Jaguar: March 2011

Tuesday 29 March 2011

Online Money Making Opportunities

Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!).

It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.

Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.

It is unclear what the valuation for HubSpot is now, although it is likely high given it has raised $65 million now.

HubSpot makes marketing software for businesses, who use it to find prospects and generate leads, along with tools to analyze the process. It claims it has “4,000 customers, over 50 percent market share, five million leads managed, and 70 million page views tracked monthly.”

The Series D financing included HubSpot’s existing venture investors–General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners–and part of it will be used to cash out existing shareholders. In previous rounds, the start-up has raised $33 million.

Here is the official press release:

Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com Invest $32 Million in HubSpot

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011)–Today, for the first time ever, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com all invested together in one company, providing HubSpot with a Series D round of financing through a $32 million investment. HubSpot provides all-in-one marketing software used by over 4,000 businesses to get found by more prospects, convert them into leads and sales, and analyze the entire marketing process.

“The fundamental way that people shop, learn, and buy has changed radically in the last few years. HubSpot helps transform the way businesses market from outbound marketing (cold calls, email blasts, and direct mail) to inbound marketing (Google, blogs, social media, mobile, etc.),” said Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot.

Sequoia Capital has a long history of partnering with founders to help them build long-term, multi-billion dollar companies, including Google, LinkedIn, AdMob, YouTube, Yahoo!, Apple, and Oracle. “We back companies that are transforming their industries,” said Jim Goetz, General Partner at Sequoia Capital. “HubSpot is the emerging category leader in the SaaS marketing sector. Their customer base exceeds that of all the other relevant marketing software companies combined, including Eloqua, Marketo, Genius, and Manticore.”

“Today, every company needs to succeed in search, social, sales, and marketing–I can’t think of a more powerful trifecta than Google, Salesforce.com, and HubSpot. With 4,000 customers, HubSpot is already a clear marketing leader–now, with this new infusion of capital and recognition by Google’s venture arm and Salesforce.com, HubSpot has a great opportunity to separate itself from the pack and become the leading marketing platform in the small and medium business space,” said Brent Leary, co-founder of CRM Essentials.

Google Ventures Partner, Rich Miner (formerly co-founder of Android) said, “We agree with HubSpot’s belief that search engines, social media, and mobile devices have fundamentally changed how businesses should market themselves. We’re thrilled to support their efforts to help thousands of small and medium businesses reach potential customers.”

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot commented, “We founded the company based on a simple premise: Businesses want an easy-to-use, complete and integrated marketing platform that helps them get more leads and customers. We plan to use this new capital to further invest in this ambitious vision and further our existing lead in the marketing software category.”

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Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi won't face any further league discipline after his elbowing penalty and game misconduct against Chicago Blackhawks forward Ryan Johnson, a source told ESPN.com Tuesday morning.

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In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the number was at 74.04 percent. Last year, it was 61.59 percent. And this year? The number of people visiting our site from Windows machines dipped to 53.84 percent.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

The knee-jerk reaction in the comment section will likely be something like “it’s because you guys cover Apple so much”. But the fact of the matter is that Macintosh share, after rising for three of those four years, fell last year as well. It’s the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.

In fact, if the trend over the past four years continues at about the same pace, in two years, devices made by Apple (Macs, iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads) will surpass devices that run Windows as the top visitors to TechCrunch. And depending on how popular the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and OS X Lion are, it could easily happen next year.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

Windows: 83.24%

Mac: 13.59%

Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

Windows: 80.44%

Mac: 15.15%

Linux: 2.97%

iPhone: 0.77%

iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

Windows: 74.04%

Mac: 20.48%

Linux: 3.01%

iPhone: 1.60%

iPod: 0.28%

Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

Windows: 61.59%

Mac: 28.62%

iPhone: 4.07%

Linux: 3.49%

Android: 0.87%

iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

Windows: 53.84%

Mac: 27.64%

iPhone: 6.72%

iPad: 3.44%

Linux: 3.28%

Android: 3.06%

iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products

Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products

Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products

Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products

Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

In the four year span, Apple has added 25 percentage points to their share among TechCrunch readers. That nearly all of the 30 percentage points that Windows lost in that same span (Android’s growth pretty much fills in the rest).

So it currently stands at Microsoft’s 53.84 percent versus Apple’s 38.42 percent. Again, a big year for iPad, iPhone, and Mac could mean a changing of the guard as soon as next year. But unless something drastic changes, you can be sure that Apple will be dominant among TechCrunch readers in two years.

