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  • 2013-05-15 11:31
    By combining social media insights and rich media innovation, brands can enjoy increased user engagement, consumer loyalty, and social ROI.
  • 2013-05-14 13:23
    If SEO is dead, social media will be, too, in another five years. So, keep calm and tweet on. Hold that thought for a second, I can explain.
  • 2013-05-13 21:50
    I'd like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website. Earlier in the year we worked on an evolution of Ubuntu.com to reflect the expanded scope of the project in the main site structure. Our re-structuring conversations went beyond the existing website to cover the broader Ubuntu web ecosystem. We wanted to review how users gained access to key websites that were not linked to directly from Ubuntu.com. For example: developer.ubuntu.com, design.ubuntu.com, askubuntu.com… Our target users for these journeys were mainly community members or those new to Ubuntu who might be interested in getting involved or finding out more about how the community and Canonical work together to create Ubuntu. Our proposed solution consisted of a global navigation menu that was to go across all key sites so that – no matter which site users arrived at – they would be able to reach the main destinations in our ecosystem. This was to include a new community site that has been under discussion for some time by Canonical employees and members of the community. One key factor for this community site is the ability for community members to have direct input ..
  • 2013-05-07 18:36
    YouTube has announced new functionality, including an email notification system, alerting users when the video is done processing, and the ability to control when the video is published, keeping it private until it's deemed "ready" by the user.
  • 2013-05-03 10:00
    More and more publishers will continue to rely on audience learning techniques and develop a better sense of what individuals with a certain taste or behavior patterns prefer.
  • 2013-04-29 13:02
    In Guido van Rossum's PyCon 2013 keynote, he presents "a new, interoperable approach to asynchronous I/O that is being developed for inclusion in Python 3.4." Part of his proposal is a way to use "yield from" in a manner similar to await in C. Let's just say, I'm super excited about it!
  • 2013-04-26 15:05
    Tumblr and Oxygen will start to work together to bring user-made GIFs to its programming in real time. The move is aimed to further enhance the connection between television and social media.
  • 2013-04-25 13:58
    Ubuntu 13.04 is now available for download. For more information on the release, and individual products that make up the release, please see the release notes .
  • 2013-04-25 05:02
    Ubuntu is on an exciting journey, a journey of convergence. Our goal is to build a convergent Operating System that brings a uniformity of technology and experience across phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions, and smoothing the lines between those devices in terms of interoperability and access to content. It is a bold vision, but Ubuntu has a strong reputation both in terms of our heritage in the desktop, server, and cloud, and with our passionate and capable community. I just wanted to provide some updates on work that is going on in delivering this vision. There has been significant work going on in building Ubuntu Touch (the overall name for this convergent platform). The team have marked October in their calendars as the goal to have most of the primary components in the Ubuntu Touch code-base complete so we can deliver a fully converged system in Ubuntu 14.04. The Unity team have been working to centralize the different form factors into Unity Next, which you can play with now (weekly updates on progress coming soon here ), the Mir team are making good progress in getting Mir ready for deployment on handsets with a technical preview on the desktop in 13.10 (see the weekly updates ), and the Ubuntu SDK team are working ..
  • 2013-04-22 12:00
    Tips and insights on optimizing videos for maximum YouTube visibility, strong brand impression, engagement, and viral social sharing. Part two in a two-part series.
  • 2013-04-17 10:00
    The new generation of social listening and monitoring tools can help small and large marketing departments alike run their own year-round mini war rooms.
  • 2013-04-16 07:04
    Leading online promotion company, SEO Positive, has responded to a new research which reveals that reviews play a vital part in generating mobile commerce sales.(PRWEB UK) 16 April 2013 26% of consumers access customer reviews and consumer conversions on mobile devices for PC World and Curry's, reports Econsultancy.In data from Revoo's retailer and brand clients, 25% of consumers receiving post ...
  • 2013-04-12 10:00
    While the benefits of using Ajax typically come in the form of enhanced user experience, there is more under the covers of this paradigm that leads to cost savings during implementation.
  • 2013-04-11 12:00
    Branded storytelling is becoming so prevalent online that consumers are starting to look for it, and it behooves marketers to meet their expectations.
  • 2013-04-08 02:03
    The Enthought Free Python Distribution (EPD Free), is a free Python distribution from Enthought , which includes additional Python packages / modules for scientific computing and graphing / plotting, such as SciPy, matplotlib and more. I downloaded and installed it, and tried out some of the matplotlib examples in the Examples directory of the installation. They worked fine. Only tried it out a little so far, but I've known about Enthought for some time now, and it looks like a useful Python distribution for the stated purposes. They also have higher versions, presumably for pay, with support, etc. - Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises Share | Vasudev Ram
  • 2013-04-07 17:41
    For those interested in Django to see if it's right for your next project, or if you are upgrading from an earlier version, this review is for you.
  • 2013-04-05 14:41
    Not sure how many of you were following my previous blog post about a bunch of Django apps I built for my own personal use. I have finally released the source code into BitBucket. Here's a short copy and paste recap of what you can find: PCBank AKA myFinance This is a personal budgeting system which I have created, it has matured a lot throughout the past few months. I originally created it in October of 2011, as using a spreadsheet to keep track of all my expenses grew tedious. It can also manage roommates, and split bills accordingly. This is my most used app out of all of the apps I created. It also has an RSS and JSON interface for third party applications to fetch data. I use the RSS for a Live Bookmark to easily access all my online banking websites from my browser toolbar. I use the JSON interface with a mobile app I created so that I can easily check my bank balances on the go without needing to actually sign into my online bank website on an insecure wireless network. myProjects This app was created in recent months to keep track of my many projects I do. It keeps track of individual projects, which I can jot down notes about each one. I can create goals under each project and assign a due date for them. This makes ..
  • 2013-04-01 21:18
    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue 310 for the week March 25 31, 2013 , and the full version is available here . In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) reaching End of Life on May 9 2013 Ubuntu Stats Hey North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania! Are You On the Map? Daniel Holbach: Accompanying a new generation of developers Rick Spencer: User Interaction with Ubuntu Components Jono Bacon: Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10 Nicholas Skaggs: Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality Ubuntu Touch summary (week 12) App patterns applied: weather key journeys Mark Shuttleworth The Disruptors 2013 In The Blogosphere Full Circle Magazine 71 has arrived! Other Articles of Interest Featured Audio and Video Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings Upcoming Meetings and Events Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10 And much more! The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by: Elizabeth Krumbach Mathias Hellsten Tiago Carrondo David Morfin Jim Connett And many others If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, ..
