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Open Source Strategies f...
by Simon Phipps
So you're thinking of creating an open source community around your code? Here are some things you ought to know before you make your plans too firm. > * Community Types: There is no single "open source community." Rather, there are many groups of people gathered around ma...
(2012)
Virtual Lives
A Reference Handbook
This book is the THE source for information on virtual worlds, covering every aspect of this intriguing and fast-changing social practice and the technologies upon which it rests.
(2012)
Data for the Public Good
by Alex Howard
As we move into an era of unprecedented volumes of data and computing power, the benefits aren't for business alone. Data can help citizens access government, hold it accountable and build new services to help themselves. > Simply making data available is not sufficient. The ...
(2012)
The Future of Looking Back
Future of Looking Back
What will we leave behind in this new digital age? As digital technology takes an ever-increasing role in our lives, one question is how we'll manage our collections after we're gone. What takes the place of shoeboxes full of pictures and dog-eared record albums? Get an inside...
(2011)
The Twitter Book
Twitter Book
by Tim O Reilly and Sarah Milstein
"Media organizations should take note of Twitter's power to quickly reach their target consumers." --Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly), in a Los Angeles Times interview, March 2009 This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know to quickly become a Twitter power user...
(2009)
Google AdWords
Managing Your Advertising Program
Do people really click the handful of text ads that accompany Google search results? Absolutely. Growth of Google AdWords continues to increase, as does online advertising in the United States. This book shows you how each piece of Google's advertising platform works, focusing...
(2011)
Social Network Analysis ...
Finding connections on the social web
by Maksim Tsvet... and Alexander Ko...
Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now available. Social network analysis (SNA) is a discipline that predates Facebook and Twitter by 30 year...
(2011)
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2...
Harness the Power of Social Computing in Microsoft SharePoint!
Customize your implementation of My Site in Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010--and capture the enthusiasm for social networking in your organization. With this concise, practical guide, SharePoint expert Michael Doyle shows you how to modify key My Site features to meet specific bus...
(2011)
Programming Social Appli...
Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks
Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to...
(2011)
Where 2.0: The State of ...
The State of the Geospatial Web
by Andrew Turner, Brady Forrest, Ben Lorica, and Roger Magoulas
Rapid advances in geolocation technologies--and what individuals and companies have built on those technologies--present new marketplaces for businesses and services, and not just the expected mapping and location services. In this O'Reilly Radar report, Andrew Turner and Brad...
(2008)
The Facebook Application...
Facebook Application Ecosystem: Why Some Thrive--and Most Don't
What do the killer apps on the Facebook platform have in common? What must you build into your application if you want Facebook users to adopt it--and pass it on to their friends? Get The Facebook Application Ecosytem and find out. The Report identifies: > * The applicati...
(2008)
Dancing Barefoot
by Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton--[blogger][1], geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in _Dancing Barefoot_. With a true geek's unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, and the absurdities of H...
(2011)
Designing Interfaces
Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it's still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as des...
(2010)
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Cathedral & the Bazaar
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will ...
(2001)
Mind Hacks
Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain
by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which ...
(2010)
The Art of Community
Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. _The Art of Community_ will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your comm...
(2009)
Being Geek
The Software Developer's Career Handbook
by Michael Lopp
As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he's a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make- or-break moments with Silicon Valley giant...
(2010)
Open Sources
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
by Chris DiBona and Sam Ockman
Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM s...
(1999)
Hackers & Painters
Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from _Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age_, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a wo...
(2009)
Understanding Open Sourc...
guide to Navigating Licensing Issues in Existing & New Software
If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone. Many developers believe in releasing their software freely, but have hesitated to do so because they're concerned ...
(2009)
