8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As an entrepreneur, you're most likely always on the lookout for new developments. Perhaps your customers are reporting that your site needs a mobile version so that they can visit it while they're on the go, or maybe you recently saw a competitor's site through your mobile device; it looked slick, and now you're feeling outclassed. The mobile web is burgeoning. Small businesses should be on top of this trend. How These Tools Work Most of the tools below have graphical user interfaces and copy-and-paste code blocks that can be installed on your site quite easily. These tools work by detecting the user agent of your site visitors, which is just fancy talk for finding out whether a visitor is using a regular web browser or a mobile web browser. 1. If you run an e-commerce store, even better! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. iWebKit
How Google Dominates Us by James Gleick In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy Simon and Schuster, 424 pp., $26.00 I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 416 pp., $27.00 The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan University of California Press, 265 pp., $26.95 Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc. by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky Telescope, 329 pp., $28.95 Tweets Alain de Botton, philosopher, author, and now online aphorist: The logical conclusion of our relationship to computers: expectantly to type “what is the meaning of my life” into Google. You can do this, of course. Google is where we go for answers. The business of finding facts has been an important gear in the workings of human knowledge, and the technology has just been upgraded from rubber band to nuclear reactor. Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. “That’s true,” said Brin. Not anymore. 1. 2. 3. 4.
From the Mule’s Mouth » Blog Archive » System Admins. R.I.P.? The advent of the cloud has brought a wave of changes in IT from the way we provision servers to the applications we use. At MuleSoft Google Apps provides email and office productivity services, Salesforce provide us with sales, support and product tracking, Marketo provides our marketing automation services and Atlassian gives us issue tracking and development productivity tools. All of these applications are hosted by our services providers, so what does our trusty sys admin do? A couple of years ago building an application meant building the infrastructure to support the application. Database As NoSQL providers gain widespread adoption some are now offering hosted versions making it super easy to add storage capabilities to your weekend application. MongoHQ – fully featured document- based storage. no fuss. CouchOne – Hosted CouchDB. Filesystem Cloud Files – from Rackspace, this service seems to be a very similar offering to Amazon S3. Messaging Email Follow: @rossmason, @mulejockey
Skróty klawiszowe | Jak to zrobić | Pomoc dla Firefoksa Lista najczęściej używanych skrótów klawiszowych w przeglądarce Mozilla Firefox. Jeśli w środowisku GNOME zostaną włączone skróty edytowania tekstu w stylu Emacsa, będą one działały także w Firefoksie. Gdy pojawi się konflikt między skrótami emacsowymi i domyślnymi skrótami Firefoksa, tak jak ma to miejsce w przypadku Ctrl + K), skrót z Emacsa zadziała wtedy, gdy kursor będzie znajdował się w polu tekstowym, takim jak pasek adresu lub wyszukiwania. Należy wówczas użyć alternatywnego skrótu, o ile taki jest wymieniony poniżej. Skróty klawiszowe można dostosowywać za pomocą dodatku Menu Wizard. Niektóre z tych skrótów działają, gdy wybrana karta jest aktywna. Możesz również korzystać ze skrótów klawiszowych w narzędziach dla programistów.
5 Years of YouTube Politics [INFOGRAPHIC] YouTube, which has quickly become the media site of record, has put together an infographic celebrating five years of political highs and lows. If someone important does anything wonderful, stupid or wonderfully stupid on camera — it is likely the site has the video. This is typically true of the political arena, as politicians often make gaffes while they're on the road, whether it's during bill debates or a casual conversation. YouTube and other video hosting sites provide a place where the public can find and watch hours of clips featuring elected officials. More than 500 U.S. candidates for office have official channels. Of course, it's not all fail videos and mistakes, YouTube has also played an increasingly large role in elections and the day-to-day operations of the White House. Take a look at how YouTube and politics have grown, from President Barack Obama's weekly addresses, CNN's debates in 2007 to the 2012 presidential announcement videos.
Content – an illustrated history | Philip Sheldrake UPDATE 1: Thank you to Wired, Mashable, @dmscott, @guykawaski and everyone else who has posted and shared our illustration :-) UPDATE 2: Now available in Slideshare format. UPDATE 3: Now available in 42MB hi-res jpeg format for printing or anything else you fancy. UPDATE 4: Now available in Spanish. UPDATE 5: Taptu CEO Mitch Lazar loves our style (and the Taptu reference no doubt!) UPDATE 6: The Slideshare format made the number 1 slot on Slideshare's homepage for part of the day on the 27th Jan, and accrued over 4,000 views in 48 hours. UPDATE 7: August 2011. No-one with a smattering of social Web literacy can fail to marvel at what's taken place in recent history. Who would have thought thirty years ago that the Internet would go mainstream and the World Wide Web would transform content business models (and many other business models come to that) so radically? Who would have thought ten years ago that consumers of media content could also, just as easily, be producers of media content?
Behind Google+'s Stealth March On Foursquare, Instagram, Gaming, Facebook, Your Life Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature--it's right there on the front page. It works with admirable simplicity: Push it, select the appropriate location which is spewed from Google Place's database, and tap "check in." Plenty is missing from this bare-bones service: There're no badges, no mayorships, no location-based deal vouchers in association with AmEx. in short, it's not a game. But that's not to say that Google won't implement some or all of these features or even surpass them--it's not short of coders, and if Google+ takes off then it would probably be mere weeks of work to get a gaming angle built in. Color/Instagram-challenging photo sharing Continuing Google's recent trend of oddly askew naming, there seems to be a new social photo app called Pool Party due to hit imminently. Very possibly, it wouldn't take much coder effort. Gaming versus everyone Questions versus Quora, Answers.com Facebook
Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students. As a follow-up to that experience, I've crafted the following list of search tools and tactics that every teacher and student should know. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. Wolfram Alpha is billed as a computational search engine and this is exactly what it does. Twurdy is search tool that automatically displays the readability of your search results for you. Twurdy with Pop - searches using Twurdy's most complex algorithm which includes looking up the popularity of words within the text. 10.