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		<title>Websense Explores Sale of Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anupreeta Das and Dennis K. Berman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web security software company Websense Inc. is exploring a sale with the aid of investment bank Qatalyst Partners, people familiar with the matter said. San Diego-based Websense has a market capitalization of $826 million and could fetch around $1 billion in a sale, these people said.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web security software company Websense Inc. is exploring a sale with the aid of investment bank Qatalyst Partners, people familiar with the matter said.</p>
<p>San Diego-based Websense has a market capitalization of $826 million and could fetch around $1 billion in a sale, these people said. They cautioned that Websense, which has previously toyed with the idea of a sale, may again decide not to sell itself if offers come in below expectations.</p>
<p>Websense makes software that filters Web content, and companies frequently install it on employee computers to block access to certain types of websites, such as pornography and Facebook. Its online security technology also protects emails, data and other content from cyber attacks.</p>
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		<title>Google Makes It Easier to Sift Through Recipes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Voices</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest of Google's ongoing efforts to promote Better Living Through Algorithms, the search sovereign is rolling out Recipe View, which strains out extraneous results from a recipe search and lets you filter for specific ingredients, cooking times and calories.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the latest of Google&#8217;s ongoing efforts to promote Better Living Through Algorithms, the search sovereign is rolling out <a href="http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/">Recipe View</a>, which <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/slice-and-dice-your-recipe-search.html">strains out extraneous results from a recipe search</a> and lets you filter for specific ingredients, cooking times and calories.</p>
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		<title>Cooliris Raises $9.6M, Gets Social With Mobile Photo-Sharing App</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Gannes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that's about sharing photos rather than browsing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cooliris.com/">Cooliris</a>, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that&#8217;s about sharing photos rather than browsing through them.</p>
<p><a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2011/02/iPhone_stream_view.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3549" title="iPhone_stream_view" src="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2011/02/iPhone_stream_view-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>The company has a not-too-shabby 35 million downloads to date of its <a href="http://www.cooliris.com/desktop/how-to-launch-and-use/">Wall product</a>, and is the default media gallery for Google&#8217;s Android. But now it&#8217;s venturing out into the oh-so-hot mobile media-sharing space (see: Instagram, Path, Picplz) with a photo app called <a href="http://www.liveshare.com/">LiveShare</a>&#8211;for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and the Web&#8211;that&#8217;s focused on groups.</p>
<p>Cooliris is also announcing today that it&#8217;s raised $9.6 million in Series C funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers (which also <a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110201/path-raises-8-65m-from-kleiner-index/">recently backed</a> Path), Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture, DAG Ventures and the Westly Group. The five-year-old Palo Alto-based company has now raised a total of $28.6 million and employs 45 people.</p>
<p>Cooliris&#8217;s new LiveShare app helps users create photo streams for a particular event or group of people. Everyone who is invited to a stream can share photos, taken on a phone or elsewhere. Cooliris CEO Soujanya Bhumkar said that he thinks this &#8220;hyperpersonalized&#8221; approach fits with how people think about sharing: With respect to the four aspects of space, time, interests and relationships.</p>
<p><a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2011/02/Android_Create_Stream.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3550" title="Android_Create_Stream" src="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2011/02/Android_Create_Stream-168x300.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="300" /></a>What does that actually mean? While Path pushes users to identify their closest 50 friends for <a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101114/path-the-social-app-thats-not-viral-by-design/">intimate sharing of personal photos and videos</a>, LiveShare gives users the option of sharing with whoever is appropriate for any context.</p>
