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JungleDragon 4 - Update 13 »
We're moving ahead rapidly in developing JungleDragon V4. In the last 10 days alone, we've basically reinvented the idea of what a country is inside JungleDragon. Internals are rewired and navigation is redesigned in a way that allows us to rapidly explore wildlife by country. Furthermore, in our last update, we've added a 2nd tab to countries called "photos".
If you've read my Big Idea article, you will know that this is only the beginning of what countries will ultimately become in JungleDragon. Still to be added are country species, parks, and more.
But before we go there, what good is building a rich country "entity" if photos aren't actually linked to a country? Currently, only photos that are geotagged are linked to a country. This amount to 46% of all photos. That's actually not that bad of a number. But it still means that more than half of all photos aren't linked to a country.
I predict that country identification will become as important as species identification once V4 is fully completed. Therefore, we must have ways to maximize the amount of photos linked to a country.
How? That is what this update will answer. I've build simple yet powerful tools to maximize that number, and I'll explain them in detail in this post.
Unidentified photos / unmapped photos
At JungleDragon we obsess over identifying species on photos. The site urges you to do this, rewards you for it. If you don't do it, moderators and other users will remind you of it. We've been doing this for so long that it has been become a culture, like 2nd nature. Some (with a special mention for @Wildflower) go the extra mile by constantly monitoring the unidentified photos overview:
This overview shows in real-time the photos with no species identified, as well as the percentage. Due to all the reasons mentioned above, we've achieved the incredible statistic of 89% of all photos having their species identified. An incredible community it is. I've never even dreamed of such a number.
What does any of this have to do with countries? It is strongly related because I've deployed a new overview called "unmapped photos":
This overview shows all photos that have no country set. Below you see our starting point right after I deployed the overview: 46% is linked to a country.
Note that I am saying "linked to a country" instead of "geotagged". The difference will become clear in the rest of this article.
Anyway, we now have this global statistic in place, and we need to crank up that number. I've built 2 tools to do this, which I'll explain next.
Batch linking to a country via tags
The following is available for admins only (basically me), yet everyone can request this action. What this tool does is to link a set of photos to a country based on a tag. Allow me to explain via an example:
So we have the country Tanzania, with 122 photos in it. All of those 122 photos are actually geotagged. However, they definitely are not all photos of Tanzania in JungleDragon. I happen to know that there is a tag called "Tanzania":
Here's the tag "Tanzania" opened, with a whopping 831 photos. Let's zoom in on the menu:
Note the new "Link" option with the globe icon. Let's open it:
And on this screen, I'm selecting the country, Tanzania in this case. A few seconds later, this happens:
We went from 122 photos linked to Tanzania, to 831, in mere seconds. A very powerful tool. Note that this can be used on any tag, not just country tags. If somebody tags their photo with a park name, I can link that park to a country, since a park is part of a country.
Note that this tool does not create a permanent link between a tag and a country. If new photos in the tag appear, it will have to be run again. The reason I am making this an admin-only feature for now is that it is very powerful, but also very destructive when incorrectly used, therefore I like to keep an eye on the process. I'll open a forum post where anyone can submit tags for batch linking though, so indirectly it can be used by anyone.
Let's continue and see what happened due to our giant action of linking hundreds of photos to country "Tanzania":
Here we've opened the country, which starts with the map. Nothing happened to the geotagged photos, there's still 122 shown on the map. We did not geotag the extra photos, we merely linked them to a country. This becomes visible when opening the new "photos" link on the country:
And here we do have our full 831 photos as part of the country. In other words, JungleDragon now has two ways of setting the location of a photo:
- By geotagging: precise location identification, which includes exact coordinates as well as the country
- By setting a country: inprecise location identification for non-geotagged photos
Since we will often know the country of a photo despite it not being geotagged, this way we can link far more photos to a country, no longer do we rely on geotags only.
So what does a photo look like that is not geotagged, yet is linked to a country? Here's how:
See above. In the right panel, you can see that the photo is not geotagged, otherwise a map would have appeared. Yet it is linked to a country, since it shows the "Explore Tanzania" link.
