What?s On Your Bucketlist? [TNW Social Media]

?What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.? -Hugh Mulligan

We all have things we want to do before we die. Accomplishments like climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, row a boat through the Galapagos, and drink Pinot Grigio in Tuscany. I want to help make The Next Web the best website in the world. I also want to go to Greece with my lover. What do you want to do before you die?

By day, Scot Hacker is the Webmaster at UC Berkeley?s School of Journalism. But when he?s not taking care of his son or hiking, he?s hacking. In fact, the appropriately named Hacker programs every night between 11pm and 1am and his latest project is ?Bucketlist.?

Simply put, a bucketlist is a list of things to do before you die, a play off the term ?kicked the bucket.? Bucketlist, the website, is a site where you can keep track of all things things you?re going to do before you die. It also acts like a social network, essentially a warehouse of interesting and inspiring stories shared between users to kick-start your own life goals. While the idea behind the website is simple enough, its aims is noble: to help people find inspiration in the accomplishments of others.

On the site, users can add items to their Bucketlist along with stories, images and videos. As you surf the site, you can ?vote? for items you think are interesting by clicking the ?I Like This? button below the item title. You can also brose the ?Popular? section in the main menu which tallies up all the ?liked? items and floats the most popular ones to the top of the list.

If you find something cool on someone else?s list, you can click the ?Me Too!? button. When you do that, you?ll get a new copy of that item in your own list, which you can then modify. Bucketlist lets you ?follow? other people?s lists, which means their added and completed items show up in the following section under the main menu. The rules are simple: no porn, no mean-spirited stuff, no trying to use Bucketlist as a platform to promote your business. ?Don?t post anything you wouldn?t want your mother to see,? Hacker writes.

Hacker, who used to run a site that cataloged people?s misinterpretations of song lyrics, enjoys building sites of user contributed content with pages of material for people to ?click through and consume like peanuts.? In other words, sites with high page views and low bounce rates. Hacker is spending his time right now understanding the users, watching how people are contributing to a pool.

The site, which launched just three months ago, currently has 1,736 lists and 28,000 goals. Looking forward, Hacker plans to build an iPhone app to accompany the site so users can jot down ideas quickly while they?re out in the real world bumping into inspiration.?I?m still trying to find ways for more Bucketlist be more social,? he says. To monetize, Hacker will avoid selling ad space but he says he?s definitely open to selling the site to a company like Facebook that would be interested in integrating it into their already existing framework.

#1 on Scot?s Bucketlist? He writes, ?While hiking Mt. Tamalpais recently, discovered a wonderful little 1930s hotel called the West Point Inn, nestled in with the Bay Area?s best views. No electricity, so you have to rough it a bit, but it was just wonderful. Would love to spend the night here with family or just the wife.?

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What?s On Your Bucketlist? [TNW Social Media]

?What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.? -Hugh Mulligan

We all have things we want to do before we die. Accomplishments like climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, row a boat through the Galapagos, and drink Pinot Grigio in Tuscany. I want to help make The Next Web the best website in the world. I also want to go to Greece with my lover. What do you want to do before you die?

By day, Scot Hacker is the Webmaster at UC Berkeley?s School of Journalism. But when he?s not taking care of his son or hiking, he?s hacking. In fact, the appropriately named Hacker programs every night between 11pm and 1am and his latest project is ?Bucketlist.?

Simply put, a bucketlist is a list of things to do before you die, a play off the term ?kicked the bucket.? Bucketlist, the website, is a site where you can keep track of all things things you?re going to do before you die. It also acts like a social network, essentially a warehouse of interesting and inspiring stories shared between users to kick-start your own life goals. While the idea behind the website is simple enough, its aims is noble: to help people find inspiration in the accomplishments of others.

On the site, users can add items to their Bucketlist along with stories, images and videos. As you surf the site, you can ?vote? for items you think are interesting by clicking the ?I Like This? button below the item title. You can also brose the ?Popular? section in the main menu which tallies up all the ?liked? items and floats the most popular ones to the top of the list.

