Interesting?correlation?between this event and the movement toward mobile platform. ?How long will it take for Microsoft to fall?
Facebook?s surprise announcement that it would buy Instagram for $1 billion, less than a week after venture capitalists valued the company at?half that amount, has sparked talk of?inflated valuation?for the photo-sharing company.
Andy Baio of?Wired?compares the Instagram purchase to some other prominent tech buyouts and reached the conclusion that Mark Zuckerberg got a bargain, sort of. And Jenna Wortham of the?New York Times?makes the case that Instagram may mark the first of a series of deals involving companies with little presence on computer desktops but plenty of mobile users.
Baio writes that young Internet companies have traditionally been valued for their growth and number of users. By those measures, Instagram beats most, even though the company has no revenue and no clear path toward making money. He?argues:
If we look strictly at the acquisition cost per user, Facebook got a relative deal with the Instagram purchase, paying roughly $28 for each of?Instagram?s 35 million users.
Meanwhile, the?Times?reports that Facebook?s big buy has other app makers seeing dollar signs, and the purchase is a giant step in the shift from desktop to mobile computing.
Wortham?writes:
Smartphones are everywhere now, allowing apps like Foursquare and Path to be self-contained social worlds, existing almost entirely on mobile devices. It is a major change from just a few years ago, underscoring how the momentum in the tech world is shifting to mobile from computers.
In that context, the Instagram deal looks like something of a turning point, as even the Web giant Facebook tries to get a better grasp on a market that requires a rethinking of old rules.
?For decades, the center of computing has been the desktop, and software was modeled after the experience of using a typewriter,? said Georg Petschnigg, a former Microsoft employee who is one of the creators of Paper, a new sketchbook app for the?iPad. ?But technology is now more intimate and pervasive than that. We have it with us all the time, and we have to reimagine innovative new interfaces and experiences around that.?
If that is indeed the case, the Instagram deal is just the start of something very big as the world of apps comes of age.
'You know, the whole album is just so different, there's so many different people collaborating,' Bieber says of Believe. By James Dinh
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> has added yet another A-list chart-topper to the <a href="http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/justin-bieber/news/taylor-swift/" target="_blank">collaboration</a> roster for his new album <i>Believe.</i> Speaking with Capital FM earlier this week, the Biebster announced that he's hit the studio with his very own <a href="/news/articles/1682780/taylor-swift-justin-bieber-punkd.jhtml">"Punk'd"</a> victim <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/swift__taylor/artist.jhtml">Taylor Swift</a>. </P><P> </P><P>"You know, the whole album is just so different, there's so many different people collaborating," the 18-year-old pop star said of the upcoming release. Aside from name-dropping a few hip-hop heavyweights like Kanye West and Drake, the singer revealed that he penned a tune with Swift, admitting the cut will have a country vibe. </P><P> </P><P><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:752192/cp~vid%3D752192%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A752192" width="460" height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed><div style="margin:0px;padding:4px;width:500px;text-align:center;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"></div> </P><P> </P><P>"It's crazy," Bieber explained. "I mean I even wrote a song with Taylor Swift, so the whole album ranges differently." </P><P> </P><P>With the string of features, JB emphasized that the LP will have a mix of sounds, saying, "With my music, it doesn't only stay in a box. It's so out there. Everything is so different and that's why I'm so happy with this album." </P><P> </P><P>No word on whether Swift's vocals will appear on the tune in addition to her writing credit. </P><P> </P><P>Bieber's collabo with the singer/songwriter shouldn't be too much of a shock for fans. Late last year, the duo <a href="/news/articles/1669575/justin-bieber-taylor-swift-perform-onstage.jhtml">hit the stage</a> together for Swift's L.A. gig on her <i>Speak Now</i> trek. Most recently, Swift was the subject of one of Bieber's <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/punkd/series.jhtml">"Punk'd"</a> shenanigans when he convinced the singer she ruined a wedding. </P><P> </P><P><i>Who else would you like to see Justin collaborate with on</i> Believe<i>? Tell us your suggestions below!</i> </P><P> </P><P><center><a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1617615"><img src="http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/s/spotted/banner/spotted.jpg"></a></center></p>
I just happened to have my TV turned to the Cooking Channel (which part of the Food Network) and saw a commercial for payments platform Square. This appears to be the first big commercial ad push for Square on TV. I've contacted Square for confirmation. The commercial was pretty straightforward and featured a number of merchants that all use Square to accept credit card payments, including a hair stylist, tailor and mechanic. The commercial showed the merchants actually swiping cards from customers, e-signatures on the app, and mentioned that Square can be used on Android and iPhones.