<p>There are many alternatives to LiveShare, especially for Apple&#8217;s iOS platform. Will users want to install yet another app because of its particular set of nifty features and the flexibility of its sharing options? Perhaps not, but people seem to increasingly <a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110101/the-social-webs-big-new-theme-for-2011-multiple-identities-for-everyone/">utilize tools to segment their online identities</a>, so LiveShare could become part of that trend.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also competition from the social Web giant Facebook, which provides a similar way to filter its Web site based on designated friend groups (though it has not disclosed how popular the product is with users). LiveShare, like many social apps, gets its friend network information from users plugging into Facebook.</p>
<p>But Cooliris isn&#8217;t starting from scratch with this product. For instance, the company is making use of its existing relationship with Google, so LiveShare will be incorporated into Android&#8217;s Gallery. But with nearly $30 million raised, expectations for LiveShare will be very, very high.</p>
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		<title>Facebook Adds More Group Control, Data Export, App Dashboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Paczkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the end, it wasn’t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn’t a “check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of “The Social Network” with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg. In the end, it was a series of service enhancements--three, to be exact.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/FBinvite.jpg" alt="" title="FBinvite" width="350" height="219" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50248" />In the end, it wasn&#8217;t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg.  </p>
<p>In the end, it was <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434691727130">a series of service enhancements</a>&#8211;three, to be exact, offering more-granular sharing controls, the ability to export your data and an apps dashboard.</p>
<p>&#8220;I promise we&#8217;re not going to talk today about anything that you&#8217;ve been reading in the news media,&#8221; CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this morning. &#8220;It&#8217;s something a lot more exciting.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;One of the big challenges for us is making it safe and easy for people to take their information to other services,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People own their information and they should be able to take it with them wherever they want and use it however they want, in a variety of social contexts. A lot of the time people just want to have a copy of all the information they&#8217;ve put in Facebook. This is a core thing for us. People need to be able to put their information into Facebook and then take it out.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so Facebook is addressing that need with Download Your Information, a service that allows Facebook users to, you guessed it, easily download their information and use it to interact in a variety of social situations.</p>
<p>Also announced this morning, a new apps dashboard called &#8220;Applications You Use.&#8221; This offers a higher level of visibility into the apps people are using and how those apps are using their information.</p>
<p>Finally, the company announced a solution to what it described as social networking&#8217;s &#8220;big problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We have at Facebook what we like to call &#8216;The Big Problem,&#8217;&#8221; Zuckerberg said. &#8220;You have these different social circles and you want to interact with them in different ways.  The reality is that for a lot of people &#8216;just your friends&#8217; isn&#8217;t really private. And what a lot of people want to do is to be able to share among smaller groups within their friends&#8230;.This isn&#8217;t just a problem with Facebook, but across all the applications in the ecosystem. So how do you solve this problem of subgroups?&#8221;</p>
<p>Evidently, there are a number of approaches. Facebook&#8217;s finally decided on one, and it&#8217;s the best of the bunch&#8211;better than any list or algorithmic solution you might conceive of. &#8220;What we think is the right solution and the one that&#8217;s going to work and be a fundamental building block of Facebook and social applications going forward,&#8221; Zuckerberg said, adding that Facebook&#8217;s solution will &#8220;blow everyone else away.&#8221;</p>
<p>And that solution is? An enhanced version of Facebook Groups, consisting of Shared Space, group chat and email lists.</p>
