What programming language would be best to create a location-based social app? (iPhone)
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How To Run Old Games On Windows 7?
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4maps.org is an interesting web site offering the ability to view four maps in synchronised mode.
It is possible to swicth between different maps or to display only two maps side by side. The javascript code can be easily downloaded and modified to add other map sources.
Nice to compare maps or to see your destination from multiple angles.
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve shared some resources to help you get started on specific aspects of your year-end online fundraising. But really, there’s a lot you can be doing all year to increase your base of supporters, engage them in your mission, and convert them to active donors. Using the Internet to Raise Funds and Build Donor Relationships: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Boosting Donations, a new handbook from Convio, will help your organization see the big picture and create effective strategies for long-term success.
This guide integrates many of the tips and best practices you’ve read about here, into a detailed overview, with frequent reminders of the benefits of online vs. traditional donor relationships, suggestions for the types of tools you’ll need, some metrics that will help you to set goals for your program, and real-world examples.
To make the most of the advantages of online fundraising over offline methods – cost-effectiveness, timeliness, and the ability to find out more about your supporters over time and more easily communicate with them based on what they respond to – you’ll need to take an approach that includes:
Tips to Boost Your Online Fundraising
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... content curation? And what about geolocation? Are they on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Trumblr, Gowalla, Loopt, SoundCloud, Slideshare, vYou, Flickr or even GetGlue? What do they think of Google+? Which is their fastest growing media account? And do you ever sleep? We ask them here. Virgin America: Jill Okawa Fletcher and Nick Schwartz Virgin America is a great example of a brand...
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Meet the 18 people behind your favorite social media accounts (DesignFeeds.com.au)
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Esri Hurricane / Storm Reports Social News Map
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Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
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I’m a long time believer that the success of any mobile platform lies in the hands of the developer. How about a couple of tips for mobile developers and/or would-be developers? Blackberry is offering up a chance for fame and fortune.. well, not exactly, but it is a great opportunity for developers – enter the [...]
Opportunities For The Mobile Developer – Developers Developers…
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The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now
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App Review: The World by National Geographic
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based business business from home opportunity work
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Some Facebook Places Pages for local businesses and locations are now showing an “Around The Web” panel listing of links to corresponding venue pages of the sites of Facebook’s Places partners: Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, SCVNGR, and Booyah. These links could help businesses drive traffic and checkins to their other online presences. Foursquare tells us its inclusion in [...]
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Explore : Facebook, Social Network, Yelp
“Around The Web” Feature on Facebook Pages Shows Foursquare, Other Location Links (Inside Facebook)
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How Microsoft IT Moving to the Cloud to Meet and Exceed the Needs of the Business?
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Creating A Simple Workflow [Video]
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Is geolocation targeting possible through Indian mobile ad networks?
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Why Software Is Eating the World
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... predicts friends," Salvatore Scellato, one of the researchers told Reuters . The researchers used Gowalla in their work - a social networking site that allows users to share which place they are visiting. Scellato added that people who go to the same place add each other as friends, and found that about 30% of social links happened because people went to the same location. This...
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Predict Facebook friends based on where you go (T3.com News)
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Google+ users can now watch YouTube videos with up to 9 of their friends in a live Google+ Hangout, and can comment on the video as it plays.
Google already had this feature for live YouTube events, but yesterday the company quietly added the feature for all YouTube videos. It's another great example of how Google can use its vast Internet empire to add features to Google+ that Facebook can't easily duplicate.
You can share YouTube videos on Facebook today, but there's no equivalent to Hangouts, so no way to live-share with multiple friends.
Here's how you do it:
1. First, you have to be a Google+ member.
2. Click the "Share" button on any YouTube video.
3. On the right, there will be a link that says "Start a Google Hangout." Click it, and a window llke the one below launches. The commands on the window are pretty clear -- push the green button to talk, or just kick back and watch.
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Encoding.com has been around for the past several years, and they have yet another turnkey video encoding service called quick catchingly, Vid.ly. The product, which has been in beta since February, was announced today and so far has had more than five million video views already.
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The focus on the service is flexibility. They provide customizable output formats with variable bit rates to suit both mobile and desktop users, premium access to world-class content delivery networks, and a number of other features.
Many of their competitor video hosting sites use the Encoding.com site themselves for their needs, so the announcement is somewhat ironic. They fill the gap in between YouTube/Vimeo at the low and nearly free end and Brightcove/Kaltura at the higher end. Vid.ly is designed mostly for smaller video producers that don't want to spend a lot of money but also don't have lots of technical expertise.
The published pricing schedule is very complex and somewhat akin to Amazon's Web Services where the variables include the number of videos posted, their size and the number of views per month.
There is a free version, where you can upload one video at a time and get a shortened URL that you can use to link to it, similar to what YouTube et al. does. With Vid.ly Pro, you will have access to analytics (coming soon), ability to control output renditions, CDN choice (Akamai and CloudFront, with more coming later), their own APIs and player customization. Even with the free account, you have unlimited video source file size, unlike some of the other video hosting providers.
