http://www.wolframdatasummit.org/2011/attendee/presentations/ByronReese.docx
The Inscrutable Lines of Cause and Effect.
© 2011 by Byron Reese
[[ NOTE: Most of this talk is from two chapters of a book I have written called Golden Age 2.0: How the Internet will end ignorance, disease, hunger, poverty and war. I have just completed the book and am looking for a publisher. Please email any suggestions or contacts to byronreese@gmail.com. ]]
Quick developer comparison of available Windows Phone advertising networks
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wmexperts/~3/PNSEbvSwqzY/story01.htm
“Xeno bits, the developer behind Belote WorldTour for Windows Phone, has been taking a look at in-app advertising on the platform. While Windows Phone is still the baby of smartphone operating systems, it does provide developers a few paths to take when it comes to advertising solutions. Xeno bits took a look at Microsoft’s Pubcenter, Inneractive and Smaato for revenue from advertisements loaded within their app.
Google’s AdMob received no attention due to issues with the SDK having a negative impact on performance. Accumulating over 4,000 downloads, and taking a look at graphs reported by three chosen publisher networks, led Xeno bits to the following conclusion: “Smaato will not let you earn much, but at least today they are the only ones from who I received money. Their SDK is pretty good and site is the best I tried so far, especially regarding analytics.” “Inneractive tools are easy to use, I was easily able to contact their support and they spent some time to help me solve my issues by chat, but I was disappointed by their answer to my displayed ads amounts issue.” “The Pubcenter SDK is the best for sure, their site not so much (I need to use IE (32bit) version in order to use it). I finally succeed to setup my account in order to be paid at the end of November, as they were opening pubcenter to new countries including mine. But I still have not received any money from them so far… I heard many times that I had to be patient with microsoft (same thing for paid version of my app…)”
What’s interesting to note is how low eCPM is on the smaller networks. Smaato reported just $0.075, Inneractive at $0.2, while Microsoft was at a reasonable $0.56. An issue many developers have with Pubcenter is the limited availability. While there have been a few user stories (such as this) being published, it’s still a game of which one is best for you, as is the case with general website monetisation. Trial and error.
Read the full report and gander at the pretty graphs over at Xeno bits.
Source: Xeno bits”
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Kendo UI http://www.kendoui.com/
Posted with BloghuB for Windows Phone 7
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wmexperts/~3/UvZVClzawSQ/story01.htm
“If there was an over-hyped technology in late 2011 it was perhaps Apple’s Siri, their voice recognition/information application for the iPhone 4s. Now we’ll admit that Siri is quite a strong piece of tech one that we wish Windows Phone had built-in in addition to our Bing voice service but the marketing machine behind Siri was a tad overwhelming at times. Then again, there’s no denying facts: Bing Voice while pragmatic for certain tasks is still behind Apple’s Siri in some ways.
However, developer Shai Leib has given us Windows Phone users an option: Ask Ziggy. The new app is a free, ad-free and as far as we can tell, completely unique. We spoke with Leib about his project and how it works:
“Ask Ziggy uses Speech Recognition to translate human speech into transcribed text, which is displayed in a speech bubble. The transcribed text is analyzed for patterns to detect commands or general queries. Commands are interpreted and routed to routine phone tasks such as emailing, texting, calling, social network updates, and getting directions.
When a general question is asked, a mixture of mash up technologies and web scraping is employed to search the web for relevant responses. Pattern matching is used to summarize a direct answer from a web page. Several passes may be required to find a concise answer. A direct answer is then spoken out loud, and displayed in a speech bubble. When a direct answer cannot be summarized the user is prompted by speech to click on their search bubble to see web search results based on their spoken query.”
That’s some pretty impressive work for a single developer if you ask us. The actual voice-recognition software is based on Nuance but the data fetching and matching are all his doing. And it works. That’s one thing we want to stress here, we didn’t find this app gimmicky at all but instead quite useful for mathematical questions, random trivia, posting to our Twitter/Facebook/Live, getting directions, flight status and more. Having the phone read back to you the answer in a clean, minimalist setting makes it feel smart. Heck, it even got our Monty Python question right.
The version you see in the video is heading to the Marketplace as we speak but you can grab the slightly older version right now in the Marketplace. Give it a go–it’s free, useful and really quite an extraordinary app. Leib also has a lot of plans to further refine and enhance the experience including expanded speech grammar, multi-language support and even language translations. Check out the Ask Ziggy website here for more info.”
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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/greenwich/
Project Greenwich is a website that allows people to create timelines of any subject they want to present chronologically. Using the site they could show the lifespan of an individual, how a historical event evolved, or how a place changed, for example. With Greenwich we are interested in researching how people think about time, how they go about the process of telling a story through time, and what it means to reflect on chronological content to think about the past.
Unlike content that is automatically created and stamped with a date, like status updates or blog posts, we are interested in how the act of sitting down and manually crafting a timeline encourages reflection, learning and provides insights into relationships between the different elements within it.
Read more about Project Greenwich in this Technology Review article, Reorganize Your Past, Online.
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