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The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise in the National Football League (NFL) based in Seattle, Washington that win Seahawks super bowl rings . They are members of the West Division of the National Football Conference (NFC). The Seahawks joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Seahawks are owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and are currently coached by Pete Carroll. Since 2002 the Seahawks have played their home games at CenturyLink Field near downtown Seattle after previously playing home games in the Kingdome (1976–1999) and Husky Stadium (1994, 2000-2001).
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Over the years the Seahawks have had some notable players on the team, such as Steve Largent, Dave Brown, Jim Zorn, Dave Krieg, Kenny Easley, Curt Warner, Joe Nash, Brian Blades, Cortez Kennedy, Joey Galloway, Warren Moon, Walter Jones, Shaun Alexander, Matt Hasselbeck, Marcus Trufant, Marshawn Lynch, Percy Harvin, Earl Thomas, Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, and Russell Wilson. Largent, Kennedy, and Moon have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with Jones' 2014 induction having been announced.[2] Easley, Jones, Kennedy, Krieg, Largent, Warner, and Zorn have been inducted into the Seahawks Ring of Honor, along with cornerback Dave Brown and defensive end Jacob Green.
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Lukasz Kubot and Robert Lindstedt won the Australian Open men's doubles title in their first Grand Slam as a team with a 6—3, 6—3 win on Saturday over American Eric Butorac and South Africa's Raven Klaasen.
Kubot and Lindstedt dominated from the start, fending off the only breakpoint they faced and wrapping up the final in just an hour and five minutes.
Lindstedt of Sweden has previously lost three Grand Slam doubles finals all at Wimbledon with Horia Tecau. Poland's Kubot was playing for his first major title.
36-year-old Linstedt said he was originally supposed to play with Jurgen Melzer, but scrambled to find a new partner in December when Melzer was injured.
"I'm quite happy that you said yes," Lindstedt told Kubot in his acceptance speech
Butorac and Klaasen who had an upset win over top-ranked Bob and Mike Bryan in the third round upped their tempo in the second set to stay in touch, but could only watch as their opponents served out the match. In the first round, they beat local favorite Pat Rafter, who came out of retirement at the age of 41 to play doubles with Lleyton Hewitt.
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Chef Vikram Sunderam of Rasika has a 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. A typical brown-bag lunch for his kids includes a sandwich, fruit, granola bar, and fruit juice. "Sandwiches are quick and easy to make and ideal for kids because you can really vary the filling," says Sunderam. "You can easily make them nutritional, too."
Sunderam shares simple and flavorful sandwich and wrap recipes to mix up the old PB&J routine.
Cucumber-and-Chutney Sandwich
Makes 4 sandwiches
8 slices of whole-wheat bread, or any bread of your choice, buttered
1 cucumber, thinly sliced
For the chutney:
1 cup cilantro, washed and chopped
½ cup mint, washed and chopped
2 Thai green chilies
5 ounces ginger, peeled and cut
4 cloves peeled garlic
2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ teaspoon sugar
Salt to taste
Water, as needed
Blend all the ingredients for the chutney into a smooth, thick paste in a food processor. Use water to adjust the consistency while blending; it should be smooth and thick. Spread 1 tablespoon of chutney on four of the buttered bread slices, and arrange the cucumber slices on top. Repeat with the rest of the bread. Keep the sandwiches cold.
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For the mint-and-yogurt chutney:
1 cup cilantro
½ cup mint
½ teaspoon cumin seeds
2 Thai green chilies
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup full- or low-fat plain yogurt
Salt, to taste
In a food processor, blend all the chutney ingredients except the yogurt into a finely chopped but thick paste. Add a little water if the chutney is too thick. In a mixing bowl, combine the paste with the yogurt. Add salt to taste.
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2 plum tomatoes, thinly sliced
1 bell pepper, julienned
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Give it more time before you make any changes. Bottling without adding more yeast, that close to the tolerance of the yeast will make carbonation take longer. Adding fresh yeast, to something with that high of an ABV (already) can be tricky. You can shock the yeast that you add, making it take longer to carbonate. You can also have bottle bombs due to wine yeast eating sugars that the beer yeast won't. Wyeast 1728 can go beyond 12%. Since you have SOME carbonation already, just give it more TIME. Six months (or more) is NOT uncommon in bigger brews. BTW, for the next batch, consider carbonating on CO2 (in keg). It really is the only way to get carbonation closer to your time frame.
Ok, I'll give it some more time (another 2-3 months). I like my stouts to have a light carbonation, but I guess if worse comes to worse I can just chill these and drink them as is.
I use lots more than 4 oz. priming sugar in mine because I wasn't getting the carbonation I wanted.
Im thinking its the 18oz of bourbon. That's the trade off you make when adding and whiskey to a beer. Couldn't hurt to add yeast/sugar, but with that much bourbon, I'm not at all surprised that its not carbing, and I'm not sure that the yeast/sugar will do much.
Good luck. I just poured a little more than a case worth of 13% stout into a keg to force carb and rebottle. I brewed it two years ago almost. It sat in bottles for a year and it never developed carb. So i sanitized, purged and ran constant CO2 into the keg and dumped the bottles into a CO2 blanket. Its sitting at room temp at 20psi now.
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I have both of one screen and dual screen setup's. With AMD and two display setup there is tearing on second display too, but not on first.
Maybe you use 2 displays and RealNC only 1?
I have both of one screen and dual screen setup's. With AMD and two display setup there is tearing on second display too, but not on first.
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Those are Windows benchmarks. Under Linux + wine, you'd be hard pressed to get a 6970 to give you the same frame rates as an 8800GT in some directx-only titles. So yes, a 560Ti can be 2x, 4x and even 8x faster than a 4870 in some Windows games under wine.
Some of that is wine optimizations for NV hardware, but much of that is fglrx blowing goats.
Recent fglrx versions have closed the gap quite a bit. Before 11.11 my 5830s were about 1/8 to 1/4 the frame rates of my 8800GT in e.g. Champions Online (about 2-10 fps with 5830s, around 18-60 with the 8800gt). As of 11.11 I get about half the performance of an 8800GT with my 5830. On Windows the 5830 is about double the frame rates of a 8800GT in pretty much everything.
