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+Friends? We don't need your stinking friends. We bought our friends cheap at [FakeYourSpace][1]. FakeYourSpace is new service that will create friends you to list on your MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites profiles.

For $.99 cents a month you can buy "hotties" both male and female to add to your profile as friends and what's more they even post 2 comments a week. Oh and fear not, those comments will be germaine because you'll be the on writing them.

FakeYourSpace claims to make it "easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend." Which is really all we want right -- the illusion of friends?

When I worked in a coffeeshop in college we found that starting off the morning by "seeding" the tip jar with a few dollars universally led to bigger tips, so will seeding your MySpace profile with models lead to more models finding your page?

[Update: In the time it took to write this, FakeYourSpace seems to have disappeared, the site now leads to generic, "this domain is for sale" page. Damn, I knew it was too good to be true. What is the world coming to when you can't even buy some decent looking friends?]

[1]: http://www.fakeyourspace.com/ "FakeYourSpace"
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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;" />Holy copyright madness Batman! (wait, does Robin own exclusive rights to that sentence structure?) Anyway, here your reboot:

*	U.S. companies will have to [track all e-mail, IM and other electronic documents][1] created by their employees thanks to new federal laws that take effect today. The rules will require companies involved in federal litigation to show all "electronically stored information." Even better, making backups by re-burning a CD-RW could be considered "virtual shredding." 

[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_hi_te/storing_e_mails "Law requires Companies to track e-documents"

*	Here's a shocker: Movie Studios are demanding that [Apple add more restrictive DRM][2] before they will sell their movies through iTunes. Among other things the studios want Apple to "reduce the number of devices that can use a film downloaded from iTunes." 

[2]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c6aa286-7f08-11db-b193-0000779e2340.html "Movie studios want more DRM"


*	On the brighter side of the DRM fight, Russian site [AllofMP3 is fighting back][3] against the U.S.-Russia trade deal which essential calls for the demise of AllofMP3. A lawyer for AllofMP3 told Ars Technica, "Legality is not decided by a legislative branch or an executive branch. It's decided by a court." It's nice to see AllofMP3 fighting the good fight, but personally I'd just head to the Bahamas, no legal hassles, better weather...

[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8330.html "Ars Technica on AllofMP3"

*	And finally, more good copyright news: [The Internet Archive][5] has [won an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act][4] which will allow them to continue archiving the internets.

[5]: http://www.archive.org/index.php "The Internet Archive"
[4]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/internet_archive_copyright_reprieve/
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+[Stylefeeder is a shopping community site][1] with a focus on the familiar trappings of social bookmarking sites. To say Stylefeeder is *just* a social bookmarking site focused on shopping is not entirely accurate, it is that, but because the bookmarks are products and because the community is public it is in effect shopping site in its own right. 

Stylefeeder is the shopaholics friend, rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, you can keep everything in one place. Stylefeeder offer and nice bookmarklet that sits in your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed. 

The bookmarklet features a nice piece of javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It's so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.

Stylefeeder helps you create a wishlist or just track products your interested in. Stylefeeder has all the features you'd expect from a social bookmarking site such as tags, ratings, RSS feeds and groups.

Unlike a lot of more traditional social bookmark sites, Stylefeeder is decidedly not geek-oriented, in fact the Leica camera I bookmarked looked decidedly out of place on the front page, sandwiched between a kimono dress and a yoga outfit.

Once you add a page to your stylefeed you can keep track of it via RSS, share it with a group if you're a member or email it to a friend. There's also an OPML feed, which means if you're tech savvy you could pull your Stylefeed content into just about anywhere.

For those that want to display their wishlist on a blog or MySpace page, Stylefeeder offers some cut-and-paste code that will embed a nice flash widget on whatever page you would like. You should be aware that some blog sites block Flash plugins, LiveJournal comes to mind, so the widget may or may not work depending on the service you use.

In my cursory browsing I noticed that so far Stylefeeder's users aren't making heavy use of the comments feature which is a bit disappointing since half of what I look for when I'm shopping online is user commentary on a product. Perhaps as the site grows users will start taking advantage of the comments feature.

Stylefeeder does has a nice feature called Watchlist that lets you track what other users bookmark. This allows you in effect to use other Stylewatchers as personal shoppers, just find someone whose taste you like and every time they add a new product you'll get notified.

