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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Comment on CA Delivers on Cloud Investment With Service-Measurement Suite by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «

[...] Cassatt was ahead of its time in selling cloud-like capabilities, but because cloud hadn’t yet caught fire as a marketing tool, the company was left trying to sell its Cross-Virtualization Manager. Companies didn’t really get why they should care about dynamic resource allocation, full-scale automation and intelligent power management. By the time Cassatt began marketing itself as a cloud computing vendor, it was too late. Faced with bankruptcy, the company sold its assets to CA Technologies in May 2009, and is now an integral part of CA’s cloud portfolio. [...]

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Comment on With Perfect Timing, Acer Outs a Pair of Android Tablets by PRETHOUGHT

Hopefully the tablet optimization of Android is better than that of Samsung because it's awful on the Galaxy Tab. That's impressive though 600,000 bought into mediocrity and at a pretty steep price too. Unless they opt for the 2 year enslavement while others get better tablets in the near future :) That is pretty smart of Acer to wait it out. No matter how entrenched the iPad becomes it only takes one killer must have feature to knock off the market leader.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Apple, along with Oracle to launch Java SE 7 for Mac OS X

All Apple fans, followers and especially its close Java community associates would have definitely been disturbed and shocked by Apple’s recent announcement that it would deprecate and denounce the including of the Java runtime in its Mac OS X. It was almost as though Apple was warning developers of the fact that Java would henceforth not be entailed in future versions of the Mac OS X; and by this there hovered a depressed and uncertain cloud over Java’s future associations with Apple’s Mac.

Apple, along with Oracle to launch Java SE 7 for Mac OS X

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Blog Post: How to Support a New Location with SharePoint Virtualization

Private cloud computing built on virtualization technology provides ways to reduce the capital cost by allowing you to utilize more of your existing resources. Using Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and S

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Scalpers Bought Tickets With CAPTCHA-Busting Botnet

alphadogg writes "Three California men have pleaded guilty to charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars. The men ran a company called Wiseguy Tickets, and for years they had an inside track on some of the best seats in the house at many events. They scored about 1.5 million tickets after hiring Bulgarian programmers to build 'a nationwide network of computers that impersonated individual visitors' on websites such as Ticketmaster, MLB.com and LiveNation, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Thursday in a press release. The network would 'flood vendors computers at the exact moment that event tickets went on sale,' the DoJ said. They had to create shell corporations, register hundreds of fake Internet domains (one was stupidcellphone.com) and sign up for thousands of bogus e-mail addresses to make the scam work."

Sunday, November 21, 2010

MyCityWay Dives into Data, Comes Up With Gold

MyCityWay reached 1 million in downloads by combining familiar information like local dining, nightlife, deals and movie showtimes with government data that creates a very sticky resource with users. It's a great example of how companies can mine overlooked data sets and turn them into businesses.

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My GIS Day Video – 50 location-aware Apps and things you can do with your smartphone #GISday

To celebrate GIS Day I put together a short demo video this week that I used in a presentation on mobile, social location technology. The video shows off 50 location-aware things you can do on your GPS-enabled smartphone that take advantage of your location and Geo technology… enjoy! The video was part of a [...]

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Click Through The Top 10 Viral Videos Of The Week HERE >>

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Mainland Ecuador with Teens

Senior editor Norie Quintos, who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, recently returned from a trip to the Galapagos and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is the last of a four-part series. Click to read the first, second, and third posts.

A confession: Travel editors don't always plan their trips perfectly. Having focused all my attention on the Galapagos, I gave short shrift to mainland Ecuador, only allowing for three days (over the objections of my consultants--Justin Laycob of Seattle-based Southern Explorations and Alfredo Menenses of Quito-based Ecuador Adventure. Dudes! You were right, I was wrong.)

Here's our day-by-day itinerary, and what I would have added had I a chance for a do-over.

Day 1: Biking in the Andes

From Quito, we drove down the north-south Pan-American Highway along the Avenue of the Volcanoes, so called because the road is flanked on both sides by some of the world's highest volcanoes, several of which are disquietingly active. (One volcano, Tungurahua, burped a mini-cloud of smoke and ash before our very eyes.) We had a picnic lunch within sight of another--snow-capped Cotapaxi. It was a beautiful drive, the air crisp and clear, the diaphanous white clouds and pastoral green valleys belying the turbulence below ground. This was the setting for our mountain-biking adventure. For teenagers: Cycling on the sides of fire-breathing volcanoes is a singular thrill. For parents: You'll put existential worries aside for immediate ones like staying on the bike on the killer downhills.

