Don’t hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe’s Flash software: Apple’s terms-of-service agreement prohibits it.

Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it.

“I’m pretty skeptical that Flash could be implemented in a way that doesn’t violate the Terms of Service of the developer’s agreement,” said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game.

Flash is Adobe’s highly popular platform for displaying interactive graphics, animations and multimedia within a browser. According to Adobe, 98 percent of desktop computers currently support Flash, which has led to its widespread use by web developers. Adobe’s recent announcement that it is working on a version of Flash for Windows Mobile has prompted speculation that an iPhone version might be coming soon. But the speculators may be waiting in vain, based on Apple’s TOS and the company’s history of tightly controlling applications for its smartphone platform.

YouTube’s News and Politics Editor Steve Grove says that YouTube wants to “improve access” between political candidates and voters. YouTube has 46 million unique users a month, so the presidential candidates “almost can’t not be there,” Grove says.

So far, 17 candidates have posted more than 500 videos online. “Basically, your YouTube channel is like your own television network,” he says.

YouTube’s goal is to improve the authenticity of the dialogue between the candidates and voters, Grove said. He suggested that candidates should keep “their cameras rolling,” to be able to better capture their personas. YouTube’s video interviews between the candidates and YouTube users are another way of building this conversational bridge, he said.

It’ll be interesting to see the format YouTube adopts for the July debate between the Democrats.

संस्कृति मंत्री  गोपाल खुम्बू हंगकंग भ्रमण समाप्त गरी नेपाल आइपुग्नु भाको छ| उहालाई संस्कृति मंत्रीको हैसियंतले चोमोलुंग्मा प्रतिष्ठानद्वारा आयोजित कृति लोकार्पण कार्यक्रममा निमन्त्रण गरिएको  थियो| हामीले उहाकै हाम्रो संस्था प्रतिको चासोलाई मध्यनजर गरी हाम्रो भाद्र ४ गते पुर्ब निर्धारित कार्य्रक्रमलाई ११ गतेको लागि सारेका थियौ| सोलुखुम्बूबाट जननिर्बाचित अनि मंगोल मूलका मंत्री अनि हाम्रो संस्था सोलुखुम्बू जिल्लाका बिभिन्न बिधामा संलग्न रहेर,साहित्य रचना,कला र  संगीत शृजन गर्ने ब्यक्तित्वहरुको संस्था हामीलाई गोपाल खुम्बू भन्दा राम्रो अतिथि अरु  को हुन सकथ्यो र ? साहित्य, रचना, कला  अनि गीत संगीतसंग परोक्ष सरोकार राखने  मंत्रालय सम्हालेर बस्नु भएका साथै आफनै जिल्लाको मंत्री स्वभाबिक रूपमा ऊहाको उपस्थितिको अपेक्षा राख्नु र उहाबाट  हाम्रो कार्यक्रमको समुध्घाटन गराउने  इच्छा लिनु हाम्रो गल्ती थिएन|

मंत्रीजी  देश निर्माणको कुरा गर्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो  देशको स्थिति पुनर्निमाणको गढ़ीमा छ. मंत्रीजीबाट देशको पुनर्निर्माण लाई झोड़ दिएको देख्दा मनमा एक किसिमको उमंग उठ्नु स्वभाबिक थियो| मात्र हेर्न बाँकी छ देश पुनर्निर्माणमा ऊहाको भूमिका कस्तो  रहने हो,  ऊहा भन्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो हामीलाई सामाजिक कार्यक्रममा उपस्थिति हुने समय छैन| हामीसंग धेरै काम हरु छन| ब्यक्तिमा होइन नीतिमा खोज्नु पर्छ सरकारलाई| जब ब्यक्तिनै हाम्रो पक्षमा छैन भने कुन नीति हो मंत्रीजीले हाम्रो पक्षमा निर्माण गर्न लागेको ?

ऊहा बारम्बार भन्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो हामी नीति बनाउन  ब्यस्त छु,  कस्तो नीति तयार हुदै छ हामी लाई पनि थाहा छ के बिकाश हुदै छ त्यों पानी थाहा  छ| हामी त देशका ती संपूर्ण स्तिथिहरुबाट परिचित समुदायलाई केही छनलाई भए पनि मानसिक पीढाबाट  मुक्ति दिलाउन केही साहित्य रचना र गीत संगीतहरु लिएर पुगेका  थियौ  गुरुकुलमा| मनमा एक किसिमको उमंग थियो खुसी थियो हाम्रो मंत्री आउनु हुन्छ, शुभकामना  दिनु हुन्छ भनेर  तर मंत्रीजीले त हलमा रहेका साहित्य र संगीत प्रेमी जनमानसलाई अशांता पार्ने गरि चर्को रूपमा ऊहाको समयको ब्याख्या गर्नु भयो र चरम ब्यंग्य हरुले मनमा रहेका  उमंग  हरु माथि एक्कासी प्रहार गर्नु भयो|

