Decision Stats

From The Linked in Email

“This Friday, we will be adding several much-requested features to your group:

Discussion forums: Simple discussion spaces for you and your members. (You can turn discussions off in your management control panel if you like.)
Enhanced roster: Searchable list of group members.
Digest emails: Daily or weekly digests of new discussion topics which your members may choose to receive. (We will be turning digests on for all current group members soon, and prompting them to set to their own preference.)
Group home page: A private space for your members on LinkedIn. ”

This pitches LI and its 25 million members squarely into the Google groups, Yahoo Groups , List Groups category.
The additional server costs would be managed by the infusion of private equity earlier this year.
Competition just grew hotter.Web 2.0 just became cooler.

And the consumer. He is loving it.

A great example of a central bank using technology is Reserve Bank of India, whose banking ombudsman has an online form that is spam -proof and hack proof.

You can see the form here-

https://reservebank.org.in/BO/compltindex.htm

The screen-shot shows the simple nature of the form, which has very simple drop downs for segmenting, adequate linking to relevant policy for easy checklist of complaint.

So if your bank hid an extra line in the fine print , or deducted an extra emi as additional charges or just plain acted as an John Hancock (Dont call him that),

then be grateful you are in India.

Not many Olympic medals here, but we do try and keep a honest financial system. No Sub-Crime crises, no billion dollar bailout, while millions of children are denied insurance in the name of pork barrel project. That dude Gandhi is still relevant.

You just like to watch videos?

Latest shows from http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com/default.aspx

(hope this doesnot crash MY server, Jai Hanuman

Uopdate- it didnt)

So here it is.

Another Blog monetization method AND adding great videos for free to your blog AND not crashing your servers.The content site is yourBusinessChannel.com. They use distributed servers to counter the big Video Sites like You tube,this keeps server costs low, and content distribution high, nice idea for business video niche.

You are a blogger too eh,

Sign up here pardner

Here is the Video content I was talking about . Its from YourBusinessChannel and uses streaming video so should work without crashing my server.

Here goes (Jai Hanuman ! for luck)

Peter Dalgard just announced R .2.7.2 . Very professional software like very transparent release.

Quoted from R -Announce Email

“”This is intended as a wrap-up release containing all known fixes to issues with the 2.7.x series.
See the full list of changes below.

You can get it (in a short while) from

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.7.2.tar.gz

or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.

NEW FEATURES

o    sprintf() returns elements of the result in UTF-8 when the
format or any character input has a corresponding element
declared as UTF-8.  Similarly for paste(), elements of the
result are in UTF-8 when any input to that element is declared
as UTF-8.

o    axis() has new arguments ‘col.ticks’ and ‘lwd.ticks’ to allow
the colour and line width of ticks to be set separately from
that of the line (e.g. to set one or the other to transparent
or zero width).

o    legend() has a new argument ‘box.col’ to set the colour of the
enclosing box.

o    legend() gains a ‘xpd’ argument to make it easier to place a
legend in the margins or outer margins.

o    stripchart() now passes ‘…’ to title() (as well as to
plot.default() and axis()). (Wish of PR#12202)

o    help.search() has new argument ’searchEngine’ to go
directly to the search form: this is needed by users of
Firefox 3 to workaround a bug in interpreting the search
results pages.

BUG FIXES
Read the rest of this entry »

You need feedback. To improve your process.To improve your client satisfaction.To know what your employees think.

But the Boss did not sanction any budget. He never studied market research in business school.

Help is here. A website called www.surveymonkey.com

Very easy ,award wining design for professional surveys. For free .

For the pros ,the paid version. But the free version is very very good.

Dont believe me, huh 

Take a 2 min survey here.Took me 3 mins to register,make survey. For free.

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A Break from Reading Blogs

Just doing whether server  can support video traffic and how good is wordpress for inserting  you tube content.

This is a prelude to business content in a video format.

Update - Embedded HTML  to You Tube video didnt work (see link from A break from Reading Blogs). I either need to review file ,folder properties on my server or it past the HTML embed code using video option of Wordpress 2.5 in a different manner. Or it wont work till experimentation with streaming video begins.

So I posted the video on www.analyticbridge.com . Thats a fun site for analytics related people with networking, forums,recruiters,books,video tutorials, groups of lots of kinds……its based on the ning.com format but the founder spends so much energy in it it is upto 2400 members now. 2400 member many to many social networking for data mining and analytics professionals is a real gem.

Yahoo Classic  mail users should notice a small change. Instead of search email function, they have just a search web function. Thus when you search your inbox, it will be called a web search for Yahoo.Or you end up doing a free search.

Dont belive me, check your yahoo inbox now.

Oh Jerry, the things  you need to do,

to get the monkeys off your back in Yahoo

Didnt find the details ? Check the tag and category on this post here-http://iwannacrib.com/2008/08/is-yahoo-double-counting-searches-for-market-share/

Liked the post ??? Then forward it ;)

Didnt like it. Check the new video section for a breather.

The modified Ohri Framework tries to mash the following

0) HTTPS rather than HTTP

1) Encryption and Compression Software for data transfer (like PGP)

2) Open source stats package like R in cloud computer (like Amazon EC2 or Rightscale  with hadoop)

3) GUI to make it easy to use (like Rattle GUI and PMML Package)

4) A Data Mining Open Source Package (like Rapid Miner or Splunk)

5) RIA Graphics (like Silverlight )

6) Secure Output to cloud computing devices (like Google Docs)

7) Billing or Priced at simple cost plus X % (where simple cost can be like 0.85 cent /per instance hour or more depending on usage and X should not be more than 15 %)

8) Open source sharing of all code to ensure community sandboxing

Intention is to remove fixed computing costs of servers and desktops to normal PC’s (Ubuntu Linux ) with (Firefox or IE Explorer ) access to secure data mining on demand .

On tap demand mining to anyone in the world without going for the big license purchases/renewals (software expenses) or big hardware purchases (which become obsolete in 2-3 years).