  • 2013-04-01 18:24
    This blog post is about deploying Django apps. It is addressed primarily to WebFaction , but applies to any other hosts else with one-click installers for this kind of app. First, many thanks to WebFaction for their great service and support. I've got very few complaints about them in general. However, I think their approach to setting up Django projects is far from ideal, and makes life harder than it needs to be. The WebFaction Django docs tell us to create a new Django app by using the control panel and choosing an app of type ‘Django' and then choosing your Django version. This will install an Apache instance with mod_wsgi, and a copy of the Django sources, and set up a basic Django app skeleton. There are lots of problems with this: What happens when there is a security issue with Django? The user will need to have an upgrade mechanism. This is covered in the docs, but it is an 11 step process . And this process is a process they will first have to do in their development environment for testing, in some way, and then again on their live box. How many people will actually do that, especially for security releases that they don't feel they need? Experienced developers, of course, don't do this. For Django, I've ..
  • 2013-03-29 00:39
    I am so very able to amuse myself with all these funny pictures, but there are other amusing subreddits other than funny. So today I added the ability to choose a different subreddit. This involved diving into the world of Ubuntu Components . Ubuntu Components were surprisingly functional, but as you will see, they are still a work in progress. So, the first thing I needed to do was to make a way for the user to say that they want to change subreddits. Ubuntu Touch provides the bottom edge for your application to add a list of commands. This is a nice way to do it because it means that the screen isn't cluttered with commands, but users know exactly where to go when they want them. The first thing to do is to ensure that the top level of your app is a MainView , and then you are presenting the content in a Page. So, roughly your apps structure looks like ... //imports MainView {     //set MainView properties     Page     {         //app UI content     }     //components outside pages } I wanted to add a "subreddit" button. To do that, I set the tools property of the page to a list of actions. So far there is only one action. Essentially, I am defining a button. I tell it the text I want, the icon to use (I downloaded an icon that I ..
  • 2013-03-28 19:54
    We've just released Django 1.5.1, a bugfix release fixing a few issues with last month's 1.5 release. The biggest fix is for a memory leak introduced in Django 1.5. Under certain circumstances, repeated iteration over querysets could leak memory - sometimes quite a bit of it. If you'd like more information, the details are in our ticket tracker (and in a related issue in Python itself). If you've noticed memory problems under Django 1.5, upgrading to 1.5.1 should fix those issues. Django 1.5.1 also includes a couple smaller fixes: Module-level warnings emitted during tests are no longer silently hidden ( 18985 ). Prevented filtering on password hashes in the user admin ( 20078 ). All users are encouraged to upgrade to Django 1.5.1 at your earliest convenience. You can install Django using pip or download Django 1.5.1 from the Django downloads page . As always signed checksums of the package are available. On that last point: astute readers may notice that Django 1.5.1 is signed by a new key. Until today, all releases were signed by James Bennett, but to increase our bus factor we're moving to a system where multiple people will be authorized to release Django. See our Django releasers document for the list of approved ..
  • 2013-03-26 18:18
    The Third Manifesto formally describes tuple types (RM prescription 6), tuple values (prescription 9), tuple variables (prescription 12) as well as other tuple-related elements. As mentioned in the previous post , a tuple value is a set of ordered triples each consisting of attribute name, type and value. Class Tuple of the TTM-inspired interface to PostgreSQL models TTM tuples as Python lists of TTM Attribute objects. Lists were used rather than sets because for many practical purposes the order of the attributes is useful (or has "meaning"), e.g., the first attribute listed is most often –even in purist relational theory presentations– the primary key or part of the primary key. The interface stores the Tuple heading as a (Python) n-tuple of name-type tuples, in the "internal use" _heading attribute. The n-tuple was chosen over a list due to its immutability. The interface also sets each Attribute as a Python attribute of the Tuple object. Thus, if you define a Tuple variable as follows: film = Tuple(     Attribute('id', int, sysdefault=True),     Attribute('title'),     Attribute('release_year', int)]) You can then assign or access an Attribute using simple Python syntax: film.title = "Seven Samurai" if film.year == 1954: ..
  • 2013-03-26 13:01
    Google on Tuesday gave businesses a tool to measure their return on investment for mobile ad spending. The company's Full Value of Mobile Calculator is designed to let marketers keep tabs on sales leads in the form of calls, apps, in-store sales, mobile site visits and cross-device activity The company claims that in about 30 minutes businesses can upload data from AdWords and their mobile websites and "make some key assumptions to create your Full Value of Mobile estimate." The estimate will show businesses the total value, value per click and ROI that mobile is driving across various paths.
  • 2013-03-25 12:00
    Nine guidelines to follow for your video SEO success gained from personal experience, industry collaboration, experimentation, and reverse engineering. Part one in a two-part series.
  • 2013-03-20 06:00
    Brands need a smart social analytics tool that can not only listen to and determine relevant social chatter, but enable them to act on these real-time nuggets.
  • 2013-03-18 10:00
    A brand's future lies in how it chooses to respond to marketing in a digital world, and its willingness to put the consumer back in the center of everything it does.
  • 2013-03-14 19:00
    Social networks, review sites, deal sites, and mobile applications can be some of your best strengths if you utilize them to your advantage.
  • 2013-03-14 05:37
    Important versions of Chrome and Firefox were released since our last installment, and though we're ready to leave Windows 7 behind, IE10 brings us back for one more round. Naturally, our exhaustive suite of benchmarks undergoes a massive update as well.
  • 2013-03-06 17:36
    Click here to view this gallery If you love social media, Facebook isn't the only place you can launch an awesome career. In fact, these seven social networks are all amazing places to work-and they're all hiring, too. Take a peek inside the offices of these cool companies and learn more about their culture, team and extra-fun perks. Images courtesy of The Daily Muse
  • 2013-02-28 14:08
    There has always been evidence that words on pages linking to a website (contextual phrases) are influential, but many SEOs see the importance of co-occurrence, or semantic similarity, increasing in Google&39;s algorithm. Learn the basic concepts here.
  • 2013-02-17 23:00
    Python - language of the decade Recently I found a PYPL - PopularitY of Programming Language index. It rediscovers the indicator of programming language popularity. Author argue that TIOBE index can be hypocritical due to the ambiguity of programming languages name, and introduce other phrases to use in Google Trends. Looking at the author study, we can deduce that Python has the biggest increase in the last decade. What's better we can see good linear growth for 10 years! Greetings for Python! The plot is interesting indeed, because constant line doesn't mean bad. It's mean that constantly some group of people (for Java and PHP - a large group) wants to learn this language. Python is the only language which behaves different here. As we known Python start from scripting and scientific fields, and now becomes increasingly popular, hitting the technologies which are dominated by web and business. Those technologies are supported by big companies (Java, C, C++), which pay big money for support, and web (PHP, Ruby), which makes a lot of noise in the internet. It is very difficult to become popular in such big competition. And Python get it successively. For me this is the reason why Python is the language of the decade. ..