This problem is because of the 5D/4D VLIW architecture because you really need strong optimizations in the AMD driver to get the full speed and they just don't do it for Linux and wine.
so yes you are right for all hd2000-hd6000 cards.
but the hd7970 for example isn't VLIW anymore.
this means the hd7000 cards should bring a much better result for linux and wine.
maybe you should check an hd7000 card
If this is correct then VLIW is a tomb.
VLIW is as good as optimized. This means anyone who is doing the driver needs specific tools. If that tools are unavailable, you can do nothing regardless of amount of people busy around it.
This means if AMD does not release VLIW driver tools, they are the only one who can do driver.
And if they rotate chicken-egg problem, to no sales-no driver (instead of driver->sales), and resist to do driver, VLIW architecture becomes real tomb. Because the card will only work where they (AMD) see it fit.
Measuring general flops is wrong, the right thing is measuring mac-flops. Example: madd(x=a*b) is 1 general flop because does a *action or a +action, but is 2-mac-flops because does action in 2 objects a,b. fmac(x=a*b+c) is 2-general-flops because does 2 fused actions a* and a+, but is 3-mac-flops because does action in 3 objects a,b,c. So fmac is 1,5-2 times faster than madd. Examples:
gtx280: 240mimd-cores(32bit)*1,4ghz*2-3(madd+mul)= 1-mac-tflop
radeon6900: 384vliw4-cores*4-32bit-executions*900mhz= 1,35-general-tflops(32bit) *2(madd)=2,7mactflops(32bit)
gtx580: 512mimd(dual issue)cores*1-64bit or 2-32bit executions*1,55ghz*2-3(fmac)= 1,6-general-tflops(64bit) or 3,2-general-tflops(32bit) or 4,7-mac-tflops(32bit)
radeon7000: 512simd4-cores*4-32bit-executions*900mhz*2-3(fmac)= 3,8-general-tflops(32bit) or 5,7-mac-tflops(32bit)
gtx600: 2xCores(gtx580)*2xBitrate(128bit quad issue, at the same transistors)= 6,5-general-tflops(64bit) or 13-general-tflops(32bit) or 20-mac-tflops(32bit).
Wile amd gains 2xFlops/watt per generation, nvidia gains 4x after gtx280. Also amd has mediocre opengl and bad d3d to ogl translation, regardless of the generation. Amd is not even close in programmability to fermi and kepler, no full native integer, no full native 64bit, no good vm like cuda for wide many language support. Amd is not cheap, I can buy a gtx-460 new for 100 box in my country, overclocking to 1,8-1,9ghz and I have near gtx580 or 75%-radeon7000 performance, and I use wine-mediacoder_cuda for h264 encoding.
The vertical sync issue seems to be getting a bug fix within the next two releases (See the Unofficial bug report)
old and wrong story again. this is only true if you need FMA for general use you can check the speed with bitcoin as a benchmark and in fact the AMD card RIP the nvidia cards.
but yes you can explain to us why amd cards are sooo good in bitcoin.
its the same with AMD-FX8150 vs intel and FMA4 most of the programms don't use FMA4 because of this intel win all the time.
with the nvidia card same shit. FMA is really specific and not "Generally"
FMA is not instruction set and it is general, but not certain. It is just the two functions of Madd(*,+) fused. You must have a well written and clean code in order to achieve more than 95% fusion. The BitcoinXXX lacks, here some benchmarks: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/gra...k_5.html#sect3 In Unigine with heavy tessellation, Fermi crushes Radeon by 1.5-2x!!! Any way I want to correct my previous post for gtx600. I have new information: gtx600 has only 3.5 billion transistor 28nm against 3bt 40nm of gtx580, has 1024 64bit cores (gtx500 kind), and 1.8ghz clock with "turbo bust" near 2ghz, with only 180w (30% less than gtx580). Offers 2.5x the gtx500 performance and 3.4x the per/watt efficiency (4Tflops@64bit - 8Tflops@32bit - 12macTflops). Also offers 2.1x the radeon7970 performance with less watt, that means nVidia can give a 1536 cores card in the near future (3 months later). Any way here is PHORONIX-linux(libre), we not speak for something that does not work on Linux. So why some of you speak about Radeon cards here?
"In Unigine with heavy tessellation, Fermi crushes Radeon"
you life in the past because the hd7970 is faster in tessellation than your gtx580
means old storry
"FMA is not instruction set and it is general, but not certain. It is just the two functions of Madd(*,+) fused. You must have a well written and clean code in order to achieve more than 95% fusion."
bla bla bla bla and you don't count it if your software don't use FMA
same with amd and FMA4 if your software use it then the AMD is 56 times faster than the intel.
FMA is the only case were nvidia wins and you make it generall only to get a point but this is just not true!
"Any way I want to correct my previous post for gtx600. "
the hd7970 runs qt 1,4ghz (base is 900) and the Guinness book of records list the hd7970 as the fastest card on earth and not an nvidia gtx680
to beat a gtx680 you only need high resulutions then the 2gb vram hit as a bottle neck and the hd7970 win because of the 3gb vram
also nvidia is known to manipulate many benchmarks just because physX work only on nvidia.
also there comes a hd7970 with 6gb vram(not a dualcard means 6gb is useable) only stupid people think 2gb vram in the gtx680 is better vor compute gpu tasts than 6gb vram.
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ESPN.com's Jeffri Chadiha paid a visit last week to the Detroit Lions' training camp, checking to see if the Lions can move past their embarrassing offseason.
Receiver Nate Burleson said "there are a lot of people out there waiting for the Lions to screw up" and acknowledged "the spotlight on us is much hotter now than it's ever been."
Coach Jim Schwartz noted that none of the Lions' incidents occurred in Detroit, suggesting the run could be over.
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Yeah, the cutscene is great (even after all this time). Though seeing it after all these years I can't help but find I hate Sinister's voice there. Completely inappropriate. Too rough imo. He should have a voice that's more fitting of your basic intellectual type character. Still not as awful as the Sinister and Apocalypse voice actors on Wolverine's Revenge. lol
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the bed was comfortable, plenty of hot water, free breakfast was nice, staff was friendly.
moss growing on the outside stairs, parking lot tight, old bedspreads, dated bathroom fixtures.
Dog friendly, hot tub, well maintained, close to downtown
not really, was a great value
Wonderful staff
Walk up
located close to shops, restaurants,etc
balcony with a harbor side view.
older hotel but clean.