<p>Shared space&#8211;according to former Hot Potato CEO Justin Shaffer, who&#8217;s been quarterbacking the project since Facebook acquired his company&#8211;works pretty much as you&#8217;d expect. Create a group, add some friends and voil&agrave;: a solution to The Big Problem.</p>
<p>Making these advances possible is something Facebook refers to as &#8220;Social Design.&#8221; This is why Shared Space is called &#8220;space&#8221; and isn&#8217;t just a simple friend filter&#8211;even though that&#8217;s really what it appears to be. This is all, of course, part of Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;share more&#8221; philosophy, and the company clearly thinks that by allowing users to share more privately&#8211;i.e., within smaller groups of friends&#8211;they will share more. That means more user activity and data for Facebook, and the privacy concerns that go along with that.</p>
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		<title>Making Hotmail Hot Again		 			 	Hot Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Boehret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft hopes a revamped version of the Web-based program will heat up interest among emailers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like it or not, your personal email address says something about you. Gmail tends to be considered the cool email to have today. Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) .Mac addresses (now .Me) identify users who own Macs and don&#8217;t mind paying $100 a year for email and related services. AOL (AOL) emails are tied to adults who haven&#8217;t changed their address since the dial-up days. And Hotmail is seen as old school.</p>
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<p>Since its debut in 1996, Hotmail has soared to 400 million users world-wide. But it also lost users along the way—particularly in 2008—due in part to a general perception that Hotmail wasn&#8217;t as modern as other email services. </p>
<p>Starting this week, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will try to change the way Hotmail is perceived by rolling out a revamped version. The company, which bought the program in 1998, has scrapped its attempts to get people to use its site for social networking, acknowledging that companies like Facebook and Twitter are already doing the job. And it has cleaned up its once confusing nomenclature: Hotmail is the sole name for Microsoft&#8217;s Web email program.</p>
<p>To spread the word, Microsoft recently launched a massive marketing campaign, involving online, radio and outdoor ads running through the end of the year, that will cost the company tens of millions of dollars, according to Microsoft general manager, Brian Hall. Mr. Hall says that &#8220;The New Busy&#8221; campaign is intended to demonstrate how Hotmail&#8217;s organizational features help busy people with full lives. Part of the campaign will focus on reintroducing current Hotmail users to new features. </p>
<p>But should you really consider reviving your old Hotmail account or opening a new one? I&#8217;ve been using this new version of Hotmail for the past few weeks and I&#8217;ve found it handled large files with ease, performed browser-like tasks within the inbox and integrated third-party social networks and email accounts. Though the Hotmail name still conjures up frustrating memories of too much spam and the belief that storage was restricted, Microsoft has revamped its old email service into one that&#8217;s smart, robust and reliable. It deserves a second look. </p>
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<p>The new Hotmail displays more on one screen, including photos.</p></div>
<p>Hotmail is still big on sorting emails according to your existing &#8220;Contacts&#8221; versus everyone else. This works well if you&#8217;ve taken the time to add all of your friends to the Contacts list, a procedure that takes a couple seconds per person and is done as you send emails to people. This prompting can be a bit of a pain, but if you haven&#8217;t done it, you might miss emails from people you care about. A Microsoft representative said that by the end of this summer, users will be able to opt out of this sorting.</p>
<p>At first glance, the new Hotmail doesn&#8217;t look dramatically different. But a closer look reveals intelligent organizational tools. Shortcut tabs at the top of the inbox display only messages from social networks (think of all those email notifications from Facebook and Twitter), pre-made email groups or contacts. Many other email programs only do this if users manually set up folders.</p>
<p>Another organizational tool is called Quick Views. It automatically sorts four types of emails into folders: Flagged, Photos, Office Docs and Shipping Updates. These categories come preset and cannot be customized. </p>
