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What makes this website the Definitive Guide to Murder, She Wrote? This: a brief - but definitive - history of the series. The story of how the series came to be, and the changes that occured over its twelve year lifespan, is almost as interesting as the episodes themselves.
If we may say so ourselves, this is just about the most comprehensive MSW chronology to be found anywhere on the Web, the result of exhaustive research and information compiliation on our part (but don't feel sorry for us, it was fun). If there are any errors contained herein, or if anyone out there has more information to add, please feel free to e-mail us.
The story begins in 1984 ...
Early 1984
¢ CBS network executive Harvey Shepard approaches Richard Levinson and William Link about creating a mystery series centered around a female protagonist. They, in turn, contact Peter S. Fischer, and the three of them write a pilot episode.
- Jean Stapleton is envisioned as the female lead, but for a variety of reasons she rejects the part.
- Angela Lansbury, who has been quietly expressing interest in starring in a television series, is suggested as the next choice, an idea Shepard supports.
Spring, 1984
¢ Angela meets with Shepard, Levinson, Link, and Fischer on a Friday. She takes the weekend to weight their offered role of Jessica Fletcher versus another prospective role in an upcoming Norman Lear sitcom. Intrigued by the character and potential of Jessica and by the fact that the show is considered a ōlong shot,ö she accepts Levinson and LinkÆs offer on Monday.
April 11, 1984
¢ Filming of the MSW pilot begins.
July, 1984
¢ Shooting for the regular episodes of the first season begins.
September 30, 1984
¢ MSW premiers with its 2-hour pilot episode, ōThe Murder of Sherlock Holmes.ö Jessica has her first and last serious on-screen kiss. The episode ranks at 18.9 on the Nielsen charts with a 29% share of the audience.
October 7, 1984
¢ Tom Bosley and Claude Akins first appear in their recurring roles as Cabot CoveÆs Sheriff Amos Tupper and fisherman Ethan Cragg in the episode ōDeadly Lady.ö The character of Ethan Cragg would not last beyond the end of the first season.
February, 24, 1985
¢ Jerry Orbach makes his first guest appearance in the episode ōTough Guys DonÆt Die.ö
¢ 13 different directors work on MSW during its first season.
April 21, 1985
¢ William Windom makes his first appearance in the season finale, ōFuneral at Fifty-mile,ö but not as his eventual recurring character. MSW ends the first season at #8 with 21.8% share of the audience.
September 29, 1985
¢ MSWÆs second season begins with the episode ōWidow, Weep for Me,ö and introduces AngelaÆs Sweeney Todd co-star Len Cariou in his James Bond-like recurring character of Michael Haggerty. The episode beats out the much-hyped Steven Spielberg series Amazing Stories (6th place vs. 12th)
October 6, 1985
¢ William Windom begins his long run as the recurring character Dr. Seth Hazlitt in the episode ōJoshua Peabody Died Here ų Possibly.ö The gap between MSW and Amazing Stories week widens: MSW is in 4th place, while Amazing Stories sinks to 24th.
October 13, 1985
¢ Veteran actor Lloyd Nolan makes his final appearance before his death in ōMurder in the Afternoonö ¢ Angela helps him get through the filming by coaching him when he has trouble remembering his lines.
October 27, 1985
¢ Angela plays a dual role in the episode ōSing a Song of Murderö as both Jessica and her British cousin Emma Macgill (whose surname was chosen to honor her mother, actress Moyna Macgill). While in character as Emma, Angela sings ōGood-bye, Little Yellow Bird,ö a song she first sang in the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Fall, 1985
¢ Angela has a disastrous interview with Barbara Walters for her upcoming Christmas special.
¢ At AngelaÆs behest, the number of MSW directors is reduced to five.
- Angela begins to make upgrades to JessicaÆs image and wardrobe
May 18, 1986
¢ Season 2 wraps up with the episode ōIf the Frame Fits.ö MSW ends the season at #3 with 25.3% share of the audience, higher even than its lead-in, 60 Minutes.
September 28, 1986
¢ The third season begins with the first part of the first MSW cliffhanger episode, ōDeath Stalks the Big Top.ö The episode concludes on October 5.
November 19, 1986
¢ MSW crossover episode with Magnum, PI, currently in its seventh season and losing steam. The crossover concludes on MSW on November 23.
¢ Deciding that JessicaÆs character can now be considered fully developed, Peter S. Fischer creates a set of guidelines about her for prospective writers to follow.
February 18, 1987
¢ Although it is well before Season 6, the actual first ever ōbookendö episode, ōMurder in a Minor Key,ö airs. The episode is the plot of one of JessicaÆs books by the same name, and her only role is as narrator.
February 22, 1987
¢ MSW airs the 90 minute episode ōDeath Takes a Diveö as an introduction to its spinoff series, The Law and Harry McGraw.
March 12, 1987
¢ Richard Levinson passes away.
April 19, 1987
¢ ōThe Days Dwindle Downö airs as a continuation to the 1949 movie Strange Bargain ¢ complete with original cast members!
May 10, 1987
¢ ōMurder, She Spokeö ends Season 3. MSW finishes the season at #4 with 25.4% share of the audience.
¢ Angela has a touch of cosmetic surgery.
September 20, 1987
¢ The fourth season begins in Paris with the episode ōA Fashionable Way to Die.ö
September 27, 1987
¢ MSWÆs only spinoff series, The Law and Harry McGraw, premiers.
November 1, 1987
¢ Second appearance of Angela as JessicaÆs cousin Emma in ōIt Runs in the Family.ö During the episode, Emma is seen holding one of JessicaÆs books.
¢ Positive Moves, AngelaÆs fitness instructional video, is released.
February 10, 1988
¢ The Law and Harry McGraw gets cancelled after just sixteen episodes. Oh well.
March 27, 1988
¢ ōJust Another Fish Storyö sees JessicaÆs nephew Grady get engaged to Donna Mayberry, and sets a record for the most unusual murder weapon used in the series.
May 8, 1988
¢ ōThe Body Politicö ends the fourth season. MSW comes in at #9 with 20.2% share of the audience.
September, 1988
¢ Tom Bosley leaves MSW to take on the title role in the new series Father Dowling Mysteries.
- A Hollywood writersÆ strike delays the start of season 5.
October 3, 1988
¢ Having purchased 111 episodes of MSW for $40 million, the USA Network begins airing MSW reruns on cable.
October 23, 1988
¢ Len Cariou returns as MI6 agent Michael Haggerty to open Season 5 in the episode ōJ.B., as in Jailbird.ö
November 6, 1988
¢ Ron Masak makes his first appearance as Cabot CoveÆs new Sheriff in ōMr. PenroyÆs Vacation.ö
Fall, 1988
¢ Claiming that she needs more time for herself and for other projects, Angela starts hinting that when the fifth year of MSW and her five-year contract are over, sheÆll call the series quits.
Early December, 1988
¢ ABC begins to make advances to Angela about taking MSW to their network, possibly as part of a rotation of Monday night mystery movies.
January 1989
¢ Negotiations for a sixth season of MSW start in earnest. Lawrence Tisch, president of CBS, pays a personal visit to Angela and talks to her about continuing the show on his network.
January 8, 1989
¢ JessicaÆs nephew Grady gets married in ōSomething Borrowed, Someone Blue.ö
February 14, 1989
¢ in the midst of contract negotiations with Angela, CBS throws a big party at the Biltmore Hotel to celebrate MSWÆs 100th episode.
Late February, 1989
¢ Angela and her company, Corymore Productions, agree to sign on for a sixth and ōlastö season of MSW.
- Angela is promised a reduced workload.
April 2, 1989
¢ The episode ōTruck Stopö pays homage to the film noir movie Double Indemnity.
May 14 and 21, 1989
¢ ōMirror, Mirror, on the Wallö airs as a two-part season finale, the product of Peter FischerÆs ōfrantic rewrite of the entire scriptö of what had originally been intended to be the series finale. MSW ends the fifth season at #8 with 19.9% share of the audience.
June 1, 1989
¢ Donald BainÆs first MSW novel, Gin and Daggers, is published ¢ with some serious character flaws. The book is noteworthy, however, for committing a serious breach of accepted MSW canon by introducing a potential love interest for Jessica, Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland.
September 24, 1989
¢ The sixth season begins with ōAn Appointment in Athens,ö once again featuring Len Cariou as MI6 agent Michael Haggerty.
October 8, 1989
¢ The first of the season 6 ōbookendö episodes, ōThe Grand Old Lady,ö airs. Jessica introduces the story and concludes it, but is otherwise absent from the episode. The bookend episodes, of which there would be nine this season, are the method used to lighten AngelaÆs workload, a concession necessary to bring her back for Season 6. Fans, however, are not pleased, and the ratings start to slip.
1989 - 1991
- Angela and Peter S. Fischer begin to experience friction over JessicaÆs characterization, and in what directions she should grow: Angela wants her to become stronger, more worldly, and independent, while Fischer prefers her to be more traditional and static.
