It is my great pleasure to confirm the “Cosmic” is on this “Indian Summer” new date. (good conditions for the Creek!)

This also marks the 10th anniversary of this “Symphony of Soul”, so thanks for making this happen all these fun years!

A.) Saturday Oct 3rd “Cosmic Creek Surf Gathering” (first heats for amatuers/local crew etc) Salt Creek

B.) Oct 3rd Sat. (Evening) 7 Degrees Laguna ( Charity Art auction –with incredible list of famous artists)
Donny & surprise guest Musicians, surf stars, food, drink & good times...space is limited & this is a really stylish venue.

C.) Sunday Oct 4rth Pros & Legends will surf along with final heats from Saturday.

Lot’s of Art, Music, always Unique surf craft & great friends, re-uniting to end the summer on a pure positive!

Cheers & have a great labor day weekend you all deserve it for the hard work....I’ll see you then

Note-Cosmic has officially gone tech age -
Click here for the real deal: http://www.billabong.com/cosmiccreek/

Gmail made a tweak last night that brings better contact management to the service. When you click the “To:” or “CC:” links in front of each address field, a box pops up with your contact list. It is a simple change, but it saves you from having to go to another page to find a contact.

Most of the time, Gmail users probably won’t use this feature because Gmail already gives you a list of auto-complete suggestions as you begin typing in a name into the "To:" field. These are based on people you’ve communicated with recently, and usually does the trick. But if you haven’t emailed someone for a long time, their name doesn’t pop up. It also doesn’t help if you can’t remember their name.

Anything that reduces the amount of steps it takes to complete an email is a plus in my book. However, this feature is a bit hidden. You have to click on the “To” or “CC” links to expose it, something many people might only do by mistake the first time (which is why I’m telling you).

The contact chooser also works for groups.

Haggling Over Pact Close to Resolution; Upfront Payment Is Sticking Point

by Michael Learmonth

Published: July 27, 2009

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Yahoo is close to making Microsoft's Bing its search provider.

The deal, which would make Microsoft a more credible competitor to Google, is likely to be announced this week, and seems likely to be based on a revenue share, not on a big fat check upfront, as some at Yahoo had hoped.

Yahoo's request for an upfront payment (it is said to have asked for several hundred million), in addition to revenue guarantees that would amount to billions over the course of the deal, caused a breakdown last...

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12seconds has had an iPhone app for a while now. Unfortunately, it was fairly crippled because iPhones couldn’t shoot video, so you had to take still pictures and make 12 second collages. Now, with the iPhone 3GS you can shoot video. And so 12seconds is making its app a whole lot better.

Unveiled today at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp event, the “12seconds Video Messenger for Twitter”, is an app that’s all about sending short video messages to your friends. And while 12seconds already has a social graph of its own from its website, it understands that Twitter’s social graph is much larger — and so it’s laying this new app on top of that.

Basically, how it works is that you record a video and then select the friend (or friends) you wish to send it to. This friend is then sent a direct message through Twitter with a link to the video. Or if they have the app also, it comes in through there. This is different than a lot of the current Twitter video offerings out there in that it has a main focus on messaging between smaller groups of people rather than the public, though you can do that too. And this app utilizes the iPhone 3.0 software’s new Push Notifications to let you know when you have a new video to view.

12seconds undoubtedly hopes to make use of the new iPhone 3.1 SDK that was just released to developers. It is rumored to have some subtle changes to the way it allows apps to handle video.

And while Twitter is the key social graph that 12seconds is targeting with this app, it will eventually roll integration with other social networks as well, including the big one, Facebook.

The app should be available soon in the App Store.

The most recent numbers from Nielsen indicate that Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US by the end of Feb, 2009. Not only is that huge growth in one year, but in the month of January, Twitter.com clocked 4.5 million unique visitors in the US, meaning the service grew by more than 50 percent month-over-month. But can that Growth be sustained?

It is hard to imagine that any technology could sustain that kind of growth. But what is even more surprising and potentially derailing for Twitters growth, is the lack of Twitter adoption in the teen market. Read the rest of this entry »