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World's richest club and the world's most expensive player will not be in the Champions League Final.

Three new features for Google Calendar currently in Labs

Researchers in Australia have discovered that fat isn't just what's for dinner, it's also a taste.

The new Tron Legacy teaser features an undeniably cool update of the original film's look and style.

South Africa's showcase event could be marred by protests from unhappy shack dwellers.

Compare covers of the classic The Runaways' hit single "Cherry Bomb."

Take notice when the SCOTUS and POTUS are trying to goad us.

The web and social networks are evolving their own conventions of appropriate behavior.

People have learned to avoid cluttering mailboxes with broad cc’s. Flames are far fewer than in the old days. Most bloggers no longer feel they must blog every day. Most people know that it’s worthwhile to lurk when joining a new community to identify its standards before jumping into the fray.

One area that noobs fail to understand is that it is not cool to “scrape” other people’s blogs. By scrape, I mean taking an entire web post rather than taking an excerpt and linking to the original.

Google Alerts emails me when sites take my content lock, stock, and barrel. Every week I come upon sites that break one or more of these taboos:

• Do not re-post someone else’s blog posts in their entirety.
• Do not imply that you wrote a post if you did not.
• Do not strip out author names and links.
• Do not use frames to make it difficult to get to the original post.
• Do not remove links to the original material.

I’ve been happy to share my thoughts in blogs and free articles for more than a decade. I enjoy the exposure. But I don’t enjoy being abused.

One association takes my every post, puts it behind a members-only wall, and puts its copyright notice on the bottom of every page. A now-defunct university posted an entire white paper by Clark Quinn and me but stripped our names from it. Several automated blogs repost my work with ads alongside. My colleagues at Internet Time Alliance are experiencing the same phenomena.

What’s your take on this issue?

Spanisch nimmt als zweite Weltsprache zunehmend an Bedeutung zu. Umso wichtiger ist es, neben Englisch auch zumindest einige Wörter Spanisch sprechen zu können.
Wer hier nicht gleich in einen teuren Spanischkurs gehen möchte, findet im Internet auch viele Webseiten und Tools mit denen man kostenlos Spanisch online lernen kann. Vom Vokabeltrainer bis zu Videos ist alles verfügbar.
Auf dem Studium- und Karriere-Blog www.candy-college.com ist hierzu eine gute Zusammenfassung.
Man findet hier 7 kostenlosen Webseiten zum online Spanisch lernen.

Spanisch nimmt als zweite Weltsprache zunehmend an Bedeutung zu. Umso wichtiger ist es, neben Englisch auch zumindest einige Wörter Spanisch sprechen zu können.
Wer hier nicht gleich in einen teuren Spanischkurs gehen möchte, findet im Internet auch viele Webseiten und Tools mit denen man kostenlos Spanisch online lernen kann. Vom Vokabeltrainer bis zu Videos ist alles verfügbar.
Auf dem Studium- und Karriere-Blog www.candy-college.com ist hierzu eine gute Zusammenfassung.
Man findet hier 7 kostenlosen Webseiten zum online Spanisch lernen.

Die Staatsanwaltschaft München ermittelt nicht weiter gegen die Anwältin Katja Günther, die das Inkassogeschäft für einige umstrittene Onlinefirmen betreibt. Über 1.000 Menschen hatten Strafanzeige gegen die Anwältin erstattet.

Weebly, the startup that allows users to build rich websites using a straightforward drag and drop interface, is about to get a lot more colorful. The site has opened a new Theme Community, allowing any of its 3.5 million users to submit their own themes for use by other Weebly members. To help launch the new feature, Weebly is holding a contest where it’s giving $10,000 to the top submitted design, as determined by a panel of professional designers.

This is a pretty big deal for Weebly. Up until now, users have had around 80 themes to choose from, which pales in comparison to the number of themes available for some other site building platforms, like WordPress. You’ve always been free to use your own custom CSS styling, but many of the site’s users are using Weebly specifically because they don’t want to have to deal with that sort of thing. Now they’ll have a lot more variety to choose from, with no mucking around in CSS required.

At launch, Weebly’s theme gallery is still only going to consist of the 80 themes that already exist, since it’s just opening to submissions for the first time today. But CEO David Rusenko expects that to change quickly, in part spurred by the design competition the site is holding. He also believes that designers will be compelled to create themes for the site because of the large audience it reaches — Weebly now has 3.5 million site building users, who see 80 million page views per month from 17 million unique visitors. And he says that traffic is growing 20% month over month. It’s a bit surprising that it took this long for the site to roll out the feature (Weebly launched back in 2007), but Rusenko says that they “wanted to get it right”. Fair enough.

Users will be able to access the themes both through the site’s editor (which has been revamped a bit to accommodate the new gallery) and from this page, which you can view even if you aren’t a Weebly member. Themes won’t include attribution in their footers, but the gallery itself will allow designers to build up their own profiles, allowing users to see all of the themes they’ve submitted. At launch, all themes will be free, but Rusenko says that the site plans to begin allowing designers to sell premium themes in the future.

The design competition has a submission deadline of April 30, is open in any country where such contests are valid, and is being judged by Michael Cronan, Scott Thomas, Jason Putorti, Andrew Wilkinson, Dustin Curtis, and Rob Martin.

