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Monday, July 23, 2007

Winner Of The Debate: YouTube

YouTube was the clear winner of the Democratic debate earlier. This is great news for Obama 2008 which is the movement candidacy, the grassroots candidacy. The YouTube way we can give voice to the traditionally voiceless. We have to make great use of online video to make our point.

http://www.youtube.com/debates

The best line of the evening perhaps came from John Edwards who said, "If there are people out there who will not vote for Barack because he is black, and who will not vote for Hillary because she is a woman, I don't want their vote either."

In The News

Hillary Outflanks Obama The Weekly Standard an especially silly one about whether the candidates would be willing to be paid the minimum wage as president. Most of them lied and said yes. ...... the first of six debates sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee .... Often, though, it was merely unserious, excessively cute, and frivolous. .... Obama, exciting on the stump, was dull in the debate. Mike Gravel seemed quite taken with himself, for no good reason. Dennis Kucinich also exuded enormous self-regard. Edwards oozed insincerity, especially when he said anyone who voted against Clinton because she's a woman or Obama because he's African-American shouldn't vote for him. ...... there's nothing inevitable about Clinton's winning the Democratic nomination .... Clinton has incredibly high negatives. One national poll found recently that 52 percent of Americans said they'd never vote for her for president.
Obama, Clinton clash in YouTube debate Scientific American Clinton pounced on rival Barack Obama on Monday for his willingness to meet with some troublesome world leaders .... The format was designed to force candidates to drop their rehearsed answers and sound bites. .... "I couldn't run as anything other than a woman," Clinton said. "I'm excited that I may be able finally to break that hardest of all glass ceilings."
Videos are stars of Democratic debate
Democrats take back seat to videos at debate
Nonprofit may launch $350 laptop by Christmas A nonprofit group that designs low-cost computers for poor children may start selling $350 laptops on the commercial market by Christmas
Clinton Touts Experience at Debate as Rivals Duck Confrontation Bloomberg Clinton, Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards largely refrained from attacks on each other and set out minor differences in how they would approach the war in Iraq, diplomacy and health care. .... ``The issue is, which of us is ready to lead on day one,'' New York Senator Clinton, 59, said. ``I have 35 years of being an instrument and agent of change, before I was ever a public official.'' ...... ``As I travel around the country, people have an urgent desire for change in Washington,'' said Obama, 45, a senator from Illinois. ``We are not going to fix health care, we're not going to fix energy, we are not going to do anything about our education system unless we change how business is done in Washington.'' ...... questions about health-care the single most frequently asked. ...... ``She is an extraordinarily disciplined candidate, and tonight was a reaffirmation of that discipline,'' Kersh said. ``She's very good at giving responses that are reasonably substantive without giving a lot of sharp angles which opponents can grab on to and get traction to attack her.''
Public Voice Adds Edge to Debate Washington Post underscored the arrival of the Internet as a force in politics. ..... The citizen-interrogators generated the most diverse set of questions in any of the presidential debates to date and challenged the candidates to break out of the rhetoric of their campaign speeches and to address sometimes uncomfortable issues, such as race, gender, religion and their own vulnerabilities. ..... they used the forum to challenge each other more directly than they have in past debates ..... Obama came close to directly criticizing Clinton's support for the Iraq war in 2002, and Clinton contradicted Obama on a question about whether, as president, they would meet with leaders of foreign governments hostile to the United States. ...... In one video, a man played guitar and sang a question about taxes (and then asked whether "one of y'all" could grant him a pardon for a recent speeding ticket). A lesbian couple asked the candidates whether they would allow them to marry. ...... Obama was asked whether he is "authentically black," and said he proved his racial bona fides whenever he tried to hail a cab in New York. ...... she is not "satisfactorily feminine." She responded to laughter, "I couldn't run as anything other than a woman." ..... I think I'm the most qualified and experienced person to hit the ground running in January 2009 .... if she were elected and served two terms, the country would go through 28 years with a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. ...... a man he had met who had waited 50 years to have surgery for a cleft palate. .... Mike Gravel (Alaska) once again played the role of scourge, attacking Obama for the way he has raised money -- a charge Obama quickly sought to rebut -- while complaining that he was being ignored through most of the debate
Nepal Maoists threaten to pull out from govt Times of India
AG: Spitzer Aides Used State Police To Discredit Bruno North Country Gazette
Clinton Bests E. Edwards? MSNBC
Clinton Nails Another Foreign Policy Question MSNBC
Another difference b/w Clinton and ObamaMSNBC
Sweet Dem debate special: Obama aims punch at Clinton. Report 8. Chicago Sun-Times, United States
Obama is the Democrats' common sense 'liberal' USA Today
Obama wins CNN focus group MSNBC
Barack's Big Moment Town Hall
Obama Draws A Contrast Atlantic Online
President Obama? Why the Money Man Trails Hillary FOX News
Old-fashioned politics gets an Internet twist Palm Beach Post, United States
Dems Face Blunt Questions on Iraq, Draft Forbes, NY
White House battle shifts to YouTube iAfrica.com, South Africa
YouTube video debate actually worked ZDNet
Obama, Clinton clash in YouTube debate Business Day, South Africa

