Smartr 2.0 makes following news on Twitter and Facebook faster more elegant than ever

Smartr, a free iPhone and iPod Touch app we?ve profiled, is a splendid way of consuming news posted to Twitter and Facebook by one?s friends without other social network posts cluttering up your feeds.

The app does this by removing spam, duplicate links, and uninteresting content such as check-ins and generic status updates.

Smartr also features:

  • Support for not only Facebook and Twitter, but Twitter lists as well.
  • Page preview displays instead of links.
  • A single tap method for sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous and saving articles to Instapaper.
  • Dark mode, Themes, Custom Fonts and Full Screen reading.

Smartr version 2.0 builds on the already grand features of the app but has been completely redesigned, made faster, with a wonderful new user interface.

A major new feature of Smartr 2.0 is the app?s ?Connection Engine.? The feature is a suggestion system connecting users with people reading the same content as you.

Speaking with Smartr?s Temo Chalasani:

?We have seen over and over again that people reading the same articles have similar interests and can help each other discover a lot of new and interesting content.?

Those you follow are presented in a new, filtered, Smartr feed. The Smartr feed will show you what they are filtering and reading in real-time.

The clean, excellent, redesign is evident in the Twitter and Facebook feeds as well.

Smartr 2.0 is a new way of seeing what your friends and colleagues are actually reading on Twitter and Facebook, while adding new features with a complete design overhaul.  If you?ve yet to try Smartr, pick up the free app here and share with us what you think!

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Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You

Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering how they must handle that data once they have it. Worse yet, few third-party apps have a privacy policy telling users what they intend to do.

That was the message delivered at a hearing of the U.S. Senate committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held yesterday. Companies and regulators are struggling to find ways to ensure that user data is handled properly by apps installed on smart phones, but the way apps are designed makes this difficult.

Mobile privacy has come under extreme scrutiny since revelations that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software collect and store users' location data. Last week, a U.S. Senate subcommittee questioned those two companies on their handling of personal data. This week, Facebook joined Google and Apple on the hot seat.

But all three companies run platforms that support thousands of third-party developers, and how to make sure those apps respect users' privacy, and explain their rules, is a major question. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said at the hearing, "It's not clear that Americans understand how their information may be shared or transferred."

The hearing also highlighted several reasons why it'll be difficult to control what apps are doing with user data. It's not clear which laws should be used to regulate third-party apps, and, in some cases, it's hard to design proper technical requirements. "There's no privacy law for general commerce whatsoever," said Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). "Data collectors alone are setting the rules."

A major initiative designed to improve consumer privacy on the Web?the proposed "Do Not Track" bill?could be hard to apply to mobile devices, regulators said. The bill would allow consumers to opt out of having their online activity tracked.

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Do Biofuels Reduce Greenhouse Gases?

Greenhouse-gas emissions from biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, may be lower than many researchers have estimated, according to a new study. The findings could further fuel a debate over whether biofuels actually reduce greenhouse-gas emissions compared to gasoline, and if so, by how much.

Some recent studies have suggested that the indirect effects of biofuels production, such as higher food prices, could encourage farmers to clear forested land to grow more crops?thereby worsening climate change. At least one study suggested that the emissions resulting from such decisions would make biofuels?even advanced biofuels made from cellulosic materials such as switchgrass?worse for the environment than gasoline. These studies use economic analysis to predict the effect of future biofuels production on land use, while attempting to control for other factors that influence farmers, such as the amount of grain stocks on hand and changes in food demand.

The new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Biomass and Bioenergy, uses analysis of historical data instead of economic models. It found no statistical correlation between changes in biofuel production in the U.S. from 2002 to 2007 and recorded changes in cropland use outside of the country. "There is no evidence for indirect land use change," says Bruce Dale, a professor of chemical engineering at Michigan State University, who led the study.

Jason Hill, a professor of bioproducts and biosystems engineering at the University of Minnesota, says that it's not surprising that the study found no correlation, given that there are many competing forces that influence crop use. "It's difficult to distinguish the signal from the noise," he says.