The latest rumors have Windows 8 showing up sometime in mid/late 2012. But the fact of the matter is that Windows 7, much more widely praised than the disaster that was Vista, hasn’t helped Microsoft buck this trend among our readers. Perhaps they’re only hope of gaining back share at this point is Windows Phone. So far, that hasn’t been going too well. Nokia should help that, but will it be enough to offset the Windows losses?

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

The iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are likely to push the Apple share forward immediately. But don’t sleep on OS X Lion either. The early indications are that Apple has indeed made it much more iOS-like. That means millions of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch owners who have traditionally been PC users, are going to feel a lot more comfortable on a Mac than ever before.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

OS X Lion is going to feed off of iOS users, and vice versa. And the Mac ecosystem is going to continue to expand. Just as happened in the browser world with Chrome taking over, a transition is happening among TechCrunch readers in the ecosystem space. The numbers don’t lie. And Microsoft better pray that our readers aren’t leading indicators of overall trends in the space — which is exactly what you have been in the past.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

Windows: 83.24%

Mac: 13.59%

Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

Windows: 80.44%

Mac: 15.15%

Linux: 2.97%

iPhone: 0.77%

iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

Windows: 74.04%

Mac: 20.48%

Linux: 3.01%

iPhone: 1.60%

iPod: 0.28%

Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

Windows: 61.59%

Mac: 28.62%

iPhone: 4.07%

Linux: 3.49%

Android: 0.87%

iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

Windows: 53.84%

Mac: 27.64%

iPhone: 6.72%

iPad: 3.44%

Linux: 3.28%

Android: 3.06%

iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products

Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products

Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products

Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products

Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

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Recognizing Women's History Month, New Deal 2.0 tells the surprising story of how women became citizens -- and how their economic lives have evolved along with their rights. Allida Black urges action on UN Resolution 1325, which ensures equal citizenship for women across the globe.

The monumental elections of Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Roza Otunbayeva (Krygyzstan), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), and Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Australia) and the game-changing appointments of Dr. Michelle Bachelet as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNWomen and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State proved that women can govern, run preeminent human rights organizations, set international policy, and place women at the center of diplomacy, development, and peace.

But the question remains -- if women can be president, why can't they be citizens? Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in rights." Yet it took another twenty years after its signing to get the international conventions on political and civil rights and on economic, social and cultural rights -- and, in the United States, another twenty plus years for Congress to adopt legislation ensuring women's political and economic rights. It took another thirteen years for the United Nations to ratify (without the support of the United States) the Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination against Women. And in 2011, the US House of Representatives and other foreign governing bodies still toy with legislation essential to women's identities, ranging from limiting access to reproductive health services and marriage to crafting sentencing guidelines that treat girls and women as felons and charges those that have abducted and abused them with misdemeanors.

In a 1946 column, written before she joined the UN Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt urged women to "call on the Governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more conscious part in national and international affairs, and on women to come forward and share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in the war and resistance." More than fifty years later, at the dawn of a new century, the UN Security Council -- pressured by a well-organized international women's lobby, Hillary Clinton, and other stateswomen and embarrassed by the rampant use of rape and genital dismemberment as tools of war -- adopted Resolution 1325. It urged "Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict."

Now ten years later, the campaign -- indeed the struggle -- to enforce this resolution rages across the United States as much as it does across Egypt or the Congo or Afghanistan.

It is tempting to construct this resolution narrowly -- to see it as a tool of armistice rather than reconstruction, as a vehicle to protect women rather than empower them. To do so, to paraphrase Albus Dumbledore, would be to do what is easy rather than what is right.

UN1325 is on the front line in the campaign for women's citizenship. It is a battle to ensure that economic, social and cultural rights cannot be divorced from, or considered separately from, political and civil rights. It is the struggle to reclaim democracy promotion away from post-Cold War politics, self-interested development and the campaign against terror and place it at the heart of citizen participation.

Just as important, it is a campaign to ensure women's rights as citizens as much as it is a campaign to force governments to act responsibly to all its citizens. While equality and human dignity have no sex, policy designed without taking stock of gender differences often perpetuates discrimination.

As Eleanor Roosevelt would say, both citizens and governments must "recognize that the goal of full participation in the life and responsibilities of their countries and of the world community is a common objective" and one "which the women of the world should assist one another" in achieving.

This post originally appeared on New Deal 2.0.

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Last week it was Bullard, Lacker and Kohn throwing the spin around and today it was Dudley with a notable assist from Buffett. And, since it was month-end, headline writers got the green close they wanted with the third month of gains. Kohn’s comments last week were incoherent overall while Dudley’s TV appearance consisted of misleading BS with comments like, “The Fed is keeping its mandate” and, “It’s unwise to overreact to rising commodity prices.”