One by one
I've just explained the process of linking large sets of photos to a country, based on tags. On top of this, there's also a way to do this photo by photo. And this feature is accessible to more than admins: it can be done by the photo owner, by moderators and by admins. Here's how it works:
Here's a great photo that is not geotagged. A perfectly normal situation, likely the photographer did not have the GPS equipment or disabled it. Whilst it is possible to now geotag it right inside JungleDragon, this is difficult as you may not recall the exact location. So precise location identification is not possible. Not however the new option:
Photo owners (as well as moderators) can set the country of the photo, if geotagging is not possible. It's as simple as clicking that "Set country" button:
The photo gives away that it was taken in India, so we select that country and confirm, and here it is:
Look how the photo is now linked to India. It will not show up on that countries' map (since its not geotagged), yet it will appear on the photos tab of that country. Note also that the button changed to "Edit country", so it can be changed if it was set in error.
The process is really the same as with the tags, yet this one takes a one by one approach.
Sorry for the long post, yet these tools needed some explaining. My personal hope is that over time, we can make location identification (whether by GPS or at country level) a shared culture just like we have with species identification. Likewise, I hope we can reach the 80-90% ratio here as well.
I have good hopes that we can do it. Thanks to these tools, a great community and because unlike species identification, we usually do know the country, it should be achievable.
It will take some time for myself and the community to realize how important this exercise of country linking is. As said, once we have the full power of countries implemented, it will become equally important as species identification. Nobody will question why we do it, it will be a must-do, because without it, essential features of JungleDragon will work less well.
Although countries are not fully implemented yet, today we already have the tools to very easily map them.
JungleDragon 4 - Update 12 »
Update 12 of JungleDragon 4 is now live. This one is an important milestone. In the previous 2 updates, I've rewired JungleDragon's internals and streamlined navigation, allowing us to very quickly jump to specific countries. You can arrive at a country from a geotagged photo, from a user's profile, or from the global map which now allows you to pick from a list of all countries.
Above we have arrived at country Ethiopia. As before, we see the map zoomed in on that country, and showing map pins of geotagged photos in this region. What's new is the "Photos" link next to the "Map" link of the country. Let's click it:
And here we are at all photos taken in Ethiopia. This update makes total sense, but there was no easy way to reach a countries' photos before, so therefore this improvement is quite essential.
Countries' photos are sorted by popularity by default, showing the best of the country at a single glance. However, you can change the sorting to "newest first" or "oldest first".
And, as with any list of photos within JungleDragon, you can play it as a slideshow:
See above, a slideshow of "Burkina Faso", with a beautiful title that includes the countries' flag. The slideshow will respect your choice of sorting.
Furthermore, the country selection screen is now updating with counters that show the number of photos per country:
It's a pretty humbling screen, as it shows the many blind spots we still have in our geographic coverage.
Next steps
I'm not yet fully done with the "photos" tab at the country level. In particular, we know that there are many photos in JungleDragon that are not geotagged, yet we do know the country. I'd like to get that set linked to countries as well, and am thinking of two facilities for this:
- Per photo: a button on the photo page that allows photo owners and moderators to set the country of a photo.
- Per tag: For example, a tag like "Costa Rica" has over 200 photos with about 100 photos geotagged. Instead of manually linking the other 100 photos to the country one by one, I will link the entire set to the country in one-go.
It looks like countries are finally coming to life in JungleDragon!
JungleDragon 4 - Update 11 »
JungleDragon V4 - update 11 is now live. Where the 10th update focused on data rewiring in preparation of upcoming countries and parks features, this update focuses on navigation: a fluent and easy way to explore wildlife geographically.
Flag buttons
A small change is the inclusion of a countries' flag on the explore button below geotagged photos:
Simple, but as country flags are very recognizable, a useful update me thinks. Click that button would take you to the country map, but before we do that, let's zoom out a little:
In the global navigation, the "Map" link is renamed to "Explore". Because that is what it does now:
Here were at our gold-old global wildlife map. I've made several improvements in the centering and zooming of the map on various viewports and devices. But that's not the big change, instead, this is:
There's a new control right above the map that basically is a single control to switch between exploring the world and a single country. It is currently set at the global map, but this is what happens if you click it:
A list of countries. Finally. This is an important change as there previously was not such a quick and easy way to dive into countries. They are presented with large, clear flags with a big clickable area so that it also works great on touch devices. On smaller devices, the list will automatically use less columns:
To my US friends who may be annoyed that their country is at the bottom (due to the alphabetical sort order), there's also a search box:
There you go, just typing 2 characters is enough to very quickly find it. Let's click one country:
And here we are, exploring Namibia. Let's have another look at our Explore control:
Cool, isn't it? Clicking the globe brings you back to the global map, clicking the current country brings you back to the country selection screen. A very simple and rapid way to explore countries.
