Need For Speed Most Wanted (PS2 review) (previously posted on 18October2006)

Take the old Need For Speed games that featured exotic cars that everyone wanted to drive and the fact that you have to race through some peaceful american countryside while cops are on your tale, then blend it in with some Need For Speed Underground city landscape and options to tune out your vehicle and you have Need For Speed Most Wanted. Along with that, you have to create a great rap sheet that has a police record to make you become the most wanted person in the game. You compete with other drivers for the “Most Wanted” title and have to go through a ranking system to become the number one driver

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Canon iPF650 vs. Canon iPF605 – What are the differences between Canon iPF650 and Canon iPF605 A1 Size Large Format Printer?

Many buyers would like to understand the differences between these wide format printers (Canon iPF605 vs.

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Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8100 for Graphic Arts & CAD Applications

The customer is a regional interior design company that take care of all aspects of interior and the exterior design covering the portfolio such as retail, hospitality, residential and commercial industries. The company’s existing HP Designjet 500ps, 42” wide format inkjet printer has broken down and the spare parts have been obsolete. Leaving with no choice, the customer need to purchase a new

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Introducing Canon iPF605 at Canon Advanced Made Simple Solutions Showcase (22nd September 2010)

The wait for a descent but affordable A1 size plan printer is over! It has been a long wait for wide format printer users who are searching around for a medium end A1 size inkjet large format printer that offers at entry level price point. Majority of the A1 size plotter users got to live with the low end desktop type A1 size wide format printer like Designjet 110, Designjet 111 or Designjet 500

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Introducing Canon iPF605 at Canon Advanced Made Simple Solutions Showcase (22nd September 2010)

Internet Explorer 9 beta review: Microsoft reinvents the browser

Microsoft officially unveiled Internet Explorer 9 today. It is, without question, the most ambitious browser release Microsoft has ever undertaken, and despite the beta label it is an impressively polished product. Is it fast enough

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Apple’s new review guidelines: Thoughts on fart apps

Do Apple’s new App Store review guidelines inadvertently confirm some of the worst suspicions developers have about the company’s review process? And is Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who famously wrote Thoughts on Music and Thoughts on Flash, now giving us Thoughts on Fart Apps

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The Next Wave of LBS is Curating People

What next for Foursquare (Gowalla and other companies in the check-in space)?  One week into Facebook Places, it’s pretty clear the core use case of finding out where you’re friends have been tilted heavily toward Facebook.  Media feedback on whether Places is really innovative varies but that’s besides the point.  Incumbent players, with their large audiences, have the luxury of entering new spaces with as “fast followers” who add rapidly adopted features like check-ins to their platforms. But there’s a lot more that can be done in the geo-social area. I’ve always thought that Foursquare’s biggest asset is surfacing leaders in the “things to do” space.  Who are the trendsetters that can help me get more out my activities and social life?  We value the ratings and reviews of thoughtful contributors on Yelp and Amazon.  They save us time and share “hidden” information.  Likewise, social trendsetters who have similar interests and preferences to our own can be really informative.  Because it’s a use case that transcends friends, there need to be ways to identify these leaders.  Here’s where Foursquare’s badging is a really differentiated asset.  Badging tied to activity types, categories and interest areas can reveal who’s worth following based on similarity to preferences and “activity graph”.  There’s utility and entertainment value in discovering new and interesting places via trendsetters.  Want the scoop on the late night hang out scene in your town?   Are you checking-in to tourist destinations on your vacation and open to itinerary ideas and tips?  Are you a foodie who want to stay abreast of the new “must have” restaurants.  There are people who are really engaged into these scenes who can lead the way.  You might call them tribal leaders.  Tribal leaders crave followers or tribe members.  Foursquare is a great platform for these leaders to organize their tribes.  I’d like to see profile pages on Foursquare begin to surface these potential leaders in a more meaningful way than is provided today.  Badging is a really hugely valuable set of data that can be mined for insight into ‘mayorship’ of a different kind.  The version 1.0 of mayorship that is prevalent today really needs to evolve into mayorship which signals deeper qualification to lead specific communities of interest.

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Sign of the times: Parameters for Golden Tate deal established

The Seahawks and receiver Golden Tate now have pretty clear sign posts in their negotiations for a contract. Montario Hardesty, the running back, was chosen by Cleveland one pick before Tate, and he agreed to a contract with the Browns Monday .

