Just went to YOUTUBE to check the new apps they are rolling out.
It works! You can create art , cartoons, tutorials, videos without needing anything but a browser.
http://www.youtube.com/create/GoAnimate helped me create a @youtube video/animated movie at
Not bad for 5 minutes of work from 0 to finish.
An interesting development is Amazon’s Cloud Player (though Cannonical may be credited for thinking of the idea first for Ubuntu One). Since Ubuntu One is dependent on the OS (and not the browser) this makes Amazon \s version more of a mobile Cloud Player (as it seems to be an Android app and not an app that is independent of any platform, os or browser.
Since Android and Ubuntu are both Linux flavors, I am not sure if Cannonical has an exiting mobile app for Ubuntu One. Apple’s cloud plans also seems kind of ambiguous compared to Microsoft (Azure et al)
I guess we will have to wait for a true Cloud player.
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=tsm_1_tw_s_dm_liujd5?node=2658409011&tag=cloudplayer-20
How to Get Started with Cloud Drive and Cloud Player
Step 1. Add music to Cloud Drive
Purchase a song or album from the Amazon MP3 Store and click the Save to Amazon Cloud Drive button when your purchase is complete. Your purchase will be saved for free.
Step 2. Play your music in Cloud Player for Web
Click the Launch Amazon Cloud Player button to start listening to your purchase. Add more music from your library by clicking theUpload to Cloud Drive button from the Cloud Player screen. Start with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage. Upgrade to 20 GB with an MP3 album purchase (see details). Use Cloud Player to browse and search your library, create playlists, and download to your computer.
Step 3. Enjoy your music on the go with Cloud Player for Android
Install the Amazon MP3 for Android app to use Cloud Player on your Android device. Shop the full Amazon MP3 store, save your purchases to Cloud Drive, stream your Cloud Player library, and download to your device right from your Android phone or tablet.
compare this with
A cloud-enabled music store
The Ubuntu One Music Store is integrated with the Ubuntu One service making it a cloud-enabled digital music store. All purchases are transferred to your Ubuntu One personal cloud for safe storage and then conveniently downloaded to your synchronizing computers. And don’t worry aboutgoing over your storage quota with music purchases. You won’t need to pay more for personal cloud storage of music purchased from the Ubuntu One Music Store.
An Ubuntu One subscription is required to purchase music from the Ubuntu One Music Store. Choose from either the free 2 GB option or the 50 GB plan for $10 (USD) per month to synchronize more of your digital life.
5 regional stores and more in the works
- The Ubuntu One Music requires Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and offers digital music through five regional stores.
- The US, UK, and Germany stores offer music from all major and independent labels.
- The EU store serves most of the EU member countries (2) and offers music from fewer major label artists.
- The World store offers only independent label music and serves the countries not covered by the other regional stores.
A highly optimized blog post or web content can get you a lot of attention just like Rebecca Black’s video (provided it passes through the new quality metrics \change*/ in the Search Engine)
But if the underlying content is weak, or based on a shoddy understanding of the content-it can drive lots of horrid comments as well as ensuring that bad word of mouth is spread about the content or you/despite your hard work.
An example of this is copy and paste journalism especially in technology circles, where even a bigger Page Ranked website /blog can get away with scraping or stealing content from a lower page ranked website (or many websites) after adding a cursory “expert comment”. This is also true when someone who is basically a corporate communication specialist (or PR -public relations) person is given a techinical text and encourage to write about it without completely understanding it.
A mild technical defect in the search engine algorithm is that it does not seem to pay attention to when the content was published, so the copying website or blog actually can get by as fresher content even if it is practically has 90% of the same words). The second flaw is over punishment or manual punishment of excessive linking – this can encourage search optimization minded people to hoard links or discourage trackbacks.
A free internet is one which promotes free sharing of content and does not encourage stealing or un-authorized scraping or content copying. Unfortunately current search engine optimization can encourage scraping and content copying without paying too much attention to origin of the words.