¢ The book edition of AngelaÆs Positive Moves, co-authored with Mimi Avins, is published.
- Corymore begins negotiations with CBS regarding a half-hour show for Angela to air in the 8 PM Sunday time slot beginning in the fall of 1991.
May 20, 1990
¢ Len Cariou closes out the sixth season in the bookend episode ōThe Sicilian Encounter.ö
September, 1990
¢ William Windom leaves to star in the new sitcom Parenthood.
September 16, 1990
¢ The seventh season begins with ōTrials and Tribulationsö; this time Angela stars in seventeen episodes, and only five are ōbookends.ö Fans are still not pleased, and the showÆs ratings continue to slip.
September 23, 1990
¢ In the episode ōDeadly Misunderstandingö Joe Dorsey is brought on board to fill the void left by Windom as new regular cast member Ben Devlin, publisher of the Cabot Cove Gazette.
November 18, 1990
¢ ōThe Return of Preston Gilesö revisits key plot elements from the seriesÆ pilot episode.
December, 1990
¢ Parenthood is history by yearÆs end.
- Ben Devlin also fails to hit it off as a character, and fades from view before the end of the season.
Fall, 1990
¢ Angela Lansbury once again says sheÆs through with MSW as a series, but promises to do TV movies as Jessica.
January 6, 1991
¢ William Windom makes his only appearance this season as Seth in the episode ōFamily Doctor.ö
March, 19, 1991
¢ Angela agrees to come back for an eighth season of MSW, promising to participate fully in all 22 episodes.
April 7, 1991
¢ ōThursdayÆs Child,ö the most emotionally charged episode ever made in the series, airs.
May 12, 1991
¢ The episode ōThe Skinny According to Nick Cullhaneö ends with a wink from Jessica to the audience (promising an eighth season to come) ¢ a last minute addition to adapt an intended series finale into a mere season finale. The reason: the episode was filmed during the mid-March negotiations, when AngelaÆs return for an eighth season was still in doubt. Having learned his lesson after AngelaÆs last minute about-face at the end of the fifth season, Peter S. Fischer ended the episode with the wink, which could be kept or deleted depending on the outcome of the negotiations ¢ a much simpler solution than rewriting the entire script.
- The episode also marks the final guest appearance of Jerry Orbach on the show. He would go on to have a long-running role in NBCÆs Law and Order.
- MSW ends the seventh season at #12 with 16.4% share of the audience.
Summer, 1991
- Angela insists on becoming more involved with the story creation process of the series. Rather than continue to clash with her over this issue and JessicaÆs character development, Peter S. Fischer leaves the show voluntarily.
- David Moessinger is named the new executive producer for the upcoming eighth season, but it is generally understood that Angela is calling the shots.
- Angela is presented with a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television.
¢ Angela and husband Peter Shaw purchase land in Ireland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean to build a new vacation home ¢ a reward, she says, for her long years of work on MSW.
September 15, 1991
¢ Jessica moves to New York City and begins teaching criminology at Manhattan University. The episode, ōBite the Big Apple,ö begins in Cabot Cove and features Seth throughout, easing nervous viewers into the concept of Jessica living in the city.
- Angela gets a shorter work week: twelve hour days, four days a week.
- The show starts inviting more younger (less expensive) guest stars and fewer expensive veterans.
- By now, fully a third of MSW viewers are under the age of 50.
- MSW is now the second longest running drama series, after Knots Landing.
November 3, 1991
¢ Jessica bows to the relentless tide of technology and upgrades from a manual typewriter to a computer in the episode ōLines of Excellence.ö
January 15, 1992
¢ CBS announces that it is preparing a half-hour show based on the movie Driving Miss Daisy for the fall of 1992, anticipating that the eighth season will be the last.
January 19, 1992
¢ MSW pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock with the episode ōIncident in Lot 7,ö which was filmed on the set of Psycho at Universal Studios.
January 30, 1992
¢ Angela renews her contract early (!) for Season 9. As part of the deal, she replaces Moessinger as the showÆs executive producer.
- TV Guide later reports that although Angela was at one time eager to pursue a half-hour show (and the reduced work schedule it promised), she came to worry that fans would refuse to make the change from MSW to a new show with her.
May 17, 1992
¢ ōMurder on Madison Avenueö concludes Season 8. The ratings of the revamped series are significantly better than they were at the end of Season 7.
¢ Anthony Shaw becomes the showÆs primary director.
- David Shaw becomes CEO of Corymore Productions.
- Bruce Lansbury becomes the showÆs chief writer.
September 20, 1992
¢ The ninth season of MSW begins with the episode ōMurder in Milan.ö
December 13, 1992
¢ Bruce Lansbury and Anthony Shaw co-write ōA Christmas Secret,ö the first episode of MSW in which there is no murder.
January 28, 1993
¢ Angela signs on for two more seasons (10 and 11) for the sake of her family, which now works with her on the show.
March 15, 1993
¢ Angela is reunited with Sweeney Todd road show co-star George Hearn in the episode ōTo the Last Will I Grapple With Thee.ö The episodeÆs writer, J. Michael Stracyznski, later notes that this is the longest episode title in MSW history (he was wrong: "How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying" and "Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?" are longer).
May 16, 1993
¢ ōLoveÆs Deadly Desireö wraps up the ninth season in Cabot Cove.
September 12, 1993
¢ Season 10 begins with ōA Death in Hong Kong.ö MSW is now the longest-running detective drama in television history.
September 19, 1993
¢ Angela hosts the 45th Annual Emmy Awards ceremony ¢ but yet again, fails to win one for herself.
October, 1993
¢ Madlyn Rhue becomes a MSW regular as Cabot CoveÆs wheelchair-bound librarian (she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975). Angela does this to make sure Madlyn qualifies for health insurance to cover her medical bills.
November 7, 1993
¢ ōBloodlines,ö the 200th episode filmed (but the 202nd to be aired) is shown. Instead of having a big party in honor of the 200th episode, Angela gets CBS and Universal to each donate $50,000 to the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
May 18, 1994
¢ Angela has hip replacement surgery ¢ the same surgery as Liz Taylor had, although by all accounts Angela was a much better patient.
May 22, 1994
¢ MSW ends the tenth season at #9 in the ratings with the episode ōWheel of Death.ö
June, 1994
¢ Angela is made a Commander of the British Empire by Prince Charles
- Angela gets a perfect 100% rating on TV GuideÆs ōlovability indexö of Hollywood celebrities.
August, 1994
¢ MSW writer Bruce Lansbury concedes in an interview that after ten years, it can be tough to come up with fresh stories. ItÆs not the methods of killing people the writers are running out of, its venues in which to dump the bodies.
September 11, 1994
¢ Angela ties Susan Lucci for the dubious distinction of the most snubbed Emmy nominee, at 14 fruitless nominations.
September 25, 1994
¢ The eleventh season begins in ōA Nest of Vipers.ö
September 30, 1994
¢ Angela appears on Larry King Live. Larry asks her if she plans to give up the series; she replies that now that she has a business interest in MSW, the answer is probably no.
December 1, 1994
¢ Now working with a new publisher, Donald Bain releases his second book in the MSW series, Manhattans and Murder. After this, new books appear roughly every six months.
January, 1995
¢ Angela commits to a twelfth season of MSW, but says (yet again) that it will most likely be her last.
May 14, 1995
¢ MSW finishes the eleventh season at #9 in the ratings.
May, 1995
¢ With no forewarning, CBS decides to move MSW from Sunday to Thursday as part of a restructuring plan to attract a younger audience to Sunday night (MSWÆs replacement at 8 PM on Sunday is Cybil, starring actress Cybil Shepherd).
- Angela gets the bad news via a phone call from CBS entertainment president Peter Tortorici and is ōvery heartbroken.ö As for CBS, they are apparently willing to let MSW founder and die due to its age and high production costs.
September 21, 1995
¢ The twelfth and final season begins with the episode ōNailed.ö In the face of stiff competition from the likes of Friends, the show's ratings plummet.
January, 1996
¢ CBS signs Angela for a round of TV movies for the next season, which takes some ¢ but not much ¢ of the sting out of the move to Thursday night.
February 8, 1996
¢ MSW takes a stab at its Thursday night competition with the episode ōMurder Among Friends.ö
February 15, 1996
¢ AngelaÆs grandson Ian appears in the episode ōSomething Foul in Flappieville.ö
March 26, 1996
¢ CBS announces that the twelfth season of MSW will be its last. This time they mean it.
April 1996
¢ Because of the emotional nature of the event, Angela arranges to finish her scenes before the absolute last day of filming.
April 11, 1996
¢ The final day of production for MSW.
April 14, 1996
¢ A fanciful New York Times article about MSW ending its twelve year run speculates that the alarming homicide rate in Cabot Cove should finally begin to come down. Will a safer Cabot Cove result in higher property values?