Overreact? I don't see anyone reacting, other than speculators who are BUYBUYBUYing more and more commodities as the prices rise. In fact, as of February 22nd, Hedge Funds had taken the largest speculative net long position on oil futures since June 2006, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's weekly Commitments of Traders report. "Money managers are looking and seeing the Middle East situation is far from resolved," said Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions in Houston. "The upside is unlimited, depending on how bad things get."

Of course I mean no one in THIS country is reacting. In more thoughtful nations, people are rioting. Although, did you know there are more people protesting in Madison, Wisconsin this week than in Tripoli, Libya? No, you wouldn't know that because that's not the way the Corporate Media in this country reports things, is it? To be fair, in Libya, the Government is threatening the protesters with guns while Governor Walker is only threatening to fire the protesters in Wisconsin. Makes you kind of proud we live in a Democracy, doesn't it?

Bad news that will be ignored this morning includes a 0.5% drop in ICSC Retail Store Sales (those pesky small businesses), who are losing consumer discretionary dollars to energy producing companies - like Koch Industries! Chinese PMI fell again in February but still an expansionist 52.2 but a separate HSBC survey shows a more significant drop to 51.7, a 7 month low. I apologize for the link there to the Liberal rag-sheet NY Times but the WSJ apparently has no idea Chinese PMI went lower as their headline on the same subject is "Asian Factory Data Show Growth Intact." I must say I am proud to live in a country where we are free to choose the facts we want to hear from such a wide variety of media outlets. Imagine how dull it would be if there was just one truth and we all read the same thing...

Ben Bernanke addresses Congress today and tomorrow and those people will hear the same thing and draw completely different conclusions from it but we're playing the Dollar bullish as other countries are loosening their money to keep up with us and I do believe there will be enough anti-Fed noise made this week that QE3 begins to be called into question. Of course, it's budget showdown week as well and, as Paul Krugman points out: "While low spending may sound good in the abstract, what it amounts to in practice is low spending on children, who account directly or indirectly for a large part of government outlays at the state and local level." Krugman points to the "Texas Miracle" and it's not-so-miraculous aftermath:

From Lauren Beale at the LA Times: Cash-only home sales rise in California

All-cash buyers grabbed a record 30.9% share of the Golden State's houses and condos in January ... Cash activity has been brisk for months in foreclosure-ridden areas such as Riverside and San Bernardino. But now, the cash buyer has become a major player in Southern California's most expensive communities, where cash deals account for as much as two-thirds of home sales.

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In the Southland's $1-million-and-up market, 29.2% of buyers paid cash last year — the highest percentage since 1994, DataQuick statistics show. For homes selling for $5 million and up, 62.2% paid cash.
At the low end it is probably mostly investors. The high end has always had a fairly high percentage of cash buyers, but this is very high. The good news is these buyers will never have negative equity (unless they take out a mortgage).

The large percentage of cash buyers is part of the reason that the MBA purchase index has not been tracking home sales very closely (it also appears that the NAR has been overstating sales).

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Monday 28 March 2011

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What to Expect When Hiring a Roofing Contractors

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Interview as well as Discussion

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Roof Evaluation

Anticipate the contractor will be going up on your roofing. Actually, any kind of service provider who not need to go up in your roofing to judge the problem ought to be instantly reduced. Those who are serious about their work will either create a drawing of your roof's surface area as well as mark trouble spots onto it as they go through their own evaluation, or they'll consider photos or even video clip of the surface area while they are up there. This is a very important step, because it allows you to observe exactly what the problems are and understand how they will be fixed.

Estimate

The next phase would be the written estimation. The contractor will take away his loan calculator and are available track of an itemized estimate. Some companies will go out to their vehicle or even van and write up the actual suggestion, while others will crunch the numbers to do the job in front of you. Once you are given the suggestion, make sure that you comprehend exactly which items will be utilized, how long the job will take and if you will find any additional or concealed expenses that may occur during the repair of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer many of these questions with ease and forewarn a person associated with a extra expenses that could be incurred if the roof's ethics end up being damaged inside.

