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"First Look: Microsoft Office 2010," by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content. This free sneak peek introduces you to changes in Office 2010 and shows you how to make the most of the new features. Download the sneak peek here. Find more information about this free download on the Microsoft Press blog.

O'Reilly Media "First Look: Microsoft Office 2010," by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content. This free sneak peek introduces you to changes in Office 2010 and shows you how to make the most of the new features. <a href="http://cid-d7229b252a0ad6f2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/693876ebook.pdf">Download the sneak peek here.</a> Find more information about this free download on the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/12/09/free-e-book-first-look-microsoft-office-2010.aspx">Microsoft Press blog</a>. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/MiTLfiNnAh8" height="1" width="1"/> text http://blogs.oreilly.com/blurbs/2009/12/16/microsoft-office-2010-first.jpg http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/12/09/free-e-book-first-look-microsoft-office-2010.aspx tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38720 2009-12-16T12:58:06Z 2009-12-16T12:58:06Z

Just over three years ago, Bre Pettis and I threw a geek night in our home town. We called it Ignite Seattle. Since that first amazing night in 2006, Ignite has spread to over 60 cities, bringing together thousands of geeks and generating hundreds of videos of Ignite talks. This March, it gets much, much bigger. O'Reilly is launching the first-ever Global Ignite Week, to bring together as many local Ignites as possible.

Brady Forrest http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2649 Just over three years ago, Bre Pettis and I threw a geek night in our home town. We called it <a href="http://igniteseattle.com">Ignite Seattle</a>. Since that first amazing night in 2006, Ignite has spread to over 60 cities, bringing together thousands of geeks and generating hundreds of videos of Ignite talks. This March, it gets much, much bigger. O'Reilly is launching the first-ever <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/giw/">Global Ignite Week</a>, to bring together as many local Ignites as possible. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/uAMKYZkjHBY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2649 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/16/global-ignite-log.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/global-ignite-week-40-ignites.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38712 2009-12-16T11:00:00Z 2009-12-16T11:00:00Z

Videos Sell More Product -- Zappos sells 6-30% more merchandise when accompanied by video demos. By the end of next year, Zappos will have ten full working video studios, with the goal of producing around 50,000 product videos by 2010, up from the 8,000 videos they have on the site today (via johnclegg on Twitter) This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 <a href="http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/12/zappos-sells-630-more-merchandise-when-accompanied-by-video-demos.html">Videos Sell More Product</a> -- Zappos sells 6-30% more merchandise when accompanied by video demos. <i>By the end of next year, Zappos will have ten full working video studios, with the goal of producing around 50,000 product videos by 2010, up from the 8,000 videos they have on the site today</i> (via <a href="http://twitter.com/johnclegg">johnclegg on Twitter</a>) This and more in today's Four Short Links. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/S7e3PVJaux8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/16/zappos-logo.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/four-short-links-16-december-2.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38721 2009-12-16T04:30:34Z 2009-12-16T04:30:34Z

Last Monday night, I was watching the Ravens playing the Packers at Green Bay. Mostly, I was watching penalties. This game featured an astounding number of penalty calls: 23 calls, 310 yards. I wondered whether penalties really affect the outcome of football games. Here's what I figured out in 15 minutes, with a little help from R.

Joseph Adler http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2033 Last Monday night, I was watching the Ravens playing the Packers at Green Bay. Mostly, I was watching penalties. This game featured an astounding number of penalty calls: 23 calls, 310 yards. I wondered whether penalties really affect the outcome of football games. Here's what I figured out in 15 minutes, with a little help from R. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/UbTNBjSB1Vg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2033 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/16/r-football-stats.jpg http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/using-r-to-answer-a-football-q.html tag:toc.oreilly.com,2009://40.38716 2009-12-15T20:28:31Z 2009-12-15T20:28:31Z

We (finally) received our nooks (pre-ordered quite some time ago), and the early results are ... disappointing. Loading one (any) of our EPUB ebooks causes the nook to hang, and the book never opens. I tried loading a number of O'Reilly Media titles that are valid and work on the Sony Reader and every other ePub device. The Nook only brought up the "Formatting" message, and then hung. Only a full restart would bring it back. This is an extremely serious problem.

