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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>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>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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Netflix]]></category>
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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>Nextflix: Who Could Take the Streaming Video Crown?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/27/nextflix-who-could-take-the-streaming-video-crown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Netflix does, in fact, continue its slow implosion and disappear into the coldness of internet irrelevance, one question seems to be left unsaid: Who will take over where it left off? Who profits from Netflix&#8217;s demise the most? According to Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne, cable and satellite companies should be celebrating right now. Describing Netflix&#8217;s stock collapse as &#8220;a day in the sun&#8221; for those companies, Swinburne writes that &#8220;Netflix&#8217;s subscriber slowdown and escalating content costs are a source of relief,&#8221; singling out Dish Network as the company with most reason to be cheerful: &#8220;In the case of Dish, an emerging competitor to Netflix, Netflix&#8217;s execution missteps possibly open the door for Dish&#8217;s Blockbuster offering to take share.&#8221; That&#8217;s arguably true, but in order for it to really make an impact, it would need to be available to those who aren&#8217;t already Dish subscribers. Without that, the Blockbuster Movie Pass is just a very nice value add to a package centered around the cords that people are always being rumored to want to cut. (MORE: Cheat Sheet: How Bad Are Things for Netflix?) The real question is, who will be the next Netflix, offering everyone the chance for streaming video on demand to computers, mobile devices and the like without the need for a cable connection? Here are some possibilities, and just how far from that dream they currently are. article continues on next page&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101064&#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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		<title>Groupon Sues Former Employees Now Working for &#8216;Google Offers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/25/groupon-sues-former-employees-now-working-for-google-offers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, things look grim for Groupon right now. Its IPO offers a value around a third of what was originally expected, the Daily Deals business seems to be shrinking, and it&#8217;s facing multiple class action lawsuits from former employees. Luckily, it&#8217;s fighting back against bad fortune&#8230; by suing two former employees who are now working for the competition. The two former employees, Brian Hanna and Michael Nolan, used to work as sales managers for Groupon before moving over to Google Offers. Groupon&#8217;s lawsuit, filed yesterday in Chicago, does not name Google as a defendant, but does ask that both Hanna and Nolan are prevented from sharing any information they learned at Groupon with their new employer. Initial reports suggest that Groupon is not seeking damages with this lawsuit, leading some to speculate that this is purely a way of protecting any proprietary information about the company that Nolan or Hanna may have, which the lawsuit claims they &#8220;will employ&#8221; in their new positions. MORE: Amazon Might Lose Money on Each Tablet (and Why It Doesn&#8217;t Matter) 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=100852&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groupon IPO Details: $16 per Share, $10.1 Billion Valuation</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/21/groupon-ipo-details-16-per-share-10-1-billion-valuation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of Groupon&#8217;s IPO has been much rumored and discussed in recent days, with sources suggesting earlier this week that the company&#8217;s value would be announced around $10 billion, down from an earlier $25 billion valuation. Turns out, that speculation was right on the money. According to a new, detailed, report, Groupon will sell 30 million shares in an IPO valued between $10.1 and $11.4 billion. Shares will be priced between $16 and $18 each, and net proceeds are estimated around $478.8 million. No date for the official announcement was given in this latest report. MORE: Groupon IPO Reportedly Back on Track 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=100598&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware User Agreements: Who Actually Owns the Reddit Movie Pitch?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/20/beware-user-agreements-who-actually-owns-the-reddit-movie-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I mentioned that Warner Bros. had purchased a movie pitch from a writer called James Erwin that had started life as a post on Reddit. Ignoring my cynicism over whether or not social media can ever make good movies or television, there&#8217;s one problem: What if Erwin didn&#8217;t actually own his idea? The problem seems to be Reddit&#8217;s terms of service agreement, which all users have to agree to when signing up to the site. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the agreement explicitly points out that, in signing, users grant the site &#8220;a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.&#8221; In that case, doesn&#8217;t that mean that Reddit owns the movie pitch in question. Both Reddit and Warner Bros. have declined comment on the matter, although Jerry Birenz, the copyright agent for Reddit did admit to THR that this was &#8220;an interesting issue.&#8221; While Erwin obviously will be able to develop his idea (A time-travel story called Rome, Sweet Rome) into a full-length screenplay easily enough, it remains to be seen whether the Reddit user agreement could allow the site to also sell the idea to a rival studio, which could rush its own version into development as a spoiler project. The moral of this story? Either &#8220;never sign user agreements&#8221; or &#8220;non&#8217;t reveal the best parts of your movie pitch on social media.