<p>Quick Views saved me from digging through my inbox for specific emails and from dragging certain emails into folders for saving. When I ordered gifts online for a friend&#8217;s wedding, the shipping notification emails from the delivery service arrived in my inbox and were also viewable in the Shipping Updates folder. Emails with attached Office documents were neatly sorted into the Office Docs folder.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes of the revamped Hotmail, Microsoft is powering all inboxes with Windows Live SkyDrive—an ever-growing, server-based storage repository that guarantees you&#8217;ll never be asked to clean out your inbox. (As with many Web-based email programs, Hotmail stores your emails on servers rather than taking up space on your hard drive.) </p>
<p>SkyDrive also gives Hotmail users more freedom when sharing photos: Images can be quickly uploaded to SkyDrive and shared with friends via a Web link. One message can include up to 200 photos of 50 megabytes each, or 10 gigabytes total. Meanwhile, Gmail limits attachments to about 25 megabytes per message.</p>
<p>When Word, PowerPoint or Excel documents are attached to any message received, they are opened right in the Web browser, without having to open another program. This works thanks to a program called Office Web Apps, which functions regardless of whether or not Office 2010 is installed on the computer. Just as photos are shared from Hotmail using a SkyDrive link, so, too, are Office documents. </p>
<p>Hotmail&#8217;s inbox now has a Sweep feature, which lets you move or delete all emails from a particular sender. (A similar option in Microsoft Office 2010 wipes out all emails sent prior to the last message in a thread.) Another option for tidying up your inbox is Conversation View, which sorts all emails sent in the same conversation into one group. Users can opt in or out of this, unlike Gmail, which offers only threaded emails. </p>
<p>Tough spam filters caught every Viagra-related email sent to my Hotmail address. And if you identify a piece of mail in the Junk folder that isn&#8217;t actually spam, Hotmail remembers this and sorts differently in the future. </p>
<p>Bing, Microsoft&#8217;s search engine, now plays a role in Hotmail. It&#8217;s built into the search box as an option for scouring Web content directly from the inbox. It can be accessed while composing a message: A small &#8220;From Bing&#8221; drop-down menu in the email you&#8217;re writing lets you search for content to add to emails, like maps, videos, images and movie show times. This content appears in a right-side panel and can be embedded in email messages with one click. </p>
<p>To keep people from straying away to different Web pages while using Hotmail, Web functions can be performed from right within its inbox. These functions include watching videos from YouTube or Hulu, or viewing photos from Flickr or SmugMug.  I clicked on YouTube links in emails and watched videos in a handsome overlay screen. And if an email includes codes for tracking packages using the U.S. Postal Service, the package&#8217;s real-time shipping status appears within the email. A Microsoft representative confirmed that FedEx and UPS are in the works.</p>
<p>I added my Gmail account to my Hotmail account, so I could check several personal email messages on the same Web page. In a similar manner, Hotmail can pull multiple contacts from several networks—like phone numbers and emails from LinkedIn or birthdays from Facebook—into a single Contact list.</p>
<p>Hotmail may have burned you in the past, but this beefed-up new version saves you time and is a pleasure to use. </p>
<p class="tagline">Edited by Walter S. Mossberg. Email Katherine Boehret at mossbergsolution@wsj.com</p>
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		<title>How to Stop Jason Calacanis's Zombie Army From Spamming You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 10:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to save your inbox.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jason Calacanis&#8217;s email list turned into a Frankenstein monster this morning, when one of the list&#8217;s 23,286 subscribers realized he could hit &#8220;reply all&#8221; and spam the rest of us. Unsubscribing to his list won&#8217;t make the spam stop&#8211;you&#8217;re still going to keep receiving the email chain of replies and counter-replies.</p>
<p>This method has worked for me: Create a filter in your email provider that finds and deletes all emails with &#8220;jasons-list@jasonnation.com&#8221; in the &#8220;to&#8221; field. In my case, I&#8217;ve got a Rube Goldberg set-up with my Gmail and my BlackBerry, so I had to set up a second filter for the phone, too. It&#8217;s a real pain to have to deal with this in the wee hours, but it&#8217;s better than not having email.</p>
<p>Before I could get the filter installed, by the way, I received this mass apology from &#8220;Jason&#8221;: &#8220;We all make mistakes&#8230; http://bit.ly/77X1oO.&#8221; Clicking on that link, though, gets you to a YouTube page with a video that&#8217;s been blocked by Sony (SNE). [Shrug].</p>
<p>UPDATE: Calacanis, via <a href="http://twitter.com/Jason/statuses/14355539126">Twitter</a>, says he has solved the problem.</p>
