Thanks to emerging label MYX Music and Audible Treats, we have an exclusive download of Keelay & Zaire’s Prelude to Drive EP. The Bay Area/Virginia production duo once again showcase their versatile arrangements while showcasing up-and-coming emcees Torae, Khizman, KHill, and Rhymesayers emcee Nightclubber Lang.
Originally posted at Crossfade
We’ve been hearing for months now that both Android and the T-Mobile G1 hardware have some magical, top secret low-level support for multi-touch, but unless we can… you know, do something with it, it really isn’t doing anyone any favors. That’s where the lovely people in the ever-industrious dev community come into play, throwing together demos on their way to a full release that you — yes, you — can finally install on a G1 of your very own. It’s still in the proof-of-concept phase, but the load does include a multi-touch version of Android’s excellent browser, probably the single app that could use two fingertips more than any other. Needless to say, you should be installing this jazz at your own risk — but considering the number of hoops you need to jump through to get it up and running (hint: you need to start by gaining root access), the whole process should be enough of a deterrent for the casual types who can’t take a hiccup here and there. Video of the included multi-touch map browser app (among others) in action after the break.
[Thanks, Ryan G.]
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Get your hack on: unofficial multi-touch support released for Android originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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PR Newswire: Compleo, a social media consultancy based in Richmond, Virginia, has launched a unique web application on Facebook for travel fans, known as iGO iWRITE – the first travel series to be compiled completely online and then published in hard copy via the popular social network.
The creators of this social media experiment, Sonali Shetty, a web 2.0 strategist, and Paul Spicer, a published travel author, hatched the concept with the goal of publishing travel books created as a group on Facebook by a community of online travel aficionados. Since its release, adventure seekers, travel and hospitality businesses, and tourist boards have all regularly posted stories about worldwide destinations, hidden beaches, quirky small towns, hostels, ecotourism, and voluntourism.
“iGO iWRITE is the first vehicle to bring a travel book to life using social networking in this fashion. Travel writers simply download the free application and submit their travel and tourism stories. They can help edit, vote, and shape the direction of the final user-generated book,” explained Shetty.
iGO iWRITE, one of many applications to be developed on Facebook over the past year, provides a different twist in the social networking arena. Whereas other web applications have attempted various forms of collaborative writing, none have packaged the travel writer experience in such a way that creates an online-offline ecosystem, complete with constructive criticism, travel prizes, and an end product – a user-generated series of travel books available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
“Our ultimate goal is to find a way to blend new media, like Facebook, with more traditional forms of media, such as hard copy, so that they don’t compete – but rather complement one another,” said Spicer.
iGO iWRITE – Travel Writers Become the New Face of Facebook [PR Newswire]
stuff.co.nz: It’s a trend pre-dating the global slowdown: big hotel chains are moving into the quirky boutique sector to tap into a niche of profitable growth. What’s not clear now is how many can succeed.
Hotel revenues have fallen sharply since last October and shares in hotel groups in Europe fell by more than 30 percent in 2008 as investors anticipated pressure on earnings this year.
Nonetheless global giants from InterContinental – the world’s largest hotel group – to Marriott and Starwood are launching boutique brands in Europe, with others set to follow as they face the biggest industry downturn in a generation.
Hoteliers entering the boutique niche are betting that travelers will seek better value as spending is squeezed, rather than settle for the usual boring “beige box” hotel room.
ASUS has been riding the Eee wave pretty high lately, and although things seem going pretty well for the powerhouse company, there might be some storm clouds in the distance — Tweaktown‘s got a long piece translated from the Taiwan-only Business Today which hints at some exec-level infighting going on at the top. It’s pretty in-depth stuff, but the main takeaway seems to be that ASUS’s spinoff of its OEM manufacturing business as Pegatron ruffled a few feathers, leading Pegatron chairman Tung Tsu Hsien to apparently start thinking about launching his own consumer brand called PEGA Design to take on ASUS — especially interesting since we just saw some Pegatron-branded netbooks and nettops. We’ll see if any of this comes to pass — we’d be pretty into another huge company cranking out wild ideas like the Eee keyboard.
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ASUS execs said to be infighting, potentially launching competing brand originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Robots and tiny boats could soon move on water like how beetle larvae do. This new propulsion system is meant for small crafts used for monitoring water quality in oceans and other large bodies of water. Mimicking the movements of beetle larvae was the idea of Sung Kwon Cho from Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering.
The resulting system has no moving parts and hence is low-powered, requires little maintenance and is efficient. Beetle larvae can rest without sinking at the surface of the water because of the tension; to move, it bends its body downwards and the forward pull propels its movement. The same mechanism was applied to the Pitt propulsion system, with the body bending replaced by an electric pulse.
For videos of the tiny boat using the larvae-inspired propeller, check out PhysOrg.
Check it, Pacific Northwest — Seattle, Washington was just named Forbes‘ most wired city for 2009, followed closely by Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Orlando and Boston. Of course, having Amazon and Microsoft within spitting distance probably didn’t hurt matters, and the eleventy billion Starbucks WiFi hotspots likely pushed it over the edge. There are 25 other locales in the top 30 that we’ve yet to mention here, so head on down to the read link to see if your hometown made the cut. Oh, and way to represent, Raleigh — numero fifteen ain’t too shabby.
[Via cnmoody]
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Seattle crowned most wired city in America: where’s your town? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Google Analytics Blog has announced that you no longer need an invitation to receive the Website statistics tracking for free. Just head on over to the Google Analytics site and login with you Google account. It will then take you through the steps that are needed to setup your Website.
If you get stuck at any part you can use the installation guide to help you out. You may even want to look at that guide anyways because it has a bunch of useful information like setting up filters. We have created a filter to block out all statistics that come from our own IP address. That way we have a more accurate representation of how many visitors we really receive.
| Update: | I just received an email from a visitor that gave me a link to this cool Google Personalized Homepage module for Google Analytics. I tried it out and it is pretty nice. |
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There have been a ton of leaks of Windows Mobile 6.5 on the Internet, and Microsoft is widely expected to announce the new version of Windows Mobile on Feb. 16 at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.
But today Windows Mobile 6.5 popped up on an official manufacturer’s Web site – admittedly, a small manufacturer who hasn’t yet successfully put out a product, but they’re a manufacturer nonetheless. On Compulab’s page for their new Exeda handheld they have a “Windows Mobile 6.5” tab, where they say, “To demonstrate just how friendly to developers exeda is, CompuLab software team brought-up Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha on exeda the same day it was released.”
The Windows Mobile Professional 6.5 home screen shown replaces the standard “today screen” list and Start menu with a big grid of hexagonal icons, presumably easier to click with your finger than the old home screen. Compulab also showed an alternate home screen with some rather mixed-up-looking media player functionality.
Whether Compulab’s Exeda will ever hit shelves is a mystery, but we’re sure to hear more from Microsoft about Windows Mobile 6.5 next month. For larger pictures, see Compulab’s Web site.
Can you say “oops?” That so-called Mini 10, which curiously emerged at Tesco before anywhere else, is actually not a Mini 10. As the story goes, folks across the pond who plunked down £349 for their very own 10-inch Dell netbook have started receiving shipments only to find a perfectly average Mini 9 within. Furthermore, Tesco’s Mini 10 order page is now completely nonexistent, further signaling that a serious mishap occurred somewhere along the line. Hate to burst your bubble, but if you ordered one of these pups from this vendor, you should probably expect to hit the return to sender option and eagerly await a refund.
[Via PortableMonkey, thanks Peter]
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Tesco’s £349 Mini 10 actually a £349 Mini 9 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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