Fabricio Werdum, Cub Swanson and Rich Franklin: Three stars from a full weekend of MMA

After a UFC double-header, who stuck out as the best from UFC on FX 4 and UFC 147? Read on for Cagewriter's picks, and write yours in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.

No. 1 star -- Fabricio Werdum: The former Strikeforce heavyweight is 2-0 since rejoining the UFC. Though his jiu-jitsu is feared, he showed against Mike Russow he can strike with the best of the division, finishing a fighter who had never been knocked out before.

No. 2 star -- Cub Swanson: We've heard of the potential of Swanson for years, but injury often got in his way. Swanson showed he was more than just potential as he took out Ross Pearson with a punishing TKO, his second straight TKO win.

No. 3 star -- Rich Franklin: After proving his company man status once again, stepping in for the injured Vitor Belfort, Franklin won an exciting five-rounder against fellow legend Wanderlei Silva. Afterwards, he charmed the Brazilian crowd by speaking Portuguese to them. You can't ask for much more from a fighter.

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Today in international tech news: Microsoft's attempt to overturn an EU fine fails, leaving it on the hook for more than $1 billion. Also: The New York Times launches a Chinese-language website; arsonists attack Microsoft's Greek headquarters in what multiple outlets say is a protest against austerity measures; Apple launches iTunes stores across Asia -- but not in China.

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RIM's Sad Reality: Collapse Has Been Obvious for a Long Time

Let's be real: Anyone who's been paying attention isn't surprised by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's recent collapse. It's unfortunate, but it's been inevitable.

On Thursday, RIM announced its latest bad news: Last quarter's sales and losses were worse than expected, and its new BlackBerry 10 platform won't be ready until next year. (Too late.) RIM shares fell some 14% in after-hours trading; they're down about 95% since mid-2008. And the company will now have to cut some 5,000 jobs, which is sad to hear.

How the iPhone Changed Everything

What happened? Nothing recently. Rather, RIM's fate started tumbling five years ago Friday: June 29, 2007, the day Apple first started selling the iPhone.

It's hard to overstate just how much Apple's entry into the phone market changed things. Apple didn't invent the smartphone, but it took mobile devices to a new level with the iPhone's all-screen layout, revolutionary software, touch-based interface and its near-perfect integration.

RIM and its contemporaries saw "smartphones" mostly as phones, with some email and basic web stuff crammed in. But Apple saw the iPhone as a tiny portable computer, capable of running the same powerful operating system and Web browser that a laptop could. So the day the iPhone came out, everyone else was immediately playing catch-up.

How RIM Kept On Going

It was soon obvious - especially after Apple launched the iPhone App Store in the summer of 2008 - that RIM and the BlackBerry were in trouble, completely overpowered by the iPhone. But RIM had a few things going for itself: Huge support from big enterprise customers, which initially laughed at the iPhone; a small customer base to start from, which allowed it to put up big growth numbers relatively easily; a recent entry into the consumer market, which fueled most of its growth after the iPhone launched; a solid email product and plastic keyboards, which early fans loved; and new growth in foreign markets after starting small in North America.

So for years, RIM kept growing and was still profitable, and whenever questions about the iPhone came up, RIM blasted them away with hot air. BlackBerry traveled through Europe, Latin America and the mid- and low-end markets, and was able to show profitable growth. RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm, was a joke. But it sold well, because its U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless needed something, anything to compete with the iPhone in the pre-Droid days, so it promoted the heck out of it, and RIM benefited. 

But RIM was a ticking time bomb: Even though it put up decent numbers sometimes and talked a lot, it wasn't showing a real plan for the future or phones that could legitimately compete with the iPhone.

When I wrote in 2010 that RIM was the "new Palm," I wasn't far off: "RIM appears to be in a very similar position to where Palm was just a few years ago: A high-flying smartphone incumbent, suddenly looking very vulnerable, very quickly, as new competition shoots past it." My prognosis: "The risk for RIM is that it will increasingly lose the high end of the smartphone market to Apple and Google, and be forced to become a lower-margin, low-end player. And that's not what RIM investors have in mind for the company."