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		<title>Filtering Junk Mail and Buying Laptops</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walt Mossberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The columnist answers questions about filtering junk mail from the iPhone and buying a laptop for a middle school student.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="question"><em>How can I filter junk mail on my iPhone?</em></p>
<p>A: The iPhone&#8217;s email program doesn&#8217;t include a junk-mail filter. It relies on your email service&#8217;s junk-mail filtering system, such as the ones built into Gmail, Yahoo Mail or your company&#8217;s email system, to clear out the spam before it gets to the phone. Obviously, these server-based filtering systems aren&#8217;t perfect, so you&#8217;ll still get some spam. But you might experiment to select the email service you feel does the best job. Once you decide, you can make that the main, or the only, service you use on your iPhone, and forward all the email from accounts that receive a lot of spam into an account on that relatively spam-free service.</p>
<p class="question"><em>What model of laptop do you recommend for a student of middle-school age, at the $500 price range?</em></p>
<p>A: At that price range, you have several broad choices, so it depends on how the student will be using the machine. If it will be mainly staying on a desk or just used around the house, you should be able to find a standard-sized laptop with a 14&#8243; or 15&#8243; or even larger screen, and adequate speed, memory and hard disk capacity, for around $500, or even less, depending on sale prices. If the student wants more mobility, then a high-end netbook, or a low-end &#8220;thin and light&#8221; or &#8220;ultrathin&#8221; machine would work, though their screens and hard disks might be smaller and their processors slower.</p>
<p>However, if the student is a hard-core gamer, or does sophisticated video production, the graphics on any $500 laptop might prove inadequate, and you may have to spend more.</p>
<p>I have no particular model to recommend, since the best way to do this is to have the intended user try various models, to be sure she is comfortable with the screen and keyboard, and that the machine has whatever specific features she wants for the price.</p>
<p class="question"><em>I understand that the new Motorola Droid phone has a GPS function. I was considering a Garmin unit but wonder if I would be just as well off with the Droid and Google maps. What do you think?</em></p>
<p>A: The Droid not only has GPS and maps, which are common on many other phones, but it has a free voice-prompted, turn-by-turn navigation system powered by Google, which isn&#8217;t common. This is very similar to what you&#8217;d get in a stand-alone unit sold by companies like Garmin and Magellan, or in a paid, add-on app for the iPhone.</p>
<p>However, in my tests of this new feature on the Droid, I ran into two occasions when the Google voice-promoted navigation system gave me completely erroneous directions. On Garmin products, I have often encountered directions I considered too roundabout or time-consuming, but I have personally never received absolutely wrong directions. So you might bear that in mind when deciding if the Google capability in the Droid is a good enough substitute, at least in this stage of its development.</p>
<p>You can find Mossberg&#8217;s Mailbox, and my other columns, online free at the All Things Digital web site,<em><a href="mailto:http:/walt.allthingsd.com">http://walt.allthingsd.com</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>A Clicker To Watch TV Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Boehret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katherine Boehret looks at Clicker.com, which helps viewers find their favorite shows online faster.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding TV shows online can be a major hassle. If you can remember which network hosts the show, you then must hunt through a maze of listings of several other television shows on that network&#8217;s Web site to find it. The show you want to watch might not even be available since many networks rotate only a handful of recent episodes online at a time. And if you do finally find the correct episode, you may be required to download a special media player to watch it.</p>
<p>Some services make this process a little easier. Hulu holds episodes from 1,200 television shows, but is still missing many. Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) iTunes Store offers over 50,000 episodes, but unlike network sites or Hulu, it requires viewers to pay to download and watch them (though they are commercial-free). Video search engines like Truveo browse the entire Web, returning an often-overwhelming number of results. And while YouTube is the king of Web video, it can too easily return a search result that isn&#8217;t a complete and genuine episode of the show you&#8217;re seeking. </p>