Andrew Savikas http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1848 We (finally) received our nooks (pre-ordered quite some time ago), and the early results are ... disappointing. Loading one (any) of <a href="http://oreilly.com/ebooks/epub/" target="_blank">our EPUB ebooks</a> causes the nook to hang, and the book never opens. I tried loading a number of O'Reilly Media titles that are valid and work on the Sony Reader and every other ePub device. The Nook only brought up the "Formatting" message, and then hung. Only a full restart would bring it back. This is an extremely serious problem. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/p7z1MvNnixo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1848 text http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/12/first-look-at-nook-not-encouraging.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38711 2009-12-15T20:00:00Z 2009-12-15T20:00:00Z

In light of the company's past consumer-unfriendly initiatives, Facebook's recent 'privacy' settings change should serve as a wake up call to its 350M users that they are entrusting a Fox to guard the Hen House; a truth that is destined to erupt into a crisis for the company.

Mark Sigal http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1308 In light of the company's past consumer-unfriendly initiatives, Facebook's recent 'privacy' settings change should serve as a wake up call to its 350M users that they are entrusting a Fox to guard the Hen House; a truth that is destined to erupt into a crisis for the company. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/HYhsQF0H_F0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1308 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/16/facebook-fox.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/is-facebook-a-brand-the-you-ca.html tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38714 2009-12-15T16:15:31Z 2009-12-15T16:15:31Z

How can I interact with government on the Web? How to record phone interviews on a Mac How to build your own baseball stats database Practical differences between Foswiki and TWiki Which virtual machine on a mobile platform is fastest? Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

O'Reilly Media <ul style="margin: 0 0 0 1.2em; padding: 3px 0 10px 0;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/878-how-can-i-best-interact-with-the-government-on-the-web/">How can I interact with government on the Web?</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/335-how-to-record-phone-interviews-on-a-mac/">How to record phone interviews on a Mac</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/888-how-to-build-your-own-baseball-stats-database/">How to build your own baseball stats database</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/886-practical-differences-between-foswiki-and-twiki/">Practical differences between Foswiki and TWiki</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/868-which-virtual-machine-on-a-mobile-platform-is-fastest/">Which virtual machine on a mobile platform is fastest?</a> </li> </ul> Share knowledge, ask questions on <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/">O'Reilly Answers</a> today. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/iWtkQBn9Dns" height="1" width="1"/> text http://blogs.oreilly.com/blurbs/2009/12/15/answers121509.jpg http://answers.oreilly.com/ tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38707 2009-12-15T15:35:30Z 2009-12-15T15:35:30Z

Under no pressure from anyone, I’ve forced this obligatory “end of year predictions” post upon myself. People always ask me where I think Government 2.0 is going anyway, I may as well get some writing mileage out of it, right? So, here are some non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas that I foresee taking shape in the next three years or so: Local governments as experiments The rise of Citizen 2.0 Mobile devices as primary devices Ubiquitous crude video content Always on-the-record

Mark Drapeau http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3823 Under no pressure from anyone, I&#8217;ve forced this obligatory &#8220;end of year predictions&#8221; post upon myself. People always ask me where I think Government 2.0 is going anyway, I may as well get some writing mileage out of it, right? So, here are some non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas that I foresee taking shape in the next three years or so: <ul style="margin: 0 0 0 1.2em; padding: 3px 0 10px 0;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;">Local governments as experiments</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;">The rise of Citizen 2.0</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;">Mobile devices as primary devices</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;">Ubiquitous crude video content</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px;">Always on-the-record</li> </ul> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/T9bfGbTInFs" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3823 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/15/gov20expo-tile2.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/government-20-five-predictions.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38706 2009-12-15T11:00:00Z 2009-12-15T11:00:00Z

Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today (Linux Weekly News) -- the Software Freedom Law Center is suing them for selling GPL-derived products without offering the source. They've been unresponsive when contacted outside the legal system. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/366467/">Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today</a> (Linux Weekly News) -- the Software Freedom Law Center is suing them for selling GPL-derived products without offering the source. They've been unresponsive when contacted outside the legal system. This and more in today's Four Short Links. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/oPEHTbbd-EU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/15/sflc-logo.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/four-short-links-15-december-2.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38705 2009-12-14T15:00:00Z 2009-12-14T15:00:00Z

Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All the smart people don't work for you." Online payment giant PayPal took those bits of wisdom to heart and recently announced the PayPal X APIs, a new group of developer APIs designed to enable new applications that can more tightly integrate with PayPal services. To encourage developers to create some awesome applications with the APIs, PayPal is offering prizes $100,000 and $50,000 (in cash plus waived transaction fees) for the best new applications. We caught up with PayPal's director for their Developer Network, Naveed Anwar, and he filled us in on what the new PayPal APIs bring to the table for application designers.