Also new is the ability to share a country:
Which looks like this on Facebook:
Next steps
The 10th and this 11th update both were crucial preparation updates to make possible far bigger things. We now have a smooth way to explore the world per the country dimension, which we did not have before. However, the true value of this work will show in the coming updates.
Countries, as they are now, are still shallow, consisting of only a map of pins. But that will change, soon. I'm very excited about the next phase, and also somewhat troubled, as there are some hard nuts to crack.
JungleDragon 4 - Update 10 »
We're only in february, and here is already the 10th update of JungleDragon V4. The past 9 updates made improvements in many areas, and also added a few new features, such as "seasons" and species integration on user profiles.
All of those updates were done to clear my list, so that I can focus on the big idea of JungleDragon V4: the deep integration of countries and parks throughout the site. It's an initiative that likely will take a few months in total to implement. This specific update does the internal rewiring and ground work to make the idea possible in the first place.
This update is important, but has no impact on users yet. Therefore, the following is for people interested in the internal engine. It may be a bit boring, sorry. Here goes:
1. Data standardization
So the big idea is for countries to become a strong entity within JungleDragon, collecting photos, species, parks, users, and more. For that to work, we need to have a standardized list of countries.
More specifically, our internal list of countries must match exactly with the countries one gets back from Google Maps. When you geotag a photo, you position a photo at a longitude and latitude. Next, I call Google's reverse geocoding API to retrieve a human-readable address based on those coordinates, which contains a country component. That country that we get back, must match our country list.
I went ahead and created a new internal countries table, based on ISO 3166-1, the standard used by Google. The country table has the following fields:
- code (2 letter)
- code_alpha3 (3 letter)
- name (ISO)
- name (display)
- continent code
There's 249 rows. To finish this data standardization task, I also collected icons for all 249 countries, and named the files as per the 2-letter country code.
2. Linking users to the new countries table
Users in JungleDragon are able to fill out a country on their profile. If they do this, a flag will appear on their profile for that country, which is also a link to the map of that country. This flag was linked to the old (inconsistent) country table, so it is now rewired to the new, standardized table.
I had to do a tiny data migration. Country code "UK" is not an ISO country, so I changed that one to "GB" for any user that filled out "UK".
3. Linking geotagged photos to the new countries table
During the uploading of photos (if the photo has geo coordinates) I run logic to calculate the country from the coordinates, the same is true when you geotag a photo after uploading directly in JungleDragon. Up until now, this was a matter of storing the country display name as returned from Google Maps on the image record. As of now, instead the countries' ISO code is used, which is a far stronger and more reliable link.
4. Decoupling the global map from the country map
JungleDragon's global wildlife map and the country map before really were the same thing, the only difference being a parameter (country) being passed in. These 2 concepts (global and country) are now competely separated in my back-end, and they also have separate pages.
This way, a country as of now is really an entity in JungleDragon. You cannot yet see that as part of this update, but in the engine it is. One first improvement that is already visible is that when you now open a country map, it will not load all map pins, only those of the selected country, which is faster.Coming up next
I told you this update was boring. Yet with this update, I can implement the real improvements:
- country photos
- country species
- country parks
- country users
- etc
I'm not going to deliver those in a big bang, I will deliver them one by one. Stay tuned!
Book review: Responsible Responsive Design »
Yesterday I was confronted with how much I depend on internet connectivity. Whilst working from home that day, at around 3PM my 7 year old cable-company-owned modem broke down completely.
In turn, this pretty much breaks down our household. I couldn't do anything for work anymore, as it is all online. I read my news online. I don't watch regular TV, I watch Netflix. I don't listen to the radio, I listen to Spotify. I can't manage my website JungleDragon, nor can I develop anything for it, as it is all online. I can't game, as that too is online. Henriette does her work online, as well as her series and casual gaming. All shutdown.