April 28, 1996
¢ The ōFinal Fourö episodes are allowed to reoccupy Sunday night. Not surprisingly, ratings improve.
May 18, 1996
¢ AngelaÆs own farewell to her viewers appears in TV Guide.
May 19, 1996
¢ MSW ends its twelve year run quietly with an episode entitled ōDeath by Demographics.ö JessicaÆs farewell appears as a voiced-over letter at the very end of the show. ōDeath by Demographicsö ranks 16th in the ratings and is the most watched CBS program for that week. Overall, MSW ends the twelfth season at #65.
September, 1996
¢ Angela loses at her last chance to win an Emmy for MSW. ThatÆs sixteen nominations and no wins.
October, 1996
¢ The USA Network decides to cease airing MSW in syndication, preferring to air more original programs such as Silk Stalkings.
¢ The Murder, She Wrote Cookbook is published, with all profits going to Aid for AIDS.
- The Unofficial Murder, She Wrote Casebook by James Robert Parrish is published.
September, 1997
¢ Angela is awarded the National Medal in Arts and Humanities in a White House ceremony with President and Mrs. Clinton.
November 2, 1997
¢ The first 2-hour MSW movie, South by Southwest, airs on CBS.
September 13, 1998
¢ The A&E cable network begins running MSW in syndication, starting with an eight episode marathon capped off with a Biography installment featuring Angela.
April 1, 2000
¢ Donald BainÆs first MSW book Gin and Daggers is re-issued, with the most glaring continuity flaw of the first edition ¢ Jessica driving a car ¢ corrected.
May 18, 2000
¢ The second MSW movie, A Story to Die For, airs on CBS.
August 12, 2000
¢ ōThe Definitive Guide to Murder, She Wroteö makes its debut on the World Wide Web! (Sorry, couldnÆt resist.)
May 2, 2001
¢ The third MSW movie, The Last Free Man, airs on CBS.
January 29, 2003
¢ AngelaÆs husband Peter Shaw passes away from congestive heart failure.
May 9, 2003
¢ The fourth and final MSW movie, The Celtic Riddle, airs on CBS.
March 1, 2004
- The A&E cable network moves most of its syndicated episdoes of MSW over to its new spinoff network, The Biography Channel. Since Biography is not part of most people's basic cable packages, fans are aggrieved.
December 28, 2004
¢ Death of frequent MSW guest star Jerry Orbach, from prostate cancer.
March 29, 2005
¢ The first season of MSW is released on DVD.
December 6, 2005
¢ The second season of MSW is released on DVD.
March 14, 2006
- The third season of MSW is released on DVD.
October 17, 2006
- The fourth season of MSW is released on DVD.
January 30, 2007
- The fifth season of MSW is released on DVD.
April 17, 2007
- The sixth season of MSW is released on DVD.
October 9, 2007
- The seventh season of MSW is released on DVD.
April 1, 2008
- The eighth season of MSW is released on DVD.
February 17, 2009
- The ninth season of MSW is released on DVD.
July 7, 2009
- The tenth season of MSW is released on DVD.
November 12, 2009
- Legacy Interactive releases its first MSW hidden object computer game.
February 2, 2010
- The eleventh season of MSW is released on DVD.
October 19, 2010
- Death of Tom Bosley.
November 23, 2010
- The twelfth season of MSW is released on DVD.
February 14, 2012
- The four post-season MSW movies are released on DVD, and with that, the entire series is complete.
August 16, 2012
- Death of William Windom.
November 21, 2012
- Legacy Interactive releases its second MSW hidden object computer game, "Murder, She Wrote: Return to Cabot Cove."
October 1, 2013
- "Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series" is released as a boxed DVD set of all 12 seasons, but does not include the post-season movies.
October, 2013
- NBC announces that they intend to produce a reboot of MSW with Octavia Spencer as the star. Angela Lansbury is not pleased.
December 30, 2013
- Queen Elizabeth II names Angela Lansbury a Dame of the British Empire.
The Unofficial "Murder, She Wrote" Casebook. Parish, James Robert. Kensington Books, New York, NY, 1997.
Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen. Edelman, Robert and Audrey E. Kupferberg. Birch Lane Press, New York, NY, 1996.
Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury. Gottfried, Martin. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, New York, NY, and London, England, 1999.
And last but not least, various articles from TV Guide and other newspapers and publications from my personal archives.


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MWC 15 Special
You might remember the news from the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where we got the confirmation that Samsung plans to release an Android 1.6/Donut upgrade for the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500? Well, we've just received the confirmation and prove that the Android 1.6 upgrade is indeed coming to the Samsung Galaxy. Sure, Donut isn't Eclair but 1.6 is a major improvement for Galaxy users since it comes with a couple of improvements (like the updated Android Market, the Quick Search Box for Android, an updated camera and camcorder user interface as well as a new gallery, the new battery usage indicator and Google's text-to-speech engine).
Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new released of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP which Microsoft introduced at the MIX conference back in March. According to Microsoft, the early tools preview has attracted more than 125,000 developers and designers from countries around the world and with yesterday's Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP refresh, developers and designers can now build Windows Phone 7 apps on the final release of Visual Studio 2010. The CTP refresh also updates the Windows Phone 7 OS image in the Windows Phone Emulator, updates APIs, updates documentation with new and expanded topics and addresses earlier discrepancies.
Skyfire, maker of the award-winning web-browser for mobile devices, today announced the launch of Skyfire 2.0 for Android, making the mobile Internet experience faster, Flash-enabled and fun, with media recommendations and social network features. Skyfire is one of the fastest growing mobile browsers in the world, ranking in the top 10 all-time apps in the Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace Mobile. Like Opera Mini, which uses a server/client combination to render web sites, Skyfire 2.0 for Android uses cloud computing to give a "booster engine" to mobile phones so they can handle rich media like video and Flash. Skyfire 2.0 for Android goes even further with the addition of the SkyBar.
HP and Palm, just announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm at a price of US$ 5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately US$ 1.2 billion. The transaction has been approved by the HP and Palm boards of directors. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Palm stockholders will receive US$ 5.70 in cash for each share of Palm common stock that they hold at the closing of the merger. The merger consideration takes into account the updated guidance and other financial information being released by Palm this afternoon.
Do you remember our recent Vodafone 845 coverage, Vodafone's first expected own-branded Android smartphone, manufactured by Huawei? Today, Vodafone Global officially announced it, together with a wide range of other own devices. Vodafone intends to deliver a range of excellent value devices offering mobile Internet access with a better user experience than ever before. The Vodafone 845 will be available in the first instance in 12 Vodafone markets, including the UK. The Android 2.1 powered smartphone has, as previously mentioned, a 2.8" touchscreen, WiFi connectivity, a 3 megapixel camera, access to Android Market and, where available, indeed it comes preloaded with Vodafone 360 services.
Today, Microsoft has announced that it has entered into an intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement with HTC. The agreement will allow HTC to license Microsoft's patented technology for use in its mobile devices running the Android mobile platform, which includes a couple of HTC's current Android smartphones. While specific terms of the agreement - including financial details - remain confidential, the public announcement states that HTC will pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum for these IP rights. The licensing agreement with HTC underscores the important role IP plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant technology ecosystem.
Yahoo! today announced a strategic global partnership with Samsung to distribute Yahoo!'s services on millions of Samsung mobile devices - including those running on Samsung own Bada platform and Android. Through this partnership Samsung will distribute Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather on Samsung's mobile devices. Samsung and Yahoo! have partnered since 2007 to provide consumers with innovative and engaging Internet experiences on mobile devices.
Another Microsoft Windows Phone 7 video by MobilityDigest shows the integration of the Windows Phone 7 Office capabilities. The shot video shows how a user can flip through the Microsoft Office Hub, demonstrates OneNote by showing how to add audio recordings to a document. It's also demonstrated how deep Windows Phone 7 is integrated into Microsoft SharePoint and therefore allows to download and synchronize Office documents. The video demonstration shows how a Word document looks on Windows Phone 7 and how proposals can be edited and saved back to the SharePoint server.
Windows Phone 7 is all about integration and a recent video upload from MobilityDigest demos the Outlook integration of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7. This short video shows how the Inbox looks like and works by flipping through all, unread, urgent and flagged messages and it shows how an attached PowerPoint slide can be easily opened straight from the Inbox from where it can be even edited and send back to the original sender. Furthermore it shows how meeting requests are handled, by showing the meeting time in the calendar, showing meeting details and proposed attendees, accepting a meeting request and showing the meeting location in Bing maps.
So far, Facebook for Android was blamed to be somewhat very basic and indeed, until now it neither offered any Messaging capabilities nor Chat. However, a recent version update adds Facebook Messaging. The new Inbox now shows direct Messages and allows to reply to them, allows to compose and send new direct Messages to Facebook contacts as well as it shows page Updates and provides access to the Facebook Sent folder. Still left and not supported is Chat. The new Inbox icon replaces the somewhat useless Take photo icon on the Facebook for Android start screen. Notifications is yet not part part of the Inbox and a stand-alone icon/feature.