20 Million Single Moms: Will Obama Go For Them?

20 million single moms stayed out of the 2000 and 2004 races. They are disenchanted. They don't bother. The question is, will Obama try and bring them into the process? It is not enough to talk of universal health care. These 20 million people have to be specifically targeted.

Barack Obama's mother was a single mom for parts of her life. But it is not enough to mention that. These 20 million people are a specific group with specific political needs. They have to be addressed as a group, like African Americans are, like Hispanics are.

This is key to Obama getting ahead of Hillary. If he refuses to address this crowd, he will continue to lag in the national polls.

The debate on single moms is necessary. Is this a case of family breakdown? Is this a case of men not managing to keep pace with liberated women in terms of their gender attitudes? Is it a case of economic pressures? Is it a case of unplanned pregnancies? Is it to do with weak family values? Why disproportionately women?

This is a very specific demographic. That has to be recognized.

Their primary political needs might be to do with child care facilities. Once the political will is mustered, details will follow.

On The Web

SingleMom.com - Single Mom's Resources for Single Mother, Single ...
How a single mom makes it on $31K - MSN Money
My Single Mom Life -- Sleepless in Sarasota
Single parent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the United States, the percentage of children with single parents rose from 23% in 1980 to 31% in 2002. .... 9% of single parents in the UK are fathers, and 86% of single parents are white ..... 47% of single parent families are below the Government-defined poverty line (after housing costs) .... those living with a sole parent were about three times more likely to either kill themselves or end up in the hospital after an attempted suicide by the age of 26 than children living with two parents
Working Moms Refuge | Single Moms
Diary of a Single Mom on the Edge
SingleRose.com - Resource for Single Mothers, Single Moms, Single ...
Single Mom Seeking-A Book by Rachel Sarah

