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		<title>The New Flickr Is Worth Another Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get people interested in Flickr again, Yahoo is letting its terabytes do the talking. The photo service, which Yahoo acquired in 2005, is now offering a whopping one terabyte of free storage, with no size limits. Users can also upload 1080p videos, up to three minutes long, counting toward the overall storage limit. A new website and Android app have launched alongside the new storage offering as well. That&#8217;s enough to get me interested, at least. I&#8217;ve never had much use for Flickr before, but I&#8217;m taking a second look in light of Yahoo&#8217;s largess. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned after spending the day loading old photos onto Flickr&#8217;s website by the gigabyte: Flickr vs. Facebook vs.Google+ Your main options for storing lots of photos online&#8211;that is, more than the handful of gigabytes offered by storage services like Dropbox and SkyDrive&#8211;are Flickr, Facebook and Google+. Each service has its own benefits and drawbacks. Facebook and Google+ both offer unlimited storage for your photos, but with a resolution limit of 2048 pixels wide. Google+ lets you store photos at full resolution, but these count toward the 15 GB of free storage on your Google account. If you just want to back up pristine copies of your photos to the cloud, neither of these options are ideal due to their resolution restrictions. Where Facebook and Google+ shine are their sharing options. Given Facebook&#8217;s dominance in social networking, storing your photos there is the best way to make sure they&#8217;re seen by friends, family and acquaintances. Google+ sharing offers a more controlled environment. The ability to group your contacts into &#8220;circles,&#8221; and then only share with the circles you want, is a powerful way to restrict who sees any given photo or album. On the downside, the folks you share with may never stop by Google+ to take a look. By comparison, Flickr seems more useful for archival purposes. You can upload your photos without squashing them down to a lower resolution, and most people won&#8217;t have to worry about the one-terabyte storage limit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163158&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Reboots Flickr, Offers One Terabyte of Storage</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/yahoo-reboots-flickr-offers-one-terabyte-of-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it &#8220;awesome&#8221; again. Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City&#8217;s Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes &#8211; enough to store more than 500,000 images at a resolution common to most smartphones. Yahoo has redesigned the Flickr website to emphasize photos rather than text or white space, as was the case previously. Photos are bigger and shared in full resolution rather than compressed into a lower quality. Flickr also launched a new Android app to follow the December unveiling of a new iPhone app.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163156&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter 101: Understanding the Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re online—and reading this!—you&#8217;ve probably heard of Twitter. But just what is Twitter for? How does it work? And how do you get started using it? Whether you want to start using Twitter yourself or just want to know what it is, we&#8217;ll help untangle the mysteries of this social networking site. Just what is Twitter? On Twitter, you&#8217;ll find friends and family as well as celebrities, companies and strangers who may share your interests. News networks (like @AP and @CNN) will post breaking news announcements, companies may hold giveaways, celebrities post announcements on what they&#8217;re working on and everyone has conversations. Like any social network, what you get out of Twitter is based on who you follow on the site, and you can follow anyone else using Twitter (so long as their account isn&#8217;t private). Think of Twitter as a big, open room—with all of Twitter&#8217;s 200 million active users chatting away inside fromall over the world. You can roam around and listen to what everyone&#8217;s talking about or just chat with a small group of your friends. Twitter is considered a micro-blogging service, which means the posts made to Twitter have to be an extremely brief, 140 characters or less. Unlike Facebook, which has lots of options that allow you to keep your information private, Twitter is a predominately public space. Though you can make your Twitter account private, meaning only people you approve can see your messages, you only have two options—to be completely public or completely private. You may not think 140 characters is very much to get something across, but these brief messages are perfect for sharing small updates, little bites of everyday life. And while each message is short, you may find yourself replying to other people—and them replying to you—which turns a single short message into a longer conversation. Twitter also lets you easily share links, photos, and videos, which you can post for your friends—or everyone— to see with or without comment. Twitter terminology Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious Twitter isn&#8217;t exactly a foreign<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163115&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/four-location-enabled-apps-to-try-this-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed &#8220;Apps Act&#8220; to make privacy policies more transparent, a continued surge in mobile traffic means that location-enabled apps are bound to be a permanent fixture on smartphones. So if you have yet to embrace geo-location, here are four free apps to help ease into the inevitable. Ribbon While living in the Fiji Islands, Ribbon founder and California native Tony Alfaro resorted to using an excel spreadsheet to keep track of friends and family when he made his annual trips to the U.S. So Alfaro hatched a plan to coordinate his future trips with travel plans of friends and professionals by combining a calendar with Facebook&#8216;s social graph. The &#8220;Ribbon feed&#8221; allows users to see future trips, invite others along as well as see friends&#8217; trips displayed with pins using a &#8220;TimeMap.