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Google?s Matt Cutts Talks Duplicate Content And Different Languages
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Google Chrome Speeds up Your Site from Search Results
Not satisfied to simply speed up their own site " Google is now speeding up yours (if it's the first result) from search results pages when you use the Chrome browser. They'll be making the technology open source when it is released - so that it will be available from all browsers. Here's a demo video:
Google had this to say about Google Instant Pages on their blog:
"When we trigger Instant Pages for your site, users can start interacting with your site almost immediately, without having to wait for text and images to load. We'll only trigger Instant Pages when we have very high confidence that your site is the exact result users are looking for."
They've put up a test page to show whether your page would properly pre-render in Chrome here, and discuss more details on the Google Code developers blog here.
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Jacob Goldman, Xerox Lab Founder, Is Dead
100% of you would probably not be reading this if it hadn’t been for Dr. Jacob E. Goldman. While he wasn’t inventor of Xerox copiers, Jacob Goldman, a physicist and visionary, made an even more important contribution to your life: … 
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Patents suggest ‘indoor location’ the next mobile maps battleground
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Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 3:30PM EST
Last updated Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 3:32PM EST
Indoor location positioning looks poised to be the next hot mobile service with its ability to enable smarter mobile offers and more accurate local searches. Google has an early lead but an analysis of patent filings points to a number of technology companies fighting for supremacy in this emerging space.
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It has always been difficult to accurately track a person?s location indoors. Since GPS is a satellite-based system, devices require a ?line of sight? to satellites to operate. GPS generally does not function indoors and is particularly weak in large, enclosed spaces like shopping malls, museums and big offices.
One solution is indoor positioning, which works by analyzing radio signals from cellular antennae and/or Wi-Fi hotspots or by tracking a device?s movement through sensors such as gyroscopes and compasses. Google recently brought indoor positioning out of the labs with the late November release of a ?My Location? feature in Google Maps. Google says the feature, which is currently only available on Android phones, can track a user?s location within several meters in select malls and airports.
Though Google was the first to debut indoor positioning, other companies have been developing similar technology for years. A new report from technology research firm Grizzly Analytics rated five companies (Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm and Research In Motion) as having ?mature? indoor positioning research. The New York-based firm ranked the companies by the breadth of their research and the number of years they?ve been working on indoor positioning, said founder Bruce Krulwich in an interview.
Of the five leading companies, Mr. Krulwich sees Microsoft and Nokia as the most likely to challenge Google in indoor positioning. He expects Microsoft and Nokia to launch a service sometime in 2012, perhaps tagged to Microsoft?s ?Tango? Windows Phone update. Both companies have significant experience in indoor positioning. Microsoft has researched how to determine location using special radio beacons as well as by analyzing Wi-Fi signal strength. It has also experimented with what Mr. Krulwich calls movement tracking. That involves tracking a device as it moves away from a known location, such as a door to a building (which can be pinpointed via GPS because it is outdoors).
Beyond its research, Microsoft holds granted patents in indoor positioning. Mr. Krulwich counted at least five Microsoft patents related to determining phone location using wireless access points, radio beacons, device movements and other radio signals.
Nokia?s indoor positioning work is equally sophisticated with patents going back to at least 2006. In September 2006, Nokia filed a patent on ?Direction of Arrival? detection. That strategy leverages ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology to estimate location. In fall 2007, Nokia also filed three patents related to determining location via Wi-Fi signal strength.
Over the years, Nokia has publicized some of its indoor positioning research, such as in this 2009 video and this Nov. 2010 demonstration at its Nokia World show. In April 2011, Nokia released a demo video that shows an integrated outdoor/indoor navigation system. In November, in response to Google?s Google Maps update, Nokia stepped up publicity about its research and revealed it is now using Bluetooth beacons instead of the older ultra-wideband technology.
Given their resources, Mr. Krulwich believes that if Microsoft and Nokia pool their mapping assets, as they have pledged to do in upcoming Windows Phone devices, they could offer the industry?s strongest indoor positioning service. ?Both have made such investments in this area, they would have a leg up if they can get a combined system out to market,? said Mr. Krulwich.