The one thing Stylefeeder doesn't feature that I would like to have seen is some kind of price tracking. Since [reviewing Offertrax for Monkey Bites][2], I've grown semi-addicted to the idea of tracking prices via RSS. Stylefeeder is decidedly more fun and better looking than Offertrax, but Offertrax has a feature set that's tough to beat.

[1]: http://www.stylefeeder.com/ "Stylefeeder.com"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in "Monkey Bites on Offertrax"
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+The U.S. government has [signed off on a revised contract for the ownership of the dot-com registry][1]. [VeriSign Inc.][3] will control the key directories that keep track of .com domain names until 2012.

The fundamental change in the contract is that it now allows the U.S. government sole control over .com price increases and sole control over whether or not VeriSign gets to renew the contract in 2012.

The international community has been pushing to turn this authority over to ICANN who oversees the internet, but the U.S. rejected that idea. As part of the contract VeriSign must recognize the authority of ICANN, but answers only to the U.S government, effectively neutering ICANN. 

Currently the U.S. also oversees ICANN but that is schedule to end in 2009. What has irked many countries about the new contract is that it extends U.S authority three years past the point that internet is scheduled to be turned over to an international body. The new contract furthermore adds the option for the U.S. to extend that authority even longer should it choose to renew VeriSign's contract in 2012.

Although somewhat better than the original VeriSign contract revealed earlier this year, today's official announcement is unlikely to make many outside the U.S. very happy. As the UK newspaper [The Register rather sardonically puts it][2], "a decision with global implications was again decided by a few Congressmen in Washington."

[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-11-30T194653Z_01_N30191458_RTRIDST_0_VERISIGN-AGREEMENT-UPDATE-1.XML "VeriSign Contract Officially Accepted"
[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/usg_approves_dotcom_contract/ "The Register on VeriSign Contract"
[3]: http://www.verisign.com/ "verisign"
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+Yahoo has [launched a new "portal" site for Nintendo's Wii][1] console that brings together Flickr photos, del.icio.us links, Yahoo MyWeb, Yahoo Games, and more. According to Variety, this is only [the first of many Yahoo sites][2] which will revolve around various popular brands. 

If the Wii offering is any indicator, these sites should prove popular with fans of the represented brands.

Yahoo's Wii site is chock full of geeky fan goodness with everything from flickr photos showing people hooking up their new Wii, to del.icio.us links with various tips, sites and sale prices, to panel with questions and answers from the ever-growing Yahoo! Answers.

The design of the site is clean and simple, something Yahoo seems to be getting better at and it unifies the many diverse offerings that Yahoo often has a hard time bringing together in a cohesive way.

The buyers guide for instance, integrates Yahoo Shopping, EBay Auctions and Yahoo maps to create a nice one-stop destination for anyone looking to purchase a Wii (never mind that every retailer lists the Wii as out of stock).

Of course the primary focus is on content from Yahoo's offerings, which leaves the Video section for instance, a bit lacking, I imagine users would be better served by aggregating YouTube Video rather than relying on Yahoo's paltry offerings, but I don't image that will be happening any time soon.

What's interesting about the Wii portal and future plans is that Yahoo isn't asking permission or partnering with the brand companies in anyway. Yahoo says they hope brand companies will want to work with and support the Yahoo sites, but as Vince Broady, head of entertainment, games and youth properties at Yahoo, tells Variety, "we don't believe we have to have the participation of the brand owners."

If you're a fan of Nintendo's new Wii console you'll enjoy Yahoo's new site, and it will be interesting to see where this brand-universe strategy takes Yahoo.


[1]: http://wii.yahoo.com/
[2]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954662.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2570
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+[Break.com, a video sharing site][1] similar to YouTube [announced yesterday that it will pay $400 for user-generated videos][2] and as much as $2000 for animated shorts. When Break launched last year they offered $50 per video and later raised that to $250 before yesterday's increase to $400.

With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. [Metacafe launched a similar program called "producer rewards"][3] earlier this year.