If you find something cool on someone else?s list, you can click the ?Me Too!? button. When you do that, you?ll get a new copy of that item in your own list, which you can then modify. Bucketlist lets you ?follow? other people?s lists, which means their added and completed items show up in the following section under the main menu. The rules are simple: no porn, no mean-spirited stuff, no trying to use Bucketlist as a platform to promote your business. ?Don?t post anything you wouldn?t want your mother to see,? Hacker writes.

Hacker, who used to run a site that cataloged people?s misinterpretations of song lyrics, enjoys building sites of user contributed content with pages of material for people to ?click through and consume like peanuts.? In other words, sites with high page views and low bounce rates. Hacker is spending his time right now understanding the users, watching how people are contributing to a pool.

The site, which launched just three months ago, currently has 1,736 lists and 28,000 goals. Looking forward, Hacker plans to build an iPhone app to accompany the site so users can jot down ideas quickly while they?re out in the real world bumping into inspiration.?I?m still trying to find ways for more Bucketlist be more social,? he says. To monetize, Hacker will avoid selling ad space but he says he?s definitely open to selling the site to a company like Facebook that would be interested in integrating it into their already existing framework.

#1 on Scot?s Bucketlist? He writes, ?While hiking Mt. Tamalpais recently, discovered a wonderful little 1930s hotel called the West Point Inn, nestled in with the Bay Area?s best views. No electricity, so you have to rough it a bit, but it was just wonderful. Would love to spend the night here with family or just the wife.?

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Weekend Open Forum: Where do you buy online?

Tech enthusiasts were among the first consumers targeted by dedicated online retailers and since brick and mortars charged hefty margins, online shopping was made even more attractive from the get go. Early etailers included the ubiquitous Newegg, which now exceeds $2 billion a year in sales, Buy.com, TigerDirect, and many sites dedicated to photography and audio equipment. As you might recall, PC manufacturers like Dell and Gateway were also quick to take full advantage of online ordering and made a huge asset out of it.

As online shopping became more mainstream, and for many a necessity, dozens of star retailers on many different categories have emerged. You have Zappos for buying shoes, Steam/Impulse for games, iTunes for music, Expedia/Orbitz or any other of the numerous travel sites, Fandango for movie tickets, and the list goes on. Amazon has also remained a pioneer in the industry and today you can buy nearly anything you could possibly want from their site, either direct or from smaller retailers using Amazon's impeccable logistics.


As the holiday shopping season gets rolling, our question for you is: How much do you rely on online retailers and where do you prefer to buy stuff? Not only tech, but things in general like clothes, gifts for family and friends, food, flowers, anything you are used to buy online these days. Even if it's a local store, we want to hear about it. Discuss.

* Graph used for illustration purposes only. Source: Lifehacker, Permuto, US Census Bureau.

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Google accidentally blocks mobile porn searches

Users recently noticed that Google's mobile search stopped serving up unfiltered search results, and a flood of complaints to the company's support forums followed. Earlier this week, many mobile users found that they could no longer turn off SafeSearch, which blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content, when searching with Google, according to BNET.

After two days of complaints, a Google employee stated that the company is aware of the issue. Then users began to complain about the delays in support. The next day, engineers found the problem and started rolling out a fix that could "take a few hours to complete."

The problem was widespread and extended not only to Google's own Android phones, but also to Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry. Of course, some users speculated that the action was intentional and Google wanted to censor search results. Most realized that this argument was invalid, given that if you switched to the normal version of the search engine everything worked just fine; the issue only affected the mobile version.

It's good news that Google fixed the problem in just a few days. Nevertheless, users need to remember that relying solely on the search giant for all our Internet needs is not a good idea.