Vid.ly, Yet Another Video Hosting Service, Launches Today
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That's the name of a discussion over Slashdot: How Does GPS Change Us?
Their summary: ""People have talked for a while about the effects of GPS on our driving ability and our sense of direction; one researcher at McGill has even been developing an exercise regimen to compensate for our supposedly atrophying navigational ability. But is GPS reshaping our lives in a more fundamental sense? The author of this new essay draws on science, sociology, and literature to argue that GPS is transforming how we think about travel and exploration. How can we discover 'the new' in an age when everything around us is mapped?" My own experience is that GPS has made me much more aware of location, by showing me the bird's-eye view, and letting me instantly compare alternate routes."
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QR codes have been gaining popularity among marketers. You’ve probably see dozens of QR codes on your way to work. They are commonly used now on billboards at bus stops that advertise a movie or consumer product. You may have also seen QR codes when travelling and visiting tourist spots such as museums, walking tours, etc. So, should nonprofits be experimenting with QR codes as another marketing vehicle too? Absolutely.
Before we dive into how nonprofits can incorporate QR codes into their marketing and outreach and discuss fees, it’s important to define what a QR code is from a technical perspective. QR Code stands for Quick Response Code. It’s “a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background, and the encoded information can be text, URL or other data. QR codes present a valuable method of adding web based content (basically any URL) to real-world messages, objects or locations," says digital strategist Upasna Gautam on the Eventbrite blog.
“QR codes allow you to land a visitor much farther down whatever funnel of engagement you’re interested in moving them through. Rather than trusting a visitor to type in www.yoursite.com, a QR code can send them directly to the specific page you’d like them to see," said Henry Quinn at the Idealware Blog.”
A QR code can link directly to music, video, news—on or off your site—it can activate a phone call, send an SMS, open forums for conversation or social networking—anything that’s online and that’s going increase their engagement with your organization, you can put in front of a user with a phone, immediately, with one click, said Quinn.
Five Ways Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes
There are a variety of ways for nonprofits to use QR codes in their marketing and outreach. Here are few suggestions to think about experimenting with for your next multi-channel campaign.
1. Direct Mail: Sending out a direct mail appeal to your membership? Great, tag on a QR code in a visible place on the direct mail piece to encourage people to make a donation on your website. This is another great way to capture your offline donors email addresses so you can foster relationships with them online too. Note: The donation page should be a unique donation page so that you can track the response rates from the QR code.
Five Ways Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes
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Updated. Right on the heels of $8 million in new funding, Roku has added seven new casual games to its streaming boxes. [Thanks to reader @joelbrave for pointing this out in our comments!] The games, which Roku adds more casual games to its streaming box
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Some are expecting the cleantech graveyard of startups to start filling up, particularly in the second quarter of 2012. But how companies wind down, sell off their assets, or morph into new much slimmer versions of their former selves, is a personal choice for the companies and investors. Here’s 10 ways you can do it:10 ways to wind down your green startup
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If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. They categorized organizations as small, medium, or large, based on the number of fans their pages have, and also looked at groups by sector.
Check out some of the Facebook data findings:
Comparing email subscribers to Facebook page users – On average, the nonprofits studied had 110 Facebook fans per 1000 email list subscribers. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000. “If groups had a lot of email subscribers, they tended to have lots of Facebook fans,” said the study.
Opting out – Unlike your email list subscribers, Facebook page users can opt out of receiving your posts in their news feed while still being counted as “likes.” The study used both opt-outs and “unlikes” to calculate churn rates. These varied only slightly by sector, and not at all by organization size, with the average for churn rate at 14%.
In a future study, it would be great to see if there is a correlation between frequency and/or quality of posts and opt-out rates.
Facebook Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know
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Microsoft Hiring Software Development Engineer for Windows Phone 8
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Key Tips for Super Effective Writing
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Review of RIM’s Blackberry Playbook
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As the Holidays approach, we're on the verge of another mega-wave of powerful Android phones on all U.S. carriers.
We're still on the edge of our seats for the launch of Samsung's delayed Galaxy S II (expected any day now), but there are plenty of other excellent phones to hold you over until then.
Here's our list for the best Android phones you can buy this month.
The Photon is Motorola's latest super-powerful 4G smartphone. It's very similar to the Motorola Atrix 4G, with a bright qHD screen and a dual-core processor. It's also a global phone, meaning it will work on GSM networks overseas.
The first round of reviews for the Photon have been pretty good. Some think it could be the best phone on Sprint right now.
Price: $199 with a two-year contract
Believe it or not, the DROID that started it all is already in its third iteration. The DROID 3 is still sticking to its slide-out QWERTY keyboard and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It's 8 MP camera can shoot full 1080p HD video. It also sports a dual-core 1 GHz processor.
Reviews haven't been that great for the DROID 3. But if you're not ready to give up a full QWERTY keyboard, this is one of you're best bets.
Price: $199 with a two-year contract
We're big fans of the Infuse's giant screen. Videos look absolutely gorgeous on it. The phone is also super thin and light. If you watch a lot of movies on the go, this is a great phone for you.
Read our full review of the Infuse 4G.
Price: $199.99 with a two-year contract
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