Web Design: The Emergence Of Page Apps

A web designer creates beautiful layouts for the web content of his customer. The customer is happy at first, but as he grows more knowledgeable about the web and its possibilities, he starts asking new layout changes, integration of new features and more.

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What happens next is that the designer grows angry to the customer instead of rejoycing for the new work, knowing that changes and adjustments are more of a pain in the ass than an opportunity for extra revenue.
At the same time the customer slowly develops a feeling of frustration and imprisonement by having to depend so much on his web designer / agency to get what he wants.
So, everyone loses in this equation.

The Complete Guide To The Social Media Exchange: Empire Avenue - Part 2

Is Empire Avenue just a fad? Is EAv just another social network and maybe a fascinating new type of news reader (like Robert Scoble writes), or is it really - like I think - a whole new ball game?

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And assuming one wants to start playing it, what are the best strategies and approaches to make it work?
In this second part of my Complete Guide to Empire Avenue (Part 1) I have brought together some of the best resources, videos, articles and tools, that I would recommend you to look at if you want to get good at EAv.

The Complete Guide To The Social Media Exchange: Empire Avenue - Part 1

If you are curious to see what happens at the convergence between social networking, social influence and reputation, online engagement and gamification, I think it is about time you gave a good look, if you haven't already done so, at Empire Avenue.

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Empire Avenue is an online community game based on the idea of a stock market where you buy and sell shares in individuals and where their value is based on how active and effective they are in their use of social media.
In other words, this is the best free social media training playground camp on planet Earth. It is a social media real-time bio-feedback machine…
In fact, if you want someone to get a fast grip on how you use effectively social media, without being in an isolated vacuum, Empire Avenue is the perfect boost, motivator, monitoring dashboard and progress meter for any serious new buddying social media guru.
Its pros?

What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing

Today content curation is 'sold', promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building. But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless publishing via curation tools a true value creation business strategy, or just a risky fad? How can one tell?

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Let me clarify a few key points:
1. Curation can be effective only as much as it effectively provides a quality filtering mechanism that can replace my need to consult multiple sources. When such need is forgotten and a curation channel becomes another broad aggregation and republishing venue, the end result is more content to go through and little or no insight gained.
2. Shallow curation efforts, where the main goal is to republish selected content with the minimum effort and time, are going to be effective only for the very short term. As soon as quality, value-creation creators start to emerge and gain authority, the gap between them and the others will be very hard to fill.

How to Watch P2P TV/Movie in Ubuntu

1. Sopcast Install SopCast Player to watch P2P TV/Movie Go to the following page and download the two files and double click to install http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player/downloads/list 1. sp-auth 3.0.1 from sopcast.com for Debian based systems sp-auth_3.0.1_i386.deb 2. SopCast Player 0.3 for Debian based systems sopcast-player_0.3.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb If you cannot get the channel guide, download the attached file: pySopCast.db Overwrie ~/.pySopCast/pySopCast.db What's SopCast? SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection. 2. PPS.tv(PPStream) If you can not install/use Sopcast, you can use PPStream TV (Chinese TVs only) Download: http://download.ppstream.com/ppstream_1.0.0-1_i386.deb or here: http://code.google.com/p/linux-pps/downloads/list Instruction: http://www.pps.tv/about/6/364.html If there is no sound, you need to set the audio device to "alsa" Veetle http://veetle.com/index.php/download Veetle is a venture-backed digital media company based in Silicon Valley. Started by a team of top-notch engineers who were former graduate students from Stanford University, Veetle provides the next generation live broadcasting platform that can deliver extremely cost-effective streams at a massive scale with unprecedented quality. This unique platform therefore enables content owners, broadcasters and websites to reach millions of concurrent viewers with the highest fidelity content possible, at little or no additional cost. Our Beta website is already attracting millions of visitors per month.

12 Alternatives to Megavideo

With Megavideo.com on the rise, there are more and more people looking for ways to bypass the 72 min video limit. Below I have listed 12 Alternatives to Megavideo.com. I have also included a review of each website, each review is based on usability uptime, and quality of popular links.

When looking for a TV show that you just missed some times its easiest to find the episode on its home network. Here are a couple of links to popular TV networks

1. Fox | popular shows include American Dad, Bones, House, Prison Break
2. CSB | popular shows include How I met your mother, NCIS, The Unit
3. NBC |
4. Spiketv.com | Popular shows include Deadliest Warrior and the ultimate fighter
5. Discovery.com | Popular shows include mythbusters
6. Travel Channel
7. USA Network
   

When the show you are looking for can't be found on their home network you can probably find it on one of these linking sites.

1. TVshack.net | Tvshack has a one of the largest database of links and will link to the different videos sources embedded right into the website.
2. FanCast | Fancast has a large database of links. The site has a really good search function which will allow you to find the TV show you are trying to find in no time
3. TV.com | TV.com is a social network where you can talk about TV episodes. Their main focus isn't around Video links, and their site isn't as intuitive as other sites. But they do have a wide range of links.
4. Missedashow | Although it's not the fastest site, it definite has a lot of links.
5. SurftheChannel | This is a great site when looking for recent airings of a TV show. Although I think the TV networks are catching on to this site, because some of the show I used to watch are starting to lose all the links they once had.

Anonymous Retaliates Over Megaupload, Megavideo Shutdown: SOPA, PIPA Links?

Popular file-sharing sites, Megaupload and Megavideo, were shut down by federal prosecutors on Thursday and hackers from Anonymous retaliated by launching an attack on federal and public Web sites: The online battle over Internet piracy just got personal.

Megaupload and Megavideo, content-sharing Web sites that receive more than 50 million hits per day, got taken down by the Department of Justice on Thursday after an indictment claimed the sites have committed copyright infringement.
The crackdown comes just one day after a mass online protest against two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) currently being pushed forward and debated by Congress.
While the bills are being presented in an aim to stop music and video piracy, internet giants such as Google and Facebook are complaining that the legislation being proposed will lead to internet censorship.