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Google accidentally blocks mobile porn searches

Users recently noticed that Google's mobile search stopped serving up unfiltered search results, and a flood of complaints to the company's support forums followed. Earlier this week, many mobile users found that they could no longer turn off SafeSearch, which blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content, when searching with Google, according to BNET.

After two days of complaints, a Google employee stated that the company is aware of the issue. Then users began to complain about the delays in support. The next day, engineers found the problem and started rolling out a fix that could "take a few hours to complete."

The problem was widespread and extended not only to Google's own Android phones, but also to Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry. Of course, some users speculated that the action was intentional and Google wanted to censor search results. Most realized that this argument was invalid, given that if you switched to the normal version of the search engine everything worked just fine; the issue only affected the mobile version.

It's good news that Google fixed the problem in just a few days. Nevertheless, users need to remember that relying solely on the search giant for all our Internet needs is not a good idea.

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Weekend Open Forum: Where do you buy online?

Tech enthusiasts were among the first consumers targeted by dedicated online retailers and since brick and mortars charged hefty margins, online shopping was made even more attractive from the get go. Early etailers included the ubiquitous Newegg, which now exceeds $2 billion a year in sales, Buy.com, TigerDirect, and many sites dedicated to photography and audio equipment. As you might recall, PC manufacturers like Dell and Gateway were also quick to take full advantage of online ordering and made a huge asset out of it.

As online shopping became more mainstream, and for many a necessity, dozens of star retailers on many different categories have emerged. You have Zappos for buying shoes, Steam/Impulse for games, iTunes for music, Expedia/Orbitz or any other of the numerous travel sites, Fandango for movie tickets, and the list goes on. Amazon has also remained a pioneer in the industry and today you can buy nearly anything you could possibly want from their site, either direct or from smaller retailers using Amazon's impeccable logistics.


As the holiday shopping season gets rolling, our question for you is: How much do you rely on online retailers and where do you prefer to buy stuff? Not only tech, but things in general like clothes, gifts for family and friends, food, flowers, anything you are used to buy online these days. Even if it's a local store, we want to hear about it. Discuss.

* Graph used for illustration purposes only. Source: Lifehacker, Permuto, US Census Bureau.

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Weekend tech reading: Why Sony turned down Kinect

Sony: Why we turned down Kinect Is PlayStation Move merely an evolution of the Wii? Is it a poor substitute for the controller-free Kinect? Or is it the beginning of the future of motion controllers? For Anton Mikhailov, a software engineer at Sony, along with Dr. Richard Marks, one of the brains behind the snazzy tech, Move isn't a motion controller at all, and was never designed to be. Speaking to Eurogamer, Mikhailov details how Move came to be, discusses where it will go next, and explains why Sony turned down Kinect in 2002. Eurogamer

A bully finds a pulpit on the web Shopping online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Googles search bar. In moments, she found the perfect frames made by a French company called Lafont on a Web site that looked snazzy and stood at the top of the search results. Not the tippy-top, where the paid ads are found, but under those, on Googles version of the gold-medal podium, where the most relevant and popular site is displayed. NY Times

Apple to unveil new iPad in January, new MacBooks in April As December approaches and 2011 looms, Apple is juggling a lot of balls up in the air. Of course, everyone's expecting the iPhone 4 to hit Verizon in early 2011, a move which should only serve to increase already booming iPhone sales. And now comes word via Three Guys and a Podcast that Apple has two special events planned for the first quarter of the new year. Edible Apple

Rage developer interview: John Carmack Wolfenstein. Doom. Quake. The list of franchises produced by John Carmack and id Software reads like the DNA of the First Person Shooter. Not only are Carmack and id credited with inventing the genre, they went a long way to revolutionising it on the PC platform. Telegraph

Copyright lawyers sue lawyer who helped copyright defendants Attorneys for the U.S. Copyright Group have filed a lawsuit against a lawyer who sold "self-help" documents to people who had been sued by the USCG, demanding that he pay the costs involved in dealing with the people who used the documents he sold. The Escapist

LGA 775 still makes up 65 percent of Intel's market today It is something that you dont see every day, and something that catches you off guard. In Q4 2010 a massive 65 percent of all Intel desktop CPUs are socket 775 based. This is the Core 2 Duo / Quad and current Celeron socket. Fudzilla

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Weekend Open Forum: Where do you buy online?

