamb is among the pioneers of women?s health using rapidly changing Star Wars technology to help women all over the world. Her passion for helping women with infertility was sparked in the least technologically advanced place on earth.? While studying International Women?s Health on a Fulbright scholarship in Zimbabwe, she worked in a burn unit with women who had lit themselves on fire because they were infertile.? When she returned to the United States, she found her professional home at Pacific Northwest Fertility in Seattle. Their donor egg program is dramatically upping the odds of parenthood for women facing life threatening illnesses, older women and others with extreme circumstances.
My own commitment to pioneering comes via my involvement with CARE (my favorite global humanitarian organization) and their focus on girls and women.? While many of their programs are decidedly old school, CARE?s slant at alleviating extreme poverty by promoting basic rights, education, healthcare and opportunities for women is part of a pioneer movement dubbed The Girl Effect.? Using some of the digital generation?s best tools including social networking and film, combined with good old fashioned person-to-person networking, we?re the generation that?s recognizing that women - mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, grandmothers, businesswomen, teachers, politicians, doctors?(I could go a long way here) ? are changing the world.? We?re bringing our families, friends and communities along for the journey and exploring uncharted territories.
As a new parent that?s raising the next generation of pioneers, all you have to do is decide:? Will you be a warning or an inspiration?? No pressure, right?
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Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and five children. Got a question for Jeanne? E-mail it to?labornurse@fitpregnancy.com?and it may be answered in a future blog post.
This Fit Pregnancy blog is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace medical advice from your physician. Before initiating any exercise program, diet or treatment provided by Fit Pregnancy, you should seek medical advice from your primary caregiver.
'What To Expect When You're Expecting' Doesn't Exclude The 'Dudes'
'We were really keen that the film should tell the story of guys and girls going through pregnancy,' director Kirk Jones tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner
Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford in "What To Expect When You're Expecting"
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Before MTV News' Summer Movie Preview Week wraps up, let's take a look at the very star-studded ensemble romantic comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting." Although inspired by the very popular nonfiction book of the same name, the movie revolves around five very different couples and the hilarious highs and lows they experience during pregnancy.
The cast includes the following actors as couples: Elizabeth Banks and Ben Falcone, Dennis Quaid and Brooklyn Decker (the joke about their age gap is in the film, don't worry!), Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford, Cameron Diaz and Matthew Morrison, and Jennifer Lopez and Rodrigo Santoro. Plus a lot of entertaining banter from the "dudes club," consisting of funnymen Chris Rock, Thomas Lennon, Rob Heubel, Amir Talai and Joe Manganiello.
And no matter what you might think about romantic comedies or movies about pregnancy, director Kirk Jones ("Everybody's Fine," "Nanny McPhee") promised us there's something for everyone in this film.
"We were really keen that the film should tell the story of guys and girls going through pregnancy," Jones told MTV News recently. "That's what really interested me in the original script. We hoped that the final film would appeal to guys, and what's really encouraging is that I think our final preview scored almost as high with guys as it did with girls," he revealed. "What's great about the guys in the movie, the 'dudes club' headed by Chris Rock, Tom Lennon, Rob Huebel, Rodrigo Santoro and Joe Manganiello, those guys talk openly and honestly about their worries and their fears and their experience of pregnancy."
Which, according to Jones, included the good, bad and ugly when it comes to physical and emotional changes involved with being pregnant.
"If someone throws up, they're not throwing up because it's a cheap gag in the movie," he said. "They're throwing up because that's the reality of being pregnant."
In looking at the massive cast Jones had to work with , one might assume scheduling his actors was the most difficult aspect of the shoot, but that award goes to baby wrangling, not people wrangling.
"For every child we cast, we cast twins. If I was shooting three scenes, the first scene with a 3-month-old, the next a 6-month-old, the next a 9-month-old, that means I had seven sets of [each set of twins]," Jones recalled. "You do the math. I think one day we had 32 babies in 100-degree heat being kept cool with air conditioning."
Speaking of the heat, Jones and his cast and crew braved shooting in Atlanta in the middle of the summer. "I think our hottest day was 117 degrees. It was difficult for these very gorgeous women to look their best in those conditions, but every one of them were great."
Manganiello of "True Blood" fame got off a little easier than the rest of the cast because his character appears shirtless in a lot of the film, which, according to Jones, proved to be a distraction.
"Joe was great. He's got a phenomenal body and I say that as a straight guy," he admitted. "I looked around on set and the guys were just obsessed with staring at his chest. I don't know he does it. It looks like someone sculpted his chest."
"What to Expect When You're Expecting" opens everywhere May 18.
It's Summer Movie Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most anticipated summer movies. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "The Avengers," Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami," Kristen Stewart's "Snow White," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and more!
Smoopa, The Price-Scanning App That Pays Shoppers To Find Bargains, Lands On iOS
Smoopa, a mobile commerce startup co-founded by a longtime ex-Googler, a defense scientist and a former Massachusetts state trooper (yes!), is landing on iOS today with a price-scanning app that pays shoppers to find bargains. The app capitalizes on a trend that has started to roil brick-and-mortar stores over the last year. Armed with smartphones, consumers are comparing prices in physical stores to ones online in a hunt for the best deals. While there are already apps like this out on the market (most notably from Amazon and eBay with the Red Laser app they acquired), Smoopa's spin on this is that they reward shoppers for sharing price information back from real-world stores. Every time a consumer scans an item and enters in price data from a physical store, there's a random chance they'll be rewarded with credits that can either be put towards gift cards, rebate checks or charitable donations.
