Saturday, July 9, 2011
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
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Import Facebook Friends into GooglePlus
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Sign in Your Yahoo Mail Account or Create New one.
Go to the “Contact” Option and then “Import Contacts”. And Authorize Facebook access to your Yahoo! address book.
Wait for Few min to Import Facebook Contacts on Yahoo account.
Now Your Facebook contacts are on your Yahoo mail Account.
Then Login to Google+ Account and go to your “Circles” Page.
Click “Find and Invite” there, and then click “Yahoo! Import” and “Authorize your Yahoo Account” there, that you used to Import Facebook Contacts.
Now All the contact are on your Google Plus “Find and Invite Page”. Now Drag everyone into the appropriate “Circle”.
Source: http://www.techogles.com
Thursday, July 7, 2011
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
Google shut down the invite mechanism for its new Google+ social network after "insane demand," said Vic Gundotra, head of social efforts, on the company's website.
Google unveiled the service June 28 in a fresh attempt to compete with Facebook's site. Google+ looks similar to Facebook, with streaming updates of photos, messages, comments and other content from selected groups of friends.
Chief executive officer Larry Page is starting Google+ after missteps last year with the introduction of a social component to Gmail called Buzz. Google needs to fix the invitation glitch quickly if it wants to effectively challenge Facebook, the world's largest social network, said Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research.
"The utility of a social environment depends on your ability to invite people to it," Bernoff said in an interview. "If you want to try this out but your friends are not on the system and cannot get on the system because of the blocking of the invitation, it's not a very good test."
The social network will initially be available to only a limited set of users, Google said when it introduced the new feature. The company said it has been testing Google+ internally and is now ready to gradually open up what it calls a "project" to the general public.
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Google+ On High Demand
Google shut down the invite mechanism for its new Google+ social network after "insane demand," said Vic Gundotra, head of social efforts, on the company's website.
Google unveiled the service June 28 in a fresh attempt to compete with Facebook's site. Google+ looks similar to Facebook, with streaming updates of photos, messages, comments and other content from selected groups of friends.
Chief executive officer Larry Page is starting Google+ after missteps last year with the introduction of a social component to Gmail called Buzz. Google needs to fix the invitation glitch quickly if it wants to effectively challenge Facebook, the world's largest social network, said Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research.
"The utility of a social environment depends on your ability to invite people to it," Bernoff said in an interview. "If you want to try this out but your friends are not on the system and cannot get on the system because of the blocking of the invitation, it's not a very good test."
The social network will initially be available to only a limited set of users, Google said when it introduced the new feature. The company said it has been testing Google+ internally and is now ready to gradually open up what it calls a "project" to the general public.
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Hackers Selected New Target: Other Hackers
Facebook Plans Big Launch Next Week: CEOs Meeting
Murdoch’s News Corp Sells Myspace for $35m
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M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team , assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases , addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends.
But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers.
And in trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security , the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg — and, indirectly , to help law enforcement officials lock them up.
The core members of Lulz Security "lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit," the ATeam sneered in its posting last month.
In recent weeks, attacks on companies like Sony and government sites like senate.gov have raised concerns about increasingly organized and brazen hackers. On Monday, a Twitter account for Fox News was hijacked.
But much of the hacking scene is a fractious free-for-all , with rival groups and lone wolves engaged in tit-for-tat attacks on each other, often on political or ideological grounds but sometimes for no better reason than to outwit — or out-hack — the other guy.
The members of Lulz Security , or LulzSec, have been at the centre of the sniping lately. The group won global attention through attacks on the CIA, Sony, the Arizona state police and other organizations , putting at risk the personal information of tens of thousands of people in the process. Even as they attacked, the LulzSec members craftily concealed their own identities, all the while articulating an ever-changing menu of grievances , from government corruption to consumer rights.
LulzSec's provocative attacks and flamboyant style made it a tempting target. Other hackers, equally adept at maintaining their anonymity, have been seeking to penetrate the online aliases of the group's members.
Late last month, LulzSec announced that it was disbanding , and that its members would continue their activities under other banners. But the FBI and other agencies are continuing their pursuit, aided by information unearthed by other hackers. In fact, the Lulz Security members face the real possibility that if they are caught, it will be their fellow hackers who led the authorities to their doorsteps.