Mr. Krulwich was also struck by the indoor positioning research conducted by wireless chipmaker Qualcomm and BlackBerry maker RIM. Since 2010, Qualcomm has filed at least eight patents related to indoor positioning, including work touching on Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation and motion tracking via sensors. Mr. Krulwich believes Qualcomm is investing in indoor positioning because it plans to incorporate indoor location features in its cellphone chips ? perhaps motion tracking abilities in its sensor processing chips and signal triangulation in its radio frequency (RF) chips.
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Pinterest Is Getting Huge
Experian Hitwise put out a report today looking at how popular online pinboard site Pinterest is getting.
While this is only showing U.S. data, this graph pretty much says it all:
Ok, maybe it doesn?t say it all. Here are some highlights Experian Hitwise shared with us in an email:
- Pinterest recently emerged as one of the top 10 websites within the Hitwise Social Networking & Forums category.
- The invitation only site received nearly 11 million total visits during the week ending December 17, 2011, almost 40 times the number of total visits versus just six months ago (week ending June 18, 2011).
- Pinterest content has something for everyone, but the site is dominated by images featuring home d�cor, crafts, fashion, and food. Not surprisingly, visitors to the site in the 12 rolling weeks ending December 17th skewed female (58%) and between the ages of 25 and 44 (59%).
- Pinterest and the Social Networking & Forums category both receive their highest share of visits from California and Texas. However, the Social Networking category as a whole over-indexes on share of visits from Northeastern states while Pinterest over-indexes on visits from the states in the Northwest and Southeast. This data indicates that Pinterest visitors have a different profile versus their counterparts visiting other social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube.
- In fact, nine of the top ten over-indexed states for Pinterest visitors also over-index for the Hobbies and Crafts category (versus the online population) which is expected given the abundance of crafts content on the website.
- When comparing the Mosaic USA 2011 types that visit both Pinterest.com and Hobbies and Crafts websites during the 12 weeks ending December 17, 2011, the data shows that Boomers and Boomerangs are the group most likely to visit, particularly the Pinterest website (comprising over 10% of visits). This group of consumers is characterized as baby boomers and young adults who are heavy web users who spend time on house and garden, sports and fitness, and family-oriented websites. This information is useful to companies who wish to target their content to be ?pinned? by Pinterest users.
Clearly Pinterest is going to be one of those sites to watch heading into the New Year.
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003. Follow WebProNews on Facebook or Twitter. Twitter: @CCrum237 StumbleUpon: Crum Google: +Chris Crum
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Jack Goldman, Founder of Xerox PARC, Dies
Jack Goldman wanted to call Xerox PARC the Xerox Advanced Scientific & Systems Laboratory. We're glad he didn't. (Photo: Xerox)
Jacob ?Jack? Goldman ? the man who founded the lab that pretty much invented the personal computer as we know it ? has died at age 90.
Goldman was the Xerox Chief Scientist who in 1969 proposed that the company create a pure research laboratory that would put Xerox in the same league as IBM and AT&T, whose Yorktown Heights and Bell Labs facilities are now legendary.
The result was Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) ? the birthplace of the graphical user interface, Ethernet, and the laser printer, and object oriented programming.
Goldman died Tuesday from congestive heart failure, the New York Times reports.
Goldman hired physicist George Pake to run PARC, which set up shop in Palo Alto, California in 1970. Working on the East Coast, Goldman championed the lab to Xerox corporate management, keeping it independent from the rest of the company and free to innovate.
?He really enabled the computer scientists who got brought together at PARC to follow their noses and develop the technology,? says Michael Hiltzik, a business columnist with the Los Angeles Times who is the author of Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. ?He had a more general sense that computer science was going to be an important technology in the near future in 1970 and specifically was going to be a threat to Xerox if it didn?t get its arms around it.?
