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		<title>British ISP Lobbied to Shut Off Access to Filesharing Sites</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/04/british-isp-lobbied-to-shut-off-access-to-filesharing-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a landmark legal ruling that forces the United Kingdom&#8217;s largest ISP to block access to an illegal filesharing site, movie studios, record companies and other media publishers are banding together to push for British ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay in an attempt to significantly cut down on piracy within the country. British Telecom has received a formal request to block access to the site by a group of movie studios, record labels and publishers including the Motion Picture Association, Publishers Associations and British Phonographic Industry, with a representative for the latter, Geoff Taylor, calling the Pirate Bay &#8220;no more than a huge scam,&#8221; adding, &#8220;we cannot accept illegal rip-off sites on the internet.&#8221; (MORE: &#8216;Pirate Bay&#8217; Website Blocked by Comcast and Other Providers?) The request comes after British Telecom was given two weeks to block the filesharing site Newzbin2 last week by the British High Court, with a ruling that accused the ISP of ignoring what it knew to be illegal activity by continuing to allow access to the site. John Smith, general secretary of the British Musicians&#8217; Union said that the ruling &#8220;clarified the law,&#8221; and that now the way was clear to &#8220;keep up the pressure on these illegal sites.&#8221; British Telecom has not responded to the request so far. MORE: When It Comes to Illegal Downloads, Movies Trump Music [via The Guardian and TechSpot] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101943&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Releases IP Info for 190 Alleged Pedophiles</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/04/anonymous-releases-ip-info-for-190-alleged-pedophiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous&#8217; forceful closure of more than 40 child pornography sites was apparently only the beginning of the group&#8217;s war against pedophile activity on the internet. The group has continued its action by releasing the internet addresses of 190 alleged pedophiles online, using information collected from the sites it had earlier shut down. The information outs details for users from around the world, including the U.S., Japan and the U.K. According to a statement released alongside the IP addresses, the information released was collected in one 24-hour period using NSA-4011 standards under a closed distribution channel, and is a collection of IP addresses &#8220;accessing sites hosting child pornography on TOR darknet (sites not listed under the WWW).&#8221; (MORE: &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Forces 40+ Child Pornography Sites Offline) In addition, the group claims to have uncovered the identity of the operator of Freedom Hosting, the hosting service that it described as &#8220;the host of the largest collection of child pornography on the internet&#8221; as developer and privacy advocate Mike Perry. Perry has denied any connection with Freedom Hosting, writing that he &#8220;seem[s] to be the target of a vigilante lynch mob (or a subset of one) who will not dispose themselves of the notion that I run a service called Freedom Hosting (despite having evidence in their possession to the contrary).&#8221; It&#8217;s unknown whether the release of IP addresses is just the first of many; Anonymous had claimed to have information for more than 1,500 users accessing child pornography on the Tor network when it announced &#8220;Operation Darknet&#8221; last week. MORE: &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Threatens to Take Down Fox News Next Month [via Ars Technica] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101959&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Do a Barrel Roll&#8217; and Several Other Fun Google Easter Eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world went crazy over Google&#8217;s &#8220;Do a Barrel Roll&#8221; stunt yesterday. Crazy. In case you missed it, go to Google and search for &#8220;do a barrel roll&#8221; without the quotes. Ta-da. Cool, eh? Maybe you&#8217;re even a little nauseous. But the old barrel roll trick—as it&#8217;ll one day be called when it&#8217;s actually old—isn&#8217;t the only Easter egg Google has up its sleeve. Here are several others: (MORE: 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011) Tilt/Askew Similar to the barrel roll, but not quite as cool. Search for &#8220;tilt&#8221; without the quotes (or just click here). We actually wrote about this back in April. It works on your smartphone, too. Searching for &#8220;askew&#8221; accomplishes the same end-result (click here to try it out). Big Answers to Mind-Bending Questions Search for &#8220;answer to life, the universe, and everything&#8221; (or just click here) and you&#8217;ll get your answer: 42. Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you&#8217;re an iPhone 4S owner and you ask Siri about the meaning of life, she&#8217;ll give you the same answer: 42. My number when I played basketball in high school was 42 as well—long before this meaning of life stuff. I have no answers for you. (MORE: The Five Weirdest Pieces from MoMA&#8217;s New Tech Exhibit) See also: &#8220;the loneliest number&#8221;, &#8220;once in a blue moon&#8221; and &#8220;number of horns on a unicorn&#8221; for a few other cool calculations. Nessie Sighting Set your iGoogle homepage to use the Beach theme and you&#8217;ll get a glimpse of the Loch Ness Monster at 3:14 AM every day. I know, right? That&#8217;s a lot of hustle for a Nessie sighting, but it might be worth checking out if you&#8217;re up at that hour with a newborn. Or responding angrily to e-mails. Or responding drunkenly to e-mails from former lovers. Or sending drunken e-mails to former lovers you haven&#8217;t spoken with in a decade. Or reading this drunkenly and shouting &#8220;QUIT SAYING LOVERS!&#8221; at the screen. Just about every other iGoogle theme has something cool going on at 3:14 AM, too. article continues on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101951&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Negative Tweets Disappear&#8230; on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/03/watch-negative-tweets-disappear-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to advertisers trying to reach out into the world of social media, results tend to veer wildly between &#8220;inspired&#8221; and &#8220;oh please make it go away I can&#8217;t unsee that oh no.&#8221; Or, in the case of the new Mentos &#8220;Negative Tweet Eliminator,&#8221; just plain confusing. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; the idea of an app that &#8220;destroys&#8221; tweets displaying too much negativity, in order to increase the amount of positivity on the internet (and, of course, emphasize the&#8230; calming aspect of Mentos mints, I guess?) is easy enough to understand, and it&#8217;s a cute idea. The confusion comes when you discover that the app is for Facebook users. (MORE: Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don&#8217;t Mix) Was it too much to create a Facebook app that would remove negative Facebook status updates? Is there something inherently more negative about Twitter than Facebook? Is the app trying to play up some Jets vs. Sharks style rivalry between the two social network tribes? None of that is clear, perhaps as a lesson for us journalists and inquiring minds: that we should instead try to be Zen, like the ad campaign&#8217;s mascot, Dragee. As an online diversion, the app is fun enough; It takes tweets posted in the last minute or so with keywords like &#8220;hate,&#8221; &#8220;FML&#8221; or &#8220;#fail&#8221; and &#8220;destroys&#8221; them onscreen as you watch. The tweets still exist on Twitter—they&#8217;re merely eliminated in an animation in the app itself—but unless you&#8217;re inherently fascinated by the mundanity of people&#8217;s dislikes on Twitter, it soon loses its appeal. And as an advertisement for mints&#8230; well, it makes an okay online diversion, at least. MORE: Twitter Drops Lawsuit in Exchange for &#8216;Tweet&#8217; Trademark [via SocialTimes] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101803&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer Finally Falls Below 50% of Web Browser Use</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/internet-explorer-finally-falls-below-50-of-web-browser-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web designers around the world, it&#8217;s time to celebrate: Last month, Internet Explorer&#8217;s share of global browser usage fell below 50% for the first time in more than a decade. Your long nightmare of having to make things work for people who still use IE6 is a little bit closer to coming to an end. Microsoft&#8217;s iconic browser can still claim desktop browser victory, with 52.63% of desktop users still using IE, but as desktop internet usage competes with mobile devices, the browser landscape is beginning to shift more quickly. In terms of all internet browsing, IE has fallen to 49.58%, its lowest share since 1999 and a significant drop from its 2004 high of 95%. (MORE: That &#8216;Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber&#8217; Study? Bogus) The fall seems to be a result of Google&#8217;s Chrome browser, which rose to 17.62% of desktop browser share, with Firefox staying static at 22.51% and Apple&#8217;s Safari barely shifting towards 5.43%. Safari fares much better in mobile devices, leading the pack as it trends toward 65% share in mobile. Admittedly, a 49.58% share still makes IE the world&#8217;s dominant browser by any measure, but with IE adoption falling on a month-to-month basis, it&#8217;s safe to say that—barring any worldwide technological disaster that destroys technology created in the last six years—the internet is slowly becoming a safer place for those who still remember how horrible IE6 was. MORE: Amazon Starts Selling Ads Based on Your Browsing History Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101683&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Microsoft</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/microsoft/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available [UPDATE]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/gmail-app-for-ipad-and-iphone-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumors were true, and it&#8217;s finally here: a native Gmail app for your Apple device. You&#8217;ll get push notifications, inbox searching, autocompleting e-mail addresses, photo uploads and—if you&#8217;re an iPad user—a split view with your inbox on the left and your messages on the right. You&#8217;ll also have access to Gmail&#8217;s &#8220;Priority Inbox&#8221; features, message starring, labeling, and spam reporting. The app is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, provided you&#8217;ve got iOS version 4 or above—which should be just about everyone by now. It&#8217;s available in the App Store here&#8230; UPDATE (2:22pm): And just like that, she&#8217;s gone. Google has updated its blog post with the following: &#8220;Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately, it contained a bug which broke notifications and caused users to see an error message when first opening the app. We’ve removed the app while we correct the problem, and we’re working to bring you a new version soon. Everyone who’s already installed the app can continue to use it.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the offending error message, too: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch [Google]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101698&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Friends Electric: Facebook Info Open to &#8216;Socialbot&#8217; Snooping</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/our-friends-electric-facebook-info-open-to-socialbot-snooping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s time to start paying more attention to whom you&#8217;re friending on Facebook. A recent study designed to evaluate how safe social networks are from being invaded by programs pretending to be real people resulted in more than 250GB of personal information being collected from thousands of Facebook users by the researchers&#8217; &#8220;socialbots.&#8221; Researchers from the University of British Columbia&#8217;s Vancouver campus released 102 socialbots onto Facebook as part of the eight week study, each one given a name and a profile picture so as to better convince real users that they were, in fact, entirely genuine. Each bot then proceeded to send 25 friend requests per day—limited to prevent setting off spam alerts—and within two weeks, 976 requests had been accepted. (MORE: Facebook Announces New &#8216;Trusted Friends&#8217; Security Feature) For the next six weeks, the bots sent requests to the friends of their new friends, with 59% of that second wave accepting, leading to what the researchers call &#8220;a large-scale infiltration&#8221; of the site. The researchers said that the exercise proved how ineffective existing safety measures are against this kind of attack, with only 20% of their socialbots being caught by Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Immune System,&#8221; with even that low percentage only happening because users flagged the friend requests as spam. A report on the experiment, &#8220;The Socialbot Network,&#8221; explains the danger this presents: &#8220;As socialbots infiltrate a targeted OSN, they can further harvest private users&#8217; data such as email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal data that have monetary value. To an adversary, such data are valuable and can be used for online profiling and large-scale email spam and phishing campaigns.&#8221; A Facebook spokesperson deflected criticism by attacking the report, saying that the company has &#8220;serious concerns about the methodology of the research by the University of British Columbia, and we will be putting these concerns to them.&#8221; MORE: Google: U.S. Gov&#8217;t, Police Make More Requests for Private Data in 2011 [via CNet] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101688&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Facebook</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/facebook/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Abandons Attack Against Mexican Drug Cartel?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/anonymous-abandons-attack-against-mexican-drug-cartel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just days after announcing its intent to reveal information about civilians who have assisted the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, the group has seemingly backed down for fear of possible violent reprisals. Two apparently self-identified Anonymous members, Skill3r and Glynnis Paroubek, were quoted in Mexican newspaper Milenio as saying, &#8220;We didn&#8217;t want irresponsible administrators to condemn participants [in the operation] to death. We&#8217;ve discussed it extensively and we all decided to remove it.