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Bitfari WordFilter Social Oracle Walkthrough
A Bitfari Social Oracle is nothing more than a computer program that checks for adequate social behavior. Bitfari joins over 500 social oracles to check the fitness of ads for publication. Aside from these computer programs, Bitfari has three layers of human auditing. Since ads are paid, scanned and audited, the attack surface for spammers and pranksters is little thin. Please refer to the Java code below. It is a simple string scanner connected to…
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Bitfari for Developers and Academics
Bitfari is a protocol for location-based communication. Location-based communication allows people who don’t know each other to interact, These communication types include advertising, mass media, TV, signage, classified ads, newspapers, bulletins, email, closed-circuit communications, location-based services and marketing, location-based social networks, event communication, radio-based communications, naval communications, and military applications. In a gist, Bitfari can dramatically change the way humans talk to each other. The repercutions of this invention can be as large as those…
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Prototyping is About Capturing the Essence of a Project
What is essential to a web property? What can drive traffic, achieve conversions and translate into profits for the company? What can change people’s lives in a substantial way? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves when we talk about website prototyping. Version 1 prototypes should be embryonic, direct, and effective at capturing the user’s mindset. You have to make do with less, but you have to make it as effective as the…
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An Update on Web Assembly
Yesterday, I posted about the imminent release of Web Assembly in 2016. And guess what? Here it is! You can now test several experimental Web Assembly releases across browsers. See the quote below: WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance—a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly is being developed in a W3C Community Group (CG) whose members include…
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Don’t Ignore the Social Challenges of Web Development
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability. – Kevin Rollins It is easy to get excited about the new wave of technologies entering the market and the constant evolution of frameworks, hardware and technological ecosystems while at the same time forgetting about the single biggest bottleneck in web development: social challenges. Organizational structures,…
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Back From Vacations
I’m back from my 2015 vacations and ready to talk about Windows 10 and Mac OS X El Capitan. In a nutshell, Microsoft and Apple have created very refined operating systems that will make your life easier. Windows 10 is a nice release that simplifies user experience while bringing back old features such as the Start Menu. The system is fluid and, so far, I’ve installed it without problems in a couple of machines. Sadly,…
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Model-View-Controller and the Separation of Labor
Few architectural choices are more critical for your project’s success than MVC (model view controller). The idea being that by separating code into three separate entities, the application can grow more naturally and be easier to update. To give some context around the premise for MVC, here are the words of Trygve Reenskaug, one of the first MVC practicioners: I have sometimes been given more credit than is my due, so I should stress that…
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Analyzing SEC Filings
A great way to polish your business plan or predict the strategic intent of key players is analyzing SEC filings. 10K reports present a yearly review of a company’s performance while 10Q filings go over quarterly performance. By law, public US corporations are required to disclose material information in a constant and timely fashion, so these reports are always interesting to read and contain good insights. SEC Live is a free tool that lets you…
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UX Makes All the Difference
“User experience” encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products. – Jakob Nielsen From a technical standpoint, few issues carry more weight than user experience. UX creates a fluid dialog between users and computers that ultimately is store in our brain as the most important brand association pertaining to your firm. UX matters because it impacts both the perceived as well as the real value of your platform.…
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Can Startups Learn From Comparables?
A pivotal change is taking place in Startup land. Business stories and models are being open-sourced along with a plethora of metrics and financial data, courtesy of services such as CrunchBase, Tech in Asia and Mattermark. With these relatively new tools you can now benchmark your performance against that of the industry and other probably similar startups. If your project is pre-money you can also use Angel List and discover what people in your space…