A possible new feline disease identified by veterinarians in Scotland leaves cats walking like robots. Meanwhile thousands of years and miles apart, new research sheds light on cats bred to become mummies in Egyptian antiquity. Ahead of the small animal veterinary world converging for the UK's largest ever veterinary event, the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS), published by SAGE, highlights these two fascinating studies among a range of papers all aiming to advance feline acumen and clinical know-how.
April 11th sees over 300 world-class veterinary speakers converging for the WSAVA/FECAVA/BSAVA* World Congress 2012 in Birmingham UK. The current issue of the new-look JFMS, timed to coincide with this major veterinary event, includes a short paper on an X-ray investigation of a four or five month-old cat mummy.
From about 332 BC to 30 BC in Egypt, cats were raised near temples specifically to be mummified. People bought the mummies to use as offerings to the goddess Bastet. Cat mummies from this period are common. In fact they were shipped in bulk to Liverpool, UK in the 19th century to be pulverised and used as fertiliser. However, at the height of their popularity many Egyptians would buy 'budget' mummies containing just a handful of bones. This contrasts with the mummy in the JFMS study.
The National Museum of Parma, Italy bought the mummy in the 18th century from an antiquarian. The study authors say it is a high-quality archaeological artefact, because the body inside the mummy was complete, wrapped intricately and decorated with geometrical patterns and depicted eyes. The tightly packed cat was probably treated with natron, a naturally-occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate, sodium bicarbonate, and small amounts of salt, sodium sulphate and herbs used to dehydrate the body, just as for human mummies.
Embalmers put the cat in a sitting position before mummification, with flexed hind limbs and its forelimbs extended against the thorax, a position similar to the seated cats depicted in hieroglyphics from the same era. They also fractured a vertebra at the base of the spine to position the tail as close to the body as possible. A hole in the cat's skull may have been the cause of death, and also for draining the skull's contents.
"The fact that the cat was young suggests that it was one of those bred specifically for mummification," says lead author Giacomo Gnudi, a veterinary professor at the University of Parma.
Robotic cats in Scotland
Back in modern-day Scotland, vets have been trying to explain strange symptoms in 21 cats that arrived at Strathbogie Veterinary Centre, Huntly, and Morven Veterinary practice, Alford, both in North-East Scotland, between 2001 and 2010.
The animals appeared to have a slowly-progressing neurological disease. Walking with an odd gait with stiff, extended tails, the cats dubbed robotic cats due to their movements presented a veterinary oddity not seen before. Cats with a slightly different but possibly related condition have been spotted in Sweden and Austria, where it was referred to as "staggering disease." Histological tests suggested a central nervous system infection, lymphohistiocytic meningoencephalomyelitis, could be the cause.
The cats had outdoor access and lived in the same geographical rural area. When the vets looked at immune system markers they found a significant expression of the interferon-inducible Mx protein, a sign of an as yet unidentified infective or environmental immunogenic trigger for the illness.
"All the cats included in our study, and most of the cats reported with 'staggering disease', belong to the rural population accustomed to hunting birds and rodents," says one of the study's authors, Luisa De Risio. "It can be speculated that the aetiological agent may be transmitted from these animals to cats."
The authors conclude that the late onset age of this disease, its slow progression, peculiar clinical signs and the data from the tests suggest these cats were affected by the same unique, previously unreported condition.
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Both articles will be free to access for a limited period:
Radiological investigation of an over 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy of a cat by
G Gnudi, A Volta, S Manfredi, F Ferri and R Conversi - http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/14/4/292.full
Slowly progressive lymphohistiocytic meningoencephalomyelitis in 21 adult cats presenting with peculiar neurological signs by Luisa De Risio, Richard Brown, Bryn Tennant, Andy Sparkes, Lara Matiasek, Alberta de Stefani, Herbert Weissenbck and Kaspar Matiasek - http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/14/4/250.full
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of the International Society of Feline Medicine and Surgery (http://www.isfm.net) and American Association of Feline Practitioners (http://www.catvets.com). It attracts and publishes high-quality clinical research and state-of-the-art reviews providing essential reading for the feline veterinary community around the world.
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. http://www.sagepublications.com
*British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA)
World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA)
Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations (FECAVA)
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A possible new feline disease identified by veterinarians in Scotland leaves cats walking like robots. Meanwhile thousands of years and miles apart, new research sheds light on cats bred to become mummies in Egyptian antiquity. Ahead of the small animal veterinary world converging for the UK's largest ever veterinary event, the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (JFMS), published by SAGE, highlights these two fascinating studies among a range of papers all aiming to advance feline acumen and clinical know-how.