Henriette and I were joking that we rather have our heating shut down than the internet. Petty first world problems? Very much, but it gave me an opportunity to actually read a book, the above one. I had asked for it for my birthday, and now would be a great time to actually read it. So I did, and I finished it in a single night.
I've read several books on responsive web design about 2 or 3 years back, after which I applied many of those new learnings by completely redesigning JungleDragon to be responsive. That effort which took over a year, has taught me many hard lessons on the subject, so it's not a new topic for me.
However, the world of responsive design, mobile-first, and performance-tuning on the web is constantly moving. Many people struggle applying these 3 concepts in a practical approach, and that is where this book helps. Through many examples and clear writing, one is taught how to develop websites and components from the ground up to be accessible, fast and flexible, which are conditions for a user experience to work in today's web where we have an explosion of devices and ways in which those devices are used.
Whilst many of the individual topics were not new to me, some chapters offered extra depth, teaching me new things. In particular I found the chapters on performance tuning great. It has info like a performance budget, using a speed index, loading strategies that are non-blocking, all relatively fresh concepts that inspired me to learn more about it after reading this.
The writing style is clear and at times entertaining, and overall this book packs a lot of value. If many of these things are new to you, I would consider it a must-read with a lot of value. If you're a bit more seasoned in these topics, it's still a good read.
I have few critical notes on the book, but I do have a few small ones. Sometimes I think the author goes a little overboard in implementing complicated ways to support ancient browsers. It makes me wonder if the medicine isn't worse than the disease, if you know what I mean. The pattern of the book too often is, here's a problem, here...include this library to solve it. I wonder how all of that ends up in a real world big website, whether that complexity and size stays managable. Actually, I don't wonder that, because I've seen it.
Still, this is more criticism on the web itself, rather than on this book. In fact, it turns out that several useful libraries and web initiatives were once invented by this author and the group he works for. In fact, you could even say that about a dozen people on this world are doing most of the heavy lifting in moving our web forward. It's amazing how much these people give back, and this author is one of them.
To make a long story short, would I recommend this book to anyone? No, I would recommend it to everyone.


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"new christmas tale"
This is a story along the lines of "The Little Drummer Boy" or "A Christmas Carol" wherein a societal outsider is brought into the fold by the story of Christmas. The outsiders in this case are wrong-side-of-the-tracks fatherless children who end up barging into and taking over the local church Christmas pageant. The funniest parts are the tales of the Herdman kids' extensive history of delinquincy, as well as their naive takes on a story they've never heard before. The other adults and children and their outlooks are nicely realized. Best of all was the narrator: She had the perfect character voice for this type of story, like someone's grandma recounting a memorable slice of her adolescence. I listened with two early teens, who laughed all the way through.
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Tiit Vahi- majority owner of Silmet Group- has sold the controlling share in Silmet- the manufacturer of rare earth metals- to Russian businessmen.
Today's Aripaev writes that Vahi who is ex-Prime Minister sold 50 pct plus one share to a Swiss-registered Zimal SA that is controlled by Russian businesses.
Vahi is believed to have acquired over EEK 200 mln for his holding in Silmet that is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of rare earth metals.
Vahi himself says that Zimal which extracts raw materials in Russia will solve Silmet's raw material problelms.
Zimal is controlled by Mineral Group which owns a majority stake in Russian mines that extract loparite and magnesium.
"Until now we did not have a stable access to raw materials. Now- thanks to the deal- our plant will have practically unlimited access to various natural resources in the Kola peninsula and primary processing of raw materials in the Perm area-" said Vahi- adding that the deal will make Silmet the major competitor for China in producing rare earth metals.
Silmet Group continues to own around 40 pct of Silmet. The remaining 10 pct is owned by an Austrian company Treibacher Industrie AG.
The three largest dividends were last year earned by Armin Karu, owner of Olympic Entertainment Group, Sergei Petrov and Sonny Aswani, according to the Äripäev.COMMENTS (7)
AlcorDistillery that started operations last autumn in the production premises of Onistar after the latter went bankrupt ows 2.1 million euros in excise duties and VAT, but the company's owners say this is normal, writes Äripäev.