Goldman made PARC great, in part, by knowing when to recognize good ideas from others. He initially wanted to locate the lab near Yale University, but he let Pake talk him into nestling the lab next to Stanford. He also deferred to Pake on the name of the laboratory, saving history from remembering the great Xerox ASS (Advanced Scientific & Systems) Laboratory.
Xerox recruited Goldman from the Ford Motor Company in 1969, and one of his first jobs was to make sense of Xerox?s disastrous $918 million purchase of now-forgotten computer maker Scientific Data Systems.
The acquisition was a mistake. But it had an upside. It gave Goldman a justification for building PARC as a new R&D lab for the company?s computer division.
Xerox PARC is generally thought of as the place that invented much the cool stuff that Microsoft and Apple made billions ripping off, but Hiltzik has a more charitable take on the PARC?s legacy. ?It wasn?t really reasonable to expect that a corporation like Xerox could shift into this entirely new market and this entirely new technology on the scale that was required? Hiltzik says. ?Everything from its conventional R&D process to its sales process was built around the copier.?
YouTube Snow Effect Puts Your Videos In The Holiday Spirit
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Motorola Mobility nabs SetJam, a video discovery startup
December 22, 2011 1:36 PM PST
Motorola Mobility has bought video discovery startup SetJam for an undisclosed sum.
SetJam CEO Ryan Janssen wrote about the acquisition in an email, according to VentureBeat. He didn't disclose financial terms.
"I'm writing to let you know that today SetJam was acquired by Motorola Mobility. We are all very excited about this transition here at SetJam. Motorola and SetJam share the vision of making content delivery, discovery, and consumption seamless across any screen, and as a world leader in video technology, Motorola will provide us with unprecedented levels of reach and distribution."
SetJam, a tiny New York City-based start-up, originated as a Website for finding videos online. It competed with other similar companies including Clicker and SideReel. But more recently the company has been working on personalization technology that can be integrated into connected devices to provide recommendations.
The technology could be a nice fit for Motorola's TV set-top boxes, which are increasing becoming IP-enabled. The SetJam technology could make it easier for people to search for video content on the Web via their TV, so tha they could access shows and movies on Hulu Plus, Netflix, or other online TV video services.
Google is in the process of buying Motorola Mobility, so it will eventually get its hands on this technology as well. Earlier this year, Google said it would pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility. The acquisition is still under regulatory review.
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Top 5 Ed Tech predictions for 2012
Summary: Here?s hoping I?m more accurate than I was last year.
Earlier this week I wrote about five major technologies that should have had real impacts in education this year, but which never amounted to much. I called more than one of them out a year ago, when all signs pointed to their potential for disruption and transformation in 2011. I can?t resist giving it another shot this year, though. Here are my top 5 predictions for the state of the art in Ed Tech in the coming year.
Analytics and BI will go mainstream
In a former life, I was a SAS programmer doing data management and statistical analysis for clinical trials. SAS is still going strong in large-scale, mission critical statistical programming, but much of its business focus is now on analytics and business intelligence (BI). IBM just launched an initiative to promote education, training, and research at the university level in the fields. For those not familiar with them, BI and BA apply complex business rules and enable decision-making based on the analysis of very large data stores.
Both companies (and many others, although SAS and IBM are arguably the market leaders) have products geared towards making these tools available, relevant, and usable in the education space, where the amount of data we now collect on our students is growing exponentially, both because of federal and state requirements and because most educators realize that data-driven instruction is a powerful tool for improving outcomes. In education, these tools can pick out at-risk students based on wide-ranging data before they ever hit the radar of a guidance counselor.
The data are in place, the technologies are in place, and NCLB and RTTP have conditioned educators to think about data (no matter what else, good or bad, you may think of them). 2012 will see an explosion in the real use of analytics to assist schools and districts in improving quality and outcomes. I?m not talking about reviewing yearly standardized test scores here. I?m talking about the confluence of formative and summative assessments, demographic data, and many other bits of information, all of which are now available electronically and ready to be mined. It?s worth noting that EDUCAUSE was filled with vendors holding up the latest and greatest tools for data mining, aggregation, management, and analysis and Oracle resorted to showgirls standing next to geeks demoing software at both BBWorld and EDUCAUSE.
