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Ravens Vs. Browns: Baltimore Shuts Out Cleveland, 16-0

Posted by Giggi On November - 17 - 2009

CLEVELAND — For 30 minutes, the Baltimore Ravens were inefficient, unproductive and disorganized. In 17 seconds, they changed all that. Ray Rice scored on a 13-yard run and safety Dawan Landry returned an interception of Brady Quinn 48 yards for a touchdown on Cleveland’s next play as the Ravens overcame a horrendous start for a 16-0 win over the hapless Browns on Monday night. The Ravens (5-4) didn’t score in the opening half, when they used up their three timeouts in the first 6:15, committed silly penalties, converted just one third down and actually made the Browns (1-8) look respectable. But on Baltimore’s first possession of the second half, quarterback Joe Flacco connected on a 41-yard pass to Derrick Mason, who spun out of cornerback Brandon McDonald’s tackle and raced down the sideline to the Cleveland 13. Rice took it in from there to make it 7-0. On the next snap, Quinn, making his first start since being pulled 10 quarters into the season by Cleveland coach Eric Mangini, threw high and wide to tight end Robert Royal and the ball bounced to Landry, who scampered in untouched to make it 13-0. The Ravens missed the extra point, but that hardly mattered against a Cleveland offense that has scored only five offensive TDs in its past 15 games and didn’t cross the Baltimore 45-yard line. It was Baltimore’s first shutout since Nov. 26, 2006, and it came at the perfect time for the Ravens, who had dropped four of five and were in danger of falling too far behind Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in the AFC North. Instead, they feasted on Quinn, who was sacked three times, hurried countless more and finished just 13 of 31 for 99 yards and two picks. Mangini switched to the former first-round pick after Derek Anderson went 1-4 and posted the NFL’s lowest quarterback rating since replacing Quinn at halftime of a 34-3 loss to the Ravens on Sept. 27. But Peyton Manning under center couldn’t help this bunch of Browns, who managed just 74 yards after halftime. Cleveland had the ball 13 times. The Browns punted nine, threw two interceptions and ran out the clock to end the league’s first scoreless opening half this season. The game ended with Quinn throwing short to Cribbs, who was drilled by Ravens nose tackle Brandon McKinney as the clock expired. Cribbs laid motionless in the middle of the field for several minutes before he was taken off the field on a cart. A planned protest by Cleveland fans to stay out of their seats for the opening kickoff never materialized. However, the stadium was nearly empty early in the fourth quarter, a symbol of disgust that may resonate with owner Randy Lerner as he evaluates Mangini’s first season in Cleveland. Following Landry’s TD, the Ravens picked off Quinn again as cornerback Chris Carr hauled in a ball that went off wide receiver Mike Furrey’s hands. On the return, Quinn took out Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs with a questionable chop block that drew a 15-yard penalty and may lead to a fine. Suggs limped to the locker room for more tests on what the team said was a sprained knee. During pregame warmups, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis reached down, picked up a hunk of torn-up turf and shoved it into his mouth. As he munched on the grass, Lewis told a nearby Baltimore official, “That’s mine.” If the Ravens thought they could intimidate the Browns, they were mistaken. Cleveland’s defense, which had two weeks to game plan for Baltimore, showed Flacco some new looks and held the Ravens scoreless in the first half. For the Browns, this was progress. For the Ravens, this was embarrassing. Whatever coach Jim Harbaugh said at halftime worked. Baltimore was in self-destructive mode from the outset. Harbaugh lost an instant-replay challenge on the first play from scrimmage, costing him a timeout. Baltimore then had to burn its other two timeouts before seven minutes had expired as the Ravens’ offense appeared disorganized and was late coming out of the huddle. Despite the sloppiness, the Ravens drove to the Cleveland 18, but Steve Hauschka was wide left with a 36-yard field goal attempt. He later atoned with a 44-yarder to make it 16-0. More on NFL

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Infinity Ventures Summit In Miyazaki, Japan: 12 Demos From Japanese Startups