Edgar Savisaar, chairman of Estonia's largest opposition party, writes in Äripäev that he has an economic plan that will make Estonia's economy to grow 2 to 3 times faster than the EU average. COMMENTS (16)
Andreessen Horowitz – the venture capital firm created by Netscape and Opsware founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz - has led a Series C $58m round in Europe's leading financial tech start-up TransferWise, according to a company announcement.COMMENTS (1)
Estonia must become a New Nordic Country, ie a world leader in terms of personal and economic freedoms, a country with a Nordic standard of living and level of safety, while being socially and technologically more dynamic and flexible than the "old" Nordic countries, Prime Minister Taavi Roivas said at the Reform Party convention on Saturday.COMMENTS (20)
Estonian Air carried 553,147 passengers during 2014, an increase of 0.4 percent over the preceding year.
Estonian businessman Indrek Kuivallik has gone to court against the Latvian state, and is claiming 51 million euros in compensation for his investments, writes Äripäev.COMMENTS (5)
Estonian business news site www.aripaev.ee reported today that it has found a website that allows to search unlisted personal mobile phone numbers with full names of their owners including that of the Estonian PM Taavi Rõivas.COMMENTS (1)
Lithuanian businesses are setting up holding companies in Estonia to benefit from a stable tax system.COMMENTS (2)
Investment expert and columnist Peeter Koppel writes in Äripäev that, for some reason, politicians and people with political ambitions like to toy with ideas that instead of improving the wellbeing will affect those who are the weakest.COMMENTS (13)
Garri Kasparov, the 13-time world champion in chess and one of the fiercest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says that Putin is ready for anything to maintain his high popularity among the Russian population, writes Postimees.COMMENTS (23)
Estonian icecream and frozen goods producer Premia Foods announced today that its ice cream and frozen goods business in Baltic states and Russia will be sold to Food Union, a Ukraine food business.COMMENTS (5)
Estonian media outlets have come under pressure from Neinar Seli over his role in the donation of 250,000 euros to the Estonian Olympic Committee, writes Äripäev.COMMENTS (3)
Estonian state is wrong regarding all Russian capital as a source of potential security risk, writes Äripäev in its editorial. today.COMMENTS (4)
Estonian economy grew 2.4% in the 2nd quarter year on year, Statistics Estonia announced in its COMMENTS (1)
Some 150 Estonian enterprises and organizations, including Health Sickness Fund, are advertising their products in pro-Kremlin state media channels such as RTR Rossija which is also available in Estonia, writes Äripäev.COMMENTS (4)
Estonian-based security-technology provider Guardtime has teamed up with Ericsson AB, the world's biggest maker of wireless-network equipment, to improve the safety and transparency of the data transmitted over its systems, Äripäev reports.COMMENTS (1)
In Tallinn yesterday, US President Barack Obama gave the most important speech about European security — and issued the most important pledge—of the post-Cold War era. No U.S. president since Reagan has used such forceful language against Russia, reported The Atlantic.COMMENTS (8)
Eesti Päevaleht writes that recent leaks from the customer support database of Gamma Group, the UK-based developer of FinFisher (aka FinSpy), one of the world's most powerful surveillance software systems, show that the system is being used also in Estonia, most probably by police or intelligence agencies.COMMENTS (1)
The ambitious plan that is backed by Finnish businessmen and is being promoted by leading IRL politician Eerik-Niiles Kross to build Europe's largest data warehouse in Estonia raises doubts, writes Delovye Vedomosti.COMMENTS (5)
Estonian listed ferry group Tallink and Bridgemans Services Ltd. have entered into a charter agreement to charter Tallink's cruise ferry Silja Europa to Australia from August2014 as an accommodation vessel. COMMENTS (7)
The supervisory board of Enterprise Estonia (EAS) on Wednesday appointed Hanno Tomberg as new head of the business support agency, write Postimees.COMMENTS (3)
European transport commissioner Siim Kallas warns that economically, Estonia must move forward as otherwise it would run out of steam.COMMENTS (5)
More and more wealthy Russians and Ukrainians who are concerned about instable political and economic situation in their countries are now investing in Estonian real estate, writes Äripäev.COMMENTS (8)
In 2013, average monthly gross wages were 949 euros and the average hourly gross wages were 5.73 euros. COMMENTS (2)
Estonian shipper Tallink Grupp carried 756,101 passengers in May, 4.6 percent less than in the same month in 2013.COMMENTS (6)
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Four employees of Information Board (Teabeamet), the Estonian foreign intelligence service, are suspected of embezzlement.