The best feature about the hotel was the view, the fireplace and the jaccuzzi tub. Parking was ample.
The staff needed some help with there professionalism and overall making quests feel welcome. 'Skeeter' was the exception in that he was very helpful and courteous. The complimentary breakfast that was provided was horrible!
balcony and view
very little to complain about ........ maybe a little pricey
It is a very charming place that we much enjoyed. It was liked going back in time to the early 1900's. It dates from 1898 and is really well maintained - I have never stayed in a room with such a high ceiling. I would definitely recommend this hotel.
There was nothing to dislike. The gentleman on the front desk was very friendly and helpful and there are lots of great places to eat all around and easy parking in the rear.
Right in the heart of Port Townsend, everything was within a block or two. There was free internet.
Outdated, musty, frumpy room that probably belongs in the same class as a Motel 6 in a forgotten part of Trenton, N.J. The hotel suffers from an identity crisis. It could be a fantastic Victorian hotel, but instead, it's stuck in a bad remodel from 1980.
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Cell 18s newest show, Perfect Bachelor is all set to entertain the audiences. This bi-weekly show will be aired on Mondays and Tuesdays beginning tonight. Perfect Bachelor is a reality show which will hunt down Maharashtras most eligible bachelor. The show will see Rahul Mahajan as host and Neha Pendse, Sai Lokur and Shruti Marathe will take the judges' seat who will trace down the winner based on their looks, talent and their performance in the tasks. Twelve contestants will fight for the title of Perfect Bachelor. Along with the contestants, four beautiful girls will stay in the same house. These pretty damsels will live in a huge room close to the boys dormitory, trying to strike chords with the men. There will be weekly eliminations which will ultimately lead to the Perfect Bachelor. |
Bigg Boss 5: Mahek jingles her way back in the Bigg Boss house
Click here to watch promo Two weeks away from the finale, Bigg Boss takes a new turn of bringing in a wild card entry Mahek Chahal, in the house. When Mahek was asked to leave a fortnight back, the Norway return promised herself to take a flight back only after she has met every contestant of the house face to face. She thought her wish would be granted only after the show ends, but destiny planned to play a different ball game all together. She stood tall in front of all the contestants right on the eve of Christmas being an equal contender. Dressed in the Santa Claus costume, Maheks entry surprised her friends and shocked her foes in the house. While Mahek had convinced herself to be back with a bang on the show, she also turned out to be a rude shock for all those contestants who had never expected to see the lady back, at least while in the house. From being insulted about her jaw displacement to being knocked down about her character, she has seen it all and faced all the more once out of the house. This was her only chance to go back in the house and return the favour to all those who made her two months stay in the house miserable. Looks like this Santa has plans of making every contestants Christmas a memorable one. With the straight-on-your-face lady back in the house, how can we not expect lots of drama and action for the final two weeks in the house? |
Zindagi Kahe... Smile Please on Life OK tonight (26-12-2011)
Nimit's parents agree for his marriage with Harmony. The Pandit advises Mr Ajmera to marry off Nimit and Harmony within next 10 days. On the other hand, Mr Hans fires Janak from the job. Will Harmony get to know about this ? |
Beend Banoonga Ghodi Chadhunga shifts base from Mumbai!
The cast and crew of Imagine TVs Beend Banoonga Ghodi Chadhunga have shifted base from Mumbai. Well, not forever, but only for a short duration. They are all in the pink city Jaipur to shoot a few romantic sequences between Jai and Sarika. While actors Nausheen Ali Sardar and Saahil Chaddha shot at Khato Shyamji, Jayshree Venketaramanan and Naman Shaw were busy shooting for an entire day at Albert Hall, Rajmandir, Jal Mahal, Bapu Bazaar and Johri Bazaar. Going by the script, leads Jayshree and Naman have to make the most of their visit to the city. Hence, it is vital for them to roam about in Jaipur. If buzz is to be believed, the two will not be riding a camel but a horse! We also hear that the cast is geared up to participate in the Jaipur Marathon, which will take place in January. What better way to make work fun! |
Ruk Jaana Nahin on Star Plus tonight (26-12-2011)
The gang members tell Indu about the incident who then gets very angry and wants to meet the same girl and fix her. Abhimanyu is hit by the Prabal gang members as they had discovered his involvement in the snake incident. On the other hand, Veena is harassed by Sushil and his goons and Sanchi comes and protects her. Abhimanyu and Sanchi come face to face. |
Dil Se Di Dua... Saubhagyavati Bhava? on Life OK tonight (26-12-2011)
Jahnvi is scared and she starts crying when Viraj enters. Siya explains him that all this happened because of a frog. To Jahnvis surprise, Viraj makes Jahnvi sit aside and cleans the house himself with the help of Siya. After that, they leave for a party. In the party, Jahnvi meets her college-friend Sanjay who tells Viraj that Jahnvi is also a good singer. Everyone including Viraj force Jahnvi to sing a song. Jahnvi gives in and sings along with Sanjay. Viraj is enraged due to all this and he breaks a glass of juice in his hand. On their way back home, Jahnvi is worried for Viraj as he has hurt himself with the broken glass. It's late night and Viraj is seen pacing around in the bedroom with a stick in his hand. He hits Jahnvi on her feet with the stick. Jahnvi wakes up in shock and pain. Viraj is angry as Jahnvi never told him about her singing s****. He makes her sing the same song and bangs the bed and her feet in sync with the song. Although in pain Jahnvi has no choice but to continue singing that song. Early morning, Dadi wakes up screaming Jahnvis name. She is worried for Jahnvi. Viraj tries to make up for the previous night. He and Siya have made breakfast for Jahnvi. Gangadhar tells Dadi that Viraj is coming home to drop Siya. Dadi is not happy as she wanted to go and visit Jahnvi herself. Viraj himself serves breakfast to Jahnvi and Siya. Viraj goes to his room and tries to reconstruct the broken statue while talking to the statue like a psychopath. He says he wont forgive Siya. He takes out the camera to click some pictures. While leaving the house to drop Siya, he hints Jahnvi that he wont let Siya go so easily. Jahnvi is scared. |
Devo Ke Dev... Mahadev on Life OK tonight (26-12-2011)
Aditi and Sati discuss about dream. Sati explains to Aditi about the Ardhanarishwar dream she saw. Sati decides that she would not think about the dream anymore and would concentrate on completing her penance. Sati goes to complete her task where she finds the Shilpkar community leaving the village who tell her that they have been thrown out by Daksh. Sati sees them carrying the Shivling which the Shilpkar had made. Narad tells Shiva that Daksh is planning to write Daksh Samhita where he would stop the worship of Shiva. Aditi is worried about Sati's condition. She sees the dream of Ardhanarishwar again where the face of Shiva is seen. She decides that she will not sleep to avoid seeing such dreams. Is she able to do so? |
The Big Bang Theory Season 2 on Star World tonight (26-12-2011)
