• Ideal pruner for light applications and easily adjustable
• Features strong blades with a wire cutting notch
• Lightweight metal handles
• Blades are made of high-quality hardened steel
• Limited lifetime warranty

The Felco F-2 Classic Manual Hand Pruner has a comfortable, light, sturdy handle made of forged aluminum with a limited lifetime guarantee. The blade is made of high-quality hardened steel, which allows clean, precise cuts. The sap groove prevents the blade sticking when cutting “sappy” wood. It saves time and makes pruning easier by removing sap and debris after each cut. The Felco Classic Pruner is easily adjustable. Hand and wrist protection and optimization of the force exerted are provided by the angled head, the ideal shape of the handles, and the cushion-shock absorber / non-slip coating.These classic Felco pruners set the standard by which all others are judged. The choice of landscape professionals, nursery workers, and savvy gardeners around the globe; this exceptionally well-made tool features a design that’s been unchanged for more than 50 years. The anvil blade has a deep sap groove to prevent sticking. A Swiss, precision-made cutting blade with soft wire cutter is replaceable for maximum return on investment. An easily-adjusted bolt and nut allow users to customize blade alignment for more efficient operation. A rubber cushion with shock absorbers pads blades where they come together to reduce impact and strain on wrists. Strong, light, forged-aluminum alloy handles have a red, plastic coating that’s molded for comfort (and makes pruners easier to spot in the garden). A non-corroding spring mechanism is covered with a metal sheath to protect from moisture.

Ideal for trimming rose bushes and woody perennials, the Felco Original’s smooth, soft action, ergonomic comfort, and exceptional durability put it in a class of its own. It’s covered by a one-year warranty. However, with proper care, these pruners will last a lifetime. –Mary Park

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Munich, Germany (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

The semantic web as a term is over 15 years old now. How close are we to its realization? How much longer will it take? Justin Gilbreath, the managing director of 30 Digits, provides insight into the development of the semantic web and practical alternatives of Web Extraction available now.

One could say that in some ways, we are closer than ever before. Tools and standards have been developed like RDF, OWL, SPARQL, and many more which enable the possibility of its implementation. Only the few and brave have actually gone down this road. The problems are that the technology is still only mastered by a few. Indeed’s job trend analysis looks rather grim for this changing any time soon. Maybe engineers and programmers have a different take, but consider this question on stackoverflow “Is semantic web a dead on arrival project?” where these experts go to get answers. The major nail in the coffin though is that most content creators do not see the benefits of adding the extra effort to make their content machine readable. If that was not enough, consider what Richard Padley of Semantico discusses in his article (Triple bypass – What does the death of the semantic web mean for publishers?) about Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft announcing schema.org essentially providing a way for them to use content by some simple standards for labeling in HTML5 leaving the semantic web out in the cold.

Then where do these wonderful sites (MashUps) full of information from multiple sources come from? How do they get their data? What about companies that gather insights from aggregates of information across the web? In some cases, these benefits have come from the advent of functionalities that are the predecessors of the semantic web. The most beneficial and prevalent are RSS feeds and APIs.

One is still left asking the question about all the content on the Internet out there that is not accessible via RSS or an API. There is also issue around making sense of social media which has passed the semantic web in many ways as discussed in this article (Quora: Has Social Trumped the Semantic Web?) and many like it. That is where web data extraction comes in. Web Extraction, often called web scraping or web harvesting, is where a tool (often called a spider) crawls the sites in question and scrapes the precise content from the site in question delivering that data in a format that is unified and processable by another system.

There are many services out there that make the benefits from the semantic web possible before it actually exists. Most of them are meant for small scale companies grabbing data from a few pages on a few sites. Others provide the ability to gather decent amounts of data but are limited by more complex sites. When a company requires data for their business and need scale, reliability, and precision; the 30 Digits Web Extractor delivers this functionality to meet the most demanding requirements.

The use cases are continually growing. The 30 Digits Web Extractor provides its services and products to companies that cannot wait for the Semantic Web. It is used for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to inform companies of dangers in countries where they have people, plants, and resources worth millions. It supplies social web data to some of the leading companies providing brand management to leading brands in the hospitality industry. The data is crucial for other companies to gather market intelligence to compete in fast moving markets.

The Semantic Web has great promise for the future (should it arrive), but would it not be better to realize the benefits today?

About 30 Digits

30 Digits GmbH (http://www.30digits.com) is a vibrant young company built on the experience of search veterans, the power and speed of development from the open source community, and innovative ideas for the information retrieval and access market. 30 Digits focuses primarily on harvesting, structuring, and enriching data from the Internet with its Web Extractor, handling large scale ETL projects, answering complex search issues particularly in the German language with its linguistic tools, and providing top of the line search solutions. They have customers and partners in the United States of America, Canada, Singapore, Germany, Greece, Finland, and the United Kingdom across industries as diverse as Oil & Gas, Financial Management, Aerospace & Defense and Travel & Hospitality.

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Young Angry Birds fans will soon be able to build and play with characters from their favorite App with new licensed building toys by K’NEX®. Rovio, the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise, and K’NEX, the only US Construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love™, are pleased to announce this new partnership to create a line of building toys inspired by Angry Birds.

The relationship combines the award-winning K’NEX building system with beloved Angry Birds characters, bringing them from the smartphone to the construction aisle for the first time. With more than 600 million downloads, Angry Birds is the #1 mobile game worldwide and appeals to male and female audiences across multiple age ranges.