  • 2013-02-15 17:04
    We are conducting a free workshop for non-programmers to learn programming. If you have zero experience programming computers, this is the workshop for you. If you have very limited experience, or experience from long ago, you'll fit right in too. When and where Date : Feb 22-23, 2013 (Friday evening + all day Saturday, attending both is required) Location : Notman House, 51 Sherbrooke St W Language : English (there will be a French workshop on March 1-2, follow the blog or mailing list to see the announcement) Registration : Attendance is limited, please read the detailed program on OpenHatch and register on Eventbrite using the link given on that page.
  • 2013-02-14 14:00
    Social media and ad exchanges deliver clicks and conversions at the lowest cost of all channels, but networks and exchanges don't deliver high-quality, long-term customers, according to a new report from Aggregate Knowledge.
  • 2013-02-03 18:07
    It"s a pity that so many installation instructions for Python packages assume that pip is already installed : it's not installed by Python installers, and installation instructions for pip are only for Linux / OS X, not for Windows. So, potential Windows users of those packages are left scrambling for instructions. Furthermore, these instructions include complex procedures, and do not explain how to deal with multiple Python versions (2.x and 3.x).     Yet,  python is often used on windows .   I've developed  Pip for Windows to address these issues. It is a tiny Python Package manager that automatically installs pip on Windows. I suggest that package providers recommend it, as I have for pyDatalog .  Its GUI also lets you:  install any package from pypi, or upgrade it using pip instruction set  list all installed packages with their version number  upgrade all packages in the local library, in one click  switch from one python interpreter (i.e. version) to another (including pypy )  See the Home page for screen shot and user guide.
  • 2013-01-31 17:47
    The key to improving today's workforce could lie in the elementary school math class, new research shows. A study by University of Missouri researchers identified how a lack of a specific math skill in first grade correlated to lower scores on a seventh-grade math test used to determine employability and wages in adults. David Geary, a Missouri professor and the study's lead author, said the research made a connection between child psychology and labor economics in order to examine the roots of America's shortage of mathematically proficient workers. Data from the United States Center for Educational Statistics revealed that one in five adults lacks the math competency expected of an eighth-grader.
  • 2013-01-29 14:41
    Spending time understanding and tracking trends in your competitive landscape will positively impact the metrics you care about. And sharing both the traffic and revenue growth and insights you gain may make you a star in the executive suite.
  • 2013-01-27 02:46
    Infographics break down data visually, helping viewers make sense of complex information. Their popularity has increased with the rise of social media , fuelling the need for instant results by providing content in bite-size, digestible chunks. So, what's the science behind an infographic's success? Allow an infographic to explain. Created by Nowsourcing , a social-media marketing company, it shows that infographic posts dwarf traditional posts when it comes to sharing on social networks. The most popular topics for infographics include: business, technology, social media, the economy and health
  • 2013-01-12 20:03
    graph-tool is a Python module for the creation, manipulation, analysis and display of graphs (the computer science data structure, not computer graphics, though it can display graphs as graphics). I took a look at some of the code examples of graph-tool. It is fairly easy to understand and use for simple cases, e.g. there are simple library calls to create a new graph, add vertices to it, add edges between vertices, etc. Quick excerpt: from graph_tool.all import * g = Graph() v1 = g.add_vertex() v2 = g.add_vertex() e = g.add_edge(v1, v2) And to draw the above graph: graph_draw(g, vertex_text=g.vertex_index, vertex_font_size=18, output_size=(200, 200), output="two-nodes.pdf") The above code creates this image: It supports both directed and undirected graphs. Though exposed as a Python module, graph-tool is internally written in C++ using the Boost Graph Library . It also makes extensive use of template metaprogramming for performance. The graphics drawing is based on the Cairo Graphics library , which I blogged about recently.
  • 2012-12-31 14:58
    We've seen a lot of changes in media this year: from new devices and multiple screens driving responsive design , to the rise of native advertising , and the importance of imagery on social networks. The media is an industry that, for the most part, tends to innovate quickly, at the risk of dying. And most of the trends and disruptions that media face usually affect marketers shortly thereafter. So with that, here are three things the media has learned this year that marketers ought to pay attention to as they head into 2013.
  • 2012-12-24 03:40
    Think of how Android uses Java, but instead of Java, we replace it with Python! I have been pondering the idea of building a Python-based Operating System on top of the Linux kernel, much like how Android uses Java. However, I wanted to take it a step further and build most of the system components using Python, this way most of the Operating System can be modified by anybody who understands Python code. This can allow anybody with Python experience to extend and fully customize the entire operating system. Since Python allows modules to be built using C, this can allow specific system components to benefit from speed where needed, such as a graphical interface. Using C interfaces also allows every part of the Linux kernel to be easily exposed to Python when attempting to build such an Operating System. A large benefit of such an operating system is application portability, at least applications which are made in pure Python. The entire Operating System will run anywhere you can compile the Linux Kernel and Python into, with less effort than say porting all of Linux over to a different chipset. Python apps don't need to be re-compiled for the target CPU, and if most of the Operating System is made in Python, porting is made a cinch. ..
  • 2012-12-16 18:10
    With SEO constantly reshaping under our feet, a holistic approach to digital marketing and SEO is a key element in your survival kit. Do you consider yourself white hat SEO? Or a holistic Internet marketer? Let's put you to the test!
  • 2012-12-13 17:09
    Native advertising is hot right now, even if nobody seems to know exactly what it is Solve Media , a digital advertising firm, has attempted to solve that problem with this infographic, which takes a stab at a standard definition: "Native advertising refers to a specific mode of monetization that aims to augment user experience by providing value through relevant content delivered in-stream." Actually, that's pretty good. As the rest of the graphic shows, native advertising is clearly where the money is going in the industry. At the very least, when ad execs are throwing the term around at Christmas parties, they can be on the same page
  • 2012-12-13 08:25
    This blog post is a short explanation how to give and consume environment variables in your (Python) code. It's a nice little trick, but if you are not well-versed in UNIX systems you might not know it. Table Of Content 1. Configuring your application 2. Using environment variables in UNIX 3. Another trick: socket.gethostname() Please see the original blog post for syntax color examples. 1. Configuring your application An application can be configured usually in three ways. Through command-line arguments (I prefer simplistic plac library with Python) configuration files (I prefer YAML or Python standard library ConfigParser for INI style files) environment variables The two first ones are the most well-known methods. However, the last option is the easiest for quick and dirty hacks. 2. Using environment variables in UNIX Note: Environment variables work alike in UNIX and Windows. However, I have no longer valid experience about Windows and how to set environment variables in the latest cmd.exe incarnations. (I used to write AUTOEXEC.bats for DOS, but that's like long time ago). So if there are Windows gurus around please leave a comment. Environment variables are Easy way to make deployment specific ..