April 11th sees over 300 world-class veterinary speakers converging for the WSAVA/FECAVA/BSAVA* World Congress 2012 in Birmingham UK. The current issue of the new-look JFMS, timed to coincide with this major veterinary event, includes a short paper on an X-ray investigation of a four or five month-old cat mummy.
From about 332 BC to 30 BC in Egypt, cats were raised near temples specifically to be mummified. People bought the mummies to use as offerings to the goddess Bastet. Cat mummies from this period are common. In fact they were shipped in bulk to Liverpool, UK in the 19th century to be pulverised and used as fertiliser. However, at the height of their popularity many Egyptians would buy 'budget' mummies containing just a handful of bones. This contrasts with the mummy in the JFMS study.
The National Museum of Parma, Italy bought the mummy in the 18th century from an antiquarian. The study authors say it is a high-quality archaeological artefact, because the body inside the mummy was complete, wrapped intricately and decorated with geometrical patterns and depicted eyes. The tightly packed cat was probably treated with natron, a naturally-occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate, sodium bicarbonate, and small amounts of salt, sodium sulphate and herbs used to dehydrate the body, just as for human mummies.
Embalmers put the cat in a sitting position before mummification, with flexed hind limbs and its forelimbs extended against the thorax, a position similar to the seated cats depicted in hieroglyphics from the same era. They also fractured a vertebra at the base of the spine to position the tail as close to the body as possible. A hole in the cat's skull may have been the cause of death, and also for draining the skull's contents.
"The fact that the cat was young suggests that it was one of those bred specifically for mummification," says lead author Giacomo Gnudi, a veterinary professor at the University of Parma.
Robotic cats in Scotland
Back in modern-day Scotland, vets have been trying to explain strange symptoms in 21 cats that arrived at Strathbogie Veterinary Centre, Huntly, and Morven Veterinary practice, Alford, both in North-East Scotland, between 2001 and 2010.
The animals appeared to have a slowly-progressing neurological disease. Walking with an odd gait with stiff, extended tails, the cats dubbed robotic cats due to their movements presented a veterinary oddity not seen before. Cats with a slightly different but possibly related condition have been spotted in Sweden and Austria, where it was referred to as "staggering disease." Histological tests suggested a central nervous system infection, lymphohistiocytic meningoencephalomyelitis, could be the cause.
The cats had outdoor access and lived in the same geographical rural area. When the vets looked at immune system markers they found a significant expression of the interferon-inducible Mx protein, a sign of an as yet unidentified infective or environmental immunogenic trigger for the illness.
"All the cats included in our study, and most of the cats reported with 'staggering disease', belong to the rural population accustomed to hunting birds and rodents," says one of the study's authors, Luisa De Risio. "It can be speculated that the aetiological agent may be transmitted from these animals to cats."
The authors conclude that the late onset age of this disease, its slow progression, peculiar clinical signs and the data from the tests suggest these cats were affected by the same unique, previously unreported condition.
###
Both articles will be free to access for a limited period:
Radiological investigation of an over 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy of a cat by
G Gnudi, A Volta, S Manfredi, F Ferri and R Conversi - http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/14/4/292.full
Slowly progressive lymphohistiocytic meningoencephalomyelitis in 21 adult cats presenting with peculiar neurological signs by Luisa De Risio, Richard Brown, Bryn Tennant, Andy Sparkes, Lara Matiasek, Alberta de Stefani, Herbert Weissenbck and Kaspar Matiasek - http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/14/4/250.full
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of the International Society of Feline Medicine and Surgery (http://www.isfm.net) and American Association of Feline Practitioners (http://www.catvets.com). It attracts and publishes high-quality clinical research and state-of-the-art reviews providing essential reading for the feline veterinary community around the world.
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. http://www.sagepublications.com
*British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA)
World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA)
Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations (FECAVA)
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Acne affects people of all ages. The purpose of this article is to educate you about what can cause acne and also what treatments are accessible to help. You can minimize acne if you concentrate on the cause and address it correctly.
To help remedy pimples, you can create any homemade mask that features a 1:1 ratio of lime juice and ground fan oil. Mix it together and propagate it over just about any skin that exhibits blemishes. It will help cure them and stop zits from resurfacing.
