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Though cheap Android craptablets were a commodity item at CeBIT 2010, that doesn't mean we didn't find the occasional diamond in the rough. Specifically, the Hanvon Touchpad BC10C, a sleek, multitouch Windows 7 device with specs firmly entrenched in high-end netbook territory. Thanks to our friend jkkmobile, we now know exactly what's powering this thing -- a comparatively juice-gulping 1.3GHz Celeron M ULV 743 CPU and GMA4500 graphics -- and that when it comes to the US and Europe, it'll cost a little more than we thought, hovering around $877. Mind you, that price bump might be worth it when you consider just how smoothly the 10-inch tablet performs (peep 1080p video and Microsoft Surface Globe demos after the break) but also know your YouTube surfing sessions will be limited by a simply sad 3.5 hours of battery life. For when "mobile" isn't an important word in your vocabulary... the BC10C launches in China March 25th.

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Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and offers the ability to customize the logo, buttons, links, and color of the viewer.

The viewer itself is fairly sleek and resembles DocStoc’s normal document viewers. Users can directly download documents from the viewer and DocStoc will automatically convert any convert historical embeds with Docstoc. For example, all of the documents we’ve embedded with our TechCrunch DocStoc account will now include our branded viewer.

Also included in the viewer is the ability to monetize on the publisher side. So publishers can choose to put streams of ads in the viewers, which is operated by DocStoc. DocStoc and the publisher will then share in any advertising revenue.

Competitor Scribd launched branded viewers in October, but the feature appears to be only available to select publishers. The startup just launched a new marketplace for professional documents and with 3 million registered users, DocStoc is now profitable. Nazar says that the company is seeing 20 million uniques per month and is growing rapidly as a business focused site. Branded and customizable viewers works into this vision nicely.

Here’s an example of the TechCrunch branded viewer:

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) spoke with the Wall Street Journal on Sunday about the bill he plans to introduce Monday to rewrite financial market regulations. Mr. Dodd said the bill had been “well vetted, well thought out, and thoroughly explored. I’m not interested in setting up a regulatory structure that strangles anyone.” But he also vowed to push forward aggressively.

“The idea we can somehow delay this to some later date is just totally unrealistic and wrong, because the American public rightly deserves answers to how we can address this set of problems,” he said.

He said the bill would try to achieve three main things.

1)    “Plug up the gaps that created the problems in the first place.”

2)   “Limit the possibility of another economic crisis of this magnitude. We aren’t going to stop all future economic crises. That would be silly to suggest…” But the bill will set up “early warnings of problems as they emerge, to at least have some ability to step in to institutions or products that pose” major risks.

3)   “Create an architecture that makes credit available, capital available, to allow the U.S. to retain its world leadership.”

He said the bill would have four basic pillars.

1) “Never, ever, ever again should any financial institution become so large, so interconnected, so complex that they have the implicit guarantee the American taxpayer will bail them out if they get in trouble. The result will be bankruptcy or a resolution that will be so painful you never want to think about it as an option.”

2) “We are going to put in place a systemic risk council idea with the authority to be able to identify an bring in institutions that pose a systemic risks to the nation.” He said it would “provide a lookover…between institutions, even beyond the shores of this country.”

3) On the derivatives, the over the counter derivatives and hedge funds…we haven’t reached cloture yet (because Sens. Judd Gregg and Jack Reed haven’t hashed out their deal). I’ll make it abundantly clear when they reach agreement and we vet it properly, I will accept that work.” Mr. Dodd said the derivatives language he will include on Monday “is still a strong provision and has gotten a lot of good reviews from the industry itself.”

4) On the consumer area, I feel very strongly about it…” He said he’s told Republicans “We’re willing to work with you but you’ve got to come to the table with votes too.” His proposal for a new consumer protection division would have the “authority and independence, and I emphasize that second word to you, to address the abuses and fraud that went on that caused so many” problems.

To hear more from Mr. Dodd, tune into his press conference Monday.

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Happy Pi Day, everyone! Today I have a special treat. I had the opportunity to interview Pi poet, Mike Keith. Mike is into constrained writing and Pi, among other things. Mike recently published a book, Not A Wake, that demonstrates the constrained writing:

A collection of short stories, poetry, plays, puzzles, and other surprises, all constructed according to the rigid rules of “Pilish”, that peculiar variant of English in which the number of letters in successive words is required to follow the digits of the number π = 3.14159265358979…, in this case for a truly grand total of 10,000 decimals. The perfect book for fans of the number Pi, constrained writing, wordplay, puzzles, or experimental prose and poetry.

