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“Calculators were what we drooled after as kids with our nose stuck to the shop window…The calculators gave us the freedom and power to do complex calculations"

Says Dudek.

Each of the 583 calculators on the site feature power, case, size, display information, year manufactured and name of manufacturer listed. Dudek's ultimate goal is to catalog the 3,000 to 5,000 calculators all of which were manufactured in the 1970's.

Interestingly, for a whole generation, calculators were an introduction to the world of digital computing. Back in the day, the desktop and later pocket-sized machines freed users from log tables and charts.

“I am a collector in transit,” says Dudek, “The important thing is the information. The whole purpose of my site is to take obscure things from the past and put information about it on the web so other people who may be searching for that information can find it.”

Here are some comments on the site about the American M-26 calculator from 1975 or 1976, unknown manufacturer:

“The logic is pretty poor with no recovery, disappearing negative sign, negative zero and divide to negative zero bugs, basic percentage function and quirky constant function. My example does not have reset on power-up either. A must for anyone’s collection — just to see how bad a calculator can be…”

Dudek says:

“I have comments for every calculator on my site and those are the important part…I have to explain how the the device works…I didn’t realize how few companies made the guts of the calculator…It’s very interesting to see the chips that ran these devices and where they came from.”

But it is not exactly that simple. While CSS 3 is stalwart certainly, remembering each and every detail of each and every element’s syntax is overwhelming. And to further confuse matters, CSS 3 actually has yet to be completed.

So in the meantime browser makers are using browser-specific prefixes for the new features. For instance, to get an orange to green radial gradient in Firefox, you would use: background:-moz-radial-gradient (60% 50% 40deg, #866400, #FF4E28 71%).

Now, cheat sheets do help, but sometimes it is just easier to let an automated tool do the hard work for you.

Some sites that'll help you include:

Randy Jensen’s CSS 3 Generator, and CSS 3 Please.

On CSS 3.0 Maker sliders allow you to tweak each effect, control variables like shadow x- and y- offsets or the midpoint of a gradient without too much ware and tear of the mind. Once you get things just the way you like them, you can either cut-and-paste the code or download an HTML file with inline style definitions. CSS 3.0 Maker also displays the browser compatibility for all of the new tools and controls the vendor-specific prefixing so you don't have to.

What are backend products? They are other products which you might offer to your existing customers once they have made a first purchase with you.

Like suggested items which you find when you browse or purchase at Amazon or other places, you get a sense of what your customer will likely buy next.

By simply adding one more product to your site, you will increase the lifetime value of your customers and also increase your revenue by up to 25 to 50%.

Lifetime value is simply the amount of income generated by one customer over the course of your business relationship. If you sell your customer only one product, then your customers' lifetime value will be limited to the net income which comes from one sale of your product.

By selling a wide range of products, your income will grow exponentially.

The game, posted to Bite by Gibson, is a version of Monopoly which features indirect and direct references to certain social media virtual hangouts. The game even comes with a complete set of Community Chest and Chance cards.
In the game, the jail is replaced with a “Just Visiting” MySpace holding cell, and even a cross-board Cyperpolice space that instructs players to:

“Go to Myspace. Go Directly to Myspace. Do not pass Wi-Fi. Do not collect $200.”

Twitter and Facebook are the priciest social properties, filling the spaces on the board and in our mind which were previous filled by Park Place and Boardwalk. YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo, Gowalla and Foursquare also come with impressive price tags, while LinkedIn, Reddit and Digg are priced a bit more sparingly.

The Mashable and Technorati-themed cards are a set of game instructions which make the social media side of the game come alive. One Mashable card reads:

“You’ve unlocked the ’stalker’ badge on Foursquare, collect $100.”

Another Technorati card informs:

“Your video has become MySpace video of the week. No one cares. Don’t do anything.”

"mSpoke and LinkedIn’s shared focus on generating relevant content make this acquisition a natural fit for us. We’re actively investing in solutions that help deliver valuable professional insights to LinkedIn members."
　

But if you were getting bored with LinkedIn or perhaps wondering why you had the darn thing in the first place, be informed that the site has renovated recently or added to the social features which it offers.
　
For example, the revamping of its Groups with "Likes," "Follows" and "Discussions" options.
　
So the online resume service is not so useless after all – or anyway, it does not want to be.
　
The social site has been adding more Facebook and Twitter-like features – starting with a news feed, an application which if added takes up most of the room on a user’s homepage; and more recently with a new link sharing feature to engage the faithful LinkedIn-inians and get more information sharing and Web and social news pumping through the electric site.

Facebook introduced "Questions" in a blog posted on the site:

"Millions of people ask their friends questions on Facebook every day. What new music should I listen to? Where's the best sushi place in town? How do I learn to play the piano?"

"Today we're introducing Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets you pose questions like these to the Facebook community. With this new application, you can get a broader set of answers and learn valuable information from people knowledgeable on a range of topics."

According to Facebook, the new service is only available to a "limited number of people" – that is just 1% of users, while the social networking giants tends to improvement of the Q&A service based on feedback by that 1%.

Sites like Quora, Yahoo! Answers, Ask.com, and Aardvark have already provided the Q&A service on the web. According to Mashable, though, Facebook Questions' "defining features" are: polling; tagging; Photo questions; topic exploration; and "following."

The Linux operating system-based computer is to be the latest in a string of the "world's cheapest" innovations to hit the market from India.

Co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, in 2005, unveiled a prototype of a $100 laptop for children in the third world. Well, India rejected this idea as too expensive and embarked on a multiyear effort to develop a less expensive option of their own.

Negroponte's laptop ended up costing about $200, though in May his nonprofit association, תגיות:   India · ipad · New Product · technologyניתן להגיב