Posted by Giggi On November - 13 - 2009

I am currently in Miyazaki /Japan, attending the Infinity Ventures Summit (IVS), one of Asia’s most prestigious web industry events. Organizing VC company Infinity Venture Partners reserved some hours of the program to give a total of twelve 12 Japanese start-ups the chance to present their services onstage to a panel of judges and an international crowd of over 300 people. A speech recognition and transcribing service called Moji Moji TV was selected as “Best Startup” of the IVS Fall 2009 Launch Pad (that ended just now). Here are short profiles of all the services that demo’d at the event. (Please note some of the companies have yet to launch homepages in English, but some do offer globalized services, too.) One Winner and five runners-up: Moji Moji TV by Catalog (winner of the demo pad) Best of show went to Moji Moji TV , which appears to be a very powerful speech recognition and transcribing service for videos launched in private alpha last month. The engine supports Japanese only, but English and Chinese versions are in the works. Moji Moji extracts audio from a video (self-made movies, YouTube clips etc.) and automatically displays the spoken words as text, which then can be edited by the users. The text can be used to tag and sub movies, and it’s also possible to search for certain words or expressions within them. There’s also an iPhone app called Shabetter that automatically transcribes what you say into the iPhone mic and posts it to Twitter. More information on Moji Moji TV in English can be found here . This video (in English) shows how Moji Moji TV works: V-Sido by Wataru Yoshizaki (runner-up) Most robots used for entertainment, in research and other areas have one common problem: They can only move in a slow, mechanical and chopping motion. Developed by robot fanatic Wataru Yamazaki, V-Sido is a software-based, real-time control system for humanoids that helps make them move smoother. Spysee by Ohma (second runner-up) Spysee is a person search engine whose English version launched at TechCrunch 50 this year (Spysee was a demo pit company ). A Chinese version is in the works. The service pulls information and media on individuals from the web and presents them on a person-specific page (example: Barack Obama ). Spysee’s original Japanese version went live last year and has gone through several iterations since. One example is the way Spysee monetizes its service now: It allows users to donate real money to individuals who need help in funding their personal goals ( Cheering Spysee ), getting a cut of the donation in return. m-police by milog (third runner-up) m-police is a fully automatized site monitoring system that’s able to detect profanity, insults and “legally problematic” sentences on the web and subdivides relevant expressions into 16 different categories. The company says about 5% of all posts in the Japanese blogosphere can be regarded as being relevant for m-police, and 22% of those can be called potentially dangerous. Some Japanese social networks employ up to 300 “surveillance officers” to keep their sites clean. m-police can push down costs from 6 Yen (7 cent) per post monitored by human beings to 3 Yen. AEGISGUARD by KLab (fourth runner-up) AEGISGUARD is anti-virus software that’s not only free to download but also completely available in English. The main purpose of the program is to protect your important files and folders from viruses (of which more than 5 million exist today) and malware by granting only white-listed programs access to them. AEGISGUARD developer KLab says this way, unknown or new viruses are effectively fenced out. The solution can be installed with conventional, blacklist-based antivirus software on the same PC. Symphonic Motion by AITIA (fourth runner-up) Symphonic Motion is an augmented reality-based entertainment engine that’s not designed for mobile devices for a change but rather for large-sized displays (that can be several meters in diameter). The technology uses “physical” AR, meaning you can get in front of the camera and move CG elements you see on the screen around by moving your arms, for example. Maker AITIA is marketing the solution as interactive, fun digital signage applications to corporations, exhibitions and event organizers ( demo movie ). The six other demo companies: OpenSocial Host by HeartRails OpenSocial Host is an integrated platform for developing, distributing and managing OpenSocial applications, e.g. for sites like MySpace , hi5 or Japan’s biggest social network Mixi .(which opened its site for external developers back in September this year). OpenSocial Host supports mobile apps, offers paid and free options, but it’s Japanese only. Location Amplifier by Koozyt The key idea behind Location Amplifier is to “amplify” the real world by pushing “rich”, location-based content onto mobile phones, for example location-based games or guides. At IVS, maker Koozyt demonstrated how a person’s movements can be tracked even inside buildings (where GPS regularly fails). It’s also possible to use Location Amp to walk from exhibit to exhibit in a museum and let your mobile device tell you what you’re currently looking at ( demo movies ). The technology is based on PlaceEngine , a service that relies on Wi-Fi to estimate your location, even when there’s no GPS. Zeke CMS Social Game Kit by Ubiquitous Entertainment Ubiquitous Entertainment CEO Ryo Shimizu demo’d Zeke CMS Social Game Kit , a (Japanese-only) platform for developing games to be deployed in social networks like Facebook or Japan’s biggest social network Mixi . One of the games that was built using the system is called “Tokyo Treasure”, a scavenger hunt, which combines AR elements with the real world, using the iPhone camera (”It’s game over when you’re tagged!”). Droidget AR by GClue Droidget AR was described as the world’s first widget framework for augmented reality services on Android. These widgets can be “picked up” at the physical place where they’ve been left by other people and used instantly, without the user having to access the web. Example: When you’re in a restaurant, switch on the camera on your Android phone, point it at the door and click on the AR tag you see to instantly access the menu ( demo movies ). Jitsu Kuukan Toushi Keitai by KDDI au one Labs KDDI , Japans second biggest telecommunications company, presented an augmented reality application that launched in June this year for a limited number of Japanese cell phones. Their Jitsu Kuukan Toushi Keitai app (which roughly translates to: cell phone that allows real space transparency) works just like many of the other mobile AR apps out there. It uses GPS, the phone’s camera, 6-axis sensor and screen to locate where you are and point you to where you want to go through tags. But if you point the phone to a wall or a human being, you can also “see through” them, meaning the app will display tags located behind them. This video shows how Toushi Keitai’s “see-through” function works: Odette Solution by ORSO Odette Solution lets you create mobile Flash sites (nearly 100% of Japanese mobile phones have Flash Lite installed). The Japanese-only, cloud-based ASP service offers various templates whose elements you can edit in various ways, for example by drag and drop. But you can also create mobile web pages by putting together different elements. Odette Solution will be launched next spring. 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Charles Warner: Matsui and Rivera: Behavioral Models for TV

Posted by Giggi On November - 13 - 2009

New York Yankee World Series MVP, designated hitter Hideki Matsui, and the incomparable closer Mariano Rivera were models of mature, professional dignity in the final game of the World Series – behavior rarely seen in the trash heap of commercial television. Matsui, the calm, taciturn Japanese slugger drove in a record-tying six runs in the sixth and final game of this year’s World Series against the scrappy Philadelphia Phillies, and Rivera, baseball’s greatest, most effective closer of all time, got the final five outs to shut down the dangerous Phillies in a 7-3 Yankee win. These were impressive performances, but what stood out as much as their on-the-field heroics were their calm, confident, mature behavior and, most of all, their dignity – the way they handled their accomplishments. They didn’t jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner. Dignity is rarely seen on commercial television – not on cable where WWE wrestling is the consistently top-rated program, not on cable news which features bloviating and hysterical vaudeville performers who spin opinions and sensationalism without ever landing a blow on the facts. Witness the disgraceful coverage of the recent Ft. Hood killings in which the cable news channels got it wrong for hours and depended irresponsibly on erroneous Twitter and Facebook rumors too much. And dignity is certainly not seen on prime time television, as brilliantly analyzed and skewered by James Wolcott in the current issue (December) of Vanity Fair in a piece titled “I’m a Culture Critic…Get Me Out of Here.” Wolcott’s intelligent article isn’t up on the Web yet, so you’ll have to buy the magazine or wait until next month to get Wolcott’s superbly written piece online. Wolcott makes the point that Reality TV has “…not only ruined network values, destroyed the classic documentary, and debased the art of bad acting, but also fomented class warfare, antisocial behavior and class warfare.” Yes! Go get ‘em James! You’ll get no dignity on Reality TV or anywhere on commercial TV where programmers have to get ratings with programs (news and opinion programs included) that appeal to the lowest level of taste and educational attainment and to the basest of instincts. We don’t see much dignity in sports, either; certainly not in hockey, soccer, or football. But occasionally in Major League Baseball, which is slower, more intellectual, and dominated less by raw emotion than other sports, we get glimpses of maturity and professionalism. The Fox TV network carried the World Series and to its credit, announcer Joe Buck and analyst Tim McCarver were fittingly mature and professional in their approach, in ironic contrast to promotion spots for the local Fox-owned TV station in New York which ran in some local breaks. The promo spots were for the Fox station’s local news programs and showed scenes of silly anchors laughing, a camel snorting, and another anchor juggling to reinforce the notion of news as lowest-common-denominator vaudeville. But in the World Series games themselves, Matsui and Rivera, from Japan and Panama respectively, were models of the kind of dignified behavior it would be nice to see on TV. Hey, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Jim Cramer, Low Dobbs, Keith Olbermann, and network CEOs and programmers, were you watching? Will you please try to model the behavior of these two Yankee superstars?