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Welcome To The Magic: Gowalla Lands Location Deal With Disney Parks (TechCrunch)

Location based social network Gowalla has struck a pretty significant partnership today—Disney. The startup is teaming up with Disney Parks to create a branded, Gowalla-powered destination for park-goers to explore Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts. People are able to view park happenings with custom Gowalla Disney Passport pages for Disneyland and Walt Disney World...

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Explore : Cinema, Directors, Internet, Technology, Web 2

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You Can Now Gift Anyone With An E-mail Address A Kindle Book

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, retailers are clamoring to publicize their sales, deals and more. Amazon issued a release today that customers can now give any of the 725,000 Kindle books to anyone with an email address. So a recipient doesn't need a Kindle to even receive an e-book. The normally data shy Amazon also revealed that the Kindle is the most gifted item in the company's history, and that "millions" of people are using the Kindle or Kindle apps to read books. Of course, those without a Kindle can read their e-books on the Kindle App for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices. Gifters can choose a book in the Kindle Store, and send give the e-book as a gift by simply inserting the recipient's email address. Recipients can redeem the gift in the Kindle Store to read on any Kindle or free Kindle app.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

AirPrint Natively Available on Mac OS X with Printopia and FingerPrint

With Apple's pulling AirPrint of Mac OS 10.6.5, an opportunity has opened up for developers to one-up Apple with 3rd-party tools that can share printers over Wi-Fi for iOS 4.2 devices. TUAW have discovered "Printopia and FingerPrint," -- both products essentially allow printers that don't support AirPrint natively to be made available to iOS 4.2 device, by modifying their Bonjour service broadcast to include an "AirPrint enabled marker."

The New Yahoo! Goes Loco With Local offers and a Dozen Partners

Out of the Web2.0 event this week in San Fran, Yahoo! has lifted the lid off their latest plans to harness the power of location and mobile location tech – enter Yahoo! Local offers. Some details… Yahoo! is launching its Local Offers program with more than a dozen partners to provide a wide selection of [...]

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My GIS Day Video - 50 location-aware Apps and things you can do with your smartphone #GISday

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My Nightmare Interviews With Google (GOOG)

Editor's note: Google is on a hiring binge! The company says it plans to hire 2,100 new employees ASAP. Because that means a TON of job interviews, we thought it would be useful to republish this story, first published late last year.

Google came to Syracuse’s campus to recruit new graduates when I was a senior. I attended the information session and learned which jobs I could qualify for. I created a fancy cover letter and resume, crossed my fingers and e-mailed them my documents. One week later I had an email in my inbox from Google.

Google wanted to interview me! Forbes’ #1 company to work for was interested in speaking with me about an Associate Product Marketing Manager position in Mountain View, California. I called everyone I could think of, ecstatic and day-dreaming that my job hunt might end quickly and painlessly with me surfing during lunch breaks at the Googleplex.

Bonus: 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid

Everyone says your GPA doesn’t matter when you’re finding a job—those people obviously never applied to Google. My 3.6 suddenly seemed inferior. Google also wanted to know if I had received any job offers. They wanted to know who was recruiting me and how far along I was in my job search. Talk about salt on an open wound to a college senior. Sad and dejected, I ticked off the “No” [no one wants me] and “Yes” [I’m still unemployed] boxes. I should have realized then that this was shaping up to be a grueling interview process, but I was too excited to pay much notice.

To prepare for my two back-to-back conference calls, I googled Google and learned their history, products, current news, founders, locations, business models, competitors, AdWords, investors and mottos. My heart had never been in anything more and I was prepared for any curve ball they could throw. I practiced interviewing with friends and felt confident when my cell rang at 4:00pm sharp.

A young man was on the other line sounding just as nervous as I felt. The first five minutes of the allotted 30 were small talk. We went over my resume, previous internships and my career goals. My interviewer, Oliver, nervously cleared his throat between awkward silences during which he recorded my responses. I was on top of my game.

About ten minutes in, Oliver turned the tables. “I’m going to ask you a few questions that may sound strange,” he premised. I paused. Is there really any good response to a comment like that? He seemed to read my mind because he elaborated: “These questions are meant to test your analytical thinking.” Oh no. He was about to ask me the famous, ridiculously impossible Google questions I had been reading about online.