In The News

Tonight voters will log on to watch landmark online debate 49abcnews.com
It was the snobs wot lost it Guardian Unlimited
Hamas: AKP victory is 'proof' of Islamic trend in region Earthtimes.org
US threat to strike al-Qaeda in Pakistan Sydney Morning Herald
Experience Trumps for Clinton; 'New Direction' Keeps Obama Going ABC News
For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1 SI.com
Poll shows Clinton leading Democratic rivals for presidency Xinhua Fifty-four Democrats said Clinton, who is from New York, has the best chance of winning the general election in November 2008, more than twice the percentage saying Senator Barack Obama of Illinois (22 percent), according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll. .... Among Democratic-leaning independents, 44 percent said Clinton, 25 percent Obama and 11 percent Edwards. .... Among independents, 35 percent cited Clinton as the Democrat with the best chance of beating the GOP nominee and 29 percent said Obama. Among Republicans, 37 percent said Clinton and 33 percent Obama. .... Overall, 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support Clinton to be the party's nominee, with Obama second at 30 percent. .... Clinton leads among both women and men in the new poll. Among whites, Clinton leads Obama by double digits, but the two run nearly neck-and-neck among African Americans: 46 percent would vote for Obama and 40 percent for Clinton. ..... Eight in 10 said they would be comfortable with a female head of state; 86 percent said so of an African American, as did 74 percent of a Hispanic. ..... But fewer said they would have no reservations: 54 percent would be "entirely comfortable" with a female president, 56 percent with an African American and 44 percent with a Latino.
Romney blasts Hillary, Obama: Compares Sen. Clinton to Karl Marx Boston Herald
Obama "Walks the Walk" on Supporting Illegal Immigration American Thinker Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard. .... "I didn't run away from the issue, and I didn't just talk about it in front of Latino audiences." .... The Illinois Democrat said the recent Senate immigration debate "was both ugly and racist in a way we haven't see since the struggle for civil rights."
Clinton, Obama address La Raza Miami Herald Clinton did not demand an end to federal raids on undocumented immigrants. Obama would not guarantee a visit to the immigrant-heavy agricultural area of California's Central Valley in between his fundraising trips to Los Angeles. ..... ''I'm proud to have not one, but two front-runners in the race for president of the United States,'' said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president. ``I think it says a lot about our power and our energy to shape this country.'' .... Obama also had a unique message: that the civil rights movements led by an African-American, Martin Luther King Jr., and a Mexican-American, Cesar Chavez, were inextricably linked. Both African-American and Hispanic children suffer disproportionately without health insurance and high-achieving public schools. ...... ''Our separate struggles are really one struggle,'' Obama said, echoing King. ``An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'' ....... Clinton looked tired, perhaps because she and other senators were up all night Tuesday trying to secure support for a bill withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Flood situation in Bihar worsens Hindu
Iran and America to talk Sydney Morning Herald
Floods rising to record levels Washington Post
Britain Inundated By Flood Water CBS News
Water levels reaching 60-year highs Reuters.uk
Microsoft, Yahoo! Going Google's Way? Techtree.com
Mighty Microsoft's future hinges on beating Google The Age
HP opens wallet for software business CNET News.com enhance HP's standing as one of the world's leading software companies ...... The picked-up pace of software acquisitions at HP mirrors a well worn strategy at rival IBM, which has bought 54 companies since 2003, including 36 software outfits as it decreases its dependency on hardware sales.
Site aimed at video doers, not watchers, expands
Africa, offline: Waiting for the Web what can happen when good intentions run into the technical, political and business realities of Africa. ...... Less than 4 percent of Africa's population is connected to the Web; most subscribers are in North African countries and the republic of South Africa. ..... E-mail messages and phone calls sent from some African countries have to be routed through Britain, or even the United States, increasing expenses and delivery times. About 75 percent of African Internet traffic is routed this way and costs African countries billions of extra dollars each year that they would not incur if their infrastructure was up to speed. ....... Prices remain high because the national telecommunications linked to the cable maintain a monopoly over access, squeezing out potential competitors. ..... Africa remains the least connected region in the world, and the digital gap between it and the developed world is widening rapidly. "Unless you can offer Internet access that is the same as the rest of the world, Africa can't be part of the global economy or academic environment" ..... "The benefits of the Internet age will bypass the continent." ..... Rwandan officials say the company seems more interested in tapping the more lucrative cellphone market than in being an Internet service provider. ...... The only way to do it is to buy bandwidth capacity on satellites, but there are not enough satellites to meet demand. ...... Terracom suffers from unrealistic expectations ..... Complicating the situation, Butare said, was that Wyler tried to run Terracom from the United States, visiting Rwanda just a few weeks at a time. He left day-to-day management to a poorly trained staff, Butare said. ...... Basic wireless Internet is about $63 a month. Those rich enough to pay the fees complain about poor service. ..... most of the satellites serving Africa were launched nearly 20 years ago and are aging or going out of commission. ...... Terracom is moving ahead with plans to give Rwanda the most advanced Internet infrastructure in Africa. A nationwide wireless connection should begin operating near year-end, he said, about the time a nonprofit group, One Laptop Per Child, based in Boston, is to introduce a $100 laptop in the country. ...... Bakuramutsa said he hopes to bring the price of Internet service down to about $10 a month.
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Google pledges $4.6bn to free wireless spectrum VNUNet.com
Now Google wants to be a telco TelecomTV