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<p>This week, I&#8217;ve been testing <a href="http://www.Clicker.com">Clicker</a>, a free Web site that aims to be the TV Guide for all full episodes available to watch on the Web. It searches over 1,200 sources, so it can index some 400,000 episodes from 7,000 shows. Results include television programs as well as &#8220;Web originals,&#8221; or shows that are native to the Internet and are of broadcast quality. Clicker either plays the video on its site or links you to where this content is shown on another hosting site—like NBC or Hulu. If a show isn&#8217;t available online, Clicker tells you so you don&#8217;t have to keep hunting all over for it. </p>
<p>I like Clicker and found it to be a quick resource for finding all sorts of shows online. In many cases, it directed me to find the episodes I wanted to watch and saved me the hassle of less efficient searching. It also suggested shows I might like and offered a playlist where I could subscribe to receive episodes as they became available or save available videos to watch later. </p>
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<p>Clicker makes descriptive pages about each show</p></div>
<p>Though it has a search box, Clicker feels more like a directory than purely a robotic search engine that relies mainly on algorithms. In fact, Clicker created a descriptive page for almost every show, and these pages can be edited or created via user submissions, which Clicker will review before posting them to the site. And because it&#8217;s focused on TV shows or Web originals, it won&#8217;t clutter your results with kids&#8217; birthday parties or cats on skateboards.</p>
<p>The site is still rather new, so it has some kinks to work out—like links to videos that didn&#8217;t actually play if, for example, they were pulled by the network. But these were rare, and for the most part, if a video wasn&#8217;t available, a clear, brief explanation was displayed at the top of the page. Also, if Clicker sends you back out to a network&#8217;s site and that network uses a special player for videos, you&#8217;ll still have to download that player.</p>
<h5 class="subhed">Filtering Results</h5>
<p>Clicker&#8217;s program pages contain a description of the show, and a way to filter results by season, airdate or popularity. And the site shows the actual airdate of each video—something that not many other sites do. A column on the right side of each page displays several related shows, like the suggestion of &#8220;Modern Family&#8221; for fans of &#8220;How I Met Your Mother&#8221;; and &#8220;Roswell&#8221; and &#8220;Dead Like Me&#8221; suggested for people who like &#8220;Heroes.&#8221; In December, these recommendations will become even more personalized.</p>
<p>Some of Clicker&#8217;s sources include NBC, Fox, ABC, PBS, the Food Network and Web original content (i.e. &#8220;The Onion&#8221;). It also can search movies and music videos; the movies can be watched free in some cases, or paid for via Amazon&#8217;s (AMZN) Video on Demand or Netflix (NFLX) Instant Streaming. In January, Clicker plans to incorporate shows and movies from iTunes, using Apple&#8217;s pay-and-download method. </p>
<p>Clicker is especially handy when you&#8217;re looking for a show that isn&#8217;t where you think it should be. &#8220;Seinfeld,&#8221; for example, is on TBS rather than NBC, where it originally aired, and only nine episodes are available at once before they rotate out and are replaced by nine more. &#8220;Friends&#8221; is found on <a href="http://www.theWB.com">theWB.com</a>, rather than on NBC&#8217;s site. &#8220;Damages&#8221; isn&#8217;t available on its network site, FX; instead, it can be found at <a href="http://www.Crackle.com">Crackle.com</a>, another video-hosting site. It&#8217;s easy to understand why people settle for missing an episode rather than trying to find a show online. </p>
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<p>Clicker finds over 400,000 television and Web-original episodes so you can search less and watch more.</p></div>
<p>Clicker also comes in handy when you&#8217;re querying something or someone you need to learn about. By typing in a term like &#8220;Thanksgiving travel,&#8221; I get news results from NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightly News with Brian Williams,&#8221; the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; and the Associated Press. I also get tips for traveling during this busy time of year from an AOL Travel online video, as well as a 1968 episode of &#8220;The Beverly Hillbillies&#8221; called &#8220;The Thanksgiving Spirit.&#8221; </p>
<p>Clicker isn&#8217;t the site to use if you want to find the hot video clip that everyone is watching. When I searched for &#8220;Whitney Houston&#8221; the morning after the American Music Awards, the most recent video I found was the singer performing on &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; in September—not the one showing her singing during the awards show the night before. </p>