In addition the analytical rigor by which search algorithms search your inboxes (as in search all emails for a keyword) or media rich sites (like Youtube) are quite on a different level of quality altogether. The chances of garbage results are much more while searching for media content and/or emails.
also expecting some #Rstats entries (open source!)
from https://code.google.com/soc/
Visit the Google Summer of Code 2011 site for more details about the program this year.
For a detailed timeline and further information about the program, review our Frequently Asked Questions.
About Google Summer of Code
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To learn more about the program, peruse our 2011 Frequently Asked Questions page. You can also subscribe to the Google Open Source Blog or the Google Summer of Code Discussion Group to keep abreast of the latest announcements.
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Well I have played with software (mostly but not exclusively) analytical, and I admire the zeal and energy of both open source and closed source practioners- all having relatively decent people executing strategies their investors or owners tell them to do (closed source) or motivated by their own self sense of cool-change the world-openness (open source)
What I dont get is people stealing open source code- repackaging without adding major contributions- claiming patent pending stuff- and basically making money by creating CLOSED source from the open source software-(as open source is yet to break the enterprise glass cieling)
you are either open source or you arent.
bi- sexuality is okay. bi-codability is not.
Next time you see someone stealing some community’s open source code- refer to this excellent link.
But, we cannot act on our own if we do not hold copyright. Thus, be sure to find out who the copyright holders of the software are before reporting a violation.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
If you think you see a violation of the GNU GPL, LGPL, AGPL, or FDL, the first thing you should do is double-check the facts:
If there seems to be a real violation, the next thing you need to do is record the details carefully:
The more of these details that you have, the easier it is for the copyright holder to pursue the matter.
Once you have collected the details, you should send a precise report to the copyright holder of the packages that are being misused. The copyright holder is the one who is legally authorized to take action to enforce the license.
If the copyright holder is the Free Software Foundation, please send the report to <license-violation@gnu.org>. It’s important that we be able to write back to you to get more information about the violation or product. So, if you use an anonymous remailer, please provide a return path of some sort. If you’d like to encrypt your correspondence, just send a brief mail saying so, and we’ll make appropriate arrangements.
Note that the GPL, and other copyleft licenses, are copyright licenses. This means that only the copyright holders are empowered to act against violations. The FSF acts on all GPL violations reported on FSF copyrighted code, and we offer assistance to any other copyright holder who wishes to do the same.
But, we cannot act on our own if we do not hold copyright. Thus, be sure to find out who the copyright holders of the software are before reporting a violation.
a cool sounding software- yet again by the guys from California, this one enables to zip and unzip Big Data much much faster
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356735
and
https://code.google.com/p/snappy/
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, Snappy compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or more.
Snappy is widely used inside Google, in everything from BigTable and MapReduce to our internal RPC systems. (Snappy has previously been referred to as “Zippy” in some presentations and the likes.)
For more information, please see the README. Benchmarks against a few other compression libraries (zlib, LZO, LZF, FastLZ, and QuickLZ) are included in the source code distribution.