In the case of Break, the only stipulation on getting paid is that your video must make it to the homepage. Unfortunately Break doesn't offer much info on how exactly your video can make it to the homepage

The one off payment model differs from sites like [Revver][4] which offer a revenue sharing model where the money earned is based on how many views your video receives. Revver and others like it seem to aim more for serial content (like that of lonelygirl15 or Ze Frank's *The Show* for instance) whereas clips likely to generate only one time views are probably better served by Break, Metacafe and other flat rate services.

A quick browse through the videos on Break failed to find much of what I would call quality content. But to be fair, Break's tag line is "the largest online site for guys," and the content clearly reflects that audience with innumerable videos of backyard stunts, and various sports misshaps as well as a whole NSFW section.

With the online video market still in its infancy, it's tough to gauge where these sites will be in a few years, but one thing is for sure, if you offer money, they will come. Break's homepage claims they have paid out over $300,000 to amateur producers so far.


[1]: http://www.break.com/ "Break.com"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-26T080107Z_01_N24177992_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBVIDEO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Break.com increases Video payments"
[4]: http://one.revver.com/browse/Editor%27s+Picks "Revver.com"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired on metacafe"
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+The U.N. will meet later this week in Kenya to [discuss the growing problem of "e-waste,"][1] a term that includes, among other things, obsolete electronics. Well intended western donations of old computers, mobile phones and televisions often end up in third world landfills and create environmental problems in those countries.

It may sound like a nice idea to donate your obsolete computer to someone overseas, but in reality you may be doing little more than shuffling junk off to foreign landfills. No one wants to discourage you from donating an old computers to developing nations, but what constitutes a recyclable machine and what is simply a piece of junk is so far open to debate.

According to the Reuters article, one study last year in Nigeria claims that about 500 containers of secondhand electronics arrive at Lagos seaport every month. 

>But dealers said as much as three-quarters of the PCs, televisions and phones inside were "junk" -- so obsolete they could not be repaired. Many were burned at open-air dumps, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals like barium, mercury and brominated flame retardants into surrounding soils.

Some of the proposals the U.N. will be hearing next week include a plan to make computer manufacturers take responsibility for the final disposal of their products. 

The U.N. estimates 14-20 million PCs are thrown out every year in the United States alone.
Most major computer manufacturers in the U.S. currently offer some kind of recycling program, but few of these programs are set up to handle overseas waste.

[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-27T103113Z_01_L27347882_RTRUKOC_0_US-WASTE-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-scienceNews-3 "Old Computers create environmental hazards"
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+[The Gaia project][1], an attempt to reverse engineer Google Earth to create an open source version, was shut down by its owner over the weekend.

It seems Google was worried that Gaia's success would threaten Google Earth because of the licensing agreements Google Earth has with map and data providers which stipulates that the maps not be used outside Google's specific software clients.

It doesn't appear that Google resorted to lawyers or cease-and-desist letters, rather the developer of Gaia was contacted directly by Michael Jones, Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Local search.

According to Jones in a letter posted on the Gaia site:

>The data that we license for Google Earth and Google Maps is made available for use under the restriction that it not be accessed or used outside of Google's client software. These products -- Earth, Maps, and Mobile Maps -- each have a data protection mechanism tailored to their environment. ... In all three cases, the ToS are very clear that the data services used by the client software must never be accessed directly and that the
encryption, passkey, and other data protection mechanisms must not be circumvented.

Kudos to Google for not resorting to threatening lawsuits and an equal measure of praise to Gaia's developer for taking the project down, but that said, it's still a shame to see the Gaia project disappear. Perhaps someone could convince the data companies to loosen their license restrictions a bit.

Otherwise, any attempt to create an open source program similar to Google Earth will need to start from scratch and use open earth images from NASA or similar and such a project is certainly not for the faint of heart.

[1]: http://gaia.serezhkin.com/ "Gaia is no more"
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+Open Office version 2.1 has reached the final release candidate stage and [RC1 is now available for download][1].

As with any software still in the development stage, this release is not intended for serious production environments or mission critical data. That said, I have the new version installed under Mac OS X's X11 environment and it seems to very stable. 

The final release of version 2.1 is slated to feature some pretty cool new stuff, including a new extensions framework for third party developers. So far there are no actual extensions available, but given the functionality extensions have allowed in Firefox, I think the inclusion of an extensions framework could be the biggest thing to hit OO since it's debut.