मंत्रीजीलाई हंगकंग भ्रमणमा जान  फुर्सद छ, कांग्रेस र एमाले को बिरोध गर्न अनि क्रन्तिकारी पुस्तक लेख्न र पढ़ना फुर्सद छ अज बलबहादुर के शीको कुरा गर्नलाई त ऊहा संग मनग्गे समय छ सायद मंत्रीजीलाई क्रन्तिकारी पुस्तक बिमोचन गर्नु परेको भए खुलेर प्रसंशा  गर्नु हुन्त्यो होला| लाग्छा  हामीले पनि अब साहित्य रचना माओको पक्षमा गर्नु पर्दों हो बामपंथी कला  अनि गीत संगीत हरुको रचना गर्नु पर्ला मंत्रीजीहरुको साथ मिल्न लाई,  तर मंत्रीजीलाई सुझाब छ समाजमा क्रांतिका मात्रै कुरा हुदैनन, शान्तिका कुरा हुन्छन्, मायाका कुरा हुन्छन् , क्रांति मात्र समाज रूपांतरणका अंग होइन| रातो मात्र रंग हुदैन|

मंत्रीजी भन्दै हुनुहुन्त्यो ऊहा अब राष्ट्रको मंत्री हो सारा राष्ट्रलाई हेर्नु पर्छ. खुसी लाग्यो कोही त छ जसले आफुलाई कुनै जिल्ला र जाती बिशेषको मंत्री नठानी पुरै राष्ट्रको लागि काम  गर्न लागेको छ, तर सायद मंत्रीजीलाई एउटा कुराको हेक्का छैन होला तपाई त्यहा  पुग्नुमा सोलू बासिको ठुलो हात छ|  तपाईको एकलौती सोचले देश स्विट्जरलैंड हुदैन र तपाईको हामी मतदाता प्रतिको अनास्थाले तपाई  धेरै समय राष्ट्रको सेवा गर्ने मौका पनि पाउनु हुन्न| तपाईलाई थाहानै छ ब्यक्ति चरित्रले गर्दा बलबहादुर के शी पक्षको मत तपाईको पोल्टोमा परेको कुरा, तपाई  एक्चोटीको  जीतले २ बर्ष  मा देश लाई स्वर्ग बनाउने दिवा स्वप्न  देख्दै हुनु हुन्छ र तपाईको सपनामा त्यों महत्वकांछाले तुषारापात पनि गर्दै छ|  हामी अग्रगमनको बिपक्षमा छैनौ तर समाजका बिभिन्न अंगहरु लाई एक साथ  नसेमेटी एक्लौती नीति लेखन तम्सिनु मुर्खता हुन सक्छ|

आज तपाईलाई आफ्नै गृह  जिल्लाका साथीहरुको कार्यक्रममा उपस्थिति हुनलाई तेति गाह्रो पर्यो , यो हामी तपाईका प्रसंसकहरुका लागि खुसीको कुरा भएन| सायद गाह्रो  हुन्थ्यो १ ब्यक्तिको कार्यक्रम भैदिएको  भए , १ वाटा मात्र कृति भैदिएको भए या एक जातीको कार्यक्रम भैदिएको भए  तर त्यों समग्र सोलुबासीहरुको कार्यक्रम थियो आधा दर्जन भन्दा बड़ी कृतिहरु एकै साथ लोकार्पण हुदै थियो बिभिन्न जातीका कृतिहरु थिए| समग्रमा जनजातिहरुको मिस्स्रित कृतिहरु थिए| हिजो सम्म मंत्रीजीहरु जातीय स्वात्तताको कुरा गरेर हिदथे आज तिनै जातीहरुको उत्थानका लागि प्रकाशित कृतिहरुका पक्षमा १ घंटा समय दिन पुरै जहाज डूबेको आभाष गराउछ मंत्रीजीका भाषण हरुले|

चोमोलुंग्मा प्रतिष्ठान सोलू बासी कलाकार, साहित्यकार, गीतकारहरुको समूह हो जसले आफ्नो स्थापना कालको पहिलो सालमा नै ६ वाटा भन्दा बढ़ी कृतिहरु प्रकाशित गरेका छन|

हामी लाई अतिथिको कमी थिएन तर आफ्नो जिल्लाको मंत्री तेहि माथि संस्कृति मंत्री उहालाई हाम्रो कदमको बारेमा केही जानकारी दिउ साथै मंत्रीजीबाट हामीलाई हुन सक्ने सहयोगको अपेक्षाको साथ हामी उहाको उपस्तिथि चाहन्थें| तर हामीलाई थाहा भयो उहा अब देश को मंत्री  हुनु भाको रहेछ नाकि हामी सोच्थेऊ हाम्रो मंत्री भनेर कुवाको भ्यागुताले कुवालाई नै संसार देख्छ भन्थे तर आज हाम्रो मंत्रीजीले त कुवाबाट बाहिर निस्केपछि त कूवालाई नै बिर्सेर ठुलो राज्य नै देख्नू भाको रहेछ सिंगो राज्य पुनर्संरचनामा ठुलो योगदान दिन लाग्नु भाको रहेछ कला, संस्कृति, साहित्य अनि गीत संगीत देशका लगी केही पनि होइनन, देशका लागि केही हो भने मंत्रीजीका उग्र भाषण गर्ने समय अनि उहाहरुको आपसी किचालो जो देश निर्माणमा निरंतर बिबादको चरम सीमामा पुगेर आखिरी टुप्पो न फेदका निर्णयमा अल्जी रहेका हुन्छन्|

Google expects the Department of Justice to approve its advertising partnership with Yahoo by October, keeping the deal on schedule, and CEO Eric Schmidt says they are moving apace with implementation.

