Facebook?s Instagram announcement puts the Street to sleep

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Facebook announced on Thursday that the photo-sharing social network, Instagram, is adding an option to take short, 15-second video clips that can then be modified with filters and shared on the social network. However, Wall Street isn?t terribly impressed by the announcement.?The new feature will be available on both iOS and Android apps at once, and will come with 13 custom filters along with a stabilizing feature called Cinema. But it doesn?t address Facebook?s potential revenue potential for the 130 million monthly active users on Instagram. At least, not yet.

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Instagram is an incredibly popular social network, with more than 130 million monthly active users, and over 1 billion likes every single day, CEO Kevin Systrom noted during the presentation. Brands such as Nike, Burberry and others are increasingly turning towards Instagram to show off their wears to consumers, but Instagram hasn?t capitalized on that just yet.

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On Facebook?s most recent earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he?s optimistic about the potential for Instagram as a business, but the social network isn?t quite there yet. ?I am really optimistic about the business opportunity there too,? Zuckerberg said on the call. ?You already have a lot of brands and folks who advertise with Facebook putting content in Instagram, getting huge engagement rates. So people are coming to us and asking for ways to make that even richer and it?s something that we?re thinking about.?

Facebook, and now Instagram, have made it a habit to release products to the market without any immediately apparent revenue potential. Wall Street has continued to vote against that, sending shares lower this year, down over 10%, versus a 12% gain in the Nasdaq.

Shares of Facebook slid more than 2%?immediately?following Thursday?s announcement.

Until that mindset changes and unless Facebook/Instagram demonstrate the ability to generate revenue from major new products, every product announcement will be met with the ?dislike? button, rather than the ?like? button.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-instagram-announcement-puts-street-sleep-182517810.html

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Colbert delivers moving tribute to his mother

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Stephen Colbert returned to "The Colbert Report" Wednesday night after a one-week absence, and if viewers were unsure why he left in the first place, they soon understood.

At the top of the show, Colbert explained that his 92-year-old mother, Lorna Colbert, passed away last week.

"Now if you watch this show, and you like this show, that's because of everybody who works here, and I'm lucky to be one of them," he said. "But when you watch the show, if you also like me, that's because of my mom."

That statement kicked off a tribute to her, complete with a brief summary of a life well lived -- from her meeting and falling for Colbert's father, James, when she was just 12 years old, to later marrying him and having 11 children.

"She made a very loving home for us," the host recalled. "No fight between siblings could end without hugs and kisses -- though hugs never needed a reason in her house. Singing and dancing were encouraged, except at the dinner table."

Colbert went on to share just how much his mother is already missed.

"I know it may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long," he said. "But the fact that my mother was 92 does not diminish it ... only magnifies the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut."

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Wind-wildlife group begins building bird-death database | Midwest ...

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While the number of bird deaths caused by wind turbines is small compared to other threats like cars and power lines, the wind industry?s impact on wildlife remains under scrutiny.

The latest example came last month, when an Associated Press investigation concluded that the Obama administration is giving a pass to the wind industry by not prosecuting wind farms when eagles are killed in collisions with their turbines. (Oil and power companies have been charged.)

In the future, the American Wind Wildlife Institute (AWWI) hopes to be able to provide better, more precise information about how birds and other wildlife interact with wind farms. For now, though, much of that data is spread out and under wraps.

That?s why AWWI, a five-year-old alliance between 22 wind companies and nine conservation groups, has launched a new project to collect and analyze previously confidential surveys and studies prepared by wind farm operators across the country.

?Our goal is not to identify problems to prosecute,? said Abby Arnold, AWWI?s executive director. ?Our goal is to develop a really good analytic tool that experts ? biologists, statisticians, ecologists ? and the wind industry can use to understand what these impacts are, where they?re occurring, and how we can address them.?

Confirmed eagle deaths at wind farms are extremely rare, but the numbers and public perception are skewed by one set of wind farms in California?s Altamont Pass region, where an average of 67 golden eagles are killed annually. Outside of Altamont Pass, only around 50 golden eagles are known to have been killed anywhere else since the industry began.

