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Biz Stone is keynote speaker at 140: Twitter Conference LA
August 26th, 2009 | 
Author: The Twitter conference is coming to Los Angeles September 22 -23, 2009. With an amazing number of A-List people speaking and attending, this conference is sure to be THE social media conference to attend this year.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, Inc. will be the keynote speaker at 140: Twitter Conference LA, “Tapping into the Real Time Web”.
This conference is a two day event with two tracks; a main track and a developers track. Celebrities and Geeks tweet up to discuss all things Twitter. If you are new to Twitter or not there is something for everyone including celebrity panels, business sessions and the latest killer apps.
Who will be speaking at this must-attend conference? To list just a few: Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tony Hawk, LeVar Burton, Guy Kawasaki, Veronica Belmont, Peter Shankman, Justine Ezarik, and many more.
A sample of the sessions:
Twitter and Celebrity: A Match Made in Heaven? Featuring Dr. Drew Pinsky, LeVarBurton, Guy Kawasaki, Olivia Munn, and Mark Geragos.
Lunch panel: The Comedy Session featuring Tom Arnold and Jamie Kennedy
Developer Showcase:
There will also be a dedicated space at The Twitter Conference to showcase some of the cool stuff being developed. If you’re going to be attending the conference, then you’ve got a room of cool developers showing off new applications to look forward to. If you’re promoting a launch or looking to generate buzz for an existing Twitter application, you should consider joining the Developer Showcase.
Tweetup
The Official 140tc Tweetup party will be held from 5:30-7:30 on September 22
To learn more about the conference or to buy tickets: The Twitter Conference
Tickets are just $299 until September 6th. They will increase to $429 until sold out.
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Posted in Internet, Olivia Munn, Tech, Twitter | 
Tags: Biz Stone, Olivia Munn, Twitter | 
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Goosegrade now lets anyone copyedit any blog
Crowd-sourced copy editing service Goosegrade took its tool in an interesting direction on Tuesday, allowing anyone to leave a suggested edit on blogs that do not even have the Goosegrade plug-in installed.
The new system works via bookmarklet instead, letting users leave a quick correction that’s sent back to Goosegrade’s site. There, the owner of the site in question can check on all the recommended edits and do them manually, or simply install Goosegrade’s plug-in for blogs, which lets them approve and implement the edits one at a time right inside their blogging software.
Got an edit? Make it on any site with Goosegrade.
(Credit: CNET)
What makes the new approach really neat is that other users who have saved the bookmarklet can see pending edits made by other users, along with a history of past changes–although this doesn’t show up with any kind of notification when first viewing an article. This makes for a good solution for sites who choose not to adopt Goosegrade’s system, wherein previous edits would go completely unseen.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10317716-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google patches severe Chrome vulnerabilities
Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person’s computer.
With one attack on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, malicious JavaScript on a Web site could let an attacker gain access to sensitive data or run arbitrary code on the computer, Google said in a blog post Tuesday. With the other, a page with XML-encoded information could cause a browser tab crash that could let an attacker run arbitrary code within a Chrome protected area called the sandbox.
Chrome 2.0.172.43 (click to download for Windows) fixes the issues and another medium-severity issue. Once Chrome is installed, it retrieves updates automatically and applies them when people restart the browser.
Google won’t release details of the vulnerabilities until “a majority of users are up to date with the fix,” Engineering Program Manager Jonathan Conradt said in the blog post.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10317320-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
U.K. government eyes sanctions for file sharers
The U.K. government has made new proposals that would see Internet users disconnected if they are suspected of illicit file-sharing.
The proposals (PDF) were announced on Tuesday by Lord Mandelson’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). They arrive in the middle of the department’s own public consultation on legislation on the misuse of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, which is scheduled to end in September.
“Our thinking on the process supporting the objectives and the obligations [of the consultation] has developed, and we thought it would be helpful to share these thoughts with stakeholders at this point, so that they can take them into account when responding to the consultation,” the government said in a statement.
The new proposals make two major additions to the initial plans. The first is a new sanction against illicit file sharers, which calls on the ISP to suspend the suspected subscriber’s account. Lord Carter discounted this measure as unnecessarily harsh in his Digital Britain report, which kicked off the P2P consultation in June. However, the government now says it is “considering the case for adding suspension of accounts into the list of measures that could be imposed.”
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10317001-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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CNETNews U.K. government eyes sanctions for file sharers http://bit.ly/60lhp
Posted in Government, Internet, media, movies, Music, U.K., video |
Tags: Government, the internet, U.K. |
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Go social with these WordPress plug-ins
With the help of plug-ins, you can extend the functionality of your WordPress blog far beyond what’s available to you when you add it to your server.
One of the best ways to get the most out of your blogs is through social plug-ins. These simple plug-ins can be added to your blog to help you connect socially with both your readers and their friends. They offer a fine way to build traffic to your site.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10316017-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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CNETNews Go social with these WordPress plug-ins http://bit.ly/11o187
Posted in Communication, Internet, Tech, WordPress |
Tags: plugins, social networking, WordPress |
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