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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”

Posted by Giggi On November - 6 - 2009

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company’s games don’t include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here . But what he didn’t say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue model. Rather, he pointed much of the blame at middlemen offer companies: “We need to be more aggressive and have revised our service level agreements with these providers requiring them to filter and police offers prior to posting on their networks.” Last spring, though, he gave a much clearer explanation to an audience at a Startup@Berkeley mixer, admitting that scamming users was part of Zynga’s business model from the start. And it was all caught on video. I think everyone sort of knew that this was exactly Zynga’s gameplan. But to hear it said so directly is just shocking. The full 30ish minute video is here . We’ve taken the relevant section of the video, roughly starting at around the 10:40 mark, and embed it below. From the video: I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn’t get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business…So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable. Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

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World Series Instant Replay Call Changes Game, Helps Yankees Beat Phillies

Posted by Giggi On November - 1 - 2009

PHILADELPHIA — Guess who showed up for Halloween dressed as sluggers? The New York Yankees and Alex Rodriguez, whose double clanked off a television camera in the right-field corner and was ruled a home run in the first instant replay call in World Series history. It changed the game. “I think it woke our offense up a little bit,” Rodriguez said after the Yankees rallied for a rain-delayed 8-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night that gave them a 2-1 Series lead. Rodriguez and the rest of those dangerous New York bats finally broke loose to back another postseason win by Andy Pettitte. Game 4 is Sunday night. Joe Blanton pitches against Yankees ace CC Sabathia, who goes on three days’ rest for the second time this postseason. After pitching dominated the first two games in the Bronx, the Yankees and defending champion Phillies flexed their muscles, combining for six home runs at cozy Citizens Bank Park. Jayson Werth connected twice for Philadelphia. Rain affected the Series schedule in Philly for the second consecutive year, delaying the start by 1 hour, 20 minutes. Once they hit the field in front of their boisterous fans, the Phillies built a 3-0 lead – but it was squandered by a struggling Cole Hamels, last year’s World Series MVP. A slumping Nick Swisher and pinch-hitter Hideki Matsui also went deep for the Bronx Bombers, while Johnny Damon hit a tiebreaking, two-run double. “This was my first time coming to this ballpark. It just seems like you’re going to have a slugfest a lot,” Swisher said. “It was a great day for us.” Pettitte settled down after a shaky start and even helped himself at the plate with a tying single. His six-inning outing was enough to earn his 17th postseason win, extending his major league record. “He closed off our left-handed hitters,” Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel said. Especially slugger Ryan Howard. The NL championship series MVP is 2 for 13 with nine strikeouts in the Series. “Go home and go to sleep. I’m a simple guy,” he said. “We’re not going to panic by any means just because we’re down in the Series.” Some fans were dressed in Phillies red, others in full costume for the second-ever World Series game on Halloween. They whipped around white rally towels, but the trick was on them – their team got whipped when the Yankees rallied. Carlos Ruiz homered for the Phillies in the ninth off Phil Hughes. Mariano Rivera finished up at 12:42 a.m. in a non-save situation. “It was an absolute grind tonight, that’s for sure,” Pettitte said. “I can’t remember winning a game where I’ve struggled like I did tonight. So it’s very gratifying.” With the Yankees down three runs, Mark Teixeira walked in the fourth and Rodriguez hit an opposite-field drive into the right-field corner. He cruised into second base after the ball ricocheted back onto the field. Video replays, however, showed the ball struck the lens of a television camera positioned just above the fence at the 330-foot sign. New York manager Joe Girardi came out to talk with right-field umpire Jeff Nelson as Phillies pitching coach Rich Dubee visited the mound. While Rodriguez chatted with Howard at second base, umpires huddled in the infield. Four of the six went under the stands for a look at the replay and emerged about a minute later. The signal: home run. Baseball adopted instant replay for boundary calls during the 2008 season and Rodriguez homered the first time it was used last year. “It’s only fitting, right?” he said. Rodriguez’s first hit in nine World Series at-bats was his sixth homer this postseason, tying Bernie Williams’ club record from 1996. It also was the 17th postseason homer this year for the Yankees, setting a franchise mark. The call seemed to give the Yankees a boost and help them break out of their Series slump – the team that led the majors in runs (915) and homers (244) during the regular season scored only four times in the first two games at home. “Tonight I was a lot more disciplined, and better results,” Rodriguez said. New York kept hitting in the fifth and chased Hamels. Benched in Game 2 at home, Swisher opened with a double and slid home with the tying run when Pettitte looped a one-out single to center on a first-pitch breaking ball. It was Pettitte’s third hit in 18 career postseason at-bats, second in World Series play. Who needs a designated hitter? The Fox broadcast caught Derek Jeter saying to plate umpire Brian Gorman: “We’re going to have to listen to Pettitte now. He’s been bragging about his hitting all year.” Jeter fisted a soft single and Damon cracked a two-run double to right-center for a 5-3 lead. Hamels was lifted after another walk to Teixeira and walked off the mound to a mix of boos and cheers. The lanky left-hander, who was 4-0 with a 1.80 ERA in the postseason last year, fell to 1-2 with a 7.58 ERA in four outings this time around. Swisher homered off rookie J.A. Happ in the sixth and took a long look at his solo shot to left. Werth answered leading off the bottom half with a mammoth drive off the facing of the second deck in left. After connecting, he slammed his bat to the ground and glared into the Philadelphia dugout as if to urge on his teammates. It was Werth’s seventh home run this postseason, one shy of the major league record held by Carlos Beltran (2004) and Barry Bonds (2002). Jorge Posada’s RBI single in the seventh gave New York a three-run cushion. Matsui added an opposite-field solo shot to left in the eighth, his second homer in two games. Matsui was on the bench because World Series rules don’t permit a DH in National League parks. Pettitte fell behind 3-0 in the second. Werth reached down for a breaking ball and hit a leadoff homer to left, setting off fireworks and lighting up the Liberty Bell in right-center. With the bases loaded, Jimmy Rollins walked to force in a run and Shane Victorino added a sacrifice fly. Pettitte avoided further damage by striking out Chase Utley, then settled in and held Philadelphia in check. That gave the Yankees a chance to come back. The Phillie Phanatic was wearing a rain-slicker and fisherman’s hat when he high-fived Mike Schmidt as the Hall of Famer walked to the mound to throw out the first pitch to Howard. The grounds crew was still drying puddles on the warning track as the Phillies took the field. Last season, Game 5 of the World Series between the Phillies and Tampa Bay was suspended for two days because of rain. Once it resumed – in the sixth inning – the Phillies went on to a 4-3 victory that clinched the championship. Last year’s Game 3 started at 10:06 p.m. because of rain and didn’t end until 1:47 a.m. It was the latest start in Series history. NOTES: The Phillies dropped to 11-2 at home the past two postseasons. … Nine of the last 10 teams to win Game 3 when the World Series was tied 1-all went on to take the title. The exception was the 2003 Yankees, who lost the next three games to Florida. More on Sports

