What can I say? The picture is worth a thousand words.
One click integration of Youtube playlists in Google Plus-
eg I just clicked and typed Linkin Park (ps I am in India)
Sorry Sean Parker.
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Check out the new Google Plus Hangout with Extras
http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1289346&ctx=go&hl=en
Hangouts with Extras is a simple and easy way to connect and collaborate with your colleagues in real time. With Hangouts with Extras you can:
Connect with multiple people simultaneously: With group video chat and web conferencing you can connect with multiple people around the world at the same time.
Share your screen: Ever look at something that you couldn’t quite put into words? Well, with screen sharing you give other people the ability to view what’s on your computer screen. You can choose an open window screen on your computer and give everyone in your meeting the ability to look at it. Learn More
Collaborate in real time: You can meet, share notes, and even work on documents at the same time.Learn More
For enterprises- you can throw out your video conferencing software and collaboration tools and get a new mobile app for free.
Small drawbacks in the Google Plus- lack of integration with Youtube (it is one way integration from youtube to hangouts but not the other way round fixed), lack of a whiteboard for sketches- (like again a shortcut to a google doc 🙂 ) or even bundling the record from your web cam to record your desktop.
Ultimately enterprises want to know how they can use this stuff for e-learning modules or webcasts.
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Alternative uses-
Check out NY Met Museum with Friends (thanks to Google Art Project)
Play Linkin Park Playlist (100 videos) with Friends btw. great graphic redesign of Youtube icons!! Now if we could only convince the Google Docs to get more integrated with Open Office or LibreOffice templates
or even set up a DJ table session using Google Hangouts. with Extras of course.
But as it stands it may be good to go for webcasts !!
I was just blown away by the price and functionality of the Kindle, including the browser and in built Wi-Fi- ( though the 40$ leather bag was a bit sneaky as an accessory, I mean seriously, dude)
And unlike some media technology companies (like Hulu,Spotify , even some Youtube channels)
who offer products to Asia only after a delayed lag, it is just as easy to order Kindle sitting from India.
Thank you Amazon!
and lastly some art to help prod those people who offer beta sites for limited countries even in this age.
Credit- Paul Mutant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmutant/4992725876/
I use Windows 7 on my laptop (it came pre-installed) and Ubuntu using the VMWare Player. What are the advantages of using VM Player instead of creating a dual-boot system? Well I can quickly shift from Ubuntu to Windows and bakc again without restarting my computer everytime. Using this approach allows me to utilize software that run only on Windows and run software like Rattle, the R data mining GUI, that are much easier installed on Linux.
However if your statistical software is on your Virtual Disk , and your data is on your Windows disk, you need a way to move data from Windows to Ubuntu.
The solution to this as per Ubuntu forums is –http://communities.vmware.com/thread/55242
Open My Computer, browse to the folder you want to share. Right-click on the folder, select Properties. Sharing tab. Select the radio button to “Share this Folder”. Change the default generated name if you wish; add a description if you wish. Click the Permissions button to modify the security settings of what users can read/write to the share.
On the Linux side, it depends on the distro, the shell, and the window manager.
Well Ubuntu makes it really easy to configure the Linux steps to move data within Windows and Linux partitions.
NEW UPDATE-
VMmare makes it easy to share between your Windows (host) and Linux (guest) OS
Step 1
and step 2
Do this
and
Start the Wizard
when you finish the wizard and share a drive or folder- hey where do I see my shared ones-
see this folder in Linux- /mnt/hgfs (bingo!)
Hacker HW – Make this folder //mnt/hgfs a shortcut in Places your Ubuntu startup
Hacker Hw 2-
Upload using an anon email your VM dark data to Ubuntu one
Delete VM
Purge using software XX
Reinstall VM and bring back backup
Note time to do this
-General Sharing in Windows
Just open the Network tab in Ubuntu- see screenshots below-
Windows will now ask your Ubuntu user for login-
Once Logged in Windows from within Ubuntu Vmware, this is what happens
You see a tab called “users on “windows username”- pc appear on your Ubuntu Desktop (see top right of the screenshot)
If you double click it- you see your windows path
You can now just click and drag data between your windows and linux partitions , just the way you do it in Windows .
So based on this- if you want to build decision trees, artifical neural networks, regression models, and even time series models for zero capital expenditure- you can use both Ubuntu/R without compromising on your IT policy of Windows only in your organization (there is a shortage of Ubuntu trained IT administrators in the enterprise world)
Revised Installation Procedure for utilizing both Ubuntu /R/Rattle data mining on your Windows PC.
Using VMWare to build a free data mining system in R, as well as isolate your analytics system (thus using both Linux and Windows without overburdening your machine)
First Time
- http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/4_0Download and Install
- http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/downloadDownload Only
- Create New Virtual Image in VM Ware Player
- Applications—–Terminal——sudo apt get-install R (to download and install)
- sudo R (to open R)
- Once R is opened type this —-install.packages(rattle)—– This will install rattle
- library(rattle) will load Rattle—–
- rattle() will open the GUI—-
Getting Data from Host to Guest VMNext Time
- Go to VM Player
- Open the VM
- sudo R in terminal to bring up R
- library(rattle) within R
- rattle()
At this point even if you dont know any Linux and dont know any R, you can create data mining models using the Rattle GUI (and time series model using E pack in the R Commander GUI) – What can Rattle do in data mining? See this slideshow-http://www.decisionstats.com/data-mining-with-r-gui-rattle-rstats/If Google Docs is banned as per your enterprise organizational IT policy of having Windows Explorer only- well you can see these screenshots http://rattle.togaware.com/rattle-screenshots.html
Operating systems of Robots may be the future cash cow of Microsoft , while the pirates of Silicon Valley fight fascinating cloudy wars! 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/#Product
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 beta (RDS4 beta) provides a wide range of support to help make it easy to develop robot applications. RDS4 beta includes a programming model that helps make it easy to develop asynchronous, state-driven applications. RDS4 beta provides a common programming framework that can be applied to support a wide variety of robots, enabling code and skill transfer.
RDS4 beta includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 beta Datasheet – English (PDF Format)
View the product video on Channel 9!
This release has extensive support for the Kinect sensor hardware throug the Kinect for Windows SDK allowing developers to create Kinect-enabled robots in the Visual Simulation Environment and in real life. Along with this release comes a standardized reference spec for building a Kinect-based robot.
Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) helps make it easier to handle asynchronous input and output by eliminating the conventional complexities of manual threading, locks, and semaphores. Lightweight state-oriented Decentralized Software Services (DSS) framework enables you to create program modules that can interoperate on a robot and connected PCs by using a relatively simple, open protocol.
Visual Programming Language (VPL) provides a relatively simple drag-and-drop visual programming language tool that helps make it easy to create robotics applications. VPL also provides the ability to take a collection of connected blocks and reuse them as a single block elsewhere in your program. VPL is also capable of generating human-readable C#.
DSS Manifest Editor (DSSME) provides a relatively simple creation of application configuration and distribution scenarios.
The DSS Log Analyzer tool allows you to view message flows across multiple DSS services. DSS Log Analyzer also allows you to inspect message details.
Visual Simulation Environment (VSE) provides the ability to simulate and test robotic applications using a 3D physics-based simulation tool. This allows developers to create robotics applications without the hardware. Sample simulation models and environments enable you to test your application in a variety of 3D virtual environments.
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