Indeed, another study, due out in July, draws different conclusions from an analysis of historical data, says Wallace Tyner, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, who is one of this study's authors. He says that the data shows a large increase (27 million hectares) in the amount of land under cultivation for key crops from 2006 to 2011, a time when biofuels production rapidly increased. Most of the land was cultivated for corn, soybeans, and rapeseed, all biofuels crops. Tyner attributes the increase to biofuels production and factors such as growth in demand from China. But he says the only way to estimate how much of that increase in cropland was due to biofuels production would be to run an economic simulation. Using one such model, he recently estimated that the share of the increase from U.S. biofuels production was about 2 million hectares.

Given the lack of scientific consensus around the impacts of land use changes on greenhouse-gas emissions?and the likelihood that there will always be some uncertainty in the estimates?some researchers have recommended policies that account for a range of possible impacts.

They think, for example, that policymakers should weigh the risk that a biofuel will increase greenhouse-gas emissions against the risk of not using the biofuel, and using gasoline instead. This would resemble the way that regulators weigh the risks and benefits of new drugs, says Michael O'Hare, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Others, including representatives of the biofuels industry, argue that policymakers should ignore the effect of land use change until there is better research. They also say that if indirect effects of biofuels are to be estimates, studies of indirect effects of gasoline production should also be considered when comparing gasoline and biofuels.

For example, a recent study suggested that factoring in the impact of land use changes from mining oil sands in Canada could increase estimates of carbon-dioxide emissions. Including such emissions could make gasoline look worse than it does now, and make biofuels look better.

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Huntsman Takes His Potential Campaign for Test Drive in New Hampshire

For the past 21 days, since returning from his post as ambassador to China, Mr. Huntsman has been hunkered down with a team of advisers to study the intricate details of campaigning for the Republican nomination. He is displaying what he has learned during a five-day New Hampshire visit, an ambitious trip designed to introduce him to voters and introduce his family to the obstacle course a presidential race entails.

The transition to becoming a presidential candidate can be steep for the most seasoned politicians. But after spending two years in Beijing, the learning curve is even more abrupt.

?Compare and contrast where we?ve been for the last two years,? he said, reflecting on a stop at a house here. ?The thought that you can just walk in and be surrounded by members of the free press, who can take what you say and do whatever they want with it, and to have neighborhood folks show up and ask random questions, it?s the quintessential American experience.?

He was twice elected governor of Utah ? a point he reminded voters of again and again ? but he has spent the past two years in China, where he could not practice the art of politicking. Everywhere he went on Friday, he was trailed by a large swarm of photographers, reporters, bloggers and curious onlookers, who made it impossible for him to audition in obscurity.

Mr. Huntsman, 51, is the newest potential contestant in the Republican presidential field. He told voters that he was in the ?diligence phase? and would decide in June whether to declare his candidacy and fight for the chance to challenge President Obama, who sent him to China.

?It?s an intimidating and daunting thing, particularly when your daughter gets lost among a sea of reporters and you have no idea how it?s going to turn out,? Mr. Huntsman said Friday at one of many points when he seemed to be thinking aloud. ?It might sink our enterprise absolutely instantaneously.?

His enterprise seemed to be staying afloat during his inaugural trip to New Hampshire, which holds the first-in-the-nation primary, which he sees as the best place to take on Mitt Romney. He chatted easily with voters, blending small talk (?Are we going to play pool?? he asked as he walked through a V.F.W. club) with a more serious discussion about the challenges ahead (?Our debt level is shipwrecking the country,? he said).

While he traveled to South Carolina two weeks ago to deliver a graduation address, the trip to New Hampshire provided the first opportunity for Mr. Huntsman to give a window into what his campaign themes would include.