&#8221; (MORE: Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Target Mexican Drug Cartel) This statement follows a post on the Anonymous Mexico Facebook page that reads in part: &#8220;Our fight is not of this kind and our ideals are not in tune with that operation. The note [announcing Operation Cartel] published in many electronic media is completely false.&#8221; The decision may be a smart one; global intelligence company Stratfor released a report yesterday claiming that &#8220;Los Zetas are deploying their own teams of computer experts to track those individuals involved in the online anti-cartel campaign, which indicates that the criminal group is taking the campaign very seriously,&#8221; a comment which comes with the extra weight of earlier internet-related murders as a warning to &#8220;internet snitches&#8221; trying to intervene in the drug war. Despite this, it&#8217;s possible that Anonymous is split over the decision to withdraw from this particular operation; according to a tweet from Anonymous member Sabu, &#8220;#OpCartel is very much alive and like I said to others in private our war is on corruption on both sides of the spectrum. Vamous a GUERRA!&#8221; We may not know until November 5th whether or not the operation is still in existence&#8230; which, admittedly, may be part of the plan. MORE: &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Threatens to Take Down Fox News Next Month [via Talking Points Memo] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101674&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/the-internet-weighs-about-as-much-as-a-strawberry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which &#8220;have a higher energy than the untrapped ones.&#8221; And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too. How Much Does The Internet Weigh? [YouTube via Buzzfeed]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Web Video</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/web-video-apps-web/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Pete Townshend Calls iTunes a &#8216;Digital Vampire&#8217; that Hurts Musicians</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/01/pete-townshend-calls-itunes-a-digital-vampire-that-hurts-musicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s iTunes may have ushered in a digital revolution to the music industry, making music more affordable and—in tandem with the iPod and other MP3 players—more of a feature in people&#8217;s day-to-day lives, but according to Pete Townshend, iTunes is a &#8220;digital vampire&#8221; that&#8217;s bleeding musicians by taking a commission for each download sold. That was just one of the eyebrow-raising comments made by Townshend during the inaugural John Peel speech at Britain&#8217;s 2011 Radio Festival yesterday, in which he freewheeled through a number of topics, including digital piracy, the role of radio in a new musical landscape, and whether or not Steve Jobs was cool. (MORE: The iPod Turns 10; How It Shaped Music History) On the latter topic, Townshend was especially erratic, admitting that he&#8217;d once said during an interview that he&#8217;d &#8220;wanted to cut Jobs&#8217; balls off,&#8221; but admitting that he &#8220;really thinks the late Steve Jobs was one of the coolest guys on the planet,&#8221; in part because of &#8220;his black outfits&#8221;. The thrust of Townshend&#8217;s speech centered around the need for musicians to feel that their work is being appreciated, in both financial and critical terms. &#8220;Whether the public listen or not, creative writers and musicians should get paid if their work generates money by virtue of its mere existence on radio, television, YouTube, Facebook or SoundCloud,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;One woman was so incensed that she tried to argue that she was still supporting me as an artist by &#8216;sharing&#8217; (my parentheses) music with others who would eventually filter down some cash in some form or other to me, that would pay for my son&#8217;s bike – and she was not, in any sense, a thief or a criminal. I think she was in a kind of denial.&#8221; The key, he seemed to be suggesting, is constructive curation of what&#8217;s available online, pointing to the &#8220;dozens of amazing music blogs, sharing websites and video sites&#8221; continuing the work of legendary DJ Peel today by introducing good music to people that might never have found<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101529&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Native Gmail iPhone App Reportedly Coming Soon</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/01/native-gmail-iphone-app-reportedly-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOLLOW-UP: Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available An official Gmail app for iPhone may be coming soon, providing an alternative to the feature-barren iPhone e-mail app that&#8217;s built into the OS. The rumor, reported by M.G. Siegler, is based on multiple unnamed sources. The app may already be awaiting Apple&#8217;s approval, Siegler says, and he thinks it&#8217;ll get the nod from Apple soon. iPhone users can already access Gmail through the phone&#8217;s native Mail app, but then they miss out on Google&#8217;s excellent