&#8221; The app also organizes trips by city, eliminating privacy hesitations about revealing exact locations. Rather than perusing Facebook to see which friends are living where, you can use Ribbon to organize and plan meet-ups with old college roommates, colleagues and friends. The app also allows you to manage privacy settings to allow certain people to see your trips, naturally filtering out those residual Facebook friends you haven&#8217;t gotten around to unfriending. Though it&#8217;s only available for iOS at the moment, an Android release is expected this month. Link: Ribbon [iTunes] Tinder Tinder, a dating app that rolls off the tongue and easily doubles as a verb, has propagated the idea of meeting potential hook-ups or dates through an anonymous game of &#8220;hot or not.&#8221; It&#8217;s a simple concept of matching geo-located users by pressing a green heart to like or a red X to move on. Once two users are matched, the app introduces the users in a private chatroom to carry on a conversation. There are no profiles involved,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162975&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo-Tumblr: It&#8217;s Not What You Buy, It&#8217;s What You Do With It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/19/yahoo-tumblr-its-not-what-you-buy-but-what-you-do-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. The things that were important to us were: being open, building innovative stuff and kicking ass. Were these people our people? Yes. See the stuff Yahoo&#8217;s announced recently [including, of course, this]? They&#8217;re evolving in really interesting ways — and from our look inside, we know that there&#8217;s a lot more coming. Yahoo won&#8217;t be the Yahoo you&#8217;ve come to take for granted. Nope, that isn&#8217;t David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, talking about Yahoo&#8217;s $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging service he co-founded. Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that the deal is done and that her sources say it&#8217;ll be announced on Monday. We&#8217;ll hear from Karp then, presumably. Flickr in 2004, before it was a Yahoo property But the sound bite above is from March 2005, and the start-up founder who&#8217;s explaining a Yahoo buyout is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr. At the time, the photo-sharing start-up was as cool as any site on the Web; just as buying Tumblr is allegedly a gambit to make Yahoo cool again, buying Flickr was supposed to help reboot Yahoo, a company that was feeling a tad shopworn even eight years ago. The Flickr acquisition came at a time when Yahoo was snapping up interesting small companies by the carload — among the other ones it purchased in 2004–05 were Dialpad, del.icio.us, Konfabulator, Musicmatch, Stata Labs and Upcoming.org. All came with cool reputations, innovative services and smart people. Some of the acquisitions instantly stopped mattering under Yahoo ownership; others did O.K., at least for a while. (Flickr continued to boom at first, but eventually became staid and backward-looking; it was only in December that it released a really first-rate iPhone app.) None of them had a transformative effect on Yahoo, which is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Says App Store Hit 50 Billion Downloads</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/apple-says-app-store-hit-50-billion-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called &#8220;Say the Same Thing&#8221; by Space Inch. The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The store hit the 10 billion downloads mark in early 2011 and 25 billion in March 2012. The 50 billion milestone does not include updates or re-downloads. Apps range from newspapers and magazines to games, business tools and travel applications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162948&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Christina DesMarais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don’t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son’s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts. First, you can unfriend the person—Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an “Add friend” box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done. Facebook As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose “Hide.” Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to “Change what updates you get from (so and so)” or “Organize who you see in news feed.” If you click on the former, you can uncheck—and tell Facebook you don’t want to receive certain kinds of information about this person—things like life events, status updates, photos, games, comments and likes, music and videos and other activity, essentially everything a person is doing on Facebook. There’s also an option to simply unfollow a person. Facebook If you opt to organize your News Feed, you can put people on an acquaintances list so that their posts show up less frequently there as well as get the ability to share things with friends but not acquaintances. Again, nobody will know you’ve put them on this list. But what about the people who you really care about—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s New Hangouts App Has an AT&amp;T Caveat</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/googles-new-hangouts-app-has-an-att-caveat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google announced its new Hangouts app on Wednesday, it didn&#8217;t mention an exception for AT&#38;T customers: the app&#8217;s free video calling won&#8217;t work on AT&#38;T&#8217;s network. To use Hangout video chat on an AT&#38;T Android phone, you must be connected to Wi-Fi. Apparently, AT&#38;T is falling back on the same excuse it used to restrict the use of Facetime video chat on the iPhone last year. AT&#38;T believes that if a video chat app is pre-installed on a phone, the carrier can block it without running afoul of net neutrality rules. (The FCC says wireless carriers aren&#8217;t allowed to block apps that compete with the carriers&#8217; own voice offerings.) For that reason, Hangout video chat is not barred from AT&#38;T&#8217;s network on the iPhone. On Android, Google+ video chat works fine, because the Google+ app is not pre-installed. On my HTC One, I was also able to receive a pair of chat invitations from my editor Doug Aamoth&#8211;one from Google Chat on his desktop, and one from Google+ Hangouts. In a statement to the press, AT&#38;T reiterated its earlier claim that it can block video chat on pre-installed apps. But it also suggested that the ball is in Google&#8217;s court to make the app work over cellular: For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we offer all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share, Tiered and soon Unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices. It&#8217;s up to each OS and device makers to enable their systems to allow pre-loaded video chat apps to work over cellular for our customers on those plans. Unfortunately, this statement doesn&#8217;t offer much clarity. I&#8217;m not sure, for instance, if Google can enable Hangout video chat and have it work across all Android devices, or if phone makers like Samsung and HTC will also have to get involved. For that matter, what does &#8220;enable their systems&#8221; even mean, and why wouldn&#8217;t an OS or device maker just enable video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162932&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Music All Access Review: It&#8217;s Not a Spotify Competitor After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/google-play-music-all-access-review-not-a-spotify-competitor-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I&#8217;m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving &#8220;All Access&#8221; to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier and more appropriate for something that dishes up tunes, but then Google already uses those two words (somewhat incongruously) to describe its entire digital distribution platform, from Android apps, devices and games to books, magazines and music. Google Play Music All Access it is then, and I&#8217;ll henceforth be referring to it as GPMAA for sanity&#8217;s sake (or, as I&#8217;ve been pronouncing it out loud, &#8220;gup-mah&#8221;). Google unveiled GPMAA yesterday at its annual I/O conference during an over three-hour developer-focused keynote, though of that time, the company only devoted a few minutes to touch on the service&#8217;s basic features. As suspected, GPMAA represents Google&#8217;s attempt to offer a subscription-based music service, streaming &#8220;millions&#8221; of songs &#8212; intermingled with up to 20,000 more, uploadable or song-matched from your personal library &#8212; for $10 a month ($8 a month if you sign up by the end of June). Chris Yerga, Google&#8217;s engineering director who steered this part of the keynote, explained that GPMAA would include common music streaming features like curated playlists, album recommendations and a build-your-own-radio-station feature. In other words, GPMAA isn&#8217;t a wildly new product so much as another limb stitched into an existing framework. Google hopped into the music game in late 2011 with Google Music (later, Google Play Music), the company&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store, the twist being that you could also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and stream all of that to multiple Android devices. The service never really took off, though, and no surprise: Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you’re<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162884&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic Beauty of Google+</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google likes to use the word &#8220;beautiful&#8221; a lot when describing its own products. That would be grating if it weren&#8217;t for one fact: more and more, the company is building beautiful stuff. And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s ever built anything more beautiful than the new version of its Google+ social network which debuted on Wednesday during the Google I/O keynote. The service, which was already pretty darn slick, is now among the most attractive and engaging web apps I&#8217;ve ever seen. Streams of activity are now laid out as one, two or three columns of tiles, depending on available screen real estate, with some oversized photos spanning the whole width. (Judging from my stream, some Google+ aficionados like the old format better &#8212; they can switch back to one column &#8212; but I find the new one less claustrophobic.) The left-hand toolbar which used to hog space now disappears until you need it; throughout, the level of visual polish is high, with pixel-perfect design and subtle little animations as you click on different controls. Google+ can now