April 2021

Creating Innovators: Why America's Education System Is Obsolete - Forbes
Interesting article.
FiveSecondTest
The five second test is a simple usability test to optimize the clarity of your designs and improve conversion rates by measuring people's first impressions.

Try Ruby - Code School
This is a famous course written by a really cool quirky Ruby celebrity (known as _why -- the underscore is part of the name). You might find it useful!

Free source code hosting - Bitbucket
Bitbucket is a alternative to GitHub. It's very similar. But the one big different is that even Public repositories are available free.

Gamification: Insights And Emerging Trends
I have been active in the field of gamification for the past couple of years, working with companies like Badgeville, HealthTap, Gigya, Basis and others on leveraging game mechanics for end user behavior measurement, scoring and shaping. Last week, I participated on an investor panel of at VatorSplash’s Gamification Summit and the group shared several noteworthy points:
RubyIdioms - tokland - Ruby conventions and idioms - My personal repository for code and documentation - Google Project Hosting
Very nice list of idioms

Churn, Retention, and Reengaging Customers
Churn is one of the most important metrics for today’s startups. It's also the most misunderstood. Learn how to understand churn properly for your business.

Rails for Zombies - Code School
Codeschool courses are supposed to be excellent. This is another resource that is available if you want to accelerate your learning even more!
Seth Ladd's Blog: Ruby, Rails, OpenID, and Google Integration for the Busy Developer
Useful info about how to authenticate from Rails to Google

Splunk Product Tour - Machine Data Collection | Splunk
Splunk Enterprise is the fastest way to aggregate, analyze and get answers from your data with the help of machine learning and real-time visibility.

Splunk Storm | Cloud Data Analysis and Log Management
Data and log file analysis
Information versus Telecom
If you think that the Internet is important because it's a network you're missing the point. Today's telecommunications industry exists in defiance of all we've learned about "information" in the last 100 years. In 1897 the British Copyright office warned us about the danger of creating scarcity by taking our abundance and converting it to private property. In 1949 Claude Shannon gave us a science of "Information" that helped us understand the distinction between bits and what we do with them. The generativity of today's Internet demonstrates the power of the idea. We need to build on this ...

Top 10 social media dashboard tools
One of the things we often hear from nonprofits and social enterprises is: How do I manage the torrent of social media conversations coming at me? The answer used to be: Painstakingly and one conversation at a time. But a new crop of social media tools aims to tamp down the social media gusher by letting you update, monitor, manage and maintain several communication outlets at once.
Supreme Decision | iCivics
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Open Source Android (2D or 3D) Game Engine for Android Developers Plus - Cute Android Apps | Open Source Android Applications | Android Book | Android Phone - Cute Android
Open Source Android (2D or 3D) Game Engine for Android Developers Plus - Cute Android Apps | Open Source Android Applications | Android Book | Android Phone - Cute Android URL: http://www.cuteandroid.com/open-source-android-2d-or-3d-game-engine-for-android-developers-plus Type: link Domain: cuteandroid.com
Black-Wood-Picture-Frame - PhotoFrames.Net
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