Sheldon worries about the approaching Christmas holidays and his indecision on what present to get Penny. After deciding on a basket of bath items, he discovers a wide selection of them is available; unsure of what Penny is going to get him and thus what sort of preparations will be appropriate, he buys an entire array to cover all contingencies. |
Jennifer wins MasterChef USA Season 2 on Star World tonight (26-12-2011)
Series Final - Adrien and Jennifer faced off in a single challenge to determine who wins the title of MasterChef and $250,000. They were given 2 hours to create a three-course menu of their choosing. Starter: Jennifer's starter of Pan Seared Scallops with Quail Egg, Creamed Corn and Pea Puree divided the judges in terms of presentation, but they all agreed that - despite perfectly seared scallops - it needed acidity to cut through its inherent richness and she should have checked her scallops for the chewy abductor muscle. Winner Revealed - Jennifer was pronounced the winner of the competition, taking away $250,000 and the MasterChef title. The reveal was followed by a final casting call for the third season by Gordon Ramsay. |
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On October 31, I chaired a panel at the 12th International Architecture Biennale Venice entitled, "Beyond Beyond Architecture." The panelists were Hani Rashid, Wolf Prix, and Winy Maas. The following is (more or less) how I introduced the event. This is the second of three posts, the first was the text that I gave the panelists before the event. For my next posting, I will summarize the discussion that followed.
Almost nothing or the play of forms in light? That, to oversimplify things, has been the choice in modernist architecture for the last century. Such dichotomies can be counterproductive, but also help to point out the ways in which architects have responded to Modernism. The latter proposition—which is, badly translated, Le Corbusier's—holds that architecture must respond to processes of modernization through the production of forms and spaces that are, first, appropriate and, second, create something that reflects a humanist ideal. Architecture should, as Le Corbusier said, look at both processes and products of the industrial revolution and its concomitant social and economic changes. It must understand that in modernity everything we make is, to a certain extent, a machine, and must aspire to make that machine an object of beauty. The modern automobile might replace the Winged Victory of Samothrace as a model, but it still aspires to be an object that can thrill us.In the Miesian universe, the object tends to disappear. Instead, architecture interprets, intellectualizes, and abstracts the complexities of modernization into a grid, whose realization consists of elements as transparent or minimal as possible. Such objects as do inevitably appear (until such time that technology becomes completely pervasive) are modular, repetitive, and standardized. The Miesian approach seems to have triumphed, certainly in the world beyond buildings. As I pointed out in my previous post, form is disappearing and dissipating as the digital ephemerizes all machines, urban forms trace the dissolution of fixed social, political, and economic structures in sprawl, and form becomes further and further streamlined and alien to the human body.Yet the two ways in which architects respond survive the corrosive effects of late capitalism. Architects continue to build and to plan. Now, these two modes of operation have rarely appeared in a pure form, and many third, fourth, and fifth terms, ranging from the building as technological object (high-tech) to attenuated form (dense minimalism) or the creation of hybrid structures assimilating existing conditions and historical conditions, emerged almost as soon as these two poles became clear. Yet the Miesian and the Corbusian also represent two different attitudes in architecture and beyond. I believe that it was Reyner Banham, in Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age, who pointed out the roots of these two approaches in the teachings of the École des Beaux-Arts. They also are the result of two very different attitudes: the notion that architecture is the imposition of abstract orders on the world, and the notion that architecture is discovery of forms that the designer then manipulates in response to human needs.I realize, again that this is a simplification, and Le Corbusier, for one, rarely was as open as he claimed to be in his writings. But it is an important distinction to me, for I believe that architecture should go beyond the production of such already abstracted forms, and truly be the gathering together of available materials, forms, and spaces, breaking them open, combining them, transforming them, and allowing new structures to appear out of the thoughtful assembly of what already exists.I believe that only in this manner can architecture be that which articulates our relation with the world around us and with those like us, which is to say, other human beings. It is in this manner that it can allow us to be at home in the modern world. To me, this is a profoundly ecological approach, which seeks to discover our landscapes and use them as wisely as possible, while extending them in such a way that we can continue to inhabit this planet. Such an architecture would not be an acceptance of reality, but a critical rethinking, reworking, and reimagination of what exists. I also believe that there still is a need for icons, which should act as a critical response to the way in which our capitalist world makes sense of the a world of almost nothing, which is through branding. We need icons that evoke or intimate a place, our bodies, what remains of what makes us human. They should also be proud homes for those institutions that draw us together.Instead of an order or a form, architecture should be a project: a rational but open-ended assessment of what is, what is needed, and how we can achieve that goal. If it does cohere, it should be a projectile aimed at the thoughtless production of the ever more, blowing up the too much to reveal, appropriate and domesticate the endless, but invisible grids of power (literally and figuratively) that surround us like invisible clouds or have replaced the ground of our reality with infrastructure and transformed it into sprawl.Architecture is an important way in which we can make the modern world our own, in a social, economic, cultural, and physical sense, and the production of buildings may be an important part of its project. What it should actually be I must leave to architects to discover and make, always in a manner that is new.
Would someone please translate what Mr. Betsky is talking about? I have no idea what he is ranting about even though it may be a learned treatise.
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Dear Anon, Read the bio and do some research before launching a tirade that you don't believe strongly enough to even leave an inkling of authorship or identity. Why have an opinion if are afraid to stand up for it? Amazing how many "architects" want to stand up and take credit for their "masterpieces" but are afraid to be know for their ideas.
Well, isn't Aaron the little pompous know-it-all master of what architecture is all about. And exactly how many incredible pieces of architecture has the fabulous Mr. Betsky designed? No WONDER he loves Obama so much.....birds of a feather. It's my fault, though....by now I should know better than to read his silly tripe, and should stick to doing my work as a real architect.