Mike sent me a copy of “Not a Wake” to review. In case it’s not obvious, the three words of the title of the book have 3, 1, and 4 letters. And, the pattern continues with the subtitle “A Dream Embodying Pi’s Digits Fully for 10000 Decimals.”

This is a fun book. The challenge in writing such a book is to have the writing be natural in the face of a pretty serious constraint! The book accomplishes that beautifully! Mike is clearly a poet as he is able to pluck the right words out of the ether to make the poetry flow. And, he does it for 10,000 words!

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At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.

To sum it up, Adelson says the new strategy will “enable social curation of all the world’s content and the conversation around it.” To get there though, Digg has re-built its entire site from the ground up, with dramatic changes that will be rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

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New User Experience

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The days of the Digg homepage as we know it – the most recently popular stories on the service as a whole – are numbered. The site is shifting towards a personalization model, where the homepage will be based on characters like a user’s interests, location, who they follow not only on Digg but services like Twitter and Facebook, and other “signals” from around the web like retweets, Facebook shares, and more.

But Adelson notes that not all of these signals are created equal – for example, a retweet from a Twitter user with millions of followers will weigh much more heavily in the site’s ranking algorithms than one from a user with a few dozen. The concept of a Digg account is also changing. While you can already use Digg via Facebook Connect, the site plans to support logging in with Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and OpenID, among other identity providers.

It goes even further than that though – users will be able to Digg and submit stories anonymously. Adelson says that this fundamental change will move the site from 20,000 submissions today to millions. Those submissions will be sorted into an infinite number of categories, with Digg auto-suggesting them with users able to make additions and help rearrange miscategorized posts.

Digg has also been watching what companies like Twitter and Facebook are doing for brands. The new Digg will eventually support publisher and brand profiles. Further, we might see something akin to Twitter’s suggested user list, where publishers and brands that accrue a large following and continually have popular content get recommended to Digg users.

Along those lines, Leaderboards will also be making a return to Digg, but not in the old form of showing just the most successful submitters site-wide. Instead, Adelson envisions leaderboards for the infinite topic and vertical pages that will emerge, letting Digg users become trusted sources in a given niche. Expect some sort of achievement system that will reward Digg users for “good behavior” as Adelson put it.

Because of all these changes, Digg’s suite of mobile apps is also going to be completely revamped, with changes closely mirroring those on the site.

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A New Paradigm for Publishers

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Adelson says the Digg we know today is “a bit like gambling” for publishers, where a story either hits the homepage and sees an enormous one-time spike in traffic or sits in relative obscurity. With the new Digg, Adelson says publishers should expect a “more predictable” stream of traffic, as many more stories receive placement on an infinite number of personalized user homepages.

Digg has a lot of new features in store for publishers too. The new Digg button – which we’re testing here on Mashable – lets users Digg a story without leaving the site. Duplicate submissions will also no longer be an issue on Digg, because all submissions will be URL-based.

But Digg has much larger ambitions for publishers as well. Websites like Mashable will be able to include Digg comments (which are being re-done again) right underneath stories. But it goes further than that – third-party comment services like Disqus will be able to integrate the comments right into their platforms, making Digg a much more relevant part of the distributed conversation game.

Beyond that, Adelson wants to provide publishers with analytics and even share revenue with them down the line in an effort to better monetize traffic that comes in via Digg.

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Digg the Business

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Beyond the publisher revenue share opportunity – which is likely well down the road – Adelson sees significant page view growth coming from the thousands of new categories we’ll see in the new Digg. However, he’s not in a hurry to monetize them with ads, saying the company is in good financial shape.

In the long-term, he sees Digg ads – which the company says are seeing some success – as the primary driver of revenue. Digg’s also in serious hiring mode, with plans to add 50 engineers this year to help them deal with the inevitable question of …

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How Will Users Respond?

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Digg’s notoriously vocal community is in for some major changes, but the company is taking a very measured approach in rolling them out. Users will start receiving invites for the alpha site, which you can sign-up for at new.digg.com, within the next few weeks. From there, Digg plans “continuous iteration,” to address user feedback, a process Adelson says is made possible by the site’s recently announced architecture changes that he believes will let them scale indefinitely.

Nonetheless, Digg is committed to its new vision. Within the next few months, the Digg we know today will be shut down, and the company will embark full speed ahead on its plan to be the most relevant aggregator and curator of the world’s news. How Digg’s rabid base of current users respond and if the new strategy is able to bring new people under the Digg tent will ultimately dictate the success of the ambitious new direction.

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