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		<title>Tracking your Footprints on the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hezron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Execute your browser to one of your favorite search engine. And input your name and click search button. You can see your information(including same names) on the web.
But, what about Blogosphere or not indexed pages? Do you know how your search engine works in detail? Also what about your brand/company info/discussion/complaints which is critical in business field?
Maybe there&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Execute your browser to one of your favorite search engine. And input your name and click search button. You can see your information(including same names) on the web.</p>
<p>But, what about Blogosphere or not indexed pages? Do you know how your search engine works in detail? Also what about your brand/company info/discussion/complaints which is critical in business field?</p>
<p>Maybe there&#8217;ll be no perfect tool for that(if it&#8217;s, plz let me know by comments), but I found some recommendations.</p>
<p>Web 2.0 is coming and it consists of many different things with compared to what you know about web. At least, I think we have to know happenings about you in new sphere with new tools.</p>
<p>Plz, refer to the below and I hope it helps. Below links are provided from <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/8_tools_to_track_your_footprin.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></blockquote>
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<h2>1. BlogPulse: Trends in the Blogosphere</h2>
<p>Part of <a href="http://www.nielsen-online.com/">Nielsen-Online</a>, <a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html">BlogPulse</a> highlights the top trends in the blogosphere and is mostly used to determine the hottest topics on the Web and how they got to be that way. But, its value as a personal monitoring tool can not be disregarded. Search for your name then grab the RSS feed to see who is talking about you and what they&#8217;re saying.</p>
<h2>2. Pipl: Searching the Invisible Web</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.pipl.com/">Pipl</a> claims to search the <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html">deep</a> or invisible Web to find documents, blog entries, photos, publicly available information that other search engines don&#8217;t serve up. It&#8217;s a great, fast search engine that we like; the only disadvantage is it offers no RSS feed.</p>
<h2>3. Spy: Watching what Happens on the Web</h2>
<p>According to the site, <a href="http://spy.appspot.com/">Spy</a> can &#8220;listen in on the social media conversations you&#8217;re interested in.&#8221; This clean visualization search tool watches Twitter, FriendFeed, blog posts, Google reader shares and Flickr for any term you want. An RSS feed is available.</p>
<h2>4. Serph: The Social Web Right Now</h2>
<p>A brilliant tool for searching the social Web, <a href="http://serph.com/">Serph</a> shows you what is being said about you &#8220;right now.&#8221; Serph gathers results from blog search engines, social media sites, social news sites and social bookmarking sites and offers an RSS feed for the results.</p>
<h2>5. Social Mention: Mentions of your Name on the Social Web</h2>
<p>Another great tool for searching the social Web, <a href="http://socialmention.com/">Social Mention</a> offers a quick glance at mentions of your name on the Web. Just enter your name and switch between blogs, microblogs, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news or all of them at once. Slower than Serph, but occasionally offers different results. An RSS feed is available.</p>
<h2>6. Monitter: Tracking Twitter</h2>
<p><a href="http://monitter.com/">Monitter</a> is one of the coolest looking monitoring tools for Twitter and one of the most useful. We&#8217;ve written about it <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/monitter.php">before</a> and although most people are using Twitter&#8217;s own search <a href="http://search.twitter.com/">tool</a> for search and alerts on Twitter, Monitter offers a little bit more. Giving you the option to search for three different keywords at once, Monitter is great if you want to keep your eye out for mentions of your name, your username and your company all at the same time. It also offers an RSS feed.</p>
<h2>7. BoardTracker 2.0: The Ultimate Search Tool for Forums</h2>
<p><a href="http://v2.boardtracker.com/">BoardTracker</a> is a forum search engine, message tracking and instant alert system that offers relevant results quickly. One of our favorite search tools for forums and message boards, BoardTracker currently tracks in excess of 1.2 billion posts.</p>
<h2>8. Google Alerts: The big G</h2>
<p>We couldn&#8217;t end this post without mentioning <a href="http://www.google.com/alerts">Google Alerts</a>, although likely most of you are familiar with it. Although Microsoft and Yahoo have alert tools, Google&#8217;s offering beats them hands down. It offers e-mail and RSS alerts for any set of keywords including your name.</p>
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		<title>Palm Pre vs. iPhone vs. G1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hezron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let&#8217;s drill down and see how the Palm Pre compares with the iPhone and Android&#8217;s G1.