auto-hashtag your items, a feature which is useful because you can click on any hashtag and then flip through related items shared by other people, without leaving the page you&#8217;re on. When it figures out a hashtag based on words in your post, it&#8217;s neat. But in some cases, it can also analyze a photo to determine a relevant hashtag, a feat which can be downright dazzling. I uploaded a shot from Disneyland and a drawing of Superman; it correctly identified both and linked appropriately. The photo features, already practically a service unto themselves, get a thorough makeover. In a feature which reminds me a bit of Everpix, Google+ gives you a page of &#8220;highlights&#8221; which it chooses algorithmically: shots with family members, shots with smiling people, shots which it just deems to be aesthetically pleasing. There&#8217;s an auto-enhancement feature, which would be nice, but no big whoop except that you can tell Google+ to apply it to all your photos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162860&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Google Search Is Coming Sooner Than I Expected</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-future-of-google-search-coming-sooner-than-i-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I got to visit Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters and chat with Amit Singhal, the company&#8217;s search honcho, and other employees about their vision for the future of search. (I wrote about that experience here.) Singhal in particular waxed enthusiastic about the possibility of building something as smart, helpful and effortless as Star Trek&#8217;s computer. The whole thing might have sounded pie-in-sky and unrealistic if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that the current versions of Google&#8217;s search app for Android and iOS have already taken meaningful steps in that direction. Today, at the keynote for Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Singhal got a meaningful amount of stage time &#8212; and he talked about a bunch of new features he&#8217;d hinted at during my visit. In aggregate, they amount to additional meaningful progress towards the Star Trek computer: In Chrome, Google&#8217;s classic desktop version of search will get the same conversational spoken search which is already available in the mobile apps. On all platforms, that search will get smarter about interpreting queries and sequences of queries &#8212; such as &#8220;Show me things to do in Santa Cruz,&#8221; &#8220;Show me pictures of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk&#8221; and &#8220;How far is it from here?&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to go into spoken conversational mode by saying &#8220;OK, Google&#8221; rather than having to press a button to go into a special mode. The Knowledge Graph, which gives Google a better understanding of facts about all sorts of entities, will try to anticipate your follow-up questions and answer them based upon what other people search for. Ask for the population of Canada, for instance, and it&#8217;ll tell you &#8212; but it will also graph how that population has changed over time. Google Now&#8217;s Cards &#8212; which present you with summaries of info based all kinds of stuff Google knows about you &#8212; are adding additional types of content, such as notifications about TV shows and albums you might like. In a feature which sounds similar to something Apple&#8217;s Siri already has, you&#8217;ll also be able to create reminders<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162837&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things Google Play Music All Access Needs to Match (or Beat) Spotify [Updated]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/5-things-google-music-needs-to-match-or-beat-spotify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify&#8217;s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that&#8217;s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal&#8216;s sources claim Google has signed deals with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group  and Warner Music Group for unlimited access to &#8220;certain libraries&#8221; of their music catalogs. Google&#8217;s existing music service, Google Play Music, works like iTunes&#8217; music store with a twist: In addition to purchasing music through Google&#8217;s online storefront, you can upload (or &#8220;song match&#8221;) up to 20,000 of your own songs, then stream them to multiple Android devices &#8212; a &#8220;roll your own&#8221; music approach that initially sounded cool to musicophiles like me when Google touted it back in May 2011. It never really took off though, and in hindsight, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you&#8217;re paying for every song or album and limited by what you own and limited by where you can listen) and throwing a few bucks at a pre-fab service that simply works, elegantly and immediately on nearly any device, giving you instant listening access to an unprecedented single-source spectrum of music, which would you pick? (FOLLOW-UP: Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All) We&#8217;re awash in streaming music nowadays, kicking through oceans of compressed audio as we sample potential purchases in iTunes or preview entire albums in browsers or groove to unthinkably vast song libraries in the cloud beamed to tiny apps that live on our smartphones and tablets. Google&#8217;s obviously a heavy-hitter, so anything it does in this space is newsworthy, but I&#8217;m not yet convinced the company understands what it takes to pull together a compelling service. Google Play hasn&#8217;t been that service, and I&#8217;m not sure a Google &#8220;Hey, We Can Do What Spotify Does, Too!