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

AFP

A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

'Strike hard' campaign

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

Earlier cases

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

New training scheme

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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through henry upon December Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were actually in doubt, info acquired through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese federal government fears more than its continued control of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked wires through U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the actual extent that Chinese language authorities make an effort to convince government authorities worldwide to adopt its position upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the United States' issues as well as views regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese language government stress would be the cables directed to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd countries. The December 29, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador in order to China in order to voice Beijing's powerful competitors of launch in order to any country apart from China, and that when the Ough.S. do indeed accede to this request it would "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television explains how the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap in the face". That the Ough.Utes. federal government was firm in not releasing the detainees to The far east demonstrates the degree of the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine concerns over terrorism are understandable, however in the actual Ough.S. government's observe the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they came back in order to China

Chinese language federal government stress in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the actual Ough.Utes. government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand and a handful of Western governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, as well as European Union member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the actual impact of Chinese federal government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, that was initially prepared to consider two Uyghurs on solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been less better than additional detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships with China. The May Eight, 2009 cable television applies how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented which Germany experienced informed The far east of the U.S. ask for to accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been subsequently cautioned through The far east associated with ‘a large load upon bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the local funds, in July '09. A This summer Thirteen, 2009 cable discussing bulk occurrences in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet within 03 associated with 08 differ substantially in origin as well as character from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present severe problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration leadership wouldn't wait to spread out fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered this necessary to recover purchase. Mass incidents pose another kind of threat, he said, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters for fear of sparking huge public outrage that will change from the Party."

This is a chilling opinion, especially when one views the evidence presented in two reviews launched this season by the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness company accounts of the utilization of lethal reside fire against Uyghur protestors within July 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration that fireplace wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the different approach taken by Chinese security forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September 2009. During those protests, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, who experienced required that he inform them about government reactions to protection issues. An identical ask for to satisfy with the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters within This summer was not fulfilled.

The actual wider repercussions from the unrest also saw a short discussion on the effect it might have upon Iran-China relationships, and on relations with Australia after Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Push Membership within Canberra in July 2009. In the second option situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution which sponsors the National Push Membership to make use of its impact to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns about the situation in the Uyghur region also come through within the cables. Inside a discussion upon plan path in Tibet, U.S. authorities clarify that it'll be impossible with regard to Chinese leaders to consider a much softer line "if they look like they are doing this below international pressure". The actual cable out dated April 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the observation "that household stability remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the current hard collection on Tibet or in places like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill more than of unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture are discussed in a February 24, 2008 cable. Whilst suggesting which China's financial achievement will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable television also discusses how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a limited expansion associated with municipal culture, such as improvements within the rule associated with law and a more powerful part with regard to approved religions, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other stars within areas which bring about social balance and don't challenge Communist Celebration rule." This can be a notable alternation in thinking, that has seen U.Utes. officials promote the idea which Chinese language financial development, as well as economic relationships along with China brings in regards to a steadily democratic culture; however, more belief seems to be placed in the grassroots movement compared to one that begins from the best quantity of a Chinese government. Nonetheless, the cable television proves that "[i]n areas for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism results in tight limitations on the growth of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who suggests that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should still express...serious concerns over Beijing's individual privileges report and appeal to China's developing awareness that higher regard for human rights, religious freedom and the rule of law assists to advertise the improvement and sociable balance which China looks for in addition to to improve China's international picture." This type of strategy might consider substantial diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's paranoid fear that the Usa privately encourages routine change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables provide understanding of the actual daily company of diplomacy that's hardly ever afforded to everyone, which is fascinating to note the amount of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The importance of the role of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur human rights conditions within private discussions is made clear, as well as contrasts with its sensible open public position. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure china government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language federal government pressure upon its counterparts is illustrative from the degree that Chinese authorities attempt to control contradictory stories. With increased revelations in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not grab the head lines, however the wires have get rid of new light on the documentation associated with human privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

Sunday 27 March 2011

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through holly on Dec 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever uncertain, information acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language government worries more than it's continued charge of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked out wires from Ough.S. diplomats demonstrate the actual extent that Chinese government bodies make an effort to convince government authorities worldwide to consider its stance on problems impacting Uyghurs. The cables additionally show the actual United States' issues as well as sights regarding the on going repressive steps in the region.

