NEW NET Issues List for 04 Mar 2008

NEW NET will meet on Thursday, 04 March 2008, at the Cambria Suites Hotel on the north side of Appleton. Cambria has friendly and helpful staff, reliable free wireless, tasty food and a varied selection of beverages. Below is the final list of issues for this week's NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering at Cambria Suites Hotel, 3940 N. Gateway Drive, Appleton Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

1. Geography, social media and breakfast http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/29/technology/kirkpatrick_socialmedia.fortune/
2. Adobe AIR Vs Microsoft Silverlight: It’s All About Numbers http://tinyurl.com/3yarhd (TechCrunch)
3. Life Encyclopedia: Too Popular http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEOKXGpzV-IwvlhQMmAkrxSzVcWwD8V27ADO0
4. Yelp raises $15M 4th round http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/26/yelp-raises-15-million-fourth-round-valuation-200-million/
5. Wikia Open Sources Social Networking http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikia_open_sources_social_networking.php
6. Web desktop targets 'cybernomads' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7267534.stm
7. Tim Berners-Lee Says Time for the Semantic Web is Now http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tbl_calls_for_semweb.php
8. Psychologist Might Outsmart Math Brains for Netflix Prize http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix
9. WordPress' Mullenweg talks about scaling and spamming http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9882864-36.html
10. Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/03/rumor_microsoft.php
11. Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=769
12. The Offline Wars about to heat up? http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/02/the-offline-wars-about-to-heat-up/
13. Microsoft Office Live Workspaces goes public http://tinyurl.com/29vwhc (Ars technica)
14. Bill Gates ditches Facebook for LinkedIn, ad deal coming? http://tinyurl.com/24s7ff (Ars technica)
15. IE8 to support Acid2 web standards from the start http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9884688-56.html
16. UnLtdWorld plans to change the world through social networking http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/03/elevator_pitch_unltdworld_plan.html
17. How the Barack Obama Campaign Uses Wikis to Organize Volunteers http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/barack_obama_campaign_central_desktop.php

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

18. Comcast denies crowd shaping, crowd delaying at FCC hearing http://tinyurl.com/yv4t5y (Associated Press)
19. Network neutrality: code words and conniving at yesterday's FCC hearing http://tinyurl.com/yonkpa (O’Reilly Radar)
20. Congress worries that .gov monitoring will spy on Americans http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9882031-7.html
21. Hack into a Windows PC - no password needed http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/hack-into-a-windows-pc-no-password-needed/2008/03/04/1204402423638.html
22. Roundup of 12 USB thumb drives with security http://www.geek.com/roundup-of-a-dozen-usb-thumb-drives-with-security/

Mobile Computing & Communicating

23. Sprint raises stakes: $99 for unlimited everything http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9881662-7.html
24. The Death of Mobile Applications? http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/03/01/the-death-of-mobile-applications/
25. Microsoft Silverlight coming to mobile devices this year http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9884398-7.html
26. Yahoo onePlace: Think Of It As MyYahoo For Mobile http://searchengineland.com/080304-091816.php

Open Source

27. Commercial support for open source Drupal on the way http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080303/tc_infoworld/95697
28. Inside the SFLC's guide to legal management of FOSS projects http://www.linux.com/feature/127803
29. Audio conversion tools for Linux http://www.linux.com/feature/127583

SkyNet

30. Marissa Mayer – Wausau’s export to Silicon Valley http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/adventures-marissa
31. Google Health, a first look http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-health-first-look.html
32. Yahoo! Loses Mobile Giant Opera to Google http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_looses_opera.php
33. Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23377190
34. Google’s YouTube to offer live streaming this year http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9883062-2.html
35. Google Sites: More Trouble for Registrars http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/google-sites-further-commoditization-for-registrars/
36. Google loses Sheryl Sandberg: will become COO of Facebook http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080304/sheryl-sandberg-will-become-coo-of-facebook/

General Technology

37. Nanotech is good / Nanotech is bad http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-salvi-kimbrell27feb27,0,6442366.story
38. Top Ten List of Free Windows Programs http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/28/top-ten-list-of-free-windows-programs/
39. Microsoft emails reveal tension with Intel over Vista http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_8408428
40. High time for Intel to get serious about graphics http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9883439-37.html
41. Japanese robots enter daily life http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2008-03-01-robots_N.htm
42. MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often http://tinyurl.com/yspccp (Ars technica)
43. AMD to challenge Centrino with Puma platform http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1406

Leisure & Entertainment

44. Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books http://tinyurl.com/3azsft (Tuscaloosa News)
45. New portable games break traditional molds http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080229/tc_nm/videogames_portables_dc
46. Penguin audiobooks to be copyright-free http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/04/digitalmusic.booksnews
47. Diary: One Week Playing Wii Fit http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/diary-one-week.html
48. Namco planning spring We Ski trip http://www.gamespot.com/news/6187034.html
49. THQ Creative Director Says PC Games Piracy Around 80% In US http://tinyurl.com/2hovpk (dbTechno)

Economy and Technology

50. Beware of Freeconomics http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beware_of_freeconomics.php
51. Web Work in the Era of Free http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/02/26/web-work-in-the-era-of-free/
52. The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing http://tinyurl.com/ypqmn6 (Forbes)

Civilian Aerospace

53. Blitzing Capitol Hill http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1071/1
54. The Stars: Our Destination http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5778

Supercomputing & GPUs

55. Tech-X Announces Math Library for NVIDIA GPUs http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2157492.html
56. A Decade and a Half of the TOP500 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2176690.html
57. Nvidia's top brain talks future of graphics computing http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206801762
58. Student Research Opportunities Expanded for UMaine Super http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2177667.html
59. Applications of Massively Parallel Systems http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd52-12.html
60. The Problem(s) with GPGPU http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/the_problem_with_gpgpu.php

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