Sony’s PR blitz continues with the announcement of two HD Radio products, a tuner and a radio-iPod dock combo. The XDR-F1HD Tuner and the XDR-S10HDiP HD Radio can both tune in the estimated 1,500 digital stations nationwide. The XDR-F1HD is an add-on tuner with LCD display and a wireless remote, set to launch in March for $100. The XDR-S10HDiP docking station sports an iPod interface and iTunes Tagging, the ability to tag songs while listening for later purchase using the iTunes Music Store. It will be available in the summer for $180.

[Via Engadget]

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Book Description:
Today’s ActionScript-based applications require increasingly sophisticated architectures and code. This book aids intermediate and advanced ActionScript developers in learning how to plan and build applications more effectively. You’ll learn how to apply design patterns as solutions to common programming scenarios. Beyond a reference, Advanced ActionScript with Design Patterns is a practical guide complete with sample mini-applications illustrating each design pattern.

Summary of Contents

Part I - Successful Projects
1. How to Design Applications
2. Programming to Interfaces
Part II - Patterns
3. MVC
4. Singleton
5. Factory (Abstract Factory and Factory Method)
6. Proxy
7. Iterator
8. Composite
9. Decorator
10. Command
11. Memento
12. State
Part III - Advanced ActionScript Topics
13. Working with Events
14. Sending and Loading Data
15. E4X (XML)
16. Regular Expressions

About the Author
Joey Lott works with ActionScript during the day and by night he’s a super-secret international man of mystery, rescuing animals and children from harms way, righting wrongs, and working for global peace, the rights of all living beings, and environmental responsibility. Joey is the author (or co-author) of a veritable arsenal of ActionScript and Flash-related titles, including the ActionScript Cookbook, Programming Flash Communication Server, and the Flash 8 Cookbook. In his free time he likes to write poetry, pursue competitive origami, and train in the art of aikido. Danny Patterson is a Consultant specializing in Flash and Web technologies. He also works with Schematic as a Senior Flash Architect. He is an Adobe Community Expert and has contributed over 40 articles to Community MX and the MX Developers Journal. He is also the co-author of the Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source book by Adobe Press. He has spoken at many conferences and user groups including Flash in the Can and Flash Belt. Danny is certified in both Flash and ColdFusion and has worked on web projects for many large companies including Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Adobe and Starz. You can check out his blog at DannyPatterson.com.

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I’ve decided to use Joomla for my first social network site. I think listing the existing Joomla SN sites here will be a good starting point. They might give some ideas about the capability and design of Joomla sites.

Social networking sites powered by Joomla:

Koreatown Connected - http://www.ichoson.com/

Korean American Social Networking and News Portal. Entertainment, Lifestyle and Culture

MyPraize.com - Christian MySpace Alternative - Social Network - http://www.mypraize.com/

MyPraize is a Christian MySpace Alternative, based on Christian morals. Like MySpace we offer a community for Christians to unite, without immoral content, or pictures.

MommyClub - http://www.mommyclub.ca/

MommyClub.ca is one of Canada’s favourite pregnancy and parenting websites and is the perfect website for moms! It is a place for Canadian moms to connect with one another without having to go to different pregnancy websites, parenting websites and websites for moms for each phase of motherhood. We have set you up with “Everything Mom” to help you make the most of this fun, hectic mommy world. Resources, events, blogs, forums, friendship… its all here!

Golf Finder - Golf’s Interactive Search Engine - http://www.golf-finder.net/

Find Golf Courses, Golf Clubs and Golf Buddies. The only Golf resource you need!, Golf Finder’s interactive golf map is the perfect way to find golf courses, golf clubs and golf resources. The only interactive golf search engine you need.

Asian Addict - Asian Addict, write and learn culture traditions of Asia - http://www.asian-addict.com/

Your asian community, similar to myspace, hi5 or friendster where everybody can write about Asia and learn traditions, cultures and its wonders, make new friends, penpals, upload pictures and videos

Udugu! - The social networking, friendship community for 25+ - http://www.udugu.com/

Motor Sports site - http://csramotorsports.com/csratest/…page/Itemid,1/

miXster - http://www.mixster.eu/

miXster is a european web site for on-line communities and relationships.

IMNetworked.com - Where People Know People! - http://www.imnetworked.com/

The Golf Space - http://www.thegolfspace.com/

Golf’s premier, and original network for friends and business. (joSa)

The Beginnings of Facebook Platform

Facebook has always recognized that using social context is an essential part of providing a great experience for users. That’s why we first released the Facebook Platform API in August 2006, which enabled developers to incorporate the data users chose to share into external websites and desktop applications in order to give users a more social experience wherever they were. The latest version of Facebook Platform also opened up the Facebook website itself, giving developers even stronger distribution models and access to all the integration points Facebook uses to build applications.