The Associated Press story cited a March 2013 study published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin that said more than 573,000 birds are killed by wind turbines each year. The American Wind Energy Association maintains that the actual number is less than 200,000 birds annually.

Either way, the numbers are small compared to other known causes of bird fatalities.

According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, cars may kill 60 million birds or more each year. Building windows are to blame for more than 97 million bird deaths annually. Communication towers conservatively kill 4 to 5 million birds per year, and it could be ten times more. Power line fatalities could be ?as high as 174 million deaths annually.? Pesticides poison at least 72 million birds annually, and up to two million are killed each year in oil and wastewater pits.

One study found domestic cats kill 39 million birds annually in Wisconsin alone, with the national total likely hundreds of millions per year.

Most wind developers are required to conduct wildlife impact studies before and after projects are built. The results are typically seen by local regulators but never broadly disseminated beyond that, in part because wind companies worry opponents will use the results in anti-wind campaigns.

After a successful pilot project, AWWI has started collecting post-construction wildlife impact studies from its members, which include some of the nation?s largest renewable developers. GE Energy, Horizon Wind, and Iberdrola Renewables are among the founding partners, along with the Audubon Society and the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.

The American Wind Energy Association passed a resolution in support of the project two years ago, encouraging its members to participate. A big reason why wind companies may be embracing the project is that the data will be made anonymous before it?s shared with researchers or the public.

Wind firms can go to a web portal to upload studies, but the information will be scrubbed of any references to specific wind farms or companies. What?s left will include details about turbines, surrounding habitat, bird kill counts and survey methods.

Arnold said they hope to collect a critical mass of post-construction studies by the end of the year so that they can begin making it available to analysts next year to begin research with the data. The goal is to eventually have published, peer-reviewed research based on the database.

Among the questions that might be answered, according to Arnold: What is the avian fatality rate at wind farms? How does that rate vary by species? How do different fatality survey methods affect the results? And how do pre-construction estimates compare to post-construction data?

?We agree that these impacts are important,? Arnold said, ?and that?s why the wind industry and conservation groups have formed this institute.?

Source: http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/06/20/wind-wildlife-group-begins-building-bird-death-database/

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Watch Wimbledon tennis live on YouTube beginning Monday (video)

It may not be the NBA Finals or Stanley Cup Playoffs, but the world's oldest tennis tournament has a solid following as well, particularly abroad. A new Wimbledon partnership with YouTube could help boost the competition's appeal stateside; for the first time, you'll be able to access video feeds from the two-week London event, live on Google's prized streaming site. Beginning this Monday, you can catch all the action on Wimbledon's YouTube channel, with Rolex footing the bill. You'll also find interviews, behind-the-scenes segments and press conference streams on the video site, along with past match highlights and other featured content. There's a teaser clip waiting for you just past the break.

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Sino Tech Group Launches Buzz Equity: Chinese and Western ...

Sino Tech Group,? a leader in Chinese social intelligence software, launched their Buzz Equity platform this week. It is a website where companies can do a search to determine brand value in both the Chinese and Western online landscape. It comes in a free social search version to paid solutions, seaching and translating social insights from Twitter, Facebook to Sina Weibo and Tencent?s WeChat.

http://blog.chinainternetguru.com/2013/05/03/sino-tech-group-launches-buzz-equity-chinese-and-western-social-media-monitoring/

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Google files patent for smartwatch with Glass-like touchpads and functionality

Starting to get bored with Google Glass already? Well, it seems like Mountain View's trying to patent some of that functionality for a smartwatch, in a substantially different way than it did before. According to an application submitted to the USPTO, such a device would include standard smartwatch functions like a wireless transceiver, display and processor, but could also be equipped with two touchpads located on each side of the bezel. Those could enable "pinch, stretch and scroll on a platform with limited space available for user input," and would also communicate "with the clock line or data line." That means they'd control all the smartwatch functions, of course, but Google may be leaving the door open for it to control other devices as well, judging by the cagey wording -- perhaps sidestepping the need to reach for or yell at your eyewear.

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