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Pittsburgh leads 1-0 (as of 8/16)
Game 1: Friday, August 16 | ||
Arizona | 2 | Final |
Pittsburgh | 6 | |
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Game 2: Saturday, August 17 | ||
Arizona | 15 | Final |
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Game 3: Sunday, August 18 | ||
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Coverage: ROOT
7:05 PM ET, August 16, 2013
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W: G. Cole (6-5)
L: B. McCarthy (2-7)
The struggling Pittsburgh Pirates are hoping a return home can improve their fortunes. They're also hoping that some extra rest will give a boost to rookie Gerrit Cole.
Cole will make his first start in eight days Friday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks looking to help the Pirates match their longest home win streak of the season.Pittsburgh (71-49) earned just one win on its six-game trek, 5-1 against St. Louis on Wednesday, and closed out that trip with a 6-5 defeat in 12 innings the next day. The loss cut the Pirates' NL Central lead over the Cardinals to two games but they're looking to add to that advantage during a brief stay at home.Pittsburgh has won five straight -- and 12 of 15 -- at PNC Park and should have a refreshed Cole on the mound for the series opener against Arizona (62-57). The Pirates used Monday's off day to give their right-hander a break and try to limit his innings."We prefer ... (for Cole not) to leave the game after five innings, but pick our spots," manager Clint Hurdle told the team's website. "The way we mapped it out for him, he'll make three starts through the end of the month instead of four. We knocked an entire start out, knocked another 100 pitches off the plate. We'll look to trim in other places as well."Cole (5-5, 3.95 ERA) gave up a career-high four runs over five innings in his most recent start Aug. 8 against Miami, but he avoided a third straight loss when his teammates rallied to force extra innings in a 5-4 win. He has lost five of his last six decisions after winning each of his first four starts.Cole will make his first start against an Arizona team that used three late comebacks for a home sweep of Baltimore earlier this week. The Diamondbacks, however, couldn't make a dent in their 7 1/2-game deficit to the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.Aaron Hill had the winning and tying singles in a 5-4 victory in 14 innings Wednesday, his sixth multihit performance in the last seven games. Arizona trailed after the sixth inning in all three matchups with the Orioles and rallied from a three-run deficit in the series finale."These three games are bringing the confidence a little bit up," infielder Martin Prado told the team's website. "We were a little bit down, but actually we're starting to believe we can do this, keep battling until the end."Brandon McCarthy (2-6, 4.73) will seek to snap a three-game skid with a better performance against Pittsburgh. The right-hander has allowed two runs in each of his two outings since returning from inflammation in his pitching shoulder but he's received a combined one run of support.He lasted seven innings in a 4-1 loss to the New York Mets on Saturday.McCarthy was tagged for six runs and a season-high 10 hits over 6 2/3 innings in his only start against the Pirates, a 6-5 loss April 9. Pittsburgh will try to get to him again while recording its first six-game home win streak since May 19-30.Garrett Jones went 3 for 4 against McCarthy in April, and Starling Marte and Neil Walker each had two-run hits. Walker had a nine-game hit streak snapped Thursday.Marte was 6 for 13 (.462) with two doubles and a triple as Pittsburgh won two of three in Arizona from April 8-10.Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
Gameday Matchup
Arizona | Pittsburgh | |
Night | 58-59 | 64-40 |
Grass | 80-80 | 94-68 |
Current Streak | W1 | W3 |
Last 10 | 4-6 | 7-3 |
Pitching Matchup
Arizona | Pittsburgh | ||
B. McCarthy 5-11, 4.53 ERA Last Game: 9/28 at ARI 7.0 IP, 2 ER Dec = Loss |
G. Cole 10-7, 3.22 ERA Last Game: 9/24 at CHC 6.0 IP, 2 ER Dec = Win |
Gameday Lineups
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1. | G. Parra, RF | S. Marte, LF |
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7. | A. Pollock, CF | J. Tabata, RF |
8. | C. Pennington, SS | J. Mercer, SS |
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In this paper I argue against one variety of contextualism about aesthetic predicates such as "beautiful." Contextualist analyses of these and other predicates have been subject to several challenges surrounding disagreement. Focusing on one kind of contextualism—individualized indexical contextualism—I unpack these various challenges and consider the responses available to the contextualist. The three responses I consider are as follows: giving an alternative analysis of the concept of disagreement; claiming that speakers suffer from semantic blindness; and claiming that attributions of beauty carry presuppositions of commonality. I will argue that none of the available strategies gives a response which both (a) satisfactorily explains all of the disagreement-data and (b) is plausible independent of significant evidence in favor of contextualism. I conclude that individualized indexical contextualism about the aesthetic is untenable, although this does not rule out alternative contextualist approaches to the aesthetic.
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- Title
- Indexical contextualism and the challenges from disagreement
- Journal
Philosophical Studies
Volume 157, Issue 1 , pp 107-123
- Cover Date
- 2012-01-01
- 10.1007/s11098-010-9621-1
- Print ISSN
- 0031-8116
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0883
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Contextualism
- Aesthetics
- Beauty
- Disagreement
- Presupposition
- Semantic blindness
- Authors
- Carl Baker (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK


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Here are all of the posts tagged 'Sina Weibo'.
Twitter confirms upcoming office in Indonesia
Following Facebook's and Apple's moves to open offices in Indonesia, Twitter has revealed that it will also be setting up an office there within the next six months. Adam Bain, Twitter's global president for revenue and partnerships tweeted from Jakarta last week, confirming this announcement.
Terima kasih for welcoming us, Indonesia! I'm in Jakarta today to say that Twitter will open an office here soon! pic.twitter.com/MTXRXkBovR
— adam bain (@adambain) August 29, 2014
Indonesia has 20 million active Twitter users and 69 million active Facebook users, proving to be a strong market for social media.
China's Renren sees drop in active users
The social network once known as 'China's Facebook' recently released its Q2 2014 earnings report, revealing that it now has fewer monthly active users than it had two years ago. Renren's drop in active users could be attributed to the rise of Sina Weibo and WeChat in China, which offers a vast array of services including news-reading, online payments, gaming, messaging and more.