  • 2012-12-08 19:10
    You may have heard about FitBit badges support in Ubuntu Accomplishments system. Matt Fisher and Chris Wayne have written a new collection of accomplishments which pulls in your FitBit badges to other trophies. You can learn more about what awesome work they did by reading their articles ] ]. To those of you thinking “Hey, that app is Ubuntu accomplishments. How does FitBit relate to Ubuntu?”: that's what a  separate collection means. All trophies are grouped in sets – each set may relate to a different community, may be developed by completely different people – and such sets are called collections . You can think about them as of plugins or add-ons. Collections are installed separatelly, and are optional. That means that you are free to install FitBit accomplishments alongside Ubuntu trophies, and that you can also use just FitBit badges and remove default collections that award you for being active in Ubuntu community. Now why do I consider FitBit trophies a milestone for the project? Ubuntu Accomplishments System has reached the level on which creating third-party collections is simple and clear. The appearance of FitBit accomplishments symbolises how extensive this platform is, that it can be used to present achievements ..
  • 2012-12-07 14:55
    Hello everyone I would like to advertise a PyPy-related summer internship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is located in lovely Boulder, Colorado. As for the last year, the mentor will be Davide del Vento, with my possible support on the PyPy side. The full details of the application are to be found on the internship description and make sure you read the requirements first. Important requirements: Must currently be enrolled in a United States university. Only students authorized to work for any employer in the United States will be considered for the SIParCS program. Must be a graduate or under graduate who has completed their sophomore year. If you happen to fulfill the requirements, to me this sounds like a great opportunity to spend a summer at NCAR in Boulder hacking on atmospheric models using PyPy.
  • 2012-12-07 14:16
    The long awaited tutorial schedule has been released! This year's accepted tutorials include several returning veterans and a great group of newcomers, so take a look - there's a lot to learn. Now that the tutorials are available, those of you who have previously registered can log back into the site and begin to add tutorials to your existing registration. If you're about to register, tutorials are easy to add to your package as you go along. Each tutorial costs $150, which is an absolute steal, especially when you consider that many of these instructors are full-time educators whose regular courses cost significantly more. Plus, they're brought to you right at PyCon! We also have several instructors who are domain experts or even the creators of the software being taught. New for this year is a tutorial intended for attendees with not only zero Python knowledge, but no programming knowledge at all. Jessica McKellar will be teaching "A hands-on introduction to Python for beginning programmers" , intended to bring newcomers to the community from any background. The tutorials run on the two days preceding the main conference: Wednesday March 13 and Thursday March 14, with morning and afternoon sessions running on both days. Each session ..
  • 2012-12-05 08:44
    After reading this book I can say that I have a better understanding on how this Ubuntu operating works. The nice thing about this book compared to other books on Ubuntu that cover how to use Ubuntu, is this books covers not only these topics, but goes over why and how Ubuntu came into being and thoroughly teaches the readers how the Ubuntu community runs and operates. I have seen first hand what happens in the Ubuntu community when a new helpful hand joins and speeds up the Ubuntu development. This books helps people know the option to join is available. This book also goes over how to get your app into the Ubuntu Software center, the app where people install software for their Ubuntu system. Basically this book starts out explaining what Ubuntu is, then moves on to installing it, the command line and running it as a server. but the main selling point in the book is the books ability to comprehensibly show how the Ubuntu community works and this is where other books fall short compared to this book. Highly recommend to people wanting to install Ubuntu, and even someone wanting to help make Ubuntu even better.
  • 2012-12-02 17:42
    To truly “optimize” (meaning “make it as good as it can be”), customers need to engage with someone who really does SEO for a living. So what steps should you take to show those who may be considering your company that you're worthy of trust?
  • 2012-11-29 00:22
    The social media marketing backlash has begun. Blame the unlikely team of The Onion and IBM. The former dropped a pitch-perfect takedown of socmedia "experts" right before Thanksgiving. Then Big Blue released data that showed Facebook had almost zero effect on Black Friday sales, and Twitter actually had zero . The one-two punch confirmed my deep suspicion that a lot of the buzzword-laden blather around social media marketing the past few years was itself a form of marketing for self-conferred experts looking to make a buck off scared blue-chip companies. That's not to say there aren't bright, honest people plying their trade. It's just that I keep waiting for one of&8230; Continue reading... More About: facebook marketing , social media marketing
  • 2012-11-23 01:02
    Oracle Digital, an SEO Company in Perth, offers new paradigm for SEO clients, concurs with findings of Brett Tabke.Perth, Western Australia (PRWEB) November 23, 2012 Many people may not know who Brett Tabke is. But a lot of dedicated webmasters, Internet marketers, or anyone interested in SEO, probably use a term that he invented on a daily basis: SERP, which stands for “search engine results ...
  • 2012-11-15 19:09
    The joy of surfing the Web in a coffee shop or a packed conference hall quickly fades when the wireless network slows to a crawl. New software for wireless access points that serves as a data traffic cop promises to keep these networks zipping along at rocket speeds.
  • 2012-11-15 14:47
    The proliferation of mobile has spawned a revolution in website design. Now people view content on screens of all sizes among a range of devices, a movement that requires adaptive new design . At the Mashable Media Summit on Nov. 30, Mashable 's founder and CEO, Pete Cashmore, will speak about the future of mobile, social and design, and how the intersection of these three pilars will dictate some of the biggest trends to emerge in 2013. In case you missed the big news from Wednesday, we announced a new version of Mashable , a redesign that exemplifies the key qualities of adaptive design. At the Media Summit, Cashmore will provide an inside look into the thought process
  • 2012-11-14 21:40
    There's a lot of talk lately of Google having finally killed SEO through their Panda and Penguin algorithms, which continue to ensnare more and more websites with every new update.
  • 2012-11-08 17:45
    With Google having a bad case of frequent hiccups, websites are see-sawing up and down in their search rankings. Business owners, caught between a rock and a hard place, are asking themselves whether SEO really can be a winning strategy in these difficult economic times.
  • 2012-11-07 12:30
    After the first one , I wrote another search provider for gnome-shell >= 3.6 in python, this time for flipping through your github repositories. Screencast on vimeo . Source on github . Fedora package review in bugzilla . A standing problem is how to prompt the user for their authentication tokens. Right now, I require that the user maintain a ~/.search-github file by hand including their github username and password. Ugly, but it works. Best, I think, would be to integrate with GNOME Online Accounts. However, it appears that I cannot write a plugin for that . What other approaches are available? I could use a modal prompt kind of like when NetworkManager prompts you for a wifi or VPN password and could then save credentials to the keyring. I haven't yet figured out how to create that prompt yet though, so if anyone knows.. kindly point me in the right direction. Other ideas?
  • 2012-11-05 20:47
    When considering how to communicate to a market about a new product or service, there are many key questions that social media can help solve for a new business owner.
  • 2012-11-01 14:17
    PageLever , which provides analytics tools for brands with Facebook Pages, has introduced a new tool that lets you visualize user engagement on those Pages in real time. Such data is updated by Facebook every 15 minutes or so, but only as raw data. PageLever Now, however, gives you charts showing which status updates are hitting and for how long.
