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16 Jul 11:43

Industrial R&D + Academic Research = MOAR Future!

by noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Chung Lee)

A little less than than a year ago, I transfered to a new group within Motorola called Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) which was setup after the Google acquisition of Motorola last year (yes, Google owns Motorola now).

The person hired to run this new group is Regina Dugan, who was previously the director of the Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency (DARPA). This is the same organization that funded projects such as ARPANET, the DARPA Grand Challenge, Mother of All Demos, Big Dog, CALO (which evolved into Apple's Siri), Exoskeletons, and Hypersonic Vehicles that could reach any point on earth in 60 minutes.

It's a place with big ideas powered by big science.

The philosophy behind Motorola ATAP is to create an organization with the same level of appetite for technology advancement as DARPA, but with a consumer focus. It is a pretty interesting place to be.

One of the ways DARPA was capable of having such a impressive portfolio of projects is because they work heavily with outside research organizations in both industry and academia.  If you talk to a university professor or graduate student in engineering, there is a very good chance their department has a DARPA funded project.  However, when companies want to work with universities, it has always been notoriously difficult to get through the paperwork of putting research collaborations in place due to long legal discussions over IP ownership and commercialization terms lasting several months.

To address this issue head on, ATAP created a Multi-University Research Agreement (MURA). A single document that every university partner could sign to accelerate the collaboration between ATAP and research institutions, reducing the time to engage academic research partners from several months to a couple weeks. The agreement has been signed by Motorola, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Tech.  As we engage more research partners, their signatures will be added to the same document.

"The multi-university agreement is really the first of its kind," said Kaigham J. Gabriel, vice president and deputy director of ATAP. "Such an agreement has the potential to be a national model for how companies and universities work together to speed innovation and US competitiveness, while staying true to their individual missions and cultures."

This may seem a little dry.  But to me, what it means is that I can approach some of the smartest people in the country and ask, "do you want to build the future together?" and all they have to say is, "yes."

Let's do it.

Full press release here.
21 Jun 12:39

Feds thwart KKK member's plot to create mobile death ray to kill "undesirables"

by Xeni Jardin
Margarida S

Apparently this news story must obligatory be accompanied by photos of silly toy guns.

Federal officials say two men in New York state are charged in a bizarre plot to develop a mobile X-ray "death ray" machine to silently and remotely kill people flagged as "undesirable." Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric J. Feight, 54, were arrested on Tuesday after an operation by Albany's FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Glendon Scott Crawford, an industrial mechanic and reported member of tea-party group Americans Demanding Liberty and Freedom and of the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is said to have walked into a synagogue in Albany last year and "announced his intention to build a weapon that could help Israel kill its enemies while they slept." He sought financial backing. The synagogue members told him to get lost, according to prosecutors, so he asked a Ku Klux Klan leader in North Carolina, who also apparently told him to get lost.

Both groups told authorities about the man. He kept building his dream machine anyway. He planned to use it to kill Muslims, according to the criminal complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Albany, and described it as "Hiroshima on a light switch."

From the New York Times' account:

Mr. Crawford, who the authorities say works for General Electric in Schenectady and lives in Galway, N.Y., believed the device would enable him to secretly poison people with lethal doses of radiation from a safe distance, the authorities said. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Mr. Crawford, 49, and an engineer, Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, N.Y., whom the authorities described as a co-conspirator who works in industrial automation, with conspiring to provide support for the building of a weapon of mass destruction. The authorities say Mr. Crawford relied on Mr. Feight to design the weapon.

Mr. Crawford, the authorities said, conceived of a powerful X-ray device that could be placed in a truck and driven near a target. The driver would park, leave the area and activate the device, “killing human targets silently and from a distance with lethal doses of radiation,” the complaint against the men stated.

Mr. Crawford, in a conversation in January at a restaurant with a federal informer, described his plan as “Hiroshima on a light switch,” and said that whoever wielded the device could kill with little chance of being caught, according to the complaint. As for motive, Mr. Crawford told two undercover agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation: “I am in this for my kids. I don’t want money.”