&#8221; I&#8217;ve not quite made up my mind yet. MORE: Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don&#8217;t Mix 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=100439&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Now WordPress Will Allow You to Profit from Your Posts</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/20/now-wordpress-will-allow-you-to-profit-from-your-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of days after Chime.in launched with the promise of allowing users to monetize their own social media, WordPress bloggers are about to get the same ability thanks to a new deal struck between the blogging engine and Federated Media Publishing. The deal will offer WordPress users a chance to opt-in to Federated&#8217;s advertising representation starting at some point during Q1 2012. WordPress will take a cut of the ad revenue generated as a result, as well as being paid by Federated for the ability to represent its users. (MORE: Chime.in Social Network Lets You Earn Cash For Posts) The partnership, announced Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, isn&#8217;t Federated&#8217;s first move into the blog space. The company previously had a deal with LiveJournal and TypePad creators Six Apart that quietly disappeared because it didn&#8217;t &#8220;work for advertisers,&#8221; according to CEO Deanna Brown. Brown told AdWeek that she &#8220;could imagine [Federated] will continue growing relationships with all kinds of independent Web publishing partners&#8221; in future, which suggests that other blog platforms may soon follow WordPress&#8217; lead. Tumblr advertising, anyone? MORE: Facebook Ad Rates Rise 74% in Past Year 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=100351&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelines.com Explains Why It&#8217;s Suing Facebook over &#8216;Timeline&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/timelines-com-explains-why-its-suing-facebook-over-timeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with suing a company like Facebook is that sometimes people don&#8217;t travel much beyond hearing the words &#8220;suing a company like Facebook&#8221; before getting defensive about their chosen social network. No wonder, then, that Timelines.com is taking to the Internet to explain why it&#8217;s trying to defend itself from being crushed by the social networking giant. For those tuning in late, the Chicago-based website is suing Facebook over trademark infringement concerning Facebook&#8217;s new historical update tracking feature. On its website, Timelines makes its argument very clear: &#8220;[We] aren&#8217;t against Facebook launching this new service. Our issue is that they&#8217;ve named and branded the service &#8216;Timeline&#8217;.&#8221; (MORE: Facebook Sued Over &#8216;Timeline&#8217; by Timelines.com) Showing a remarkable amount of restraint considering some of the vitriol it&#8217;s faced for taking legal action, Timelines explains: Our company owns a valid trademark on the term &#8220;Timelines&#8221; that is for a particular application, specifically for &#8220;providing a web site that gives users the ability to create customized web pages featuring user-defined information about historical, current and upcoming events.&#8221; We&#8217;ve spent years building this brand and using it in the above stated way on our site Timelines.com. Facebook, a company that has applied for or trademarked the terms &#8220;Face&#8221;, &#8220;Wall&#8221;, and &#8220;Like&#8221; as well as sued others for using &#8220;Book&#8221; in their names, is using the name &#8220;Timeline&#8221; for a new product that is focused on how people express and share events and history online. Facebook either knew or should have known (given their rigorous defense of their own intellectual property) that the US Patent and Trademark Office granted us this trademark. People at Facebook could have at least contacted us for permission to use or license the name. They did not. It adds &#8220;We are hoping that Facebook will realize that it made a mistake and that it needs to make things right,&#8221; but warns that &#8220;we will vigorously defend our trademark.&#8221; Ironically, one of the ways that people are advised to stay in touch with what&#8217;s happening is to &#8220;Follow this case on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100251&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Does an Apple Store Cost? (Hint: A Lot)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/how-much-does-an-apple-store-cost-hint-a-lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re sleek, stylish and iconic in their own right, not to mention places that a lot of us spend a ridiculous amount of time. Considering just how much we love Apple Stores, do you ever find yourself wondering why Apple&#8217;s competitors haven&#8217;t followed suit and set up a number of Google stores, or Microsoft stores, or whoever stores, all across the world? The answer may be the cost. At the Asymco blog, Horace Dedlu decided to look into how much each Apple Store costs Apple. Beginning by noting that the company&#8217;s balance sheet has a listing for &#8220;Leasehold Improvements&#8221; worth over $2.3 billion, Dedlu goes on to deduce the average amount Apple spends in opening each new store: somewhere between $8.5 and $10 million. (MORE: Report: Apple Stores to Close for One Hour on Wednesday for Steve Jobs Memorial) That figure, high as it may seem, is just for the cost of preparing the building; as Dedlu writes, &#8220;This figure does not include the lease itself, the cost to operate (including the tens of thousands of employees) or the inventory within. It also does not include the value of choosing the right locations (though maybe a follower could simply choose to locate in the near proximity to an Apple store).&#8221; Given the prohibitive pricing, not to mention the possibility for failure—how many other brands really have the loyalty that Apple does, after all, and are people really into Android or Google enough to support something like a Google Store?