user interface, which lets you quickly scroll through conversation views—in the Mail app you must tap a button for every new message—and delete or manage multiple messages with ease. The Mail app also lacks some of Gmail&#8217;s advanced features, such as Priority Inbox. (MORE:&#160;Gmail: Can&#8217;t Live with It — or Without It) Gmail offers a web app (pictured above) for these features, accessed through a browser, but then you miss out on badge notifications for new messages. And dealing with a Gmail window or tab every time you open the browser is a bit sloppy. The native iPhone Gmail app would be the best of both worlds, Siegler reports. It&#8217;ll have the features of the web app, while behaving like a native app. It&#8217;ll also finally bring push notifications to Gmail—something that neither the Web app nor the native Mail app currently offer. Siegler says to expect some other new features as well, including thumbnail images for contacts. The Gmail app is reportedly pending approval, but I don&#8217;t see any reason why Apple would reject it.&#160; The App Store already hosts other third-party e-mail programs. And despite Apple&#8217;s rivalry with Google, Apple has approved several native apps from the search giant that duplicate built-in phone functions, including Google Voice and Google Latitude. But if approved, Gmail would be the first official iPhone app from a major web mail service. It may put pressure on Yahoo and Microsoft to create apps for Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, respectively. I hope it happens soon. MORE:&#160;New Gmail Accidentally Revealed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101477&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Google</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/google/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Zediva Shuts Down After Settling Lawsuit with MPAA</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/zediva-shuts-down-after-settling-lawsuit-with-mpaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dream of an admittedly-overly-complicated way of ignoring existing copyright law in order to stream movies online is, it seems, over with the news that the lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and website Zediva.com has been resolved, with Zediva agreeing to pay $1.8 million and permanently stop streaming video as a result. The company had launched earlier this year, offering $2 movie rentals online to customers and immediately coming under fire for not having permission from the studios who owned the movies to do so; not—more importantly—the same kind of license that companies like Netflix, YouTube and Hulu need to stream content online. Zediva claimed that it didn&#8217;t need either, as what it was actually doing was renting physical DVDs to clients and then streaming the content of those DVDs online—something that they claimed was a private performance, and not public, and therefore only subject to the same kinds of restrictions as your local video store. (MORE: Judge Rules Against Remotely Watching DVDs over the Internet) A lawsuit over that defense was filed by the MPAA in May, and ruled in favor of the MPAA in August, but at the time, Zediva promised to appeal and &#8220;keep fighting for consumers&#8217; right to watch a DVD they&#8217;ve rented, whether that rental is at the corner store or by mail or over the internet.&#8221; That fight, however, ended late last week. According to MPAA SVP Dan Robbins, &#8220;This result sends a strong message to those who would exploit the studios’ works in violation of copyright law, on the Internet or elsewhere.&#8221; A statement on Zediva&#8217;s website says, in part, &#8220;We are suspending Zediva&#8217;s operations to comply with an order by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. While we hope to be back online soon, we don&#8217;t know when (or whether) that will happen. We are disappointed by this turn of events, and that we are not permitted to serve you.&#8221; [via The Hollywood Reporter] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101394&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disney-ABC Expands Streaming Deals with Amazon, Netflix</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/disney-abc-expands-streaming-deals-with-amazon-netflix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you&#8217;ll never have to miss an episode of Grey&#8217;s Anatomy, wherever you are and whatever device you&#8217;re using, as Disney and ABC not only extended their existing deal with Netflix, but also expanded their agreement with Amazon, meaning that Kindle Fire users have even more shows to stream on their new devices. The expansion of the Amazon deal announced this morning means that Amazon Prime members will be able instantly stream content from ABC Studios, Disney Channel, ABC Family and Marvel Entertainment, including all episodes of Lost, early JJ Abrams&#8217; hit Felicity and ABC Family&#8217;s cult Greek, as well as previous seasons of current shows like The Secret Life of the American Teenager and, yes, Grey&#8217;s Anatomy. (MORE: Nextflix: Who Could Take the Streaming Video Crown?) Amazon&#8217;s director of video content acquisition, Brad Beale, said that the company was &#8220;excited to add some of the very best content available from Disney-ABC to Prime instant video,&#8221; adding that Amazon is &#8220;working hard to add even more selection for Kindle Fire customers and Prime members leading up to the holidays, and expect to have nearly 13,000 titles available in Prime instant video by early next year.