Hardest working man on the internet passes one million Wikipedia edits
Justin Knapp is probably the hardest working man on the internet after becoming the first person to pass the million-edit-mark on Wikipedia. Since 2005, he's made around 385 amendments per day, each one taking him around four minutes [Citation Needed]. Founder Jimmy Wales congratulated the 30-year-old on his personal feed and Mr. Knapp's been awarded the site's Special Barnstar medal and Golden Wiki award for his achievement. He took the news with a good dose of self-deprecating humor, saying that "being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed will do that to you." Hopefully there's a certificate wining its way in the post from the Guinness people.
Hardest working man on the internet passes one million Wikipedia edits originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Scribit Digs Up Content For Your Content Marketing
If you're an entrepreneur struggling to find the time or inspiration to udpate the company blog, a new service called Scribit offers a solution. Scribit was developed by a startup called Vertical Acuity, whose initial product helped publishers syndicate their articles to other sites and find fresh content for themselves. President Joe Fiveash used to work at Weather.com, and he says that this kind of content-sharing normally requires a lot of time-consuming deal-making. With Scribit, publishers can pre-approve their content for syndication at a set payment rate, so it's a simple process to republish something.
A Mind-Breakingly Massive Image of 25,000 Stars Being Born [Image Cache]
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Rob Riggle Set to Host The 2012 ESPYS
The 2012 ESPYS will be hosted by actor/comedian Rob Riggle, widely known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show and from his memorable roles in films such as The Hangover, Step Brothers, and The Other Guys. Most recently, Riggle appeared in box office hit films Dr. Seuss? The Lorax and the action-comedy [...]
Sheree Whitfield Leaving 'Real Housewives of Atlanta'
Attention Real Housewives fans: Atlanta is officially losing one of its cast members: Sheree Whitfield, who says she's tired of all the catty drama on the series.
Cybram 001 simulator helps doctors practice brain surgery without risking lives (video)
Sometimes it's awesome to be a guinea pig; take for example, getting down and dirty with the Consumer Preview of Windows 8. When it comes to brain surgery, however, there are no happy little accidents -- and let's face it, Bob Ross would've been a horrible surgeon. Thankfully, a new invention out of Japan promises to keep surgeons from taking practice swings at your noggin. Known as the Cybram 001, it's said to properly simulate the flow and pressure of one's arterial system from the cerebrum to the groin, and should allow doctors to gain greater familiarity with inserting surgical instruments into these delicate spaces. As the entire model is transparent, it's ideal for both students and instructors to see what's being done, and because variables such as blood pressure and heart rate can be adjusted, it's a useful simulator for different scenarios in the operating room. Not all of us will grow up to be brain surgeons, but if you'd like a peek into the frontiers of the field, just hop the break.
Cybram 001 simulator helps doctors practice brain surgery without risking lives (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Another Siri-Like App, Voice Answer, Hits The App Store For Those Of Us Without The iPhone 4S
Looks like Apple might be loosening its grip even more on voice recognition apps? Or, it simply just feels that the competition is not as good as its own native Siri. We've just gotten word from Netherlands-based developer Sparkling Apps that its voice-response app, Voice Answer -- rejected by Apple for nearly three months -- has been approved by Apple and is now live in the App Store, and usable on any iPhone, iPod or iPad running iOS 4.2 or later. It took "almost three months of negotiating, tweaking and pushing," developer Martijn van der Spek tells TechCrunch. Like Siri, the app is based on data from Wolfram Alpha, among other sources, and lets users ask questions by either speaking to the app or typing in a question. It's priced at ?2.49 ($3.99).
Kixeye Is The Lucrative Dark Horse of Facebook Gaming
While Zynga and other gaming companies seem to be doing everything possible to claw their way off the Facebook canvas, at least one San Francisco company is still in. Big time. With just shy of 5 million monthly active users on Facebook, Kixeye is ranked a dismal 72nd on the developer leaderboard behind Zynga, EA and Angry Birds-maker Rovio, according to tracking service AppData. But the astonishing revenue Kixeye makes per user has the company on track to gross more than $100 million in total revenue this year. That's up from between $25 to $50 million last year, according to an independent source familiar with Kixeye's financials. Kixeye is part of a class of companies that is taking Facebook gaming far from its "Cow Clicker" past. The company doesn't target the stereotypical 35-year-old female demographic that Zynga is well-known for, but rather a subset of hardcore gamers that are willing to pay up. Think fewer virtual potatoes and more epic sea battles.
Low-Tech GPS Device Keeps Track of Your Little Ones [Toys]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Microsoft PM ?Resigns? Via Video, Joins Justin Kan?s New Startup Exec
Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor from?Justin.tv's?co-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and strums - rather nicely, in fact - to the tune of "Bye, Bye Miss American Pie" about ?how she's leaving behind her job Microsoft, where she spent three years compiling Excel code, and is now "hopping on a plane to San Francisco" to join Exec. "The next time that I touch a spec will be at a startup called Exec. My PM days have expired, I've taken a job as a designer." Now that's going out with a bang!
Can Stem Cells Finally Provide a Baldness Cure That Works? [Science]
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