Whoa! It's Here: 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy beats opening day box office record set by Avatar | News.com.au

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"A PIONEERING 3D erotic comedy has taken the Hong Kong box office by storm.
People have always thought that you need 3D for this kind of content."

Next stop, the world.

The Cantonese-language production 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy had earned 17 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.2 million) as of Tuesday since opening last week, according to figures provided by producer Stephen Shiu.

That's nearly seven times the total take so far for Hollywood thriller Scream 4, which has earned $HK2.5 million ($320,000)...."

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YouTube & AmEx Team in Aussie Video Story Mapping Project: mapmysummer's Channel

We're a huge and diverse country - the sun shines in Broome, the rain pours in Toowoomba, the surf's up in Byron and the mist settles in the Dandenongs - and our summer is legend. Let's share our collective experiences of this Aussie summer with the world. With your help, we want to create a map of the Australian summer on YouTube. Starting today, you can upload all your summer videos, creating an archive of events, experiences and people from all around the country.

Stefan Boublil on Single-Minded Design: What The Telephone's Unbeatable Functionality Teaches Us About Innovation | Co.Design

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Excerpt:

"Design has become almost useless to mankind since so few people pursue single-mindedness as a foundational purpose, but would rather purposelessly chase multi-functionalism down a dark and long tunnel that may well lead to magazine covers, but to little else..."

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And this has caught on because of companies like Apple and Nike, which have earned their success through design. Steve Jobs does it right, famously saying, “Design is how it works, not how it looks,” but most firms copy his aesthetics and not his philosophy, applying design merely as marketing gloss in order to capture additional sales....

Cory Doctorow lays down a taxonomy of value propositions: In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay?

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Doctorow's article is definitely worth the read & I'm looking forward to joining in the discussion. Excerpt from the full article on the Guardian.co.uk:

"In this article, I take a first cut at a taxonomy of "value propositions for the purchase of digital goods" – that is, reasons you should spend money on digital files that you can get for free – and of the market strategies that enhance or undermine each strategy. Different companies and products need different value propositions, but whatever your strategy is, your stated case for buying your products should be supported by those products. And if your sales strategy actively militates against your value proposition, you're doing it wrong.

This list isn't comprehensive; it's a starting point. If you've got more value propositions, please add a comment …

Buy this or you'll get in trouble

Buy this because it's the right thing to do

Buy this because you're supporting something worthwhile

Buy this because paying money will delivery high quality

Buy this because it is convenient

Buy this because your devices won't play the unauthorised version

Buy this and you'll get more features than you would with the unauthorised version

Not Surprising: iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.

The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.

For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010.

"Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been," said Pete Warden, one of the researchers.

Only the iPhone records the user's location in this way, say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. "Alasdair has looked for similar tracking code in [Google's] Android phones and couldn't find any," said Warden. "We haven't come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this."

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