He added: “You know what? After this last election, the electoral process is dead.”

From the Times-Union's account:

An FBI affidavit indicates that as many as eight unidentified people may have been assisting Crawford, including a fellow GE employee described as "Person C." The complaint implies that some of those individuals may have known at least elements of what Crawford was trying to do.

During the meeting at the Scotia restaurant a year ago, Crawford described his plan to an undercover informant to construct a powerful industrial X-ray machine that would be powered by a makeshift, 2,000-watt battery. The plan included an attempt by Crawford to find part-time work in a metal shop where he would have access to X-ray tubes containing radioactive materials, the complaint states.

"Crawford also told the (source) that the target of his radiation emitting device would be the Muslim community," the complaint states. "Crawford described the device's capabilities as 'Hiroshima on a light switch' and that 'everything with respiration would be dead by the morning.'"

Crawford ended the meeting by stating "how much sweeter could there be than a big stack of smelly bodies?"

Thumbnail: Glendon Scott Crawford leaving the Federal Courthouse in shackles after being arraigned Wednesday afternoon, June 19, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union).

    


21 Jun 12:38

No Manners In Line Is Out Of Line

by Not Always Right
Margarida S

*your

Supermarket | Los Angeles, CA, USA

(I am a customer. I approach a cashier, with my children in tow.)

Me: “Howdy, do you have any cooking sherry? I didn’t see any on the floor.”

Cashier: “Yes, we keep it up here.”

Customer Behind Me: “Are you really holding up the line for alcohol?”

Me: “You mean, am I a paying customer who waited in line, without harassing the other store-goers, and is now waiting for a product that is only attained at the front of the store?”

Customer Behind Me: “Ugh, disgusting. And your kids are standing right there, too. You’re disgusting.”

My Six-Year-Old Daughter: “She is not disgusting! You are, for being so rude! Didn’t your mommy teach you any manners?! Be patient and wait your turn just like everybody else!”

(The next customer in line behind the rude customer joins in.)

Customer #2: “Seriously, stop being a jerk, and wait you’re turn.”

Customer Behind Me: “F*** this!”

(The customer behind me walks out.)

Cashier: “About time someone told him off. He’s a jerk to everyone he sees.”

My Six-Year-Old Daughter: “That guy needs to learn some manners, or he’s not gonna have any friends!”

21 Jun 12:37

Corkscrewed

by admin
Margarida S

Genuinely no idea what on earth this is about.

21 Jun 10:58

The Most Well-Connected Google Service

by Alex Chitu
Margarida S

These don't sound like great integration...
". a link to Reader was displayed in Gmail's inbox when there was no mail"

Many people think that Google Reader could've been more successful if Google promoted it more. The truth is that Google Reader has been the service that connected to the biggest number of Google services. No other Google benefited from so many service integrations.

Here's an incomplete list. Start counting:

1. a link to Reader was displayed in Gmail's inbox when there was no mail

2. for many years, Google Reader could be found in the main navigation bar, next to Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs

3. Google Reader was the first Google service that worked offline and the first Google service that used Google Gears, back in 2007



4. Google Reader integrated with Google Social Search, a feature that allowed you to restrict results to the pages written by your friends or people you follow.



5. iGoogle integrated with Google Reader when it started to add support for canvas view. Maximize a feed gadget and you get the Google Reader interface.



6. Blogger's Following feature was powered by Google Reader. "The blogs you follow in Blogger have been added as subscriptions in Google Reader. Subscriptions can be managed in Reader without affecting your following list in Blogger."



7. Listen, Google's podcast manager app for Android, used Google Reader to store subscriptions.

8. Google Alerts integrated with Google Reader, so you could subscribe to feeds instead of receiving email notofcations.

9. Back in 2008, Google's mobile transcoder displayed the site's feeds at the top of the page and linked to Google Reader.