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Rockstar Geeks Play Guitar Hero — WITHOUT Guitars (VIDEO)

Posted by Giggi On October - 29 - 2009

We’ve all been air-guitar gods at some point in our lives. But now a band of boffins have proven that you don’t need frets, a pick or even a controller to be a Guitar Hero. More on Games

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PlayHaven Lets iPhone Developers Create In-App And Online Gaming Communities

Posted by Giggi On October - 29 - 2009

Games, both online and on mobile devices, draw such an intense following that often there are fan communities and forums created entirely around a single game. PlayHaven is hoping to empower developers with the tools to create their own online and in-game (for the iPhone only for now) fan communities for free. PlayHaven has created shell communities around 15,000 games on Apple’s app store, so most developers can automatically claim their community. If their community hasn’t been pre-created, developers can also create their own communities. The transition between online communities and in-game communities are fairly seamless, says Raymond Lau, co-founder and CEO of PlayHaven. Lau says that in-game communities on iPhone apps can be integrated by inserting a snippet of code. In the app, the “community” feature will be able to be accessed under the menu button, so users can access the community from within the feature. On both the app and online communities, fans and developers can share their passion for games by creating guides, tips, reviews, and other content. Developers can also have a channel to connect to fans to notify users of news and new releases. PlayHaven is already testing its communities in-game and online for several apps, including Geared, Minigore and The Quest. In fact, one-third of all Geared players are active on PlayHaven’s community on a daily basis. Competitors include OpenFeint and Plus+. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

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Google Wave as an RPG environment – Boing Boing

Posted by Giggi On October - 29 - 2009

Ars Technica reports on the nascent Google Wave RPG scene, in which wavesters are amusing themselves by using Google’s collaboration tool s a surprisingly effective (for some games) means of keeping track of the action in game: …

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Web 2 Summit: Jonathan Miller Is Obsessed With Realtime, Won’t Talk Photobucket

