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by Spone

Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities. Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters. So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage.

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Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Hyperlocal Evolution

by karlcow

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PRESETS AND ADOBE CAMERA RAW (ACR) – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN | x=blog stay informed

by mozkart

Presets for ACR are not new, however the free presets available for ACR are both less numerous and less diverse than those created for Lightroom.  One way to leverage Lightroom presets in ACR is to copy every setting by hand over to ACR and save the preset, however this is extremely time consuming, and introduces more opportunity for human error. The following is a procedure that streamlines the conversion process using the metadata power of Adobe’s DNG file format. 

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Mad Finger Games -  Samurai: Way of the Warrior

by sbrothier

Set in the middle of the Sengoku period, play as Daisuke Shimada, a wandering samurai who travels around Japan. During the most dangerous times, Daisuke must ultimately defeat the mad and awful Daimyo Hattoro, who rules the province. * First hack and slash game developed specifically to leverage the iPhone. * Visit unique environments in the Japan in a feudal 16th century setting. * Unlock all combo attacks and master your skills. * Original comic storytelling. * Special Dojo mode. Fight in the arena sparing enemies in the rounds. * Original soundtrack.

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conStruct SCS | "Driving Drupal with Structured Data"

by karlcow

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Scala

by jpcaruana

Scala is an exciting, modern, multi-paradigm language for the JVM. You can use it to write traditional, imperative, object-oriented code. But you can also leverage its higher level of abstraction to take full advantage of modern, multicore systems. Programming Scala will show you how to use this powerful functional programming language to create highly scalable, highly concurrent applications on the Java Platform.

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Google Geo Developers Blog: Announcing the Google Qualified JS Maps Developer program

by srcmax

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Fruitful

by e_D_D_y & 1 other(s)

My name's Jennifer Rice and I recently launched a social-good consultancy called Fruitful based in San Francisco. Fruitful is designed to serve two different kinds of companies: - Those wanting to integrate social good into their existing business models - Those who are already in the social-good space and need to get the word out. I bring almost 20 years of helping businesses identify their north star (mission, vision, values, brands) and align their businesses against it. Now I'm excited to focus my efforts on something near and dear to my heart, and leverage my skills to help businesses make positive change in the world.

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Are you Listening? | Rob the Geek

by dimelo

“Social media is a grand experiment,” Dell’s Jarvis said. “It has a future. I don’t see it crashing down. Social interaction, communities and participation are absolutely the fabric of the Web. Our challenge is how do we leverage those best for our customers.”

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Tell-a-Friend: Leverage Word of Mouth Marketing

by pyros

Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level

by ms_michel

In the previous parts of this series I talked about the problems with literal strings in source code and presented different strategies to avoid those problems. In this episode I'll explain how we can leverage the power of the Castle DictionaryAdapter to improve the way our applications access their app settings

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Extensions__Convio Extensions allow nonprofits to take advantage of the rapid adoption of social media sites, enabling them to reach new and existing supporters

by decembre

Nonprofits can use Convio Extensions to leverage third-party platforms, such as Facebook, Google and MySpace, to communicate with and cultivate their constituent relationships without sacrificing the personal nature of their interactions.

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One Egg, One Hundred Baskets: Social Media Leverage

by springnet

Social Leveraging squeeze goodness out of the tools that are free strategy acts as platform wrangler drags big names of social media, networking and aggregation together. create one page/blog post that hits on social aggregator ften different directions.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

by innipukinn & 10 other(s)

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications.

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www.kribaby.com

by springnet

I think that there are still other opportunities for marketing companies to leverage Social Media. It isn't just to use social media as a feedback tool - that is but one of the many marketing objectives that may cause a company to engage in a social media

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IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System Z

by BlueVoodoo

These sandboxes make it easy and fun to quickly try practical scenarios guided by self-paced exercises. Leverage existing assets, architectures, and skills to quickly develop modern applications for System z, System i, and distributed platforms. You can also integrate, test, and deploy applications in a live test environment.

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Lithoglyph » Mondrianum

by sbrothier

Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, Adobe® Photoshop®, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.

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Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

by kuroyagi & 1 other(s)

"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets."

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Leverage automation to move your software quickly

by BlueVoodoo

Automated builds aren't just for development teams — they can be extended to facilitate moving software from development all the way into production. Learn how to use Ant with Java Secure Channel for remotely deploying software into multiple target environments.

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SIMILE:About - SIMILE

by parmentierf

SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores. SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services.

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ShowCase

by rmaltete

Analytics for System i The ShowCase Suite from SPSS Inc.helps organizations that use the IBM® System i5™ iSeries™ computing platform leverage historical data to make better, faster decisions—the classic definition of business intelligence. For more than 10 years, the ShowCase Suite has been the leading analytical solution for iSeries users, delivering real, measurable benefits.

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» bSuite

by rike_

bSuite includes a set of tools (some in seperate plugins) that improve WordPress’ tag management and CMS capabilities, make it easier to build dynamic pages, and leverage WP as an application platform. Plugins that can be activated seperately include one for stats tracking (bSuite bStat), a tag importer, and an example plugin that illustrates how to leverage one of the features bSuite adds to WordPress.

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Benchmarking magic | GarfieldTech

by kasi77

The day is nearly upon us! Drupal 7 will open up developers to PHP 5 functionality when it is released next year. Already, there is talk of how, and if, to leverage PHP 5's object handling now that we don't need to deal with the weirdness of PHP 4's object model. Of course, because it's Drupal, our army of performance czars want to know just what the cost is for object handling, and especially advanced object magic like __get(), __call(), the ArrayAccess interface, and so forth.

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15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1 | i love typography

by sbrothier & 7 other(s)

I have spent the last month searching, stumbling, noting, bookmarking and analysing in a quest to find 15 Excellent examples of Web Typography. I’ve chosen them because they make excellent use of type. Some of the examples mimic the typography of print, while others actually leverage web technology, smart CSS and delicious HTML to make their pages not only aesthetically pleasing, but legible, user-friendly and easily navigable.

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Twine

by oseres & 7 other(s)

Twine Ties it all Together Twine is a new service that intelligently helps you share, organize and find information with people you trust. Share more productively. In Twine you can safely share information and knowledge, and collaborate around common interests, activities and goals. Twine helps you better leverage and contribute to the collective intelligence of your network. Use Twine to share more productively with friends, colleagues, groups and teams. Get more organized. Twine provides one place to tie everything together: emails, bookmarks, documents, RSS feeds, contacts, photos, videos, product info, data records, and more. And, because Twine actually understands the meaning of any information you add in, it helps you organize all your stuff automatically. Finally, you can search and browse everything and everyone you know, about anything, in one convenient place. Find and be found. You are like a snowflake – you are totally one-of-a-kind. Twine recognizes what makes you special: your unique interests, personality, knowledge and relationships, to help you find and discover things, and be found by others, more relevantly. Who is Twine For? Friends. Colleagues. Groups. Teams. Anyone who needs help dealing with the growing array of information and relationships on the Web today. Whether you just need to organize and share with friends, or you need to collaborate better with teams, Twine provides the smartest way to tie it all together. How Does Twine work? We thought you’d never ask! Well, in a nutshell Twine uses the Semantic Web, natural language processing, and machine learning to make your information and relationships smarter. But if that’s all Greek to you, just think of Twine as your very own intelligent personal Web assistant, working for you behind the scenes so you can be more productive.

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