10. Google Reader was the only Google product with an interface optimized for Nintendo Wii.

11. Google Currents, launched in 2011, allowed you to import your Google Reader subscriptions.

12. Google Buzz's commenting feature was integrated with Google Reader.



13. When Bloglines was discontinued in 2010, Google Reader's team encouraged users to switch to Reader. The blog post includes a graph of Reader users over time.


14. The Google Groups redesign from 2010 was inspired by Google Reader.

15. Google bought FeedBurner to monetize Google Reader and launched AdSense for Feeds.

16. Back in 2007, Google Reader made shared items available to Google Talk contacts and many people complained about this.

17. Google's Power Readers feature from 2008 allowed you to "track the news sites and blogs Barack Obama and John McCain read" using Google Reader. It was a clever way to promote Google Reader. This feature was expanded to "include journalists, techies, fashion critics, foodies and more".

18. Google Toolbar for IE allowed you to subscribe to feeds using iGoogle or Google Reader.

19. Google Blog Search still has this link below the list of search results page: "Subscribe to a blog search feed for [query] in Google Reader". Google News had a similar link.


20. Google Spreadsheets has a special function for importing feeds that was initially called GoogleReader. Now it's called ImportFeed.

21. Google TV Queue uses Google Reader to manage subscriptions.

22. Google Reader was Google's infrastructure for feeds and the technology was used by iGoogle, orkut, Gmail's web clips, Blogger widgets, Google Spreadsheets and the Ajax API.

I'm sure you can find other examples of services that integrated with Google Reader. I didn't include all the third-party apps and services that used the unofficial Google Reader API. As you can see, Reader was an important part of the Google ecosystem and Google did promote the service in many ways.
21 Jun 10:41

UK regulator seeks to block card payments to PornHub

by Kadhim Shubber
Margarida S

""The free stuff is the shop window," says Peter Johnson, ATVOD Chief Executive, referring to PornHub's free content in relation to PornHub's Premium content. "If you're offering [hardcore pornography] in your shop window, you're breaking UK law. Even if you're not in the UK, you're breaking UK law because our children can access it."


The UK's regulator for television on-demand, ATVOD, says it is trying to get industry support to block the flow of money to some pornographic websites in the United States, including sites like PornHub.

Websites that offer hardcore pornographic content freely, without proper age-verification, are in violation of the Obscene Publications Act, says ATVOD, and are therefore operating illegally.

"The free stuff is the shop window," says Peter Johnson, ATVOD Chief Executive, referring to PornHub's free content in relation to PornHub's Premium content. "If you're offering [hardcore pornography] in your shop window, you're breaking UK law. Even if you're not in the UK, you're breaking UK law because our children can access it.

 

By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Olivia Solon

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21 Jun 10:36

Megaupload data wiped out in 'largest data massacre in internet history'

by Jon Brodkin

Megaupload user data in Europe has been "irreversibly lost", said Kim Dotcom on Twitter on 19 June, because it was deleted by a Netherlands-based server hosting company called LeaseWeb.

"VERY BAD NEWS: #Leaseweb has wiped ALL #Megaupload servers. All user data & crucial evidence for our defense destroyed 'without warning,'" Dotcom tweeted.

By: Jon Brodkin, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber

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21 Jun 10:30

FBI charges two men for building 'X-ray gun' to shoot 'enemies of Israel'

by Ian Steadman
Margarida S

"The pair's ray gun was more sophisticated than this"

The pair's ray gun was more sophisticated than this

Two electrical engineers have been arrested and charged in upstate New York for building a portable X-ray gun that they wanted to use on people they saw as anti-Israel.

49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric Freight met each other at General Electric, where Crawford worked and Freight was employed as an outside contractor. According to the FBI, the two had approached Jewish organisations in April 2012 asking for funding for the weapon, with an investigation opened into them soon after.

By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Olivia Solon

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21 Jun 07:31

My boyfriends work got him this very personal card.

Margarida S

I love this.

21 Jun 07:30

Samsung Announces the Galaxy NX: An Android-Powered Mirrorless Camera

by Michael Zhang
Margarida S

This is really funny. Does it make calls?