Sunday, July 22, 2007

NYC, Obama, Structure, Me

Not long after high school, I was a Vice General Secretary of a party in Nepal that had two MPs.
Six months into landing as an international student, I got myself elected student body president at Berea College in Kentucky, the number one liberal arts school in the South.
I am the only Nepali in America to have worked full time for two years for Nepal's magical April Revolution 2006, and Madhesi Movement 2007. We invented nonviolent militancy.

I am not "just a blogger." I am a leader. I am not a journalist, not that there is anything wrong with those who are, but rather a digital democrat. I pride myself in my political acumen and skills. Who else in the ranks has toppled a Third World dictator working almost completely in a Web 2.0 environment?

I want to clarify for my NYC comrades as to the kind of involvement I expect to have in the course of Obama 2008.

I am not interested in any organizational title at all. If that means I miss some key strategy sessions, so be it.
I have no desire to sit on any committee.
The only organizational structure I am interested in is The Matrix. If I can convince people to build it, fine, I will be part of it, at the highest levels. If not, I will stay outside the traditional organizational structures, and do out of the box thinking instead.
I give a few hours to Obama on a daily basis. This blog is my primary contribution. I fancy myself nothing less than Obama 2008's national Shadow Campaign Manager.
I have a young tech, startup. I want the option to "disappear" for months if I have to to do right by my company. That is an additional reason I don't want to sit on any committee, acquire any kind of an official title.
My goal is to attend as many Obama events as I can, and get to personally know as many Obama volunteers as I can. And I hope to videoblog the Obama operation in NYC extensively.
I am not going anywhere outside the city boundaries. That is final.