He endorsed the concept of turning Medicare into a voucher-based system to help contain the nation?s debt burden. He called for a new industrial revolution to make America competitive again and to spur economic growth. He rarely mentioned Mr. Obama?s name ? and issued a call for civility ? but he offered criticism of the president?s decision to intervene in Libya, saying that future military engagements should be carefully weighed based on their financial cost.

?It?s an affordability issue,? Mr. Huntsman said. ?With all of our deployments and all of our engagements abroad, we need to ask a fundamental question: Can we afford to do this? That should be driven by the second point, which is whether or not it?s in our national security interest.?

In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters, where Mr. Huntsman stood in a living room here on Antrim Road, he outlined elements of a foreign policy agenda for the first time since he started contemplating a presidential bid. He said that he did not believe the humanitarian threat was significant enough in Libya to warrant intervention by the United States.

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Weekend game deals: 33% off Rift, 60% off Splinter Cell titles

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Thoughts on Jumping

It may seem an odd subject to focus on, as jumping doesn't seem to be very important on the face of it ? cut it out of a game, though, and it can make a huge difference. Games in which players can?t jump, or at the very least dodge or roll, can seem painfully slow, dull and static. Games in which players can jump around and use that movement to interact with the environment can seem immeasurably more fun because of it.

Take Half-Life 2, for example. It?s a game which nearly everyone would agree is well-made, decently written, fun and fast to play through. Now cast your mind back to the first scene in Kliener?s lab, where Gordon is first properly introduced to his allies, where the plot is given its first proper push and where you?re gifted with the HEV suit again. It?s a busy sequence; lots to do, lots to take in. You?d expect most players to pay close attention, at least the first time around.

Instead, every single player I know spends most of the time jumping around. Sometimes they try to jump on the scenery or knock over objects, other times they just leapfrog around the room when a simple stroll would suffice.


The same behaviour holds true in most other games too, I?ve found. When I played Beyond Good and Evil for the first time I hardly walked anywhere across the surface of Hillys; I rolled. In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, any hallway that involved walking for more than two seconds would be punctuated by periodic bounding. It seems like aberrant behaviour at first, yet it seems as though everyone does it. Why?

The reason, I think, is actually more to do with player speed than actually jumping. It?s not that people always like to move fast through games or that they enjoy spending time off the ground. Instead, it comes back to the original point ? games that don?t feature jumping can feel static and slow, so we use these features if they're present to help negate this effect. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a pretty fast-paced game, but running down a long corridor can still feel dull and empty; jumping as you run lets you vary the speed of the game. It creates tiny events of player agency and interaction, which stave off that staid feeling.

At the same time, adventure games that don?t feature anything so much as a sprint button? Don?t they seem increasingly slow and dated these days?


This isn?t the only reason why jumping is important, though. It helps you practice for later. It can be used to ward off boredom. It helps you to further explore the game space away from the key features. There's an abundance of smaller reasons; not least of which is possibly the fact that some people just have twitchy thumbs.

For the best games, though ? and this ties into a more overarching theory of mine about character speed ? the act of jumping can be a joy in itself. Master Chief?s jump, for example, is pleasantly floaty, while Dante?s can last for as long as you can hammer the attack buttons. Faith?s standing jump in Mirror?s Edge, however, is realistically awkward; she?s much better with running leaps.

Getting these nuances of player speed correct is one of the most subtle and important aspects of making a good game, especially for first person shooters. Trust me, I play a lot of really rubbish games and I can tell you that, if you throw all the cleverness away and boil it down to basic functionality, Half-Life 2 would still stand above Conspiracy Island 2 based solely on player speed. And the quality of the jumping.

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Divisions Are Clear as Obama and Netanyahu Discuss Peace

Sitting at Mr. Obama?s side in the Oval Office, leaning toward him and at times looking him directly in the eye, the Israeli leader bluntly rejected compromises of the sort Mr. Obama had outlined the day before in hopes of reviving a moribund peace process. Mr. Obama, who had sought to emphasize Israel?s concerns in his remarks moments earlier, stared back.

