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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like gambling operations, social gaming companies function by hooking users, tracking their data, and monetizing their behaviors. Their business models looks more like a casino then a traditional console gaming company, Zichermann says. Even the products themselves at a company like Zynga have similar mechanics to casino games. Take titles like Farmville or Mafia Wars—they have random rewards and carefully timed payouts just like slot machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serious Doubts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with all the parallels, making the transition to real money gambling for Zynga won’t be as simple as pulling a lever. Kevin Flood, an online gambling consultant, has serious doubts about Zynga's prospects. “Organizationally they aren't prepared for it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social gaming is a whole different ball game than online gambling. Once it starts dealing with real money, Zynga will have to handle credit card fraud, implement age restrictions, and prove that rewards in each game are truly random. Government regulators will be scouring the code of every new game version they release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood says the programming process will have to function much differently then it does now. Zynga will have to spend more time on version releases and make sure all the code it produces is top notch. “You can't just iterate, iterate and dump some code out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first test of the new process for Zynga will be the United Kingdom, one of the world's biggest online gambling markets and the major target for Zynga's upcoming 180 real-money releases. Online gambling has been completely legal in there for almost eight years and the playing field is already crowded. Other social media companies have already beaten Zynga to the table, like Seattle-based Big Fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing in the UK is really encouraging,” says Carey DiJiulio, general manager of \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigfishgames.com\">Big Fish Casino\u003c/a>, the company's flagship game. “We have a slot machine live that we launched with in October. We added two more this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Fish began offering real-money games in the United Kingdom by partnering with \u003ca href=\"https://betable.com/\">Betable\u003c/a>, a San Francisco start-up that handles regulatory issues for social gaming companies wanting to jump into online gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betable CEO Christopher Griffin says Zynga will have to change radically to compete with this flood of younger, more flexible start-ups: “For Zynga to really make a move in the real money space they would either have to work with us or effectively become a start up all over again. That's how difficult and how much a paradigm shift real money is from what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Very Complicated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Flood sees Zynga's foray into Europe as mainly a way to prepare for the United States, which has the potential to be the world's largest online gambling market. He thinks with its brand and user base, Zynga's poised to make a killing here. “If they are marginally competent and that real money gaming works to a certain degree, I don't know if anyone is going to stop them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the U.S. market is far from a sure bet. The Department of Justice in December 2011 issued a ruling that allows states to legalize and regulate online gambling. So far, only Nevada and Delaware have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerard Cunningham, the founder of online casino company Koolbit, predicts more states will soon legalize, and that eventually we will end up with a patchwork of different rules and regulations across the country. That’s already true of online horserace betting. “We will see some states passing poker, some doing slots, some not,” he says. “It is going to be very, very complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That complicated patchwork of states will be a regulatory nightmare and will limit the market for games that require large pools of users, like online pokers. To achieve enough liquidity for a viable market, small states will need to sign treaties so that players can compete across borders. The goal of a big, integrated market, is one reason that Zynga is lobbying hard on the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Short-Term Play?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gambling may just be a short-term strategy for Zynga, gaming expert Gabe Zichermann speculates. Longer term he thinks Zynga is trying to shift to the mobile market and leverage its virtual currency in new ways. Perhaps in the future users will be able to make online purchases with Zynga coins or Facebook credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zichermann believes this will be the next big battleground in social gaming, and a major reason why Zynga and Facebook are starting to go their separate ways. “They can't be collaborators the way that they were before,” he says. “They are going to end up brutal competitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, much will depend on how Zynga plays its online gambling cards.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/19/interview-instagram-superstar-richard-koci-herandez-on-terms-of-service-controversy/#interview\">\u003cstrong>Interview with Richard Koci Hernandez\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/\">CNET\u003c/a> and the New York Times' \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/what-instagrams-new-terms-of-service-mean-for-you/\">Bits blog\u003c/a>, among others, put up posts on the practical implications of that language, helping to galvanize the resulting hue and cry that forced Instagram to issue a \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening\">blog post\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> backing away from the changes. Written by co-founder Kevin Systrom, the post was titled \"Thank you, and we're listening.\" Systrom said Instagram has no plans to utilize user photos in ads and does not claim ownership rights over them. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extracts from the post:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Advertising on Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ownership Rights\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed. We respect that there are creative artists and hobbyists alike that pour their heart into creating beautiful photos, and we respect that your photos are your photos. Period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Privacy Settings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing has changed about the control you have over who can see your photos. If you set your photos to private, Instagram only shares your photos with the people you’ve approved to follow you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One of the most prominent Instagram users to publicly rebel yesterday was \u003ca href=\"http://richardkocihernandez.com/\">Richard Koci Hernandez\u003c/a>. 