The majority of lighting of Chinese language federal government pressure would be the wires directed to Chinese language frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A December Twenty nine, 08 cable television applies how Chinese language Helper Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador to The far east to voice Beijing's powerful opposition of launch in order to any country other than The far east, which if the U.S. do certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the February '09 cable describes the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the Ough.S. government was company within not really releasing the detainees in order to The far east demonstrates the extent from the politicized character of the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns over terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the U.Utes. government's view the detainees would most likely face torture and execution when they returned in order to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the actual Ough.Utes. federal government, but also in order to New Zealand along with a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to Eu member states all appear to have paid for the actual impact of Chinese language federal government unhappiness. In the case of Indonesia, which was initially willing to consider 2 Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than additional detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs might have on relations with The far east. The May Eight, 2009 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Germany had informed The far east from the U.S. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned through The far east of ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally discuss the actual unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July '09. A This summer Thirteen, '09 cable discussing mass incidents within China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March of 2008 vary markedly in origin and character through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present serious problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Party management wouldn't hesitate to open fireplace on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it necessary to recover order. Mass incidents present another kind of risk, he explained, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for fear of sparking huge open public outrage that would change from the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing opinion, especially when 1 views the evidence presented in two reports launched this year by the Uyghur Human Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in This summer '09. In addition, the declaration that fireplace would not be used towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for that various approach taken through Chinese protection causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese protests within Sept 2009. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had required he let them know about government responses to security issues. An identical ask for to meet using the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The actual broader consequences of the unrest additionally noticed a brief discussion on the effect it would have on Iran-China relations, and on relations with Sydney after World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Press Membership within Canberra in July 2009. Within the second option case, china government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution which sponsors the nation's Press Club to make use of its influence to block the Kadeer speech there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns about the situation in the Uyghur area also come via within the cables. In a dialogue on plan direction in Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it will be impossible for Chinese leaders to consider a much softer collection "if they look like they are doing so under international pressure". The actual cable television dated April Sixteen, 2008, one month after the episode of unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual observation "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's top priority above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no relaxation of the current hard collection upon Tibet or perhaps in locations like Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable additionally storage sheds gentle about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and the possible drip more than of unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to stress within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil society are debated inside a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. While recommending which China's economic achievement will increase its resistance to democratic change, the actual cable also discusses how Chinese language frontrunners see the usefulness of "a limited expansion of municipal culture, including improvements within the rule of law along with a more powerful part for approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other actors in areas that contribute to sociable balance and do not challenge Communist Celebration rule." This can be a significant change in considering, that has observed Ough.Utes. authorities market the idea that Chinese economic development, as well as economic relations along with China brings in regards to a steadily democratic society; nevertheless, much more belief seems to be placed in the grassroots movement than one that begins in the best quantity of a Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable concludes that "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the growth of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who shows that the actual Ough.S. government "should continue to express...serious issues more than Beijing's individual privileges report as well as appeal to China's growing awareness that greater respect for individual privileges, religious freedom and also the rule associated with regulation assists to promote the very improvement and sociable stability which China seeks in addition to to improve China's worldwide picture." Such a strategy would consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid fear the Usa privately encourages regime alter as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the daily company of diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by everyone, which is fascinating to note the quantity of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual role of the us like a monitor of Uyghur individual rights problems within personal conversations is created clear, and contrasts using its sensible open public position. Employees from the Uyghur Human Rights Project is actually well aware of pressure china government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese government stress on it's alternatives is illustrative of the degree which Chinese authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory narratives. With increased facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, however the wires possess shed new gentle on the documentation associated with human rights conditions within the Uyghur region.

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Seo And Article Marketing Will Place Yourself Page 1

Seo and marketing with articles are a couple of the most powerful strategies which you can use promoting your internet site and get the revenue and success that you desire for your online business. These two stuff has been around to get a really long time already however they still remain to be really effective. In reality, these have helped lots of people free themselves from your traditional methods for money-generating options of society.

In this article, I will be showing the ways how you are able to properly execute search engine optimization and article promotion for the betterment of one's business web site. Furthermore, I will also be discussing different points that you must consider when you're using these two internet marketing strategies to market your website and get customers. Even though marketing with articles and Search engine optimisation have been around for a long time already, you have to know that the trends and preferences as to how they are done are continually changing, which explains why you should remain up to date with these things through the help of Search engine marketing forum sites so that you can quickly adjust and learn to make your strategies far better.

In the past marketing with articles to various web sites was once so simple the effects they produce for web sites was powerful. However, things have changed a whole lot today. Currently submitting the same article to different websites is no longer advisable because engines like google have now changed to a huge extent in the manner they rank pages. They will no longer rank contents that are identical like they accustomed to in the past. This is one of the best types of changes that exist in web marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that internet marketers are using today. Nearly all of internet marketers now produce articles and submit them in really popular article directories and wait for site visitors to come to their pages. Be thought of as that most reliable Search engine marketing strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, and also this delivers positive benefits regularly. One problem with this particular strategy is the caliber of traffic you will get using this will not be that good if you do not do proper keyphrase research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You first need for attending these two things prior to deciding to submit your posts so that you won't wind up losing huge amounts of targeted traffic. This means that you must practice good amounts of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to function.