Posted by Giggi On October - 22 - 2009

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller sat down to talk with Federated Media’s John Battelle. Miller oversees a lot of projects for News Corp., most notably MySpace. Miller reiterated some of what MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta said yesterday at the conference . They have a plan to move forward focusing on what they believe they’re good at, socializing content, which will be music-heavy thanks to their deals with the music labels. In the audience question part at the end, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington got up to ask Miller specifically about the sale of Photobucket, which we first reported on , but News Corp. has yet to confirm. Miller laughed, but said “ No, I can’t make that announcement here. ” That of course implies that they will make the announcement at some point. Miller acknowledged that Photobucket is right in the middle of an important business decision for News Corp.: Are some of their assets stand-alone products, or part of the bigger picture? “ It will be resolved shortly, but not today ,” Miller said. From what we’ve heard, MySpace is going to sell Photobucket to Ontela for a deal valued at $60 million , which is a huge markdown from the $250 million (plus a $50 million earn-out) that MySpace paid for the company in 2007. Below find my live notes from the Q&A (paraphrased): JB: What do you make of this whole rodeo around Twitter? JM: I think it’s great. Search had been out of the socialization of the web thing, now it’s in it. It’s also clear that we have a lot of competition. It’s great. It’s not a one-horse race. Microsoft is hanging in there (in search). JB: What’s it like to work with Rupert Murdoch? JM: It’s fascinating. He’s so curious. He wants to know everything about everything. No matter what it is. He retains his ambition. He’s as ambitious as anyone I’ve ever met. JB: What’s your job? What does it involve? JM: I’m Chairman and CEO of the Digital Media group. I do two things really: One, I’m the executive in charge of a lot of businesses like MySpace. The other role is to provide strategy and guidance for the entire corporation. JB: How do you split your time between those two? Thoughts on all this media stuff? JM: Rupert feels there needs to be a paid content model – that doesn’t mean there won’t be free as well, but that’s our stance. There will be free and paid, but there will be paid. I spend half my time in that world trying to figure it out. JB: It is just a pay wall? JM: That’s a hard way to do it. You have to offer value to the users. It has to be different from the free area. It’s not just throwing a pay wall. Wall Street Journal is working with that model. You can walk and chew gum at the same time. JB: So that works for the WSJ, but they have a fat wallet audience. JM: Well I think they offer value. JB: Why leave what you were doing? JM: I was having a good time and we were investing in a few key areas. One big one was online video. That was fun and focused. But I was given the opportunity to work on a larger scale with more difficulty. I’m a glutten for punishment. JB: The idea was that you were going to have to “fix MySpace,” right? Owen was here yesterday laying out the plan. How is it going? How do you know it’s working? JM: Fix isn’t the right word. Nothing was broken that we’re putting it back. You have to think ahead. I don’t want to be in the catch up game. We need to get the essence of what MySpace is. It’s about making contacts, we’re getting back to that. The social part. Look at the big picture, then focus it down. Music announcements are core. There was some stuff that needed to be fixed. You need to stablize loss of traffic. It’s been a combination of organic loss of traffic and cleaning up the service. We’re stablizing it, but it’s not the fix game. We need to do new and different. JB: Rupert got a lot of credit for making that investment at the time. Is he upset for how it has gone? JM: You know you have to keep moving forward. But MySpace didn’t keep going. There have been competitiors in the general space, Facebook and Twitter that came along. We’re upset that we didn’t keep going. It’s hard to regain momentum. JB: Is Twitter overhyped? JM: It’s fascinating. I didn’t think it would have been what it is now. But the question is: Where does it go? They’re smart to be an open platform. The money question is easier, I think. Their new deals are interesting, but it doesn’t take you to a billion valuation. Are you your own thing or are you a sub-category of what Facebook is doing? That’s the question. JB: Is News Corp. a buyer in this space right now? JM: We did just buy iLike. It’s strategic. We’re not just trying to go after cool businesses, it has to be about our strategy. That’s a music focus with iLike. We’re not just investing. JB: What are the key strategies? JM: Generally I’m obsessed with realtime. I have been for a long time, even when I was with AOL. I didn’t know it back then, but now you can really see it. Twitter is one level, but it’s beyond that. Another interest is global. I just returned from Asia – it was really eye-opening. As we heard from Mary Meeker, the mobile world over there is amazing. They have things over there that compete with the iPhone. The mobile Internet is huge over there. We’re actually behind over here. It’s a huge transformation. For MySpace music and games. It needs to start with an “M” a “G” or an “E”. We need to open our platform more with MySpace, like Twitter is doing. JB: Talk about FAN (Fox Audience Network). JM: Most people in the audience would know the biggest ad networks, but not the #5 one, which is us. We’re moving up. We want to be #4. A deal with Omnicom helps us big time. It’s a real-time bidding network, advertisers can buy directly in to this huge network. They can buy a huge audience. It’s giving that power over to the buy side. It’s the beginning of a coming out part for FAN. Display advertising is coming. JB: In display publishers feel threatened right? You can reach through the brand and grab an audience. Is that a problem? JM: Yep. I think it’s a real change. There will be a premium world that will command high CPMs. Hulu can do that. It’s a true premium buy and a great expereience. Then there is the cheap inventory that can go to a broad audience. I think FAN can help with that. But the middle will get squeezed. You have to be premium or bulk. It’s hard in the middle. JB: FAN is an exchange network right? JM: Yeah directionally exchange. JB: How’s it different from what’s out there. JM: Along with a move to display, it’s a move to exchange. FAN uses the social networking environment. People tell you stuff freely through these networks. We’re not doing profiles, but it’s audience, to be clear. JB: So if I declare what I’m interested in on MySpace, but then I go to another FAN network, and I see an ad for what I’m interested in. JM: You can spread that across the web. JB: Let’s go back in time a bit. As the former CEO of AOL, the new CEO TIm Armstrong – what should I ask him? JM: That’s a good one. I’m thrilled he’s there. They need to get their freedom. I know they’re on track, but are they really. The freedom from Time Warner. That’s #1. It’s mutually felt, both want it. Is it on track. Number two is how does the new content focus scale? Can you make enough of it in the model they have. The portal-based model. The third, what’s happening in ad sales? Revenue is kind of important and AOL has a declining revenue and subscription base. So you need accelerating ads. It’s so key to that company. Audience Q&A Q: Is there a big opportunity for brands to do new things with all these social networking communities and sites? JM: Absolutely. That’s what AOL has been doing with TMZ, leveraging the AOL platform. We need to start new brands, not just extend networks. Q: Is authentication big? JM: Yes, it’s a big thing. Q: (From Mike) Did you sell Photobucket ? JM: (Laughs). I’m confident that is Mike Arrington. No I can’t make that announcement here. But look, we’re going over all our assets, is it a stand-alone or does it fit? Photobucket is right in the middle of that. It will be resolved shortly, but not today. Q: Talk about MySpace versus Facebook and Twitter. JM: Twitter is about the assymettic relationship. Facebook is symmetric. MySpace is in between. We’ve had both in our history. We need to declare a major. Facebook is trying to be everything it seems. We’re more about interests of our users going forward, more than just the friend thing. I think we’re closer to Twitter. But we can be richer, I think. I don’t know if Twitter with change, but that’s how it is today. Q: Talk about copyrights. JM: We need to have copyrights that are expected. Even in China they realize that. They have a budding content industry too. They’re very interested in copyright and piracy. I think we’ll have an Internet that respects copyright. That’s a wrap. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors

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Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost

