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Like Netflix? Then get ready to prove it by sharing your film interests with your social network. Netflix is looking to hire a “Facebook Integration — Engineer / Architect” into its new Social Systems engineering team. According to the open position posted to the Netflix jobs board, the senior web engineer will, “conceive and build the systems that enable Netflix applications and systems to use the social graph to create a more social Netflix experience” Specifically, the ideal new hire should be familiar with Facebook’s Open Graph API to build a customer-facing service. It’s just a guess, but we’d expect this to ultimately allow Netflix subscribers and wannabes to like, view and filter Netflix offerings based upon their social input and preferences. Interesting, because Netflix abandoned its homegrown Friends feature earlier this year. Guess now we know why.

[Thanks, Eric]

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Supreme Court judges are supposed to be some of the sagest dudes and ladies around, but even they can’t agree on which e-reading device is best. Amazon’s multimillion-selling Kindle is the weapon of choice for newly appointed Justice Elena Kagan, however old pro Justice Antonin Scalia prefers to battle the bulge of briefs using his iPad. Who will prevail in this titanic struggle? Probably good old paper, actually, as both are said to use their electronic devices as supplements to, rather than replacements for, the old fashioned reading method. See the video revealing these shocking facts after the break.

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This article was written on December 23, 2006 by CyberNet.

Setting up your own Web server can be a pain when trying to install PHP, MySQL, Apache, and phpMyAdmin. There are several different applications available that try to make doing this easy by installing all of the above for you, and my favorite has always been EasyPHP. I’ve tried others but EasyPHP is just so, well, easy.

The only thing that I never liked about it is that they don’t update it very frequently. It has been nearly 2 years since the last version was released and within that time there have been significant updates to all of the included programs. Luckily they have been working on a new version and we should see it available soon, but if you can’t wait any longer to get your Windows server setup in a matter of minutes (with the latest software) then they have posted a Beta version.

Here are the version numbers of each application that is included:

• Apache 2.2.3
• PHP 5.2.0
• MySQL 5.0.27
• phpMyAdmin 2.9.1.1
• SQLiteManager 1.2.0

If you’re still a little skeptical about how easy it is to install this just checkout their installation guide. Note: Most of the website is in French so you may have to use their translation buttons at the top in order to have the page translated into your language.

So now you don’t have any excuse why you can’t post your holiday pictures on a nice website for your family to see.

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Nengajou are the New Year Cards that Japanese people send to each other, customarily arriving on January 1st in a nice pile that you can use to measure your popularity.

Some of this year’s nengajou innovations also reveal two of the big trends of 2010: the growth of smartphones in Japan and the spread of idol groups into the mainstream (most notably AKB48).

Lawson’s has teamed up with idol group SKE48 to offer 26 lucky people the chance to receive hand-written cards from the cute ladies, decorated, needless to say, on one side with an image of the sender and on the other with a personal message.

Since this year has seen the smart phone market multiply and different models emerge to challenge the dominance of the iPhone, it is no surprise to see that augmented reality novelty cards are also available for the Android, “sent” to you by a range of celebrities (including idols, naturally). The nengajou will apparently move and interact with your smartphone, allowing you to get closer to your hero.

If writing out by hand a large stack of cards is not your forte then there are alternatives of course. Leading local SNS mixi has had a digital nengajou for some years now and other services also allow you to send online cards.

However, digital nengajou services seem more like additional versions, rather than replacements. They are especially good for people who only know each other digitally, and in fact delivery services have sprung up for those consumers who perhaps rarely meet and communicate solely as avatars, user names and email addresses.

The usual analog cards seem in no danger of dying out, though, as witnessed by the Japan Post’s street vendors ubiquitous at this time of year, and their haul of some 2 billion cards last year.

Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal — you’re not alone, so you’re going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack. Best Buy has announced the details of how it’ll go about selling Samsung’s Google-branded monster, and unlike many recent launches, this one is strictly first-come, first-serve — none of that craziness where you put down $50 in advance to secure your place and get it off the price of the phone on launch day. All stores will be opening at 8AM local time (which is just the normal open time during the holiday season, actually), and online sales will commence at 8AM Eastern Time to coincide with the phone’s retail launch on the east coast. You’ll be limited to two phones per person — sorry, eBay scalpers — and you might want to call ahead or make friends with an employee in the next day or two, because inventory will vary from store to store. What won’t vary, though, is demo unit availability: every store that’s selling the phone will have a live demo unit to play with while you make your decision. As a refresher, you’re looking at $199 on contract, $249.99 with an add-a-line activation, or $529 contract-free; follow the break for the full press release.

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