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Samsung today officially announced its new Galaxy NX mirrorless camera, the Android-powered mirrorless camera that leaked onto the web one week ago. The Galaxy NX is the world’s first interchangeable lens camera that features 3G and 4G wireless connectivity.

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The Galaxy NX is the first camera to bring the new “smartcamera” paradigm into the world of “serious” photography. Its little sibling, the Samsung Galaxy Camera announced last August, also features 3G and 4G connectivity, but it’s a compact camera with a tiny 1/2.3-inch sensor. Samsung is now stuffing the same Android” brains and wireless connectivity into a system camera that’s geared toward people who are more serious about photography.

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Inside the camera is a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor. An Advanced Hybrid Auto Focus system uses both phase- and contrast-detection AF to quickly lock onto subjects. The camera is speedy in other ways too: it has a 1/6000s maximum shutter speed and can capture scenes at a rapid 8.6 frames per second.

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An obvious strength of the camera is that it uses Samsung’s NX mirrorless lens mount, so photographers who have already jumped aboard the NX train can use their existing collection of lenses on the Galaxy NX.

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The back of the camera is dominated by a massive 4.8-inch LCD touchscreen. Many photographers will also be glad to hear that the camera includes a built-in electronic SVGA viewfinder, which can help you frame shots in direct sunlight and other situations in which LCDs aren’t as nice to use.

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The physical interface of the camera is sparse. Much of what you’ll need will be available through the touchscreen, so there aren’t the large number of physical buttons and dials that many photographers may be accustomed to using:

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The “brains” of the camera — which help make it a “smart” camera — is Android 4.2 Jelly Bean powered by a 1.6Ghz quad core processor. Just like with the Galaxy Camera, you’ll be able to install the full selection of Google Play store apps onto your Galaxy NX. Want to shoot and share with Instagram? You can. Want to play some silly games on your camera during some downtime? You’ve got it! Need to edit some shots on-the-go? There are some serious editing tools in the store that can help you do so.

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For beginning photographers, there are features that can help assist and guide you. A Photo Suggest feature actually recommends photo spots for you based on what’s popular in the area. A Story Album feature lets you put photos onto a timeline and then combine them into digital photo books that can be shared across devices.

Samsung hasn’t yet revealed when the Galaxy NX camera will be available or how much it will cost, but initial rumors pegged the price at around $1,300. Stay tuned for more on this camera.

20 Jun 21:12

Plot twist

20 Jun 14:40

Could You Wat the Super-Limited Wendy's T-Rex Burger?

Could You Wat the Super-Limited Wendy's T-Rex Burger?

Submitted by: Unknown (via Huffington Post)

Tagged: food , funny , fast food , t rex
20 Jun 14:37

Bela Borsodi photograph; this is a single picture made by rearranging things in his apartment

Margarida S

This took me so long to understand visually.

20 Jun 14:22

Vitamins are medicine, not magic

by Maggie Koerth-Baker
Just a reminder: Vitamins aren't inert. They actually do things in your body and we don't totally understand yet what all they do, how they do it, and how much extra vitamin supplementation is too much. Meanwhile, the vitamin and supplement industry remains largely unregulated. Most doctors probably wouldn't tell you to stop taking vitamins, but the concerns voiced by Dr. Paul Offit in a story at CNN aren't ridiculous and should help convince you to make sure that you're talking with your doctor about the supplements and vitamins you take, and to be leery of megadosing on any vitamin.
    


20 Jun 14:17

Escaping python

by David Pescovitz

I'm delighted by this video of a pet python, titled "Julius Escaping." This lovely creature passed on last year. RIP, Julius.

    


20 Jun 14:17

MakerBot acquired by larger rival 3D printing firm for $403 Million in stock-for-stock deal

by Xeni Jardin


Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer. Image: Makerbot.com.

Bre Pettis' Brooklyn-based privately-held 3D printing firm Makerbot will be acquired by publicly-traded Stratasys Ltd. in a stock-for-stock deal valued at $403 million. Here's the Stratasys press release announcing the deal earlier today.
    


