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From the GOMC team: "Professor registration for the 2012  Google Online Marketing Challenge  (GOMC) is now open.  GOMC is a global online marketing competition open to professors and their students in any higher education institution. Professors sign up for the contest and then serve as guides and mentors to their student participants throughout the competition. Over the course of three weeks, student teams are tasked with developing and running a successful online advertising campaign for real businesses or nonprofit organizations using  Google AdWords . In the process, they sharpen their advertising, consulting and data analysis skills. (Note: student registration will open on January 31, 2012 and students can only enter if their professors have signed up already and must sign up under their own professors). After running their online advertising campaign for three weeks, students summarize their experiences in campaign reports, which they submit online. Based on the performanc

From the Gmail team, " Last Friday  Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls  to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Canada. In just a few days Santa has made hundreds of thousands of calls to your friends, family and loved ones, and received many a message from you at his Google Voice number ( 855-34-SANTA ). Santa has one more surprise in store. Starting today, anyone in the world can  create and send a personalized cartoon video message (in English only) from Santa to anyone you know, anywhere in the world, and share them through email and Google+. Watch our sample video below and create your own at  SendaCallFromSanta.com . The Gmail team wishes you a happy holiday! Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Product Marketing Manager"

Download MP3 Recap my panel talk on the Future of Online Video with Hermione Way (The Next Web), Carlos Rodela (Host), Tara Long (The Destructoid Show, Revision 3), Murray Newlands (Host), and John Davison (Gamespot.com ). Some Thoughts On The Louis CK "Experiment" bit.ly/s42dTo Did Iran Hack U.S. Drone? GPS weak link? bit.ly/u2VQQI Wall Street isn’t jumping into Zynga’s stock game http://bit.ly/rMk3vT Sony, NBC Universal and Fox employees caught illegally using BitTorrent http://bit.ly/s89Ddp How Disney's Club Penguin Became the Biggest Social Network for Kids via @ D_RockingChair http:// bit.ly/sVe2N2 Should Computer Science Be a K-12 Requirement? http:// http://is.gd/2G0Mf9 Startup incubator takes to the seas with wild idea to house foreign entrepreneurs @ geekwire bit.ly/sZop2g Greg’s tips - Is That Amazon Price A Good Deal? @ geekmom http:// bit.ly/u2SDvA Cnet Tech 2011 Holiday Gift Guide [video] http://ht.ly/83o4I  Adolfo’s tips - Google launches

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 15, 2011  – It’s not every day that a person gets to create the user interface for a mobile phone that will be used by  millions of people around the world . But that is exactly the work of a small group of engineers at Microsoft. Clockwise from top left: Ricardo Espinoza, Sue Loh, Joshua Phillips and James Drage work on the Windows Phone Shell Team, which makes Windows Phones intuitive and engaging to use. The team recently finished work on the feature-rich  Windows Phone 7 .5 “Mango” update. Click for larger image.   For the past several years, the Windows Phone Shell Team has been continually improving the user interface for Windows Phones with the goal of making them incredibly intuitive and engaging to use. The team recently completed work on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango,” the largest and most feature-rich software refresh of Microsoft’s mobile operating system to date. The “shell” refers to the phone’s core user experiences, such as the lock screen

Very Nice. From Kickstarter: The LunaTik Touch Pen seamlessly goes from paper to tablet with a click of a button. It writes. Both ways! HELLO AGAIN! Thank you for checking out our  LunaTik Touch Pen  project. Ever since we launched the  TikTok+LunaTik  Watch Kits on Kickstarter last year we have been constantly asked when we were going to do another project. Well, we have been working on a variety of ideas which we plan to launch in the near future. One of the first ideas is a simple and obvious solution inspired by the way we work between the analog and digital worlds every day. INSPIRATION Paper and pen will never be replaced. However, more and more people are embracing their iPads and tablets to take notes and capture ideas in a new hybrid analog-digital workflow. These users continuously switch between paper and touch screen during the day. This means they require both a traditional ink pen and a digital stylus. While both are great on their own we would pr