Today, O2 Germany announced via Twitter, that Palm has released a webOS 1.4.1 patch for recently updated Palm Pre webOS smartphones. Carrying the same version number, the 1 MB small patch is said to fix problems with the Palm App Catalog. While the initial webOS 1.4.1 update enabled paid apps for European customers, some users reported that they don't see paid apps anymore and for some users reports that the the number of available apps have dramatically decreased - to 60 available apps only. However, the webOS 1.4.1 patch should fix this problem and according to O2 Germany, the missing apps (paid and free) should be back within 24 - 48 hours after the patch was installed.
Announced back in March, it looks like the Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 Android smartphone is ready to be launched soon. Just recently, it received the necessary Global Certification Forum (GCF) approval and the GCF just confirmed what Samsung announced already. The Android 2.1-powered smartphone, which features a 4" Super AMOLED touchscreen and a 1 GHz CPU, comes with quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 900/1900/2100 MHz. Furthermore it supports WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and features aGPS, a digital compass, accelerometer and proximity sensor as well USB 2.0.
With yesterday's Google launch of Google Maps Navigator for the UK and Ireland (requires an update of Google Maps Mobile which is available from Android Market), Google also release Google Maps Mobile 4.1 for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 which adds Search by voice. Already introduced for BlackBerry and Android, Search by voice lets you easily search for anything by simply speaking your search terms instead of typing them. Just open Google Maps, press your phone's "call" button, and clearly speak your search term. Search by voice works with all the kinds of searches Google Maps for mobile already supports, including places, addresses, specific businesses and types of businesses.
In addition to the Dell Lightning Windows Phone 7 leak, Engadget also received information about three Android smartphones, Dell seems to has in work. According to these information, Dell works on the Dell Flash, Dell Smoke and Dell Thunder. The Dell Flash and Dell Smoke share some of the same specs. However, the Dell Flash is a typical touchscreen smartphone while the HTC Smoke is a candy-bar QWERTY keyboard device. Nevertheless, both smartphones are said to run Froyo (which is expected to be Android 2.2) and feature quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and aGPS.
Looks like Dell is back in the mobile business - and this time seriously. Engadget just got its hands on Dell's roadmap and according to these PowerPoint slides, Dell plans with a Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Running "Windows Mobile 7" the Dell Lightning is powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm CPU and features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at either 850/1900/2100 MHz (AT&T and Europe) or 900/1700/2100 MHz (T-Mobile U.S. and Europe). Furthermore it's said that the device supports WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS and an FM radio and features an accelerometer, compass, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor.
Unlike previous Android smartphones from HTC, the latest devices like the HTC Legend or HTC Desire can receive firmware updates over the air (OTA) and HTC has just released a firmware update for the HTC Legend to fix a naughty bug. For so far unknown reasons, the HTC Legend doesn't showed all available applications in the Android Market and as it turned out now - the HTC Legend has hidden apps which required access to the devices 5 megapixel camera. As a matter of fact, the device kept users away from downloading apps like Google Goggles or Qik. With today's firmware release of version 1.31.405.4, HTC said that this bug should be fixed.
During a Google event today, which focuses on Google Navigation for Android, HTC will also announce that the long awaited and much overdue Android 2.1/Eclair upgrade for European HTC Hero devices will be released later this summer. As a matter of fact, HTC will providing the free update to Android 2.1 for all European HTC Hero variants. Starting in June, anyone owning an HTC Hero will receive an initial preparatory update, shortly followed by the full Android 2.1 update. Google released Android 2.0/Eclair - which features some massive contacts/accounts, E-Mail, messaging, camera, browser and calendar improvements and which is the code-base for Android 2.0 - back in October 2009.
Sure you remember yesterday's news of the unveiled KIN 1 and KIN 2 specs, Microsoft itself didn't want to confirm so far, right? As it looks now, the KIN 1 and KIN 2 specifications were part of an earlier KIN.com website code - as Google Cache unveiled. While it wasn't part of the Flash content, it only was part of the alternative HTML content. There it was also confirmed that the two North American KINs will support Verizon's EV-DO Rev A network - as expected. And while Verizon denied to talk about KIN price plans at the KIN launch event on 12 April, another part of the HTML code also outlines some further Verizon KIN tariff-plan details - or at least ideas (maybe).
To be launched end of April in Germany and France, the GSM/UMTS Palm Pixi Plus is the latest addition to Palm's portfolio of webOS smartphones. Running webOS 1.4, the Palm Pixi Plus features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and dualband UMTS/HSDPA at 900/2100 MHz. The faster upload technology HSUPA isn't supported. Nevertheless and unlike the original Palm Pixi, the Palm Pixi Plus also features WiFi in addition to Bluetooth 2.0 and the Pixi-typical 2.6", 320 x 400 pixel capacitive touchscreen. The camera has also not received an upgrade and only supports 2 megapixel; at least it comes with a supporting flash LED. Like all webOS devices, the Pixi Plus features a QWERTY keyboard, which is a little bit smaller than the Palm Pre keyboard and less colorful.
Nothing new at all since the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus were spotted on SFR's website earlier this month already but nevertheless, SFR and Palm today announced that Palm's webOS platform will soon be available in France as well. The Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus showcase the defining features of Palm webOS, including the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously and easily move between them; the power of Palm Synergy, which brings customers' information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view; unobtrusive notifications; and universal search.
While Microsoft itself is somewhat shy to unveil the full KIN One and KIN Two hardware specs, neither Microsoft's press release nor the KIN website shows the full details but only highlights certain specs, Microsoft Germany today released further information about the company's first two KIN phones on its German Windows Phone Facebook fan page. While both by Sharp manufactured phones come with slide-out QWERTY keyboards and feature the same set of KIN online and connected services, the KIN One is said to be the compact sized KIN device with a solid camera. The KIN Two comes with a wider screen, a bolder camera and more memory.
While it looks like that Twitter is getting busier to bring their own Twitter clients to the market (Twitter has recently released its own BlackBerry Twitter client, has overtaken a Twitter client for iPhones as well as unveiled that an Android version is in development), the yet maybe best Twitter client for Android smartphones - Seesmic - got another update. Seesmic for Android sports a couple of new and worth features including an Android widget for the home screen, geotagging and support for native Retweet. The overall look and feel including GUI wasn't changed (there's no reason for changes at all).
At a recent Tech-Ed event in India, Microsoft's Director developer tools for Microsoft India's Visual Studio - Sudeep Bharati - said that Microsoft plans to release a kind of low-cost Windows Phone 7 version for developing markets. According to Bharati, "the low-cost version of the phone will have a different chassis than version 1 to be launched by 2010 end". While it's expected that Windows Phone 7 will feature (at least) three different - so called - chassis (but today only Chassis 1 is confirmed), the emerging markets chassis might have reduced spec-requirements which also includes a smaller screen and will thus be priced lower to suit developing markets.
Today, exactly 10 years ago, Microsoft announced at an event in New York's Grand Central Station the immediate availability of the Pocket PC - a brand new product which set the cornerstone for today's Windows Phones. Back in 2000, Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled new Pocket PC designs from hardware partners like Casio, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Symbol. More than 60 companies showcased their Pocket PC solutions in the launch Partner Pavilion and executives from TD Waterhouse Investor Services Inc. and SAP AG joined Ballmer on stage to announce how they are using the new Pocket PCs in customer scenarios.
While Android has its strength ins synchronizing to the cloud, there's no native Android sync client to synchronize a device with a PC. Therefore, most manufactures offer their own solutions and HTC has recently updated its HTC Sync, which lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), contacts and calendar events on your PC with your phone. It also lets you install third-party Android applications on the phone and supports the Mobile Network sharing function. Version 2.0.33 now supports the new HTC Legend and HTC Desire, in addition to the previously already supported HTC Magic, HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo. HTC Sync is applicable globally.
Verizon Wireless and HTC today announced its latest Android flagship smartphone - the "Droid Incredible by HTC". Featuring a - so called - "topographic" design, the Droid Incredible by HTC features the newest version of the HTC Sense experience, a seven-panel home screen with a wide selection of interactive widgets so the most important content is immediately available at a touch. Running Android 2.1, the Droid Incredible is powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU and features CDMA, WiFi b/g, GPS, a proximity and light sensor as well as a digital compass, a 3.7" WVGA (480 x 800) AMOLED capacitive touchscreen as well as a 8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash.
If you are a football (for US readers: soccer) fan and heading to South Africa this summer for the FIFA World Cup, you might be interested to know that ALK has released - just in time - CoPilot Live 8 South Africa. CoPilot Live provides full GPS turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation in-car or on foot and since it's a on-board navigation solution, the street maps of South Africa are stored on the phone and therefore there's no need to rely on the mobile network for navigation, avoiding huge international roaming bills for downloading maps. CoPilot Live can help fans and travelers to find their way with confidence wherever they need to go, whether it's to the hotel, airport or the game.