James Turner http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2978 Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are <a href="http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html">"A platform beats an application every time" </a> and "All the smart people don't work for you." Online payment giant PayPal took those bits of wisdom to heart and recently announced the PayPal X APIs, a new group of developer APIs designed to enable new applications that can more tightly integrate with PayPal services. To encourage developers to create some awesome applications with the APIs, PayPal is <a href="https://na5.brightidea.com/ct/s.bix?c=184D42D4-CDE7-4829-876D-83342568ACE1">offering prizes</a> $100,000 and $50,000 (in cash plus waived transaction fees) for the best new applications. We caught up with PayPal's director for their Developer Network, Naveed Anwar, and he filled us in on what the new PayPal APIs bring to the table for application designers. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/SkNfmOG9UMc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2978 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/14/paypal-logo.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/create-a-great-paypal-app-win.html tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38685 2009-12-14T14:00:00Z 2009-12-14T14:00:00Z

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over 5 Tips For Version Controlled Site Deployments. After relaunching my own blog I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the techniques I have used on larger sites and how they can be applied to smaller ones. Blogs and small sites are excellent times to practice version controlled deployments. This post will discuss what I have learned and recently implemented.

Jesse Freeman http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3725 Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the <a href="http://flashartofwar.com" target="_blank">Flash Art Of War</a>, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over 5 Tips For Version Controlled Site Deployments. After relaunching my own blog I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the techniques I have used on larger sites and how they can be applied to smaller ones. Blogs and small sites are excellent times to practice version controlled deployments. This post will discuss what I have learned and recently implemented. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/OzHNA2h7oC8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3725 text http://www.insideria.com/upload/2009/12/faow_aft_logo.gif http://www.insideria.com/2009/12/5-tips-for-deploying-sites.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38702 2009-12-14T12:00:00Z 2009-12-14T12:00:00Z

Measured in terms of number of unique apps, the Top 5 categories in the U.S. app store have been Games, Books, Entertainment, Travel and Utilities. But comparing categories in terms of number of apps doesn't capture the challenge of developing applications in different categories. As I noted in an earlier post, it's much easier to develop a Book app than an interactive game. One crude measure for the relative complexity of developing apps across categories is to compare the number of apps per seller.

Ben Lorica http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2718 Measured in terms of number of unique apps, the Top 5 categories in the U.S. app store have been <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/games-top-the-charts-iphone-android-markets.html">Games</a>, Books, Entertainment, <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/the-itunes-app-store-rolls-with-the-travel-season.html">Travel</a> and Utilities. But comparing categories in terms of number of apps doesn't capture the challenge of developing applications in different categories. As I noted in an <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/books-is-the-fastest-growing-category-in-the-itunes-app-store.html">earlier post</a>, it's much easier to develop a Book <em>app</em> than an interactive game. One crude measure for the relative complexity of developing apps across categories is to compare the number of apps per seller. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/hmcNOaDNUuI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2718 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/14/apps-per-seller.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/apps-per-seller-across-us-itunes-categories.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38701 2009-12-14T11:00:00Z 2009-12-14T11:00:00Z

Videos from the vault of the National Archives -- the public domain US government videos that public.resource.org have been scanning. Check out China's Great Leap Forward (the Beijing landscape has changed!), John James Audubon's Birds of America, and Nature's Half-Acre. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7C8C9C30AE62EBD5&sort_field=added">Videos from the vault of the National Archives</a> -- the public domain US government videos that <a href="http://public.resource.org">public.resource.org</a> have been scanning. Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkOrfR5UbdU&feature=PlayList&p=7C8C9C30AE62EBD5&index=15">China's Great Leap Forward</a> (the Beijing landscape has changed!), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQijoWmzvTo&feature=PlayList&p=7C8C9C30AE62EBD5&index=42">John James Audubon's Birds of America</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meaFIBdGewY&feature=PlayList&p=7C8C9C30AE62EBD5&index=24">Nature's Half-Acre</a>. This and more in today's Four Short Links. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/Uq0EpBXnYLI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/14/national-archives-china.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/four-short-links-14-december-2.html tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38700 2009-12-12T00:13:22Z 2009-12-12T00:13:22Z

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