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Open source Qbo bot makes the jump to ROS, the open source robot OS
Aug 24th
While the Willow Garage-initiated ROS is designed to consolidate and accelerate robotics innovation for the long term, it’s still a long ways from powering your robotic butler / life coach / best friend, so it’s exciting to see it put to use in the here and now. The folks at Thecorpora, responsible for the Qbo open source robot project, have been busy converting Qbo’s original Java API into ROS, and just announced they’re at 99.9 percent completion of that task. That means the Qbo gets instant access to some of the fun development going on in ROS, like stacking all its cameras and ultrasonic sensors into a system for machine vision, or controlling the bot with a Wiimote or a PS3 controller. (There’s a video after the break of the Wiimote in action). Don’t think Qbo will be powerful enough for you? Willow Garage just announced that it’s about to put its own ROS-powered PR2 bot on sale soon, after a few months of its (highly successful) PR2 Beta Program.
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Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen Jump Out of Engagement
Aug 10th
Rachel Bilson has already shared her last kiss with Hayden Christensen.
The Jumper costars are no longer engaged and have ended their three-year romance, Bilson’s rep confirmed to E!…
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OpenTable Serves Up A 273 Percent Jump In Profits, And Launches Spotlight Deals
Aug 4th
One publicly traded Web business that seems to be humming (unlike AOL) is OpenTable. The company announced second quarter earnings last night. Revenues were up 37 percent to $22.5 million, and net profits rose a whopping 273 percent to $2.6 million, or $0.11 per share. Non-GAAP earnings per share were $0.15, handily beating the $0.12 consensus.
OpenTable is installed in 14,128 restaurants and seated 15.6 million diners last quarter, up 27 percent and 52 percent, respectively. Of those seated diners, 97 percent were in North America, but international operations are growing quickly from a base of 500,000 international diners last quarter.
Those diners have now written more than 7 million restaurant reviews. As a point of comparison, Yelp has a total of 12 million reviews across all local businesses, and CEO Jeremy Stoppleman considers the those reviews to be Yelp’s single most important competitive advantage.
To make those diners even more loyal, OpenTable is getting into group buying and flash sales by launching a weekly deal program called Spotlight, which will offer deep discounts on meals at OpenTable restaurants. For $25, consumers will be able to get $50 worth of food at a promoted restaurant. (Yelp is also testing out similar deals).
Executed properly, these discount deals could have a significant impact on OpenTable. Using discounts to entice new customers to try a restaurant can be very effective, as Groupon is already showing. (At our Social Currency CrunchUp last week, the owner of Stone Korean Kitchen in San Francisco explained how selling 2,600 Groupon discounts at a loss helped drive repeat traffic and introduced his restaurant to new customers). If diners have a good experience, that will increase their loyalty to those restaurants and to OpenTable, potentially driving more reservations in the future. Anything that results in more reservations and increased customer loyalty will keep OpenTable growing.
But what is the deal with having to print out the deal certificate? Why can’t diners just show the coupon on their mobile phones?
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Google Will Soon Let You Jump Between Multiple Accounts
Aug 4th
If you’re a big user of Gmail, Calendar, or any of Google’s other account-based services and have spread your data across multiple accounts, Google has a new feature that you’re going to love: Multiple Sign-In. Yes, you’ll finally be able to quickly swap between multiple Google accounts without having to go through the tedious process of logging out and logging back in every time. Granted, the process generally takes less than a minute, but for those of who have been doing it a dozen times a day, this is a very welcome change.
The feature, which was first noticed by Google Operating System, will only work for some Google Apps: Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Sites, Voice, App Engine, and Google Code. It is reportedly rolling out to users this week, and can be enabled through this page (I don’t see it yet). It’s also a bit confusing — you’ll probably want to read through the help section before you activate the feature (note that you can’t use offline access with Multiple Sign-In activated).
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Nuove immagini da Shonen Jump per The Last Story
Jul 30th
Dalla rivista giapponese Shonen Jump arrivano nuove scansioni per The Last Story raffiguranti i co-protagonisti del gioco da poco svelati. Ricordiamo che l’uscita del titolo è prevista per fine anno in Giappone in esclusiva Nintendo Wii.
Vi lasciamo alle immagini.
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