Yet far away from what customers would like to get, it's a step into the right direction! Complying with the new rules approved by the European Commission in mid-2009, which guarantees consumers cost limits and warning systems from July 1, 2010, Telefónica O2 Germany today announced that it's cutting its rates for international mobile data use from April 19. From that date, 10 KB of transferred data in Europe will cost just 5 Cent instead of the previous 7 Cent; irrespective of whether the customer has a prepaid card or contract. O2 will also be putting the new EU ruling on mobile data use into effect on April 19 - ahead of the official starting date of July 1, 2010.
While Motorola is currently rolling-out its long awaited Android 2.1/Eclair upgrade for Motorola Droid/Motorola Milestone customers, not all Milestone users have received the latest Android version yet. Furthermore, Motorola has a couple of other Android smartphones, like the Motorola Cliq, Dext and Backflip, which also eagerly awaiting the upgrade bits. According to Motorola, the company is still working closely with Google and its carrier partners to bring customers the most optimized experience on each of its Android smartphones and Motorola has recently updated the schedule for estimated Android 2.1 updates. According to this info, most updates should be rolled-out in Q2-10 with some to follow in Q3-10:
Not on the show during the recent Mobile World Congress, it looks like Vodafone has another Android smartphone in work. We've just received some anonymous info and photos of a Vodafone branded smartphone which is said to be the Huawei "Joy" and is expected to hit Vodafone shops as the "Vodafone 845". The 845 features Android 2.1/Eclair and supports triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 900/1800/1900 MHz as well as dualband UMTS/HSDPA at 900/2100 MHz, Bluetooth 2.1 WiFi b/g, a digital compass and an accelerometer. The 2.8" touchscreen supports the Android untypical QVGA resolution and the camera is said to support 3.2 megapixel.
Following the previous information via Twitter and Palm's German website, Palm today announced that it will bring the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus to the market for both O2 and Vodafone customers. The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus showcase the defining features of Palm webOS, including the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously and easily move between them; the power of Palm Synergy, which brings customers' information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view; unobtrusive notifications; and universal search. Palm webOS also has a unique model of over-the-air software updates that delivers new features and performance improvements directly to a user's phone.
Through its Twitter account, O2 Germany today announced that the German carrier will also offer the GSM/UMTS version of Palm's latest webOS smartphones - the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. This is not a surprise at all since Telefónica, O2 and Palm signed a long-term partnership deal and therefore - even if yet not announced - it can also expected that the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will also come to Spain, Ireland and the UK. The GSM/UMTS smartphones, recently approved by the Global Certification Forum, are expected to be identical to the AT&T versions except that the European Palm smartphones support different bands.
Building on Danger's expertise (which Microsoft took over two years ago), KIN isn't just two mobile phones but KIN comes KIN Studio - similar to the Zune software for Windows Phone 7 - but bringing the phones online. Almost everything created on a KIN phone is available in the cloud from any Web browser. Photos and videos are freed from the confines of the phone and presented in an online visual timeline so they are easy to view and share. The KIN Studio (this time hopefully for sure) automatically backs up texts, call history, photos, videos and contacts - and populates a personalized digital journal so it's easy to go back in time to relive a crazy weekend or recent birthday.
Even if Microsoft announced today two KIN devices only, the portrait-sliding KIN One and the landscape-sliding KIN Two, basically we will see four different KIN devices: a KIN One and KIN Two supporting Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and a KIN One and KIN Two supporting Vodafone's GSM/UMTS network. Nevertheless, all four KIN devices are new - so called - "Windows Phone" devices, designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives, featuring a fun, simple interface, which is designed to help people publish the magazine of their life by making the people and stuff they love the focus rather than menus and icons.
Today, at a press event in San Francisco, Microsoft announced it latest mobile consumer product called "Kin" (so far known under it's project name Pink), a new Windows Phone designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives. Brought to life through partnerships with Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Sharp Corporation, KIN is designed to be the ultimate social experience that blends the phone, online services and the PC with breakthrough new experiences called the Loop, Spot and Studio. KIN will be exclusively available from Verizon Wireless in the U.S. beginning in May and from Vodafone this autumn in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Neither in Barcelona, nor at its MIX10 conference, Microsoft has exactly outlined how it will handle firmware updates for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. However, during the recent Microsoft DevDays in Den Haag, Charlie Kindel, Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft, gave Dutch tweakers.net an interview and unveiled that Windows Phone 7 will support both methods for firmware updates: Side-Load and OTA (Over The Air). Furthermore Kindel confirmed that Microsoft itself, not hardware manufacturer or carrier partners, will distribute these firmware updates and that Kindel therefore expects, that today's Windows Mobile version-fragmentation will have an end since all Windows Phone 7 users will have (more or less) identical firmware versions.
According to Bloomberg information, Palm - creator of the webOS smartphone operating system and the Pre and Pixi smartphones - is ready to sell itself to investors and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week. According to people familiar with the situation, Palm is working working with Goldman Sachs Group and Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, said the yet anonymous sources. According to Bloomberg's sources, HTC (maker of Windows Mobile and Android smartphones) and Lenovo (which has overtaken IBM's Notebook business before) have looked at Palm and may make offers later this week!
Last December, Google announced how universal search features in Google Suggest could show useful information while the user is composing a query from the Google home page. Now, Google is bringing the same functionality to mobile phones so that getting answers while on the go is even faster and easier. For example, let's say you're flying to London and want to know: Is my flight on time? Or what is the exchange rate of the pound? As you type the flight "BA 284" or "USD in Pounds", the answers are provided right below the search box, without having to wait for the results page. Other searches that show answers include weather (e.g., "Weather London"), stock quotes (e.g., "INTC"), current time (e.g., "Time London"), calculator (e.g. "29*37") and unit conversion (e.g., "220 miles in km").
The Xperia X10 is Sony Ericsson's first Android smartphone, the company announced late last year. Running Android 1.6/Donut, the Xperia X10 is powered by a Snapdragon CPU at 1 GHz and the device supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA. Furthermore, the X10 features WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, aGPS, a digital compass and several sensors. The massive 4" touchscreen supports WVGA at 480 x 854 pixel and since Sony Ericsson is well known for its camera phones, it's not a surprise at all that the Xperia X10 is the first available Android smartphone which comes with a 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED photo light.
Sony Ericsson first Android smartphone, the Xperia X10, is a real powerhouse. While it's only running Android 1.6/Donut, the Xperia X10 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU at 1 GHz and features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, aGPS, and a digital compass. It comes with a large 4" capacitive WVGA (480 x 854 pixel) touchscreen and features a 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED photo light. On top of Android, which Sony Ericsson slightly modified, the Xperia X10 features two brand new user experience services called Timescape and Mediascape which is all about social media, contacts and multimedia including photos, videos and music.
Twins, separated at birth, the HTC Desire is the sister smartphone to the Google Nexus One. And while both devices are running Android 2.1/Eclair and sporting a 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU, there are some smaller differences. For instance the Desire supports the EMEA- and APAC-compatible quadband GSM/GPRS/EDE as well as dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA bands at 900/2100 MHz. And while both smartphones support WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash LED, the 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and a micro USB port, the HTC Desire features HTC's Sense UI on top of Android while the Google Nexus One comes with a vanilla version of Android 2.1.
And another news which hit the Internet while I was on vacation - but definitely too good not to be posted here again. Engadget has received an invitation from Microsoft for an event next Monday, April 12th. While the invitation hasn't spilled any beans what Microsoft is going to announce, the invitation mentions that "It's Time To Share". Now it's speculated if Microsoft might unveil its long-time awaited Project Pink? The timing makes definitely sense because earlier information indicated that Microsoft will launch Pink together with Verizon. And while it wasn't announced at CTIA last month, it's still expected that Pink will be launched in April this year.
Late last week, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series team announced via Twitter, that from now, Windows Phone 7 Series is only called Windows Phone 7 - without Series. Also Microsoft confirmed this in a later info: "We're simplifying the name of "Windows Phone 7 Series", it'll now be just "Windows Phone 7". Back in February, when Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 Series, the "Series" part of the product name was explained to indicate that there would be a range of phones providing choice of hardware and operator - which absolutely made sense. However, neither the end-user nor the press really picked-up the idea behind this Series-thing which only caused a lots of questions and wrong guesses.
Further to announcements of 8th September 2009, and to the obtaining of all necessary approvals, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom today announced the successful completion of the UK merger transaction of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK and the formation of the new Joint Venture. Tom Alexander, former CEO of Orange UK is the Chief Executive of the new Joint Venture and Richard Moat, the former CEO of T-Mobile UK is Chief Financial Officer and Deputy CEO. A Board of Directors has also been formed, on which Tom Alexander and Richard Moat will serve as executive directors. Tim Höttges, CFO of Deutsche Telekom, will lead the board as non-executive chairman for two years.