&#8221; Music service distinguishes itself enough for anyone to bother. Bearing that in mind, here&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Poised to Show Off Latest Devices and Services</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/google-poised-to-show-off-latest-devices-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Michael Liedtke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Google is expected to use its annual software developers&#8217; conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up. The gathering, scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in San Francisco, provides Google Inc. with an opportunity to flex its technological muscle in front of a sold-out audience of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop applications and other features that can make smartphones and tablets more appealing. (MORE: Complete Google I/O Coverage on TIME Tech) Reporters from around the world also will be on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., made a big splash at last year&#8217;s conference by staging an elaborate production to highlight the potential of Google Glass &#8211; an Internet-connected device and camera that can be worn on a person&#8217;s face like a pair of spectacles. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wowed the crowd last year by taking to the stage and then engaging in a live video chat with a group of skydivers who were in a dirigible hovering above the convention. When they jumped, the skydivers&#8217; descent to the rooftop was shown live through the Google Glass camera. Some of the developers in attendance last year paid $1,500 apiece for a Google Glass prototype that was delivered to them in March. Google hasn&#8217;t spelled out what its executives will discuss during this year&#8217;s opening keynote, which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PT and last for nearly three hours. Given that Google Glass is now being tested by the developers who bought the &#8220;Explorer&#8221; edition, the device might not be one of the featured attractions. It&#8217;s a safe bet the spotlight at some point Wednesday will shine on Android, which already has been activated on more than 750 million devices around the world. Google gives the mobile operating system away, making it easier for gadget makers to sell their devices at prices below Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Cool Things Chris Hadfield Taught Us to Do While in Space</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/10-cool-things-chris-hadfield-taught-us-to-do-while-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Hadfield, on behalf of my comrades here on Earth, we salute your return to terra firma. While you were cooped up inside the International Space Station as its first Canadian commander from late December 2012 until recently, you submitted several videos to YouTube; videos containing tasks that, if performed here on Earth, would have drawn the nastiest of the nasty YouTube comments based solely on the relatively mundane nature of the things you did in these videos. BUT! Since you sent them from the International Space Station, everything was exponentially more exciting and interesting. Unsurprisingly, there were still nasty YouTube comments, but no space station in the galaxy can fix that. Here are your greatest hits, good sir: You showed us how to cry. You didn&#8217;t actually cry, but you&#8217;re manly enough to be okay with crying. You showed us how to brush our teeth. It&#8217;s kind of like when you go camping, except everything keeps floating away. You showed us how to shave. Dangers include breathing in your own whiskers and whiskers getting into the computers. This is why I don&#8217;t shave on Earth, just in case. You showed us how to sleep. Space jammies. Aw, yeah. Everything about this looks incredible. You&#8217;re like a man-sized space baby. You showed us how to eat. Peanut butter and honey on a tortilla, eh? Still too complicated for me, but it looks good nonetheless. You showed us how to wash our hands. Way, way, way more fun in zero-gravity. You showed us how to stay in shape. And like every YouTube video, it got turned into some sort of shimmy or shake or shuffle. You showed us how to puke and what to do with it afterwards. This is why there are no colleges in space. You showed us how to drink our own sweat, wastewater and &#8212; yes &#8212; even pee. I&#8217;ll be honest: Your way is less disturbing than the opening scene of Waterworld. Marginally less disturbing, but less disturbing all the same. Your filtration system seems more advanced<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162781&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/gmail-at-nine-the-evolution-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn&#8217;t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ, to answer the burning question &#8220;Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.