A new way to give for programmers. I hope this can be spread out to cover the whole world.
YouTube – Tech Leaders Ask You to Code for America.
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Inspiring Video of the Month
This inspires hope and determination. Nick Vujicic and his attitude serve as a great examples of the celebration of life over limitations.
The human spirit can handle much more than we realize.
“I LOVE LIVING LIFE. I AM HAPPY.”
Grand Challenges in Global Health | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges in Global Health
“The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is focused on engaging creative minds to work on scientific and technological breakthroughs for the world’s most pressing health problems. Grand Challenges Explorations is a grant program within the initiative that fosters innovative, early-stage research to expand the pipeline of ideas that can lead to those much needed global health solutions.”
via Grand Challenges in Global Health | Grand Challenges Explorations | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours
Laurie Santos presents an intriguing TED talk on human/primate behavior, psychology and economics. A must watch.
Online Free Touch-typing Tutor
Typing is becoming a part of a person’s literacy indicator today. If you cannot touch-type, all of your computer-based tasks will be more difficult not to mention slower.
www.sense-lang.org is a very good free on-line typing tutor. It has a decent set of standalone typing tutorials. It also has a classroom learning mode for teachers to set up and use it with their students in a controlled mode. It also has lessons for seniors.
The site is very powerful in terms of typing tutorials but a bit awkwardly designed in terms of web aesthetics. Nevertheless it is very useful and free.
You can find it at:
online free touch typing program | keyboarding tutor | Free Typing Games.
Tara Brabazon: Information Obesity – MDX Play
Tara Brabazon offers a striking look at information obesity. An analogy she uses with great insight and accuracy to demonstrate the state of academic information intake. I think the same applies to business and even the public information consumption.
Source: Middlsex University Play (MDX Play): Tara Brabazon final – MDX Play.
The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM
Social Media Globetrotter has an excellent article on the now emerging concept of Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management). This is clearly becoming a new powerful paradigm for CRM by applying social networking concepts.
More at the Source The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM.
MobileApps Academy
Do you have an idea for a mobile application that is innovative, commercially viable and relevant to the Middle East market?
The MobileApps Academy organized by ITIDA and Vodafone, is the right programme for young entrepreneurs like you who want to make it into the world of Mobile Apps.
via MobileApps Academy.
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
Visit the excellent Security Blog By Dr. Eric Cole of McAfee. He delves deep into Advanced Persistent Threats and explains what to do and what not to do to counter these threats.
“APT, the Advanced Persistent Threat, is the buzz word that everyone is using. Companies are concerned about it, the government is being compromised by it and consultants are using it in every presentation they give.
One of the main reasons organizations are broken into today is because they are fixing the wrong vulnerabilities. If you fix the threats of three years ago, you will lose. APT allows organizations to focus on the real threats that exist today.”
via McAfee Security Insights Blog » Blog Archive » Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).
Common Email Sending Mistakes
When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.
Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to forward to all your friends 99.999% of the time it is a fake or a hoax.
Most likely it has originally been sent by spyware, virus and spam writers to collect people addresses. When you forward it to everyone, this message contains all of our addresses as well as the addresses of previously forwarded people.
If one of the recipients has a virus or spyware program, it will collect all of those precious valid and verified email addresses and send them to the virus owner. They will sell it to spammers. and spam all your friends and you too.
So please make sure to ask an expert first about these messages before sending to everyone you know.