Curt Achberger

Hootsuite today launched Hootsuite Syndicator, an RSS reader that operates within Hootsuite’s social dashboard for Chrome browser users.

Dashboard users can display their RSS feeds in their Hootsuite account and share content to multiple social networks using the dashboard. Users who have installed the Chrome extension, Hootlet, will have the opportunity to subscribe to RSS feeds using Syndicator.

“The core problem that a lot of people have with social media is not knowing what to say, and some people are solving that by using RSS as a way of bringing content into their dashboard and republishing that,” said Michael Tippett, director of new products for HootSuite.

Syndicator works, at least in this initial stage, in Google’s browser, Chrome, but it comes as a response to Google’s exit from the RSS reader market.

“Content marketing and curation are rising in popularity among brand marketers, even while popular RSS readers are being closed down or withering into obscurity,” Hootsuite said in its announcement.

Mark Holder, director of integration partners, said Hootsuite saw the demise of Google Reader as “a great opportunity to jump in there and provide richer and deeper RSS capabilities, but also tie in that social layer.”

Hootsuite allows users to manage several dozen social services from a single dashboard. Its products are used by 79 of the Fortune 100 companies, it says.

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YouTube has been making its own space on multiple entertainment services for a while, but according to a report from the Financial Times, it's now on the cusp of revealing its own subscription services for some of its specialist video channels. Rumored for several months, according to the FT's unnamed sources it will include up to 50 different channels, with subscription pricing starting at "as little as $1.99 a month." Google has already followed up, saying it had nothing to announce just yet, but that it was investigating "a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube."

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD, Google

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Via: Gizmodo

Source: Financial Times (subscription)

We like pinball. We like classic NES games. Accordingly, it doesn't take much deduction to know that we really, really like Skit-B Pinball's Duck Hunt pinball machine. It has a fully mechanical, themed pinball machine below, but there's also a PC up top that replicates the images and sounds of Nintendo's light gun video game in sync with the analog action. The conversion of a Williams Valiant took about a year of off-hours work to finish, and it shows -- the attention to detail is what we'd expect if Gunpei Yokoi had put all his energy into pinball instead. Our only lament is that the Duck Hunt machine is a side project, and it likely won't escape into the wild. At least there's a video (after the break) to sate our curiosity.

Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo

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Via: Arcade Heroes, Destructoid

Source: Skit-B Pinball

When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team. (Filmed at TED@Intel)

If emoticons weren't enough to spice up your status updates on Facebook, the social network has added the ability to convey what users are watching, reading, listening to or just merely consuming via a link to the artist, show or product page. Simply type in "watching Jurassic Park" for example, and the movie's icon and page link will automatically show up in the post, and will be added to your timeline's Movie section as well. We're sure it's all just one small piece in Zuckerberg's plan to rule the media landscape -- right after he takes over the mobile one, of course.

Filed under: Internet, Facebook

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Source: Facebook

Hugo Teso, a security consultant who also happens to be a trained commercial pilot, says he's developed an Android app that can make an airliner "dance to his tune" by attacking its flight management systems. The hack was demoed at this year's Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam, where Teso showed how the app -- called PlaneSploit -- can seek out targets from the ground by infiltrating radio broadcasts between aircraft and air traffic control, and then use a second communication system to send malicious messages to that could "take full control of the plane" or indirectly affect the pilot's behavior. PlaneSploit is proof-of-concept software, designed to work in a closed virtual environment, so it's not like we're going to see it pop up on Google Play any time soon, but just the fact it exists will hopefully help to keep the puppet masters out of real-world planes. And no, there's no Windows Phone version.

Filed under: Transportation, Internet, Alt

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Via: Net Security, Computerworld

Source: Aircraft Hacking: Practical Aero Series (PDF)

If you thought that Mark Zuckerberg's aspirations ended at commanding your smartphone, then think again. The Facebook chief has teamed up with a raft of other tech heavyweights including Eric Schmidt, Marissa Mayer and Elon Musk to form FWD.us, a political lobby group designed to promote tech-friendly causes. The first issue it wants to tackle is immigration reform to make it easier to woo foreign engineering talent, but it also has designs on scientific research, education reform and job creation. Evidently, these people still have spare time even after their stressful day jobs.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: FWD.us

At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works to create an environment that helps under-represented students -- specifically African-American, Latino and low-income learners -- get degrees in math and science. He shares the four pillars of UMBC's approach.

The major problem most of us have with Google Fiber is that we can't get it, but that could change soon for residents of Austin, Texas. According to reports by VentureBeat and KVUE News in Austin, invites are going out for an event on Tuesday at 11 AM put on by Google and the city. Anonymous sources indicate that's where the two will announce plans to bring the TV and high speed internet hookup's plans for expansion Until we hear differently however, Google Fiber's rollout is still only confirmed for the Kansas City area, so plan your living arrangements accordingly.

Update: A tipster informs us that the news section on the Google Fiber "Cities" page is currently (3AM ET) flashing a "Google Fiber's Next Stop: Austin, Texas" header. While author "SoAndSo" is not particularly well known, we'd figure this removes any remaining doubt where the service is landing next.

[Thanks, Chris]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD, Google

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Source: Venture Beat, KVUE, Google Fiber

Interesting timing, AT&T: just a day after the HTC One pricing was announced, the carrier has clarified its launch plans for the Samsung Galaxy S 4. We already knew the phone would be available on pre-order for $250 on April 16th, but AT&T has now specified that this will be for the 32GB model; the 16GB flavor will actually be $200, both with two-year commitments. This certainly doesn't help HTC's hopes of conquering the world, though the $200 One will hold twice as much internal storage as the GS 4 (although Samsung's flagship at least offers expandable memory, whereas the One does not). AT&T still hasn't announced an official release date, so that's the last remaining piece of the puzzle yet to be revealed.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Samsung, AT&T

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Source: AT&T

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