If you’ve never interviewed with the Internet giant, you may have never heard the types of questions they ask their interviewees. The searches I had done warned me that Google might inquire how much I’d pay someone to wash all of the windows in Seattle or what I’d do if I was shrunk to the size of a nickel and placed in a blender with churning blades.

“I want you to estimate,” Oliver began, “how much money you think Google makes daily from Gmail ads.” Oh. My. GOSH. Was he serious? The answer depended on so many different factors, none of which I had any clue how to guesstimate.

“Um, you mean a hard number? Maybe…$70,000?” Oliver’s hearty laugh told me my response was foolish. “Wait, can you just totally ignore that response? Scratch it out of your notes and pretend I never said that?”

“Don’t worry,” he mused, “I already did. You don’t have to give me an exact number, just tell me how you would figure out the answer.”

“Ok,” I began and I regurgitated everything I had learned about AdWords. “Google places four ads per e-mail opened in Gmail. Advertisers get to pick their click-through rates, which can be as little as $0.05, and they can set a maximum daily charge, which can be $5. The amount of money Google would make in a day would depend on the number of Gmail users, the number of e-mails those users receive and open per day, the number of advertisements they click on, and the rates the advertisers are charged.”

This answer wasn’t good enough. Now I was asked for an exact amount of revenue. “Say each G-mail user opens seven new e-mails a day. They would see 28 ads. If they click on ¼ of those ads, then only seven ads are clicked. If all advertisers are charged $0.05 per clicked ad, then the amount of revenue would be whatever $0.05 x 7 ads x the number of G-mail users is. Does that make any sense at all?”

“Kind of.” Oliver sounded confused. “You lost me at the ‘only clicking on ¼ of the ads’ comment. Let’s move on.”

The interview ended shortly afterward. Oliver politely indicated that HR would contact me again in a few weeks and he wished me good luck. My confidence was slightly bruised but I felt that, overall, I handled the interview well enough. I was left with 15 minutes to prepare for my next phone call, all of which I used to regain composure and review what I could have done better.

I thought Oliver was intimidating; the woman I spoke with next put him to shame. I gathered from Anna’s cold greeting that she did not have much time for me. We got right down to business. “Name a piece of technology you’ve read about recently.”

“Ok, today I was reading about Nike and Apple working together to make a shoe with a chip in it that helps you run in time with your music.”

“Now tell me your own creative execution for an ad for that product.”

My mind swirled as I pulled some crazy concoction out of my ass. “Well, Nike is known for having inspirational ads with little copy. I guess I would have a person running in Nike shoes, listening to their I-Pod, looking exhausted. The music would then pick up and each stride would coincide with the beat. The runner would get a second wind, reach their goal, and the “Just Do It” line would appear on the screen above an I-pod with a Nike swoosh background.”

She laughed a little before continuing which I took as an encouraging sign. “Now I’m going to ask you math problems.” Math?! I hadn’t taken a math course since freshman year of college. I was in trouble.

“Say an advertiser makes $0.10 every time someone clicks on their ad. Only 20% of people who visit the site click on their ad. How many people need to visit the site for the advertiser to make $20?” I froze. The problem sounded easy but I didn’t want to cause an awkward silence trying to solve it.

“Um…well, ok. So, 20 out of 100 people click on the ad. Every ten clicks make one dollar…and you need 20 of them…” That’s as far as I got before I resorted to guessing answers, none of which were right. I was panicking and I couldn’t do a thing about it. My nerves were taking over. Anna could sense this and began to give me hints. None of them helped my frazzled brain.

After five painful minutes the annoyed interviewer gave me the answer. “100 people make two dollars, and two times ten is twenty. The answer is 100 people times 10 which is 1,000 people.” She made it sound so easy; I felt like a moron. As if she enjoyed my misery, she immediately fired off another math problem.

“Estimate the number of students who are college seniors, attend four-year schools, and graduate with a job in the United States every year.” This time I remained poised.

“There are about 300 million people in the nation” I began. “Let’s say 10 million of those are college students at four year schools. Only ¼ of those 10 million are seniors, so that would be roughly 2-3 million. If half of those students graduate with jobs, you’re looking at about 1.5 million kids.”

“Would you say that number seems high, low, or just about right?”

“I would say it sounds low, but maybe that’s because I’m going through the job-search process and I’m wishing the number was higher.”

I didn’t even get a sympathetic laugh. “That’s all. Good luck with your job search.” The phone clicked-- I was stunned. The abrupt sign-off was a clear indication that I wouldn’t be considered for round 2. Interviewing can be demoralizing, and that’s just how I felt as I sat with my cell in my hand, vowing to switch to Yahoo for life.

