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Social Advertising Best Practices
by sbrothier
Social media is big and getting bigger, providing marketers with a combination of reach, relationships, and relevance:
* Reach: Social media has overtaken email as the most popular consumer activity, according to a recent Nielsen study. Importantly, consumer growth is coming from an older demographic than social media's historical base; for example, Facebook's strongest growth is coming from 35-49 year-olds, adding twice as many 50-64-year-olds as opposed to those under 18. (Nielsen “Global Faces and Networked Places,” March 9, 2009; MediaPost Blogs Research Brief, “Social Networking Is No Respecter of Age,” March 18, 2009.)
* Relationships: Social media's strength is in the personal connections it enables, the peer-to-peer contact, providing reasons for consumers to visit regularly and for extended periods of time.
* Relevance: Consumers are extremely engaged with the content and connections that their friends are creating because of its personal relevance.
Ruby / EventMachine - Trac
by jpcaruana
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EventMachine is a library for Ruby, C , and Java programs. It provides event-driven I/O using the Reactor pattern. EventMachine is designed to simultaneously meet two key needs:
* Extremely high scalability, performance and stability for the most demanding production environments; and
* An API that eliminates the complexities of high-performance threaded network programming, allowing engineers to concentrate on their application logic.
This unique combination makes EventMachine a premier choice for designers of critical networked applications, including web servers and proxies, email and IM production systems, authentication/authorization processors, and many more.
Alt-w Fund | New Media Scotland
by karlcow
Initiated by Scottish Screen in 2000 the Alt-w Fund supports the development of new artworks, devices and creative applications that challenge the notions of what networked or web-based digital creativity can be.
On the Identity Trail - Lessons From the Identity Trail
by karlcow
During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial, and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than Internet speed, much of the academic and policy debate arising from these new and emerging technologies has been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals.
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2008
Reader Poll: What Kind of Server are You Running at Home?
by decembre
Quite a few suggestions on putting those old boxes to use, including a home FTP server, an always-available MP3 jukebox, a remote-controlled BitTorrent monster, and many more. But we're always intrigued to see what our creative readers are doing to get the most out of their systems, new or old. Tell us what kind of server you're rocking in the poll below, and share the glorious details in the comments—how it's networked, what it can do, whether you can shut it down from your cell phone, and the like. And if you want to point us to any guides you used to create your trusty sidekick, all the better.
Opening Sesame with Networked Graphs
by karlcow
the above illustrates just how simple it is to write some very clear inferencing rules.
2007
Apache UIMA - Apache UIMA
by ogrisel
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Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a framework and SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM application might ingest plain text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for or located-at. UIMA enables such an application to be decomposed into components, for example "language identification" -> "language specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary detection" -> "entity detection (person/place names etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined by the framework and must provide self-describing metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework manages these components and the data flow between them. Components are written in Java or C ; the data that flows between components is designed for efficient mapping between these languages. UIMA additionally provides capabilities to wrap components as network services, and can scale to very large volumes by replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of networked nodes.
Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source implementation of the UIMA specification (that specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently by a technical committee within OASIS , a standards organization). We invite and encourage you to participate in both the implementation and specification efforts.
OpenRTS real-time strategy game - OpenRTS
by jdrsantos
OpenRTS is an open source realtime strategy game. It features isometric graphics, networked multiplayer and single-player scenarios. The game is being developed using Python and SDL. The game runs on at least Linux, Windows and Mac. For more details about
Imagining the Internet
by mozkart
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4,200 predictions, biographies, and more
This section of Imagining the Internet, the Early 1990s Predictions Database, includes a revealing slice of history reflected in various informative data sets and in the carefully recorded words of an eclectic group of internet pioneers.
The highlight here is the searchable and browseable selection of predictive remarks made between 1990 and 1995 about the future of networked communications. The early 1990s Predictions Database contains more than 4,200 statements made by 1,000 different voices of the time, from well-connected stakeholders to common netizens. They tell about their hopes and fears, their concerns and conflicts. It is the story of the people who supported or opposed a networked world, and they tell it in their own words.