I'll be doing a full review of Open Office when the official version is released (currently slated for later this month), by which time hopefully some extensions will be available. 


[1]: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html "Download OpenOffice 2.1 RC1"
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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;" />And we're back... Here's your morning reboot:

*	Cray and IBM will [split a massive $494M grant][1] from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The money, which will be paid out over four years, is for developing the next generation of supercomputers. Cray says it will use AMD chips and the Linux operating system

[1]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/304963.htm  "DARPA gives grant to Cray and IBM"

*	According to a new British poll, [Britons who watch video on the internet spend less times watching TV][2]. The statistic is yet more bad news for the already beleaguered world of broadcast TV.

[2]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-11-27T113007Z_01_L27856075_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-DOWNLOADS.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9

*	You can now [download 2,500 hand-picked wikipedia educational articles][6] on a handy CD. The cd was compiled by volunteers from the children's charity SOS. The CD is free and should work on any platform. [via [Lifehacker][3]]
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/download/download-of-the-day-wikipedia-cd-all-platforms-217250.php
[6]: http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-cd-distributed-over-bittorrent/ "Download wikipedia CD torrent"

*	ITWire reports that the banking industry is increasingly [worried that Google may come crashing into their industry][4]. As the article points out, Google Checkout may be the first small step in a larger plan.

[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7490/53/

*	[Microsoft may be guilt of patent infringement in South Korea][5]. Back in 1997 a Korean professor filed patents for technology used to automatically translate English into Korean within Microsoft Office applications. The CNet article reports that the case "may force Microsoft to temporarily halt sales of Microsoft Office in South Korea."

[5]: http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6138379.html "Microsoft patent violations"
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+Microsoft's Zune works only with Windows XP, so what to do if you're a Mac or Linux user? Well of course you could always just choose a different MP3 player, but if you really want a Zune to work with your Mac, there may be hope on the horizon.

Zune Microsoft's [Media Transfer Protocol][3], but thanks to libmtp, a free open source library available for Mac and Linux which implements the MS protocol, you should be able to see your Zune in other OSes.

If you'd like to be able to see your Zune on your Mac, grab a copy of WentNet’s open-source program [XNJB][1] (it's free), which leverages libmtp, and you should be able to view your Zune songs.

XNJB was written to support Creative Nomad MP3 players, but some users have reported that they can read the Zune drive and see their music libraries from from a Mac using XNJB. So far no one has been able to transfer songs though. The problem with transferring is that Zune apparently refuses to transfer files with unknown hosts.

Zune may not actually work with other OSes yet, but I have no doubt that someday soon someone will figure out how to make it work.

If you're interested have a look at [this thread in the Zunescene.com forums][2].

[1]: http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/ "wentnet's xnjb"
[2]: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=3550.0 "Zunescene forum thread on Mac connectivity."
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol "Wikipedia definition of MTP"
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+[Betocracy][1] is a new website that allows you to create your own decision markets and opinion polls. If, like me, you have no idea what that means, allow me to give a quick overview.

Some time ago the Pentagon floated up an idea called the Policy Analysis Market, which would have allowed online traders to wager on the likelihood of future terrorist attacks. At first glance such a market may sound like a cynical and politically stupid move, which it was and that's why it was abandoned, but the idea behind the market is more than just a so-called death pool. 

Decision markets, or predictive markets as they're sometimes called, operate on the same premise as the stock market; that is, a group of people buy and sell shares, but in this case the value of the shares are determined by the value of the judgments attached to them. [According to Wikipedia][4]:

>People who buy low and sell high are rewarded for improving the market prediction, while those who buy high and sell low are punished for degrading the market prediction. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions predicting the same events with a similar pool of participants.


It may sound like little more than modified sports betting, but many economists believe that such markets can find hidden information about future events just like the soaring price of a stock can indicate a healthy company. [For the moment we'll ignore cases like Enron.]

Now thanks to Betocracy you can participate in this growing trend and easily create your own decision markets. The markets on Betocracy do not trade in actual money, but use a points system instead. Theoretically if the site takes off, shareholders with the highest points (i.e. those that buy low and sell high) will have a greater influence on the site.