In his public remarks, delivered after a meeting that lasted more than two hours, Mr. Netanyahu warned against ?a peace based on illusions,? seemingly leaving the prospect for new talks as remote as they have been since the last significant American push for peace collapsed last fall. Officials said that the meeting was productive, but that there were no plans for formal negotiations or any mechanisms in place to push the two sides forward.

Most significant among his public objections, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel would not accept a return to the boundaries that existed before the war in 1967 gave it control of the West Bank and Gaza, calling them indefensible.

On Thursday, Mr. Obama said for the first time that those borders should to be the starting point for negotiations to create a Palestinian state, though he emphasized that they would be adjusted to some degree through land swaps to account for Israeli settlements. Mr. Netanyahu simply ignored that nuance ? as did many conservative critics here in Washington ? further exacerbating tensions with the administration.

?Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide; it?s half the width of the Washington Beltway,? Mr. Netanyahu said. He was referring to the narrowest point between the West Bank and the Mediterranean Sea, north of Tel Aviv, while displaying a well-honed familiarity with American cultural references to make his point for an American audience. ?These were not the boundaries of peace. They were the boundaries of repeated wars.?

If Mr. Obama and his aides hoped his speech on Thursday would give fresh momentum to the peace process, Mr. Netanyahu?s reaction ? first in an angry phone call Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then face to face with the president a day later ? underscored why the conflict has long vexed presidential peacemaking.

?There was no expectation the outcome of the speech would be an immediate resumption of talks,? a senior administration official said after the meeting. ?It may take some time.?

Mr. Obama did not back away from his proposals, despite harsh criticism from Israel?s staunchest supporters, especially among Republicans, who accused the president of setting out a framework intended to force Israeli concessions.

But Mr. Obama went to length in his remarks on Friday to acknowledge Israel?s security concerns and to emphasize what he called ?the extraordinary bonds between our two countries.? When Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Obama ?the leader of a great people? and then fumbled with his words after calling himself ?the leader of a much smaller people,? the president interrupted to correct him. ?A great people,? he said.

As he did in his remarks on Thursday, Mr. Obama called the region?s turmoil ?a moment of opportunity? to promote democracy and stability in the Middle East and North Africa, even as he acknowledged that ?there are significant perils,? reflecting a widely held perception in Israel that the events have made a peace settlement riskier than ever.

Mr. Obama received the political backing of the United Nations, the European Union and Russia, which with the United States are the international mediators overseeing efforts to end the conflict, known as the quartet. It issued a statement expressing ?strong support for the vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace outlined? by Mr. Obama.

Isabel Kershner contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

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Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Posted on 13th May 2011 at 12:17 by Podcast with 16 comments

This week Paul and Joe were joined by plughead.net founder and former PC Zone writer David Brown. First up on the agenda was the continuing PSN outage, and how the continuing lack of service is starting to affect games developers.

We also attempted to talk about the Witcher 2, but somehow we ended up on the topic of DLC and, unsurprisingly, Mass Effect 2. Joe also got a chance to talk about his experiences with Star Wars: The Old Republic, and why he thought the game deserved the savaging that he gave it.

Finally, we also got a chance to put a few of your questions to David who discussed everything from the future of print publishing to the pressure that games publishers and developers put on members of the games press.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset. The headset weighs only 15g and comes complete with a carry bag and rubberised ergonomic earplugs.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Weekend game deals: 33% off Rift, 60% off Splinter Cell titles

If you've been waiting to snag the latest "WoW killer" at a discount, the opportunity has arisen with Steam knocking 33% off Rift. Valve's digital marketplace has also cut 75% off Eve Online: Incursion and Sniper: Ghost Warrior, while Impulse slashes 50% off all Painkiller titles. GamersGate offers half off zombie shoot-em-ups Resident Evil 5 and Dead Rising 2, as well as 60% off all Splinter Cell titles. Folks who've missed out on the various occasions to grab indie titles like Machinarium for pennies on the dollar can take advantage of Direct2Drive's $20 Indie Sack Pack.

