Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Ronnie Wood and Paul Weller playing Get Back HD

Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Ronnie Wood and Paul Weller playing Get Back HD:





Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Ronnie Wood and Paul Weller playing Get Back HD
Epic show at the Royal Albert Hall on the 29th of March, Paul McCartney and some legendary friends playing get Back for his Tennage Cancer Trust gig.

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Emma Scott Presents Show

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The best bands. The best venues. The best photographers and reviewers. Playing an Emma Scott Presents gig will get your bands name out there! Voted Promoter of the Year at the Pure Rawk Awards 2011 and 2012 Sign up to the mailing list  to hear about gig slots before anyone else. Hear the bands who are playing - check out the Emma Scott Presents Radio Show each week.

Gig Updates!

23rd August 2012 by Emma Scott

Hard to believe it’s nearly the end of August, but it’s really happened! We’ve had a great year so far with the gigs. We’ve worked with some great bands (and a few duffers!) We have a new video, this new website, our new member of the team, Adam. It’s all go here!

Our last gig of the month is on Sunday August 26th at the O2 Academy 3 in Birmingham.  Emma Scott Presents favourites Sevendaze headline for me, joined by This Elegant Chaos and Shotgun Preachers, who have both played for us before. They are joined by newbies to the clan – Buried from Below and Arrows. This is gonna be a great gig, and a big one for the last bank holiday weekend til Christmas.  Sorry for mentioning Christmas;-)

Tickets as always are available from the bands, the venue or from my shop! Hope to see you there!

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My friend Emma's details and their last gig for August their will be more soon1 So why not check out her page just click the link above or visit her twitter site at #BestBands.

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Experience Christmas and the Holiday season around the world on Skype in the classroom

Experience Christmas and the Holiday season around the world on Skype in the classroom:

As preparations for the holiday season are well underway in many schools around the world, Skype in the classroom teachers and their students are keen to share and compare their local traditions.

For teachers and classrooms who want to show-and-tell their stories, songs, crafts and culture with schools worldwide, we've brought together some of the best seasonal projects for Christmas and the Holidays taking place on Skype in the classroom.

Children from Balatonbogla Primary School, Hungary participate in a monthly cultural exchange via Skype video. They are looking for students from all over the world to share their holiday traditions with.

It's easy for teachers to take part in a range of projects and join our community of over 19,500 Skype in the classroom enthusiasts in time for the holidays.

Meanwhile, if you have any great holiday projects, stories, images or videos to share please tweet us using #SkypeClassroom. We'd love to hear about them. We hope to bring you more great seasonal projects in the New Year.

SKYTEACHING OF CHILDREN FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE.

Happy Holidays!

Facebook And Gowalla Won’t Confirm Rumors Of Deal

Facebook And Gowalla Won’t Confirm Rumors Of Deal:

Neither Facebook nor Gowalla has confirmed a rumored acquisition of the location sharing service by the leading social network.

Representatives from both companies have said via emails that neither will comment on rumors and speculation.

CNN broke the story last night without quoting any sources on the record; the news outlet said that most of Gowalla’s staff would move to Facebook headquarters to work on timeline, the advanced profile yet to go into beta.

Since launching in 2009, Gowalla has amassed only 10,000 users connected to Facebook, compared to 560,000 for archrival Foursquare.

Facebook’s own geolocation service has undergone repositioning since launching a year-and-a-half ago, lending a wee bit of plausibility to of an acquisition of Gowalla, which has also had its own repositioning.

For a deal to sufficiently pay reward venture investors, Facebook would have to pay around $30 million for Gowalla, according to our colleagues at Inside Facebook. Yet this is all speculation, since neither of the companies will comment on whether anything is going on between the two.

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites:

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites is a news post on crowdsourcing in education

Flash animation users can now publish content direct from their desktop on leading social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, You Tube, twitter and Snap! Channel in one click. Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder unveiled its latest desktop e-Learning software that lets users publish directly on social media platforms with ease.

Because social learning and collaboration have become a strong force within the e-Learning community, we wanted to find a way to meet the demand for the exchange and flow of information among learners…Enabling authors to quickly and easily push Flash and e-Learning content to the familiar places where learners already socialize provides an opportunity for learners to connect and share with one another.

Peter Bray, Chief Marketing Officer at Trivantis Corporation

The Snap! Empower e-Learning software offers an efficient means through which users can interact and engage in learning. The builders have simplified content sharing on social media by allowing users to engage in online discussions anytime, anywhere. Through the software, users can leverage the crowd on social media platforms to ask questions, as well as get answers.

The software also provides an opportunity for users to develop professional acquaintances that enhance online learning. And users don’t have to be expert flash programmers. The software lets novices and experts create powerful flash content readily and with ease.

Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder is a developer of software that allows expert flash programmers and novices build Flash content. Snap! by Lectora® is another powerful product developed by Trivantis, and is currently a leading e-Learning software globally. Lectora® converts PowerPoint to Flash and is currently in use in over 70 countries. The software is available in six languages. Trivantis produces a range of other e-Learning Flash related products.

Harry Potter Leads The Pack In The People’s Choice 2012 Nominees

Harry Potter Leads The Pack In The People’s Choice 2012 Nominees:

By Radar Staff

The final installment of the hugely successful Harry Potter franchise has been nominated for a whopping four awards, as well as nominations for all of it’s four leading stars, in the upcoming People’s Choice 2012 Awards.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been nominated in the Ensemble Movie Cast, Book Adaptation, Movie and Action Movie categories, with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton set to face off in the Movie Star Under 25 category.