<p>But the fact that Clicker can find Whitney Houston on &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; is useful in itself. A search for Warren Buffett&#8217;s most recent appearance on the &#8220;Charlie Rose&#8221; show can be conducted in a similar manner—either by typing his name into the box at the top of the page or by opening the show&#8217;s page and searching within that show for anyone who has appeared as a guest. Performing a search within a show like this anywhere else is nowhere near as easy as on Clicker. </p>
<h5 class="subhed">Playlist of Your Shows</h5>
<p>Clicker can be used as a TiVo (TIVO) of sorts if you create a username on the site or simply sign in using Facebook Connect, which I did. </p>
<p>Users can make playlists where they can add just one episode, all episodes, or new episodes to this list—subscribing to receive all new episodes in the playlist as they become available. I added episodes of &#8220;The Amazing Race&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia&#8221; to my playlist. This list can be accessed anytime, and it&#8217;s helpful for people who don&#8217;t have enough time to watch a show that they found. In December, email and Facebook notifications will be added to tell users that new episodes are in their playlists.</p>
<p>If you spend a lot of time in front of your computer and find yourself searching all over the Web for the TV shows you&#8217;d like to watch, Clicker will be a huge help. And even if your show isn&#8217;t available, you might find something similar—or better—in Clicker&#8217;s recommendations. </p>
<p class="tagline">Edited by Walter S. Mossberg. Email  <a href="mailto:mossbergsolution@wsj.com">mossbergsolution@wsj.com</a></p>
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		<title>Facebook's New Privacy Policy: Share Everything With Everyone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of those Facebook users who worries that your boss will see photos of what you did last weekend? Then you'll like Facebook's new privacy policy. But if you're part of the large group of people who think that nothing is really private on the Web and that everyone should see everything you do online, then you're really going to like Facebook's new privacy policy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/porkys.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8885" title="porkys" src="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/porkys-250x180.jpg" alt="porkys" width="250" height="180" /></a>Are you one of those Facebook users who worries that your boss will see photos of what you did over the weekend? Then you&#8217;ll like Facebook&#8217;s new privacy policy. It&#8217;s designed to make it easier for you to sort and filter who sees what on the site.</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re part of the large group of people who think that nothing is really private on the Web and that <em>everyone</em> should see <em>everything</em> you do online, then you&#8217;re really going to like Facebook&#8217;s new privacy policy. It&#8217;s designed to get Facebook users to share as much as they can with as many people as they can&#8211;including people who aren&#8217;t on Facebook.</p>
<p>Facebook tries to explain the policy changes in a lengthy blog post <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?blog_id=company">here</a>, and you can find a slideshow that accompanied a press conference the company just held <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guest5f7bf4/facebook-privacy-enhancements">here</a>.</p>
<p>But that will make your eyes glaze over. Here&#8217;s the short version:</p>
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<li>Facebook is simplifying the privacy setting controls it offers users. So if you want your pals to see your keg stand from Saturday night, but don&#8217;t want your parents to be privy, you should be able to do that more effectively. The company is experimenting with different ways to present the controls.</li>
<li>Facebook also wants to encourage people to use the &#8220;everyone&#8221; setting, which right now just means &#8220;every Facebook user.&#8221; But the company is going to eventually change that setting to mean &#8220;everyone on the Web&#8221;&#8211;meaning that Google (GOOG) users, marketers, whoever, will be able to find that stuff, too.</li>
<li>Facebook wants to expand the amount of data its users share with the world because the company thinks that the more exposure data get, the more valuable the data become. But it is doing its best to tamp down complaints from users who accidentally end up exposing kid photos or bachelor party snapshots or whatever. Hence the new, improved privacy controls, which are being rolled out before &#8220;everyone&#8221; really means &#8220;everyone.&#8221;</li>
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<p>I know, I know. That short version wasn&#8217;t that short. But you&#8217;re going to hear plenty more about this in the coming weeks. Consider this a first chapter.</p>