In The News

Obama Holds Smaller Leads in US Race Angus Reid Global Monitor Democrat Barack Obama is the most popular presidential contender in the early stages of the 2008 electoral campaign in the United States, according to a poll by Zogby International. At least 45 per cent of respondents would vote for the Illinois senator in head-to-head contests against four prospective Republican nominees. Obama holds a three-point edge over Arizona senator John McCain, a four-point lead over former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a 14-point advantage over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, and an eight-point edge over actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. ........ "If that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife—which we haven’t done,. We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven’t done. Those of us who care about Darfur don’t think it would be a good idea."
Democrats 2008: Hillary 35%, Obama 28%
Republicans 2008: F. Thompson 29%, Giuliani 28%
Approval for Putin Reaches 85% in Russia
Obama, Giuliani, Hillary Most Popular in U.S.
Giuliani, Hillary Still Lead in Florida
Obama Leads McCain, Romney in US RaceAngus Reid Global Monitor according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 47 per cent of respondents would vote for the Illinois senator in 2008
US ready to flatten FATA if attacked by al-Qaeda from there DailyIndia.com American intelligence officials have said that should a resurgent al-Qaeda think of attacking the United States again after a gap of six years from Pakistan's volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the Bush Administration would not hesitate to move in troops to "flatten" the area. ....... the al-Qaeda has reconstituted itself in the wild tribal areas of north western Pakistan. It is now stronger than at any other time in years, and is actively plotting new attacks. ....... the Bush Administration is captivated by General Musharraf because "he is a secular moderate" ...... the FATA is an area fanning extremist violence, and therefore, requires decisive attention. ....... no one in Washington believes that Pakistan's intelligence service has been purged of Taliban sympathizers. ...... "The Pakistani Army is designed, trained and equipped to fight India in Kashmir and deter New Dehli with nuclear weapons. That requires a dramatically different kind of strategy from what is needed in the tribal areas, whose leaders do not consider themselves part of Pakistan" ........ the western mountains of Pakistan have been the hatching grounds for some of Al Qaeda's deadliest plots, such as 7/7 in 2005 and the thwarted plot to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic commercial jets last August. ......... The options include initiating aggressive campaigns of deniable covert action in Pakistan to capture or kill Qaeda operatives, and pray that American Special Forces or C.I.A. officers don't get caught. Another would be to carry out air strikes against known terrorist compounds in the tribal areas. A third would involve carrying out a large-scale ground offensive across the border from Afghanistan to capture and, or, eliminate Qaeda and Taliban remnants, and lastly, but the least likely, to send thousands of heavily armed American soldiers on a cave-to-cave search of North Waziristan with the objective of effectively dismantling the Al Qaeda's Pakistan base of operations. ..... after each attack, the terror groups tap a deep bench and elevate another operative to a more lofty position.
US threatens Pakistan raids ABC Online "Our stance is that Osama bin Laden is not present in Pakistan," Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao told AFP in the Pakistani capital. "If anyone has the information he should give it to us, so that we can apprehend him. ..... Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told CNN that instead of intelligence estimates, the United States should give Islamabad clear evidence of the Al Qaeda presence inside Pakistan. .... Democrats agitating for an end to the Iraq war have accused Bush of making the United States more vulnerable to terrorism by neglecting the strengthening Al Qaeda threat from Pakistan.
Ruling Party Wins Big in Turkey TIME a profound sign of Turks' disaffection with the traditional secularist elite.
LA no 'pub team', insists Beckham Scotsman
WINDS OF CHANGE ARE NOT ALL BLOWING HILLARY'S WAY Yahoo! News Sen. Clinton is clearly the candidate of the head. She is logical, methodical, thoughtful. Sen. Obama is clearly the candidate of the heart. He appeals to the romance of politics, to its sense of possibility. These two candidates both are from Illinois. She carries the whiff of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, intellectual and guarded. He carries the whiff of Sen. Paul Douglas, civil rights crusader, environmentalist and reformer. Both would like to be Abraham Lincoln, but even Abraham Lincoln wasn't Abraham Lincoln in 1859.