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver Washington

There are several things to take into account when looking for a new roofing contractor. Price, experience, and referrals are a couple of the things you'll probably be concerned about. Read on for even other great ideas.

Finding a Roofing Contractors

Before hunting for a roofing contractor, be sure you have a common idea of the project that you need to have inked. By no means do you have to be an expert. If you have a Roof Certificate, read it completely to find the information regarding your present roof. If you do not have a Top Certificate, refer to documents agreed upon during final to locate houses roof Inspection page. These documents should give you everything you need to be familiar with your roof. Before contacting the roofing contractor, you ought to have a list of specifications and requirements to help you determine exactly who is acceptable for your roofing project. Be sure you write down every potential roof covering contractor's answers along with check all of them against one another. If there are any discrepancies, be sure to be aware this and take this into consideration when coming up with a final determination. There are no guaranteed ways to select a roofing contractor, but if you take attention to the info provided, your chances of a successful covering project are usually greatly improved.

One of the best methods for finding a roofing contractor is by recommendations. Try asking a friend or relative who's had covering work completed, and had been satisfied with the work. Get the name of the company and his or her contact info. If you have no word of jaws referrals, try out first seeking in the mobile phone book and internet based. A large advertising or expensive website isn't necessarily an illustration of the high quality of work, but tend to be a very good tool for measuring how long and devotion they have put into their respected profession. In addition, try finding current worksites and search at the roofing work that's done or in the process of staying finished. Should you be visually pleased, ask the house manager for that name of the roofing contractor and also their speak to information.

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Certification and Professional references

Roofing Contractors are not necessary to be licensed in all says. Contact community licensing organizations that rule general building contractors for any list of requirements. Once you have attained the requirements, develop a list of detailed questions to ask your own potential roofing contractor. This simple record should immediately help you to discount the skilled from the unqualified roofing building contractors. Qualified companies should be able to effortlessly answer questions or perhaps tell you that they must do further research before giving a definitive response.

Even if the roofing contractor features all needed licensing, you ought to ask to find out pictures of completed roof covering jobs and speak to happy clients. Have a list of concerns handy must recent clientele, such as the character of the work, timeliness, and general satisfaction. Ensure these are current clients as well as cross reference point if possible. When it comes to commercial roofing, make sure that the actual roofing contractor is bonded. Looking at these personal references is another included measure of safety to narrow down the list involving potential roofer contractors.

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Article writing can be a very powerful kind of Seo for the company web site. Quality written articles manage to transform your websites SERP and add quality for a company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is essential in gaining new backlinks in your business website. Articles can and really should be written on topics which might be unique in your business or industry. The articles can discuss an array of issues and ideas within your industry. Articles that supply the reader with a resource will almost always be probably the most popular and a lot likely types of articles that may bring about backlinks to your site.

Focus your posts on your potential readers or customers. Search engine optimization articles should address real questions that are asked by current or past clients. Each article you write to suit your needs company should include detailed analysis and Seo keywords that can help associate your website with the content contained in the site. Focus your articles on approximately 3 keywords and don't stray from them. Consistency is essential when writing Seo articles. Should you be authoring Vancouver Search engine optimization make certain your always talk about information highly relevant to the keyword.

Give all of your Seo Articles an engaging Title that will encourage people to learn and bookmark your posts. Ideally, the articles you're writing find yourself as links from other websites that are much like yours. This one thing will help increase the power of each and every link all of which will assist your SERP. Make sure to end each article which has a keyword anchored link (see Easy Small company Seo). This link will help to enhance your rankings on the internet as well as other major search engines for the keyword connected to the link. Submit the articles to a submitted article directory and Voila! Before you know it, your site could possibly be around the first page of Google.

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Vancouver Search Engine Optimization Company Aims For Google Places With Absolute Good results

When individuals type in research online term hunting for a business inside their local area, they'll find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It is extremely eminent so they can be optimized and from this first page whenever they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies must be educated of this type for their clients.

There will be a lots of new Vancouver SEO companies starting, simply because the requirement is there. Finding an SEO firm which includes the client's welfare at heart may be tedious. The amount of keywords do they optimize for? What are the keywords as well as the corresponding amount of searches? Do they understand how to optimize for Google places? Etc. Seo is the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge can get you there.