  • 2012-10-31 03:43
    By Vasudev Ram psutil is a versatile and cross-platform Python module for getting process and related information from the operating system. Though the name psutil indicates that it works like the UNIX ps command (for p rocess s tatus), it does a lot more, and works on other platforms too. IIRC, I had come across it earlier, but thought it was only for UNIX-like systems. I recently tried out psutil on Windows. For certain Windows system processes, it may not give some info, due to those processes being privileged, according to one of the psutil authors, Giampaolo Rodola, who I emailed about it. He said: "On Windows you can't access all information about processes owned by NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM user. In those cases psutil will raise AccessDenied exception." psutil can provide some information on: - CPU time - virtual memory - swap memory (sic) - disk partitions - disk usage - disk and network I/O - users - processes: name, executable name, working directory, command line, user name, user ids and group ids, threads, connections, file descriptors. Here is a simple psutil test program which shows just a few features - output not well formatted, but readable. Try it on Windows or UNIX/Linux: test_psutil_00.py import psutil for pid in psutil.get_pid_list(): ..
  • 2012-10-29 13:48
    Does your company use SEO for online marketing guidance? If you are a regular Search Engine Land reader, I suspect you will answer with something like, “ Of course we do.
  • 2012-10-28 16:42
    The 12.10 release is the first version of Ubuntu that supports Secure Boot out of the box. In what is largely an accident of release timing, from what I can tell (and please correct me if I'm wrong), this actually makes Ubuntu 12.10 the first general release of any OS to support Secure Boot. (Windows 8 of course is also now available; and I'm sure Matthew Garrett, who has been a welcome collaborator throughout this process, has everything in good order for the upcoming Fedora 18 release.) That's certainly something of a bittersweet achievement. I'm proud of the work we've done to ensure Ubuntu will continue to work out of the box on the consumer hardware of the future; in spite of the predictable accusations on the blogowebs that we've sold out, I sleep well at night knowing that this was the pragmatic decision to make, maximizing users' freedom to use their hardware. All the same, I worry about what the landscape is going to look like in a few years' time. The Ubuntu first-stage EFI bootloader is signed by Microsoft, but the key that is used for signing is one that's recommended by Microsoft, not one that's required by the Windows 8 certification requirements. Will all hardware include this key in practice? The Windows 8 requirements ..
  • 2012-10-26 03:54
    Portland Trailblazers rookie Damian Lillard wasn't a highly touted high school player coming up in Oakland, Calif., and he didn't attend a powerhouse NBA -feeder college program like Duke or Kentucky. But the kid. Can. Ball. Now, as Lillard begins his first season as a professional point guard out of Weber State University, social media is playing a key role in introducing him to NBA fans. Beefed up Twitter and Instagram presences coupled with an ongoing YouTube mini-documentary series have helped raise Lillard's profile among non-hardcore hoops fans in ways that wouldn't have been possible just several years ago. Of course, none of that digital promotion would exist if not for Lill&8230; Continue reading..
  • 2012-10-25 16:01
    During the height of the OMG Ubuntu! transition, it dawned on my that Juju was missing one key feature: an interactive front end. Eight months ago, while at POSSCON 2012 I started working on what I called “Juca” at the time, a project I eventually renamed to Amulet. Amulet is a SaaS that is designed to provide an always available Juju UI for admins and users to manage. The idea was simple, and there was demand for it. I then spent the next eight months scrapping, rebuilding, and scrapping again until I was satisfied with the progress and overall functionality. During this time, I had heard rumors that Juju was building a UI. This news made my heart sink. How can I offer a SaaS solution if Juju comes with a UI out of the box? I was relieved to hear that it would probably be a UI that was available on the bootstrap node, making it only able to manage the current deployed environment. Amulet operates by managing multiple environments per user. I decided to press on. With UDS fast approaching, I increased work on the project, including splitting off the library I created to Github  as a sign of good will that I eventually intended on releasing more portions open source. My goal was to show off the work so far and gain feedback from Juju
  • 2012-10-24 12:00
    Mobile is becoming the new normal - but having the technology is just the first step; developing strategies for effectively marketing and communicating in a mobile world is a much bigger step.
  • 2012-10-17 13:54
    Blekko announced the launch of a new suite of premium SEO tools today. The suite features a re-designed user interface, and a number of new features. The suite includes page analysis, SEO report cards, inbound links organized by categories, Blekko …
  • 2012-10-15 16:27
    PlayAPI is an evolving self-service platform that enables brands to add gaming and other engagement mechanics to apps.
  • 2012-10-13 22:46
    If you are using Apache/mod_wsgi and when you set it up all you cared about was getting something working, but didn't care much for understanding how things worked and how you should set it up, chances are you are running your WSGI application in embedded mode of mod_wsgi. If you don't understand how to setup Apache, using embedded mode is nearly always a bad idea. Much more so if the Apache
  • 2012-10-11 01:40
    As many of you know, I love Ubuntu. I've given years of my life for Ubuntu. I've served as much as anyone's expected to, and long upheld the ideology and technical motivations behind Ubuntu as second to none. Until recently. Now, with advertisements in the default DE (and don't tell me they're not, when I search for term and get “The Terminator” on DVD, it's a ad if you care so much about whatever binding to search applications, why not disable ads by default, and let super-s do your “shopping”), and now, begging for a handout when people Download Ubuntu without an option to donate to Debian , which composes over 70% of the Desktop, I get upset. I feel cheated, and I'm not even involved on a day-to-day anymore. I'm ashamed of what's going on now, and I hope we find a better way to serve our users.
  • 2012-10-10 12:00
    As you are considering your social media strategy, be sure to consider customer care, and make sure it spans all channels that customers are likely to need.
  • 2012-10-09 21:41
    Google sort son algo Page Layout 2 contre l'abus de publicité en haut de page Matt Cutts vient d'annoncer la mise en ligne de la version 2 de l'algorithme Page Layout, visant à pénaliser les sites ayant trop de publicité au-dessus de la ligne de flottaison. Google sort son algo Page Layout 2 contre l'abus de publicité Cet article écrit par Olivier Duffez a été publié sur Google sort son algo Page Layout 2 contre l'abus de publicité
  • 2012-10-09 09:52
    Les outils de Sophos ont détecté deux fois plus de résultats piégés par des malwares dans les résultats de Bing que dans ceux de Google. La recherche d'image serait également nettement plus risquée.
