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HOW TO: Follow Mashable Channels via RSS, Email, Twitter or Facebook
If you follow Mashable, chances are you either visit the website directly, or subscribe to our RSS feed, daily emails or Twitter and Facebook pages. Given that there are dozens of ways to follow Mashable, we thought we’d round these up in a useful blog post. We’re also aware that some people get a little overwhelmed by all the content we create every day. That’s why we recently created separate feeds, Twitter and Facebook accounts for all of the topic channels here on Mashable: Social Media, Mobile, Web Video, Entertainment, Business, Tech, Apple and the Mashable Jobs board. If you find the full Mashable feed a little too much, please do consider subscribing to these individual channels instead.
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Virtusphere’s virtual reality hamster ball put to the test
For eons we've wondered what it would be like to walk around in a bona fide Virtusphere , and at GDC last week we finally got our chance. The large plastic cage can turn and roll in any direction, and once replete with a wireless head-mounted display and fake gun, we were ready to take on some polygonal alien baddies. Getting into the cage is surprisingly easy, but unfortunately once we had a screen strapped to our head our well-honed sense of balance was right out the window, and we found ourselves staggering around a bit as we got used to the motion of the cage. The real military versions have a motion sensing gun controller, but we had to do all our aiming with our head, which didn't help. After a minute or so we got used to the "momentum" involved in moving the cage, which felt pretty great, but we'd say our favorite part about the experience was just being able to turn in place to confront baddies -- there's something about a few well placed steps that really blows away a left or right tug on our 360 controller's analog stick.
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“Predators” Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]
The Predator franchise of science fiction/horror/action films is coming back into the zeitgeist , this time without the Aliens . The trailer hit the web today; watch it to find out if the franchise is worth revisiting. The new film is called Predators (evoking Aliens , the sequel to Alien ) and the premise seems to be that several of humanity’s most effective killers are stranded on a jungle planet where they’re hunted for sport by a whole legion of predators. The film stars Adrien Brody, Lawrence Fishburne and Topher Grace, and it’s directed by Vacancy and Armored director Nimród Antal. Sin City ’s Robert Rodriguez is one of the three credited screenwriters.
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Apple vs. Amazon: The E-Book War Rages On
The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is getting uglier . Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an agency model (ala Macmillan ) , they will lose Amazon as a platform for both e-books and print. This battle, which in many ways mirrors similar struggles between record labels and online music stores, underscores some of the challenges that moving into widespread digital distribution for a formerly non-digital product can bring. The Agency Model Conundrum Recently, Macmillian’s CEO John Sargent explained the agency model, as it relates to e-book sales, in his blog : “Starting at the end of March, we will move from the ‘retail model’ of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a price that the retailer determines) to the ‘agency model’ (publishers set the price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to readers).” In other words, Macmillan wants to be able to control how much digital books are sold for on a per-book basis. Much like music publishers fought (and eventually won) the right to sell certain digital tracks or digital albums for more (or less, in some cases) than the $0.99 per track/$9.99 per album standard, publishers want that same control
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A few developers receiving iPads early, must keep it in room with blacked-out windows and tuck it in every night
Really, would you expect anything less from Apple? All sorts of wild tales have emerged about Apple's tight restrictions on developers lucky enough to receive early iPad test units, and no matter how true they might be, we're eating it up with a spoon. According to "people familiar" with the matter sourced by BusinessWeek , there's a 10 page pact for developers to sign, with requirements that include keeping the iPad isolated in a room with blacked-out windows, continuously tethered to a fixed object, photographic evidence of compliance, and of course no bragging to the Twittersphere about your score. Frankly, if the iPad isn't hand delivered to developer offices by a couple guys in well-tailored suits with an iPad briefcase handcuffed between them, we'd be sorely disappointed. A few developers receiving iPads early, must keep it in room with blacked-out windows and tuck it in every night originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:42:00 EST
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Now in Production: The First Google Android Car
The first car equipped with Google’s Android mobile operating system will hit the streets this April 23. It’s called the Roewe 350 , and it will launch at the Beijing Auto Show. Roewe vehicles are luxury cars made by Chinese car company SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) using technology purchased from British company MG Rover, which has been owned by both BMW and Ford in the past. The 2.1 version of Google Android — the same that Google used in the Nexus One and Motorola Droid — is installed on the vehicle’s GPS computer. You can use the computer for directions and traffic reports just as you can with many other GPS devices.
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YouTube Challenges Users to Make “Good” Videos [PARODY]
The Onion has a pretty awesome parody video in which YouTube entreats its users to make a “good” video — the incentive? A $100,000 prize. As someone who spends much of her day wading through the chaff of the online video realm, can I just say: Could this be a real thing now please? Check out the video below and be sure to share some of your favorite YouTube vids in the comments
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Inside a Virtual Reality Hamster Ball [VIDEO]