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		<title>An Indie Label Sounds Off: Why We Don't Love Grooveshark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a big music label sues a scrappy Web music start-up, most people tend to sympathize reflexively with the little guy. But not everyone. Here's the case against Grooveshark--not from EMI, which has hauled them into court, but from an indie that by all rights ought to be working with Grooveshark: "The service is just ripping off the band."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/06/busker.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8327" title="busker" src="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/06/busker-250x187.jpg" alt="busker" width="250" height="187" /></a>When a big music label sues a scrappy Web music start-up, most people tend to sympathize reflexively with the little guy. But not everyone.</p>
<p>My story about <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090617/another-music-startup-sued-emi-takes-grooveshark-to-court/">EMI&#8217;s lawsuit against Web music start-up Grooveshark </a>elicited this email from Ben Patterson, who runs indie Web music distributor <a href="http://www.dashgo.com/login">DashGo</a>, about his experience with the service.</p>
<p>I think Patterson&#8217;s remarks are useful because they spell out Grooveshark&#8217;s business plan, or at least part of it: Charge labels to promote their acts on the service&#8217;s search engine. And I think it&#8217;s also helpful to hear an obvious but little-voiced argument about the &#8220;free Web music = valuable promotion&#8221; thesis: It works best when the act or label is playing along. With Ben&#8217;s permission, I&#8217;m publishing his entire email.</p>
<blockquote class="memo"><p>I&#8217;ll caveat this by saying they are nice guys and big music fans and I&#8217;m always rooting for new music services that work for bands and music fans alike.</p>
<p>Back in 2007 DashGo signed a deal with Grooveshark that basically amounted to a digital download service delivered via P2P. Users who used Grooveshark&#8217;s P2P service to search for songs would be presented with a download / buy link and the revenue would be split between fan hosting the file, Grooveshark and the band.</p>
<p>A couple months later we got a nice packet&#8211;a t-shirt, letter and wax-sealed, yes, wax-sealed, envelope with a check for $0.59 in royalties. (<a href=".http://www.myspace.com/coconutrecords">Coconut Records &#8220;West Coast&#8221;</a> I think)</p>
<p>Then I didn&#8217;t hear much for 6 months. No checks, no real action. At the end of 2008, they reached out and told me about their new music search engine at listen.grooveshark.com&#8211;basically Seeqpod / Songza / all other stream song aggregators&#8230;not what we licensed for, but not egregious enough to get huffy.</p>
<p>Of course, that was before they offered to sell me advertising for my bands as the default search keyword. For $0.05 per search, I could make the default phrase &#8220;DashGo Band Name&#8221; instead of &#8220;Search here.&#8221; I had to ask&#8211;am I getting paid per play? No of course not. Because &#8220;[they] are not profitable and can&#8217;t afford to share that advertising revenue.&#8221; So I&#8217;m paying, not even for a play, but for a search term on a service where they have users and can sell ads ONLY because people can listen to music, and because it&#8217;s free, what incentive is there EVER to buy the song?</p>
<p>So we don&#8217;t deliver there anymore.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll tell you why all these free streaming music services are broken&#8211;because they rely on music advertising to pay the rent but give away the advertisers product. If I got free McDonald&#8217;s and Budweiser by watching the Super Bowl, why would I buy the food? As an advertiser, why would I pay a CPC to advertise streaming music and promote listens when the per stream rate a existing subscription services is AT BEST $0.02 per play?</p>
<p>It sucks to get sued. I&#8217;m sorry Grooveshark, but really..what did you expect? You&#8217;re soliciting labels and bands to pay your bandwidth, rent and operating costs and giving away the product.</p>
<p>While I&#8217;ve got this soapbox out, let me preach one more gospel; offering free music accessible via a search engine is NOT promotional if the band hasn&#8217;t opted in.</p>
<p>If a user SEARCHES for the music and listens to it for free in an environment where someone ELSE has posted the music and the band doesn&#8217;t have the option to ask for an email address or even pitch a tour or merch or actual album; then the service is just ripping off the band by giving free content to someone who asked for it&#8211;not promoting it to a new fan or adding a filter that helps expose and distinguish music.</p></blockquote>
<p>[<em>Image credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_logic/2981022170/">Mrs. Logic</a></em>] </p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Paczkowski</dc:creator>
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