I spoke briefly with Yaron Koren the man behind Betocracy about the site. Koren says he was "inspired to create the site by reading James Surowiecki's *The
Wisdom of Crowds*." He went on to add, "I was really struck by that idea of collective intelligence."

The idea behind Betocracy is to combine easy-to-use social internet tools with the predictive power of decision markets. Koren likens Betocracy to, "a cross between TradeSports and Blogger: bringing the concept of intuitive self-publishing to prediction markets.

The concept is fairly simple. Create an account, customize your page and create a market to display. You can choose to make your page public, publicly viewable but members only for usage or invite only.

I created a decision market based on [how the popular television show Lost will end][3]. My sample isn't probably the best since as I note on the page the results will be arbitrarily (and randomly I might add) decided by me. Hint: you can do better.

I'll admit that the whole things sounded a bit crazy to me when I first ran across it, but then again there were probably some folks that said the same thing four hundred years ago in Amsterdam. 

Many thanks to the ever-prescient folks on the NoEnd mailing list for bring Betocray to my attention.

[1]: http://betocracy.com/ "Betocracy"
[3]: http://luxagraf.betocracy.com/market/8
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_market "Decision markets"
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+Every now and then someone comes up with a way to make a complex thing incredibly simple and leaves you wondering -- why didn't I think of that? That's exactly the case with Lev Walkin's [JS-Kit comment script][1].

One of the outstanding features of social internet sites is the ability to leave comments on just about anything, blog posts, saved links, uploaded videos, you name it and there's probably a way for you to express you opinions via comments. 

But for amateur web developers creating a comments system can often be a complex and intimidating undertaking. JS-Kit reduces that undertaking to pasting a single line of code into your webpage. Just add this line to your site:

	<script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>
	
That line activates Walkin's comment code which then uses your IP address to fetch the comments from his server. 

The script creates threaded comments so you can comment on both the main content and what other people have said. Other niceties including an option to be notified by email whenever some replies to your comment.

You can also embed multiple instances of the script on the same page if you'd like for instance, to have a photo gallery page with individual comments per photo. 

For those with the CSS knowhow, it's fairly easy to customize comments to fit the design of your site.

JS-Kit is brand new and lacks a few important comment features like spam protection, but that and other new features are already in the works.

Some people will no doubt be a little nervous about storing their comment data on another person's server, after all what happens if that server crashes or just plain disappears? Perhaps in the future they're will be a way to store comments locally, but for now I don't know of a simpler way to add comments to your web pages.

Found via [TechCrunch][2].

[1]: http://js-kit.com/ "Embed Comments in any page"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/quick-embed-code-to-add-comments-to-any-site/ "Techcrunch on JS-Kit"
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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Thu/rebbot.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Thu/rebbot.txt
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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;" />Just what exactly is irony? Does it change socks every day like the rest of us? Anyway, here's your morning reboot:

*	It's official, [Windows Vista for Business launches today][1]. Microsoft has a new website to celebrate to occasion, complete with a video the ever creepy Steve Ballmer welcoming you to "a new day." Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 will also be today.

*	AMD is expected to [launch the Quad FX Platform today][2]. The new chip consists of two of the dual-core Athlon processors connected to two Nvidia chipsets. The Quad FX Platform is AMD's response to Intel's Core 2 Extreme, but the Quad FX is slightly different in that it isn't two chips in one socket, rather two chips in two sockets. If you know what that means, then this could be the chip for you. AMD plans to release a true quad core chip early next year.

*	Fast on the heels of yesterday's Verizon/YouTube deal, comes another announcement that [Verizon has a similar deal with Revver][3]. Revver typically adds adverts to the end of it's video streams, but that won't be the case with the mobile offering, instead uploaders will share in the licensing deal with Verizon.

*	The NFL is [bringing live broadcasts to the web][4] -- sort of. The NFL Network's Thursday and Saturday telecasts will be available to Verizon's FiOS and DirecTV internet subscribers. The Reuters article has a great quote from NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, "it's not disrupting anything that's already available... It's taking advantage of the current technology." In other words, the NFL still doesn't understand the internet.





[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Windows Vista - it's a new day"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-6139465.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "AMD Quad Core"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_hi_te/verizon_wireless_revver "Verizon Revver deal"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-11-30T114916Z_01_N30420400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-NFL.xml&src=rss "The NFL goes online"
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+[Searchmash][1] is new search engine that appears to have some connection to Google Search. I know what you're thinking, there must be ten thousand search engines out there, and that's not counting all the new implementations of Google's Custom Search tools, do we really need another?

