Potentially throwing a wrench into future ocean fertilization trials, which are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by storing carbon deep underwater, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity called for a moratorium yesterday on the practice of adding nutrients to the oceans.While it may not carry any legal weight, the “de facto moratorium” could prove […]

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Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too  —  Lately Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users.  In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly answering questions about Twitter’s architecture.  —  So I have a couple of questions …

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Ken E. writes “Asus has backed down in the face of complaints from UK Eee PC 900 owners about the ultra-portable’s low-capacity battery. Confusing statements posted in online reviews led buyers to believe that they would get a larger capacity battery than they actually did — and they weren’t happy. Asus has, however, made a conciliatory gesture by extending a £10 high-capacity battery upgrade offer. Mobile Computer has the full announcement, plus quite a bit of background on how this fuss all got started. The batteries will be available June 10 and in the meantime Eee PC owners can download a BIOS update that Asus claims will add half an hour to battery life.”

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While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at least out of the box. Some folks at Kinetic Communications modded up a doorbell to work as the kick drum button and screwed it to a drum stick. Not the prettiest mod in the world, but it got their wheelchair-bound buddy drumming for about $20, and it shouldn’t be hard to replicate their instructions.

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Egghub is a new service that helps you organize your media. Egghub offers databases for movies, software, music and games. Each disc page offers a variety of content including: ratings, reviews, purchase options, comments and wishlist options. The reviews that are displayed come from Amazon and you can also add your own comments about a disc. I’d suggest they put the comment option at the top - users who contribute to the Egghub community should be rewarded over scraping reviews from Amazon.

You can setup a profile and check out other user’s profiles as well. If a disc interests you, there’s a purchase option which links to Amazon. The service is good where it is today but it really leaves me wanting more. For example, let’s assume I have 200 dvds. Egghub helps me make a list of what I own but what good is that for the actual discs? I’d love to see a way to add a numbering scheme so that I can say that My Little Pony is disc #94 and Transformers (the first movie!) is #213.

How else would I improve Egghub? I’d look at adding exports to the various social networking services. Let me publish my list of discs to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, etc. When I add a new disc, let me tick a box to push a message to Twitter. Since there’s no numbering or organization options, the ability to share my lists with friends would be great. This will also drive new users and traffic to Egghub.

Lastly, and this is way out in left field, but what about a friends rental/lending option? If you are on my friends list, you can select a disc to borrow from my available inventory. I can set a price if desired or just do it for free. Egghub can provide the mailers (no postage provided) and sell ads on the mailers. I know this is probably a bit complicated but I think there could be some real potential here for a library-type system for sharing. And if rentals are too far out there, what about a classifieds offering to buy and sell?

While it’s easy to look at Egghub and say that it’s just a simple disc list site, there’s enough potential here to create a very solid offering with a strong business model. Egghub is a startup I plan to keep my eye on.

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[Image] La navette américaine, qui doit rejoindre l’ISS en deux jours, a décollé avec succès du Centre spatial Kennedy en Floride. Discovery transporte sept astronautes, dont une femme et un Japonais…

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Future versions of the MacBook Air will pack larger-capacity but lower-cost solid-state drives, emblematic of the next generation of flash storage that will make a quick descent from current stratospheric pricing.

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Chalk another one up for Sharp. The company has landed yet another partner willing to utilize its solar panels in order to make news, wow onlookers and give Mother Earth a modicum of a break. Napa Valley winery Far Niente has flipped on its self-coined Floatovoltaic installation, which was developed by Thompson Technology Industries and installed by SPG Solar. Nearly 2,300 Sharp solar panels were secured for the job, and we’re told that the array generates 400 kWs at peak output, which “significantly offsets the winery’s annual power usage and provides a net-zero energy bill.” Don’t expect that coveted bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to be any cheaper as a result, though.

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Web site Appropedia describes in impressive detail how to convert your gas-powered lawnmower to solar power. The process involves some serious hacking of your original push mower and an investment in parts, but when you’re finished you’ll be hacking down grass with nothing but the power of the sun. Not bad for a weekend project, if a little on the expensive side.

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On Monday, June 2, RWW network blog AltSearchEngines will be celebrating its one year anniversary with a post-a-thon! There will be one post every hour for 24 hours announcing…

NEW relaunch of our forums!

NEW AltSearchEngines conference!

NEW Top 100 Alts list for June 2008!

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NEW get money back for every post you read!*

NEW staff writer Rafi Farber!

NEW Mobile Search expert Peggy!

NEW custom Weblin avatar!

NEW AltSearchEngines podcasts!

NEW ASE widget gallery!

NEW archives display!

NEW AltSearchEngines Stealth site!

NEW AltSearchEngines’ mobile site!

NEW sponsors, and old sponsors!

NEW my favorite post of the year,

and much, much, much more!

Please join us on Monday as we kick off our second year!!

