Koozoo: A Web 2.0 version of Big Brother goes mobile

Koozoo allows you to post or sift through videos of your environment. But don't worry ? the Koozoo CEO says it's all perfectly secure.?

By Matthew Shaer / February 28, 2013

Say hello to Big Brother, Web 2.0 edition.

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Beginning this week, a small San Francisco company called Koozoo ? tag line: "share your view" ? has launched the beginnings of a user-generated, 24/7 streaming video network in the Bay Area and Austin, Texas. The network will be comprised wholly of snippets of video and longer live-streams submitted via an Android or iOS app. The goal, Koozoo says, is for folks to broadcast "views of places and events in [their] community and around the world."

You don't have to actually post videos to use Koozoo. By clicking around the map in the Koozoo app, you can choose to simply watch ? click on the icon at the local park, for instance, and you might see a video of some folks playing soccer, which is being live-streamed by a passing pedestrian. Or navigate over to the icon outside the local coffee shop, and take a gander at the crowd. Yeah, sure, it's a little weird.?

But over at All Things D, Liz Gannes is optimistic that Koozoo could take off.?

"There?s actually already a pretty great recent example of this kind of system working," she writes. "Earlier this month when a meteor streaked across the Russian sky, it was captured from many angles by?drivers who had dashboard cameras installed in their cars?in order to capture an unbiased view of accidents and encounters with highway patrol cops. Those videos were almost immediately posted online, and the rest of the world could viscerally experience and replay this crazy event that had just happened in Russia."

Late last year, Koozoo made headlines when it raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by?New Enterprise Associates and Tugboat Ventures. It also raised the eyebrows of privacy-minded users. But questioned in December about security on the platform, Koozoo founder and CEO Drew Sechrist?promised certain safeguards would be in place.?

?Koozoo is for public places only, so private spaces or inappropriate content will be curated out of the system,? Sechrist told TechCrunch at the time. ?And we have a curation system that handles that. That?s the quick and dirty answer to it, the longer answer is that there will be grey areas of what?s appropriate content and what?s not, and we are building an advisory board of some of the world?s leading experts at the intersection of privacy and computer science, and we?ll be looking to those guys to advise us on those grey areas.?

Well, it's a start anyway.?

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Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty For Supplying WikiLeaks, Says Newspapers Ignored Calls

Private First Class Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks. Reading from a 35-page statement, Manning said he leaked diplomatic cables to "spark a domestic debate as to the role of the military and foreign policy in general," but denies aiding the enemy. Perhaps most revealing, Manning said that he first attempted to go to media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, but his calls were rerouted to voicemail.

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Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Four major universities are joining theater companies in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta in a project to commission new plays, music and dance compositions about the Civil War and its lasting legacy.

The National Civil War Project announced Thursday in Washington will involve programming over the next two years to mark the 150th anniversary of the war between North and South. Beyond commissioning new works, organizers plan for university faculty to integrate the arts into their academic programs on campus.

Harvard University will partner with the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.; the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will join CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore; George Washington University is working with Arena Stage in Washington, and Atlanta's Alliance Theatre will join Emory University.

Each collaboration will evoke unique perspectives on the Civil War from each region.

At Harvard, a piece called "The Boston Abolitionists" about the abolitionist movement and the trial of a fugitive slave will be performed in May. Separately, Matthew Aucoin, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, is using Walt Whitman's poetry about being a medic to compose an opera.

In Atlanta, Alliance Theatre and Emory will develop a new theatrical production of U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Native Guard," with a workshop planned for 2014. It recounts the story of a black Civil War regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers on an island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith, who helped guide the project, said this is a chance to reevaluate the Civil War in the context of issues that resonate today in American life, from gay rights and gun rights to voting rights in the states.

"This is an anniversary of what is arguably one of the most important times in American history," she said. "And the same questions behind state rights and civil rights continue to infuse who we are as a country."

In September, the University of Maryland will host a national conference on civil rights and health disparities among minority populations to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE plans to commission new works about Maryland's unique role as a border state where slavery was legal and Confederate sympathies ran deep, even though it was held by the North.

"In such a tiny little state, we become this microcosm of the U.S.," said Gavin Witt, the associate artistic director at CENTERSTAGE.

The theater will premiere a new musical piece at a Civil War battlefield entitled "At War With Ourselves," complete with a 500-voice choir and poetry. It's also commissioning a British playwright to explore international perspectives on the war, drawing on the complex relationship between Europe and the U.S. then.