  • 2012-10-07 23:35
    Thanks to Tero Karvinen , I kept a guest lecture at Haaga-Helia on their Linux as a server course. I didn't really talk about servers but about my experiences and work with open source, especially Xubuntu. I had prepared slides for the talk partly based on my article about benefits of open source and I did talk for almost an hour just going through my notes, but still there were some aspects that I only understood (better) when giving the lecture. Open source projects and self-management In addition to the fact that you can work with anything you like, whenever you like and however you like, open source projects can actually give a good opportunity to learn self-management. This is true especially with projects with time-based releases, because every deadline is a deadline . Even if the deadline was a soft deadline and your feature or fix isn't release critical, you should still try to schedule your work so that you will meet the deadline. Every time you fail to meet the deadline is an opportunity to learn. The most common reason to have failed to meet a deadline is too little scheduled time. There are several possibilities why this might have happened, and some of them are more less out of sight, if you're inexperienced. ..
  • 2012-10-06 07:55
    A couple of days ago i released Django Transactional , a module for django that will make thing lot easier for common django ModelForm transactions. Today i extended it a bit and released 0.5, including these new functionality: Now it includes a base template so you don't need to create one, it will try to get your custom template and if it's not found it will use default one that just renders your form as_p in a form tag with id Model Form. New mandatory key configuration 'include' which will be the dict used to format urls: 'include': {     'app_or_nick1': 'model_or_nick1', 'model_or_nick2'],     'app_or_nick2': 'model_or_nick3', 'model_or_nick4'], }  Improved url generation using 'include' key to get less 404 probabilities. If you want to contribute or just look at the code you can go to the bitbucket branch . And as usual, patches and feedback are welcome!
  • 2012-10-05 08:30
    Tumblr has finally given brands and marketers what they've long been asking for : An analytics dashboard. During an Advertising Week event Thursday afternoon, the blogging network named Union Metrics a "preferred" third-party analytics provider. Marketers can use the service, which will remain in invite-only mode until November, to trace the sharing of individual posts, as well as track popular content, blogs and topics, engagement levels and trends, and influential contributors and curators, Tumblr said in an emailed statement. Until now, Union Metrics has focused on Twitter analytics through its main product, TweetReach. The company recently licensed access to Tumblr's
  • 2012-10-04 12:00
    Just as brand marketers can benefit from their professional expertise, so too can we glean knowledge from their efforts at self-promotion.
  • 2012-10-03 13:00
    Firm is using data gathered through white paper downloads and conferences to enhance marketing platform data and retarget ads to in-market execs.
  • 2012-10-03 12:00
    The three new areas that brand marketers can look to for key decisions regarding media, customer interest clusters, and customer behavior.
  • 2012-10-02 21:54
    The disconnect between social and commerce is virtually impossible to overcome in an all-encompassing environment like Facebook, according to Mindshare.
  • 2012-10-02 18:53
    Ubuntu relies on “Masters of the Universe” or MOTUs to keep the universe and multiverse components of Ubuntu in good working order. Unlike main, which is officially supported by Canonical, universe and multiverse are community supported. So MOTUs are community members who spend their time adding, maintaining, and supporting these repos. Even though I work for Canonical, I don't have any special powers. If I want to upload a package to universe or multiverse, I need to talk to a MOTU or become one. In order to become one, I need to do the work and gain the experience required, just like anyone else in the community would. Since I came into this job without having done much of this tyoe of work before, I've started the process of becoming a MOTU by working with a mentor, Robert Ancell . Robert has helped me with the process, pointed out mistakes, and suggested packages to work on and has been a big help along the way. Note: You must also be a Debian developer to get the battle cat. Also, Robert Ancell does not have blond hair. So why do I want to become a MOTU? Personally, my motivation has several aspects: I want to give back to the community I want to learn more about Ubuntu and about the processes being used It will ..
  • 2012-10-02 06:08
    Pre-Internet, the motto for shopping could've been "try and buy." Nowadays, social media and mobile devices add a new dimension to the retail experience. Online tools such as review sites, social networks and smartphones produce data for merchants that, if analyzed properly "in real time," can transform the way consumers shop, according to a new infographic by custom development firm Symphony Teleca. This, in turn, would equal big bucks for business owners. "By mining the mountain of internal and external data they're compiling, retailers can provide targeted, relevant and timely offers to their customers, simultaneously improving the customer shopping experience
  • 2012-09-29 23:29
    Getting fired sucks. Now imagine how it would feel to get canned from Facebook, only to watch it become a social phenomenon and the world's largest social network . Noah Kagan has lived through that experience. On Saturday, the AppSumo founder decided to write about his "$100 million dollar lesson" learned, detailing why he was terminated six years ago. Kagan joined Facebook as a product manager in November 2005, and was fired eight months later in June 2006. When he left, the social network was still limited to high school and university students. Facebook started accepting anyone with a valid email address in September 2006. He described the reasons for his dismissal like thi
  • 2012-09-28 13:05
    In an extremely rare move, Apple's CEO Tim Cook publicly apologized for their new maps app, saying it "fell short" of the company's standards. More About: Google Maps , apple , apple maps , iphone , trending
  • 2012-09-27 02:39
    This new app prompts users to snap pictures and feed them to their Photogotchi, a digital creature inspired by the Tamagotchi. More About: Startups , bizspark , games , trending
  • 2012-09-25 11:55
    Il rapporto ONU, intitolato "State of Broadband 2012 Report: Achieving Digital Inclusion for All ", redatto dagli analisti dell'ITU, fa il punto sulla banda larga nel mondo. Presto la Rete parlerà prevalentemente cinese invece che inglese
  • 2012-09-24 16:14
    LinkedIn announced a new feature on Monday called Endorsements that gives users a simpler way to recommend their professional connections.
  • 2012-09-24 13:28
    Facebook is working with a data mining firm to show marketers that consumers who see ads on the social network actually buy advertised products. The company has purchased data on 70 million U.S. households from Datalogix, which culls information from loyalty cards and programs from more than 1,000 retailers, according to The Financial Times . Datalogix matches emails and data associated with those cards and programs with emails and information required to set up a Facebook account, according to the report. Using this information, the company can say whether a consumer purchased an item after seeing it advertised on Facebook.
  • 2012-09-23 18:57
    Sunday at the 2012 Social Good Summit, former Red Cross Communications Officer Mat Morgan publicly launched his new startup, ShoutAbout, which intends to empower consumers of news to actually create social change. "There's this huge barrier between awareness and action," explained Morgan, who said news coverage drives people to care about social issues. Yet, while news media is great at making people passionate about the topics they read, there are no direct ways to jump from consuming information to acting on it. "You become more aware of problems" by reading news, said Morgan, "but you are unable to act on any sort of constructive solutions." ShoutAbout is a widget that can ..
  • 2012-09-22 03:53
    Remember when flipping through a Frommer's guidebook on the plane en route to a vacation spot was the way to figure out where to go, what to see and where to eat? Then apps replaced the weight of print and soon you could read the same reviews and information, only targeted more for you. Now social apps are turning your social media friends and their friends into your new travel adviser. “I'm so reliant on technology and that type of a lifestyle that I'm not that person to buy a book,” said Leslie Richin, 34, a social media strategist based in New York City told Mashable . “It's just not for the moment, when everything is changing. I want a real-time experience.