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Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers can post their own questions, ideas, problems, or conversations about a product. Companies can also claim their board and put their own employees on to moderate the boards. Tapping into the conversations taking place Twitter and other social media sites is now integral to brands and customer support, as we’ve recently seen with Southwest Airlines. Get Satisfaction is extending its social media coverage today by rolling out the ability to add a support tab to Facebook Fan pages.

As companies turn to Facebook Fan Pages to connect with customers, consumers are increasingly voicing their issues with a particular product or brand on the brand’s Facebook page. But often these complaints or opinions can get lost in the stream. That’s where Get Satisfaction comes in. The startup now allows brands to create a tab on their fan pages, which can be a portal for consumers to express their opinions, complaints or issues with the brand or product.

With the Facebook Social Engagement Hub, Get Satisfaction creates a tab (that can be labeled with any brand-specific name) on the brand’s Fan Page. Here customers can begin wall discussions in the form of four topic types: Ask a Question, Share an Idea, Report a Problem, or Give Praise. When customers begin to post a question, Get Satisfaction searches for and suggests similar threads to give consumers instant answers to commonly asked questions. All questions, comments, and answers are discoverable via Google and other search engine. People can respond to any thread — i.e. voice a similar problem, suggest a remedy, emerge as an advocate in response to another’s complaint, or offer a new twist to a product suggestion. Community members can also make their experience heard by simply clicking ‘me too’.

In turn, any question, idea or problem posted on a brand’s hub on Facebook will be automatically imported into the brand’s Get Satisfaction web interface, allowing marketers and customer support reps to access the conversation from their Get Satisfaction site.

Get Satisfaction’s co-founder Lane Becker says that the new offering is a part of helping brands distribute the conversations where the conversations are actually happening. And with 400 million users worldwide, Facebook is definitely a place where the conversations are taking place. Becker says that the startup is particularly focused on the idea of the “social CRM” and helping clients connect the conversations taking place regarding customers support on social media sites with CRM applications like Salesforce and Zendesk. Get Satisfaction currently has free app on Salesforce’s app exchange.

The Facebook offering is a paid feature and Get Satisfaction will have a number of pricing options. Today’s rollout is more targeted towards bigger brands, but a more scaled down offering will be introduced soon and will cost SMBs $99 per month.

Get Satisfaction recently raised $2.3 million in funding, which Becker says is being used to scale out its team. With only 20 employees, Get Satisfaction currently has 20,000 customers (10,000 of which are paid customers). Zappos, Mint.com, Procter & Gamble, and Nike have all created customer support communities on the site. Currently there are over 25,000 communities that have been created on the platform.

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Example:

Mighty Leaf Tea uses the Get Satisfaction Social Engagement Hub to engage with its loyal customers, driving both word of mouth marketing and peer advocacy.

Link: http://bit.ly/buxE6B

Get Satisfaction’s Web 2.0 customer service and support platform launched in 2007 and has grown exponentially. More than 35,000 company communities have been created on Get Satisfaction, and upwards of 20,000 organizations are actively engaging with 1.4 million community members. Organizations of all stripes — from Nike to Four Square — engage in conversations with their customers, increasing loyalty, retention, collaboration, and customer-driven innovation, while reducing repetitive support costs.

Crystal remains the favorite, but Siobhan and Didi made excellent strides.

Facebook-based mobile app directory Mplayit is launching a new way to discover mobile apps today: App Gurus. The new feature draws recommendations from experts in the mobile space. The experts, which include blogs and technology writers, will rate and comment on apps in Mplayit’s catalogs.

Last year, Mplayit launched its Facebook app that allows users to discover, share and recommend a variety of mobile apps back in November and covers apps available for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Mobile (Java) devices. Mplayit’s directory of apps includes a dedicated page for each app where Mplayit will post videos of the app (created either by the developer or pulled from YouTube), a detailed description of the app and reviews. You can also click to buy the app from various app markets, including Apple’s App Store and the Android Market. Once you start clicking on various app and downloading apps, Mplayit will begin to recommend apps to you based on your behavior on the site.

With the feature, consumers on Mplayit will be able to see a feed of real-time activity of the Gurus within the app. Guru’s can also rank apps on a scale of one to five and apps rated by at least two Gurus with ratings or four or five stars get the top accolade, a “Guru Approved” badge. App Gurus include IntoMobile, iPhone Arcade, Androidandme and Stuart Dredge. The feature is similar in some ways to competitor Appolicious’ curated lists of recommended mobile apps. Mplayit also faces competition from AppsFire, 16Apps and others.

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Professorinnen und Professoren sind ganz entscheidend für die Qualität in Forschung und Lehre. Für den Erfolg von Hochschulen werden deshalb gute Berufungsverfahren immer wichtiger. Wie und mit welcher Güte laufen Berufungen ab? Wie steht es um die Gleichstellung von Frauen im Verfahren? Darüber diskutieren derzeit sieben niedersächsische Hochschulen in einem von der HIS Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH moderierten Benchmarking-Verbund. Das Ziel sind Leitlinien für die Qualitätssicherung in der Berufungspraxis.

Facebook has announced that they've been developing location-based features to debut next month.

Brings new value to the whole cyber commuting thing.

Google has announced the addition of more than 12,000 miles of trails to their mapping data.