Wished something similar was availble some two- three years ago! Disclosure, this is run by my friends
This post was copied verbatim from: Matt Cutts’ website/blog. It was originally written in 2007, but remains as valid as ever. Question: Why copy? / Answer: Why re-invent the wheel? Question: Am I in violation of copyright?/ Answer: Possibly. As there are no copyright or copyleft notice, I assume it is safe until I get a letter from Matt or his lawyers. Enjoy! Let’s dissect the parts of a URL (uniform resource locator). I’ll tell you how we typically refer to different parts of a URL at Google. Here’s a valid URL which has lots of components: http://video.google.co.uk:80/videoplay?docid=-7246927612831078230&hl=en#00h02m30s
I was intrigued by MSN messenger (or whatever it was called back in the late 90s) – this was before mobile phones became a reality (in Nigeria) and sms the cheapest and preferred means of one-sided and multi sided conversations. I thought yahoo messenger was cool – yes, I, like you had a yahoo account and thus a free yahoo messenger. Then came Google Talk and Skype. (this chronology is as experienced by the author and not necessarily the chronology of release of these products).
Aspirations—and current expectations—for IT have never been higher. Executives continue to set exacting demands for IT support of business processes, and they see an even larger role for IT in a competitive environment increasingly shaken up by technology disruptions. These are among the results of our sixth annual business technology survey, where we asked executives across all functions, industries, and regions about their companies’ use of, expectations for, and spending on IT. Looking ahead, executives expect IT to create new platforms to support innovation and growth, help guide strategy with data and advanced analytics, and stay on top of possible new roles for mobile devices. For IT leaders, the good news is that along with these higher expectations, most respondents also see a greater willingness to spend more on IT. Read the rest of this piece on the McKinsey Quarterly’s website (requires login).
Original posted to: The CIVICUS Blog It’s been a great two days and I am excited to get the third underway. Yet it saddens me to note that with the third day comes the end of the CIVICUS World Assembly, the largest gathering of civil society in the world. An unintended consequence?
Getting refused a visa isn’t anything I look forward to, so I always avoided applying for one except when I have strong application, one I am certain will stand the stress and strain test it might be subjected to.
Its lunch time at the launch of Google Engage in South Africa – and I thought to share tips on gate crashing registration/invitation only events.
These worked!
Here is my first post from my Blackberry OS 6 device. Hmm… I love the increasing ubiquity. Quite easy to use, I miss the read more button though, but I really like this! The editor looks like an ancient text editor, but it works! Love, Oluwakorede
Its been one full day since my invite to Google+ worked. Well, the invites never really arrived, despite the persistence of a good friend and brother of mine, who against all odds sent the invite a record two (maybe three) times. I also left my name and email address several times on the Google+ homepage for considerations for access once the field test is over or has been expanded to take in more testers. I secretly prayed, this would not be another long test like was with Gmail which was in beta for how many years…?
First published as: Demystifying Web Analytics Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website.
I stumbled on an article on Techcrunch announcing a cool maths tool, moments ago! Its an announcement I wished happened ten years ago, and one that makes me think Physics and Maths Majors in colleges and unis students today are lucky! Read original article by: Erick Schonfeld (Techcrunch) One of my favorite demos at Disrupt NYC was from an education startup called Desmos that is reinventing the whiteboard to make it browser-based and interactive (watch their Disrupt video below). One of the killer features of the Desmos Whiteboard is an interactive calculator that graphs equations as you write them. (Founder Eli Luberoff was a double math and physics major at Yale). Desmos has now taken that and rewritten it as a standalone online graphing calculator. It instantly draws the equations as you update them, it’s free, browser-based, color-coded, and you can share any graph with a bitly link.
(Preferred title: What the hell is web analytics?) Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website. Let’s start with an example. You own a shoe shop, and you want at the end of every month, quarter or year to know stuffs like:
Read: Civil Society Statement to the e-G8 and G8 I have always seen the Internet as a free space. One where you can be all you want and do all you want. My believe of the Internet’s freedom is underscored by the virtual absence of any regulatory body besides ICANN and the regional NICs regulating the assignments of public IP addresses and domain names – and even these statutory agencies and bodies do not necessarily have daily contacts with the vast majority of the internet populace like the government of a country will normally have with its people.
I am a big fan of Joomla! – but I am beginning to find Drupal a more flexible and perhaps powerful CMS tool in the hands of a developer , who is smart enough not to consider building his own CMS software from scratch. One such flexibility comes from the user permissions system in each of this software.
Young people from across all walks in Nigeria are bringing a mix of skills, vigilance and brute determination to the tables this election season. As Nigeria decides (#NigeriaDecides) who of the mass of candidates should be handed the mantle of leadership across state and federal legislative and executive institutions, unlike ever before, young people are involved! This time not as tools in the hands of the riggers and marauders who have in time past ensured elections are far from free and ultimately unfair. Young people have voiced their unhappiness of foisted and underperforming leadership – which has introduced several new words into the Nigerian collective vocabulary, as ‘god fatherism’ – and elected to ensure their voices are heard by getting involved in the electioneering process.
The rise of citizen journalism is no doubt on the increase and with improving technologies it becomes easier to start up as a citizen journalist. Some mainstream media companies have not only identified and supported citizen journalism, they have increasingly institutionalised this kind of journalism – a case in point is CNN’s iReport platform, which against all odds has prevailed and is getting stronger by the day. Technologies such as phone cameras and mobile internet (again on phones) have increased the ubiquity of news gathering and sharing whilst platforms/tools like WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and Discqus have increased the reach of citizen journalists and thus the chances of being heard.
Here are urls to collaboratively taken notes: How this works: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1lOye5S3xi4nofeP2ocXIkCP8FuYvwC0NHuos8MhbZ5k&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day three: 19th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZODNiZWVkZWYtNDQyNC00NzdjLWJiYWItMDIzYjE1Nzc2ZGJi&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day two: 18th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZOGUyOTQ2YjAtY2RiYi00MWVkLTlkMmUtMzEzYTc3ZjkyOTBl&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day one: 17th March 2011 – https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZNGRhNGYyNTItNWIwZC00OTk2LTgxMTQtZjgwOWUzNTY4MGZk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
The Octalysis framework is perhaps the most complete framework for grounding gamification design efforts in reality. In this paper, I present the framework and opine
Yesterday, I told the barista politely that I am going to do something about our trade deficit. The back story: I buy coffee from her,
If you’ve ever wished for a tool that could cut through the chaos and help you focus on what really matters—understanding and applying the information—you’re not alone. That’s where NotebookLM steps in.
Do we do work for the sake of it and its direct benefits (ability to buy things and by a stretch the ability to create wealth) or as a means to live a fulfilled life (where each is free to define fulfilment)? A position I might have maintained given “my confusion” is to maintain a hybrid view of work. I seize or attempt to seize every opportunity to create something that brings me fulfilment (I have been known to go as far as crossing boundaries of organisational hierarchy to get stuff done and apologise afterwards rather than wait endlessly for permission) and sometimes, too, I simply toe the line – in the hope that something great emerges – especially one that does emerge despite our efforts to the contrary.
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