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How to increase your chances of influencing social networks

Based on research carried out by Gartner , it has been determined that a whopping 20% of social media users are ‘influencers.’ Considering the increasing importance of such media in news dissemination and increasing website traffic, how can this information be exploited? Grouped into ‘Salesmen,’ ‘Connectors’ and ‘Mavens,’ this 20% is able to influence over 70% of other users’ activity.

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French children stay off the screen long enough to read a newspaper

Even though newspapers sell only about half as many copies in France as in Britain or Germany and young people buy papers particularly infrequently, Play Bac has succeeded in creating demand for a range of newspapers created specifically for children . Petit Quotidien (6-9 years), Mon Quotidien (10-14 years), and L’Actu (14 years and up up) have combined circulation of 165,000. Is there any magic to this

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Study: Most UK consumers would not pay for content online

As The Times continues to lose online traffic after introducing a paywall in recent weeks, a KPMG survey published yesterday revealed that British consumers are less likely to pay for online content than other web users around the world, Marketing Week reported. The study found that 81 percent of UK users would rather go elsewhere for content if a free site they regularly visited started charging for content

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Tod Leiweke leaving Seahawks, Blazers to return to the NHL

Tod Leiweke, the CEO of Vulcan Sports, is leaving his post in charge of the Seahawks and NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers to join the Tampa Bay Lightning as CEO and part-owner. Leiweke joined the Seahawks in 2003, coming to the team after Mike Holmgren was stripped of his general manager’s responsibilities

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A follow-up note

• Tod Leiweke will be going to Florida later this week, but will return and will remain in place until his successor is chosen. That process, Leiweke said, will take “months not weeks.” • The question of finding Leiweke’s successor starts with a question of what position that successor will fill. When Leiweke came to Seattle in 2003, he was hired as the CEO of a football team

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WikiLeaks floods again with the help of major newspapers

WikiLeaks has struck again, with the biggest intelligence leak in history. Several weeks ago, WikiLeaks received about 91,000 reports concerning raw information of the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented decision WikiLeaks decided not to immediately release the highly classified reports, but instead shared its findings first with the New York Times , The Guardian , and the Der Spiegel

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Fighting the Good Fight: Say “No” to Postal Rate Increase

By now you’ve heard all about the pending rate increase.  If the Postal Regulatory Commission allows this rate case to happen (which by the way is over 10 times the amount allowed by law), I predict you will see a major slide in mail volume and a major slide in the economy.

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AnnArbor.com one year on: does it present an effective alternative to a daily print edition?

A year ago, the Ann Arbor News stopped printing and AnnArbor.com took over. Ann Arbor, Michigan was the first American city to lose its only local daily , and at the time it was anticipated that it would be the first of many. A year later this does not seem to have been the case.

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Digital Natives versus brand elite?

Eighteen to 24-year-olds want news fast, do not necessarily trust brands or corporations and view life as a game, according to BVA , a research institute in France, which carried out a 3-month study of ‘Digital Natives’ , the young peoplewhose lives are shaped by video games, computers, mobile phones and virtual systems.

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Not-So-Expensive 3D Printers ZPrinter 150 and ZPrinter 250 Were Introduced

The Z Corporation introduced two new devices for three-dimensional printing: ZPrinter 150 and ZPrinter 250 and described them as “available for purchase and operation”. The first 3D-printer falls into the “business quality” category according to the classification of the manufacturer, and the second has earned the title of “cheapest multicolor” 3D-printer. Among the potential users of the devices are designers, engineers, architects.

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Not-So-Expensive 3D Printers ZPrinter 150 and ZPrinter 250 Were Introduced

Google’s response to the FTC’s Discussion Draft on the future of journalism

In a twenty page document responding to the Federal Trade Commision’s Discussion Draft on policy recommendations for journalism, Google presents a valiant defence of its support for newspapers and the fact that “the Internet, rather than being the cause of journalism’s downfall, provides a unique opportunity for news organizations to renew and reinvigorate journalism.” Google’s first point is that “the current challenges faced by the news industry are business problems, not legal problems, and can only be addressed effectively with business solutions,” rather than by government regulation on copyright, antitrust etc. Solutions must be driven by the industry itself, the document says.

Covey’s Mantra: Begin with the End in Mind

“ Begin with the end in mind ”, a missive popularized by self-improvement guru Stephen Covey, is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation. The idea that our direct marketing is re-created over and over as it is produced certainly applies to variable data marketing.

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