“We are going to move forward,” Schmidt told Bloomberg Television. “We are in the process of talking to the government. They’ve not indicated one way or the other how they’re dealing with us.”

A Google spokesperson told Bloomberg after the interview that “Ultimately we have confidence that they’ll be able to conduct their review within that time period and allow us to move forward.”

Google and Yahoo announced the non-exclusive partnership in June. To pre-empt anti-trust concerns arising from a partnership between the number 1 and 2 search engines, Google gave the DoJ three months to review the deal as a courtesy, though they did not consider it legally necessary.

“We always worry a little bit, but we think our arguments are pretty strong,” Schmidt said. “Yahoo has made it very, very clear they’re going to take the best parts of their network and ours and combine them.”

MOSCOW (AP) — In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself.

Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site - some of which resemble Facebook right down to color, font and layout - have popped up in local languages around the world. These competitor sites offer identical core services, letting users post pictures, make groups and choose their friends.

All are complicating Facebook Inc.’s global campaign, which began in February and has since rolled out 18 foreign-language editions, including Norwegian and Czech, with plans for 54 more.

Facebook’s international challenges illustrate just some of the ways global expansion can bedevil major U.S. Web companies as they seek swarms of users and advertising dollars in new markets.

Facebook’s particular problem is winning over people who are already hooked on local-language sites hocking similar services with a similar look.

In Russia, for example, where Facebook launched last month, the entrenched social-networking engine online is Vkontakte, a Russian-language Facebook clone that boasts more than 14 million users.

Facebook officials predict they will eventually triumph, partly because they can spend more resources on improving their site than upstarts can. Facebook also has a strong network of outside programmers who write Web applications for the site, and the company said last week it would extend its translation tools to those developers, to make Facebook even more compelling for overseas markets.

Plus, its users can connect with friends from other countries, something local sites can’t offer.

“They can gain traction in individual countries but they are not going to be able to compete on a global scale,” Facebook spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin said.

But social-networking sites mirror real life, and many Russians dread moving to a neighborhood where they have no friends.

“All of my Russian friends are on Vkontakte,” said Moscow resident Galina Ryazanova, 21, a recent college graduate who uses both Web sites. “I don’t think they’ll switch to Facebook because everyone is already established on Vkontakte.”

Ryazanova visits Facebook about once a month to keep up with her non-Russian friends, she said, but uses Vkontakte three or four times a week. She criticized Facebook for adding too many distracting applications, and for allowing users to translate part of the site - producing what she called poor-quality Russian.

Facebook dominates the social-networking market in many English-language countries and is growing quickly elsewhere. It is the most popular social-networking site in Britain and one of the top three in France, tracking company comScore reported.

But in countries like Germany and Russia, where competitor sites have taken root, Facebook seems to be gaining ground more slowly. According to comScore, Germany’s StudiVZ and Russia’s Vkontakte are widely outdrawing Facebook.

Facebook software engineer Alex Moskalyuk said his company has no direct strategy to attract users from competitor sites.

“You can spend your time worrying about the competitors or you can spend your time innovating your product,” he said. “We chose to do the latter and not the former.”

That strategy apparently changed this month, when Facebook filed an intellectual-property lawsuit against German clone StudiVZ in a federal court in California.

Though Facebook claims StudiVZ unfairly copied its content, StudiVZ says Facebook is trying to stifle the competition as it pursues the global market. The faceoff has fueled speculation that a string of lawsuits against clone sites could begin.

The stakes are high. Microsoft snared 1.6 percent of Facebook for $240 million in 2007, valuing Facebook at roughly $15 billion. Investors poured $430 million this year into the parent company behind China’s Facebook-like Xiaonei. Der Spiegel reported that a publishing company bought StudiVZ for $132 million in 2007.

In Russia, Vkontakte dominates the market along with one other site, which is geared more toward adults.

“Vkontakte has already become like a habit,” Nikita Glushik, 19, said as he checked the site at a Moscow Internet cafe. He said he had never heard of Facebook.

With the sites looking so similar, Russia’s renewed sense of national pride might be enough to give Vkontakte an edge.

“Facebook is American and Vkontakte is Russian - that’s the main difference,” Ryazanova said. “It’s going to be tough for Facebook to displace Vkontakte.”
Wired.com

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