Well, maybe. Searchmash is a bit different, and perhaps better, than most. According the the Lifehacker post by which I discovered it, [Searchmash is run by Google][2], which might explain why it generates almost the exact same results.

At first glance Searchmash isn't much, just a white page with a familiar results listing. But then when you look closer there's a number of features that improve on the basic Google Search concept. For instance you can dynamically collapse and expand the page descriptions and clicking the "more search results" link reveals another nice piece of Javascript which appends the results below the current ones rather than loading a new page. I'm one of those people that rarely delves into the second page of search results, but the ability to append them to current page makes more results somewhat more appealing.

Off the right hand side of the page are a series of collapsed links for images, video, Wikipedia and blog search results. Clicking the plus link opens a panel with the top results in that category. At the bottom of each panel is a link to "see more results," click that link that category becomes the main links for the page and the web pages result is shuffled off and collapsed in the right column.

Essentially Searchmash takes the results of Google's Web Search, Image Search and Blog Search, combines them with a Wikipedia search and video search, gives it an elegantly simple interface and integrates it into a single page. Very nice indeed.

Someone wrote in to the Lifehacker saying:

>(Searchmash) gives you a multi-page search view on one page and the ability to drag (yes drag) the 35th search result to the 3rd slot because you think it's more appropriate to your query.

Personally I can't seem to drag anything to reorder the results. I'm not even sure I'd want to unless there were some way to save the order, but if anyone can enlighten me as to how the drag and drop feature works, I'd at least like to try it.

The main downside to Searchmash is that it doesn't support very many of the advanced Google Search operators that I've come to rely on. Obviously <code>images:</code> works, as do common operators like <code>site:</code>, but more advanced ones like <code>filetype:</code> do not.

Did I mention the searches are lightning fast?

[1]: http://www.searchmash.com/ "Searchmash.com"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/searchmash-google-interface-experiment-218217.php "Lifehacker on Searchmash.com"
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+As I mentioned in the morning reboot, today is the [official launch day of Windows Vista][1], There was a launch party in New York and other events worldwide. At last count a Google News search revealed 524 articles on the subject. So that means I can head down to Best Buy and pick up a copy right? Actually, uh, no.

To sort out what might be the most confusing release of software ever, here's the rundown.

Today *business* users may purchase Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007 and Office 2007 through Microsoft's volume licensing program. But purchase does not equate with use in all cases. Exchange Server 2007 will not be available for even business customers until the end of next month. Vista and Office are available for business customers today. 

*Retail* customers, that would be you and I, will have to wait until January for the *retail* versions to hit the shelves. There will be no less than four *retail* versions of Vista -- Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate -- ranging in price from $199 - $299. For more details have a [look at the breakdown of version differences][2] on Microsoft's website (note that there's also an Enterprise version for large businesses and Starter version for sale in developing nations).

I haven't been able to find details on what versions are available today through the business volume licensing program, but it seems reasonable to assume that Business, Ultimate and Enterprise would be the primary targets for the business market. If you know more details leave them in the comments below.

To add to the confusion of today's Vista release/not release, many retail outlets actually resell the business software, so if you're planning to make your purchase via the volume licensing program, you *can* theoretically head down to a participating retailer and walk out with the software.

And just in case you're still reading, to further complicate matters many retailers are offering free or discount coupons for consumer versions of Windows Vista (to be released in January remember) with the purchase of a new computer today. So in a sense you can buy Vista today, you just won't actually get it until January.

*	November 30: Business users get Vista, Office 2007
*	End of December: Business users get Exchange Server 2007
*	January 30: Retail versions of Vista and Office 2007

Everything clear now? 

Oh and If you're wondering what new features Window's Vista offers, I stumbled across a thorough and [detailed Q and A][3] on the Dutch site Techworld, which should answer most people's questions. 

[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Window's Vista Launch Site"
[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx "Vista Versions"
[3]: http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/1651/windows-vista-faq.html "Vista FAQ"
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+[Boddit is a new bargain shopping site][1] designed to help you find the best deals on the internet. One part search engine, one part price tracker, Boddit offers some nice features that could help you save some money during the holiday shopping period.

