Armchair Revolutionary Debuts Crowdsourced Web Activism Site

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– Armchair Revolutionary on Tuesday launched a beta version of its Web-based
social action service, which aims to fund science and technology projects
through microfinancing provided by social gaming and virtual item purchases.

The
platform was created by the founders of The Hollywood Hill, an entertainment
industry philanthropy group.

The company will take the 99-cent "gifts"
and virtual item fees crowdsourced from users and grant them to social change
projects, such as a video game designed to raise awareness about the world’s
oceans.

It also offers other means of digital activism, such as e-mail and
virtual phone bank campaigns, voting and quizzes.

Armchair Revolutionary told
CNET News.com it hopes to attract 10 million users, and fund some 250 projects
per year, many of which will require a minimum of $500,000.

 

Related Links:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001798-52.html

https://www.armrev.org

eBay Launches New Fashion Section

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Jose,
Calif. – Online auction giant
eBay (NASD: EBAY) on Monday launched eBay Fashion, a new section of the site focused on
clothing, shoes and accessories. The company said that it has added a new
"Fashion" tab at the top of its home page, and also has rolled out
several new browsing capabilities — including a "More Like This"
feature that will show other apparel and accessories similar in color, shape,
pattern and more.


 

Related Links:
http://fashion.ebay.com

Indie E-book Publisher Smashwords Adds iBookstore Distribution

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Gatos,
Calif. – Independent e-book
publisher and distributor Smashwords announced on Monday that it now offers authors
distribution through Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad. Smashwords currently
publishes nearly 10,000 original e-book titles from over 4,000 authors and 150
small independent publishers.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/va0z3

http://www.smashwords.com

7digital to Power Music Store on Imerge Home Media Servers

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Mark Hefflinger
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London
– Digital music retailer 7digital said on Monday that it has partnered with
Imerge, a maker of hard disk-based home entertainment servers, to launch an
online music store for high-end home entertainment systems. The Imerge XiVA
Music Store will be integrated into Imerge’s media server hardware, enabling
users to purchase and download music directly to their home entertainment
systems.


 

Related Links:
http://www.7digital.com

http://www.imerge.co.uk

Report: Microsoft to Debut Mobile Phones at April 12 Event

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco – Microsoft (NASD:  MSFT)
will introduce a pair of new mobile phone handset models at an event in San Francisco on April
12, CNET News.com reported, citing sources.

Part of the company’s ongoing
"Pink" project, the new phones — reportedly codenamed "Pure"
and "Turtle" — are slider-design phones that will run on Verizon’s
network and go on sale within a month.

The handsets are being manufactured by
Sharp, and will feature touch-screen displays as well as physical keyboards.

 

Related Links:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001772-56.html

Apple to Release iPhone OS 4.0 on Thursday

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cupertino,
Calif. – Apple (NASD: AAPL) on Monday invited
the press to an event on Thursday at which it will introduce the latest update
to the operating system for its iPhone, iPhone OS 4.0.

Apple Insider speculates
that the update will bring the ability to multitask with applications, allowing
more than one app to run in the background at the same time.

The report further
speculates that the user interface for multitasking will be similar to Apple’s
Expose feature for the Mac OS.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/v9zcm
(Apple Insider)

Reed Business Sells Publishers Weekly to Former Publisher

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– Trade magazine publisher Reed Business Information on Monday announced that
it has sold its Publishers Weekly title to PWxyz, a company created by George
W. Slowik Jr., a former publisher of the title.

Financial terms of the transaction
were not disclosed.

Slowik, who was publisher of the trade during the late
1980s and early 1990s, said PWxyz plans to retain all of the editorial, art and
advertising staff at Publishers Weekly.

Reed Elsevier has been steadily selling
off titles since it tried unsuccessfully to unload all of its Reed Business
Information unit last year.

While retaining Variety, the company has in recent
months sold titles including Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, TWICE
and Library Journal.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/va0i0
(Publishers Weekly)

http://www.reedbusinessinformation.com

Digg

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Mark Hefflinger
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Digg Co-founder Jay Adelson Steps Down as CEO

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York
– Jay Adelson, the co-founder and CEO of news aggregation site Digg, has
stepped down after five years in the position. "With the new Digg getting
ready to launch, Digg Ads doing well, our sales force growing, our hiring
ramping, and the company maturing well beyond its startup phase, I feel that
now is the right time," Adelson wrote on the company’s blog.

"The
entrepreneurial calling is strong, and I am ready to incubate some new business
ideas over the next twelve months."

Digg co-founder Kevin Rose will become
chairman and acting CEO of the company.

"While I’ll miss working with Jay
day-to-day I am excited to be taking on the role of chairman and acting CEO,
driving Digg forward on our promise to enable social curation of the world’s
content and the conversation around it," Rose wrote on the Digg blog.

"We’ve
been super busy on the product side getting ready for the upcoming Digg
redesign and delivering our mobile apps for the iPhone and Android."

 

Related Links:
http://about.digg.com/blog

http://snipurl.com/v9zmr
(TechCrunch)

Google to Ask Buzz Early Adopters to Reconfirm Privacy Settings

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Mark Hefflinger
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Mountain View,
Calif. – After widespread
criticism and a privacy complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, Google (NASD: GOOG) today
is adding a new confirmation screen for early adopters of its Buzz social
networking service, asking them to re-confirm their privacy settings, according
to reports.

Buzz early adopters will be asked to confirm what data appears on
their public Google profile pages, such as which contacts they are following,
and which third-party services are connected.

The company also created a
dedicated channel on YouTube that features video tutorials on using Buzz.

"Shortly
after launching Google Buzz, we quickly realized we didn’t get everything right
and moved as fast as possible to improve the Buzz experience," writes Buzz
product manager Todd Jackson.

"But many of you started using Google Buzz
before we made these changes, and we want to help you ensure that Buzz is set
up the way you want."

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/v9zfd
(Wired.com)

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/05/google-buzz-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-that/

http://www.youtube.com/googlebuzz

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