  • 2012-09-21 10:00
    Twitter Parties, promotional events targeting moms and parents, have become a Twitter-based cottage industry for mom bloggers. Pinterest Parties could be the next iteration of the phenomenon.
  • 2012-09-18 23:11
    As the industry moves toward adopting ad viewability and online GRP style metrics, it is also learning how best - and when - to apply them.
  • 2012-09-17 12:00
    Affiliate marketing is about building and maintaining relationships between affiliates, retailers, and networks. Here's why you should add affiliate marketing to your mix.
  • 2012-09-15 02:29
    I admit that my last post sucked. I've been working on a few things that I want to blog about, but it's going to take time to get all my ducks in a row. So, that post was mostly “filler”. Read as “I haven't blogged in a while, and should probably put something up”. Sorry. However, I finally have something you can sink your teeth into: true random number generation. Consider the following scenario: you wish to generate a long-term cryptographic key. Maybe an OpenPGP key, an SSH key, an SSL key, OTR, whatever. What sucks, is these utilities rely on the Linux kernel software device /dev/random as a source of true randomness to get their seed or numbers. However, /dev/random will block, or stop responding, when the system has run out of entropy. So, you sit and wait, maybe moving your mouse around and mashing your keyboard, to generate more entropy for the system. I personally keep an encrypted file with all the passwords for all the servers, web sites, and accounts that I login to. On a regular basis, I'll rotate through the passwords. So, I typically will use my Password Card as a source for these passwords. But, suppose I wanted to use a password generator instead. The “apg” tool is a good solution. On your system, run the following: ..
  • 2012-09-14 16:47
    Earlier this week, Gazzang and Cloudera publicly announced an official partnership , providing the Big Data industry with a first-of-its-kind offering ... a commercially supported encrypted Hadoop distribution!  Check out that spiffy Gazzang logo right there in the mix with our esteemed friends at Ubuntu and PuppetLabs ! We have certified Gazzang's eCryptfs -based transparent filesystem encryption solution, zNcrypt , running under the Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop ( CDH ), protecting all  of the data at rest. We at Gazzang are really quite proud of this milestone and our unique opportunity to really help secure enterprises leveraging Big Data. It quite nicely aligns with our partnership with 10gen as well, where we have also certified zNcrypt protecting MongoDB NOSQL data as well.  Once again, we feel we're in quite good company with our colleagues at Canonical and Red Hat , working with 10gen. Here's to building an ecosystem around security and privacy of this next generation of applications leveraging NOSQL and Big Data!
  • 2012-09-14 16:20
    A 16GB iPhone 5 that sells for $199 with a two-year contract and $649 without a contract contains materials that are worth about $168, according to one industry analyst.
  • 2012-09-14 16:03
    Once again , London Fashion Week is aiming to prove it has just as much muscle in the digital department as its counterpart in New York. Innovation kicks off at Topshop. Newly installed chief marketing officer Justin Cooke, formerly vice president of public relations at Burberry, has developed an interactive, shoppable livestream experience for its Unique show on Sunday afternoon. On Topshop.com , viewers will be able to browse product shots and color options for certain apparel and accessories as they come down the catwalk. Viewers can then place orders for delivery in six to eight weeks. Beauty products worn on the catwalk will likewise be available for purchase with delivery; Continue reading...
  • 2012-09-13 20:59
    Campaign relies on digital entrepreneurs from Gilt, Pandora and Pitchfork to spur consumer engagement on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube.
  • 2012-09-13 10:00
    Tying marketing activity to revenue can seem daunting – especially for B2B companies. Learn how to use closed-loop insights to deeply optimize programs based on what's really driving revenue and thereby see a strong ROI on this project.
  • 2012-09-12 08:12
    Here's another installment of our monthly app charts. Stay up to date with all that's new in the Software Centre and check out last month's top 10 Ubuntu app downloads! Top 10 paid apps MC Launcher !] Bastion Amnesia: The Dark Descent Oil Rush Braid LIMBO Quick ‘n Easy Web Builder !] Fluendo DVD Player Super Meat Boy! Psychonauts Top 10 free apps Master PDF Editor !]  Lord of Ultima IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Full Circle Magazine 61 Plex Media Server Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances  Ryzom CrossOver (Trial) XnViewMP   !] Muktware Ubuntu Manual Would you like to see your app featured in this list and on millions of user's computers? It's a lot easier than you think: If you're just  getting your feet wet , check out how to  get started with your first app in Ubuntu › If you've got  an existing app  you'd like deliver to the world,  submit it to the Ubuntu Software Centre › Notes: The lists of top 10 app downloads includes only those applications submitted through  My Apps  on the  Ubuntu App Developer Site . For more information about of usage of other applications in the Ubuntu archive, check out the  Ubuntu Popularity Contest statistics . The top ..
  • 2012-09-11 22:09
    It looks like Wall Street liked what Mark Zuckerberg had to say in his first interview since Facebook went public. Facebook's stock was up as much as 4.6% following Zuckerberg's interview with TechCrunch on Tuesday, rising above $20 a share for the first time in more than three weeks. At the time of publication, the stock had dipped back down slightly, but was still up more than 3%. From the moment he took the stage, Zuckerberg made it clear that his intention was to appease investors. He led off the interview by acknowledging that the Facebook IPO has been "disappointing" and noting that "we care about our shareholders." Zuckerberg went on to reassure those listening that Facebook
  • 2012-09-11 18:09
    Smartphone users worldwide will download more than 45 billion apps this year, nearly twice the number of apps that were downloaded in 2011, according to new data from the research group  Gartner , in a clear sign of just how quickly the demand for apps is growing. Apple, Google and Microsoft dominate the global app market, with Apple accounting for the largest portion of app downloads in 2012. Gartner projects that there will be about 21 billion apps downloaded from Apple's App Store this year, a 74% increase from the previous year. Going forward though, Gartner predicts that these companies will see growing competition in the app market from Facebook and Amazon.
  • 2012-09-11 04:49
    On Saturday the 8th I hosted an Ubuntu Global Jam focused on ISO testing over at the Wikimedia Foundation office in downtown San Francisco. Upon arrival I met Andrew White, our Wikimedia host, and he outlined a few options for setup. Given power requirements we ended up in a conference room and I was able to set up all the materials: As I mentioned in a previous post, I brought printouts of the following: Printable version of ReportingBugs Printable version of FindRightPackage Bug reporting instructions for Ubuntu Desktop amd64 Basic Ubuntu Live test: ubuntu-basic-live.odt Basic Ubuntu Install test: ubuntu-basic-install.odt Xubuntu Short test: xubuntu-short.odt Xubuntu Long test: xubuntu-long.odt People began arriving right at noon, such prompt geeks we are! Around 12:20 we had all the early attendees and I started with playing a youtube videos created by Nicholas Skaggs . I quickly realized my error here. While these videos are great for people sitting at their computer just learning how to test, they weren't so great for an interactive audience shut indoors on a sunny San Francisco afternoon. I ended up skipping through the video a bit to show key sections, but ended up doing live demos of everything I ..