Google?s tablet will NOT be the holy grail of 1:1
A reader emailed me the other day and asked me if I thought that Google?s tablet, expected for release before fall 2012, would finally make tablet-based 1:1 initiatives a reality. The answer was no. Although I?m sure the tablets will be great pieces of hardware and software and I?m sure that I?ll get one, the predicted $500 price point is just too high. Sure, Google Apps integration will be very strong, as will the management features that go with it, but at that price, you could have an iPad.
While I?m not saying that iPads are better for education than other tablets, I am saying that they have a major foothold in the growing market. Even iPads, though, are only making it into well-funded districts at scale. The only thing that could disrupt the current market and current trends in 1:1 would be a very inexpensive tablet (<$300) with all the management features and a content ecosystem that would finally make the ideal of a "tablet in every backpack" a reality.
Google's move to drop the price of Chromebooks this year and provide enterprise, web-based management consoles for the slick little laptops suggests, as well as innovative rental models for schools and businesses, however, suggests that they may have a few tricks up their sleeves. The Google tablet won't be the holy grail of 1:1, but I'm hopeful that it will be a step in the right direction.
BYOD will make 1:1 possible in a big way
In the face of miserable budgets and no end in sight to a stagnating economy, school/state-funded 1:1 will not be sustainable in the majority of school districts. Worldwide sales of Classmate PCs to education ministries remain strong, but this relies on a very different educational model than that employed here in the States. At the college level, where a computer is a necessity for students, only a tiny fraction of schools supply a laptop as part of a student?s tuition. Instead, students bring their own, often selecting from specially negotiated prices with major OEMs. It?s time K12 schools followed suit.
Again, there is a confluence of factors that will make BYOD the 1:1 model of choice for 2012 (a model, by the way, that will get devices onto a lot more desks and into a lot more student hands in the classroom this year). The emergence of inexpensive devices like the Kindle Fire, despite its lack of manageability, means that tabets will become increasingly commonplace for for students, making instant access to the Internet and a variety of content easily achieved. AMD is promising inexpensive alternatives to Intel?s ultrabooks and prices continue to fall on remarkably usable laptops.
Similarly, great platforms for e-learning, ranging from Moodle 2.3 to the new and improved Google Apps, to a growing ecosystem of tablet apps mean that schools have more reason than ever to leverage all of those devices that are sitting in student bedrooms but often aren?t allowed in classrooms. Finally, robust security and filtering solutions (including tablet integration) from companies like LightSpeed mean that the risks formerly posed by outside devices are increasingly being mitigated both on- off-campus.
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We will say goodbye to a lot more libraries and hello to a lot more information
A local prep school dumped its library about two years ago in favor of a media center replete with computers, Kindles, and an espresso bar (yes, an espresso bar - it?s a prestigious school). Administration took a lot of flack, not because the library was well-used (it wasn?t) but because a lot of people didn?t like the idea that the notion of a library was changing. Now, with far less controversy, Johns Hopkins University is closing its historic medical library in a few short days. Library staff had already transitioned from traditional librarian roles to that of so-called ?informationists.? Modern library science degree programs are far more concerned with accessing information than the Dewey Decimal System.
Add to that growing space constraints, emerging 1:1 programs that are far easier to justify if they can reduce reliance on dead trees, and nearly ubiquitous availability of journals and books in electronic formats and you have a recipe for converting libraries as we know them now to anachronisms. This isn?t a bad thing as long as the misson of school libraries can be to make students discerning seekers and users of information. In fact, moving to information-based rather than book-based models could cause a renaissance for libraries. This renaissance simply doesn?t need to involve acquiring larger expensive collections of paper; it needs to involve drastically increasing the amount of time students spend in libraries developing their critical thinking and information access skills.