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Apologies to reader Miguel for taking his fantastic creations and shoving a lousy pun on it, but it was either that or “sTEAmpunk”. These Steampunk Tea Pots are really, really amazing, and they’re all hand-made and unglazed colored clay pots perfect for putting your morning tea into. Mr. T would approve.

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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO CENTRE 9 — Where are the girls? An event producer and I both nervously paced through the lobby. Where was Marissa Mayer? The Google executive had rented a theater for the 8:50 screening of Sex and the City, but she and 300 of her closest friends were nowhere to be seen. Late, of course — have you tried to walk the block-long distance between Mayer’s Four Seasons penthouse and the Westfield Centre in a pair of Manolo Blahniks? Finally, I spotted someone I knew — gorgeous Googler Brittany Bohnet, girlfriend of Facebooker Dave Morin, above. (”People are saying I look like Charlotte,” said Bohnet, pictured above. “Do you think so?” Yes. Cuter than Charlotte, actually.

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher also showed up with Googler girlfriend Megan Smith. “We’re dresses as lesbians,” said Swisher. (How was one supposed to tell the difference? Oh, right — usually Swisher’s dressed like a soccer mom.)

Somewhere in the confusion, the event’s producer thrust a ticket in my hand, and I walked into the screening. No sign of Marissa, though, who I’d heard was wearing a Pucci dress. Before I could spot her, the producer walked up the aisle to my seat. “Owen?” he asked? Yep, that’s right — eighty-sixed again. I spotted Orkut Buyukkokten, Marissa’s best gay friend, on my way out. Not that I minded getting booted, really — I hear the movie’s not all that great. I was more interested in the trailer I saw for Mamma Mia— hey, Marissa, can you throw a screening for that, and invite me?

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MojoKid writes “A little over a week ago Netflix unveiled the Netflix Player, developed by the team at Roku, a set-top box for watching on-demand movies and TV. This interview with Tim Twerdahl, the VP of Consumer Products for Roku, goes into some detail about the guts of the box and the future of the set-top box. Of course the system runs an embedded Linux OS but interestingly also runs on a Nexperia (Philips) media processor.”

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Next week (June 3-10) is "Internet Week" here in NYC. Below are the events during the week - I’ve noted the events CN plans to attend in bold.

Tuesday, June 3

• NY:MIEG - topic, "Shifting the Paradigm: Young Women with Cool Jobs Making a Difference in Digital Media and beyond" - 7:30am
• Applied Cryptography and Network Security Conference - all day
• Associated Content’s Ultimate Call for Content Contest - all day
• Columbia Business School New Media panel discussion - 12:30 - no link provided - it’s at the Columbia University School of Business
• Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2008 - Columbia - $500 - all day (tuesday-friday)
• EconAds: Economics of Ad Deals - $300 - 1:30pm - by the PaidContent people - should be good
• Drinks4Startups - Startup Mixer - CN is a media sponsor - 6:00pm-all night
• NY Tech Meetup - same one that happens every month - back at crappy IAC - 7:00pm

Wednesday, June 4

• Internet Marketing Conference - all day - $700
• Time Warner’s Conversations on the Circle: News & Politics - 8:00am
• Advertising 2.0 - full day (wednesday-thursday) - $875
• Future of Media - NYU - 1:00pm - looks good, some big name journalists/bloggers will be speaking
• Live Diggnation - 6:00pm - Brooklyn - you can watch Kevin Rose and the other guy drink beer and talk about what was on Digg
• Financing Your Internet Startup - put on by David Rose and the NY Angels - if you plan on getting funding, you should absolutely attend this event - $10 - 6:00pm
• Forum on Online Political Participation - 6:00pm
• Hatch Match - brings founders and advisors/experts/investors together - 6:00pm
• Red Bricks Media’s Panel on Media and Entertainment - 6:30pm
• Thrillist’s Information Superparty: Web 1.0 Awesomeness to the Maximum Extreme! - 7:00pm (rsvp asap)

Thursday, June 5

• Time Warner’s Conversations on the Circle: Entertainment Culture - 8:00am
• Media Meshing - Mixer - 6:00pm
• Media: Overseas Conversations - panel on media as design - 6:30pm
• Hungry Man - donate your old electronics and join this "old" party - 7:30pm
• Internet and Film Collide: Watch - 7:30pm - at the IFC studios

Friday, June 6

• Time Warner’s Conversations on the Circle: Health - 8:00am
• Mashable’s Exhibit Hall - 6:00pm
• Sosauce Social - new NYC startup - party with the founders - 6:00pm
• NextNY Softball Match - Founders vs. World - 6:15pm

Saturday, June 7

• Wiimbledon 2008 - play Wii Tennis and win prizes - and let me just say, I will kick all of your arses. - all day
• Festival Travel Channel Beer Bash & Screenings - 7:00pm

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