Facebook Platform unlocks significant value for both developers and users: it gives developers access to the core of Facebook’s value – the social graph – and gives users a better social experience on all Facebook applications, whether they’re inside or outside the Facebook website. A primary goal of Facebook has always been to make it easy for users to share information, and Facebook Platform opened up that information to benefit users and developers everywhere.

Developers’ Reception of Facebook Platform

Developers and users alike have embraced Facebook applications. 100,000 Facebook developers are currently building on Facebook Platform, and over 85% of Facebook users have used Facebook applications. Facebook Platform is open to all developers and companies, no matter what their size, goals or technical expertise. Our platform has been proven successful across audiences over the past 16 months, and we want to share the benefits of our work.

Opening up Facebook Platform Architecture

In the next step of opening up Facebook Platform, Facebook is now making its platform architecture available as a model for other social sites. Facebook will even license the Facebook Platform methods and tags for use by other platforms, which means that the 100,000 developers currently building Facebook applications can make their applications available on other social sites with no extra work.

Of course, Facebook Platform will continue to evolve. And by enabling our industry partners to use what we’ve learned, everyone benefits — users have a better social experience no matter where they are on the web, developers can make their applications available to new audiences, and social sites can offer more applications for their platform.

To clarify how you can use Facebook Platform as a model, we’re including some example FBML tag implementations, and also offer our test consoles and full documentation. Take a look at the High Level FBML Specification.

If you’d like to license the Facebook Platform methods or tags for your social site, please contact the Facebook Platform team at platform@facebook.com.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/PlatformArchitecture

Microsoft is doing everything it can to penetrate into Apple’s iPod dominance of the MP3 player market. It’s latest campaign is a promotional partnership with Seattle’s GOODS, a boutique clothing brand that’s popular with the hip hop crowd.

Together they’ve designed a special gold argyle pattern that has been screen printed onto only ten Zunes. No pricing available as of yet, but if you want to get your hands on one, you better wake up early and get your booty to GOODS this Saturday.

Cellphones with built-in fingerprint scanners aren’t exactly revolutionary, but a recent patent application filed by Nokia could foreshadow mobile displays that recognize and react to biometric inputs. More specifically, the technology would see a touch-sensitive user interface that could allow / deny access or morph depending on what user swiped their finger. Moreover, a mysterious “visual display cursor” is also referenced, which would seemingly allow the device to bring important applications / lists / etc. to the screen’s forefront depending on the preferences saved for each fingerprint. As always, it’s a mystery as to when something like this will actually go mainstream, but we certainly dig the sound of it — even when written in totally incomprehensible patent app lingo.

[Via CellPassion]

8GB of flash storage is currently the best you can hope for in a standard (though imported) Eee PC. However, if you’re industrious and determined enough, you can marry your 4GB Eee with a $150 (or so) 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager drive for a full 20GB of storage. That’s exactly what Johnx did over at eeeuser.com. He even integrated Bluetooth like we’ve seen before. Best of all though, the new NAND and Bluetooth radio are not soldered to the system. Rather, they are fitted to a pair of newly installed, internal USB ports slung off the miniPCIe connector. Thus, the system can be upgraded at any time. All hail Johnx… king of the Eees!

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It’s not like ThinkPads have been immune to the notorious overheating battery issue, but a fiery incident in Ohio may not be IBM’s fault. In a somewhat bizarre tale, it’s reported that an Ohioan purchased a replacement battery from Shentech for his ThinkPad, only to later have it overheat, catch on fire and damage his machine. After discovering that the faulty cell was actually a counterfeit, IBM took the liberty of ordering a dozen batteries from the Flushing, New York-based company, and it soon discovered that all twelve received were indeed fakes. As you can probably guess, IBM has filed suit against the outfit and has asked the court to require Shentech to hand over all of its batteries for destruction, profits it made from selling the fakes and a million dollars “per counterfeit mark per type of item sold.” That’ll teach ‘em to mess with Big Blue.

[Via TGDaily]

As far as we know, Evergreen’s Business Card MP3 Player doesn’t come pre-loaded with Flight of the Conchords’ most relevant jam, but you can’t deny it’d be a great fit. This all-white, ultra-simplistic DAP checks in at 86- x 55- x 6-millimeters, weighs just 36-grams and includes 1GB of storage space. You’ll also find a flip-out USB 2.0 connector, internal speaker and some sort of recording function. Slip one into your tight leather jacket pocket for a steep $126.19 — it should make sorting the recycling much less tedious.

[Via AkihabaraNews]