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Samsung launches duo of dual-SIM Galaxy Y Duos Androids
December 22, 2011 9:37 AM PST
Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos
(Credit: Samsung)Samsung today introduced the GALAXY Y Duos and GALAXY Y Pro Duos, a pair of Android smartphones in the Galaxy product family that has space for two SIM cards, letting you lead a double life on your phone.
The two SIM cards mean you've got two phone numbers at your disposal, one for work, for instance, and one for your personal life. You can use data according to your plan, regardless of the SIM. Both phones run on the GSM technology (850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands) and have Samsung's TouchWiz software overlay.
The Galaxy Y Duos is an all-touch Android 2.3 Gingerbread set-up with a 3.1 inch QVGA screen, a 3-megapixel fixed-focus camera, and the Android works. It's got a 1,300mAh battery.
On the slightly higher end of the scale there's the Galaxy Y Pro Duos, which runs the same Android version and has a full QWERTY keyboard on its candybar frame (that keyboard is how you know it's "pro"). As a result, the screen is a smaller 2.6-inches. There's a 3-megapixel camera on the back, but Samsung has also added a front-facing VGA camera and a slightly larger 1,350mAh battery.
While there's no pricing for this yet, Samsung has shared a January release date, and a first market: Russia. The Galaxy Y Duos will then "gradually" roll out to Europe, Africa, CIS, Latin America, southeast and southwest Asia, the Middle East, and China. The keyboarded Pro version is headed to Europe, Africa, CIS, Latin America, Southwest Asia, and the Middle East.
North Americans looking for this type of solution are sadly going to have to keep looking for now (or start lobbying Samsung). I'm interested in seeing this in action; hopefully, Samsung brings the duo of Duos along with them to CES, just for fun.
Facebook top search term in 2011
Summary: Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US this year, accounting for 3.10/4.42 percent of all searches, depending on how you slice it. It was also the second-most visited website.
Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US this year. The data comes from competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise, which analyzed the top 1,000 search terms for 2011.
This is the third year in a row that Facebook has been the top search term overall, accounting for 3.10 percent of all searches, a 46 percent increase from last year. Looking at the top 10 terms, there were four variations of Facebook searchesw: ?facebook,? ?facebook login,? ?facebook.com,? and ?www.facebook.com.? Together, they accounted for 4.42 percent of searches overall, a 24 percent increase from last year.
As you can see in the chart above, the search term ?youtube? moved up from the third spot in 2010 to the second spot in 2011. ?Facebook login? was the third most-searched term in 2011, followed by ?craigslist? and ?facebook.com.? The last one moved up one spot in 2011 to be among the top five search terms.
Facebook was also the top-visited website for the second year in a row. It accounted for 10.29 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2011 ? a 15 percent increase from 2010. Google.com ranked second, with 7.70 percent of visits, followed by YouTube (3.17 percent), Yahoo Mail (2.95 percent), and Yahoo (2.47 percent).
In terms of properties, Google still beat Facebook, since the latter only has one website. Google properties accounted for 11.98 percent of all U.S. visits - a 22 percent increase compared with 2010. Facebook properties accounted for 8.93 percent, and Yahoo properties accounted for 6.81 percent.
Facebook isn?t likely to pass Google next year but it has the potential to do so in the next few years. The social networking giant is already beating the search giant in a few other traffic-related areas, including top searches as outlined above, so it wouldn?t surprise me if Facebook was crowned first here as well.
See also:
- Google to Facebook: ?We are delighted to be underestimated?
- Zuckerberg: Google, Microsoft collect data ?behind your back?
- Facebook is destroying Google in time spent online (chart)
- Google: Facebook is becoming ?a closed walled garden?
- Google starts indexing Facebook comments, AJAX/JavaScript content
- Sean Parker: Facebook?s power users have gone to Twitter, Google+
- Facebook is not 20 times the size of Google+; it?s even bigger
Emil Protalinski has covered the tech industry for five years for multiple publications.
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