Posted by Giggi On October - 19 - 2009

Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha’s new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week . Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it right through the approval process with such speed that it even surprised the Wolfram Alpha team, which had hoped to get some feedback from testers before the approval. I was one of those people, so rather than send them feedback, I’ll write it here. There are two key points about Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone app: 1) It is pretty cool, and very nicely done. 2) They’re insane for trying to sell it for $50. I’m going to mainly focus on second point here, because if you’ve used Wolfram Alpha, you don’t really need much explanation about this app, which is a slick interface for the service. And while I get Wolfram Alpha’s logic behind selling the app for $50, I think it’s faulty logic. Here’s what they’re telling us: A note on price it is listed at $49.99, which is basically less than 1/2 the price of a graphing calculator with inferior functionality in comparison, which is how the company came to that number. Or, as weve been saying, the price of 12 lattes from Starbucks… Both of those points are true, but the App Store has created a different economic reality than say, walking into an Office Max and buying a graphing calculator. It’s no secret that most apps that sell well tend to be cheaper as in, free or $0.99. Apple has recently tried to de-emphasize this by adding a “Top Grossing” section to the App Store. That’s fine, but with the exception of the $90 Navigon GPS turn-by-turn app, all of the top grossing apps are under $10. And most are under $3. The reality is that you can probably count the number of iPhone apps over $10 that sell really well on your hands. Of those, the number over $20, you can probably count on one hand. And of those, if you remove the GPS turn-by-turn apps and maybe a few apps meant for doctors, you’re probably down to a couple fingers. And I’m sorry, but Wolfram Alpha does not yet have the clout of Navigon, nor is it in the hot turn-by-turn GPS space that would warrant such a high price. “We do plan to offer regular discounts and sales,” the team tells us. But if they really want this app to sell, they’re going to have to knock off like 90% of its price. Actually, to be honest, even at $10, I’m not sure how many people would buy this app. And that’s too bad for the team. As I said, the app is a solid one, but this is the reality of the App Store. Games that sell on systems like the Nintendo DS for $30, are $3 on the iPhone. Hell, there are even some games that sell on the bigger consoles for $60 that are less than $10 on the iPhone. They’re not quite as good graphics-wise, but I would argue that they’re every bit as fun. And don’t think for a second that studios like EA wouldn’t sell them for $30 if they could, but they realize that they can’t. Wolfram Alpha may have to figure that reality out the hard way. It’s fine that it can replace your $100 graphing calculator, but it’s also limited because it requires WiFi or a 3G connection to do so. And the iPhone already comes with a calculator, which can turn into a more advanced one, and both of those are free. And there are dozens of graphing calculator apps in the App Store that sell for a whopping $0.99. Okay, you might say, but Wolfram Alpha does offer a lot of interesting data far beyond graphing calculators. That’s also true, like giving you a detailed read out of how many calories are in a Big Mac, fries, and a Coke. But if you’re using this on your iPhone or iPod touch, you already have access to Google, and more to the point, the mobile web version of Wolfram Alpha, which is free. Clearly, the service had some insight into how controversial the price will be. They go on to note: The core WolframAlpha site will always be free. This is one of several premium experiences that the company will offer in addition. The app is targeted at the most serious users, and is priced as such. Likewise, we feel that the apps egonomics and speed make it well worth the investment. I can only assume they mean “ergonomics” there, but we’ll forgive them for that Freudian slip. The app absolutely does offer a nice experience, one that yes, is better than the free website. But $50 better? No. $10 better? Maybe. $5 better? We’re getting closer. Again, right or wrong, this is just the reality of the App Store economy. As we’ve noted previously, the iPhone app is the first example of Wolfram Alpha’s new APIs that they hope will extend their most valuable asset: Their data. But if you’re trying to get more people to use access your data, charging $50 is not a great play. A better one may be to get people hooked on your data, then charge down the road when they realize how valuable it is if they ever do, which is still far from certain with Wolfram Alpha. It’s also interesting to note that despite talk of a deal with Bing , the defautl web search in the Wolfram Alpha app is Google. Both Bing and Yahoo are options, but you have to change it in the settings. You can find the Wolfram Alpha app here in the App Store . Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

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Najibullah Zazi: Terror Suspect Worshipped With Radical Imam