Can Obama turn backers' passion into votes? Minneapolis Star Tribune He raises tens of millions of dollars over a few months. His supporters are passionate. And his grass-roots movement threatens a more established rival. .... Dean's slow rise and rapid descent .... He must turn the intense devotion of his backers into a force that can win primaries, expanding his base of support beyond the narrow band of Democratic elites who backed Dean. .... "It looks like a movement candidacy, and it's generating an enormous amount of enthusiasm, excitement and money," said Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who was a top adviser to Dean. ..... Obama trailed Clinton by 16 points when he entered the race in February and by 15 points last month .... a "sequential strategy" that focuses exclusively on building a robust campaign organization in Iowa, where a caucus victory could provide a springboard to success in the New Hampshire primary and the early nominating contests beyond. ...... the race is much closer in the early states where residents know more about Obama. ....... a clearer picture is expected to emerge after Labor Day, when voters will be paying more attention. .... Only twice in the past eight contested primaries has the Democrat leading at this stage gone on to win the nomination. ...... Dean, now chairman of the Democratic Party, led both national and state polls in December 2003 ...... Obama's campaign is doing some retooling: He is focusing more on the economy...... Aides are working to get the occasionally long-winded senator to speak in shorter, crisper sentences, particularly in debates and town hall meetings. ...... At this point in the 2004 campaign, Dean had done relatively little to build effective organizations in the crucial early states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Federal election records show Dean spent $177,402 in Iowa and $116,830 in New Hampshire during the first six months of 2003. ....... Obama, by contrast, has spent $866,000 in Iowa and nearly $500,000 in New Hampshire, according to the latest numbers. The money went mainly to the nuts and bolts of a ground campaign: rallies and events, mailing lists, office space, and salaries for nearly 100 people on the Iowa payroll and about 50 more in New Hampshire. .... Davenport and Dubuque are part of media markets where Obama has been on the air since 2004. .... their success at fundraising will allow them to build a get-out-the-vote operation that could rival or eclipse Clinton's in the early states.
Poll: Clinton holds commanding lead over Obama Newsday
Republicans 2008: Giuliani 33%, F. Thompson 25% Angus Reid Global Monitor
Police foil attack on legislator in troubled south Nepal International Herald Tribune A group armed with knives, swords and guns had surrounded the home of Prabhu Sah, a legislator for former communist rebels, on Saturday in Patuara village ..... the attackers were from the Terai Liberation Front
Musharraf on the Brink in Pakistan? Time Pakistan's Islamist extremists have retaliated with a series of attacks that have killed more than 180 people, most of them soldiers and police. ..... if Musharraf really does take both gloves off in the tribal areas, that will just increase the likelihood of a split in the army, according to Hamid Gul, former head of the powerful Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Restoring the Draft: No Panacea Right now, there are only two real ways to extend or even increase the surge: call up more reservists — always tough to do in an election year — or extend active-duty combat tours from the current morale-wrecking 15 months to an even more painful 18 months. ..... the third, most controversial option — is it time to reinstitute the draft? ..... drafting people could make it easier for the Army to reach its 2012 goal of 547,000 soldiers. ..... 91% of last year's recruits were high school graduates ..... minorities are over-represented in the all-volunteer military because they have fewer options in the civilian world ..... African Americans accounted for 13% of active-duty recruits in 2005 ..... minorities are not being killed [in Iraq and Afghanistan] at greater rates than their representation in the force
Who Dies in Harry Potter? God Rowling has three fancy houses and more money than the Queen ..... By selling 325 million books in 66 languages, she has almost single-handedly made the case that the novel can still be a global mass medium. ..... If you want to know who dies in Harry Potter, the answer is easy: God. ..... Harry's power comes from love. This charming notion represents a cultural sea change. In the new millennium, magic comes not from God or nature or anything grander or more mystical than a mere human emotion. .... psychology and technology have superseded the sacred.
Harry Potter's Last Adventure he's supposed to become a man, and get the girl ..... excited, curious, burning to get to the bottom of a mystery ..... the richness and sheer high-resolution of Rowling's fictional world .... Must Rowling insist on making evil people short, fat or ugly, or all three? ...... fans have already worked through all the possible endings on the Internet with such massive rigor. If we'd spent all that energy on particle physics instead, we would have found the Higgs boson by now. ..... Rowling's abiding thematic concern: the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death ...... Harry, though also an orphan, has found the courage to love. "Do not pity the dead, Harry," a wise man tells Harry in Deathly Hallows. "Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love." ..... the cosmology of the Potterverse: there are no higher powers in residence there .....The attic and the basement are empty. .... turning the last page of Deathly Hallows made me look forward to rereading the first book.