Do you remember our recent news that European versions of the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus were approved by the Global Certification Forum? Looks like the cat is out of the bag now and French SFR is the first European carrier to carry Palm's new GSM/UMTS webOS-based smartphones! SFR has just launched a special promotion page, featuring the "Palm Pre en version plus" and "Palm Pixi en version plus" where interested customers can pre-register for further information. However, neither Palm nor SFR have announced the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Europe yet but both companies announced a cooperation agreement - back in January!
Looks like someone from Google is working on a secret project which is called "Secrets for Android", a project yet available from Google Code only. Secrets for Android is an application to securely store and manage passwords and secrets on your Android phone. It uses techniques like strong encryption and auto-logout to help ensure that your secrets remain safe (assuming you use a good master password!). Should Secrets be running when your phone goes to sleep, you will be automatically logged out. The next time your phone wakes up, you'll need to re-enter your master password to continue. Switching to another application and returning to Secrets will also require you to re-enter your master password.
Related to today's release of Google Transcript Beta, Google has announced another service for Android smartphones: Google Translate for Animals Beta. As Google describes it, making the world's information universally accessible is a key goal for the company and language is one of the biggest challenges. So Google have targeted its efforts on removing language barriers between the species by introducing Translate for Animals, an Android application which Google hopes will allow us to better understand our animal friends. Google hopes that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.
Today, Google unveiled its latest Google Labs project - Google Transcript. Following the idea to be able to offer a simultaneous translation service for voice calls anytime later this decade, the Google engineers started its work already and presented today the first achievement. Initially, Google Transcribe will be able to transcribe a conversation between two calling parties, using Google Transcript for Android. Simultaneously to the voice call, Google Transcript will establish a data connection to the Google Transcript backend server where the conversation will be transmitted to. Therefore it's not required to dial into a special service but the conversation will be converted from speech to text and is available during the call already.
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1:37:50 drmeister There are untagged pointers higher in the stack trace that I'm putting in tests/traps for.
2:02:52 drmeister Bike: What do you think about a 'lint' for HIR/MIR? Something that checks to see if it's well formed?
2:03:09 drmeister It doesn't need to be inline all the time.
2:04:28 Bike wouldn't it just recapitulate the generator?
2:04:42 drmeister I'm suspecting that a writeCell is being invoked before a makeCell - but I'm not sure.
2:04:49 Bike if you mean for stuff like "a cell is created before it's used" that's a little hard to check
2:05:30 drmeister Is it? I thought there would be some sort of dominance relationship.
2:05:42 drmeister Is that the right term?
2:07:06 Bike hm. cleavir has stuff for dominance but i haven't used it.
2:11:17 drmeister I'm not getting much from the backtrace and inserting tests.
2:11:39 drmeister The crash is cc_writeCell the cell being passed to it is clearly bad.
2:12:00 drmeister The stack above that call is weird - there are bad tagged pointers for function calls.
2:12:21 drmeister But when I put in tests for that they don't get triggered
2:16:27 drmeister On the plus side - I am building a new docker image.
2:17:13 drmeister I'm going to have the undergrads who are working on the UI stuff work with a development system running in docker.
2:17:41 drmeister Two of them have Windows systems.
3:14:30 Bike new kildall works with the type inference, which has reminded me again that i need to fix ast-to-hir or something, because the proliferation of temps is absurd even if llvm will kill them later
3:56:28 drmeister What does Kildall working with the type inference mean?
3:56:46 drmeister Kildall = optimization technique and type inference I know.
3:57:04 Bike it means i changed how kildall works, and then changed how the type inference built on kildall works to match it.
3:57:19 Bike doesn't mean much for clasp yet since it uses the old non-kildall type inference
4:03:20 drmeister We need to get everything on line.
4:03:35 drmeister jupyter notebooks are broken at the moment too - argh
4:04:19 drmeister I'll have to leave this new problem with code generation until next week - I have to focus on yet another grant proposal.
4:06:51 drmeister I'm resetting to 8f63732
4:07:54 drmeister There's a thing in llvm where you can specify the lifetime of lexical variables.
4:08:28 drmeister You say when they begin and end their lifetime. It should be easy to generate that information.
4:08:58 Bike yeah, that's liveness.
4:09:19 drmeister You calculate that now - correct?
4:09:49 Bike yeah. but after segregate lexicals. because what "lifetime" means when a variable is in multiple functions isn't as obvious.
4:10:27 drmeister So you have lifetime for variables that are in one function. There is no concept of variables in multiple functions in llvm.
4:10:50 Bike naturally.
4:11:26 Bike do you need it for something?
4:11:54 drmeister I would say we use it to communicate lifetimes to llvm.
4:12:58 drmeister Could it be preserved to code generation? Say in a way that we know for a particular instruction that a variable has just come alive and the instruction after which it is no longer alive?
4:13:10 Bike don't see why not.
4:13:33 Bike clasp computes it here https://github.com/drmeister/clasp/blob/dev/src/lisp/kernel/cleavir/translate.lisp#L957 but it can be done any time after process-captured-variables.
4:13:46 Bike some of the hir transformations mess up the instruction graph a little though.
4:14:24 drmeister What would be the consequence of incorrect liveness info?
4:14:31 drmeister Or could it be fixed up?
4:14:52 drmeister Or could it be recalculated on the MIR
4:15:17 Bike it could be recomputed, yeah. i don't know what you want to use it for so i don't know what the consequences would be.
4:15:36 Bike i've been thinking a bit about how to do hir transformations while preserving information like that more scrupulously, but i haven't done any work.
4:16:32 Bike the liveness object is just a hash table (actually two) from instructions to lists of lexical locations live there, i don't know if that's convenient.
4:16:35 drmeister Interesting: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-EfficiencySanitizer
4:21:21 drmeister I can't find it right now - but there is a web page that suggests basic things that compiler writers should incorporate when using llvm. Specifying liveness of lexical variables was one of them
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4:29:53 drmeister Here's where there is still a lot of glue in Clasp - generic function calls.
4:29:54 drmeister http://i.imgur.com/osjiaBA.png
4:30:48 drmeister ??? is a JITted Cleavir function calling a generic function Instance::entry_point with a C-calling convention call.
4:31:32 drmeister standard_dispatch looks up the effective method and invokes apply_method, passing arguments in a VaList_S* tagged pointer (no arguments copied)
4:32:07 drmeister apply_method invokes funcall_consume_valist_ which calls funcall_va_list_8 (arguments are copied)
4:32:36 drmeister COMBINE-METHOD-FUNCTIONS3.LAMBDA invokes the one method
4:33:02 drmeister That involves invoking apply_method /funcall_consume_valist_, funcall_va_list_8 (arguments are copied)
4:33:16 drmeister That calls the method ???
4:33:34 drmeister So arguments are set up once and copied twice for each generic function call.
4:34:13 drmeister They need to be copied once because the arguments list and list of next methods get prepended to the arguments.
4:36:23 drmeister In the common case where there is a single method one of those argument copies could be eliminated and COMBINE-METHOD-FUNCTIONS3.LAMBDA could be skipped.
4:37:28 drmeister I better get to bed.
4:37:57 Bike night.
4:38:41 drmeister Good night - I look forward to working with you more closely.
4:49:48 beach Good morning everyone!
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A serum magnesium test measures the level of magnesium in the blood.
How the Test is Performed
A blood sample is needed.
How to Prepare for the Test
No special preparation is needed.
How the Test will Feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel slight pain. Others feel a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing or a slight bruise. This soon goes away.
Why the Test is Performed
This test is done when your health care provider suspects you have an abnormal level of magnesium in your blood.
About half of the body's magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found inside cells of body tissues and organs.
Magnesium is needed for many chemical processes in the body. It helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, and keeps the bones strong. Magnesium is also needed for the heart to function normally and to help regulate blood pressure. Magnesium also helps the body control blood sugar level and helps support the body's defense (immune) system.
Normal Results
The normal range for blood magnesium level is 1.7 to 2.2 mg/dL (0.85 to 1.10 mmol/L).
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your provider about the meaning of your specific test results.
What Abnormal Results Mean
A high magnesium level may indicate:
- The adrenal glands are not producing enough hormones (Addison disease)
- Loss of kidney function (chronic renal failure)
- Loss of body fluids (dehydration)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening problem in people with diabetes
- Producing less urine than usual (oliguria)
A low magnesium level may indicate:
- Alcoholism or severe alcohol withdrawal (delirium tremens)
- Long-term (chronic) diarrhea
- Treatment to remove waste from the blood (hemodialysis)
- Scarring of the liver and loss of liver function (cirrhosis)
- Adrenal gland produces too much of the hormone aldosterone (hyperaldosteronism)
- Parathyroid glands do not produce enough parathyroid hormone (hypoparathyroidism)
- Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)
- Too much insulin
- High blood pressure and protein in the urine in a pregnant woman (preeclampsia)
- Inflammation of the lining of the large intestine and rectum (ulcerative colitis)
There is very little risk in having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one person to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks may include:
- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting or feeling lightheaded
- Hematoma (blood accumulating under the skin)
- Infection (a slight risk any time the skin is broken)
Alternative Names
Magnesium - blood
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Review Date 2/13/2017
Updated by: Laura J. Martin, MD, MPH, ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Norwegian melodic power metallers PAGAN'S MIND have set "Heavenly Ecstasy" as the title of their sixth album, due later in the year. The follow-up to 2007's "God's Equation" was mixed last fall by Stefan Glaumann at Toytown Studios (RAMMSTEIN, MADONNA, WITHIN TEMPTATION) in Stockholm, Sweden.
