Your Movie On Facebook Lookback

Yes, I freely admit this.. I am a softy.

I cry on sad parts during movies whether they are real life or cartoon. (c'mon people, who didn't cry when Mufasa died in Lion King or when Optimus Prime died in 1986)

Now, it seems Facebook wants to tug on my heart strings again with this 10 year anniversary movie clip.

What they have done is take your most liked posts and pictures and other random pics and put them into a 62 second clip with some soft piano music. Now, I understand that not all videos will be heartmelting but mine is. Well, at least to me it is.

If you are on Facebook then you are seeing a ton of these in your news feed by now. Watch them.

If you do not know how to share yours it is simple.
Go to https://www.facebook.com/lookback/

It will auto load your video and then you can share it with your friends. Kleenex's optional.

Here is mine

Google Settles Its European Antitrust Case

CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and MARK SCOTT says Google has agreed to a settlement with European competition regulators that leaves the company with a few bruises, yet victorious over all — and would end half a decade of wrangles with antitrust authorities across the globe.

Under the settlement, which awaits formal approval by the European Commission, Google agreed to the harshest penalties it has yet received in an antitrust inquiry anywhere. But it escaped a fine and a finding of wrongdoing. And it protected its crown jewel — its secret algorithm — from oversight by regulators, and avoided a court battle or potential consequences like a $5 billion fine or a ruling to make major changes to its company structure or its products.

The changes Google agreed to did little to satisfy the competitors whose formal complaints prompted the inquiry by European antitrust regulators. The investigation focused on whether Google abused its dominant position in the European search market, where it has about 90 percent market share, versus two-thirds in the United States.

NYPD Beta Testing Google Glass

Richard Byrne Reilly says Google Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States.

The New York City Police Department’s massive and controversial intelligence and analytics unit is evaluating whether Google Glass is a decent fit for investigating terrorists and helping cops lock up bad guys, VentureBeat has learned. The department recently received several pairs of the modernist-looking specs to test out.

“We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes,” a ranking New York City law enforcement official told VentureBeat.

“We’re looking at them, you know, seeing how they work.”

The glasses are currently only available through Google’s Glass Explorer program, in which people who interested in acquiring them first apply and then receive notification from Google on whether it accepts or denies their application. Respondents who get the green light must pay $1,500 for the privilege.

The news that the country’s largest police department is eagerly beta-testing Google’s products comes at a sensitive time for the company, given its entanglement in various intelligence-gathering efforts from spy agencies in the U.S. and abroad. Not that Google is happy about that: Google chairman Eric Schmidt blew a gasket when it was revealed that the NSA was routinely hacking into the company’s servers to spy on customers, as outlined in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

A spokesman for Google said the company was not working with law enforcement agencies on the project and that the NYPD likely acquired the glasses through the Google Glass Explorer program.

“The Google Glass Explorer program includes people from all walks of life, including doctors, firefighters and parents. Anyone can sign up to become a Glass Explorer, provided he or she is a U.S. resident and over the age of 18,” read the wooden company response to my questions.

This isn’t the first time the NYPD has embraced new tech platforms: In 2012, the NYPD and Microsoft worked together to build the Domain Awareness System, a tool for gathering and managing surveillance data for counterterrorism efforts.

Google Glass is an Android-powered, wearable computer built into a module perched on the side of a pair of eyeglasses. It comes from Google’s somewhat clandestine special-projects division, called Google X, which is also working on driverless cars, high-tech contact lenses, and high-altitude balloons that blanket the Earth below with wireless Internet. Google Glass incorporates a heads-up display reminiscent of that used in advanced fighter jets and commercial airliners to communicate with pilots. A camera captures photo and video on demand.

The chief information officer of the San Francisco police department, Susan Merritt, said that her department has yet to test the wearable Google computers. But she says the applications for law enforcement are potentially huge.

The San Francisco department currently deploys Samsung S4 smartphones for cops working the street. Merritt says the S4 has become an integral tool because it enables officers to access the department’s criminal database to run warrant checks and pull up mugshots of wanted suspects in real time.

Google Glass could have a similar value proposition for police forces, Merritt said, pointing out that wireless facial recognition software is one potential use.

Even without facial recognition, Google Glass could help match suspects’ names and faces to information contained in various databases that police and federal law enforcement agencies use, such as those from the National Crime Information Center. That would give investigators a handy way to see a suspect’s rap sheet while interviewing them, for instance.

It could also help eliminate the time-consuming, hand-written or typed reports that are the bane of cops the world over by enabling video recording and dictation for digital reports.

But the glasses could run afoul of civil liberty groups who say Google Glass and their wireless software programs could encroach on the rights of innocent citizens, especially in a city like San Francisco.

Asked about these issues, Merritt deferred answering.

“This is very interesting,” Merritt said. “Call us back in six months!”

As for the NYPD, if the evaluators like what they see, the department could represent a significant customer for Google. With 34,500 people in the NYPD overall, that represents a lot of potential Glass-equipped cops.