In hacker parlance, to be unmasked is to be dox'd , as in documented. And by hacker logic, to be dox'd is to be put out of business. An online alias is an essential weapon: it conceals a person's name and whereabouts, while allowing the creation of an alternate identity.
Indeed, the handbook for new recruits to Anonymous, the global hacker collective from which Lulz Security sprang earlier this year, contains tips on safeguarding one's identity — from how to steer clear of web sites that track online activity to masking one's internet provider.
One of the tools it suggests is Tor, a network of virtual tunnels originally developed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory to protect online government communications . "In our world," the handbook concludes, "a good defense is the best offense."
Despite the detailed profiling by the A-Team and other hacker groups including Team Poison and Web
Ninjas, no professed Lulz Security member has admitted to being dox'd , and some have merrily denied it.
Lulz Security was not above outing one of its own. A member known as m_nerva leaked some of its chat room discussions to the media. In retaliation the group posted what it said was m_nerva's personal information, including an address in Hamilton, Ohio.
Security companies and government agencies have a long history of relying on current or former hackers in the fight against computer crimes. One new wrinkle is the way that attacks on government targets have given rise to a small but loud faction of patriotic , presumably American hackers who are fighting back on their own, said Gabriella Coleman, an assistant professor at New York University who is researching a book on Anonymous. The fights have also become more public and spectacular, in part because of platforms like Twitter. NYT NEWS SERVICE
I got this resource from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Hackers Selected New Target: Other Hackers
But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers.
And in trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security , the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg — and, indirectly , to help law enforcement officials lock them up.
The core members of Lulz Security "lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit," the ATeam sneered in its posting last month.
In recent weeks, attacks on companies like Sony and government sites like senate.gov have raised concerns about increasingly organized and brazen hackers. On Monday, a Twitter account for Fox News was hijacked.
But much of the hacking scene is a fractious free-for-all , with rival groups and lone wolves engaged in tit-for-tat attacks on each other, often on political or ideological grounds but sometimes for no better reason than to outwit — or out-hack — the other guy.
The members of Lulz Security , or LulzSec, have been at the centre of the sniping lately. The group won global attention through attacks on the CIA, Sony, the Arizona state police and other organizations , putting at risk the personal information of tens of thousands of people in the process. Even as they attacked, the LulzSec members craftily concealed their own identities, all the while articulating an ever-changing menu of grievances , from government corruption to consumer rights.
LulzSec's provocative attacks and flamboyant style made it a tempting target. Other hackers, equally adept at maintaining their anonymity, have been seeking to penetrate the online aliases of the group's members.
Late last month, LulzSec announced that it was disbanding , and that its members would continue their activities under other banners. But the FBI and other agencies are continuing their pursuit, aided by information unearthed by other hackers. In fact, the Lulz Security members face the real possibility that if they are caught, it will be their fellow hackers who led the authorities to their doorsteps.
In hacker parlance, to be unmasked is to be dox'd , as in documented. And by hacker logic, to be dox'd is to be put out of business. An online alias is an essential weapon: it conceals a person's name and whereabouts, while allowing the creation of an alternate identity.
Indeed, the handbook for new recruits to Anonymous, the global hacker collective from which Lulz Security sprang earlier this year, contains tips on safeguarding one's identity — from how to steer clear of web sites that track online activity to masking one's internet provider.
One of the tools it suggests is Tor, a network of virtual tunnels originally developed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory to protect online government communications . "In our world," the handbook concludes, "a good defense is the best offense."
Despite the detailed profiling by the A-Team and other hacker groups including Team Poison and Web
Ninjas, no professed Lulz Security member has admitted to being dox'd , and some have merrily denied it.
Lulz Security was not above outing one of its own. A member known as m_nerva leaked some of its chat room discussions to the media. In retaliation the group posted what it said was m_nerva's personal information, including an address in Hamilton, Ohio.
