On September 9, 2009, Arcanum Productions launches the AMERIKA WANTS YOKO video-blog and online petition. This project rallies support for its film AMERIKA: a notebook in three parts, which is searching for resources to assuage its production costs. Kat, the fictional character of AMERIKA, makes a public plea to artist Yoko Ono asking for her support and endorsement to promote the film.
Later today we’re introducing a new, exclusive feature on Mashable – the Mashable Lounge. This live Twitter chatroom was created in partnership with Tinychat, and combines live video streaming with Sign-in via Twitter oAuth: in short, Twitter users can join the chatroom in one click with no password required.
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Travel guides are a dime a dozen on the web. But for the most part, they’re not very conducive to really exploring - it’s not much fun to click through various guides to get a feel for where you’d like to visit, because each guide is loaded with a wall of text. Ruba, a new travel site that launches today, is looking to offer users a way to visually browse through cities and their attractions around the world, offering photo-rich guides and an emphasis on making it easy to quickly discover new locations.
After a few weeks of public beta, we’re happy to unveil our wiki for electronic music which we’re calling BeatWiki.
With over 72,000 artist pages and 7000 record label pages, BeatWiki is set to grow into the world’s most definitive electronic music information hub. But like wikipedia, we need a little help from the public first.
]]>Windows only: Free streaming media capture tool TubeMaster is a great all-in-one solution for grabbing and converting audio and video from nearly any web site that can stream it to you. The no-install app launches as its own application with a built-in, tabbed browser—simply launch it, head to Last.fm, YouTube, a site with proprietary Flash video, or nearly any other streaming media, and hit "Start Media Capture." The files you grab are lined up in a queue for you to decide how to convert and save, and TubeMaster's built-in media search tool covers nearly 100 video and audio-sharing sites. There are browser plug-ins and apps that do some of the same things, but none quite as comprehensively as TubeMaster Plus. TubeMaster Plus is a free download for Windows systems only
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David Suzuki Foundation opens Montreal office, launches French website September 25, 2008 MONTREAL - The David Suzuki Foundation announced today that it has appointed Karel Mayrand director of DSF Quebec and has opened its newest office in Montreal. “Canadians and Québécois must realize that we all are part of nature; there is no line or border that separates us from the rest of the world,” said David Suzuki. “Quebec possesses exceptional biodiversity in its plentitude of lakes, rivers, boreal forests, and other natural resources. In this respect, the province has a huge responsibility to continue to nurture and protect its natural capital.”
AIFF tracks for $1.49. "We are an online music store offering high-definition digital music downloads from the world's leading independent labels. We offer thousands of titles across a multitude of musical genres as well as in-depth information about the artists and albums. When you purchase a complete album from HDtracks you will receive a PDF file containing the cover art and liner notes. We offer CD-quality music in your choice of three formats -- AIFF, FLAC, and 320 kbps MP3. Plus, our downloads are always DRM-free, so they can be played everywhere, including home music servers and MP3 players (including iPods). Our Download Manager works on both PCs and Macs. It launches automatically so you can start downloading your music without a cumbersome installation process. At the moment HDtracks is only available in the U.S." Compatibility: AIFF - (CD Quality) Compatible with iTunes, iPods, Winamp FLAC - (CD Quality) Compatible with Media Monkey, VLC, Songbird, Mac Flac, Toast 320kbps MP3 - High quality MP3 audio with smaller file sizes ideal for all portable media players.
Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen, which creates digital copies of notes and links them to recorded audio, launches today in 1GB and 2 GB models. Using specialized paper with microdots to track pen movement, the Pulse not only copies notes, but can do quick calculations, translate foreign words and record 3D audio.
"SearchMonkey enables site owners and web developers to create two types of enhanced listings for their pages in Yahoo!'s search results."
Amnesty International is launching a new ad featuring a hard-hitting torture scene showing simulated "waterboarding" in a campaign to outlaw the controversial interrogation practice.
AdWords conversion tracking has been updated for the first time in years. The new system allows advertisers to classify conversion actions and track them separately. Creating an ActionConversion actions can be classified as: * Purchase/Sale * Signup * Lead * View of a key page * Other
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IF YOU SUSPECT IT - REPORT IT Londoners are being urged to help stop terrorists in their tracks by reporting suspicious behaviour, in a new counter terrorism advertising campaign launched today.
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The same day John Edwards exited the race, longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader launched a presidential exploratory committee to decide whether to run as an independent candidate.
With Wordpress the dominant player in blogging, this could be a game changer.” Nah. It’s a reasonable enough idea, but the key to Twitter’s success has been three fold. One is its sheer volume of users that has seen it defeat competitors such as Jaiku by providing the most active and rich user base. Secondly although the centralized service is a weakness, it’s also a strength because when you connect to others on Twitter, you connect to others on Twitter. No working out whether the server they’re on is up-to-date, live or even compatible, it just works (when it’s not down, or “temporarily overloaded”). Third is the open access to Twitter via third party tools; just ask Leah Culver from Pownce (who’s not one of my fans) about why open access is vital in building something like this. Prologue may provide some open access, but its distributed nature will mean that ultimately it will be a niche product; possibly a good niche product, but it’s not going to knock the Twitter bird of its perch any time soon.
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