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The villa offers stylish ambiance and exclusive amenities for the discerning.
Enjoy the, with attention to detail in 2009 newly furnished villa on 230 sqm total living space and 1000sqm waterfront property with manicured tropical garden and private boat dock and have about 3 carpeted bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, both with bath and shower, 2 modern living room with open kitchen fully equipped, including a breakfast bar.
All rooms are centrally air-conditioned and have 4 large patio doors giving access to the pool area. The spacious living area can be with the 47 'HD LCD TV, home theater with DVD, telephone and WIFI Flaterate nothing to be desired. A large 10x4m heated and lighted pool with comfortable seating and lounge furniture and a BBQ (gas) invites you to relax, as well as fishing from the private Holzdock. The spacious pool / patio area is protected with a screen over the entire width of the house. Be all to yourself and enjoy it.
Sporting activities: For the fishermen of the water channel is very popular and therefore our wooden terrace in the river extremely ideal for all anglers. Active sports enthusiasts you are a kayak for 2 people and 2 bikes available that you can use for free. The heated pool has a length of 12m, so just right for avid swimmers. Sun worshipers at the pool or the popular Holzdock under slight breeze the ideal summer tan. With an incredible silence you immediately forget your everyday stress and relax there.
Do you want to operate more sporty? Diving, swimming, sailing, horse riding, surfing, water skiing, paragliding, tennis, golf, and more golf! More than 40 parks and lakes for a picnic and relax.
In Matlacha, Pineland Marina and 4-Winds Marina in Bookelia can rent boats, pontoon boats can also be rented on a daily basis. Who can go llieber can enjoy the organized daily boat tours to Cayo Costa, Cabbage Key and Boca Grande
Excursions: Sun Splash Water Park in Cape Coral with huge water slides. 15 minutes. removed. Edison / Ford Winter Estates (museum) in Fort Myers. 15 minutes. removed Miromar Outlets shopping until the credit card glows. Over 120 brands (Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Reebok, Levis, etc.) direct sales. 30 minutes. JN "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Iceland. 30 minutes. Babcock Wilderness Adventures in Punta Gorda. Here it comes with Swamp buggies (swamp vehicles) through the middle of the wilderness. 30 minutes. The Everglades are a national park, where you can admire rare plants and animals. 60 minutes. Busch Gardens in Tampa is an amusement park and the small alternative to the Disney parks. 2 hrs Miami Beach is well worth seeing and can be reached in 2.5 hours. The parks in Orlando as the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, MGM Studios, and Sea World are very popular and can be reached by car in about 3 hours. Cape Canaveral, reached in 4 hours
Easy access from Germany / Car :: Easy access! Flights from Germany (LTU / Air Berlin from Dusseldorf and Munich, Condor from Frankfurt) in 8-9 hours non-stop, ideally after Mt Myers (a 30 minute drive from the property). Pick up rental car directly at the airport! In Fort Myers Airport Shuttle is no longer necessary! Alternatively Getting there: Fly to Miami (about 2.5 hour drive from the property) or Orlando (3:20 drive to the house). In addition to the villa we rent two-CAR, an SUV Lincoln Navigator V8 and a Toyota Solara Convertible V6, and a HARLEY DAVIDSON V-Rod. The cars and the Harley can be germietet 'away from home' if you are not our guests. All information about how we send the prices are available on request.
We will pick you up at the airport in Fort Myers personally and bring you on departure back. This service is free of charge and allows you to start your holiday from the beginning ...
Treat yourself to the pleasure you deserve it!
My husband and I spent the month of March, 2011 in this villa and totally enjoyed every moment of it. The villa has upgrade furnishings and a beautiful pool and lanai. We had wonderful weather the whole month so we were able to use the heated pool everyday and we ate most of our meals out on the lanai which is screened in so there was no worries about bugs. There are many restaurants and shops close by if you choose to eat out. Kerstin and Eberhart, the owners were extremely helpful to us throughout our stay. We hope to be able to return for the month of March again next year. If you decide to rent this villa, you will not be disappointed. It is extremely clean and exactly as shown in the pictures on this site.
I stayed here at the start of October 2010. Had a really relaxing break from things.
