SaleSpider | Business Social Media Network Russell Rothstein, the chief executive officer of SaleSpider.com, a business social network, realized the Internet's potential for connecting business owners with much sought-after sales leads. His web site currently has more than 750,000 members and is currently undergoing a global expansion. Business NewsDaily interviewed Rothstein about the challenges SMBs face today as well as the opportunities SaleSpider provides for them. BusinessNewsDaily: How did you come up with the idea of SaleSpider? Russell Rothstein: Prior to launching SaleSpider in 2006, I was the founder and CEO of NorthPath, a sales outsourcing company offering lead generation and field sales outsourcing to leading technology companies. My team and I quickly learned that we were attracting an unexpected demographic: Rather than sales professionals, the vast majority of people who signed up to access the sales leads were, surprisingly, SMBs and entrepreneurs. BND: In the 1990s you founded Bizware. Rothstein:
The iPhone SDK: APIs Apple Didn't Want You to Know About | O'Reilly Media by Jonathan Zdziarski 03/25/2008 Author's Note: Special thanks to Jay Freeman (Saurik) who has done remarkable work in updating the open source tool chain to support iPhone v2.0 With the release of Apple's SDK for building iPhone applications, many have plunged head-first into this new platform for the first time, with the new-found excitement that comes in discovering something entirely new and innovative. A little bit of history is required to fully appreciate this debacle. By fall 2007, the rest of the iPhone community had tuned in. Jump ahead to March 2008. With the introduction of the Apple SDK, developers gauged its functionality based on a comparison to the unofficial, open source SDK released last August. iPhone Open Application Development By Jonathan Zdziarski In this clear and concise book, Jonathan Zdziarski -- one of the original hackers of the iPhone -- explains how developers can design third-party software that will run on this device. Using Private APIs in the Apple SDK
sandip chitale's blog I have been hacking Firefox. Here is a simple iPhone mode add-on. This is very basic mode. You can type an address in the address field and hit ENTER. You can use the Reload button to reload the page. You can use Go Back and Go Forward buttons to navigate the history. Any URL can be invoked in the iPhone mode from command line by using the -iphone command line argument. > firefox -iphone URL Use the File:OpenLocation in iPhone Mode... menu item to launch the iPhone mode. Talk about recursive :) Download the add-on. Download the NetBeans 6.1 project. DISCLAIMER: This add-on is experimental.
6 clés pour comprendre comment vivent les ados sur les réseaux sociaux Dans son livre, la chercheuse danah boyd explore la vie des jeunes sur Internet. Nous lui avons demandé des pistes pour comprendre leur comportement. Après dix années de travail auprès de jeunes Américains, danah boyd, blogueuse sans majuscule, chercheuse chez Microsoft Research et professeure associée à l’université de New York, publie un livre pour éclairer l’usage que les adolescents ont des réseaux sociaux. It’s complicated : the social lives of networked teens (disponible gratuitement en anglais, en attendant une traduction en français) veut expliquer aux parents ce que font concrètement leurs enfants sur Internet, s’attachant à démonter plusieurs fantasmes et à nuancer les risques les plus couramment évoqués (cyberaddiction, perte d’identité, disparition de leur vie privée, harcèlement, mauvaises rencontres). It’s complicated, du nom d'un statut Facebook, illustre toutes les facettes de cette vie en ligne qu’ont ces adolescents aux yeux rivés sur leur smartphone. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Great app a day Epic TV Show Mistakes Top 100 Weirdest AnimalsMost of us do not know about the existence of these 100 animal species. The pictures compiled in thi... Epic TV Show Mistakes99% of mistakes that are made on television you are unaware of. Here is a collection of subtle, but ... iPhoneのGPSを使った世界規模のMMORPG『Parallel Kingdom』が来月スタート - iPhone・iPod touch ラボ iPhoneやAndroid向けのGPSを利用したMMORPG(多人数同時参加型オンラインゲーム)、「Parallel Kingdom – Age of Gathering」が、3月28日より開始されるようです。 このゲームの特徴は、プレーヤー同士の対戦、アイテムの収集というMMORPGの機能に加え、携帯端末に内蔵されているGPSを利用しているという点です。 GPSによってプレーヤーの現在位置を特定し、その情報を元にゲーム内のプレーヤーの位置を決めます。つまり、現実の世界での移動がそのままバーチャルな世界に反映されます。 現実の世界で歩いていてると、仲間のプレーヤーに遭遇したり敵に攻撃される、ということが起きるようです。 下の動画はそのコンセプトを分かりやすくデモンストレーションしています。 昨年10月に、おそらくテスト運用的な意味で第一作(ステージ)となる『Parallel Kingdom – Age of Exploration』が地域を限定してスタート。 日本のApp Storeでは公開されていませんが、iPhone用のアプリもリリースされています。 現実の地図上にプレーヤーが配置され、チャットや対戦が行えるようです。 コンセプトからアルファ・バージョンの完成までわずか2ヶ月というスピードで開発。 非常に面白いアイデアだと思うのですが、ある程度プレーヤーの密度がある場所でないと楽しめない可能性があります。
Une nouvelle application pour empêcher son adolescent d'ignorer ses appels imaginée par une mère de famille TECHNO - Qui, à l'âge ingrat, n'a jamais ignoré un coup de fil de ses parents? Vous êtes avec vos amis, vous n'avez aucune envie qu'on vous rappelle l'heure du couvre-feu. La tentation de ne pas décrocher est grande. Mais ça c'était avant la nouvelle invention d'une mère de famille américaine, Sharon Standifird. Diabolique ou géniale, c'est selon... Originaire du Texas, Sharon a lancé en août 2014 une application disponible sur les téléphones android (et bientôt sur Iphone) baptisée Ignore no more (ne m'ignore plus). Une fois que vous aurez votre adolescent récalcitrant au bout du fil, vous pourrez lui donner le mot de passe qui débloquera son portable. “Un défi de plus” Femme vétéran de la guerre du Golfe, Sharon Standifird, qui a aussi escaladé le Kilimandjaro, explique: “mettre au point cette application n'était qu'un défi de plus. Lire aussi:• L'art de menacer ses enfants pour avoir la paix • 3 conseils pour que votre enfant adopte un comportement positif
10 More Unsolved Mysteries of the World Mysteries There is no doubt that some of our most popular lists are ones which revolve around mystery and intrigue. Fortunately for us all, there is no end to the number of weird and wonderful mysteries in the world, so we are now able to present our fourth list of unsolved mysteries. So – onwards to the world of the mysterious! Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. In 1938, an archaeological expedition led by Dr. Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. The Oera Linda Book is a controversial Frisian manuscript covering historical, mythological, and religious themes that first came to light in the 19th century. Out-of-Place Metal Objects Contributors: Rhyno, JFrater