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To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/19/interview-instagram-superstar-richard-koci-herandez-on-terms-of-service-controversy/#interview\">\u003cstrong>Interview with Richard Koci Hernandez\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/\">CNET\u003c/a> and the New York Times' \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/what-instagrams-new-terms-of-service-mean-for-you/\">Bits blog\u003c/a>, among others, put up posts on the practical implications of that language, helping to galvanize the resulting hue and cry that forced Instagram to issue a \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening\">blog post\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> backing away from the changes. 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Hernandez is an Emmy-ward winning multimedia artist who teaches at Cal's graduate journalism school. He's been described as an \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/slideshows/life/instagram-superstar-richard-koci-hernandez-reflects.html\">Instagram superstar,\u003c/a>\" and his work using the app has been featured on the \u003ca href=\"http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/a-distinctive-voice-on-instagram/\">New York Times' Lens blog\u003c/a>. Yesterday, Hernandez \u003ca href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/koci/\">posted the following on Webstagram\u003c/a>, an Instagram photo-viewing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(B)y now you've all read about Instagram's new terms of service ... We're all going to feel different about what this means for us as individual creators and that is expected. 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Google engineers started working on the new app before Apple's Sept. 19 ouster, Graf said, though he declined to be more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital maps are key battleground in mobile computing because they get used frequently on smartphones and can pinpoint a user's whereabouts. That information is so prized by advertisers that they're willing to pay much higher rates for marketing messages aimed at a prospective customer in a particular location, said Greg Sterling, an analyst at Opus Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's mapping app for the iPhone doesn't include ads, but that will likely change, based on the steady stream of marketing flowing through the Google maps app on Android phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional tools in the free iPhone app include turn-by-turn directions. Google's previous refusal to include that popular feature on the iPhone app —while making it available for smartphones running on its own Android software— is believed to be one of the reasons Apple decided to develop its own technology. The increasing friction between Google and Apple as they jostle for leadership in the smartphone market also played a role in the mapping switch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's new iPhone mapping app also offers street-level photography of local neighborhoods, as well as three-dimensional views, public transit directions and listings for more than 80 million businesses around the world. The app still lacks some of the mapping features available on Android-powered phones, such as directions inside malls and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those improvements are positives for Apple too, Sterling said, because the availability of a more comprehensive mapping option makes it less likely that iPhone owners will switch to Android devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The irony is that Apple ended up getting a better version of Google Maps on its system by booting it off,\" Sterling said. \"At the same time, you could argue that Google is making a triumphant return to cheering crowds. So, in a way, everyone wins in this situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors didn't see anything positive for Apple. The company's stock slid $9.31 to close at $529.84, while Google shares crept up $5.14 to finish at $702.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There still isn't a Google mapping app for Apple's top-selling tablet computer, the iPad, but the company plans to make one eventually. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own map software into the latest version of its mobile operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple's maps application proved to be far inferior to Google's, turning what was supposed to be a setback for Google into a vindication.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/24/what-san-francisco-looks-like-in-apple-maps/\">\u003cstrong>What Do You Think of Apple Maps?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (News Fix)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The product's shoddiness prompted Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue a rare public apology and recommend that iPhone owners consider using Google maps through a mobile Web browser or seek other alternatives until his company could fix the problems. Cook also replaced Scott Forstall, the executive in charge of Apple's mobile operating system, after the company's maps app became the subject of widespread ridicule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Apple's maps misplaced landmarks, overlooked towns and sometimes got people horribly lost. In one example brought to light this week, Australian police derided Apple's maps as \"life-threatening\" because the system steered people looking for the city of Mildura into a sweltering, remote desert 44 miles from their desired destination. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Inc., in contrast, is hailing its new iPhone app as a major improvement from the one evicted by Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We started from scratch,\" said Daniel Graf, mobile director of Google Maps. Google engineers started working on the new app before Apple's Sept. 19 ouster, Graf said, though he declined to be more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital maps are key battleground in mobile computing because they get used frequently on smartphones and can pinpoint a user's whereabouts. That information is so prized by advertisers that they're willing to pay much higher rates for marketing messages aimed at a prospective customer in a particular location, said Greg Sterling, an analyst at Opus Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's mapping app for the iPhone doesn't include ads, but that will likely change, based on the steady stream of marketing flowing through the Google maps app on Android phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional tools in the free iPhone app include turn-by-turn directions. Google's previous refusal to include that popular feature on the iPhone app —while making it available for smartphones running on its own Android software— is believed to be one of the reasons Apple decided to develop its own technology. The increasing friction between Google and Apple as they jostle for leadership in the smartphone market also played a role in the mapping