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Social media in Indonesia: Eat, pray, tweet

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Social-networking sites have taken off in Indonesia. Who will profit?

WHAT does the most populous Muslim nation do in its spare time? Increasingly, it swaps gossip online. Indonesia is now the world’s second-largest market for Facebook and the third-largest for Twitter, according to several web research firms. For industry insiders, however, the most exciting statistic is not how many Indonesians use social media, but how many still don’t. Of 230m or so Indonesians, fewer than 20% are connected to the internet.

Foreign firms see untapped potential. Facebook doesn’t even have an office in Indonesia, yet it has grown like crazy, to 30m users. In May last year Yahoo! ventured into this fizzing market by buying Koprol, a location-based social network. Indonesian culture seems particularly receptive to online socialising. People love publicity, don’t fret much about privacy and gleefully follow trends. “Everything is about friends and location,” says Andy Zain, the founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, a networking forum. …

Myth busting: Eat to lose that extra flab

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Please eat or you are not going to lose weight, says Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor, the size zero protagonist, standing a popular notion on its head. “As an actress, who works 18-20 hours a day under gruelling circumstances, shooting all nights; playing and feeling a range of emotions, (sometimes, I have to dance in the [...]

Android, Apple Eat RIM Share in Q3, Say Researchers

November 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Google’s Android platform shipped on more than 40 percent of smartphones, trumping Apple iOS and Research In Motion BlackBerry smartphones, said Canalys and the NPD Group. – Google’s Android operating system led Apple iOS, Research In Motion BlackBerry
and others in growth for the third quarter, shipping on more than 40 percent of
new smartphones, according to research from Canalys and the NPD Group.
Android shipped on 44 percent of all smartphones in the United
Sta…

â€œEat Pray Loveâ€ Oracle Hospitalized

August 12th, 2010 | No Comments

The Balinese fortuneteller featured in the hit book and forthcoming box office blockbuster Eat Pray Love has been hospitalized with heart trouble, The Associated Press revealed on Thursday.Ketut Liyer, 96, has been revered in his village of Ubud since the book’s released in 2006. Tourists and locals alike flock to his home for palm readings, [...]

Eat Pray Love Goes From Page to Screen via Final Cut Pro

August 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Editor Bradley Buecker describes how he cut his first feature film, Eat Pray Love, using Final Cut Pro. To edit more than 70 hours of footage shot on location in New York, Italy, India, and Indonesia, Buecker found a fast, efficient editing format in ProRes 422 (Proxy), introduced in Final Cut Pro 7.

Facebook, Twitter Eat Up 23% of Americans’ Time

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Nielsen surveyed 200,000 users from June 2009 to June 2010 and found that the amount of time users spent on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social sites grew from 16 percent to 23 percent. – Social networks and online games have eclipsed Web
portals such as Yahoo and e-mail in use, according to a new report from Nielsen Company
titled quot;What Americans Do Online. quot;
Nielsen surveyed 200,000 users from June 2009 to June
2010 and found that the amount of time users spent on Face…

Weird Al Biopic Trailer [Parody]

March 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Two Words Eat It – check out Funny or Die’s new parody trailer for a biopic on the life of comedian/singer-songwriter Weird Al Yankovic.

Cymbals Eat Guitars 2010 Tour

December 18th, 2009 | No Comments

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS ANNOUNCE 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
BEAR IN HEAVEN TO SUPPORT

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Following an incredibly successful 2009 on the heels of their debut album, Why There Are Mountains, Brooklyn rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars have announced a slew of 2010 North American tour dates. The tour takes the band to both coasts and includes a few stops in Canada. Supporting will be Bear In Heaven