That in turn could have a massive influence on Google Glass’s revenues, especially if other departments hop on the wearable bandwagon and the devices someday become standard issue for law enforcement agencies worldwide.

So far in New York, the NYPD official says, it’s too early to tell.

Some in law enforcement and the intelligence community sniff at Google Glass, arguing that while it might be a helpful gadget for geeks to manage their lives, its applicability to spying and investigations is limited.

“Its use for law enforcement and intelligence agencies is doubtful,” said Vincent Cannistraro, a former ranking clandestine operator with the CIA, who spent the majority of his career in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Central America.

“But I’ve been wrong before.”

The NYPD sees it differently.

“We think it could help impact patrol operations in New York City. We shall see,” the NY law enforcement official said.

Google Glass In The Medical Field

Stephanie M. Lee says among the tech elite, Google Glass is a sleek symbol of minimalist, futuristic cool.

But several startups see deeper potential in Glass: the ability to heal wounds and save lives.

Pristine in Austin, Texas makes the app EyeSight, which enables physicians and nurses to transmit live video and audio of wound patients from Glass to authorized computers, smartphones and tablets. After months of a pilot program at UC Irvine, the startup said this week it will soon roll out the technology at outpatient wound care clinics operated by Wound Care Advantage in Southern California.

"We're really using this primarily as a tool, to help people connect where it was either not possible or practical before," said Kyle Samani, CEO of Pristine, which started last spring in Austin, Texas. "If, for whatever reason, the doctor is not physically here, we'll find the next best way to get him here."

For decades, telemedicine has been slowly working its way into the doctor's office in the form of desktops, laptops, digital cameras, tablets and other gadgets. Now comes Glass, which Google plans to make available to the public this year. And Pristine isn't the only company seeking to capitalize on the device's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, camera and voice activation in the medical world.

Augmedix, founded by two former Stanford University students, is working on a system that would roughly translate information from Glass' audiovisual stream directly into a patient's medical record. Healium, co-founded by a Mill Valley doctor, is also developing an app that would let doctors share patient information through Glass.
Linking patients, experts

In Pristine's case, a nurse will use Glass to stream a video of a patient's wound to a doctor, who will then decide whether he or she should examine the injury in person, said Mike Comer, CEO of Wound Care Advantage. The company operates or helps run wound care clinics in hospitals, which involves providing equipment and hiring and training personnel to deal with chronic injuries.

"It's a way for us to bring experts to patients very quickly, very seamlessly," Comer said.

Chronic wounds, a market worth $25 billion, offer a particularly promising opportunity for Glass because patients need constant monitoring and outpatient care. About 6.5 million patients in the United States suffer from the condition, according to the National Institutes of Health. These wounds, such as diabetic ulcers and venous ulcers, can take more than six weeks to heal.

Since October, Pristine has been testing EyeSight through a pilot program with surgeons and anesthesiologists at UC Irvine.

Dr. Leslie Garson, one of the anesthesiologists, said Glass has proved useful during the 15 or so surgeries he has worked on so far, especially because he often monitors two or even three surgeries simultaneously.

"A resident could have Google Glass on, they could be looking at a monitor, and I could have a tablet down the hall and could see exactly what they're seeing," he said. "They can send me an alert - 'Take a look at this,' 'Is this something I should be concerned about?' "

Still, Glass, like any new technology, has skeptics.


San Jose doctor skeptical

Dr. Peter Schubart, director of the Wound Care Clinic at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, doesn't see a great advantage in Glass. Schubart and his staff constantly take digital photographs of wounds and upload them to the electronic medical record system. It takes all of 20 seconds, he said. He also wonders if insurers and Medicare will still compensate him if he determined, by way of Glass, that a patient didn't require in-person treatment. Under health care reform, Samani said insurers will increasingly pay for quality of care instead of the standard fee-for-service model.

Consumer advocates have also raised concerns that hackers might steal sensitive patient information. To allay those fears, Pristine executives say the company offers the only commercially available Glass software that complies with the federal government's strict rules on patient privacy. EyeSight's encrypted video stream is strictly live, Samani said.

"Videos are not being saved, not even for a microsecond," he said. "We don't want anyone to feel the world is watching."

Over the long term, Pristine plans to bring Glass into intensive-care units, emergency rooms and ambulances. Samani wouldn't disclose how much it costs for hospitals to sign up but believes Glass offers plenty of opportunities in health care. Over the next month, wound care centers of three hospitals, including the University of Southern California'sVerdugo Hills Hospital, will use the device.

Even Schubart, the skeptic, said he will keep an open mind about the new technology.

"I've learned to never say never," he said.

Winning With Google+

JOSIC MEDIA says when Google first introduced Google+, they wanted it to become a thriving social media network comparable to Facebook, and that simply did not happen. However, that does not mean Google+ doesn’t have value as a social network. Google+ has developed into a professional network. It may be better than LinkedIn because it’s user friendly and easy to navigate and there’s a night and day difference between G+ and Facebook.

While those at Google might be disappointed with the outcome, users aren’t. According to Matthew Ingram, a writer on GigaOM, “Google’s vision is of a Facebook-style network that encompasses hundreds of millions of people and a broad range of activities. The problem is that no one seems to want that except Google.”