Choreographer Liz Lerman, a 2002 MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellow, helped develop the partnerships between theaters and universities. She said artists can help professors animate their scholarship, calling the Civil War a good subject for connecting art with academics.

"It's something about the fact that we're still trying to understand it," Lerman said. "There are enough civil wars still going on in the world, I myself am trying to understand what it must be like."

Lerman is developing a new dance theater piece in Washington called "Healing Wars," exploring the role of women and innovations in healing for amputees from the Civil War through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Characters will migrate between past and present. The piece will feature actor Bill Pullman and eight dancers.

Arena Stage is also commissioning 25 playwrights to contribute to a new piece entitled "Our War" about the battles, Reconstruction and its aftermath.

By the end, the effort will have created a new body of works on the Civil War with 12 artistic commissions and others created by students.

Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War historian, has been leading the university to integrate the arts with academic pursuits.

"Engaging students through art and art-making is one of the ways in which universities prepare young women and men for life in a world that is far better connected and far more complex than at any other point in human history," she wrote in an email about the project.

On the war's 150th anniversary, she said, it's important to remember how the values of freedom and equality were defined in President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address as the war's purpose.

George Washington University President Steven Knapp said the war transformed American history, culture and industry ? even the concept of American democracy as it redefined equality.

He said tackling such a subject between academia and theater could provide a new model for learning: "It's an experiment to see how far we can go in bringing together the strengths of the university and the strengths of the theater company."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colleges-theaters-create-civil-war-plays-050454580.html

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Perform Better in Your Field by Paying Attention to Your Peers

We talk a lot about things you can do to be more productive or improve your personal performance. Many times it involves a lot of keeping your head down and focusing on what you have to do, but as author Blake Butler writes, none of us work in a vacuum.

In an old, somewhat bizarre post from his personal blog, Butler stresses to those who want to be a writer the importance of being "an open node:"

BE AN OPEN NODE.

I am amazed sometimes by people who want to be writers and yet seem to know little to nothing about even the more popular journals, who don't read that actively, who don't buy literary magazines hardly ever but send out their own work constantly, who don't buy even their friends work, who etc,etc....Getting involved is being involved, and if you aren't actively promoting others, I don't know why in hell you'd think anyone would ever want to read or support you.

While Butler is directly addressing other writers, his advice holds water for a lot of other industries as well. Keeping up with what your peers and offering any small measure of support serves a few purposes: it's a great way to grow your network, and it also can provide you with an array of case studies for things you'd like to try or improve. And, as Butler states, one good turn on your part can make all the difference when you need a hand down the road.

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Would You Pay to Kiss Postal Mail Goodbye?

A new service called Outbox promises to come to your house, collect your physical mail, and scan it so you can read it online via computer, iPad or smartphone. Clever, but worth paying for?

The start-up already has over 600 customers in Austin, Texas and is now testing the service in San Francisco, with hopes of a much larger geographic expansion in the future. The Outbox subscription fee is $5 a month.

Outbox?s ?unpostmen? will collect mail from a P.O. Box, but amazingly they?ll also come to your physical address and remove mail from your mail box, or if you have a door or garage slot, they provide a special box they can access.

That mail is delivered to a secure warehouse where the physical paper is digitized and then sent to your email inbox. Once scans of physical mail start arriving in your email inbox, you can flag items as junk mail and tell Outbox you don?t want to receive mail from that sender again. Outbox will also alert you to new items they think qualify as junk. The site?s marketing explanation says ?think of Outbox as a mail filter: we'll deliver only the mail items you want or need.?

If Outbox picks up a physical item that you want, for example a package, a check, or a birthday card, they will send a notification of that item and you can flag it for return delivery to your residence.

But does paying someone $60 a year to pick up mail from your own mailbox make ANY sense? I mean, I like lying on the couch as much as the next person, but I go by the mail box every day!

Okay, there are a few compelling arguments for Outbox: the afore-mentioned junk mail filtering, the digitization of items that can be organized and accessed anywhere, and a special case where you travel a lot or have a second home. And remember, there was a time when we said who?d ever give up their landline telephones so maybe digital snail mail is the future, and I just can?t see it.

But I have to think hard about the supposed timesaving benefits: does tossing an ad circular take more time than deleting an email? Is asking to have your birthday cards returned to you worth the hassle? And if there?s more than one person in your household, do you forward items to other recipients?