Indeed, things started happening. Enterprises let employees use their own iPhones for work email; Android ate away at the low end of the market; the iPad arrived; and Apple supported more carriers around the world. For RIM, which still hadn't caught up, taking the lead became impossible.

Now What?

The good news is that RIM still has almost 80 million subscribers, is still selling some phones, still has some big customers (governments, huge companies, etc.), and still has some useful technology for back-end services. In theory, that should be worth something to someone - Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Facebook, Huawei, Amazon, etc. The bad news is that the price tag for RIM has been shrinking rapidly. As its technology continues to decay, why pay more than you need to?

When I first argued in early 2009 that Microsoft should buy RIM and make its big mobile bet, I wrote that it would have probably cost $35 billion to get a deal done. Today, RIM is worth less than $5 billion; it shouldn't take much more than that to bid. (Meanwhile, Microsoft has since realized that it needs to go into the hardware business to make money in mobile.) But what's there? The cost of cleaning up the mess will be high, and the value of what's left is low. Three years ago, there might have been a chance to salvage something useful. Today, the scraps are scraps.

In today's patent-crazy mobile world, it wouldn't be a shock - especially if RIM's stock continues to fall - to see a bid by the end of the year. But a sale now won't be a congratulatory event for RIM. It will simply be the end of a once-strong company that got outmatched and couldn't come back.

Earlier: What Will Happen To RIM? 4 Real Possibilities

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Listen: A$AP Rocky And Lana Del Rey Collab Again, On ?Ridin? ?

Ok, I promise, this is my last Lana Del Rey-related post for like two days. Yesterday we got to see LDR‘s video for National Anthem, which featured A$AP Rocky in the video. And today I shared a list of similar presidential-themed videos. But today we actually get to hear what the two artists sound like [...]

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Google helps train developers, hook up universities in new education programs

While it only just revealed Google Developers Live earlier last week, offering interactive broadcasts and tutorials, the hardware-dabbling giant has now kicked off two more programs to support its dev faithful. The Google App Engine, Google Drive, YouTube and several advertising APIs will all be covered by the Google Developers Academy, a new site hub that offers up training materials on the above, with more promised in the future. It's joined by a new University Consortium, aiming to collaborate between academics who use Google's tools and dev platforms in their research and teaching. Both sites are now live -- learners can hit up the sources for all the details.

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During yesterdays keynote presentation of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at Google I/O, you will have heard talk of 'Project Butter.' This is the new, 'buttery smooth,' UI coming along with Jelly Bean. To highlight just how good this is, Google Mobile has uploaded a demonstration/promotional video to their YouTube channel. 

In the video, you see a vastly slowed down comparison between two different Galaxy Nexus phones. One runs Ice Cream Sandwich, the other is packing Jelly Bean. We won't spoil the ending, but it's pretty impressive. 

Source: Google Mobile (YouTube)

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Insert Coin: LUMOback Smart Posture Sensor thrums when you slouch, charts your laziness (video)

LUMOback wants to show all those DIY posture dilitantes what's what with its Smart Posture Sensor, an app and hardware combo that tracks your carriage and vibrates when you hunch. The thinnish 8.5mm sensor is worn like a belt, and on top of the tactile nagging, it provides detailed iPhone or iPad charting of the sitting, running and even sleeping you did, complete with an xkcd-like stickman video replaying all your crooked moves. So far the team is about a third of the way to its $100K mark, and a minimum $99 pledge will get you a jet-black model if it's built, with a $125 chip-in letting you vote on a a second shipping color, to boot. If some of your activities consist of, say, blogging in front of a computer screen all day, check the video after the break for relief.

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Candidate Hite says his current position has made him ready to face challenges of Philly schools

William R. Hite Jr. knows the first order of business if he's named Philadelphia schools superintendent.
"The best thing someone can do now is stop talking and listen. Only when you do that is there an opportunity to begin a healing process," Hite told a community battered by budget cuts, an ugly exit of the former superintendent, and announced but yet unclear plans for its future.