20 Jun 14:03

One Great Way to Stop Checking Your Phone at Bars

Submitted by: Unknown

Tagged: bars , phone , offline , funny , after 12 , g rated
20 Jun 14:02

I was playing with the vein finder at the hospital I work at the other day.

Margarida S

I want one.

20 Jun 14:02

Goal weight achieved. M/23/5'8", 380 lbs -> 145 lbs.

Margarida S

Sheldon!

20 Jun 12:47

Maybe She's Born With It... Maybe It's Maybelline...

makeup,cosmetics,bbc

Maybe it's the ubiquitous distribution of media messages which exploit human insecurity in order to create a desire to purchase superfluous products in a desperate attempt to feel physically sufficient.

I dunno.

Submitted by: Unknown

Tagged: makeup , cosmetics , bbc
20 Jun 12:47

Dog Shell

by Tiffanie Pfrang
Margarida S

"100% recycled eggshells"

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Dogshell is an innovative product with simple solution. "Dogshells is an all natural calcium supplement for dogs made from 100% recycled eggshells. Inspired by their repurpose/reuse philosophy, Nashville based studio, Perky Bros created an on-demand, stamp-based stationery and sample system so they could create exactly what they need when they need it. Rather than typical disposable packaging, their jars are durable and made to last—silkscreened on glass and ready to be re-used once they’re empty."

 

 

Designed by Perky Bros, Nashville, Tennessee

Photography: Neely Catignani 

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18 Jun 16:49

How to Write a Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

by Staci Zaretsky

letter shock

If only more response letters from lawyers were written like this one!

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Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.


Tags: Awesomeness, Cease And Desist, Cease and desist letters, Fabulosity, Intellectual Property, Jake Freivald, Legalese, New Jersey, Richard D. Trenk, Richard Trenk, Stephen B. Kaplitt, Stephen Kaplitt, Trademarks, West Orange

    


17 Jun 16:55

Cool Capture: Swedish Beauty

by Nicole Nguyen
Margarida S

These are not photography skills. This is ridiculous!

Sometimes overexposure can be beautiful. Like, for example, in this shot of a vintage Saab by Instagram user winniekroghreiff, which was overexposed and then toned down for maximum retro effect.

Have you been testing out your photography skills and snapped a shot you want to share? Submit your pics to our Cool Capture group or to Instagram with the #coolcapture hashtag, and your pic might be featured on the POPSUGAR Tech homepage. And don't forget to follow @popsugartech on Instagram!

17 Jun 16:52

Nike Air Packaging Concept

by Jessica Sanchez
Margarida S

Really useful if you want to try as shoe on before buying it.

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"Nike is in the air - To highlight the benefit of the Nike Air Max, the shoes were packed in air-cushion. The benefit of the product is transferred into the packaging, and made visible. The package provides the best possible presentation of the shoe and a height advertising effectiveness. Due to less usage of materials, it also contributes to sustainability."

 

 

Designed By: Ralf Schroeder - Packaging Design / Art Direction

Agency: Scholz & Friends , Germany
Managing Director: Wolf Schneider
Creative Direction: Matthias Spaetgens, Wolf Schneider
Art Direction: Jinhi Kim, Ralf Schroeder
Copywriter: Doerte Schuetz

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17 Jun 16:43

Moving upstairs

by swissmiss

“A few years ago, a friend shared with me his strategy for decluttering his home. He and his wife lived in a duplex and decided to gather every single thing they had and put it in the bottom level of the duplex. They moved upstairs, lived in just the top level, and as they needed something, they would go downstairs, find it, and bring it up. Little by little, they repopulated their life with only what was necessary.”

Moving Upstairs, by Jack Cheng

05 Jun 10:46

Let me stun you by telling you that the author of this already...



Let me stun you by telling you that the author of this already visibly-horrifying book has included a special section on how to cheat a Thai prostitute out of her payment. He doesn’t just want to go to Thailand and pay for sex. He wants to steal sex from the prostitutes.