How to Leave Iraq the U.S. could save the $10 billion a month that it is spending on the war and rescue the U.S. Army and Marine Corps before they both collapse. ..... by withdrawing from Iraq, we'd unleash a bloodbath, hand al-Qaeda and Iran huge victories, destabilize the Persian Gulf and empower terrorists everywhere to attack our allies and our homeland ..... remain in Iraq until a democracy emerges from the chaos of the Middle East — a project they openly acknowledge is the work of a generation. ..... no matter what your views of the war or its genesis, things are likely to turn out different from what you expect. ..... the reduction in the U.S.'s military footprint in the region should be accompanied by a sustained surge in American diplomacy. .... In a world of bad options, a phased withdrawal is the least bad one out there.
The Plight of the Antiwar Democrat pro-life, pro-gun but antiwar .... Pelosi announced her plan to hold a series of votes on Iraq this month--one each week throughout July ..... 62% of Americans, including 84% of Democrats and 66% of independents, now believe it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq in the first place .... a pro-gun fiscal conservative whose sandy hair, hazel eyes and freckles make him look far younger than his 39 years.
The Future of Facebook a 23-year-old CEO in Silicon Valley. ..... more than 150,000 new users signing up daily, it is growing three times as fast as rival MySpace ..... it's actually been growing and doubling about once every six months for quite a while. ...... we're not trying to build a community — we're not trying to make new connections. ..... a "social utility" rather than a "social network?" ...... rebuffed Yahoo's offer to buy Facebook for nearly $1 billion .... we're very focused on what we're building and not as focused on the exit ..... more than half of our users use the product every day — it's a more efficient way for them to communicate with their friends and get information about the people around them than anything else they can do. ...... your investors who put a total of $38 million into the company ..... we took our venture round from Accel Partners just about two years ago ..... we grant options to all of our employees. At this point we have more than 250 ....... the launch of Facebook Platform. ...... There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. .... 30 million active users on Facebook. ....... more ways for advertisers to reach people and communicate in a very natural way, just like users communicate with each other...... Facebook's exclusive advertising deal with Microsoft, which gives the software giant the right to sell ads on the site ...... With more than 40 billion page views every month, Facebook is the sixth most trafficked site in the U.S., and the top photo-sharing site. ..... We have more than 10% or 15% of the population of Canada on the site. ..... We haven't translated the site yet, but that's something we're working on and it should be done soon. What we're doing is pretty broadly applicable to people in all different age groups and demographics and places around the world. ..... I work, meet with people, and discuss things all day ..... a hyper-fast paced, high-profile technology company? ...... 'In order to be doing something like this, you have to really, really like what you're doing, because otherwise it just doesn't make sense.' ..... a team of really smart people who come from different backgrounds and have different experiences and think in different ways .... We're just focused on building things.
Chameleon Nature of Maoist Strategy In Nepal Global Politician the real and quite inflexible Maoist strategic objective of securing total and unequivocal power...... Ample & consistent evidence of ability to get their way through blackmail and pressure tactics - so why not make the most out of the situation? .... Apparently unhappy by the fact that UNMIN did not give a clean chit to all their underage combatants and perhaps more than a little embarrassed that some 19 percent of initially registered combatants are no longer present in the camps, the Maoists now demand that the verification process be halted until those verified at Chula Chuli are immediately integrated into the Nepalese Army....... in Nepal, negotiations simply mean the incremental subjugation of the government/SPA position in favor of the Maoist position. Initially the government / SPA may agree to only 10 percent of the Maoist demands. However, slowly but surely, they invariably give in inch by inch until the Maoists have it their way. The SPA then declares, what has been at best a delay of an unmitigated disaster, a 'victory for peace in Nepal' and we move on to another round of 'negotiations'.
CPN-M fighters fled the cantonment in southern Nepal People's Daily Online following internal argument among themselves. .... Three busloads of YCL cadres and several more on motorcycles mounted a night-long search for the PLA soldiers and they are still searching
Romney Camp Claims Giuliani Is No Longer GOP Favorite Washington Post