In my experience Boddit works best for casual browsing rather than targeted searching of specific products, but your milage may vary.

Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big discount internet retailers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually Boddit lets you search them all at once.

Boddit also offers what they call "web search, Boddit-style" which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit's was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.

For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.

Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions. You can also search Craig's List, but unfortunately this only seems to work when you start from the Boddit homepage.

Boddit also has a section called "Extras" that tracks various coupons and freebies available around the web, with deals range from printable coupons to mail-in rebate offers.

One thing Boddit lacks is RSS feeds for tracking prices, but even without them, Boddit offers an impressive array of search options and might well save you both time and money  this holiday season.

[1]: http://www.boddit.com/ "Boddit - Bargain Shopping"
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+A new tool, [Psiphon][1], from a University of Toronto a team of software engineers and computer-hacking activists allows users to bypass internet censorship imposed by countries like China.

Psiphon works by connected the user in an internet restricted country to a user in a none restricted country. The software needs to be installed on the host computer in a non-restricted country and then the user in the restricted-access country can then log into that computer through an encrypted connection and use it as a proxy to bypass any government filters.

According to the designers there is no way to trace the restricted user's tracks from their computer, though the host computer will know what sites the user has accessed. 

The network works on a premise of connecting to trusted users found through a social network, but this seems to me somewhat vulnerable to exploitation. I'm sure China would have no problems setting up fake hosts outside of China to trick users into logging in.

That said, the Psiphon model does sidestep a number of pitfalls that have plague other attempts to bypass internet filters, the biggest draw being that it leaves no tracks on the censored user's machine. 

Psiphon also has a distinct advantage of being easy to use and requires no software on the censored users end, just login to the host and you're done.

As the Psiphon site notes, bypassing censorship could violate national laws and have legal (and I'm sure much worse than legal) repercussions for users in restricted countries.

Reporters Without Borders recently released a list of thirteen countries they believe are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet including China, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam and more.

Psiphon will be publicly available for [download beginning December 1st][2].

[1]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/ "psiphon, censorship bypassing software"
[2]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/source.html "download psiphon starting december 1st"
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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Tues/reboot.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Tues/reboot.txt
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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;" />Your Morning Reboot, high in fiber:

*	Reuters reports that [nine out of ten emails worldwide are spam][1]. The United States, China and Poland are the main originators of the more than 7 billion spam messages sent this month. Remember when spam was just a funny sketch from Monty Python?

*	Opera Software has [announced version 3.0 of its Mini browser][2] intended for mobile devices. The new version features enhanced photo sharing, an RSS feed reader and secure connections for mobile banking.

*	The New York Times reports that [YouTube will finally be going mobile next month][3], partnering with Verizon. Unfortunately the service will involve a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon's VCast service and will only feature films "approved by both companies." So more or less expect that to suck.

*	Hot on the heals of the [UK SlingMedia/3 partnership][5] to stream video to cellphones comes a new company, [Phling, which claims it can do the same for music][4] and works here in the U.S. Found via [Lifehacker][6].

*	[Ethernet will be speeding up to 100 gbps][7], which should make it up to ten times faster than the current 10-gigabit version. A study group from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently agreed on a target speed bump for the networking technology, but it may be several years before new products hit the market.

[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/ "9 of 10 emails are spam"
[2]: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/11/28/
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/technology/28tube.html?ex=1322370000&en=0a1ba8ec248c869d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "The Times on Verizen/YouTube Deal"
[4]: http://www.phling.com/ "Phling.com"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/3_partners_with.html "Monkey Bites on SlingMedia/3 deal"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mobile-phone/stream-your-music-collection-to-your-phone-217517.php "Lifehacker on Phling"

[7]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061127/tc_pcworld/128015 "Yahoo News on Ethernet speed increase"
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+[Rootly, a news search engine][1], recently relaunched with some new customization and sharing features.

Anyone can create a custom Rootly homepage which will pull in news stories matching the topics you select. If you register with the site you'll also be able to bookmark stories for later reading, share them with friends and browse other users' bookmarks. 

The personalized features more or less mirror those of a typical social bookmarking site, but the focus in Rootly is on breaking news rather than general web pages.