Tech enthusiasts were among the first consumers targeted by dedicated online retailers and since brick and mortars charged hefty margins, online shopping was made even more attractive from the get go. Early etailers included the ubiquitous Newegg, which now exceeds $2 billion a year in sales, Buy.com, TigerDirect, and many sites dedicated to photography and audio equipment. As you might recall, PC manufacturers like Dell and Gateway were also quick to take full advantage of online ordering and made a huge asset out of it.

As online shopping became more mainstream, and for many a necessity, dozens of star retailers on many different categories have emerged. You have Zappos for buying shoes, Steam/Impulse for games, iTunes for music, Expedia/Orbitz or any other of the numerous travel sites, Fandango for movie tickets, and the list goes on. Amazon has also remained a pioneer in the industry and today you can buy nearly anything you could possibly want from their site, either direct or from smaller retailers using Amazon's impeccable logistics.


As the holiday shopping season gets rolling, our question for you is: How much do you rely on online retailers and where do you prefer to buy stuff? Not only tech, but things in general like clothes, gifts for family and friends, food, flowers, anything you are used to buy online these days. Even if it's a local store, we want to hear about it. Discuss.

* Graph used for illustration purposes only. Source: Lifehacker, Permuto, US Census Bureau.

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US government seizes 77 piracy and counterfeit domains

The US government has seized at least 77 domains belonging to sites associated with P2P file sharing and counterfeit goods. It appears that their owners were not notified, and the court system was apparently skipped, according to TorrentFreak.

The seizures were carried out suddenly and without warning by a branch of Homeland Security known as ICE. Many of the seized domains were online stores offering counterfeit goods, but there were also a few piracy websites, including a torrent search engine.

Torrent-Finder.com was a meta-search engine, meaning it didn't host BitTorrent links itself, but it offered an interface that loaded a selection of other BitTorrent search engines in iframes on the page. In other words, it didn't host copyright material, nor links to copyright material, but rather links to links to copyright material.

All of these domains now display the image shown above. Here is the corresponding text:

This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 U.S.C. 981 and 2323.

Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to five years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (17 U.S.C 506, 18 U.S.C 2319). Intentionally and knowingly trafficking in counterfeit goods is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to ten years in federal prison, a $2,000,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution (18 U.S.C. 2320).

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Weekend Open Forum: Where do you buy online?

Tech enthusiasts were among the first consumers targeted by dedicated online retailers and since brick and mortars charged hefty margins, online shopping was made even more attractive from the get go. Early etailers included the ubiquitous Newegg, which now exceeds $2 billion a year in sales, Buy.com, TigerDirect, and many sites dedicated to photography and audio equipment. As you might recall, PC manufacturers like Dell and Gateway were also quick to take full advantage of online ordering and made a huge asset out of it.

As online shopping became more mainstream, and for many a necessity, dozens of star retailers on many different categories have emerged. You have Zappos for buying shoes, Steam/Impulse for games, iTunes for music, Expedia/Orbitz or any other of the numerous travel sites, Fandango for movie tickets, and the list goes on. Amazon has also remained a pioneer in the industry and today you can buy nearly anything you could possibly want from their site, either direct or from smaller retailers using Amazon's impeccable logistics.


As the holiday shopping season gets rolling, our question for you is: How much do you rely on online retailers and where do you prefer to buy stuff? Not only tech, but things in general like clothes, gifts for family and friends, food, flowers, anything you are used to buy online these days. Even if it's a local store, we want to hear about it. Discuss.

* Graph used for illustration purposes only. Source: Lifehacker, Permuto, US Census Bureau.

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