The world’s first programmable computer was Colossus, built in England in 1943. During World War II, Colossus was used to break codes at the UK’s famed decryption center at Bletchley Park. With a little help from its friends, Bletchley Park was recently saved from destruction, and many of its historic sites are now being restored. This week, a gallery dedicated to Colossus opened at the National Museum of Computing, housed at Bletchley Park.
Colossus rebuilt. You can see it at The National Museum of Computing in the UK. Reproduced with kind permission of The National Museum of Computing.
Even many years after the war, Colossus was kept secret. Another big secret, just discovered, is about honeybees: they’re not all alike. Researchers have found that some worker bees seem to be more interested than others in novel behaviors such as finding a new home for the hive. (Let’s call these the startup bees.) Scientists studied the genetic foundation for varying behaviors, and using chemical treatments, they were able to change whether bees were likely to display this “novelty-seeking” behavior.
Ludicrous transitions are just part of the fun here at Fridaygram, where we take a break from the real news once a week. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds. By the way, the main topic of today’s post has no connection to this amazing movie, which features a great performance by Paul Frees (uncredited, of course). 2013, By: Seo Master
Seo Master present to you: The Google Apps Marketplace, announced this evening at Campfire One, allows you to publish applications which integrate with Google Apps and sell them to more than 2 million businesses. Listing your integrated cloud app on the Google Apps Marketplace enables it to have seamless OpenID-based single sign-on with Google Apps, OAuth-authorized access to Google Apps data and makes it easy for customers to access your application from Google Apps' universal navigation bar.
There are three simple steps for a Google Apps Marketplace application: 1) Have or create a cloud application and host it on the platform of your choice 2) Integrate your cloud app with Google Apps using available APIs 3) Create a manifest file describing your application and list it for sale on the Marketplace
The Google Apps Marketplace launched with more than 50 applications from companies like Intuit and Atlassian, with more coming soon from companies like NetSuite and SuccessFactors. We hope you'll join them by integrating with Google Apps and selling your applications on the Google Apps Marketplace to our more than 25 million users and 2 million businesses.
For more information on the Google Apps Marketplace, please see our post on the new Google Apps Developer blog. You can also dive into the details of how to sell your application in the Google Apps Marketplace by visiting our Developer Programs site and technical documentation. And if you'll be at Google I/O this year, you can learn first-hand from the team in the Google Apps sessions on May 19-20 in San Francisco.
Check out the Campfire One announcement on YouTube:
By Ryan Boyd, Google Apps Marketplace Team2013, By: Seo Master
Facebook is the largest social networking site today. With about a billion users and still counting, if used efficiently, Facebook can drive a huge amount of quality traffic to your blog. All you need is a little bit of time and some strategy for Facebook marketing of your blog. Marketing on Facebook is a little bit difficult since it is possible that the kind of page you set up for your blog has already about a thousand to compete with. The people on Facebook has become resistant to ads and the marketing on pages and groups. There are numerous ways of being busy in activities on Facebook , so driving a person to your blog while he is chatting with anyone of his friend needs something extraordinary. Lets discuss the simple strategy for Facebook marketing for your blog.
Create a page. Keep your page name as informative as possible Try to keep it short and it should reflect what is inside that page. Upload a meaningful profile picture to your page. Don't put 'Sachin Tendulkar' profile pic on a 'body building' page. Fill the 'about' page. Don't eat up words. Give up full explanation to the page.
Create a group. Creating a group while using Facebook for marketing your blog includes the same steps as creating a page. However, Group is considered as more discussion friendly and for sharing. Keeping an informative name to your group, adding a profile picture and cover photo will make it more interactive and people will tend to join your group. Stay in touch with group. Respond to peoples and keep encouraging discussions in your topic on topics related to your blogs. Giving a reference of your blog in return to someone's query is a good idea to promote your blog. Thanks someone who take time and give you a share or a like.
Let other users communicate thorough your page or your group. Allow other people to post or discuss in your group. Don't limit it to yourself. Keep it open to everyone. And always show your active participation. Add all your friends to your groups and invite them for your page and ask some of your close friends to do that for you. It will take no more than 5 minutes for them. This will help in building a audience base for your blog. Getting 500 members in either a page or a group is a great thing can drive to your blog a huge and consistent traffic.
Share them. Share your page and group to as many people as possible. Make them join. Ask your friends to invite their friends and share your page on their timeline. A single share will reach to all people in their friend list, and chances are that someone in their friend list will share it again. You may even use other platforms to connect on Facebook to your audience. You can even put your group's link on your blog itself asking people to join you for regular updates.
Thus, Facebook is one of the biggest marketing place for your blog and spending some quality time to connect to your audience can get you huge traffic. The only problem is that you need to make yourself more interesting than millions of pages and groups which is a challenging task. And doing something challenging gives you a sense of pride. :)