Steam
Rift $33.49 (33% off)
Eve Online: Incursion $4.99 (75% off)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior $5.00 (75% off)
Apox $7.49 (50% off)
Swords and Soldiers HD $4.99 (50% off)
Plain Sight $2.49 (50% off)
More...

Impulse
50% off all Painkiller titles
A
I War Alien Bundle $20.99 (33% off)
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box $14.99 (50% off)
Men of War $5.24 (65% off)
Drakensang Bundle $19.99 (33% off)
For the Glory $2.99 (70% off)
More...

GamersGate
Resident Evil 5 $14.98 (50% off)
Dead Rising 2 $19.98 (50% off)
Street Fighter IV $14.98 (50% off)
Revenge of the Titans $11.21 (25% off)
Devil May Cry 4 $9.98 (50% off)
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Bulletstorm $29.97 (50% off)
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Huntsman Takes His Potential Campaign for Test Drive in New Hampshire

For the past 21 days, since returning from his post as ambassador to China, Mr. Huntsman has been hunkered down with a team of advisers to study the intricate details of campaigning for the Republican nomination. He is displaying what he has learned during a five-day New Hampshire visit, an ambitious trip designed to introduce him to voters and introduce his family to the obstacle course a presidential race entails.

The transition to becoming a presidential candidate can be steep for the most seasoned politicians. But after spending two years in Beijing, the learning curve is even more abrupt.

?Compare and contrast where we?ve been for the last two years,? he said, reflecting on a stop at a house here. ?The thought that you can just walk in and be surrounded by members of the free press, who can take what you say and do whatever they want with it, and to have neighborhood folks show up and ask random questions, it?s the quintessential American experience.?

He was twice elected governor of Utah ? a point he reminded voters of again and again ? but he has spent the past two years in China, where he could not practice the art of politicking. Everywhere he went on Friday, he was trailed by a large swarm of photographers, reporters, bloggers and curious onlookers, who made it impossible for him to audition in obscurity.

Mr. Huntsman, 51, is the newest potential contestant in the Republican presidential field. He told voters that he was in the ?diligence phase? and would decide in June whether to declare his candidacy and fight for the chance to challenge President Obama, who sent him to China.

?It?s an intimidating and daunting thing, particularly when your daughter gets lost among a sea of reporters and you have no idea how it?s going to turn out,? Mr. Huntsman said Friday at one of many points when he seemed to be thinking aloud. ?It might sink our enterprise absolutely instantaneously.?

His enterprise seemed to be staying afloat during his inaugural trip to New Hampshire, which holds the first-in-the-nation primary, which he sees as the best place to take on Mitt Romney. He chatted easily with voters, blending small talk (?Are we going to play pool?? he asked as he walked through a V.F.W. club) with a more serious discussion about the challenges ahead (?Our debt level is shipwrecking the country,? he said).

While he traveled to South Carolina two weeks ago to deliver a graduation address, the trip to New Hampshire provided the first opportunity for Mr. Huntsman to give a window into what his campaign themes would include.

He endorsed the concept of turning Medicare into a voucher-based system to help contain the nation?s debt burden. He called for a new industrial revolution to make America competitive again and to spur economic growth. He rarely mentioned Mr. Obama?s name ? and issued a call for civility ? but he offered criticism of the president?s decision to intervene in Libya, saying that future military engagements should be carefully weighed based on their financial cost.

?It?s an affordability issue,? Mr. Huntsman said. ?With all of our deployments and all of our engagements abroad, we need to ask a fundamental question: Can we afford to do this? That should be driven by the second point, which is whether or not it?s in our national security interest.?

In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters, where Mr. Huntsman stood in a living room here on Antrim Road, he outlined elements of a foreign policy agenda for the first time since he started contemplating a presidential bid. He said that he did not believe the humanitarian threat was significant enough in Libya to warrant intervention by the United States.

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