&#8221; At the same time, Disney-ABC has also expanded its deal with Netflix, not only extending it in terms of timing, but also adding new shows to those available for instant streaming, including all episodes of JJ Abrams&#8217; Alias. According to Netflix&#8217; Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, &#8220;Disney and ABC have been and continue to be an innovative and supportive partner for Netflix. The diverse but always excellent programming from the different channels and networks are favorites of our members and we are thrilled to broaden the scope and extend the terms or our relationship.&#8221; MORE: Cheat Sheet: How Bad Are Things for Netflix? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101387&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geeky Halloween Costume: Two iPads Equal One Hole in the Gut</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/geeky-halloween-costume-two-ipads-equal-one-hole-in-the-gut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People spend crazy money on last-minute Halloween costumes and, if you sound like someone who has crazy money and needs a last-minute Halloween costume, why not rock a hole in the gut using two iPads? Unlike other insanely expensive last-minute Halloween costumes, you&#8217;ll actually get a whole lot of use out of this one long after the big night&#8217;s over—assuming you&#8217;ll use at least one of the iPads. MORE: Top 10 Nerdy Costumes That Are Just A Bad Idea Mark Rober—who&#8217;s actually a rocket scientist (but don&#8217;t let that deter you)—used an old sweatshirt, cut a big hole in the front and a big hole in the back, mounted an iPad 2 in the front and an iPad 2 in the back, fired up Facetime, and let the back-mounted iPad send video to the front-mounted iPad. The result? A big gaping hole. Surround the sweatshirt cutouts with fake blood, make sure you&#8217;ve got a strong internet connection wherever you&#8217;re going (that&#8217;s the toughest part) and—boom—prepare to win the big costume contest. Rober says, &#8220;If you&#8217;re at a place that has sucky Wi-Fi, you can use one of these,&#8221; before showing off what appears to be a Verizon 4G mobile hotspot. Check out the above video for a look at the costume in action. MORE: Top 10 Nerdy Costumes That Are Just An Awesome Idea [via Gizmodo]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101356&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of the Internet (as Taught to Students in 1996)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/pros-and-cons-of-the-internet-as-taught-to-students-in-1996/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I was at my parents’ house in Connecticut for a family matter. As my sister went through some of the things in her childhood bedroom, she discovered a document from 1996, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. This was apparently part of some high school handout packet; also included among the papers were tips on using Altavista and print outs of the Yahoo home page as viewed in Netscape. Since we’re fans of tech nostalgia here, I thought I’d share the document with you. Surprisingly, many of the Internet’s perks and problems remain the same 15 years later, but some of them just seem silly in retrospect. (MORE: Let&#8217;s Go Retro: Best Computer Games from the &#8217;80s) Click on the image to view an enlarged version. Some thoughts: Although the Internet is quite different now from what it was in 1996, its advantages–communicating with anyone around the world, consuming all kinds of content and getting information quickly–haven’t fundamentally changed. No one uses chat rooms anymore, though. The rise of reputable sources on the Internet, combined with a more savvy user base, means reliability of information isn’t a huge issue today. Of course, you can’t believe everything you read, but that was true even before the Internet. I suppose there are still “MANY” dead links on the Internet. But I rarely notice. The paper seems optimistic that some day, the Internet will be secure. Hasn’t happened yet. And with users putting more information about themselves on the Internet than ever before, security is arguably a bigger issue than it was 15 years ago. One hack is all it takes for your personal details to get out. The Internet is more organized today, but information overload remains, thanks to countless blogs and endless social network streams–none of which existed 15 years ago. The idea that spending “hours” on the Internet was once classified as addiction now seems hilarious to me. (Thanks, Heather.) MORE: Weekend Download: Grab 900 Gigabytes of GeoCities Sites This article originally appeared on Technologizer&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101343&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube Confirms New Professionally-Created Channels</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/29/youtube-confirms-new-professionally-created-channels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much speculation, YouTube finally announced today that it will be adding new channels from professional content creators in an attempt to &#8220;bring an even broader range of entertainment&#8221; to the site that will offer &#8220;more reasons to keep coming back again and again.