1. Online Video Ad Network BrightRoll Raises $10 Million  permalink

Online Video Ad Network BrightRoll Raises $10 Million
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!

Online video advertising network BrightRoll has just announced that they’ve secured $10 million in Series C funding, grown to nearly 55 million unique viewers per month in the U.S, and are now profitable. The funding news means that BrightRoll — which distributes video ad campaigns via an extensive online publisher network — ...

2. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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3. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

4. Music Consumption Faceoff: Subscription Vs. Ownership  permalink

Music Consumption Faceoff: Subscription Vs. Ownership
Barb Dybwad / Mashable!

Mashable was in attendance at today’s New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, where Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek gave an excellent keynote about the state of the music industry and the re-emerging subscription model. Since we have new music on the brain, we wanted to pose a relevant question for this week’s Faceoff Series head-to- ...

5. Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis  permalink

Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis
Christina Warren / Mashable!

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Bccthis Quick Pitch: Bccthis is an innovative technology that provides new levels of ...

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch
Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack   —  Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

6. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action  permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

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Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action Google Focused Research Awards   —  On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.

7. State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic  permalink

State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic
Samuel Axon / Mashable!

Remember that “ If You Printed Twitter ” image that made the social media rounds two weeks ago? A similarly formatted graphic that describes the state of Internet use and adoption has been published today for your infotainment. The focus is on exactly who uses the Internet, and how often. It breaks things down by gender, age, income ...

8. The State of the Internet  permalink

The State of the Internet
Www.focus.com

Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online.

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9. Second Opinion: A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift  permalink

Second Opinion: A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift
DENISE GRADY / NYT

Without her family’s knowledge, doctors used cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks to develop vaccines and life-saving drugs, a case examined in a book that looks at the issue of “tissue rights.”

10. Charting circulation  permalink

Charting circulation
Liftlab.com

“Charting the Beatles” is a project that I find highly intriguing. One of the visualization that I find highly interesting for that matter is the “Self Reference” representation. As described by the authors: “The lyrics of the Beatles include a number of references to their own previous songs. This diagram explores ...

11. A recent improvement for Arabic searches  permalink

A recent improvement for Arabic searches
A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...

12. Personal Health: Rules Worth Following, for Everyone’s Sake  permalink

Personal Health: Rules Worth Following, for Everyone’s Sake
JANE / NYT

Michael Pollan’s new book, “Food Rules,” is an easy-to-digest guide to health and eating that could do almost anybody good.

13. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer  permalink

Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer
Www.mobilecrunch.com

I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

14. News Analysis: Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power  permalink

News Analysis: Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
DAVID / NYT

WASHINGTON — In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power.

15. Blancpain Valentine's Day & SEO  permalink

Blancpain Valentine's Day & SEO
David / David Sadigh

I was searching in french “st valentin 2010” and discovered the Blancpain brand within the top three results, via this Luxist.com post. Online PR is a great way to generate visibility in search engine. It will be interesting to analyze who are the main luxury brands to be visible on Google around the Valentine’s day topic. The Blancpain ...

16. Flock Is Now a Fight Team in Some Ministries  permalink

Flock Is Now a Fight Team in Some Ministries
SCHNEIDERMAN / NYT

Before the Cage Assault bout in Memphis, Mr. Lane got his hands taped by Pastor John Renken of Xtreme Ministries. “Father, we thank you for tonight,” he said. “We pray that we will be a representation of you.”

17. AMC Network // Breaking Bad  permalink

AMC Network // Breaking Bad
C.driK / MARKETING ALTERNATIF

Pour cette opération de la chaine Américaine AMC, une petite explication préalable s’impose. Acte 1 : Début Janvier en plein Time Square, Weatherproof, spécialisée dans la vente de manteaux, osait détourner la photo de Barack Obama posant devant la grande muraille de Chine et portant une veste de la collection Weatherproof, en l’

18. Un dealer d'amph�tamines se prend pour Obama...  permalink

Un dealer d'amph�tamines se prend pour Obama...
Www.influencia.net

Souvenez-vous il y a 3 semaines la marque Weatherproof mettait en avant Obama sur un panneau géant à Times Square sans son autorisation. Entre temps un étrange personnage est venu se juxtaposer ...

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