Security companies and government agencies have a long history of relying on current or former hackers in the fight against computer crimes. One new wrinkle is the way that attacks on government targets have given rise to a small but loud faction of patriotic , presumably American hackers who are fighting back on their own, said Gabriella Coleman, an assistant professor at New York University who is researching a book on Anonymous. The fights have also become more public and spectacular, in part because of platforms like Twitter. NYT NEWS SERVICE
I got this resource from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, July 1, 2011
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Friday, July 1, 2011
M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
SEATTLE: Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is set to launch a new feature next week, possibly in the mobile or tablet arena, its CEO said.
Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.
He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters.
There has been speculation in technology blogs in recent weeks about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple Inc's iPad and a specialised app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.
Facebook's Seattle office has made a mark on the company's mobile efforts, playing a central role in the development of Facebook's unified mobile site, unveiled in March.
A Facebook spokesman declined to provide further details about Zuckerberg's comments.
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network with more than 500 million users, is increasingly challenging established online companies like Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for consumers' time online and for advertising dollars.
According to the company, people that use Facebook on mobile devices are twice as active on the service than users on PCs.
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Facebook Plans Big Launch Next Week: CEOs Meeting
SEATTLE: Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is set to launch a new feature next week, possibly in the mobile or tablet arena, its CEO said.
Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.
He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters.
There has been speculation in technology blogs in recent weeks about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple Inc's iPad and a specialised app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.
Facebook's Seattle office has made a mark on the company's mobile efforts, playing a central role in the development of Facebook's unified mobile site, unveiled in March.
A Facebook spokesman declined to provide further details about Zuckerberg's comments.
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network with more than 500 million users, is increasingly challenging established online companies like Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for consumers' time online and for advertising dollars.
According to the company, people that use Facebook on mobile devices are twice as active on the service than users on PCs.
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NEW YORK: News Corp has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations.
Advertising company Specific Media will team with singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace for $580 million in 2005.
At the time, Myspace was among the the world's most popular websites, and News Corp's success in beating out rival Viacom in a bidding war was viewed as a major victory for Murdoch. Since then, however, Facebook has eclipsed Myspace in popularity, and the deal has become a hard lesson in what can happen when a traditional media company imposes its will on a start-up.
It also shows how quickly audience –and investor – tastes can shift in the world of social networking. Indeed, Wednesday's deal contrasts sharply with the current frenzy over social media companies, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Groupon, among investors looking for the next big thing.Another of the hot start-ups, Zynga, an online social game company, plans to raise up to $2 billion in an initial public offering that could be filed by Thursday, valuing the company at $20 billion.
"This is a mistake that will repeat itself," James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research, said of the Myspace saga. "I'm not sure that someone being pushed on by early round investors, someone reading their own press, which is praising them, will stop and say, 'Wait, is this a one-year fad, a two-year fad? Or is this a five-year to ten-year change in the way things are done?'"The Myspace transaction calls for News Corp to retain a minority stake in the website, the companies said in a statement, confirming a deal that was reported earlier. Specific Media, which specializes in digital advertising, did not disclose financial terms.
It announced, however, that Timberlake — who happens to have played Facebook adviser and investor Sean Parker in the movie "The Social Network" – would take an ownership stake and serve a "major role" in developing a strategy for Myspace.
A source familiar with the transaction said the deal is worth $35 million and is a mix of cash and stock. News Corp will retain about 5%, the source said. Additionally, more than half of Myspace's 500-strong workforce is expected to be laid off because of the sale, the source said.
The deal comes after a four-month bidding process in which a number of different possible buyers surfaced, including other social networking sites and private equity firms. The auction had been expected to fetch in the neighborhood of $100 million.
In the end, the sale serves as the latest example of what can happen to a once coveted company with a rocket-like trajectory that quickly loses its luster as competitors zoom past it in popularity. reuters
Founded in August 2003 by Chris De Wolfe and Tom Anderson, Myspace was conceived as a way for friends and fans to connect with one another as well as with their favorite bands and artists.
Myspace, a kind of musical version of pioneer social network site Friendster, fast became wildly popular with teenagers and young adults, who spent hours designing their own pages with their favorite digital wallpaper, posting photos and adding friends.
At its peak in 2008, Myspace attracted nearly 80 million people in the United States, almost double that of Facebook.
The growth was too fast and Myspace had trouble scaling the number of users who were flocking to the site. Meanwhile Facebook had opened up its platform to third-party developers, such as Zynga and its popular FarmVille game. That attracted more people and kept them on the site.