“Angry Birds Building Sets from K’NEX will bring Rovio’s popular and recognizable characters to life in a new way,” said Michael Araten, president of K’NEX Brands. “Children of all ages will have the opportunity to build the Angry Birds world they love right in their own home. And just like in the video game, the birds face off against the pigs! I am excited to see how fans will take their digital game skills and use them in the real world!”

While K’NEX will provide a sneak peek of the products at NY Toy Fair in February 2012, the K’NEX Angry Birds product line will not be widely available until Fall 2012. Building sets will include the most popular Angry Birds characters, buildable launchers and other recognizable elements from the game. Designed for children ages 5+, the building sets will bring the fun of the video game to life and expand its appeal through a rewarding, age-appropriate K’NEX building experience.

About K’NEX Brands

Founded in 1992, K’NEX Brands was established to make and sell what has become one of the world’s leading integrated construction systems for children. Winner of over 200 international awards and recognitions, K’NEX seeks to build young minds with its exciting product line and critically acclaimed K’NEX Education program. For more information, please visit http://www.knex.com.

About Rovio

Rovio is an industry-changing entertainment media company based in Finland, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise. Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game for touchscreen smartphones, became an international phenomenon within a year of release, and is now the number one paid app of all time. Following this success in mobile gaming, Angry Birds has expanded rapidly in entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a beloved international brand.

For more information, please visit http://www.rovio.com

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• Serrated edge on blades grip and hold while cutting
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Top-quality Garden Shears feature stainless-steel blades with a serrated edge that grips while cutting. A Softgrip handle provides comfortable use, and a take-apart design makes cleaning a breeze. Handle accommodates right- and left-handed users. Lifetime warranty.

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Today, Echobit, LLC (http://www.echobit.com) announces the release of its next generation social network and toolset for gamers, called Evolve (http://www.evolvehq.com). After an exciting 8 months in closed beta (and adding 8,000 members along the way), the three-person startup has quietly built a platform that maximizes the reach and influence of gamers’ and the games they play within the rapidly expanding, increasingly disconnected video game universe.

FRAGMENTATION = FAIL

The video game industry is multiplatformed and wildly incongruent. PCs and consoles have been joined by mobile devices, social networks and tablets to amass a global audience of over 1.2 billion gamers—up from 250 million just a few years ago—an audience with extremely limited ability to consolidate their various exploits into one discrete gaming context. “Today’s gamers want to remain whole and in control of their gaming lives across any game, publisher or platform,” states Adam Sellke, Co-founder and CEO of Echobit. “Publishers and hardware manufacturers like Activision/Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft, Valve, Zynga, Apple, Microsoft, Sony and others are all protecting their respective turfs on Battle.net, Call of Duty Elite, Origin, uPlay, Steam, GameCenter, Xbox Live, Play Station Network and the like. That’s nuts. These silos and walled gardens unnecessarily constrain gamers’ freedom, so we created Evolve.”

L’EGGO YOUR EGO

Evolve provides gamers an elegant view of their gaming world from a single profile. From it, players are treated to stats, rankings and charts of the games they and their friends are enjoying. Evolve not only gives players a place to roost, but also plenty of ways to crow. “A big part of gaming is bragging,” contends Sellke. “Evolve lets you really show ‘em who’s boss.” The platform supports the ability to import and aggregate various gaming achievements onto a profile. Also, Evolve members are equipped with “live” badges for touting their prowess with up-to-the-minute data on sites and forums. Evolve has recently added in-game screen and video capture to help gamers “prove once and for all that their kung fu is the best,” says Sellke.

QUIT PLAYING WITH YOURSELF

There are a lot of social tools and game tracking/achievement aggregators out there, but no other platform directly facilitates game coordination and connectivity like Evolve. “Everything we do is aimed at maximizing the gaming experience for gamers,” says Sellke. “A big part of that is bringing gamers together and reducing the time it takes to actually get playing.” Multi-protocol IM, group chat and in-party VoIP allow gamers to connect, gab and kvetch to each other, virtually anywhere, in real-time. Friendships can be inherited from Facebook. Others are able to be recruited via invitation links that bring players together as friends or into groups and parties. Joining a party establishes a VPN connection in one-click for LAN play and built-in VoIP. One other feature, an industry first, is the party finder—a universal matchmaking system that allows gamers to poll the network for multiple games of interest at the same time. As soon as the system finds others who share the same pursuits, all those concerned are offered a match and, upon acceptance, are instantly placed into a party.

SUMMARY

Fragmentation and platform proliferation threaten gamers’ ability to maintain a singular reference point to their gaming activities and limits their social value. Evolve, through its game-agnostic connectivity tools and common player profile is establishing a free, open and universal platform in this space, spanning the void and making it the inevitable solution.

ABOUT EVOLVE

Evolve [http://www.evolvehq.com is a social platform for gamers developed by Echobit, LLC. Evolve makes it easy to keep tabs on gaming friends and rally them together for raids, deathmatches and co-op play. The Evolve experience is available both on the web as well as in-game via its overlay technology. Evolve optionally integrates with existing social networks and services including AIM, Twitter, Facebook, Raptr, Xfire, MSN, ICQ, XMPP and Google Talk, all while fully respecting its members’ privacy.

ABOUT ECHOBIT, LLC

Echobit, LLC [http://www.echobit.com is a Minneapolis, MN based startup. Founded in 2006, Echobit is focused on dislodging entrenched, closed business models by building democratic platforms that help people better connect with each other. Its flagship platform, Evolve, is aimed at making gaming a more engaging and social experience.

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