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+The popular "social" news site Digg revamped its design and added some new features earlier today. In addition to a new liquid width design optimized for large monitors, Digg has several new features including the ability to digg podcasts, more video features and a new, live-updating, "Top 10" feature.

The biggest new feature is the ability to digg podcasts. In an attempt to broaden its appeal, Digg is moving beyond web headlines to "deeper" content like podcasts. 

Among the new features in the podcast section is the ability to listen to dugg podcasts within the Digg site. Dugg podcasts can be browsed by series and individual episodes which makes it easy to find podcasts by topic and jump to the most popular episode to see if you like it. Currently the podcasts section is in beta and will require a Digg account to use.

The new layout also sees Digg putting a greater emphasis on the video portion of the site. In addition to giving video its own spot on the top navigation bar, it's now possible to watch videos directly within Digg. Videos from supported services (YouTube, Metacafe and more) can be viewed in an AJAX overlay which embeds the video player and also provides a link to digg the video.

The news pages now offer the ability to sort based on the most popular stories within certain time periods, including the last twenty four hours, last seven days, last thirty days and the last year.

Another nice new feature is the "Top 10" list in the right hand column of most pages on the site which allows you to see at the glance what is "hot" right now on Digg. The new top 10 feature changes categories as you zoom into the the site, showing the top ten list for whatever category you're browsing through.

The new layout will be welcomed by Digg users with large monitors and the top navigation makes finding your way around much easier (which is how it should have been all along). 

[1]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=57
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+It's enough to induce a nerd heart attack -- Google and NASA have [partnered][1] for a "Space Act Agreement."  The search behemoth and the U.S. government space agency will team up on a collection of projects aimed at combining, "large-scale data management and massively distributed computing."

Google Maps Mars? Oh yes. The NASA press release says:

>As the first in a series of joint collaborations, Google and Ames will focus on making the most useful of NASA's information available on the Internet. Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle will be explored in the future. 

NASA says there will be Google Earth flyovers available for the surfaces of Mars and the moon in the near future. Do you role that into Google Earth or is it time to re-brand -- Google Universe maybe?

The NASA data comes from the Ames Research Center which is not far from Google's Mountain View campus.

The Google-Ames partnership began to [take shape][2] last year, but this is the first announcement of practical applications and future plans. 

So far there is nothing new on the Google site, but we'll be sure to keep you posted.

But the announcement is much more than cool nerdery like Mars flyovers, NASA and Google intend to collaborate in a variety of areas, including user studies and cognitive modeling for human computer interaction. 

The announcement also mentions the possibility of "science data search utilizing a variety of Google features and products."

"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," says Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. 

"Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand," he adds.

One line toward the end of the press release caught my eye, "NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations that include joint research, products, facilities, education and *missions*." (emphasis mine) 

Google *in* space? Now there's a thought. Perhaps Google will get around to that global free wifi I've been dreaming of and they've been denying.


[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html "NASA-Google Parter for Space Act Agreement"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,69014-0.html "Wired on Google/Ames"

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+The Nightly Build, compiling the headlines that got away.

*	In addition to [partnering with NASA][1], Google also [announced][2] it has acquired [Endoxon][3] a European mapping company. According to the Google Blog, the Endoxon acquisition will "enhance Google geo products worldwide."

*	Gizmodo wasn't lying, they were just misleading us in a crass attempt to generate page hits over the weekend (judging by comments on Digg, this may have been a bad idea on Gizmodo's part). Anyway Yes, the iPhone [arrived][4] today. The iPhone being a rather dull VoIP phone from Linksys, not the much rumored cellphone from Apple.

*	The [Digital Watermarking Alliance][7] has come out in favor selling music in the MP3 format using . See Wired's [Listening Post][6] for more details.

*	A company called KishKish has released a lie detector plugin for Skype. Ryan Singel over at Wired blog 27B Stroke 6 wants your help [testing it][5].


[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_space_go.html "Monkey Bites on Google NASA deal"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/mapping-europe.html "Google Blog On Endoxon acquisition"
[3]: http://www.endoxon.com/ "Endoxon"
[4]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6189145.stm "The iPhone"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/help_27b_test_s.html "Help 27B Stroke 6"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/labels_could_se.html "Listening Post on Digital Watermarking Alliance announcement"
[7]: http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/ "Digital Watermarking Alliance"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Happy monday from the doughnut stuffed reboot.

*	You, me, we are Time magazine's [Person of the Year][1]. It seems that our contribution to the web trend of "user-generated" content is more significant than Iranian nuclear weapons, delusional North Korean dictators and a host of other seemingly more important people. But then again, when the bombs start flying, it will be nice to have a decent collection of break dancing videos to watch while eating spaghettios and waiting out the U238 half life.

[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-17T134242Z_01_N15184106_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIME.xml&src=rss "You are Person of the Year"

*	The Wall Street Journal will [launch an online stock tracking feature][2] next month. The online content is part of the WSJ's recent downsizing move. From what I can tell the new stock tracker will be free, though WSJ subscribers will access get additional content.

[2]: http://online.wsj.com/submkt/tourc/STARThere.html "Wall Street Journal Markets Data Center"

*	[MySpace Mobile][3] will go live today. The service, which partners MySpace with Cingular, allows subscribers to post photos, blog entries and comments to their MySpace pages for $2.99 a month.

[3]: http://cingular.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=1801 "Cingular partners with MySpace"

*	It's about time Santa got some geo tracking tech in that sleigh. With that in mind Google Earth is offering a [Santa Tracker][4] overlay. From the Google Earth homepage: "Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa's North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day's toy will be revealed." 

[4]: http://earth.google.com/santa/ "Santa in Google Earth"
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+According to London's Financial Times, Sony will soon be [offering movie downloads][1] for the popular PlayStation Portable (PSP) game console. The move will pit Sony against Apple's iTunes Store which began offering video downloads early this year.

The article claims the users will be able to buy a movie from Amazon and other Sony partners and download it onto a Sony MemoryStick. The user can then legally transfer the film via the MemoryStick to one Sony PSP.

Sony is currently distributing a 4 gigabyte version of the MemoryStick which the company claims can hold up to ten movies. Presumably they mean heavily compressed movie files.

For now Amazon is the only official partner onboard although Sony is said to be in talks with both MovieLink and CinemaNow about possible distribution deals.

One player decidedly not invited to the party is Apple's iTunes Store. Currently, the iTunes Store's movie selection is limited to offerings from Disney Studios, whereas Sony will offer films from the Home Entertainment of Sony Pictures.

With more than 20 million PSPs sold worldwide Sony, the demand for PSP movies certainly exists, at least in theory.

Sony expects to launch the service in the first quarter of 2007 after securing more deals with online video providers.

[1]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f290b0ec-8df6-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340.html "FT on Sony Announcement"
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