Automate proximity and location-based computer actions
by decembre
Using network and Bluetooth detection software, you can do things like mount networked drives, set default printers, enable/disable your screensaver, and launch applications based on what networks are available, what network you're connected to, and what
PlayStation HOME is up!
by adgoldho
The PlayStation Home will go into beta this April followed by world wide release in the fall. “Home”™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PS3 users from around the world, where they can...
Understanding JTA—the Java Transaction API: JDBC Topics: JDBC: Developer: Home
by ogrisel
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The Java™ Transaction API (JTA) allows applications to perform distributed transactions, that is, transactions that access and update data on two or more networked computer resources. The JTA specifies standard Java interfaces between a transaction manager and the parties involved in a distributed transaction system: the application, the application server, and the resource manager that controls access to the shared resources affected by the transactions. This document provides an overview of that process and how the DataDirect Connect® for JDBC™ drivers relate to it.
2006
Blackboard Learning System
by cyberien
Our role is to improve the educational experience with Internet-enabled technology that connects students, faculty, researchers and the community in a growing network of education environments dedicated to better communication, commerce, collaboration and content.
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Networked Learning Environment: We recognize that teaching and learning should occur beyond the classroom and we build products in support of anytime, anywhere learning.
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Networked Transaction Environment: We also recognize that any member of the University community can use just one card to enable on and off-campus commerce transactions, activities, facilities access, and web services.
Zoodango - Where Professionals Connect
by cyberien
Zoodango is,...
the newest social networking site for professionals. Our site connects professionals through local events and preferred venues like Starbucks. Zoodango is unique because it allows you to find people online and network with them face-to-face.
the first networking site to drive face-to-face meetings and create online connections based on real world relationships, which results in a higher quality group of networked professionals. At Zoodango: introductions are found online, relationships are built face-to-face, and then networks are created.
a place where you can express your lifestyle in relation to your profession. It doesn't matter what you specifically do for a living, but what does matter is that you have a life story that is impacted by your profession and vice versa. This is what Zoodango is about,... a place where people share their stories and connect their lifestyles and professions.
Nmap: The Art of Port Scanning - by Fyodor
by Neewok
This paper details many of the techniques used to determine what ports (or
similar protocol abstraction) of a host are listening for connections. These
ports represent potential communication channels. Mapping their existence
facilitates the exchange of information with the host, and thus it is quite
useful for anyone wishing to explore their networked environment, including
hackers. Despite what you have heard from the media, the Internet is NOT
all about TCP port 80. Anyone who relies exclusively on the WWW for
information gathering is likely to gain the same level of proficiency as your
average AOLer, who does the same. This paper is also meant to serve as an
introduction to and ancillary documentation for a coding project I have been
working on. It is a full featured, robust port scanner which (I hope) solves
some of the problems I have encountered when dealing with other scanners and
when working to scan massive networks.
Screen Recycler
by xenomorph
ScreenRecycler allows you to use any networked computer as additional display.
Redfoot: Hypercoding System
by clochix
Redfoot is a hypercoding system which is being used to create a webized operating system and is also being used to create applications. It is built around the notion of an RDF Graph for persistence rather than a File Tree. It provides standard web mechanisms to transport information across different machines and programmatically specifies the tasks for bundling and installing new software features across networked machines. The functions of Redfoot are analogous to that of an operating system kernel that manages resources across the web. To allow humans and other HTTP service agents to utilize Redfoot, it uses RDFLib and third party libraries such as Twisted and Kid to convert between RDF-based information and HTML or other popular formats. Therefore, each Redfoot server, is designed to interacting with a human, other redfeet, or any other HTTP-aware computing service. The design and implementation principles of Redfoot is to recursively utilize existing standards and libraries whenever and whereever it can, resulting in a highly compact, yet functionally rich execution kernel.
Teach and Learn Online
by jlesage
a large wiki network of people interested in all things eLearning, flexible delivery, online education, networked learning, and web 2.0
Networked Public Culture
by jlesage
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin
by jlesage
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."