1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch. The Pre&#8217;s glowy little &#8220;gesture area&#8221; has dropped the touchable real estate all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="tagautolink autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged CES 2009" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/ces-2009/">CES 2009</a> brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let&#8217;s drill down and see how the <a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5126702/palm-pre-preview-simply-amazing?skyline=true&amp;s=x"><span style="color: #dc870e;">Palm Pre</span></a> compares with the iPhone and Android&#8217;s G1.</p>
<p><strong>1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control</strong>: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch. The Pre&#8217;s glowy little &#8220;gesture area&#8221; has dropped the touchable real estate all the way down tto the bottom of the phone, which is great for being able to navigate with one hand and not interfere with the screen at all. The wavey dock you bring up from the bottom looks awesome, but can you use it out of the box without a second thought or page through the manual? That&#8217;s my question. <em>Advantage: iPhone/Pre tossup.<br />
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<strong>2. Multitasking</strong>: One of the beefiest of our beefs with the iPhone SDK is its insistence on Apps running one at a time. The G1&#8217;s notifications drawer was definitely a step in the right direction, but the Pre&#8217;s interface is the first smartphone OS that was <a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5126702/palm-pre-preview-simply-amazing?skyline=true&amp;s=x"><span style="color: #dc870e;">built with multitasking as a core design element</span></a>. Resembling the Xbox&#8217;s old Blades, or a less-jarring OS X Expose even, the Pre&#8217;s &#8220;Cards&#8221; interface always places you in the context of every app running for fast switching, and notifications from other apps don&#8217;t pull you away completely from the task at hand. Multitasking is hugely important on a phone, and it&#8217;s a good sign that Palm recognizes. <em>Advantage: Pre</em></p>
<p><strong>3. Hardware:</strong> Adrian says:</p>
<blockquote><p>While the hardware is definitely high quality, I&#8217;m not entirely blown away by the design. It looks really nice, and original, but it&#8217;s a little too cutesy in shape and kind of reminds me of an oversized pebble. A slightly larger screen could have definitely been put to good use, and I really don&#8217;t like the black space on the sides of the screen.</p></blockquote>
<p>A phone with a built-in QWERTY still hasn&#8217;t touched the iPhone in terms of sleekness and pure sex. And it might still be a while. <em>Advantage: iPhone</em></p>
<p><strong>4. Development platform:</strong> The Pre&#8217;s &#8220;Web OS&#8221; sure sounds nice—all developers need to know is JavaScript, HTML and CSS? Sounds good in theory, but building a mobile app will never be as easy as cranking out a new theme for your Tumblr. Palm&#8217;s stressing ease of development, though, so it will be interesting to see how it stacks up against Apple&#8217;s solid, familiar-to-devs OS X-based SDK and Android&#8217;s fully open source approach. <em>Advantage: Pre? If it&#8217;s straight-up JavaScript, that&#8217;s a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">lot</span> of programmers ready to go. Note: we had iPhone here before, but we&#8217;ve switched with a qualification. Developer community still goes to iPhone for volume.</em></p>
<p><strong>5. Web Integration</strong>: The Pre subtly integrates the internet into the phone at every opportunity, and it&#8217;s awesome. Contacts get pulled in from Facebook, Gmail, IM and and scanned for dupes; the messaging app shows your last several emails, IMs and SMS with that contact in a single window. Really, really smart stuff. <em>Advantage: Pre</em></p>
<p><strong>6. App Store/developer community:</strong> A smartphone is only as good as the software it runs. On the Pre, Palm is still keeping application delivery details like pricing behind the curtain, but they did say the app delivery will be entirely handled by the phone (without a desktop app), which is a shame. They&#8217;re saying that they&#8217;re not going to duplicate Apple&#8217;s Hobbesian app approval black box mistake, which Android has also hasn&#8217;t fallen for, but there <em>will</em> be an approval process based on &#8220;security and stability.&#8221; But as we know with Android, a dev community needs enough devices in the hands of consumers to reach critical mass, which the Pre will have to match. <em>Advantage: iPhone, even with the black box, but Android and Pre&#8217;s more open stances are reassuring.</em></p>
<p><strong>7. Wireless charger:</strong> We&#8217;ve seen wireless charger tech for years at CES, but it&#8217;s taken this long for a major consumer gadget to <del>come bundled with its own wireless charger in the box</del>. <em>Whoops, it&#8217;s not in the box, sold separately for unknown $$. But still:</em> Bravo. <em>Advantage: Pre</em></p>
<p><strong>8. The Network:</strong> Dan Hesse, Sprint&#8217;s CEO, gave our <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5111989/the-definitive-coast+to+coast-3g-data-test"><span style="color: #dc870e;">coast-to-coast 3G test</span></a> a shout out in his press conference. Of course he did: Sprint won (in download speeds). Sprint was the only major carrier without a powerful, hype-catching smartphone choice, and now they have one. The Pre is a data-centric phone with a network we&#8217;ve proven to be strong in a large swatch of the country—that&#8217;s a good combo. But would you switch to Sprint for the Pre? Ugh. <em>Advantage: Not cut and dry for everyone, but we stand by our numbers: Sprint is the best 3G network in our tests.</em></p>