—it&#8217;s no wonder that Apple&#8217;s store network stands alone for now. MORE: Greetings from iLine 2011 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=100082&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube to Train, Fund &#8216;Next Chef&#8217; and &#8216;Next Trainer&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/18/youtube-to-train-fund-next-chef-and-next-trainer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is continuing to try and make the world a better place—and, of course, promote its own product—with the announcement of the next two programs from the YouTube NextUp initiative: YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer. Each program will allow 16 selected students to participate in a three month virtual class on making videos centered around the specific vertical—cookery or physical fitness—held on Google+ Hangouts, including lessons and individual mentoring from industry leaders, as well as receiving $5000 worth of equipment and &#8220;more than $10,000 worth of promotion&#8221; on YouTube itself. (MORE: YouTube to Launch 25 New Professionally-Created Content Channels?) These programs follow the original YouTube NextUp program, which saw YouTube give $35,000 to 25 filmmakers, while an additional 20 were invited to classes at USC School of Cinematic Arts or Columbia College Chicago to hone their skills further. Both YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer are open to users in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom—the benefits of virtual training—with applications beginning today and running through October 25th. The selected chefs and trainers will be announced on November 9. MORE: YouTube Invests in 45 Upcoming Filmmakers, Takes Them to School (Literally) 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=100094&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don&#8217;t Mix</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/18/tila-quarterlife-and-why-social-media-and-old-media-dont-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that Warner Bros. has purchased a movie pitch as the result of posts made on Reddit shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to many people; if there&#8217;s one thing that social media has proven over the years, it&#8217;s that it exists as fodder for the creation of &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media like movies, television shows and music—as well as numerous news stories along the line of &#8220;OMG The Internet Has Made A TV Show &#8211; Now It Is Real!&#8221; (MORE: Twitter Owns #OccupyWallStreet Chatter) What these stories—and, almost all reporting about the Reddit deal, which nonetheless consistently finds time to mention that the writer behind the Reddit posts is a two-time Jeopardy champion—fail to mention, however, is that almost all of these &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media projects that spin off from social media posts/personalities/whatever are appallingly bad, and seemingly the result of an executive or several saying &#8220;The kids like the internet, right? I don&#8217;t like it, but what the hell, let&#8217;s give it a shot.&#8221; Don&#8217;t believe me? Here are the greatest hits of the Social Media/Old Media collaboration machine. article continues on next page&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100015&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Apple Stores to Close for One Hour on Wednesday for Steve Jobs Memorial</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/17/report-apple-stores-to-close-for-one-hour-on-wednesday-for-steve-jobs-memorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Stores will reportedly close for an hour on October 19th, according to 9to5Mac, to allow employees to watch the company&#8217;s on-site memorial to former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs. The closure will apparently happen between 1pm and 2pm Eastern this Wednesday, at which point employees will be able to watch a webcast of the event described as &#8220;a celebration of [Jobs'] life&#8221; by current CEO Tim Cook. MORE: Steve Jobs&#8217; 7-Year Health Battle: Defying Big Odds, Launching Big Products 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=99974&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Investigating Google over Foreign Subsidiaries</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/14/irs-investigating-google-over-foreign-subsidiaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think being audited by the IRS is scary, imagine how Google is feeling. According to Bloomberg, the company is undergoing a private audit over its offshore subsidiaries and their use in avoiding federal income taxes. The agency has requested information from the company about offshore deals following three large acquisitions, including its 2006 purchase of YouTube, according to an anonymous source, who also describes the IRS as acting with &#8220;more than typical scrutiny&#8221; in the current investigation. (MORE: Eric Schmidt to Senators: Google Is Nothing like Microsoft) The three deals in question are the $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006, the $625 million purchase of Postini in 2007, and $3.2 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. in 2008. Of concern is the possibility that Google&#8217;s foreign subsidiaries underpaid for foreign rights to software following these deals, which has the net effect of helping Google avoid U.S. income tax. America isn&#8217;t the only country interested in Google&#8217;s ability to cut around $1 billion from its U.S. tax bill annually by using holdings in Bermuda, Ireland and the Netherlands; French tax bodies have been working on the same matter since December of last year, although no findings have been released yet. MORE: The High-Tech Behind Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s Low-Tech Message 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=99885&#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>The Digital Media Revolution: Analog Strikes Back</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/14/the-digital-media-revolution-analog-strikes-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you