'Ice bucket challenge' hits Asia
Not sure if you've heard, but there's an 'ice bucket challenge' thing happening on Facebook right about now. It looks like it's going to be the biggest online charity campaign ever, as our data in the Huffington Post shows. The hashtag #icebucketchallenge has received over 4.48m mentions, over 20 times the number seen by #nomakeupselfie. There have been over 2m videos on YouTube, too, including videos from a number of participating brands.
In an infographic by Social Samosa, research shows that India, Thailand and Singapore are the next highest contributors to online buzz around the charity initiative, behind the US and UK. These three Asian countries contributed to a total of 14.7% of online buzz.
#icebucketchallenge goes viral around the world
A hashtag called #icebucketchallenge started trending over the weekend on social media. This tag is associated with a cool challenge, accomplished by dumping a bucket of ice water (or ice cubes) on yourself, then posting and tagging a photo of the feat on social media. Upon completion, challengers nominate 3 people to either follow suit with the challenge or donate $100 USD to the US-based ALS Association (an advocacy, care and research association for ALS). The ALS association is aiming to utilise the ice bucket challenge to encourage people to pay attention to, or donate for those affected by the disease. There have been more than 118,000 tweets mentioning the #icebucketchallenge in the past 30 days according to Topsy. The ALS Association had subsequently raised $7.6 million in donations over the course of a two-week period–a sum that trumps last year's $1.4 million raised in the same period.
The ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) ice bucket challenge is now taking over America, and when Mark Zuckerberg nominated Bill Gates for the challenge, he gave him 24 hours.
Surprisingly, the #icebucketchallenge also went viral in China. The hashtag has already ranked as the most trending topic in China in just two days. There have been 167,000 discussions and 180 million views on the #icebucketchallenge, reaching 16,000 individuals in China so far. The challenge successfully attracted a massive amount of influencers and celebrities from different industries to challenge the game as well.
Twitter turns favourites into retweets
According to The Next Web, Twitter has been experimenting with a new feature that turns favourited tweets into retweets on mobile and web versions of the site; this feature has also started to annoy some Twitter users. A number of users are seeing the tweets they favourited from the brands they follow or the people they follow automatically turned into retweets, and appearing on their Twitter timelines. The Next Web also mentioned that the new feature has impacted some users' Twitter user experiences, making the users feel frustrated because the retweets are irremovable and appears permanently on their timelines. Twitter appears to be experimenting with many more different features on a regular basis, such as payment and shipping option.
Sina Weibo grows to 157 million monthly active users
According to Sina's Q2 2014 report, the platform has grown to 157 million monthly active users, up by 30 percent in the past 12 months. For daily active users, Sina Weibo has reached 69.7 million. Compared with WeChat, however, Sina Weibo is still far behind WeChat's massive MAU base of 438 million. WeChat's dominance may have been strengthened by their recent launch of its first foreign-made game, a WeChat edition of the popular Candy Crush Saga on Android.
Weibo adds new feature for video records and uploads
Weibo app added a new feature that allows video recording, uploading and playing directly in Weibo. Although embedded videos have been there for a while, it's meaningful that this is the first time Weibo ever built video function directly without involving third party sites. However, the new function doesn't seem to be a threat to existing local video sharing apps like Tencent's Weishi and Sina's Miaopai at the moment as it doesn't have video editing ability. But the new feature might add more burdens on Sina for the responsibility to censor inappropriate video content.
WhatsApp might no longer be free in India
Free messaging or call apps like WhatsApp and Skype might not be free anymore in India. The issue all comes down to the conflict between Telecom companies and OTT (over-the-top) service providers. (OTT refers to text, audio or video sent over the internet.) With rising smartphone usage and data access in India, increasingly fewer people are using SMS or phone calls, which are more profitable than data plans for Telecom companies. In order for revenue to bounce back, Telecom companies have requested the Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) to approve a so-called 'connectivity charge' for free messaging and calls. But it is not clear whether this 'connectivity charge' will be applied to consumers in addition to data usage. However, the Internet and Mobile Association of India argues that TRAI should not be involved in this matter. It remains to be seen how the issue will pan out.
All chat apps in China to verify users with real identities
In an effort to "clean up" all instant messaging services, the Chinese government has ruled that all public account owners on any chat apps in China have to register with their true identities and get permission to publish. Although some chat apps like Weixin already has started real-name verification processes last year, this is the first time that the government has issued a formal regulation on this matter.
WhatsApp hits 500M active monthly users
WhatsApp has announced it just passed half a billion monthly active users. However, the question over how brands will tap into this huge audience remains unanswered.
Line introduces sticons for Android
Japanese messaging service Line recently introduced sticons – a hybrid between stickers and emoticons. You can now use them as large, standalone stickers or as emoticons when used in text messages. Over 1,000 sticons are available from faces, animals, symbols, sports, vehicles to even Line character sticons as well. An iPhone update will also be available soon.
Line's Creators Market to start next month
Line has also recently released more details of its upcoming Creators Market where anyone can create, submit and sell their own stickers for use on Line chats. For a start, these stickers can only be bought by users from Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, with sticker creators able to receive half of the net income sticker sales. Time to start doodling!
WeChat adds flight booking services
To add on to its m-commerce offerings, Tencent-owned WeChat has teamed up with travel site LY.com to allow you to book your flight tickets using WeChat Payment and receive instant notifications on your flight statuses. This is currently only available to users in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with more cities to follow suit as well as other online booking services by LY.com.
Sina Weibo's value jumps after IPO
Sina Weibo went public last week. From its IPO price of $17 per share, its value shot up 19% in the first day, closing at $20.24. Day two saw a further growth of 12% by the time markets closed, at one point reaching the $24 mark. Looking good so far, Weibo…
Adobe releases stats on Facebook ads
Adobe has released its quarterly report on Facebook Advertising for Q1 2014, and it's good news for Facebook advertisers. The stats show cost per click decreasing 2% year on year and 11% quarter on quarter, while click through rate has jumped 160% year on year and 20% quarter on quarter. Other results include an increase in engagement and video views, plus evidence that suggests most engagement/video views happen on Fridays. Take note, social media managers!
Facebook launches 'Nearby Friends'
Facebook is rolling out a new feature for US iPhone and Android users, named 'Nearby Friends'.
