<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Americans annoyed by all these &quot;International News&quot; all over the internet : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Americans annoyed by all these &quot;International News&quot; all over the internet : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Americans annoyed by all these &quot;International News&quot; all over the internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The profusion of international news available on the Internet has made it increasingly difficult for the average American to ignore the rest of the world, a trend researchers say threatens Americans' long, proud history of disregarding anything not about them.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/41687/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/41687/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans? Americans Eat Until The TV Show Is Over]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51407/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51407/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans' knowledge little changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the internet as major news sources.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16581/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16581/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Scott -- outside of Plime, the most important person in the news biz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37404/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37404/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of current affairs little changed with emergence of cable, Internet news outlets ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the Internet as major news sources.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16936/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16936/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silly &amp; wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13585/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13585/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[AmeriChinaB2B Launches &quot;Gateway to the Chinese Business Market&quot; Internet Sales Portal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Industrial Manufacturing News <br/> <br/>January 30, 2007 <br/><br/> <br/>Small and medium sized businesses benefit from the web-marketing platform, which will help U.S. businesses sell into the Chinese business market. American company will be able to grow their businesses in a new market and reach millions of distributors, agents and manufacturing sourcing sites by posting their sales message on the new web platform. <br/><br/> <br/>Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2007 -- After completing a year long development AmeriChinaB2B the Palo Alto California headquartered internet B2B company is proud to announce the launch of its global exporting portal to China, &quot;Gateway to the Chinese Business Market.&quot;  <br/>AmeriChinaB2B's web platform targets small and medium sized U.S. businesses interested in exporting their products or services through distributor, partnership ventures and manufacturing sourcing companies throughout China's vast industrial base.<br/><br/> The newly built web platform services will provide clients an integrated marketing and sales focused portal to deliver their sales message to Chinese businesses. U.S. companies will be able to open up potential new business opportunities and establish a unique competitive advantage of fully targeting Chinese buyers in need of US export products and services.<br/><br/> Operating as both a &quot;sales lead generation tool&quot; and a provider of special consulting services, AmeriChinaB2B will assist U.S. businesses to navigate through the difficult and often peculiar hurdles when entering into new markets. <br/><br/> AmeriChinaB2B services will include on-line and off-line marketing promotion, Chinese company credential investigation, language training, market research, website and documentation. Additional features include Chinese translation, local domain hosting services, sales assistance and off-shore feasibility research. In addition AmeriChinaB2B will also focus on aiding U.S. companies to recruit sales representatives and form partnerships in China.<br/><br/> And with many U.S. businesses now confronted with maturing domestic markets and greater foreign competition these businesses are beginning to recognize the need to export into China one of the worlds greatest expanding markets.<br/><br/> AmeriChinaB2B President Ben Lee believes that it is most important and imperative that American small business firms recognize that their companies will have a distinct advantage by entering the Chinese business-to-business markets. An advantage that many U.S. businesses have not had before.<br/><br/> &quot;It is the advantage of working with AmeriChinaB2B, a company that clearly has the understanding and familiarly of the Chinese culture as well as the understanding of how to overcome the difficulties of trade barriers that many American companies have faced for decade,&quot; Lee said.<br/><br/> Accepting that U.S small business can no longer avoid selling to China because of concerns over trade barriers, Lee suggests that there is great opportunity for selling industrial business and consumer goods to a nation starving for new and innovative products.<br/><br/> &quot;Instead of importing cheap made goods from China, instead of seeking out sourcing locations we can now begin to export; to sell to China and that helps America,&quot; Lee insists, &quot;And just maybe we can even be able to impact the trade deficit we have with China.&quot;<br/><br/> One of the major goals of AmeriChinaB2B has been to build a strong collaborative team of experienced businesses both here and in China.<br/><br/> &quot;And with the complexities of entering the Chinese business market it is important that outside firms consider partnering with firms that can help cut through the red tape and help with the complexities of the Chinese business practices,&quot; Lee suggest.<br/><br/> Lee also points out that the Chinese government as recently as January 19, 2007 through its Department of Commerce promotes greater activities in importing. Now China will offer more favorable trade polices to companies who focus on importing as well as lowering tariff and the possibility of eliminating import quotas. Greater importing by China is driven by its desire to reduce its trade surplus with other nations. The Chinese Government has set a three years goal (2007-2010) to achieve its surplus reduction.<br/><br/> The evidence is clear that there are even more growing opportunities for expanding the selling of American products to China for both sourcing manufacturing and exporting for domestic consumption in the country. To take advantage of the Chinese markets U.S. business firms clearly need the guidance of marketing firms like AmeriChinaB2B.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26021/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26021/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team led by two Texas A&amp;M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/55053/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/55053/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you American? If you look at a world map &amp; see this probably you are!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Checkout the world map as seen by Americans .. Really funny!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25123/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25123/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[One-third of Americans abuse alcohol]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly one in three Americans abuse or become dependent on alcohol over the course of their lives, and most never seek treatment, according to a study published on Monday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26128/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26128/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Papers battle online news sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;All the news that's fit to print&quot; was once the newspaper man's slogan. Now, with news-junkies turning increasingly to the net for their daily fix of world events, papers are beginning to feel the pinch.<br/><br/>*Includes video report on right of article*]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7401/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7401/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Internet provides no news diversity: ACCC]]></title><description><![CDATA[News is boring??<br/><br/>Tommorows Headline: ACCC network crashes after thousands of emails shouting PLIME! :D]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1415/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1415/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Americans Really That Stupid?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian tv show, in which they interviewed Americans... How many sides does a triangle actually have!?!?!<br/>I hope this hasn't been posted before.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49204/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49204/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[A History Of The Internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The internet is many things to many people.  For some it is a vital business tool.  For others it is an indispensable means of communication.  Others yet look on it as a vast repository of all human knowledge.<br/><br/>Most people think of it as the thing with the funny cat pictures though.<br/><br/>If you need to know that I Can Has Cheezburger first appeared on 13th June 2006, that the O RLY owl has been around for over 5 years now or that Godwin's Law was first postulated over 18 years ago then this is what you need - A time line of internet memes and traditions]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/72290/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/72290/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The 50 most significant moments of Internet history]]></title><description><![CDATA[We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net's popularity.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77979/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77979/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Americans too big for their cars?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans may be getting too fat for their cars, new maximum weight warning labels mandated by the U.S. government indicated.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35757/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35757/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. life span shorter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries. For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31236/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31236/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world&#8217;s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation. There is a long <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">history</a> involved as well as many viewpoints. Find out more <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.ifamericansknew.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a><br/><br/>There is a bias as with anything but still has quite a bit information. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://historyteacher.net/Arab-Israeli_Conflict.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Other</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-Palestinian_conflict" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">links</a> can be found <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ngo/history.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52569/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52569/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet Archive Wayback Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Internet Archive Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. The Archive contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present.<br/><br/>This thing is pretty cool.  Type in your favorite website and see how far back it goes to see it's beginnings.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/58003/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/58003/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The online virtual news]]></title><description><![CDATA[News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12819/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12819/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Play The News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience &#8211; imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58923/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58923/1/</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>