switch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's new iPhone mapping app also offers street-level photography of local neighborhoods, as well as three-dimensional views, public transit directions and listings for more than 80 million businesses around the world. The app still lacks some of the mapping features available on Android-powered phones, such as directions inside malls and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those improvements are positives for Apple too, Sterling said, because the availability of a more comprehensive mapping option makes it less likely that iPhone owners will switch to Android devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The irony is that Apple ended up getting a better version of Google Maps on its system by booting it off,\" Sterling said. \"At the same time, you could argue that Google is making a triumphant return to cheering crowds. So, in a way, everyone wins in this situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors didn't see anything positive for Apple. The company's stock slid $9.31 to close at $529.84, while Google shares crept up $5.14 to finish at $702.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There still isn't a Google mapping app for Apple's top-selling tablet computer, the iPad, but the company plans to make one eventually. Google, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., declined to say when it hopes to release an iPad mapping app. For now, iPad owners can use the maps in an iPhone mode. That won't be the best experience, but it still may be better than Apple's offering on the iPad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an indication of iPhone owners' exasperation with Apple's maps, Google's new alternative was already the top-ranking free app in Apple's iTunes store early Thursday morning. By noon EDT, users had chimed in with more than 10,000 reviews of the Google app. Nearly 90 percent of them gave Google maps a five-star rating — the highest possible grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return of Google's map app may even encourage more iPhone owners to upgrade to Apple's latest mobile software, iOS 6. Some people resisted the new version because they didn't want to lose access to the old Google mapping application built into iOS 5 and earlier versions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After initially omitting Google's new navigation tool, Apple added the app to its list of maps for the iPhone late Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., declined to comment about Google's map app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graf said Google isn't hoping to make Apple look bad with its new mapping app. \"On maps, we have a friendly relationship,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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I'm frantically googling pictures of people I've never met holding babies I've never heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Seb Farrell (@sebfarrell) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sebfarrell/status/278281208721457152\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Facebook went down. Gmail went down. I think we know what this means. They're going to have a baby. 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Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATED 10:09 a.m.:\u003c/strong> There have been some blog posts and Tweets about problems with other Google services today. Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355212799000&iid=99ec5cc63bc26d71ba5c1291d5b92e5f\">reports\u003c/a> that an issue with Drive, its file-storage service, has been addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE 9:54 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Google just emailed us this very brief statement: \"We are currently experiencing an issue with some Google services. For everyone who is affected, we apologize for any inconvenience you may be experiencing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gmail - Google's popular email app - has been \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/gmail-experiences-a-widespread-outage-most-users-affected/\">experiencing outages\u003c/a> this morning. At 9:30 a.m. Google updated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355212799000&iid=4abb2f6c40f6bd39677195b9a60ad77d\">dashboard\u003c/a> showing the performance of its services to note that it was \"investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has served as inspiration for some funny Tweets...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Somebody in Google's Gmail division is having a much, much worse Monday than yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Emily St. J. Mandel (@EmilyMandel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EmilyMandel/status/278186038009135105\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Gmail is down. I can tell by the looting, and the fires in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ed Yong(@edyong209) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/278181944842387456\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Right now your mother is trying in vain to email you about Gmail being down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral/status/278182282341257216\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Sorry for the Gmail downtime today. I put my iCloud folder in my Dropbox, and put that Dropbox folder in my Google Drive. 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Minutes 6-10 were when I built the barricades and checked the fresh water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/brockwilbur/status/278280083658129408\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>FACEBOOK IS DOWN PLEASE EXIT THE INTERNET IN A CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Merriman (@jmerriman) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmerriman/status/278272786378670081\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Facebook being down has prompted hundreds of parents to rush out and push photographs of their children through strangers' letterboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dave Jones (@welsh_gas_doc) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/welsh_gas_doc/status/278278314756562949\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Tomorrow, I plan to pretend I didn't know Facebook was down and say self-righteous things like \"Oh was it? 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At 9:30 a.m. Google updated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355212799000&iid=4abb2f6c40f6bd39677195b9a60ad77d\">dashboard\u003c/a> showing the performance of its services to note that it was \"investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has served as inspiration for some funny Tweets...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Somebody in Google's Gmail division is having a much, much worse Monday than yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Emily St. J. Mandel (@EmilyMandel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EmilyMandel/status/278186038009135105\">December 10, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Gmail is down. 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