Posted by Giggi On October - 4 - 2009

NEW YORK — If he chose to listen, Najibullah Zazi could hear the calls for violence all around him. The Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack on New York City spent his earliest years in his wartorn homeland, a center of strife and fighting against a Soviet invasion and, after the occupiers left, clashing warlords. When Zazi was a teenager, his family shared a Queens apartment building and worshipped with an imam linked to a former Afghan warlord later identified by the U.S. as a global terrorist. And as a young man, Zazi traveled to a region of Pakistan known for training terrorists and visited camps where al-Qaida teaches how to kill with horrific bombs made from household ingredients like hair dye and flour. Along the way, Zazi was transformed from a snappily dressed young man with a taste for computer games and basketball to a bearded devotee of Islamic traditionalism – while also selling coffee from a cart at the epicenter of American capitalism, Wall Street. Zazi’s friends and relatives say he never chose to listen to others urging violence, instead working long days and spending his little free time with his family. “He was a very normal, very life-loving guy,” said Naiz Khan, who befriended Zazi nearly 10 years ago when the two teenagers attended the same mosque and high school in Queens. Federal prosecutors offer a different view. They say the 24-year-old Denver airport shuttle driver eagerly heeded the call to kill, maim and terrorize Americans. Zazi is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. Prosecutors claim Zazi, who returned to New York to stay with his friend Kahn days before the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, had been planning his own terror, possibly a deadly subway bombing. “The whole family right now is stunned,” said Habib Rasooli, an uncle to Zazi’s father and one of the few relatives willing to talk about the case. “I could never believe in 1,000 years that something would happen to the family.” The family, from a large tribal clan with hundreds of relatives living in the U.S., left Afghanistan to live across the border in Pakistan when Zazi was 7. At 14, he, two brothers, a sister and his mother moved to Queens, where his father drove a cab. Another brother and sister were born after the family moved to the U.S. A tall, skinny boy who could eat anything and never worry about his weight, Zazi struggled as a student at Flushing High School before dropping out. With friends who called him Najib for short, he practiced his English and adapted to life as a jeans-wearing American teen, playing basketball, pool and computer games. “He wore very nice, expensive shirts and boots,” Khan said. “He liked American life. He liked all the brand names. He never complained.” Zazi was also surrounded by his Afghan culture, living with others from his country. His family’s apartment was in the same small building as that of Saifur Rahman Halimi, an imam who was a chief representative for top Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Halimi attended the same mosque as the Zazi family. Hekmatyar, one of three main U.S. enemies in Afghanistan, was a major figure in that country’s civil war and was briefly installed as prime minister. The U.S. declared Hekmatyar a global terrorist in 2003, and forces loyal to Hekmatyar openly fight American and international forces in Afghanistan. In Queens, Halimi became a trusted voice for Hekmatyar’s cause and a vocal supporter of the global jihad. A video from one of Halimi’s speeches in 1992 captures his zeal for a “pure Islamic system” in Afghanistan and denunciations of Western intervention. “In the very near future, we will liberate all human beings from these devils,” he said then. “They know the power of Islam. Halimi and the Zazi family joined others who split from their Queens mosque during a leadership dispute. They also gathered at times with a close-knit group that prayed, ate and socialized together, said Mohammad Sherzad, the imam on the other side of the schism. Halimi, 61, now imam of a Philadelphia mosque, told The Associated Press he was stunned by Zazi’s arrest. “He was not such a person,” he said. “He was busy with his work.” Halimi said he hasn’t spoken to the Zazi family in six years. Zazi worked a coffee cart on Wall Street, getting his license in 2004. Mohammed Yousufzai, who operated his own cart, said he marveled at how, after five months working in the area, Zazi was running his own. “He was a nice guy when he first came in,” Yousufzai said. Zazi began making trips back to Pakistan, his first in 2006 for an arranged marriage. His wife stayed there, and cares for their two children. Zazi began to change in appearance, Yousufzai said. He gave up his clean-shaven look for a bushy black beard. After a second trip to Pakistan, Yousufzai said, Zazi grew his beard longer and gave up American fashion for tunics and more modest traditional clothing. He began playing holy music in the garage he shared with other food cart vendors, and grew irritated when Yousufzai rolled in playing modern dance music, calling it “dishonest to your religion.” “People tried to avoid him,” he said. “They figured out he was kind of cuckoo.” Zazi’s finances changed, too, finally plunging him into bankruptcy with $51,500 in debt. From April to June in 2008, Zazi opened six credit cards. He opened several other credit accounts in about the same period, including with Best Buy and Sony electronics, according to bankruptcy records. This was all done before he left Queens in August 2008 for Pakistan, where prosecutors say he visited al-Qaida camps for explosives training. Zazi told reporters before his arrest that he was not aligned with terrorists and never planned an attack. He said he went to Pakistan to see his wife and children. Zazi returned from his latest trip on Jan. 15 and quickly picked up his life in Queens to move to Aurora, Colo., a suburb of nearly 300,000 people on the eastern edge of Denver. Like his taxi-driving father in New York, Zazi turned to driving an airport shuttle. He passed a criminal background check and signed up with ABC Airport Shuttle. Dispatcher Tony Gonzales described Zazi as a “hardworking guy.” “No trouble, no problem whatsoever,” Gonzales said. “Very quiet guy. He’s always on time. When we give him a pickup, he always does it.” Zazi’s aunt and uncle offered him a place to stay in Aurora. Rabia Zazi, his aunt, said her nephew had little time for anything other than work, not even an interest in finishing his high school education. “He skipped school and he’s helping his father,” she said, sitting on the front porch of a building with several children and wearing a traditional veil and dress. Rabia Zazi described her nephew as a serious man, an avid soccer fan. Seven or eight members of Zazi’s extended family moved to Aurora over the past several years, including his aunt and uncle. Abdulrahman Jalili, president of the family’s Queens mosque, said Zazi’s father told him a month before Ramadan that he was moving to Colorado, but didn’t say why. The father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, faces a charge of lying to federal agents, accused of withholding information when he was questioned after a series of raids in Queens last month. The emerging federal case against Zazi and others surprised Jalili, who said the FBI interviewed him recently about Zazi. “I never saw any wrong acts,” Jalili said. “He wasn’t acting strangely or anything. I never suspected him of doing anything like that.” But there are unknowns, Jalili admitted, things he wouldn’t see in those like Zazi who worshipped alongside him or others he wouldn’t know who may have influenced Zazi. “The government knows better than us,” Jalili said. “The FBI knows better than us. They did the investigation. They know something about him. That’s why they arrested him.” ___ Associated Press writers Brett J. Blackledge in Washington, Patrick Walters in Philadelphia, and Dan Elliott and P. Solomon Banda in Denver contributed to this report. More on Afghanistan

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Sandip Roy: Guess Who’s Not Coming to The Olympics

Posted by Giggi On October - 3 - 2009

It’s probably just as well that Barack Obama’s magic touch didn’t work on the International Olympic Committee. The election of Obama has certainly reduced the number of globetrotting Americans who try to pass for Canadian. But he can’t just touch down for five hours and seal the deal. But the most interesting quote I read about Chicago’s drubbing in the Olympic hosting race was a question from an I.O.C. member from Pakistan. Syed Shahid Ali asked how smooth it would be for foreigners to enter the United States for the Games because as he put it, coming to the US these days can be “a harrowing experience.” I hope Obama noted that. This is a slap in the face reminder that the election of Obama has changed a certain style and the image but the levers of bureaucracy underneath have not necessarily changed course. It’s not just Olympic athletes from countries like Pakistan or Iraq. Scientists, artists, students are all facing the same hurdles getting into the US. And many of them just don’t want to come. Who wants the airport humiliation? A couple of years ago I remember the San Francisco International Film Festival complaining that many eminent filmmakers couldn’t get visas. The Iranian contingent was especially hurt by the visa clampdown. Tragically, Iran has probably the most illustrious filmmaking industry in the region. The very renowned director Abbas Kiarostami was denied a visa when he was coming to the US to debut his film Ten. A couple of other directors from other parts of the world also decided not to come as an act of solidarity. In 2006, a group of Iranian academics and scientists coming for the Northern California reunion of the prestigious Sharif Institute of Technology found themselves turned away from US airports even after they got the visa. Behnam Kamrani who lives in Sweden and works for a US company got to spend nine hours in the airport before being turned back. But he considered himself one of the “lucky ones” because he was not handcuffed. In 2004 for the first time since 1971, the number of foreign students enrolled in US colleges and universities declined thanks to the “war on terror”. Now the Census says for the first time in three decades the number of foreign-born Americans in this country tapered off slightly in 2008 . Nobody wants to be the visa officer that let in the terrorist. But instead of analyzing Chicago’s downfall in the IOC as a litmus test of Obama’s magic, it should be a wake up call for the US. The world didn’t reject Obama. It’s gotten the symbolism of his election. Now it’s time to go beyond the symbols. It wants to see the promised change in action. And five hours of Obama isn’t enough change. Rio, apparently was change the IOC could believe in. More on Barack Obama