consider the move towards predominantly digital media to be a slow but inevitable one, recent events in the worlds of movies and comic books might make you want to reconsider that last part. In the past week, protests by movie theater owners have pushed Universal to scrap plans to test a premium video-on-demand release for the upcoming Tower Heist just three weeks after theater release, while both Barnes &#38; Noble and Books-A-Million have pulled 100 DC Comics graphic novels off their shelves in reaction to DC&#8217;s deal with Amazon to release digital versions of those books exclusively on the Kindle Fire. In terms of the war for your media dollars, you could probably consider this analog&#8217;s way of fighting back. Oddly enough, these two things aren&#8217;t happening in a vacuum. In the last few months, we&#8217;ve also seen Netflix realize that its customers would really like to keep DVDs in the mix, thanks very much, and book publishers faced with multiple lawsuits over digital pricing. What&#8217;s happening? (MORE: Netflix Backpedals, Nixes &#8216;Quikster&#8217; for DVDs) It&#8217;s possible that what we&#8217;re seeing is &#8220;old media&#8221; suddenly waking up to the realization that &#8220;new media&#8221; isn&#8217;t just here to stay, it&#8217;s here to take over. For years, now, we&#8217;ve been promised a digital future that remained just out of reach—which suited media companies just fine. Sure, they&#8217;d lost the music business to digital, but no one—the internet, the media companies nor the audience—was really in the right shape to consider streaming or downloading movies or television shows, and who wanted to sit in front of their computer long enough to read a book? These days, in a post-tablet, post-HDVoD world, everything is up for grabs. And movie theaters, booksellers and all manner of other businesses reliant on the way things &#8220;are&#8221; have to face up to going the way of the record store. Looking at it like that, no wonder they&#8217;re complaining. The strange thing is the different directions these latest complaints are coming from; the Universal Studios and DC Comics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: AOL Still Wants to Merge with Yahoo</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/13/report-aol-still-wants-to-merge-with-yahoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those AOL-Yahoo deal rumors you&#8217;ve probably forgotten about? They&#8217;re apparently still a possibility, with anonymous sources saying that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with shareholders over the past couple of weeks to try and sell the idea of a buyout of the onetime online giant. Yahoo has been downplaying the possibility of a deal with AOL, with its own rumormongering surrounding either the possibility of selling sections of the company off to a variety of bidders or else relaunching key parts of the company to draw new customers and rebuild the brand for the future. The brand-rebuilding strategy has been punctuated by both a partnership with ABC News and Yahoo! Screen having been launched at the start of the month. But according to sources, Armstrong has been quietly working on pushing the idea of an AOL-Yahoo alliance. (MORE: Yahoo Partners with ABC for New Online News Organization) Sources say Armstrong believes that an AOL/Yahoo merger would result in $1 billion in savings for the companies by eliminating duplicate services and sites, and it&#8217;s an argument that seems to be winning many shareholders over—especially as many of AOL&#8217;s shareholders are also currently shareholders in Yahoo!, as well. But considering the less than stellar reactions to previous AOL partnerships, whether they&#8217;re with Time Warner or the Huffington Post, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if the third time would be the charm for AOL&#8217;s partnership prospects—or if this is yet another case of corporate sound and fury signifying a new logo, a lot of analysis, but little else. MORE: Report: Yahoo to Be Broken Up, Sold for Parts? [via Reuters] 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=99743&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sickweather Offers Forecasts for the Good of Your Health</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/sickweather-offers-forecasts-for-the-good-of-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current change of the seasons means many things: Shorter days, the return of pumpkin spice lattes to your coffee shop and, of course, worries that the tickle in your throat may, in fact, be a sign of some terrible disease that&#8217;s just about to envelop your very being and make death itself seem like a tempting alternative. But if, like me, your tendencies lean towards the mildly hypochondriac, then don&#8217;t worry: There&#8217;s somewhere out there just for us. Baltimore-based Sickweather is a social network with a difference; it wants to let you know what illnesses are out there, and how likely you are to catch them. &#8220;With more and more people turning to outlets like Facebook and Twitter to update their friends and followers as to when they get sick, there is now an immense amount of real time data available on the health of our population,&#8221; the site explains. Sickweather plans to use that information to create a &#8220;real time weather map&#8221; of symptoms across the country and, from there, offer forecasts of maladies to come. The site, currently in beta, plans to simultaneously help users monitor their own health (and that of friends and families) as well as offer a captive audience for healthcare and pharmaceutical advertisers. Cynical, yes, but it&#8217;s arguably a case where everyone wins; after all, isn&#8217;t it worth dealing with highly-targeted advertising if it means you manage to get a jump on that nasty flu bug that&#8217;ll wipe out half of your office next month? MORE: Can Facebook Ruin Your Child&#8217;s Brain? 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=99661&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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