Dietary changes including greater amounts of produce, lean protein and also whole grain represent a powerful way to treat problem zits. Always consume adequate water so that your is cleansed and your pores and skin stays hydrated. Additionally, get a moderate quantity of sunshine every day. Regarding 10 minutes is enough.
Don?t drink a lot of alcohol. Drinking excessive alcohol is not good for the skin and tends to make acne much more serious and difficult to treat. Somewhat alcohol is fine, however too much will cause issues.
There are many things you can do to cut back the severity as well as frequency of your pimples. When using hair teeth whitening gel or spray, do not get it on your encounter. Many styling products contain oils, that may cause breakouts.
Using darling is a great home treatment regarding acne. Apply a little bit of honey mixed with cinnamon to your face, let it rest there for about maybe five or ten minutes, and then wash. Your skin will be simpler and you will have removed surplus oils and spend from your pores.
When possible, avoid circumstances that are known to cause you stress. Strain can make an acne flareup worse.
Minimize the types of things that can irritate your skin layer to lessen acne breakouts. Stay away from unnecessary touching of your face, especially if you have dirty hands. The dirty pillowcase can bother your face, so alter yours out often.
To reduce the occurrence of pimples, apply tea tree oil on the pimples prone areas. Herbal tea tree oil won?t dry out skin if you find it works for you personally, it can reduce total oil buildup with your pores just as efficiently as chemical acne remedies.
No matter how long you?ve been fighting acne, or what you may already know on the subject, you can always boost your understanding of it. The advice in this article can help you have clearer skin and help improve your confidence. If you apply the advice in this article, you?ll get that clear pores and skin that you are looking for. A few of the most impressive women?s health can certainly always be determined below, although people can certainly moreover obtain acne treatment including healthy aging if you stop by some of our internet site
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If you own a small business or are thinking of starting one, get ready for some hard work. It is going to take persistence and dedication if you are going to succeed. However, persistence and dedication are not all that is required for success to find you. A great advertising plan or small business marketing guide is also needed. Additionally, that advertising plan or marketing guide as some may call it, must be not only effective in terms of bringing you potential customers, it must also be cost effective. This is very important, especially if you are just starting out. Your advertising budget must bring you bang for you buck.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is just the type of advertising plan that can successfully deliver with respect to these requirements. If you are not familiar with SEM as some refer to it, it would be very beneficial for you to become familiar with it as many products and services are found this way, especially these days. So, what does the methodology that surrounds search engine marketing bring with it? It bring with it several very valuable assets that every business, be it small or large, new or established, must have. Here are some of them.
Targeted Traffic. SEM is based around another field of interest very similar to itself, Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO revolves around researching and discovering keywords that are of interest to your potential customer base. If you sell a particular item, ?widgets? for example, SEO and the tools that it uses may point out to you that ?blue widgets?, specifically, are in high demand, or maybe used widgets. Information like this is very useful in helping you as a business owner or a services provider to position yourself and resources in a way so as to maximize your business and income. SEM technique, with SEO at its core brings targeted traffic.
Converting Traffic. There are several phases that an individual who is part of a potential customer base can be in with respect to how close they are to making a purchase. Part of search engine marketing is the targeting of buying or converting traffic. Very commonly, an individual will research an item or a subject several times before deciding to purchase it. This type of traffic usually follows generalized keywords such as the widget we spoke of. SEM allows your business to target buying keywords that, in most cases are much more specific, such as ?blue widget? or ?blue widget 5000x?. It is no secret that the more targeted your traffic is, the higher your conversion percentages will be.
Cost Effective Traffic. Search Engine Marketing relies on a particular type of search engine optimization, organic search engine optimization or organic SEO. Organic search results are the results that appear on a search engine results page, not because a business or person paid for them to be there, they are results that list there naturally or organically due to the high level of relevance that they have in terms of the original search term.
Search Engine Marketing revolves around the tools and techniques that bring business and clients together in a way that is as easy as entering a search term and clicking the search button. If you have a small business or are interested in starting one, explore the possibilities of SEM and SEO and get yourself a small business marketing guide. It may be the best decision you ever made for your small business.
Whatever you want to call them, we all have a lot of contacts these days ? both online and in ?the real world.?
But all the names, news feeds and email addresses in the world will do you no good whatsoever if you can?t answer ?yes? to the following questions:
1.? Can you find WHAT and WHO you need easily?
2.? Are you seeing updates, posts, and tweets from the people and companies you most want to hear from?
3.? Do you know who you know? In other words, do you KNOW the folks you are connected to online or who appear in your contact database?