The opt-in system allows users to browse the approximate locations of all their friends who have also signed up, as well as to receive push notifications when one of them is nearby. Mashable has played around with the system and posted an article about it, in which they examine its various features. The author discusses how to turn on the system and displays how it shows only a rough location, even after opting in, unless a user chooses to share more details with a friend. Naturally, Nearby Friends is collecting a lot of data, and the piece makes a point to discuss the long-winded process of erasing it. Facebook hasn't ruled out using the feature's data to serve ads in the future.
Facebook to reveal mobile ad network?
Facebook is rumored to be set to launch a mobile ad network. Details are slim on the ground just now, but allegedly all will be revealed at the F8 developer conference at the end of this month. You know where to come then, don't you? Yes, your favourite weekly round up of all things social media.
Facebook to launch ad segment for the World Cup
Facebook looks set to create a new audience segment for its largest advertisers, made up of those watching this summer's World Cup. It would be the first time that the network has created a segment specifically for a TV event, pitting it against Twitter, the reigning champion of social TV. Advertisers can already target an audience segment named 'FIFA World Cup', but the new alternative will be updated daily to include those who start to show interest after the event begins.
Twitter to offer mobile ads beyond its own app
After purchasing the mobile ad exchange MoPub last September, Twitter now has the ability to offer mobile ads beyond the Twitter mobile app. The social network, which attributes 75% of its business to mobile, can now show 'app install' ads in apps across MoPub's network, including WordPress, OpenTable and Songza.
Google+ updates ads
Google+ has made three updates to its ad offering. Firstly, +Post ads, which turn G+ content into display ads, are now available to all pages with 1,000 followers or more. Secondly, brands can now choose to automatically promote their most recent update and only pay once it receives engagement. Finally, it is possible to promote a Hangout to a +Post ad, allowing users to either RSVP, watch live or watch a recording.
We Are Social and Evian bring Spiderbaby to Twitter
We Are Social has helped Evian bring its sponsorship of the new film, Amazing Spiderman 2, to life on Twitter. Using the hashtag #AmazingBabyRescueMe, the water brand asked followers to tweet in their everyday dilemmas and receive a personalised response from the Amazing Baby character. Replies included tweets, Vines and illustrations, such as the below:
Dos Equis starts marketing on Foursquare
Dos Equis has brought its signature character, the 'Most Interesting Man in the World', to Foursquare. Continuing with his classic tone of voice, which has even spawned its own meme, the page will be populated by content like the below.
US Airways post interesting image to Twitter
US Airways posted an 'unsavoury' image to Twitter last week. If you haven't seen it, here's a Buzzfeed article that shows the picture, which is very NSFW. The airline has apologised and has said that it's investigating exactly what went on. However, the employee won't be losing their job. We Are Social's own Leila Thabet discussed why with Mashable, comparing it to other 'Twitter fails'. As it's so clearly a mistake, the brand has managed to sidestep major criticism – it isn't the same as when Kenneth Cole made light of the Egyptian political situation to try and boost sales, for example.
NASA asks everyone to post a #GlobalSelfie
Had enough of selfies? NASA hasn't. The organisation is celebrating Earth Day byasking people around the world to post pictures of themselves, wherever they are. The images will then be compiled, along with shots from NASA's satellites, into a giant mosaic of the entire planet. As selfies go, these ones sound pretty good.
Sina Weibo to be officially called Weibo
China's number one social network, Sina Weibo will officially be called Weibo with the drop of 'Sina' from its name to be listed on US IPO. The logo on the site has also been modified accordingly. In Chinese, Weibo translate to "microblog". By taking over the name that refers to the platform itself, Sina Weibo expect to get further leverage in the competition with other services including Tencent Weibo and Netease Weibo. The reason for this act (in spite of Sina Weibo leading the market share anyway) seems to be in the attempt to set potential investors at ease from the worry that the number of microblogging users are in the trend of decline and users are less engaging on the platform. This is seen as a response to China's efforts to minimize the influence as a free thought platform. Furthermore, time spent on Weibo is decreasing as Tencent's messaging service WeChat takes away the time users spend on mobile. Even so, will Sina Weibo's new name actually make a way to lift the value of Weibo in US IPO?
Line recorded 70% growth with 390 million registered users worldwide
According to the latest update from NHN corp, messaging app, Line has recorded 390 million registered users worldwide, which is almost 70 percent growth from 7 months ago. Japan has the largest number of registered users with 50 million, followed by Thailand with 24 million users. The success in Thailand can be explained by its' endeavor to the complete localization and meeting local needs. To do this, Line set up a local office with Thai employees and partnered with local companies, providing users with local content. However, Line still has a long way to go to beat its counterparts like WeChat and WhatsApp and strengthen its presence globally. WeChat has 355 million active users and WhatsApp has 465 million active users.
In Malaysia, 5.4 million tweets are posted per day
Zocial Inc., a leading social media agency in Thailand and Malaysia published an info graphic that looks at Twitter landscape in Malaysia. Based on the data analyzed from February 2014, 3.5 million twitter users are from Malaysia and 21.8% of them are active users. A total of 162.4 million tweets were posted in the examined period, which suggests approximately 5.4 million tweets were made per day. Brands, celebrities and politicians are also on Twitter in Malaysia. The most popular twitter handle is the current Malaysia Prime Minister and three out of five top brands with most followers are airlines. Check out the full info graphic here:
Twitter is struggling to keep users tweeting
Twopcharts, a site that measures account activity on Twitter, has produced reports that display the platform's retention issue. Almost 40% of the 20m accounts registered every month send at least one tweet in the first month, but this is likely to decrease to one quarter after a year. It may be the case that Twitter users are logging in but not tweeting. The table below shows the extent of the issue.
Instagram hits 200 million users
Instagram produced a blog post last week to celebrate passing the 200 million user milestone. The network, which has added 50 million users in the last six months, has now seen over 20bn photos shared. Its growth in the US is particularly impressive, where there are now 50.6 million users in total, of whom 35 million access Instagram at least once a month. These figures mean Instagram and Twitter are now very similar in size – the former has more mobile users, but the latter's desktop usage leaves it slightly larger overall.