By 2011, the number of US visitors to Myspace fell to about 40 million while those visiting Facebook totaled about 150 million, according to online measurement firm comScore.
For the quarter ended March 2011, News Corp reported a segment operating loss of $165 million, mainly due to declines at Myspace.
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Murdoch’s News Corp Sells Myspace for $35m
NEW YORK: News Corp has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations.
Advertising company Specific Media will team with singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace for $580 million in 2005.
At the time, Myspace was among the the world's most popular websites, and News Corp's success in beating out rival Viacom in a bidding war was viewed as a major victory for Murdoch. Since then, however, Facebook has eclipsed Myspace in popularity, and the deal has become a hard lesson in what can happen when a traditional media company imposes its will on a start-up.
It also shows how quickly audience –and investor – tastes can shift in the world of social networking. Indeed, Wednesday's deal contrasts sharply with the current frenzy over social media companies, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Groupon, among investors looking for the next big thing.Another of the hot start-ups, Zynga, an online social game company, plans to raise up to $2 billion in an initial public offering that could be filed by Thursday, valuing the company at $20 billion.
"This is a mistake that will repeat itself," James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research, said of the Myspace saga. "I'm not sure that someone being pushed on by early round investors, someone reading their own press, which is praising them, will stop and say, 'Wait, is this a one-year fad, a two-year fad? Or is this a five-year to ten-year change in the way things are done?'"The Myspace transaction calls for News Corp to retain a minority stake in the website, the companies said in a statement, confirming a deal that was reported earlier. Specific Media, which specializes in digital advertising, did not disclose financial terms.
It announced, however, that Timberlake — who happens to have played Facebook adviser and investor Sean Parker in the movie "The Social Network" – would take an ownership stake and serve a "major role" in developing a strategy for Myspace.
A source familiar with the transaction said the deal is worth $35 million and is a mix of cash and stock. News Corp will retain about 5%, the source said. Additionally, more than half of Myspace's 500-strong workforce is expected to be laid off because of the sale, the source said.
The deal comes after a four-month bidding process in which a number of different possible buyers surfaced, including other social networking sites and private equity firms. The auction had been expected to fetch in the neighborhood of $100 million.
In the end, the sale serves as the latest example of what can happen to a once coveted company with a rocket-like trajectory that quickly loses its luster as competitors zoom past it in popularity. reuters
Founded in August 2003 by Chris De Wolfe and Tom Anderson, Myspace was conceived as a way for friends and fans to connect with one another as well as with their favorite bands and artists.
Myspace, a kind of musical version of pioneer social network site Friendster, fast became wildly popular with teenagers and young adults, who spent hours designing their own pages with their favorite digital wallpaper, posting photos and adding friends.
At its peak in 2008, Myspace attracted nearly 80 million people in the United States, almost double that of Facebook.
The growth was too fast and Myspace had trouble scaling the number of users who were flocking to the site. Meanwhile Facebook had opened up its platform to third-party developers, such as Zynga and its popular FarmVille game. That attracted more people and kept them on the site.
By 2011, the number of US visitors to Myspace fell to about 40 million while those visiting Facebook totaled about 150 million, according to online measurement firm comScore.
For the quarter ended March 2011, News Corp reported a segment operating loss of $165 million, mainly due to declines at Myspace.
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M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
BOSTON: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thanks to GSV Capital Corp's stake buy which values the popular social networking site at about $70 billion. GSV Capital Corp, earlier this week, bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each.
Based on the new investment, Zuckerberg in turn is worth approximately $18 billion, a report in Time magazine said.
"With the new valuation, Zuckerberg has one-upped Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, whose fortunes are estimated to have dropped," the Time report said.
This estimate makes Zuckerberg the third-richest man in the technology sector in the world, only behind Microsoft's Bill Gates and Oracle's Larry Ellison.
While Gates is estimated to be currently worth $56 billion, Ellison is the world's fifth-richest billionaire at $39.5 billion. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg's net worth stood at $13.5 billion.
He had already shot past Apple's Steve Jobs last year and has now passed Google's Brin and Page, whose fortunes are now estimated to have dropped to $17 billion from $19.8 billion in March.
