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What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year?

What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year? I mean either coding a feature, product or an actual event.

Added by Michael Levin on December 24, 2012 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

VizMontaaze

Hi all,

Recently I uploaded an Android Application named VizMontaaze on Google Play. The link is here:

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photos.phrenzo.

VizMontaaze is a new word so it may be difficult for the users to find this application on the market.

The…

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Added by Shubham Aggarwal on December 10, 2012 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

How to Get Business using Social Media

You can use the social API's to get new customers. One way is with Twitter's API. You can filter tweets for keywords and then friend the tweeters. That's what's happening when you tweet something and then you get followed by someone of that special interest.

I tweeted something yesterday about birds. Today, I found I was followed by @artmagenta, an artist who draws…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 9, 2012 at 9:52am — No Comments

A Realistic Look at Tech in Africa

SeneJUG 2007 Kickoff

 

 

Attention, people interested in technology in Africa.

 

This article is much more realistic than most of the…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 8, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Future of GWT Report

This report on GWT, "The Future of GWT", will be interesting to developers, architects and managers, too. You'll learn details about GWT's usability, its competitors and even opinions as to how it's going to stand up against Dart.

Over 1300 respondents provided data. Overall, GWT is looked upon highly by…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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