&#8221; The announcement was made via the official YouTube blog, where Global Head of Content Partnerships Robert Kyncl wrote that the site will soon add &#8220;channels created by well-known personalities and content producers from the TV, film, music, news and sports fields, as well as some of the most innovative up-and-coming media companies in the world,&#8221; although no names were shared at this time. (MORE: YouTube to Launch 25 New Professionally-Created Content Channels?) &#8220;These channels will have something for everyone, whether you’re a mom, a comedy fan, a sports nut, a music lover or a pop-culture maven,&#8221; wrote Kyncl, and when he says &#8220;everyone,&#8221; he&#8217;s not just talking about viewers, as he later makes a point of saying that &#8220;for advertisers, these channels will represent a new way to engage and reach their global consumers.&#8221; With a new study pointing out that YouTube has a larger share of the broadband internet audience than Netflix while the latter company is having a worrying freefall on the stock market, the timing of this announcement couldn&#8217;t be better. According to Kyncl, the first of the new channels will appear next month with others rolling out in the following months. MORE: YouTube Looks to Star Power For New Celebrity Channels Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t Coldplay&#8217;s New Album on Spotify?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/28/why-isnt-coldplays-new-album-on-spotify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotify users who are also fans of Coldplay may have found themselves wondering something over the last few days, and it&#8217;s not &#8220;Why does Chris Martin always sound so sad and tired?&#8221; Instead, they&#8217;re probably asking themselves when &#8220;Mylo Xyloto,&#8221; the Coldplay album released earlier this week is going to show up on the streaming music service. The answer: Not anytime soon. The band has decided to withhold &#8220;Mylo Xyloto&#8221; from Spotify and other streaming music services like Rhapsody, in an apparent attempt to push sales for the album that&#8217;s already looking to be one of the top-selling releases of the year. Although the band&#8217;s management has stayed quiet on the matter so far, their label, EMI, confirmed the news yesterday with a statement saying the label &#8220;always work[s] with our artists and their management on a case by case basis to deliver the best outcome for each release.&#8221; (MORE: Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do?) So what&#8217;s behind the decision? Many people are going with &#8220;money&#8221;, pointing out that services like Spotify pay so little royalties to artists per song without driving sales in the same manner that radio play historically has; instead, Spotify has replaced music purchases for many users, ultimately reducing income for musicians. That&#8217;s an argument that Spotify sidesteps in a statement on the matter, instead comparing its royalties to the even smaller (read: zero) amount musicians get from pirated music by boasting that it has &#8220;convinced millions of consumers to pay for music again.&#8221; It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how this develops in the weeks and months to come; we don&#8217;t know, for example, whether the Coldplay embargo is permanent or a temporary attempt to boost launch sales for a big album in a time when album sales are shrinking. But if it does turn out to be permanent, will other bands follow suit? And if so, what does that mean for the music industry—or companies like Spotify? MORE: Napster No More: Rhapsody Nabs Subscribers, Assets Graeme McMillan is a reporter at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101287&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What&#8217;s Hot&#8217;? Google+ Adds &#8216;Ripples&#8217; Feature and More</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/28/whats-hot-google-adds-ripples-feature-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken a few months, but Google+ is finally rolling out its version of Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;trending topics&#8221; feature, with the somewhat unimaginative title of &#8220;What&#8217;s Hot.