  • 2012-09-07 19:09
    SEO Service Group states that high quality, unbiased reviews has been a key factor in their client&39;s growth in the past few months.Miami, Florida (PRWEB) September 07, 2012 SEO Service Groups client, Best Whey Protein Advices, prides themselves with being at the forefront of the whey protein industry. While many reviews fail to mention the benefits of organic protein, the company has embraced ...
  • 2012-09-07 10:00
    Here's a look at the latest key trends shaping our marketing future and defining consumer engagement in the areas of gamification, mobile, social media, email, and beyond.
  • 2012-09-06 12:47
    PyCharm has been updated to support the new language features of Python 3.3: New  yield from expression for generator delegation The  u'unicode' syntax is accepted again for  str objects New  raise ... from None syntax for suppressing exception context Reworked I/O exception hierarchy New venv standard library module (Python virtual environments, as in the popular  virtualenv package) Native support for implicit namespace packages We've recorded a screencast What's New in Python 3.3 as a quick introduction to the new features: The source code used in this screencast is hosted on GitHub. Back to School Sale! Get up to 50% OFF personal licenses for PyCharm and other JetBrains products before September 14th. Special offer details .
  • 2012-09-05 23:33
    Recently I have been working with David Planella and Michael Hall on my team around a new specification for empowering app developers to deliver their content in Ubuntu. This post provides some background information around this work and the problem it seeks to solve. Like many of you, I am hugely proud of the progress we have made with Ubuntu over the years. We have worked together to create a simple, powerful experience underlined with the foundation of our core Ubuntu values of creating a free platform, available to all, in your language, irrespective of (dis)ability. While our platform has been growing and maturing, in recent years we have been presented with a new challenge that we need to solve: making it simple for content creators to deliver their content in Ubuntu . Ubuntu is not the only thing that is maturing. Mother nature needs a helping hand to keep this solid slab o' Bacon in it's prime. A Little History When Ubuntu was started the competitive landscape was very different. We focused on being the best Linux distribution we could and making Ubuntu as powerful, reliable, and flexible as possible. Back then our primary competition was Microsoft with their Windows platform, but we could compete there by making ..
  • 2012-09-05 21:12
    Constructing digital strategies on behalf of clients makes one thing clear: Clients are often confused about what digital strategy is and how to actually develop one. When defining and developing strategy, marketers and agencies must ensure that their clients understand that strategy follows structure, it follows people, and it follows an idea. Second, they must make sure that clients get that profit and ROI are outcomes, not the strategy itself. If you're wondering what developing such a strategy looks like, here are the key steps. Plan and Assess First you have to define what you're hoping to achieve for your brand, product, or service.
  • 2012-09-05 12:00
    Social offers brands access to a real-time focus group of their customer's interests, actions, and behaviors. The information is all there for marketers to interpret and extract value.
  • 2012-09-05 08:17
    Quelques nouveautés dans l'interface de Google Analytics, ainsi qu'une nouvelle version du site officiel de présentation de l'outil. Nouveautés Google Analytics septembre 2012 Cet article écrit par Olivier Duffez a été publié sur Nouveautés Google Analytics septembre 2012
  • 2012-09-05 00:52
    The Northwestern University football program launched a social media homepage on Tuesday, one that brings together content and status updates from a number of networks for easy fan consumption. Not just a collection of Twitter handles and other links, school reps say the Northwestern Football Social Media Network is the first of its kind in college football. The hub features standard team-related news, but also embedded videos from Northwestern YouTube channels and short Tout clips that give fans candid, behind-the-scenes access. Live updating Facebook and Twitter feeds provide updates and link out for easy following.
  • 2012-09-01 10:44
    As some of you know, I am working on a server-side git management system called Gitano which currently only allows incoming authenticated connections via SSH . It then uses the presented SSH public key to identify the incoming user and grant permissions appropriately. A very good friend of mine has asked if I might be persuaded to support HTTPS access to Gitano. To do this, I need a way to identify incoming users. I was hoping to be able to use their SSH public keys to that end. I know it's possible to get an appropriately formatted (i.e. then openssl tool can read it) RSA public key out of an SSH public key (assuming it's an RSA one) by the simple expedient of ssh-keygen -e -m PKCS8 -f somekey.pub > somekey.pub.rsa however I am now stuck as to how to allow the user to use that public key to engage in establishing an SSL connection (for HTTPS ).
  • 2012-09-01 07:12
    The digital marketing professionals at SEO Positive are pleased to announce the acquisition of a new contract with top UK firm, BC Profiles.(PRWEB UK) 1 September 2012 Based in West Yorkshire, BC Profiles is a renowned name in the building products market, providing durable drainage systems and hardwearing roofing supplies at the most competitive prices. With over 20 years' experience in the ...
  • 2012-08-31 22:32
    People sometimes ask me to recommend a book for learning to program or a book on Python. If you want both in one book, i.e. to learn Python as a first programming language, take a look at Allen Downey's new book Think Python . If you're an experience programmer and just want a book on the specifics of Python, I'd recommend David Beazley's Python Essential Reference . These two books are at opposite ends of the scale. Downey's book is a very gentle introduction to programming. He takes the time to explain things that authors often don't realize need to be explained. Beazley's book is all about Python per se , not programming. The title says "reference," and it does make a good reference, but you could sit down and read through the first half of the book. The second half of the book really is more of a reference.
  • 2012-08-31 10:39
    Editor's note: This is a contributed post by Gabriela Jugaru , a tech enthusiast who is passionate about the mobile industry and gadgets. She's a technology entrepreneur, co-founder of UnlockUnit.com . The concept of augmented reality has been in existence for a few years now despite the fact that many users of mobile devices are under the impression that it is a new phenomenon. New technologies such as Google's augmented reality glasses which are the first computing eyewear are still in the testing phase. This leads mobile device users to believe augmented reality is new on the horizon. > (Image Source: SPRXmobile ) Even though Google Glasses have yet to be officially released, there are hundreds of augmented reality apps that you can get for your smartphone which work just as well. These apps can be used in everyday applications and even more so for educational purposes. Augmented reality apps are changing the way educational content is offered which helps to improve classroom learning through interaction. Let's take a look at the 5 best augmented reality apps for education that you can try out. 1. Google Sky Map This is an augmented reality app which makes learning about astronomy interesting and fun. Instead of looking ..
  • 2012-08-28 12:00
    Understanding the customer's purchase behavior, and mapping out a consistency program that helps trigger customer actions, will lead to a more relevant experience for the customer.