Rootly also offers a news search engine, but unfortunately, in my experience, the news search was dog-slow and didn't yield nearly as many results as a similar search on Google News typically returns. 

The ability to customize the news feeds can make for some nicely targeted RSS feeds, though again, Google News and others offer nearly the same functionality. Rootly has a slightly less confusing interface than Google News, but the functionality isn't significantly different.

The Rootly homepage does have a nice AJAXy scrolling headline ticker that updates with new headlines about every ten seconds.

In the end Rootly seems like a nice start, but it's entering an already crowded market and doesn't have much in the way of standout features.

[1]: http://www.rootly.com/ "Rootly.com"
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+[Cooliris][1], the preview-enabling browser extension for Windows IE, Firefox and Safari, recently expanded its compatibility to include quite a few more websites.

For those that have never used it, Cooliris creates a Javascript pop-up preview whenever you mouse over a link. The pop-up lets you see whatever the link leads to without leaving the page you're on. Cooliris started out limiting its previews to Google, Ebay and other large sites, but now it works just about anywhere.

Simple drag your mouse over a link or thumbnail and Cooliris will automatically show a preview. I should note that this is not a thumbnail or simple image <p>it's</p>
 the actual webpage and you can browse it like you would any other. In the case of video links you can watch the video within the preview window, which makes browsing through YouTube considerably less time consuming.

I've been using Cooliris for a few months now and I can honestly say there's a good chance it will change the way you browse the web. For instance, typically, when I searched for something on Google, I would open a few results in tabs and then work my way through them. After a few hours of this I used to have twenty or thirty tabs open and no real idea which were useful and which weren't. 

Using Cooliris has streamlined my searching considerably since now I can quickly see and browse a page without leaving the page I'm on. If I decide the page is useful I go ahead and open it in a tab, if not I just move the mouse off the link and the Cooliris window disappears.

Cooliris is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock and Safari, but the exact features vary somewhat between platforms.

[1]: http://www.cooliris.com/ "cooliris"
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+Seems like everyday there's a new Google service of some kind, but today there's finally one less. Yes, [Google Answers has gone the way of dodo][2].

I can't say as though I ever used Google Answers so I won't be missing it and, according to Wikipedia that leaves Google with [eighty-five services/search engines/applications][1] so I doubt they'll miss it either.

Since removing the existing Q and A's would be, well, stupid, the site will remain but there will be no more Answers after the end of the year.

Google Answers, which generated only 800 Q and As over the past four years had long taken a back seat to Yahoo's similar offer, [Yahoo Answers][3]. 

What does this mean? I for one take this to mean that Google is not invincible and that you can in fact compete successfully against Google. It would seem that at least on some leave the long-tail, social model (Yahoo Answers) has a greater appeal than the authority of experts (Google Answers). Though perhaps it has more to do with free versus $2.50 an answer.


[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
[3]: http://answers.yahoo.com/
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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;" />Good morning sunshine, here's your reboot:

*	Nokia and Yahoo announced today that they will [expand their partnership][1] to include Yahoo's email and messaging services on new Nokia phones.

*	Apple has [released a Mac OS X Security Update][2] that patches twenty-two security holes. The update does not, however, appear to address the most serious vulnerability which lies in Mac OS X's Disk Image handling code.

*	According to CNet, the [BitTorrent company will launching a video download store][3] early next year. Customers will be able to download movies from some Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox. In other BitTorrent news, it appears that [Bram Cohen is on his way out][4].

*	Filed under the sky is still falling: A new study says [violent video games desensitize kids][5] and makes them <strike>more like adults</strike> have less self control.

*	And finally, from our own Wired Magazine comes the best news I've heard in a while: [improvements are being made the venerable Jet Pack][6]. 

[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-29T145244Z_01_WEN0453_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOKIA-YAHOO.xml&src=rss "Nokia and Yahoo expand partnership"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ "OS X Security Update"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6139174.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on BitTottent/Hollywood Deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/bittorent-raises-25-million-bram-cohen-is-history/ "Techcrunch on Bram Cohen"
[5]: http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/11/28/hscout536261.html "YASD: Yet Another Story of Doom"
[6]: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/start.html?pg=9 "Jet Pack improvements"
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