A brand new song from "Heavenly Ecstasy" entitled "Intermission" made its online debut earlier tonight (Wednesday, March 2) on "The Metal Madman" radio show and can now be streamed at this location.
In a recent interview with LetsRock.ro, PAGAN'S MIND singer Nils K. Rue stated about the band's forthcoming CD, "I'm really really excited. I have great belief in it, I think the material is extremely strong and that it represent sort of a 'comeback' (since it been over three years since 'God's Equation'). I am sure both fans of PAGAN'S MIND and people who haven't heard us before will appreciate it a lot."
Regarding the musical direction of the new album, Nils said, "There is no doubt it sounds like PAGAN'S MIND, as I believe we have a very distinct sound. It's heavy, melodic and at times intricate — but on the other hand we have shaken off some of the most extreme progressive elements, setting songwriting and melody in total focus. It's atmospheric, very catchy, very heavy, very good."
On the topic of the new CD's lyrical themes, Nils said, "We're inspired by mysticism and 'the unknown,' as always, but this time the lyrics also deal with stuff everyone can relate to. Our lyrics is often metaphorical, which allows the listener to make up their own opinion on the words and meaning — and make it their own personal 'story.' By making the music a little bit more 'straight in your face,' this time so is the lyrics. Nevertheless, the 'sworn PAGAN'S MIND fan' won't be disappointed — there are enough mystic stuff here to blow your mind. To give an example, on a lyric that deals with 'reality,' there are several, but some of the songs has a positive message that tells to believe in yourself and is upbuilding in terms of self-esteem and the power of will, and yourself."
PAGAN'S MIND's latest album, "God's Equation", in 2007 entered the Norwegian domestic chart (featuring only Norwegian artists) at position No. 14. It also landed on the international chart (featuring all artists) at No. 35. The CD, which was released in the U.S. in January 2008, was recorded by Espen Mjøen at his Mediamaker Studio in Skien, Norway, and mixed at Toy Town Studios in Stockholm by Stefan Glaumann (RAMMSTEIN).


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Hopefully it won't dissappoint.
A few months ago, we reported that the Lexus LS may not be the company's flagship model and that there's going to be something above the luxury sedan. As it turns out, Lexus said that it will reveal a new luxury concept car at the Tokyo Auto Show later this year.
Said concept "expresses Lexus' future vision of progressive luxury." This new concept car may underpin the design and maybe even the technology that will be put in the upcoming LS and soon-to-be revived SC coupe flagship models.
As for design, the two cars will probably be based on the sexy LF-LC concept that will make it to production in 2016.
Expect the new LS and revived SC to have 5.0-liter V8 engines ranging from over 400 hp to up to 600 hp with a hybrid variant producing around 500 hp. We don't have any photos of what this concept will look like but we're betting it'll be fantastic and sport a weird grille. By: Carbuzz


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Thai Artisan Khun O depicts a delicate feather featuring meticulous detailing and oxidized contrasts throughout. Stunning and meaningful, this pendant and 18 inches cable chain necklace is crafted by hand from sterling silver .925 and is a remarkable addition to any jewelry collection. Great for a tribal flair!Please note that pictures are not true to size, see dimension for actual size.
Khun O' has a passion for jewelry and has devoted her life to her craft. Khun O' and her husband own and operate a silver factory in Bangkok. Khun O' recruits and trains people from the far provinces to work at her factory. Her kindness and warm personality motivates her team and provides many job opportunities for people from the province.


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Amongst the okra recipes which are included are great favourites such as okra soup, curried okra, fried okra, okra and shrimp, and okra gumbo. Together with some less well-known ones such as okra palm oil stew, bhindi spiced masala, and two Moroccan okra tagine recipes. In addition there are many others, these recipes should give you some idea of the versatility of this African vegetable.
In addition to being extremely popular in various parts of Africa, India and Asia okra is also popular in the Caribbean and the southern United States.
In many African dialects the word for okra sounds similar to gumbo. In Tshiluna it is called ki-ngumbo; the Portuguese thought that quillobo another African word for okra sounded like quingombo. Okra is often referred to as gumbo for these reasons.
In the United States certain types of stews containing okra are often called gumbos, in fact it is technically incorrect to call a recipe which doesn't contain okra a gumbo
It is imperative that fresh Okra is picked young. After the pod is more than 8 days old it becomes almost worthless as an ingredient in recipes. If you buy fresh Okra you should get young pods without any signs of bruising. The Okra pods should be tender but not soft. You shouldn't buy pods if they are any longer than 4 inches, as this is a sign that they have been left too long before picking.
You should prepare Okra as soon as possible after it has been picked. However, if necessary you may store the Okra pods in a refrigerator after first placing them in a paper bag or wrapping in an absorbent paper towel. Do not attempt to keep Okra Pods in closed plastic bags or containers as the pods will weep and become messy. Do not keep fresh Okra for more than 3 days under refrigeration.
Okra recipes may call for the pod to be used raw, pickled, fried, boiled, roasted, grilled or stuffed. Okra can be served on its own, as a condiment, in soups, stews, gravies, with meat fish or poultry and compliments tomatoes, onions, eggplant, corn and peppers. Okra's leaves and flowers are also edible and may be cooked in a similar fashion to beetroot, pumpkin or dandelion leaves, they may also be eaten raw in salads.
Because okra is a mucilaginous plant, which gives a sticky and somewhat slippery substance when cut, it is often used in recipes as a thickening agent in soups and stews, it is very often the secret super recipe ingredient that makes ketchup stick in the bottle no matter how much you shake it.... However when used raw or as a vegetable it shouldn't be cut into too small pieces as the smaller it is cut the stickier it becomes.
Many people prefer to eat okra fried or breaded as this reduces its slipperiness, however when used in soups, stews and gumbo's this is unnoticeable. Use a little vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice or wine in your okra recipes as this also helps to reduce its slipperiness.
Okra also has extremely high potential as a vegetable oil, its oil yield per hectare been second only to that of sunflowers.
Okra also contains significant quantities of minerals such as calcium, iron magnesium manganese phosphorus and zinc.
It is also reputed to help lower serum cholesterol in the blood stream and as a stabilisation agent for blood sugar in diabetics. This is because of its high fibre content which makes it a have a very low glycaemic index.
It is certainly worth investigating the Okra recipes on this site I am sure that you will find some that are to your taste.
Have a look at all the okra recipes on this site by accessing them through the Okra recipes section of the menu, try them and enjoy!


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Every year I say I'll never do this to myself again, the lack of sleep, stress, and expense is just not worth it...but two weeks later at the close of the show I find myself filling out the registration sheet and telling Leslie and Don "I'll see ya next year".
So what the hell is wrong with me? I think it's a mixture of sleep deprived euphoria, being immersed in a positive vibe with encouraging attendees, and the warmth of being surrounded by friends I only get to see once a year that shoots me into a tailspin and ends me up facing 180 degrees from my prior perspective. Seems to be a formula I can't break...nor wish to.
Sacramento was an awesome event; a city full of enthusiasm for everything cycling, a clean easily accessed venue, and folks who were interested in all aspects of the cycling genre, not just their chosen niche they pursue. That combination made for stimulating conversation all weekend long, keeping me fueled and upright for those long days on the floor.
So, now that it's over, lets rewind a bit and work forward.
A tight work schedule at the fire department coupled with a back injury kept me from getting many of the projects completed that I wanted to share at the show and made for just getting the minimum completed an arduous task.
Pushing out the steel and ti bars, welding like a madman...
The last kick in the balls was when I was building the retro belt drive bike I built for Gates, as they were the sponsor this year. Besides pushing to fabricate the frame, ti fork, ti bar/stem combo, ti seat post, paint and get the wheels built, the final straw were the Magura MT-8 brakes. Around 2300 hours Wednesday night I pulled them out of their box to put them on and was blindsided by the fact that the brakes, normally a subtle black and silver, had bright red highlights...quite the contrast to the vanilla base with pink, brown and blue frame I had prepared. Sh*t!!!
One of the blessings of being able to fabricate the entire build in my shop is that I could disassemble the brakes, remove the painted graphics, sand the parts, and airbrush them all a complimentary color...the downside is that to do that all takes time. Regardless, it had to be done.
I pushed right up until 0100 Thursday morning, pulling the last of the parts out of the bake box before wrapping everything up and heading for the airport at 0400.