&#8221; The era of people being confused by Gmail was so brief that it&#8217;s easy to forget such an era ever existed. Gmail quickly became not just one of Google&#8217;s core services but one of the web&#8217;s core services &#8212; the webmail client that came to define webmail clients even though it was far from the first one. Like most things Google does, Gmail hasn&#8217;t been without its controversies, but it&#8217;s still one of the company&#8217;s great success stories. I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service&#8217;s product manager, about Gmail&#8217;s first nine years &#8212; and a little bit about where it might be going. First, to refresh your memory, here&#8217;s an infographic-based history of Gmail that Google distributed last month, complete with major milestones such as 2010&#8242;s Priority Inbox, probably Gmail&#8217;s biggest innovation since the ones that got it started: Google One of the reasons Gmail took the web by surprise was that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily obvious that web-based mail was ripe for reinvention. Nine years ago, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were good, popular and deeply entrenched; they seemed to have the market as it existed all sewn up. Gmail shattered that assumption because it was the first major web-based e-mail that aspired to be good enough to be someone&#8217;s primary inbox. &#8220;From the very start, [Gmail] was about pushing the boundaries of what an e-mail product might be for people,&#8221; Gawley says. &#8220;Back in 2004, most webmail providers were giving people a few megabytes of storage. They were thought of as this interesting quirk. A gigabyte of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Memes: 5 Unintentionally Funny Products Gone Viral</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/amazon-memes-5-unintentionally-funny-products-gone-viral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kardon / Techlicious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t love a good meme? You know, those funny viral videos, images and ecards that seem to take over the Internet (and your Facebook feed) for a week or two and then disappear into web. Everyone likes to join in with their own version of what that apparently-drunk baby or too-serious-for-you cat has to say. Surprisingly, the review section of Amazon products is one place for people to indulge in their love for memes. Whether the products are Internet famous before they were listed on Amazon or quickly became infamous for reasons you&#8217;ll discover below, each one of these has become the focal point of viral humor on the world&#8217;s biggest retailer site. Amazon The gift that keeps on&#8230;no, just no Easily the coolest thing since sliced bread, the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer slices an entire banana in one quick motion! Imagine the time you&#8217;ll save every single morning by slicing your banana in one shot, rather than using a plain old knife! Plus, as the manufacturer points out, children just love slicing their own bananas! Apparently all the cool kids are doing it these days. Such a useless item quickly became a target for Amazon reviewers. Mrs. Toledo exclaims: &#8220;What can I say about the 571B Banana Slicer that hasn&#8217;t already been said about the wheel, penicillin, or the iPhone&#8230;. this is one of the greatest inventions of all time!&#8221; SW3k reported on his life changing experience after using this miracle product: &#8220;No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit, I was able to concentrate on my love of theatre and am writing a musical play about two lovers from rival gangs that just try to make it in the world.&#8221; Uncle Pooky offers this final word of wisdom: &#8220;Once I figured out I had to peel the banana before using &#8211; it works much better!&#8221; Amazon Can I get that with a side of &#8220;What the what?&#8221; Quick, what three words immediately come to mind when you hear &#8220;horse head mask&#8220;? &#8220;Awesome conversation piece,&#8221; right? Right! If disturbing your friends (and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162672&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Declares War on Cord Cutters with Live-TV App — Delayed Streaming to Follow</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/abc-to-stream-live-tv-in-fight-against-cord-cutters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC is really hoping you&#8217;ll hang on to your cable subscription, and is taking a couple of new steps to make sure of it. This week, the network will add live streaming video to its iPhone and iPad apps, the New York Times reports. However, the feature will only work if you have a cable or satellite-TV subscription. That&#8217;s not all. The report also claims that in the future, ABC will &#8220;withhold its most recent TV episodes from the free versions of Hulu and ABC.com, further limiting access to paying subscribers of cable and satellite providers only.&#8221; ABC&#8217;s existing iOS app offers on-demand TV shows only. The addition of live TV will let cable and satellite subscribers watch local news or talk shows in real time, and from anywhere within their local broadcast area. The Times’ story mostly focuses on this new feature, describing the work that went into it and how ads will work. But the idea of delayed streams for ABC shows is more mysterious. The Times’ story doesn&#8217;t say when ABC will begin holding back its streams, or how long nonpaying viewers will have to wait to see new episodes. An ABC representative would not provide any additional details to us. At the moment, Fox is the only major broadcast network that delays new streaming episodes on Hulu and its own website. To get next-day streaming, you must subscribe to Hulu Plus or have a cable or satellite subscription. (Not surprisingly, the delay caused a big spike in piracy for Fox shows a couple of years ago.) ABC has been interested in the idea for a while. In 2011, Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Disney (which owns ABC), said the company would &#8220;push the window back or make access to the programming more difficult or later, except if customers are authenticated as a subscriber.&#8221; If ABC follows through, it&#8217;ll amount to a big pushback against cord cutting, the concept of throwing out your cable or satellite subscription in favor of cheaper streaming options. Nielsen Although cord cutting isn&#8217;t new,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162641&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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