"My wife and I started our Vancouver Search engine optimization company by accident. We've learned with the school of hard knocks and experimentation how to make use of the web to advertise any business. We began with the website, then a competition, and then of course building quality back-links to push an internet site up in the rankings. It isn't really pushing control button and watching what goes on type of business. It takes a lot of effort, plenty of research and a lot of commitment. We give your very best for our clients and now we are very pleased with a high retention rate." Randy Neale says.

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Tuesday 22 March 2011

The Uyghurs from Eastern Turkistan

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is a least populated land whereas it covers close to a sixth from the nation's area. Having resisted during hundreds of years the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Turkestan, fell under the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mostly Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Muslim mainly, the Uyghurs have a very good religious identity which, in specific, enabled them to protect a solid difference towards the Chinese invader. Definitely, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their own historical past, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus beginning the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

Under the effect of the religions which they adopted, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own unique graphic system.

The coming of Islam was a great change because it was accompanied by the absorption of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used at present.

If their own writing, their own language and their religion mark a real big difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also differ from their characteristic, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features going out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek roots of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only 8 million people - a trifle for this specific huge area. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This statute will allow these people a few privileges in a land exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is recognized as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, looks very illusory. The presence of all-natural resources in Xinjiang, and its closeness with nations recognized as sensitive, strongly urged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility jobs.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghurs into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Saying more flexibility, but mainly the recognition of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in area Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The events of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur population continues today to proudly keep up their identity and their traditions , although they become a minority on their own territory.

For additional information about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

ation|Web optimization|Website seo|Seo optimization|Seo optimisation} Expert consultancy - Getting Ahead Using SEO

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Wednesday 16 March 2011

Start Making Money

Marco Arment, the former CTO of the Tumblr blog platform, is best known these days for his time-shifting reading app Instapaper. But he could start a side-job as a financial advisor to start-ups. His motto: Get the money from your customers, not investors.

Arment’s more traditional take is built largely on the idea that if he puts out a good product, there’s no shame in asking customers to pay for it. And the more they pay, the less he needs to rely on outside investors. Arment said many developers are of the mindset that they need to amass a huge number of eyeballs through free services. But they don’t focus enough on building a solid product that can command loyalty and payment from consumers, and instead try to gain profitability through advertising and turning to outside venture capital.

By contrast, Arment says his efforts to monetize Instapaper have been successful because he was able to leverage the hard work he put into his paid versions and the good will he’s gotten back from consumers. And that has allowed him to avoid outside funding, something he plans on doing for the forseeable future.

Don’t Take Funding if You Don’t Need It

“If a service can be profitable and breakeven without VC money, you don’t need to take it,” Arment told me in an interview. “There’s no reason for developers to get a lot of users without charging. There’s another path. My goal is to spread that message: Charge for something and make more than you spend.”

Arment launched Instapaper as a free website in January 2008 and became profitable later that fall when he first began selling a paid iPhone app alongside a free version. He’s been profitable ever since. Arment won’t disclose his revenue, but he said he can cover his expenses and can afford to hire a couple more people if he needed. He left his Tumblr job in September to devote himself to Instapaper.

Though Arment maintains a free iPhone app, he said the focus of the company has been on the paid versions which are updated first (a new update is expected in the next month or so). He has yet to release a free iPad version and has only gotten three emails about the lack of it. Most seem happy to pay for the $5 iPad version. Between 25 and 33 percent of people pay for the $5 paid iPhone version. In fact, as an experiment, he pulled the free iPhone app from the app store for a week a little while back and found that only one person emailed. Sales of the paid version didn’t go up, but they didn’t go down either, he said.

“The free version isn’t really competing as much as I expected with the paid version; a lot of people go straight to the paid version,” he said. “It was only a week but the people who were going to the free version would not have gone to the paid version.”

Let Users Thank You by Paying You

That’s what’s allowed Arment to really focus on the paid segment. In fact, he still questions the value of the free version at times because it can leave a more negative impression for users with its limited set of features. Arment said his paying users have surprised him with their support. He started a $1 a month subscription plan in October that didn’t actually offer much in the way of extra features. It was more of a way to let users show their support for Instapaper. He said the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“That was a huge surprise to me how well it’s doing given there’s no real incentive to do it besides good will. But it ends up that good will is powerful,” Arment said. “It shows that people will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.”