Once in California, Ty, who had driven out the other bikes and the booth, met us at the airport and shuttled us right into the city so we could begin setting up...
We had a great spot, adjacent to the lovely ladies at Rickshaw Bags (Crystal, Lisa, and Christi) who make custom messenger bags and commuting gear, across from Baum Cycles (Darren and Ryan), and caddy corner from the Dirt Rag crew.
The hall was packed all three days. It was a pleasure to spend time chatting with all the fine folks who stopped by the booth, but was especially pleased to meet many of our VRC crowd and a few folks that I've looked up to through the years and were an inspiration to me.
One of the draw backs to the show is that I tend to spend the majority of the day inside, so I only get to see the sunrise and exit in the dark...
Jim Denny's hosted us for breakfast day one. With only 20 stools, no bathrooms, and huge tasty cakes and omelets, I'd go back to Sac just to experience this eatery again.
A nod to back home, we finished out breakfast at the Stagecoach...a gritty 70's cowboy themed diner with the cutest ghetto waitresses around. Killer food, big portions and lots of unneeded gravy covered calories, fueled us up for the last day...
Thoughts on the show, in no particular order of importance...
Sac was a great venue and the producers continue to refine the brew, making it an enjoyable show for all.
The booths continue to be filled with "show specials", bikes built not for the customer base but to catch the eye...frustrating, as I've always believed you should show up with examples of what come out of your shop every day, not what you can make given no constraints. Many of these builders, desperate to find a place in the industry, are selling their work at prices that do not support a stable business model, thus the reason you see many of these folks closing their doors after the shine has worn off.
So heartening to spend time with like minded folks who desire to share information, to see each other prosper, rather than hold their techniques close to their chests. This is how it should be. Kudos, you guys, you know who you are.
When will "Best Finish" actually go to the guy who paints the frame, rather than the builder who sub contracted the work?
Denver next year...I like the state, don't particularly care for the city. Given that we are coming up on our 9th iteration of Nahbs, it would be nice to see it come east again...7 to 2 hardly seems balanced.
In speaking with a friend on the Nahbs board, it was disconcerting that we could only name two builders present who complete the entire fabrication process themselves...our industry is changing from a mastery of all the aspects of the process to the methodical commissioning of sub contracted parts and paint from others to complete the finished product.
Funny how we develop our individual techniques and it's hard to break out of the mold due to customer demand...Joe Bell asked me to share some airbrush techniques with him. In return I'd love to know his tips on traditional pin striping. In the same industry but so different.
Kalten really stepped up this year and was in the booth working his butt off...when he wasn't chatting and dancing with the girls next door at Rickshaw. Oh to be 17 again :)
See y'all next year in Denver.


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Robert P. (Bob) Biegler is regarded as one of the premiere civil trial lawyers in Northern California. He has tried over 200 cases, involving almost every type of legal claim. Mr. Biegler has prevailed in trial judgments totaling millions of dollars and has additionally been responsible for innumerable settlements resulting in millions of dollars in recoveries for his clients.
In addition to his civil trial practice, Mr. Biegler has taught Employment Law, Labor Law and Business Law at Sacramento State University since 1984. He has also taught at the University of Pacific-McGeorge School of Law in various programs, as well as courses for the State Bar of California, the Continuing Education of the Bar, the Sacramento County Bar Association and the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association. He also serves, and has served, as a Pro-Tem Judge, arbitrator and mediator for the Sacramento County Superior Court, the El Dorado County Superior Court and the Placer County Superior Court.
Mr. Beigler maintains a close, regular, personal relationship with Brock & Gonzales, LLP, assisting the firm in fighting for the rights of employees and the injured throughout California.
Mr. Biegler graduated from the University of Utah in 1974 and is a 1979 graduate of the University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law. He was the Student Body President in law school and later served as the University of the Pacific-McGeorge Alumni Association President.


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The market for blogs has exploded. Many companies do not want to invest the time in developing a blog in their respective niche, which has given rise to a whole new cottage industry, blog flipping.
Blog flipping is done in a few different ways. Some flippers buy an existing blog that has potential, but is not currently producing. They take that blog and build the traffic and sales up to a level productive enough to reap a profit from their investment, and then sell it.
Or, more common in today's blog flipping market, is to research a specific niche, develop a domain / blog, and then sell it.
But what does "developed" really mean? It depends on the flipper. So buyers really need to do their homework (read due diligence) before investing in an "established" blog or website. Because "established" is in the eyes of the beholder, and means many different things depending upon who you consult.
In my opinion, established means that the site, or blog, is profitable. Now profitable can be defined very differently for different companies. It doesn't mean that the site has to be makÃng money, though it does help justify the investment when purchasing the blog. It can mean to a prospective company only that the site has traffic that company believes it can convert into sales. Not everyone can convert website traffic in the same way. So there are companies out there looking to buy blogs that have a certain, specific reader demographic that fits their market. However, these types of sales are few and far between. Companies that are buying blogs normally want to see one thing.
Not just income, because a blog's gross monthly income and it's actual profit margin can be two very different things as well. We've all seen the advertisements screaming that you can make ten thousand dollars a month blogging, or with Adsense, or whatever. But the part usually left out is the investment it takes to get that income. Sometimes the cost is far greater than the income, making the blog or website a LOSER.
So what steps should you take to sell your blog if you are a would be website flipper? Here are a few factors your blog or website should have in order to get top dollar:
1. Real Web Property
Your blog needs to be a real web property. What I mean by this is that it needs to be a real domain, on hosting you are paying for. Free hosted blogs are not a viable investment for most companies and corporations. There are exceptions to every rule and I'm sure that there have been a few sales of extremely popular Blogspot blogs, but unless you have a million visitors a month, you're probably not going to sell a free hosted blog anytime soon. Buy a domain, pay for some hosting, build something that has value.
2. Professional Appearance
Your blog or website needs to have a professional appearance. Custom design is always better, but at the very least, it needs to have a template or layout that fits that blog's readership or market. If you have poor graphics, even if your blog has monster traffic, you'll sell it for much less than you could have if you had professional web design. It's sort of like house flipping or selling a used car. If you can afford it, a fresh coat of paint usually brings the resell value up substantially.
3. Developed Traffic Sources
Potential buyers want to see traffic. Not just any traffic will do for most serious investors. They want to see solid, search engine traffic and a solid bookmarked reader base. StumbleUpon and other social bookmarking websites are awesome traffic sources, no doubt. But when it comes to someone buying your blog, they want to see more than just a few traffic spikes from a front page listing on Digg. They want to see that the traffic is going to keep coming for months and years to come. Without a lot of work if they can get it.
4. Documented Traffic Statistics
It is going to take more than just the summary of "hits" screen capture from your webalizer stats to make the sale. You are going to need at least three months history of actual traffic statistics. Unique visitors, tracking cookie info if you have it, Google Analytics, etc. Numbers, numbers, numbers. Corporations want numbers in order to convince their board of directors that your blog would be a sound investment. Private investors are no different for the most part and they want to know exactly what they are buying when it comes down the actual traffic your blog has.
5. Profit and Loss
Lots of income statistics. If you are looking to sell your blog or website for real money (read more than a few bucks nabbed on EBAY) then you are going to need to show your buyer some stats about money. P&L statements (Profit and Loss) for as far back as you can go will help your buyer make his or her decision. It is one thing to tell a potential buyer what the gross income per month is, it's a completely different thing to show them exactly what the net income is and how it is obtained each month. Keep good records of your website expenditures and what the income received from those investments are. Include every cost. Website hosting, design, redesign, employee or outsourcing costs, whatever. Include everything and show them the real bottom line.
6. Set a Fair Price
I know you love your site, I love all of mine too. So it's easy to attach an emotional value to your blog and inflate the price. It's also really easy to confuse a blog's actual value with your vision of it's potential value. What you think the site will make someday and what it's making now are two very different things. Sorry, but what you think it will make someday has zero value to a would be investor. They only want to know what the net profit is, right now. Yes, you can take some long term income growth statistics and make profit projections, but unless you have these statistics going back a year or more, most buyers are going to dismiss them entirely.
Set a real price. In the bricks and mortar world most companies sell for 2 to 3 years of the total net income. Online, this number is usually cut down to one year. So if your website is netting $300 per month, the actual value of your blog is probably somewhere around $3600. Once again, it's easy to add an emotional price tag for all the hard work you've done to get that blog makÃng $300 clams a month, but your sweat equity doesn't mean much to a buyer.
Neither do website values created with online calculators. These sites are traffic magnets and are built totally to obtain webmaster traffic. If you search long enough and hard enough, you'll find a website value calculator that comes up with a number you like. It still means nothing to a buyer. It's not what your site is really worth and should have no bearing whatsoever on your sale price.
About The Author
Chuck Crawford is an established expert in web design, traffic development and website financial analysis. He has been helping people design and develop their internet business since 1995. Visit http://www.business blogs.us/blog/ .