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Zuckerberg Worth $18 Billion, Richer Than Google Founders
Based on the new investment, Zuckerberg in turn is worth approximately $18 billion, a report in Time magazine said.
"With the new valuation, Zuckerberg has one-upped Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, whose fortunes are estimated to have dropped," the Time report said.
This estimate makes Zuckerberg the third-richest man in the technology sector in the world, only behind Microsoft's Bill Gates and Oracle's Larry Ellison.
While Gates is estimated to be currently worth $56 billion, Ellison is the world's fifth-richest billionaire at $39.5 billion. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg's net worth stood at $13.5 billion.
He had already shot past Apple's Steve Jobs last year and has now passed Google's Brin and Page, whose fortunes are now estimated to have dropped to $17 billion from $19.8 billion in March.
News taken from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
M. Anandhan Mudhaliyar
But maybe you aren’t quite sure how to get the most out of your Bluetooth devices. In fact, you might be having trouble using the system at all. As Joanne Helperin, Consumer Marketing Director and Blog Editor at askpatty.com reported recently, “According to a new study by General Motors, 55 percent of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac owners aren’t taking advantage of the Bluetooth-enabled system in their vehicle.” What that really means is that there are a lot of drivers out there that are still driving while holding a phone up to their ear. It’s dangerous and, if you have a Bluetooth-equipped cell phone (which, most people do by now), it’s entirely unnecessary.
Do a quick Google search for “Bluetooth Tips” and you’ll find (as I did) that tips for using Bluetooth in your car can range from tips regarding choosing Bluetooth devices, to aftermarket-kit selection, do-it-yourself installation tips, how to get the best results from a Bluetooth system, troubleshooting the system…the list goes on and on and on. Really.
Tara Baukus Mello, a Motor Trend Radio news anchor, wrote a short piece for CNET Reviews that seems to have all the bases covered — plus a couple of other cool tips about how to “Geek your Car,” like how to hook up an MP3 player and a GPS navigation unit. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for there, try here.
And when you’re finally ready to have a little fun with your new Bluetooth system, take a look at the Anand Web Info articles listed below. Also, don’t forget that you can keep up with Internet Stuff on our Facebook page and on our Twitter feed, too. Let us know what you think!
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Using Bluetooth In The Car - Tips
OK. So I’m guessing that by now most of you know at least a little something about Bluetooth technology, correct? Well then, at least you’ve heard about Bluetooth technology, right? Well, just in case you answered no to either one of those questions, here’s a super-fast way to get up-to-speed on what it’s all about. And if you took the time to follow that link, then you’ll understand why Bluetooth technology has been a very popular feature in cars and trucks ever since its introduction in 1998. Whether installed at the factory or as an aftermarket upgrade to your existing in-car system, connecting your electronic devices wirelessly (and automatically) has never been easier. (I know that sounds a little salesy, but it’s true.)
But maybe you aren’t quite sure how to get the most out of your Bluetooth devices. In fact, you might be having trouble using the system at all. As Joanne Helperin, Consumer Marketing Director and Blog Editor at askpatty.com reported recently, “According to a new study by General Motors, 55 percent of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac owners aren’t taking advantage of the Bluetooth-enabled system in their vehicle.” What that really means is that there are a lot of drivers out there that are still driving while holding a phone up to their ear. It’s dangerous and, if you have a Bluetooth-equipped cell phone (which, most people do by now), it’s entirely unnecessary.
Do a quick Google search for “Bluetooth Tips” and you’ll find (as I did) that tips for using Bluetooth in your car can range from tips regarding choosing Bluetooth devices, to aftermarket-kit selection, do-it-yourself installation tips, how to get the best results from a Bluetooth system, troubleshooting the system…the list goes on and on and on. Really.
Tara Baukus Mello, a Motor Trend Radio news anchor, wrote a short piece for CNET Reviews that seems to have all the bases covered — plus a couple of other cool tips about how to “Geek your Car,” like how to hook up an MP3 player and a GPS navigation unit. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for there, try here.
And when you’re finally ready to have a little fun with your new Bluetooth system, take a look at the Anand Web Info articles listed below. Also, don’t forget that you can keep up with Internet Stuff on our Facebook page and on our Twitter feed, too. Let us know what you think!
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