<p><strong>9. Physical keyboard:</strong> It&#8217;s preference, but one held by a large swathe of the gadget buying public: physical QWERTY keypads are still the mainstream input of choice. Touch is getting better all the time, but a <em>lot</em> of people still want physical keyboards. But better yet is the ability to choose; unfortunately, the Pre doesn&#8217;t have a soft onscreen keyboard, and its slide-out is the same meh QWERTY from the Treo Pro. <em>Advantage: It&#8217;s preference, but on me, the iPhone&#8217;s soft keyboard can&#8217;t be beat.</em></p>
<p><strong>10. Camera:</strong> The Pre has an LED Flash for its 3MP camera, something both the iPhone and G1 lack. Flash cellphone photos are ugly, but for a lot of people, they&#8217;re good enough. So credit for throwing it in. <em>Advantage: Pre</em></p>
<p><strong>11. Battery:</strong> Apple&#8217;s still an outlier with their non-removable battery; like the G1&#8217;s, the Pre&#8217;s comes out for a spare swap too. We&#8217;ve heard Apple&#8217;s reasons for this a million times, we know the drill, but removable batteries will never stop being handy. <em>Advantage: Pre</em></p>
<p><strong>12. Copy &amp; Paste:</strong> Yep, Pre&#8217;s got it. iPhone still doesn&#8217;t. <em>Advantage: Pre/G1</em></p>
<p><strong>13. Browser:</strong> All three use a browser based on WebKit, which has become the standard for the mobile web. We couldn&#8217;t put it through our <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5090988/mobile-browser-battlemodo-which-phones-deliver-the-real-web"><span style="color: #dc870e;">Mobile Browser Battlemodo</span></a> ringer obviously, but what we saw looked great, and it&#8217;s the only other mobile browser besides the iPhone that supports multitouch zooming. <em>Advantage: iPhone/Pre</em></p>
<p>So there you have it. We&#8217;re excited. Are you?</p>
<p>@ <a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5126870/in-a-nutshell-palm-pre-vs-iphone-vs-g1">http://i.gizmodo.com/5126870/in-a-nutshell-palm-pre-vs-iphone-vs-g1</a></p>
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		<title>Objectified</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hezron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Objectified</em> is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.</p>
<p>Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?</p>
<p><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9E2D2PaIcI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9E2D2PaIcI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p>
<p><a href="http://cube9.net/wp-content/uploads/object_muji.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77" title="object_muji" src="http://cube9.net/wp-content/uploads/object_muji.jpg" alt="object_muji" width="653" height="743" /></a></p>
<p>Read director Gary Hustwit’s <a href="http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/blog/lets-get-objectified/">post about the film</a>.</p>
<p><em>Objectified</em> is currently in production and will have its <a href="http://cube9.net/screenings/">world premiere in March 2009</a>. Join our <a href="http://cube9.net/newsletter/">mailing list</a> or subscribe to our <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/objectified">RSS feed</a> to stay informed of screening announcements.</p>
<p>Featuring<br />
<strong>Paola Antonelli</strong> (Museum of Modern Art, New York)<br />
<strong>Chris Bangle</strong> (BMW Group, Munich)<br />
<strong>Ronan &amp; Erwan Bouroullec</strong> (Paris)<br />
<strong>Andrew Blauvelt</strong> (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)<br />
<strong>Tim Brown</strong> (IDEO)<br />
<strong>Anthony Dunne</strong> (London)<br />
<strong>Dan Formosa</strong> (Smart Design)<br />
<strong>Naoto Fukasawa</strong> (Tokyo)<br />
<strong>Jonathan Ive</strong> (Apple, California)<br />
<strong>Hella Jongerius</strong> (Rotterdam)<br />
<strong>David Kelley</strong> (IDEO)<br />
<strong>Bill Moggridge</strong> (IDEO)<br />
<strong>Marc Newson</strong> (London/Paris)<br />
<strong>Fiona Raby</strong> (London)<br />
<strong>Dieter Rams</strong> (Kronberg, Germany)<br />
<strong>Karim Rashid</strong> (New York)<br />
<strong>Alice Rawsthorn</strong> (International Herald Tribune)<br />
<strong>Davin Stowell</strong> (Smart Design)<br />
<strong>Jane Fulton Suri</strong> (IDEO)<br />
<strong>Rob Walker</strong> (New York Times Magazine)<br />
and more participants TBA</p>
<p><strong>Credits</strong></p>
<p>Produced and Directed by<br />
<strong><a href="http://objectifiedfilm.com/gary-hustwit/">Gary Hustwit</a></strong></p>
<p>Editor<br />
<strong><a href="http://objectifiedfilm.com/joe-beshenkovsky/">Joe Beshenkovsky</a></strong></p>
<p>Director of Photography<br />
<strong><a href="http://objectifiedfilm.com/luke-geissbuhler/">Luke Geissbuhler</a></strong></p>
<p>Additional Photography<br />
<strong>Guillermo Cabrera<br />
Kevin Fritz<br />
Gary Hustwit<br />
James Longley<br />
Ben Wolf</strong></p>
<p>Sound Recordists<br />
<strong>Singeli Agnew<br />
Valerio Cerini<br />
Joelle Jaffe<br />
Matty Nematollahi<br />
Sam Pullen<br />
Mike Urdaneta<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Website Design<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/">Jason Santa Maria</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Contact Info</strong></p>
<p>General inquiries: info (at) objectifiedfilm (dot) com<br />
Screening inquiries: objectified (at) swissdots (dot) com<br />
Filmmaker contact: gary (at) objectifiedfilm (dot) com</p>
<p>@ <a href="http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/about/">http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/about/</a></p>
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