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New YouTube Contest Will Perform Your Science Experiment Live From Space
YouTube has just announced a new channel that truly deserves the overused adjective, "epic." It's called YouTube Space Lab, a partnership with Lenovo, Space Adventures, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Space Lab will allow students to submit a science experiment by video, and a panel of scientists and astronauts, including Professor Stephen Hawking, will pick the best submissions. The winners' experiments will be performed aboard the International Space Station and streamed live on YouTube to the whole world.
Outsourcers Learning the Value of the Cloud in Colombia
Time for a quick geography quiz. Which is closer to Miami: New York or Cartagena, Colombia?
The answer is the latter, as I found out flying down here yesterday. I am attending the Latin American Outsourcing Summit, where leading outsourcing firms in the world pick up new trends and meet with each other along with their major customers, such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor and Gamble, Microsoft and Miller Beer.
Hubble Telescope Can Now Drink in All States
Yesterday, the Hubble Space Telescope reached its 21st birthday. Given the initial problems with its lens, the project to watch our universe from outside of the confines of atmosphere has proven pretty successful. (Just goes to show, neither person nor telescope need be defined by youthful screw-ups.)
To celebrate this milestone, NASA has found a particularly lovely pair of galaxies to photograph. Known by the mellifluous appellation of Arp 273, it consists of UGC 1813, on top, and UGC 1810, the one below, whose gravity has shaped the stars of its sister galaxy into the shape of a pinkish rose.
Astronauts Might (Not) Have a Better Internet Connection Than You
Long have we waited the day when ReadWriteWeb writers would have a reason to post a space-related geekout. We are pleased to tell you that the Internet has come to the International Space Station, and thus, we bring you the first installment of ReadWriteSpace.
The down and dirty deets are as follows: 3Mbps up and 10Mbps down speeds via a KU-band satellite. According to our late-night, Twitter-powered research, this beats more than a few Earthlings' connection speeds. To learn more about the hardware, servers, and how often the crew gets told to "just turn everything off then on again," read on.
SocialCash Launches New Facebook Ad Network
Social networking has been notoriously hard to monetize. Despite loads and loads of inventory, hitting on an ad model that works has proved thus far elusive. Traditional banners haven't worked, contextual ads have been lackluster, selling app installs isn't sustainable, and getting people to sell to their friends hasn't worked. There's just no native ad format for social networks. A new startup that launches today called SocialCash thinks it has hit on the solution: incentivize ad participation with free stuff.
Note: See update at the bottom of this post.
iPhone 2.0 Big in Bubbleland, But 2-3 Years Behind the Times in The Real World?
Tech blogs have been literally stampeding over the top of each other today to report on the latest version of the iPhone, announced at Apple's WWDC event in San Francisco. Our network blog last100 has an excellent overview of the news. Personally I'm a huge iPhone fan and so I was looking forward to this announcement as much as the next Macbook-toting geek. However a RWW commenter, Raph, injected a healthy dose of realism into the comments of our earlier post. It makes you wonder: is the iPhone really that revolutionary?! Let us know in the poll and comments below...
AOL Announces Revenue Sharing for Open AIM
Last month we called AOL's Open AIM developer platform an "often over-looked social networking platform," but with 80 million users and plans to integrate the AOL Instant Messenger platform into bebo, it might not be over-looked for long -- in fact, it now has 295,000 developers signed up. AOL has been pushing their chat platform hard this year, last month giving out $100,000 for the best AIM-powered applications, and today sweeting the pot further by announcing the availability of AIM Money, a new revenue sharing program.
What's Holding Up the New York Tech Scene?
Since moving to New York from London in 1990, I have become a firm convert to the idea that New York is the center of the universe. London, Paris, Berlin, Mumbai are all pretty great, but if you like cities, New York is it. So it has always been a source of frustration for me - and other New Yorkers - that our great city is such a slouch when it comes to high tech startups compared to boring suburbs like San Jose and Palo Alto, and even provincial towns such as Boston and Austin. Well, I finally figured out the problem. It's called Wall Street.
Mars Phoenix Lander Live on Web in 1 Hour
In July 1969 when the US Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon, an estimated 500 million people tuned in to watch on TV across the world. The space race between the US and the Russians had captured the public's imagination the world over. Over the next few years, though, public interest in lunar exploration began to wane and NASA space missions were no longer a television spectacle. With unmanned missions to Mars over the past few years, however, that interest is back. People are no longer glued to their television sets, but instead to their computer screens. For tonight's Phoenix lander touch down, NASA is pulling out all the stops for Internet coverage, as it expects over a 100 million people to log on.
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