Female President Elected in India Washington Post hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life. .... the country's often male-dominated political scene. .... her deep political ties and friendship with Sonia Gandhi ...... A lawyer by training, she most recently served as the first female governor of the northern state of Rajasthan. ...... health minister of Maharashtra state in 1975 ...... there have been three Muslim presidents and one Sikh. ..... Girls are viewed as an economic burden because, traditionally, a bride's father is required to pay a groom's family an often large dowry. ..... about 10 million female fetuses have been aborted over the past two decades. ..... sexual harassment in the workplace remains a serious concern, even in urban centers. ..... the president's role as commander in chief of the world's fourth-largest army
Hispanics aim to stop 'wave of hate' United Press International the "wave of hate" used to sink the immigration bill in the U.S. Senate last month. ...... ... The National Council of La Raza plans to start a campaign to register and mobilize voters and to address "hate" messages spewed by conservative talk shows
Google the wireless broadband carrier? iTWire
Google aims to boost wireless competition Boston Globe
Google to FCC: Accept our rules and we'll bidWashington Post the company will commit a minimum of US$4.6 billion toward the auction ..... Verizon Wireless said that complying with Google's ideas would amount to corporate welfare and bad public policy. ....... the company's public policy blog. ..... "Google is demanding the government stack the deck in its favor, limit competing bids, and effectively force wireless carriers to alter their business models to Google's liking," Jim Cicconi, AT&T senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs, said in a statement on Friday. "We would repeat that Google should put up or shut up -- they can bid and enter the wireless market with any business model they prefer, then let consumers decide which model they like best." ........ "Google and its allies, with their collective market capitalization approaching half a trillion dollars, don't need a government handout at taxpayers' expense." ...... Google is urging the commission to ensure that end users can download any applications, services or content they want. Consumers should also be able to buy a phone and use it on any network. In addition, Google says the winner of the spectrum should be required to allow third parties to resell services over the network on a wholesale basis. ........ former FCC chief Reed Hundt and former Netscape CEO James Barksdale, have proposals similar to Google's.
DoT chalks out road map for WiMax rollout Economic Times in the 2.5 Ghz frequency band .... in the 2.5 GHz-2.69 GHz
WiMax is more suited to city size Times of India The difference between WiMax and Wi-Fi is often likened to the one between a cellphone and a cordless phone. .... speed can go up to 9.2 Mbps.
I will work as long as I can: Amitabh Zee News as he does not want to ever face a financial crisis or feel insecure. ..... Bachchan, who burnt his fingers with the company he floated in 1996, was glad that the firm had finally made a turnaround. .... AB Corp (the company he floated) is now finally debt-free ..... Bachchan himself is scheduled to work on two international projects -- Director Deepa Mehta`s "exclusion" that centres round the plight of 376 Indian asylum-seekers who were denied entry to Canada in 1914 and Director Mira Nair`s "Shantaram" which is based on Gregory David Roberts` acclaimed novel.
Bachchan unlikely to get a breather in farmland row Hindu
Stop talking about cure for AIDS: expert The Age 40 million infected and 25 million already dead from AIDS.
Google Pushes for Rules to Aid Wireless Plans New York Times In the Internet giant’s view of the future, consumers would buy a wireless phone at a store, but instead of being forced to use a specific carrier, they would be free to pick any carrier they wanted. Instead of the wireless carrier choosing what software goes on their phones, users would be free to put any software they want on it. ..... Google believes that the cost of voice calls and data connections to the Internet may be partly subsidized by advertisements brought to users by Google’s powerful online advertising machine. ..... There might even be a Google phone. ..... mobile phone users would become significant consumers of online advertising, Google’s core business. ..... Google’s set of proposed rules would have the F.C.C. require that any devices and any application could be connected to the wireless network using the auctioned spectrum. Further, they would require that whoever wins the spectrum make a portion of it available to resellers on a wholesale basis, which Google and other technology companies believe is necessary to promote broadband competition. ...... The licenses, considered the beach-front property on the electromagnetic spectrum, are in the 700 megahertz band of radio frequencies, which are being surrendered by television stations as they convert to digital broadcast. The auction, to be held early next year, is expected to raise more than $10 billion in revenue for the government. ..... open handsets and open applications

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