There are other services that digitize your mail:

• Earth Class Mail starts at $20 a month. You redirect your mail to their address: either with a change of address for merchants or a forwarding request with the Post Office. Then they scan and send you an email of the mail.
• Zumbox only accepts mail from merchants who will go paperless. This service organizes all that on a secure personal site and they offer all this for free, with the catch that they will send you ads from ?verified marketers.?
• Paytrust charges $10 a month to gather all your bills in a central remote location and alert you. This service is tied to your checking account, and they will make payments for you as well.

But it?s worth mentioning that most banks will give you electronic bill paying for free. And you can stop a lot of your junk mail by opting out of prescreened credit offers and blocking out much other junk by going to Catalog Choice.

Still, the founders of Outbox see the US Postal Service and its customers as a target ripe for disruption. Plus, the company has some serious investors, including Peter Thiel co-founder of Pay-Pal, who have given the company 2.2 million dollars to get the service up and running.

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Viruses can have immune systems: A pirate phage commandeers the immune system of bacteria

Feb. 27, 2013 ? A study published today in the journal Nature reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria and is using it against its bacterial host. The study provides the first evidence that this type of virus, the bacteriophage ("phage" for short), can acquire a wholly functional and adaptive immune system.

The phage used the stolen immune system to disable -- and thus overcome -- the cholera bacteria's defense system against phages. Therefore, the phage can kill the cholera bacteria and multiply to produce more phage offspring, which can then kill more cholera bacteria. The study has dramatic implications for phage therapy, which is the use of phages to treat bacterial diseases. Developing phage therapy is particularly important because some bacteria, called superbugs, are resistant to most or all current antibiotics.

Until now, scientists thought phages existed only as primitive particles of DNA or RNA and therefore lacked the sophistication of an adaptive immune system, which is a system that can respond rapidly to a nearly infinite variety of new challenges. Phages are viruses that prey exclusively on bacteria and each phage is parasitically mated to a specific type of bacteria. This study focused on a phage that attacks Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium responsible for cholera epidemics in humans.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Andrew Camilli, Ph.D., of Tufts University School of Medicine led the research team responsible for the surprising discovery.

First author Kimberley D. Seed, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Camilli's lab, was analyzing DNA sequences of phages taken from stool samples from patients with cholera in Bangladesh when she identified genes for a functional immune system previously found only in some bacteria (and most Archaea, a separate domain of single-celled microorganisms).

To verify the findings, the researchers used phage lacking the adaptive immune system to infect a new strain of cholera bacteria that is naturally resistant to the phage. The phage were unable to adapt to and kill the cholera strain. They next infected the same strain of cholera bacteria with phage harboring the immune system, and observed that the phage rapidly adapted and thus gained the ability to kill the cholera bacteria. This work demonstrates that the immune system harbored by the phage is fully functional and adaptive.

"Virtually all bacteria can be infected by phages. About half of the world's known bacteria have this adaptive immune system, called CRISPR/Cas, which is used primarily to provide immunity against phages. Although this immune system was commandeered by the phage, its origin remains unknown because the cholera bacterium itself currently lacks this system. What is really remarkable is that the immune system is being used by the phage to adapt to and overcome the defense systems of the cholera bacteria. Finding a CRISPR/Cas system in a phage shows that there is gene flow between the phage and bacteria even for something as large and complex as the genes for an adaptive immune system," said Seed.

"The study lends credence to the controversial idea that viruses are living creatures, and bolsters the possibility of using phage therapy to treat bacterial infections, especially those that are resistant to antibiotic treatment," said Camilli, professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the Molecular Microbiology program faculty at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.

Camilli's previous research established that phages are highly prevalent in stool samples from patients with cholera, implying that phage therapy is happening naturally and could be made more effective. In addition, a study published by Camilli in 2008 determined that phage therapy works in a mouse model of cholera intestinal infection.

The team is currently working on a study to understand precisely how the phage immune system disables the defense systems of the cholera bacteria. This new knowledge will be important for understanding whether the phage's immune system could overcome newly acquired or evolved phage defense systems of the cholera bacteria, and thus has implications for designing an effective and stable phage therapy to combat cholera.

Additional authors are David W. Lazinski, Ph.D., senior research associate in the Camilli lab at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Stephen B. Calderwood, M.D., Morton N. Swartz, M.D. academy professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief, division of infectious disease and vice-chair, department of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R01AI55058, R01AI045746, and R01AI058935.

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1. Kimberley D. Seed, David W. Lazinski, Stephen B. Calderwood, Andrew Camilli. A bacteriophage encodes its own CRISPR/Cas adaptive response to evade host innate immunity. Nature, 2013; 494 (7438): 489 DOI: 10.1038/nature11927

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