Arment is testing the theory again with a new API that leverages his subscription plan. For developers who want to build apps with Instapaper integration, Arment said last month he will require their users to subscribe to Instapaper. Again, the response has been very positive, said Arment. Two hundred developers have applied to get access to the API. All this money-making has allowed Arment to sidestep venture capital money. He has had repeated offers, but Arment said accepting VC funding is akin to taking on a new boss, and the act of raising and maintaining money is a full-time job, he said.

Venture Capital Is Like Having Another Boss

“If you can go without funding, you can be a one- or two-person shop without a whole level of bosses,” he said. “You’re not worried about getting more money and getting diluted anymore.”

Arment’s approach doesn’t work for everyone. He was fortunate to be able to this as a side job and build it up while at Tumblr. And he acknowledges that the lack of funding could be a problem if he wanted to build a staff quickly. But he believes his experience shows that a more old-school approach to building a business and developing a following with consumers is a viable one for entrepreneurs that should be explored more. He may not the biggest company, but he can be a profitable one for a while.

“I don’t need the entire market,” Arment said. “I can get five percent of the market and be rich.”

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Today marked the last day of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) 2011 summit in Washington D.C. Here are some of the deals and agency decisions revealed or discussed at the summit, which are likely to impact green tech investors and startups in America for years to come.

Progress on seed investments…

The D.O.E. boasted that six, private companies that it seed-funded last year have raised a collective $100 million in additional private capital. Five of those companies are based in Massachusetts, and one in California, respectively:

FloDesign – a company that uses aerospace technology to develop everything from wind turbines, and noise reducers to, yes, weapons and stealth aircraft.

SunCatalytix - an energy storage and renewable fuels company that’s working on a way of generating solar power from light and water.

General Compression – compressed air energy storage technology that makes intermittent renewable power, primarily from wind farms, more useful at a large-scale.

24M Technologies – a spin-out from A123 Systems that’s making lithium-ion electric car batteries that store more energy for a lower price compared to what’s available today.

Envia Systems – a developer of lithium-ion batteries made of a proprietary, composite cathode material that, ARPA-E reports, have the highest energy density in the world.

Climate changing attitudes…

Leaders in energy and clean tech — including from the private sector and Obama administration — spoke on a range of subjects at the summit, including ARPA-E budget cuts, spending what’s left and where, and changing attitudes about clean energy and climate change.

The list of speakers included Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger along with 85 others. [Ed's note: Why couldn't ARPA-E find any African-Americans to speak at this summit? Check out the not so diverse speaker list in full, and let us know who you would have recommended for a more equal opportunity event in the comments below.]

As Jenny Mandel reported for Greenwire’s Environment & Energy, the “Gov” said it was time to end debates over climate change, face the music of global warming, and stop acting defeatist about America’s chances to lead clean energy and green tech industries on the world economic stage.

Tightening the purse strings…

Secretary Chu remained optimistic about ARPA-E’s impact thus far and potential to drive further positive developments in clean energy at home, hedging questions about the agency’s budget for 2011.

As Eli Kintisch reported on the fate of the agency’s budget for Science Insider, earlier this week:

“The young agency [ARPA-E]… is living off $15 million it received in 2009 after having committed some $400 million in stimulus funding. Without more money, the program will have to start cutting staff members or other expenses this summer…

The White House request[ed] $550 million for ARPA-E in 2012, [but] Congress had authorized only $306 million for the agency in last year’s reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. Even $50 million for the rest of the fiscal year would put a squeeze on the agency. ARPA-E might stay alive, but it would be a shell of the juggernaut that attracted 2000 people to the [summit event].”

Storing power, greening the military…

From what’s left to spend, U.S. Navy secretary Mabus revealed at the event, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy were striking a partnership to green the military’s energy use with more powerful, portable fuel cell, battery and smart grid technology. [Hat tip: Green Car Congress]

Through the agreement, the Navy would start to use grid, and power storage systems developed by ARPA-E in its operations. The DOD and DOE plan to spend some $25 million, starting next year (2012) to develop two particular projects, here.

One thing they will support is the development of a hybrid power storage system that’s got enough energy density to charge military equipment in the field, but is portable, and can therefore help reduce diesel consumption, as well as time spent refueling in the field.

Another thing they will support is research into power storage and grid systems that can help the Navy ensure power is always-available at all their buildings, regardless of high gas prices and decreasing budgets, political unrest in oil-producing nations, or the intermittent qualities of renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

Photos:

Arnold Schwarzenegger touring a solar photovoltaics plant, Nov. 2009 via

2. Energy secretary Steven Chu at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit 2011, Washington, DC by Ken Shipp via via US.gov

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