Here are 4 reasons Google+ is an ideal platform for generating traffic to your website.

1. You can email users whether you have their email address or not. One of the challenges internet marketers face is getting people visiting their website to actually subscribe to their email list. Google+ bypasses that need and allows you to directly market to all users.

2. Google+ offers interest-specific communities. There is no need to market to people who have little or no interest in your niche. You can join communities of people who are directly interested in or associated with your niche. This saves time and energy on social marketing.

3. Google+ Hangouts may valuable. Google+ Hangouts allow you to set up sessions where you can communicate directly with clients or leads. Large companies like Best Buy have recently utilized Google+ Hangouts and are finding success.

4. Google+ Authorship is increasing more important to SEO. Although there are multiple search engines, Google has risen to a position where they essentially make the rules regarding SEO and everyone has to follow them. Google algorithms can effectively make sure a website is never found in the search engine if it does not follow the rules. It makes sense that Google would show SEO preference to those that are also active on Google+.

10 Years Of Facebook

By Chloe Albanesius says thatTen years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg flipped the switch on The Facebook, inviting students at Harvard and then the world to like, friend, poke, share, and ruminate on their every waking moment.

In the decade since the social network went live, it has dropped the “the” and had more than its share of makeovers, transforming from a cluttered catch-all to the sleek, photo-filled Timeline we know today.

Though each Facebook profile and news feed overhaul has been met with loud complaints and threats of boycotts, users eventually simmered down and in most cases, forgot what the old site looked like. Can you really say you remember the layout of your profile before the Timeline was introduced in 2011? Are you satisfied with the news feed of today or would prefer to return to 2009, when it was largely a list of who friended whom that day.

By now, Facebook is home to average Web users, celebrities, businesses, members of Congress, and even a few pets. It’s on your PC and your smartphone, in the pages of magazines and on TV. Zuckerberg’s rocky rise to fame was even charted in an Academy Award-winning film penned by West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin.

LinkedIn And China

The one major U.S. social network not blocked in China is starting to expand its presence in the world's most populous nation reports CNBC.

LinkedIn, unlike Facebook, Twitter and Google, is not banned by state censors, but only recently appointed its first president for China, George Shen. Shortly thereafter, LinkedIn started to integrate its accounts with users' profiles on the Chinese chat app WeChat, which has around 300 million monthly users.

Internet analysts and recruiters say that LinkedIn has a better chance of catching on in China than many other US tech groups.

Other groups, if they were unblocked, would need to compete directly with China's established tech giants. Tencent, whose HK$991.6 billion (US$127.7 billion) market cap is less than $5 billion behind Facebook's, runs WeChat, which is increasingly popular as a social network and marketing platform. Sina dominates blogging with its Twitter-like Weibo microblog, which is partially backed by ecommerce giant Alibaba. Baidu and Youku Tudou, meanwhile, lead in search and online video.

The online job hunting market, however, is fragmented between local groups such as Zhaopin and 51job, and a very high turnover rate among employees means high demand for recruiting services.

"The quality of companies that hire through Zhaopin or 51job varies greatly," said one young Chinese office worker now at a multinational group. "LinkedIn is more international and higher end."

Why China does not block LinkedIn along with other foreign social networks is unclear, but users of the site do not typically use it to debate politics or organize protests, areas that will draw the censors' attention.

Despite not offering a complete Chinese version of its desktop site, LinkedIn says it has more than 4 million users in China. Globally, it has 260 million members, 54 million of whom are in Asia. However, its membership growth rate in the US is starting to slow as LinkedIn has already covered much of its potential userbase.


"They need new markets to keep the whole thing going," said Michael Graham, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity.

China could be that market. With rising salaries and stiff competition among companies for trained staff, recruiters say it is not uncommon for employees to change jobs after just two to three years, faster than in the US or Europe. A recent survey by headhunter Aon Hewitt in China found that nearly 15 per cent of employees changed jobs last year. Turnover rate among workers in fast-growing sectors such as technology was even higher.

LinkedIn declined to elaborate on what its new China president Mr Shen, a former Google executive, plans to do for the site.

One potential way to grow would be to offer a desktop site in Chinese, as it already does in languages including Bahasa Indonesia and Turkish. Currently, its Chinese-language functionality is limited to its mobile app.

Yet recruiters and users cautioned that localizing the site too much could dilute one of its strengths - the fact its users are multilingual and generally highly skilled.


"The professionals who can compete on the international level all speak English, [and] that is also the area of highest demand," said Chun Liew, founder of Direct HR, a recruiting firm based in China.

Next week, LinkedIn is expected to report earnings of $2.22 a share for 2013, according to the average analyst estimate, a 38 per cent increase from 2012.

In the U.S. and Europe, LinkedIn profits by selling subscriptions to recruiters who want access to the millions of résumés that members have posted on the site. Revenues in its recruitment service division, which account for more than half of overall sales, were up 62 per cent year on year last quarter.