&#8221; But the truly interesting new feature introduced is Ripples, which visualizes how things get shared across the burgeoning network. Both features were introduced via the official Google blog yesterday, with What&#8217;s Hot described as &#8220;a new place to visit for interesting and unexpected content&#8221; outside of the personal filter provided by friends and family already included in your Circles. &#8220;Sometimes you want to know what the world is so excited about,&#8221; explained SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra. (MORE: Google: U.S. Gov&#8217;t, Police Make More Requests for Private Data in 2011) Something that&#8217;s closer to actually being exciting is Ripples, which Gundotra wrote was a way to &#8220;help people re-live&#8230; conversations &#8211; both to rekindle that initial excitement, and to learn how posts flow across the network.&#8221; The &#8220;still experimental&#8221; feature allows you to view the activity around any public Google + post, purely by selecting &#8220;View Ripples.&#8221; Check out the above video to see how it works. Google also introduced the Google+ Creative Kit—a limited photo-edit software within the network—and the ability to access Google+ for all Google Apps customers in yesterday&#8217;s announcements. Google+ may remain the social network that most people have already forgotten exists, but it&#8217;s clearly trying hard to change that. MORE: Google Music Store &#8216;Close&#8217; According to Google SVP Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101295&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix Still Tops Online Video Viewing&#8230; Kind Of</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/28/netflix-still-tops-online-video-viewing-kind-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stock prices may be falling, analysts may be declaring doom and competitors may be waiting in the wings to pounce, but Netflix can comfort itself with one fact: It&#8217;s still the single largest consumer of internet bandwidth in North America. According to the 2011 Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report, Netflix creates an estimated 32% of peak &#8220;downstream&#8221; traffic, with Netflix streaming video responsible for around 28% of all bandwidth usage alone. But despite those figures, Netflix isn&#8217;t actually the undisputed king of online video: YouTube offers up substantial competition. (MORE: Cheat Sheet: How Bad Are Things For Netflix? While Netflix wins on both bandwidth and median viewing time (42 minutes versus YouTube&#8217;s 3; YouTube only takes up 11.3% of peak downstream traffic), Google&#8217;s video hub comes out on top in terms of the size of its monthly audience (83% of all broadband subscribers in the U.S., compared with Netflix&#8217;s 20%) and percentage of all online video viewing (34.5 versus Netflix&#8217;s less-impressive 5). Netflix may have one last laugh, however; the study found that more people watch Netflix content on an internet-connected television (77% of all Netflix viewing, with 20% watching on a computer and the remaining 3% on a mobile device), while YouTube stays computer-centric (83% watching via computer, 10% on a mobile device and only 7% via television) at a time when web usage in general is moving away from computers and onto mobile devices and web-enabled TVs. MORE: Financial Analysts Declare Netflix &#8216;Broken&#8217; and &#8216;Suffering Nuclear Winter&#8217; Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101302&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Social Network Aims Smaller, More Local</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/26/new-social-network-aims-smaller-more-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about your friends for a second, and start getting more community-minded; a new social network is much more interested in where you live, and who your neighbors are. Nextdoor is a new social networking site launching to the public today, with a twist. Because, as founder Nirav Tolia told All Things D, &#8220;your neighbors and friends are different people,&#8221; Nextdoor is a site where you and the people you live beside can talk about local issues, whether it&#8217;s block parties, safety or maintenance issues, or anything else that you&#8217;d otherwise have to set up mailing lists, private emails or—gasp—actually leave the internet and go outside to deal with. (MORE: The Future of Local Internet Is&#8230; Edible?) The site currently has 176 active &#8220;neighborhoods&#8221; across the U.S., but users can set up their own neighborhood themselves, selecting a geographical location (boundaries for said location are set by the user) and then convincing neighbors to join. If 10 users sign up from a particular location within 15 days, that neighborhood becomes active. All content posted to the site will remain private to its neighborhood, inaccessible to outsiders. The focus on local community will, Tolia hopes, differentiate Nextdoor from other social networks. It&#8217;ll also provide a hook for future advertisers, with the potential there for hyper-targeted local advertising, as well as the chance for smaller businesses to reach audiences that they otherwise may not have been able to afford. MORE: eBay Diversifies With Where.com, But is Hyperlocal Really the Future? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100993&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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