| Introduction |
| ============ |
| Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum |
| compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, |
| it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, |
| compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster |
| for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to |
| 100% bigger. (For more information, see “Performance”, below.) |
| Snappy has the following properties: |
| * Fast: Compression speeds at 250 MB/sec and beyond, with no assembler code. |
| See “Performance” below. |
| * Stable: Over the last few years, Snappy has compressed and decompressed |
| petabytes of data in Google’s production environment. The Snappy bitstream |
| format is stable and will not change between versions. |
| * Robust: The Snappy decompressor is designed not to crash in the face of |
| corrupted or malicious input. |
| * Free and open source software: Snappy is licensed under the Apache license, |
| version 2.0. For more information, see the included COPYING file. |
| Snappy has previously been called “Zippy” in some Google presentations |
| and the like. |
| Performance |
| =========== |
| Snappy is intended to be fast. On a single core of a Core i7 processor |
| in 64-bit mode, it compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at |
| about 500 MB/sec or more. (These numbers are for the slowest inputs in our |
| benchmark suite; others are much faster.) In our tests, Snappy usually |
| is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, FastLZ, QuickLZ, |
| etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios. |
| Typical compression ratios (based on the benchmark suite) are about 1.5-1.7x |
| for plain text, about 2-4x for HTML, and of course 1.0x for JPEGs, PNGs and |
| other already-compressed data. Similar numbers for zlib in its fastest mode |
| are 2.6-2.8x, 3-7x and 1.0x, respectively. More sophisticated algorithms are |
| capable of achieving yet higher compression rates, although usually at the |
| expense of speed. Of course, compression ratio will vary significantly with |
| the input. |
| Although Snappy should be fairly portable, it is primarily optimized |
| for 64-bit x86-compatible processors, and may run slower in other environments. |
| In particular: |
| – Snappy uses 64-bit operations in several places to process more data at |
| once than would otherwise be possible. |
| – Snappy assumes unaligned 32- and 64-bit loads and stores are cheap. |
| On some platforms, these must be emulated with single-byte loads |
| and stores, which is much slower. |
| – Snappy assumes little-endian throughout, and needs to byte-swap data in |
| several places if running on a big-endian platform. |
| Experience has shown that even heavily tuned code can be improved. |
| Performance optimizations, whether for 64-bit x86 or other platforms, |
| are of course most welcome; see “Contact”, below. |
| Usage |
| ===== |
| Note that Snappy, both the implementation and the interface, |
| is written in C++. |
| To use Snappy from your own program, include the file “snappy.h” from |
| your calling file, and link against the compiled library. |
| There are many ways to call Snappy, but the simplest possible is |
| snappy::Compress(input, &output); |
| and similarly |
| snappy::Uncompress(input, &output); |
| where “input” and “output” are both instances of std::string. |
Here are some cool games I like to play on my Ubuntu 10.10 – I think they run on most other versions of Linux as well. 1) Open Arena– First person Shooter– This is like Quake Arena- very very nice graphics and good for playing for a couple of hours while taking a break. It is available here- http://openarena.ws/smfnews.php ideally if you have a bunch of gaming friends, playing on a local network or internet is quite mind blowing entertaining. And it’s free! 
2) Armagetron– This is based on the TRON game of light cycles-It is available here at http://www.armagetronad.net/ or you can use Synaptic packages manager for all the games mentioned here 
If violence or cars is not your stuff and you like puzzles like Sudoko, well just install the application Sudoko from http://gnome-sudoku.sourceforge.net/ Also recommended for people of various ages as it has multiple levels. 
If you ever liked Pinball play the open source version from download at http://pinball.sourceforge.net/ Alternatively you can go to Ubuntu Software Centre>Games>Arcade>Emilio>Pinball and you can also build your own pinball if you like the game well enough. 
5) Pacman/Njam- Clone of the original classic game. Downloadable from http://www.linuxcompatible.org/news/story/pacman_for_linux.html 
6) Gweled– This is free clone version of Bejeweled. It now has a new website at http://gweled.org/ 
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gweled-Download-3449.html
Gweled is a GNOME version of a popular PalmOS/Windows/Java game called “Bejeweled” or “Diamond Mine”. The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left. Here are some key features of “Gweled”: · exact same gameplay as the commercial versions · SVG original graphics
7) Hearts – For this card game classis you can use Ubuntu software to install the package or go to http://linuxappfinder.com/package/gnome-hearts 
8) Card Games- KPatience has almost 14 card games including solitaire, and free cell. 
9) Sauerbraten -First person shooter with good network play, edit maps capabilities. You can read more here- http://sauerbraten.org/ 
10) Tetris-KBlocks Tetris is the classic game. If you like classic slow games- Tetris is the best. and I like the toughest Tetris game -Bastet http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html 
Even an xkcd toon for it 
DECISION STATS 