Cymbals Eat Guitars 2010 Tour Dates

03/05/10 Fri Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA

03/06/10 Sat Rock & Roll Hotel Washington, DC

03/07/10 Sun Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC

03/09/10 Tue The End Nashville, TN

03/10/10 Wed Pilot Light Knoxville, TN

03/11/10 Thu The Earl Atlanta, GA

03/13/10 Sat Will’s Pub Orlando, FL

03/16/10 Tue Mango’s Austin, TX

03/22/10 Mon Rhythm Room Phoenix, AZ

03/23/10 Tue Casbah San Diego, CA

03/24/10 Wed Echo Los Angeles, CA

03/25/10 Thu Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA

03/27/10 Sat Berbati’s Pan Portland, OR

03/29/10 Mon Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC

03/31/10 Wed Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT

04/01/10 Thu Hi Dive Denver, CO

04/02/10 Fri Replay Lounge Lawrence, KS

04/03/10 Sat Turf Club St. Paul, MN

04/04/10 Sun Schubas Chicago, IL

04/06/10 Tue El Mocambo Toronto, ON

04/07/10 Wed Il Motore Montreal, QC

04/08/10 Thu Middle East Downstairs Cambridge, MA

04/09/10 Fri Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

Praise for Cymbals Eat Guitars:
“You could blame it on so many bands being from autophobic NYC, or that the Pacific Northwest gods of indie are still going too strong to already be a primary influence, but neither would explain New York’s Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Why There Are Mountains. While there’s plenty of geographical signifiers on their debut, it’s almost topographic in its approach, without hooks and choruses so much as map-like layouts of mountains and sloping valleys.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music)

“The most obvious thing about Cymbals Eat Guitars is that their epic, widescreen indie rock bears a striking resemblance to that of Built To Spill and early Modest Mouse.” – Fluxblog

Complete Cymbals Eat Guitars tour dates available here.

Heidi Klum German Shampoo Commercial Shoot

December 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Eat your hearts out, ladies! Heidi Klum is back to work — just seven weeks after delivering her fourth child. The catwalk stunner shot scenes for a commercial promoting German haircare product Drei Wetter Taft on the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday.
In the new ad, Heidi is seen stylishly stepping out of a Porsche [...]

Hang Up and Eat: Intel’s Mobile Device Etiquette for the Holidays

November 25th, 2009 | No Comments

The holidays can be tense enough, what with the various family commitments, gift-buying and travel. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are strong opinions out there regarding how and when people should and shouldn’t use their Internet-connected mobile devices, from laptops to smartphones to netbooks. According to a survey of adults by Harris Interactive, conducted for Intel, more than half of the population agrees that mobile devices are a part of daily life and that society needs to adapt, and that the nature of business means that people have to be constantly connected. However, 80 percent said there are unspoken etiquette rules around the use of mobile devices, and 69 percent said violations of those rules are unacceptable. Here, eWEEK presents Intel’s finding of some of the dos and don’ts around mobile technology use during the holidays.
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Conservation and cookery: Eat for the ecosystem

October 15th, 2009 | No Comments

A heartening tale of business and the environment

RED lionfish are pretty, but they are also greedy. A single one of them, introduced into a coral reef where the species is not native, can reduce the number of other small fish by 80% in just a few weeks, according to Mark Hixon, a marine biologist at Oregon State University. To make matters worse, lion fish are top predators. Though their size would make them an easy mouthful for a shark or a grouper, their poisonous spines mean they are more or less invulnerable.

In the lionfish’s native waters, the western Pacific Ocean, the local ecosystem has adjusted to such predatory behaviour. In the Caribbean, though, the lionfish is a novelty—and a destructive one. Anything that damages the biodiversity of the reefs in diving resorts is bad for tourism, so in some countries, such as Mexico and Belize, people have tried introducing bounties payable to divers who catch lionfish. Sadly, there are too many lionfish about, and the bounties have proved too expensive to sustain. But there may be an answer: prove that the lionfish is not in fact a top predator after all, by getting people to eat it. …

Julia Robertsâ€ Eat, Pray, Love shooting launched with â€œhawanâ€

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Hindus have applauded the makers of Hollywood movie “Eat, Pray, Love” and its star Julia Roberts for reportedly launching the India leg of the shooting with a hawan (a fire sacrifice).
According to acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, hawan, central to Hinduism, is sacrificial ceremony in which ghee (clarified butter), grains, flowers, etc., are offered (to [...]

NY Senate ‘Gang’ Vows To Eat Bloomberg For Lunch

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on the menu Monday, as state senators promised to eat him for lunch.

The two groups took their war of words over the control of city schools to a new low.

Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Wrong’s new book, It’s Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, confronts the question of African corruption head on and finds there’s plenty of blame to go around.