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If you take an outside looking in approach to Twitter
pertaining to social media, I believe you'd find
a very odd bird. In the history of social media
which I date all the way back to the days of the
'forum', Twitter is truly unique. Which
comes with a set of positives, along with negatives.
Some call Twitter a micro-blogging site but for
me I see it as much different than a blog. I honestly
believe that Twitter is the culmination of everything
we've created in social media and
meshed it into one entity. Twitter is very much
like forums in the sense that many use Twitter as
a 'niche tool'. Meaning, that some use
Twitter to discuss and find topics for one particular
idea. Just like many come to WebProWorld
for website advice.
Many equate Twitter to blogging, and there's good
reasons for that. First, is that Twitter is in many
ways simply about blogging. Some
will use Twitter to just express their thoughts
throughout the day. Others use it as a means to
discuss or report on news. The landscape of using
Twitter parallels greatly to how blogs are used.
Finally, Twitter is like social networking for the
keyword 'network'. Sites such as MySpace,
and Facebook follow a pattern of just being in constant
contact with friends and family. This can mean updating
profiles, or posting on their wall, and sharing
photos. Twitter reflects social networking in the
sense that Twitter is about following others. And
having people follow you at the same time.
The reason I'm bringing Twitter up today is that
it's being reported that the company has
received $48 million in media coverage in the past
month. That's not even paid advertising, it's
how much Twitter has been used or shown in other
forms of media. Fox News, and CNN were used as examples
of platforms that have given Twitter so much spotlight.
You take this news and couple it with reports
that very few of Twitter's userbase even uses the
service, and you really don't know what to think.
I believe all you can really say is that Twitter
is an anomaly that we're still trying to figure
out.
How do you view Twitter, is it as epic in scope
as people make it out to be? Is this just an internet
fad that the mainstream news is hyping up? Feel
free to answer these questions or to just let me
know your general thoughts on Twitter. As always,
the forum and my inbox are always open.
The ideas presented in the WebProWorld
newsletter editor's note do not reflect the thoughts,
and ideas of the WebProWorld community.
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IT Discussion Forum
New 500 GB drive Not accessible through Fdisk
One of our office NFS servers running software RAID had failed. To circumvent the humongous backup issue, I added a new 500 GB SATA drive into another perfectly functioning Server running Fedora Core 3 ( Yes I am always in the past). I expected to issue a fdisk command to partition the new drive. But I can't see the new drive through fdisk. The server has IDE hard drive originally. Is there something I miss here to make Fedora Core 3 see the 500 GB ?
I would be grateful for any light thrown on this. I have Googled to no avail. The Server shows the new drive in BIOS.
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http://briandhawkins.com/
I just changed the theme on my personal blog and a friend said it was too 'red'. I have tweaked the theme a lot and eliminated some of the red colors. I'm a little concerned about load times. Any honest feedback would be appreciated.
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Database Discussion Forum
What's wrong with this command?
I am trying to add additional field in wordpress table, but doesn't seem to work. Can anyone please tell me what's wrong with this command in my file called update.php.
Thanks!
{?
require('wp-config.php');
//DB_NAME
$notinstalled=false;
$db_wp_connection = mysql_pconnect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);
mysql_select_db($database_name, $db_wp_connection);
$sql = "ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD post_category INT (4) NOT NULL AFTER post_title";
?}
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Validation of php drop down menu of months,days and years
Cannot get it to validate, for leaps years, and feb,april 31.
[html]
[head]
[meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"]
[title][/title]
[/head]
[?php
$todo=$_POST['todo'];
if(isset($todo) and $todo=="submit"){
$month=$_POST['month'];
$dt=$_POST['dt'];
$year=$_POST['year'];
$date_value="$month/$dt/$year";
echo "mm/dd/yyyy format :$date_value
";
$date_value="$year-$month-$dt";
echo "YYYY-mm-dd format :$date_value
";
}
?]
[?php
$m="2,4";
$d="31";
$y="";
If(!checkdate($m,$d,$y)){v
echo "invalid date";
}else {
echo "Entry date is correct";
}
?]
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Programming
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
BPELTutorial
recent article today.
Introduction
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), short for
Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL),
is an executable dialect of XML
that allows for the modeling of interactions between Web
services on the
cloud. Such modeling is valuable for successful business
process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture
(SOA) implementation. BPEL was standardized by OASIS in
2004, after collaborative efforts to create the language
by Microsoft, IBM, and other companies. In order to streamline
the BPM modeling process, BPEL uses easy-to-understand
commands that perform complex functions. Because BPEL
is human-readable it allows for collaboration between
business people and developers.
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What is BPEL?
BPEL
defintion
BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web services is an XML-based language designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid computing environment.
* Modeling of interactions between Web services on the cloud.
* Designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid computing environment.
Sounds interesting.
Related WPW link: Computing:::
Grid and cloud.
Any members that use the language?
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Twitter Hack Sparking Security and Ethical Concerns
If you haven’t yet heard, the popular microblogging service Twitter was hacked. The hacker obtained access to the password of Twitter Co-founder Evan Williams’ email account, his wife’s email account, as well as the email accounts of other Twitter employees.
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