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and unlike Scoble, my only wish is they fix the badge page
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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 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
Just an announcement from The Document Foundation (which has notable supporters including Google etc at http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/)
With both Google Docs and Libre Office – it seems like a flank attack on Office productivity software (from the cloud and from the PC/tablet ground)- however Microsoft’s Sharepoint is much better in collobration compared to the Google Docs and it has huge number of templates (more than the 38 extensions and 13 templates right now at the links below (just like WordPress has huge number of themes compared to Blogger)
Anyways, check out- it is an interesting start
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/
Extension Releases
….
and http://templates.libreoffice.org/
Another xing bang API from the boyz in Mountain View. (entry by invite only) But it is free and you can test your stuff on a MySQL db =10 GB
Database as a service ? (Maybe)— while Amazon was building fires (and Fire)
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https://code.google.com/apis/sql/index.html
What is Google Cloud SQL?
Google Cloud SQL is a web service that provides a highly available, fully-managed, hosted SQL storage solution for your App Engine applications.
What are the benefits of using Google Cloud SQL?
You can access a familiar, highly available SQL database from your App Engine applications, without having to worry about provisioning, management, and integration with other Google services.
How much does Google Cloud SQL cost?
We will not be billing for this service in 2011. We will give you at least 30 days’ advance notice before we begin billing in the future. Other services such as Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage etc. that you use with Google Cloud SQL may have their own payment terms, and you need to pay for them. Please consult their documentation for details.
Currently you are limited to the three instance sizes. What if I need to store more data or need better performance?
In the Limited Preview period, we only have three sizes available. If you have specific needs, we would like to hear from you on our google-cloud-sqldiscussion board.
When is Google Cloud SQL be out of Limited Preview?
We are working hard to make the service generally available.We don’t have a firm date that we can announce right now.
Do you support all the features of MySQL?
In general, Google Cloud SQL supports all the features of MySQL. The following are lists of all the unsupported features and notable differences that Google Cloud SQL has from MySQL.
Unsupported Features:
Unsupported MySQL statements:
LOAD DATA INFILESELECT ... INTO OUTFILESELECT ... INTO DUMPFILEINSTALL PLUGIN .. SONAME ...UNINSTALL PLUGINCREATE FUNCTION ... SONAME ...Unsupported SQL Functions:
LOAD_FILE()Notable Differences:
--hex-blob option with mysqldump.Although this is not a required flag when you are using a local MySQL server instance and the MySQL command line, it is required if you want to import any databases with binary data into your Google Cloud SQL instance. For more information, see Importing Data.drop command. For more information, see SQL DROP statement.tablename with the name of the table to convert:
ALTER tablename ENGINE = InnoDB;
If you have a mysqldump file where all your tables are in MyISAM format, you can convert them by piping the file through a sed script:
mysqldump --databases database_name [-u username -p password] --hex-blob database_name | sed 's/ENGINE=MyISAM/ENGINE=InnoDB/g' > database_file.sql
Warning: You should not do this if your mysqldump file contains the mysql schema. Those files must remain in MyISAM.
| Resource | Limits from External Requests | Limits from Google App Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Queries Per Second (QPS) | 5 QPS | No limit |
| Maximum Request Size | 16 MB | |
| Maximum Response Size | 16 MB | |
Google App Engine Limits
Google App Engine applications are also subject to additional Google App Engine quotas and limits. Requests from Google App Engine applications to Google Cloud SQL are subject to the following time limits:
App Engine-specific quotas and access limits are discussed on the Google App Engine Quotas page.
After a few hiccups, Facebook has gotten the notifications scrolling back and much better than Google Plus. This gives it a cleaner advantage in social gaming interface – even for the same game. and of course many more gamers!
Clearly the games stream is much more efficiently designed in FB, probably because they need to earn some ad revenue- that forces you to think more optimally for space. FB interface is also bug free compared to the constant error in G+ (error changing circle membership– ideally I wanted to create one gaming circle for all gaming friends)
See this – not just compare the games stream/notifications only
vs
DECISION STATS 