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Chris McGowan: Rio and the 2016 Summer Olympics: Reflections on Brazil and the Marvelous City

Posted by Giggi On October - 3 - 2009

Today, Brazilians partied on Copacabana beach like it was 2016. The cariocas (natives of Rio de Janeiro) samba-ed on the sand, Brazilians everywhere celebrated deliriously, and President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva (Lula) was overcome with tears at a televised press conference. The International Olympic Committee awarded Rio the Summer Games of 2016, which will be the first time a South American city has hosted the event. It will be a coming-of-age ceremony for Brazil, a budding superpower, much as the 2008 Beijing Games were for China. Brazil is no longer “the country of the future,” as it has been described ad nauseam for decades; it has arrived in the present. It has a diversified economy, one of the top ten in the world, and it has emerged relatively unscathed from the global economic crisis. The land of soccer and samba is an agricultural giant, competing with the U.S. to be the world’s bread basket. It is a biofuel dynamo and the world’s leading exporter of ethanol; half its cars run on pure alcohol. Already self-sufficient in petroleum, Brazil recently discovered massive off-shore oil reserves. It is also a cultural superpower; its television novelas are popular internationally and its rich variety of music (samba, bossa nova, and other styles) has influenced global popular music for decades. Alas, Brazil is also near the top in the global corruption competition, a serious problem among all the BRICs (the growing powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China). Brazilians would be far better off, and the country a vastly different place, if its populace refused to tolerate the rogues’ gallery that populates its federal, state, and city governments. The Congress in Braslia is known for a total lack of ethics, lavish benefits for senators and deputies; secret votes; shameless appointing of family members to federal jobs; and, ingenious diversions of money for personal or political ends. Lula’s political allies have been tainted by one corruption scandal after another since he was first elected. Yet, nothing much sticks; charges are dismissed or never followed up; and, no guilty career politician gets more than a slap on the wrist, no matter how extreme the vote buying or money laundering. Lula embraces anyone as long as they serve his political ends. He has supported the senators Jos Sarney and Renan Calheiros, who have allegedly been embroiled in some of Brazil’s worst corruption scandals, and he was photographed hugging his former enemy, the notorious senator Fernando Collor de Mello. The latter resigned as president of Brazil in 1992 just before he was to be impeached, accused of influence peddling. Brazil is still plagued by widespread poverty, high murder and crime rates, oppressive taxes, a gargantuan bureaucracy, an ineffective legal system, and serious environmental problems (the deforestation of the Amazon and devastation of the Cerrado savanna are two of the biggest). Yet things are getting better for most, thanks to a stable economy, the taming of inflation, and Lula’s welfare program for the poorest families (the bolsa famlia ), which is labeled a progressive social program by his admirers and blatant patronage by his detractors. Rio’s preparation for the Olympics could stimulate significant improvements in the city. The athletes will not suffer from smog as much as they did in Beijing, but Rio needs to improve its air quality, especially in terms of particulates, the worst form of air pollution. And participants and spectators will need to reach events on time, which will be a challenge given the city’s growing gridlock. Expanding mass transit will help both with transportation and air problems. The existing subway system, which is a good one, needs to be extended, especially to the Barra da Tijuca area. Rio’s mayor Eduardo Paes would be smart to begin replacing the thousands of city buses that spew sooty exhaust with clean-fuel vehicles. In addition, the industrial air pollution in the cities north of Rio is an urgent problem. Perhaps the Games will also spark much needed change in terms of providing full social services and police protection to the city’s poor neighborhoods, and dismantling the drug gangs and police militias that now are de facto local governments of the favelas . That’s a lot to hope for, but let’s see what progress can be made over the next seven years. The whole world will be watching Rio de Janeiro during the Games; perhaps Brazil’s politicians will stop lining their pockets long enough to give the “Marvelous City” the support it deserves. Despite its social problems, Rio is still one of the most popular cities in the world, with cariocas enjoying a well-deserved reputation for gregariousness and joie de vivre . Brazilians everywhere are proud and overjoyed to have been awarded the 2016 event. Beijing put on a brilliant show, but it was all choreographed, with zero spontaneity and heavy police-state supervision. In Rio, improvisation and interaction will be at the forefront. And nobody parties like the cariocas. The Rio Olympics may well be the most entertaining Games ever, taking place in a city that has spectacular natural scenery, is the home of Carnaval , and is the world capital of celebration. More on Brazil

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Posted by Giggi On September - 24 - 2009

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Gadget Deals of the Day – Gadget dealz of the day – Gizmodo

Posted by Giggi On September - 23 - 2009

The days are getting shorter pretty quickly, and that can only mean that Old Man Winter is coming. Fortunately, there are a plethora of games today so you can manage those brutal winter days indoors.

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Ultimate Fantasy Football Guide 2009

Posted by Giggi On September - 16 - 2009

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Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel

Posted by Giggi On August - 27 - 2009

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