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They really are doing face-lifts younger and younger these days. It was just eight months ago in October 2011 when we first met Snip.it, a San Francisco-based startup that has created a web application for people to "snip," collect, and comment on, and share their favorite articles from all over the web. But for Snip.it, it's already high time for a makeover: Today the company is unveiling a top-to-bottom rebuild of its service with a faster, revamped user experience and a heaping handful of new features.

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Reimagining Home Improvement: Houzz vs. Better Homes and Gardens

We're running a series based on Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report mid-year, in which she listed 50+ industries that are being "reimagined" by social and mobile technologies. One of her slides was about the home improvement information industry, which up till recently revolved around broadcast media like magazines and TV. Meeker pointed to a new generation of home improvement services, like Houzz and One Kings Lane, that is making this industry much more two-way... and useful!

Houzz describes itself as "the leading online platform for home remodeling and design." The company told us it has five million unique users per month and has had over two million downloads of its iPad and iPhone apps.

The previous generation of home improvement information services is typified by Better Homes and Gardens, a magazine boasting the fourth highest circulation in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens is owned by The Meredith Corporation and has been around since 1922. It has a website at bhg.com which, at first glance, appears similar to Houzz. But let's look more closely...

Houzz (House + Buzz, Geddit?)

As well as offering a Pinterest-like catalog of colorful home designs for users to browse, Houzz has hundreds of articles and community discussions. However, the real killer feature of Houzz is that it connects homeowners with designers and home improvement professionals.

Houzz helps you organize a home improvement project, with a concept it calls "Ideabook." I'm currently looking to buy a dining table, so I created a new Ideabook for that. I then entered the search term "dining table" into Houzz. The homepage has photos as its default search type and that brought up 7,124 "dining table" home design photos. I added a few to my new Ideabook.

The thing is, I'm no interior design expert. I need a little help here. Happily, at the bottom of the photo results page for "dining table", there was a link to an article entitled Discover Your Dining Table Style. The article gave some handy tips, encouraging me to add styles I liked into my dining table Ideabook.

Houzz follows the Pinterest model even further, by offering an "Add to Ideabook" bookmarklet - so you can save images from external websites into your Ideabooks (privately, if you don't want the whole world to see).

There's a good discussion area in Houzz, where you can ask a question to the community or browse existing questions. You can also follow people on Houzz, whether it's professionals or other homeowners. Overall, the site has very strong community features.

Finally, it's worth noting that Houzz has well-designed iPad and iPhone apps.

The one area which Houzz could improve on is e-commerce. Houzz isn't a full e-commerce operation, it simply links to external sites. To hire a professional Interior Designer or purchase a dining table, I'd need to go to the provider's external website or call them up. It would make a lot of sense if I could order a new dining room table - or even a second-hand one - from within Houzz. Or order the services of an Interior Designer who has good ratings.

How Does Better Homes and Gardens Compare?

I tested the BHG website with the same search for a dining table. It turned up 33 articles, 2 videos and 115 slideshows (although a quick browse through the slideshows revealed that many were about more than just dining tables).

BHG does have some good articles on dining tables, such as one gradly titled Ultimate Guide to Dining Room Tables. But overall, the BHG user experience is inferior to Houzz. There is no way for me to organize projects, a la Houzz's Ideabooks, and there isn't much community on BHG. The site also has tech glitches - I had trouble with the signup process and the Pinterest link led me to its Twitter page.

Mary Meeker described the reimagined home improvement website as a "Communication Platform for Designers & Consumers [featuring] Share / Discover & Click-And-Buy." Houzz has excellent discovery and sharing features, as well as a large and active community. It has a massive database of products - over 7,000 photos of dining room tables, for example. The one thing it doesn't have, as noted above, is click-and-buy. But (as with Pinterest) this is surely the next step for Houzz.

As for BHG, right now they remain the 4th most popular magazine in the US according to circulation. But with its current website, which is limited and not very functional compared to Houzz, it's hard to see how it can continue to remain the leader in the home improvement information market. Especially with the financial backing Houzz has - at the end of last year, Houzz received $11.6 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital.

I'm curious to check back in 5 years time and see how the two products compare then. It seems to me that Houzz has a massive opportunity to bring a reimagined home improvement service to a mainstream user base.

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