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Analytics for Your Docs with Scribd Stats

Document-sharing site Scribd has launched a new feature - Scribd Stats - that will allow users to get detailed analytics about docs uploaded to the site. The feature will be available for free on any piece of content on Scribd.

"It's like Google Analytics for your documents," according to Scribd. And indeed, Scribd Stats provides a similar set of tools. The analytics include an overview of all the documents you've uploaded, as well as the ability to drill down into information about individual items.

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You'll be able to see which documents people are reading and sharing, as well as see referring links, geographic data for your readers, keywords and search terms. You'll also be able to view the sites where people are sharing documents, through both embeds and Readcast - Scribd's Facebook integration.

As Scribd notes, this sort of information is incredibly valuable to publishers, "knowing how people are finding my content, where they're coming from, and which content is fueling the most social activity." Pointing to the heat map that accompanies docs and tracks which pages had users abandon reading, Fast Company asks if Scribd Stats could "change the way we write." Certainly the new analytics will be able to provide a great deal of data about readership and response.

Scribd Stats are rolling out slowly to all users, and will be accessible via the "My Stats" dashboard.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Helping Nonprofits Go Green with Microfunding

Boston-based noprofit New Generation Energy (NGE) has launched a website (http://newgenerationenergy.org/list-projects) to facilitate microfunding for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects being undertaken by other nonprofits.

The Green Energy Project Microfunding site makes it simple for individuals to learn about and support specific green energy projects at organizations all across the U.S. The site is similar to other microfinance sites that allow for green investment, but support is in the form of a donation rather than a loan, and emphasis is placed on project metrics such as energy savings and green house gas emissions reduction. Any nonprofit organization may apply to be listed on the site. This includes family shelters, community centers, schools, universities, churches, and more. All projects must be located in the United States, and all applying nonprofit organizations must be US-based. "A web-based microfunding site dedicated to green energy projects has been needed for a long, long time," said NGE's Executive Director, Chuck Lewin. "Now that New Generation Energy has developed the microfunding site, nonprofits can get funding for their green energy projects, educate the public about their sustainability efforts, and illustrate real world, practical applications of green energy technology." The site has value not only as a source of funding for green energy projects, but a project posting can also serve as a 'billboard' for an organization's efforts to become greener. Using the site, organizations can include pictures, video links, quotes from staff, and other materials to promote the organization and help drive donations to support the project. New Generation Energy says its mission is to make America's communities healthier and more sustainable through the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. NGE supports solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal, along with many different kinds of energy efficiency. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik/flickr/Creative Commons Reprinted with permission from Sustainable Business

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Esri to Host Webinar on Working with ArcPad in the Field

Learn to employ the new ArcPad tools and methods at the free live training seminar Field GIS: Collecting and Editing Data Using ArcPad 10.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Facebook launches 'Deals' - a version of Foursquare with offers (10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog)

Facebook has just launched 'Deals'. Deals adds a significant feature to another service they recently introduced 'Facebook Places' - Deals gives businesses the opportunity to reward customers when they check in on Facebook. Check-ins have become a popular type of Social Networking. The leading check-in site is Foursquare and another competitor is GoWalla. When you 'check in' at a location...

Source : 10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog

Explore : Facebook, Social Network

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The Economics of Building with Trash

by Glenn Meyers

When Doug Eichelberger built a barn on his Larkspur, CO ranch out of plastic and paper that wasn't even fit for the recycling trucks, he was a pioneer in experimentation with alternative building materials. And as important, materials that prove to be cost-effective for use. The architect and sculptor had a fundamental understanding of how he might construct a building using materials that had no other destination than the landfill. He rented a baler and a forklift and began erecting walls that were going to last. In this video, Eichelberger takes viewers on a tour of a very functional barn that was constructed with materials that were considered no better than trash.

It is now well over a decade since this barn was built and it appears to have judiciously withstood the tests of time, hot and cold, very intense Colorado sun, and wind. While these reclaimed materials may not seem ideal to some homebuilders, they make a viable building solution that should be seriously considered, says Eichelberger, adding that poor regions in parts of Africa and other continents have an abundance of plastic waste that never even makes it to a landfill and instead floats out into the oceans. The idea of repurposing materials that usually get tossed away provides numerous benefits that more in the building trades are starting to consider. Reprinted with permission from Green Building Elements

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