It’s like a turd shit out a tiny, horrible, even stinkier turd, and then that turd got a boner, and then wrote a book.

14 Mar 22:33

How to Choose Where to Sit

by Kimber Streams

alexcornell-musicalchairs

Designer Alex Cornell helps you figure out how to choose the best seat, or at least “how not to get stuck next to someone that sucks,” with this helpful infographic.

One of the most complex social situations you will encounter is the 45 seconds that elapse while deciding where to sit for dinner at a restaurant. Your choice should appear natural, unbiased and haphazard if executed properly. Timing is everything.

These 45 seconds determine how enjoyable your next 2 hours will be. Once the pieces start to fall into place and people take their seats, your choices narrow. People sit, seemingly at random, and if you don’t take the appropriate measures, you’re inevitably stuck at the least interesting end of the table.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

14 Mar 18:37

Unexpected day: what are we gonna do about Google Reader death? Keep calm and carry on.

Hello everyone!

This morning I have mixed feelings: I am happy that we have the possibility to bring our beloved The Old Reader to a new level, and I am sad that Google Reader soon will be completely over. It was a large part of my daily internet life. We even started making The Old Reader because no one could stand my whining anymore.

News came unexpected (mind you, we are living in GMT, so it was literally the middle of the night), but we are doing out best. We tripled our user base (and still counting), and our servers are not amused so far. We will be deploying more capacity shortly, so things should get better by the end of the day. Please, be patient with us.

image(The Old Reader’s team before March 13, photo by repor.to/shuvayev)


This is overwhelming. When we started this as something for us and our friends to use, we never expected so many of you to join us in our journey. Thank you very much for your kind words and support, we appreciate this.

Seeing Google Reader go, many of you are asking whether The Old Reader is going to stick around. Also, quite a lot of people would like to donate to keep our project running. We have been discussing this quite a lot recently, and we decided that paid accounts (the freemium model) are the way to go. We want to keep making a great product for our users, not cater it for advertisers’ needs.

We are going to be honest, we have not even started coding this yet. However, we would like to get this news out as soon as possible for everyone to know the way we will be going. Paid accounts will have some additional features, but the basic free accounts will still be 100% usable. We are not in this game to make money, but we want to give something special back to the people who are going to be supporting us.

We have our daily jobs, so we can’t promise that new features will be ready tomorrow or next week. We have no investors or fancy business plans, but we are open about everything we do, and we want to do it the right way.

We reworked the plans according to the news today. Creating an API for mobile clients is the number one priority in our roadmap. We would love to collaborate with any developers who were making Google Reader clients. Please, spread the word about this if you can.

For those of you who are posting feedback and creating new feature requests - please, double-check for existing items in Uservoice. We hate answering the same questions multiple times and removing duplicate requests.

Most asked questions are:
- “When will OPML import be working again?” As soon as we launch more capacity to handle this. Hopefully, later today.
- “Why are you asking for access to my Google contacts when I log in via Google account?” We don’t anymore.
- “When will you make an iOS app? How about Android?” We will start with API as soon as we can and see how it goes.
- “Why is there no way to login without Google or Facebook accounts?” We cover that one in our knowledge base, but we plan to implement own login code. The demand is high.
- “How do I rename a feed?”. Just browse the Tour page, please? 
- “Shut up and take my money!”. Will work on that, stay tuned.

We have lots of things to do, and it will probably take us several days to reply to all emails and tickets. Also, Twitter keeps reminding us about daily tweet limits, so there might be delays as well.

Some other news: last week our developer (on the left) turned 21, and we have implemented PubSubHubbub support. Many of you asked us to make feed updates faster, and PubSubHubbub makes compatible feeds refresh almost instantly. Yay!

Thank you very much for your support. We will do our best during next three months to prepare for the day Google Reader will no longer be around.

14 Mar 14:36

Rua Goncalo de Carvalho: Most Beautiful Street in the World via...





Rua Goncalo de Carvalho: Most Beautiful Street in the World via Amusing Planet

14 Mar 13:49

Moved to Japan... met my neighbor.