Twitter and TV
There were two pieces of research released by Twitter today about Twitter's relationship with TV. The first discussed the importance of hashtags: 75% of those surveyed believed hashtags were used because they were seen on TV, while 76% thought other users made sure tweets about TV were funny in order to get retweets. Finally, 69% liked seeing celebrities talk about TV on Twitter. The second looked at the way in which people discuss TV on the network, making a distinction between 'relaxed' and 'engaged' types of behaviour. Analysis of two BBC programmes, Line of Duty and The Voice UK, display the difference between drama and live events. For drama, conversation peaks before and after the show, while talent shows tend to produce sustained chat throughout.
How marketers use Twitter
Twitter's use for marketers is primarily in increasing brand awareness, as 72% of respondents made clear in a recent survey of more than 1,000 marketing professionals.
Perhaps oddly, considering the above goal, Socialbakers found that only 23% of marketers are using Twitter advertising at the moment. This falls in fourth place among social networks, after Facebook (92%), YouTube (35%) and LinkedIn (24%).
Wisemetrics produce research on Facebook reach
Wisemetrics has produced an article about the extent of the decrease in post reach on Facebook. They display that it has been a two-step process, with dips in both August and November, followed by a plateau since roughly January. The larger the page, the bigger the decrease: pages with over one million fans have suffered a 40% decrease, compared with 20% for pages with one thousand.
Facebook is number one for social commerce
Facebook drives by far the most online commerce of all social sites, according to online store operator, Shopify, and accounts for almost two-thirds of referrals to sites operated by the company. In total, 85% of all social orders were driven by Facebook, which amounts to a 129% year-on-year increase. It wasn't the highest in terms of order value, though, coming in fourth behind Polyvore, Instagram and Pinterest.
Facebook purchases Oculus-VR
Facebook has announced its intention to purchase Oculus VR, known best for the 'Oculus Rift', a 3d virtual reality headset. The move is worth $2bn in cash and stocks and is described by Mark Zuckerberg as a "long-term bet on the future of computing." Nick Hearne, senior creative at We Are Social, spoke to the Drum about constrasting senses of "admiration and trepidation" about the move:
I'd certainly question whether this is even the right move for Facebook right now. For me, Google's move into robotics with the purchase of Boston Dynamics has more credibility than Facebook moving into virtual reality. We'll have to wait and see whether this acquisition is an admirable 'moonshot', or a case of joining the scramble to snap up any hot new tech companies for Zuckerberg and co.
Other online users were even more sceptical, to the extent that Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey, had to take to Reddit to quell fears about the future of his company. He assured users that a Facebook account wouldn't be needed to use Rift, but didn't rule out either Facebook branding or in-game advertising.
Facebook expands Lookalike Audiences
Facebook has extended the capability of Lookalike Audiences. Now, advertisers can create audiences based on people who visit their website, use their mobile apps or are connected to their Facebook pages, where previously only information like email addresses, phone numbers and user IDs could be used.
Twitter makes photos 'more social'
Twitter introduced two major changes to photographs last week: users can now tag up to ten others in a photo and post four separate photos in one tweet. Naturally, certain brands were quick to react, as shown in the below examples.
The Twister Dish is trailing our #meowmixcatstarter standings and needs your help! Vote today: http://t.co/xYLzjZA5NG pic.twitter.com/UadBTdaMB5
— Meow Mix (@meowmix) March 28, 2014
#ThirstyThursday calls for something delicious! Which IZZE® recipe will you make today? pic.twitter.com/q8rEjSRXK3
— IZZE (@IZZE) March 27, 2014
True brilliance is remembered by its effect on people, not things. pic.twitter.com/wQjjNEF2nH
— General Electric (@generalelectric) March 28, 2014
Twitter partners with Billboard and ITV
Twitter announced two partnerships this week. First of all, the network will be working with Billboard to create social music charts, based on online chatter, which will include a section for 'new and upcoming' artists. Secondly, the UK's ITV has announced that it will start using Twitter's Amplify service, which will allow brands to purchase pre or post-roll adverts on ITV content across the network.
LinkedIn introduces Insights for published content
LinkedIn has announced a free set of Insights, aimed at showing brands how effectively their content is performing on the site. Not only can companies see which stories are trending on the platform, but each will be assigned a performance score based on the effectiveness of their posts, as well as those of related influencers and employees.
It is this last group that could be key to brands' success on the platform. Last week, Adweek published a piece on the importance of employees on LinkedIn, discussing how their cumulative reach can be higher than that of the brand itself.
Pinterest is preparing to launch ad business
Pinterest is getting ready to roll out the ad business it has been testing since last September, with a soft launch planned for April. Digiday showed some examples of how the ads will look, which reportedly came from a pitch deck sent by Pinterest to an unnamed agency. Other takeouts from the deck include the main target audience (women on mobile), the cost ($30 per 1,000 impressions) and the plans for targeting, which will occur on both a national and regional basis.
Foursquare launches 'Tap to Tweet' ad product
Foursquare has added a new element to its ad offering. Entitled 'Tap to Tweet', the system encourages users to tweet pre-written marketing messages on checking into certain locations.
BlackBerry looking to monetise BBM
BlackBerry has updated its BBM instant messenger with two new features, each aimed at raising revenue. The platform will now feature sponsored content, alongside a virtual goods store that allows users to purchase stickers.
The Sun adds hashtags to print stories
British newspaper The Sun has become the first of its national rivals to include hashtags in print stories. A postscript titled "What Do You Think?" appears at the bottom of certain articles, encouraging readers to take to Twitter to discuss the paper's content.
Nike hosts 'shoppable' Google+ hangout
Sportswear giant Nike hosted the first ever 'shoppable' Google+ hangout last week, in partnership with Asos, to celebrate 27 years of the Air Max product. Hosted by MTV's Rebecca Dudley, the stunt discussed the various different ways in which the trainers can be worn.
Taco Bell buys its first Instagram adverts
Fast food chain, Taco Bell, is promoting its new breakfast menu using the hashtag #WakeUpLiveMas, and will do so by purchasing Instagram ads for the first time. Other social marketing is being employed, too, including Vine videos, Snapchat messaging and the influencer activity we reported in last week's Mashup.
Barack Obama joins Quora
Following in the footsteps of his Reddit AMA, Barack Obama is joining Quora to answer questions on the Affordable Healthcare Act, and will become the first verified account on the site. Unlike on Reddit, he will not be responding live; instead, the President will answer questions that people have already asked on Quora about the act. His answers will be aggregated on his profile and across the site under existing topics.