If you answered ?no? to any of the questions above, then it?s time for a little spring cleaning!
It?s important to regularly sort, organize, add and remove contacts so that you can manage them and make use of them instead of being overwhelmed by them all.
So, how can you do this?
Use Lists, Tags (keywords) and Custom Contact Fields to categorize your contacts.
Whenever you make a new connection, take a few seconds to add them to the appropriate list or group or add a ?tag? to their profile.? Also, go through existing contacts and connections and take the appropriate action of adding them to a list, group, or tag or deleting them altogether.? This will enable you to search for and find contacts and groups of contacts easily ? instead of wandering through the hundreds or thousands of people you are connected to.
Facebook
Whether you use Facebook for personal or professional reasons, or both, you can organize your friends using lists.? There are a lot of options and settings that you can use to make your lists very specific, but a good place to start is to create lists for some of the following categories of people you may be connecting with:
Family
Close, Personal Friends
Co-Workers
Members of a Particular Organization You Belong to (Professional Associations, Chambers, Networking Groups, Non-Profits, Service Organizations, etc.)
Clients ? event Past Clients, Current Clients
Prospects
Experts ? divide into areas of expertise such as Twitter Experts, Marketing Experts, Fitness Gurus, etc.
Fellow Attendees of a Particular Conference you Attended/Are Attending
Members of Online Membership Sites or Groups You Belong To
Friends/Acquaintances from High School
Friends/Acquaintances from College
You can always create new lists, change the names of lists, move people in and out of lists and delete lists completely.? The key is to create just enough to help you organize your contacts, but not so many that you have trouble keeping track of them all.? Click here for a helpful guide to lists on Facebook that shows you how to create lists, add people to them and make changes.? It also includes some info about subscribers and the differences between ?friends? and ?acquaintances.?
LinkedIn
Unfortunately, LinkedIn doesn?t make it as easy to sort and categorize your contacts.? However, you can make use of the Tag feature (not like tagging folks on Facebook, but more like using a ?keyword? or ?tag? for a blog post).? Essentially, you can create ?lists? of connections by creating various ?tags? to be used for each person you connect with. There are already some default tags in LinkedIn ? classmates, friends, partners, colleagues and group members. These tags get automatically assigned if you add a contact to your network without their e-mail address, based on how you indicate you know the person.
You can also create new Tags ? such as the ones listed above for the Facebook Lists ? to help you organize, manage and send messages to a specific group of your connections. Click here for a good video tutorial about How to Use LinkedIn Tags.
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Twitter
If you have more than just a handful of Twitter followers and people you follow, then you are well aware of how overwhelming the Twitter stream can get.? There?s a constant flow of new information and conversation happening in real-time and that often makes it challenging to keep up with people and brands that you really want to follow.
Twitter Lists to the rescue!
Just like lists on Facebook and Tags on LinkedIn, you can group the people and companies you follow into categories or groups that enable you to view just a cross section of people at a time.? It?s super easy to create and edit lists on Twitter. Click here for a guide to Using Twitter Lists.
Outlook (and other Contact Management Databases)
Many people use Outlook to manage their contacts, but have no idea of all the extra capabilities it has to help you organize and search the people you know.? When you click on a contact, you can choose to view the default contact info fields or you can select ?Show All Fields? at the top ? there are over 150 different pieces of information available and you can also create custom fields to meet your specific needs.? Just like creating lists or tags, you can use these custom fields to indicate if your contact is a family member, friend, contact from a conference you attended, member of a professional group you belong to, etc.
Custom fields is a fantastic feature because it then enables you to contact select sub-groups of your contacts without having to search through them all or create overly general email lists.? You can even create a mail merge campaign (where you send an email or postal mail message) using those custom fields.
Click here for an overview of the Microsoft Outlook custom contact fields. ?
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Final Tips
The key to cleaning up your contacts ? and keeping them that way ? is to use the functionality found in each forum, system or software in a way that works for you.? Default settings may or may not work for you, so learn enough to help you customize them in a way that makes it easy for you to manage your connections and make contact with specific groups of people as needed.
Another key element of keeping your contacts ?clutter free? is to add new contacts to lists (tags, groups, etc.) as you connect with them.? It only takes a few seconds to do, but saves you a ton of time when you want to find a particular person or group.? Even if you have hundreds or thousands of contacts, it is well worth the investment of time to do and makes your connections much more user-friendly for you.
Do YOU have any super-ninja tips for keeping your contacts organized?? Share them in the comments below!