The People’s Choice Awards remain faithful to their name, allowing the general public to vote for their favorite stars, TV shows, music and movies via an online ballot, up until December 6.

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As well as battling his co-stars Radcliffe will also be facing off against some of today’s hottest male talent, as he is also nominated in the Movie Actor category, which includes Robert Pattinson, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds and Johnny Depp.

Meanwhile, there’s also tough competition in the Best Actress category with Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone and Jennifer Aniston all vying for the top spot.

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The People’s Choice Awards will take place on January 11, 2012.

Nominations include:

Movie Actor
Daniel Radcliffe
Hugh Jackman
Johnny Depp
Robert Pattinson
Ryan Reynolds

Movie Actress
Anne Hathaway
Emma Stone
Jennifer Aniston
Julia Roberts
Reese Witherspoon

Movie Star Under 25
Chloe Moretz
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Rupert Grint
Tom Felton

Movie
Bridesmaids
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Help
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Network TV Drama
'The Good Wife'
'Grey’s Anatomy'
'House'
'Supernatural'
'The Vampire Diaries'

TV Drama Actor
David Boreanaz
Hugh Laurie
Ian Somerhalder
Nathan Fillion
Patrick Dempsey

TV Drama Actress
Blake Lively
Ellen Pompeo
Emily Deschanel
Eva Longoria
Nina Dobrev

Network TV Comedy
'The Big Bang Theory'
'Glee'
'How I Met Your Mother'
'Modern Family'
'Two and a Half Men'

Album of the Year
21 by Adele
4 by Beyonce
Born This Way by Lady Gaga
Femme Fatale by Britney Spears
Own The Night by Lady Antebellum

Male Artist
Blake Shelton
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Enrique Iglesias
Justin Bieber

Female Artist
Adele
Beyonce
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift

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Racist Social Bookmarking Service Mister Wong Goes Up for Sale

Racist Social Bookmarking Service Mister Wong Goes Up for Sale:

German social bookmarking service Mister Wong was, not so long ago, an ambitious, well-used, innovative project. It was also the subject of heated international controversy online. Today the service finds itself put up for sale by parent company Construktiv. In a post on the company's German language blog, Mister Wong says its changing priorities require it to seek a new operator.

Mister Wong instituted a number of different features appreciated by users, like automatic Twitter sync to save shared links, a Delicious importer and an attractive mobile version of the site. The service also faced a substantial amount of criticism, though, for its name and branding. So much criticism that it provided an interesting opportunity to talk about contemporary racial stereotypes, the importance of intention and more.

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Then-smaller social media website Mashable wrote about Mister Wong's US launch in 2007, where author Kristen Nicole called the service's name "questionable."

People around the world objected loudly to the company's name and to its logo, a picture of a stooped, balding old Asian man with slanted lines for eyes. Asian American engineer Ernie Hsiung penned the most widely-read critique on a site called 8Asians. "One of their web badges has the slogan 'ping pong, king kong, Mister Wong.' Which I, of course, interpret as 'ching chong, Mister Wong' and get INCREDIBLY FUCKING ANGRY," Hsiung wrote. "It's like Jeeves, the ask.com butler and Uncle Ben had a stereotypical illegitimate Asian son."

Specifically, the image referenced the stereotypical image of people from Asia as cheerfully subservient, worn-out people who tend to menial tasks for others. That image denies a huge portion of the world its history of centuries of diverse great cultures, it dehumanizes the complex and painful history of millions of Asian migrants and reduces billions of people to a caricature. That stereotypical caricature then stands in between the eyes and minds of those who accept it and the billions of people in and from Asia, struggling to move freely around the world and live their lives.

Of all the images of people from Asia that a person could spend time with - this is the one that Mister Wong users bring to mind every time they find a link on the web they want to save?

Imagine being black and being surrounded by white people who picture a dancing minstrel show whenever they think about black people. (Or more often today, gangsters or rappers.) That would be a hard situation to be respected in.

Three weeks after Mister Wong's US launch, Mashable founder Pete Cashmore posted an article titled Mister Wong: Not Racist. That article referenced Mister Wong's German CEO Kai Tietjen's public statement that the company never intended to offend anyone but also asserting that some of the criticism the company faced was "below the belt, unfounded, and inappropriate." (I'm sure the critics didn't intend that to be the case, so that means it's ok, right?)

Cashmore wrote:

These kinds of clashes seem inevitable when companies launch globally: what's culturally acceptable in one place is a hanging offense elsewhere. Often, as in this case, people are puzzled by the fact that they caused any offense at all. The 'racist' label, however, is one that all startups will want to stay a million miles away from, even if they don't fully understand their infraction.

What exactly he means by that is a little unclear (coming from Scotland, he was probably drunk and playing bagpipes when he wrote it) but the headline of the post seemed clear - Mister Wong:Not Racist.

Rarely are people convinced to reconsider their perspectives on such matters, but the controversy concerning Mister Wong's then-logo and still present name did provide an opportunity for extensive discussion. It will be interesting to see if anyone wants to buy a brand like that, though. The company's brand was based on a thoughtless stereotype and you might say it got taken the cleaners.

Writing on Germany's Netzwertig writer Martin Weigert argues that social bookmarking never became more than a niche practice and that big social networks like Facebook and Twitter are sufficient for what most people want to do with links of interest. To share them, not save them.

More important than the viability of social bookmarking is the ongoing conversation about race in the world of technology. The people building the social web talk about social engineering and user experience all the time. Discussing the cultural politics of the web seems like an important part of that discussion, in terms of pure utility. It's also an important part of making the world a more just place.

Discuss About time it was never right to have a racist bookmarking site, what do you think?