The villa was extremely well looked after and maintained and very clean & luxurious. The local couple managing the villa were very friendly and helpful. The villa is a minutes walk away from a small parade of shops including a Pizza Hut and some sandwich shops etc, as well there is Walgreens (Like a Tesco/Sainsbury Local) just around the corner, and a Publix (larger supermarket) and Target a couple of minutes walk.
The location is a quiet area with some nice views along the canals and wildlife (herons etc) were spotted regularly.
Fort Myers Airport (RSW), is the closest airport and very clean and modern and easy to get a taxi to/from. Had no delays at the airport and a smooth journey. The taxis were reasonable priced and drivers friendly. Quick and easy to plane transfers from/to Miami airport as well from Fort Myers.
The owner was very helpful and was very easy to communicate with regardless of language difference, and was very quick to reply and provide details/contracts and was happy to hold the villa for a short period while other travel arrangements were booked.
Would definitely recommend to anyone wanting a break from things, or for groups/families. Didn't venture too far but didn't seem like a popular location for the partying type but that was perfect for me.
We have vacationed in Cape Coral many times and Villa Margarita is one of the best if not the best we have stayed in. It was as advertised and then some. It has been completly refurbished and everything was shiny new. The kitchen is very useable, the master bedroom spacious, and the master bath was to die for. Location off Santa Barbara was very convenient to restaurants and shopping. Amenities include a beautiful pool and lanai, Wi-Fi, trail bikes, kayak, and other goodies. Kersten Ehrle was a wonderful host. Her attention to detail made our stay memorable and her pricing was very affordable. We will certainly be back soon.
Kurz, hier stimmt einfach alles. Haus - TOP, Lage - SUPER, Vermieter - SPITZE und eine sehr gute Betreuung. Wir waren das erste mal in Cape Coral bei Kerstin & Ebi und haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt, Den Vorgängern können wir uns nur anschließen, bei Kerstin & Ebi Häuser mieten, da machst du nichts verkehrt.
Einfach Urlaub pur!!!
Nochmals vielen Dank!
Reiner & Cordi aus Zella - Mehlis
Wir hatten jetzt schon zum zweiten Mal ein Ferienhaus von Kerstin und Ebi gebucht. Wie auch das erste Mal in der Villa Sunset Lake war alles top. Die beiden halten ihre Häuser super in Schuss und man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass alles so angetroffen wird, wie es beschrieben ist! Bei Problemen sind sie sofort zur Stelle und helfen.
Auch die Bootsvermietung klappt wunderbar. Wir hatten das Boot für drei Tage gemietet und waren sehr zufrieden mit der Einweisung und der Abwicklung!
Bei unserem nächsten Floridaurlaub werden wir sicher wieder bei Kerstin und Ebi buchen und können ohne Einschränkung die Häuser der beiden empfehlen!
Danke noch einmal für die gute Betreuung!
Wir waren im April Eberhards und Kerstins Gäste und können uns den durchweg positiven Bewertungen nur anschließen.
Von der schönen und auch für Unternehmungen günstigen Lage über die tadellose Ausstattung des Hauses bis zur Hilfsbereitschaft und Freundlichkeit der Vermieter hat einfach rundum alles gepasst.
Vielen Dank nochmal an Ebi und Kerstin und uneingeschränkte Empfehlung an alle, die einen entspannten Urlaub in Florida verbringen möchten.
Stephanie, Jörg, Bene und Lara
The Villa Margarita is located in Southwest Florida in one of the most beautiful and peaceful areas in the popular SO the idyllic lagoon city of Cape Coral near Veteran's Bridge and Santa Barbara Blvd. It is detached and located in a prime residential area. Due to its central yet quiet location you can reach Publix (supermarket) and target only a 5 minute walk, good restaurants in 8 minutes.
To the Sun Splash Water Park is only five minutes by car, in just 6 minutes to the Cape Coral Beach, the white beach of Fort Myers Beach is only 20 minutes drive. In Cape Coral, more than 400 miles (650 km) of waterways and lakes glisten in the sun. Cape Coral - one of the safest cities in Florida and known as a paradise for boaters and golfers, situated between the Caloosahatchee River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Endless beaches, unspoiled nature, like Sanibel Captiva Is & their wonderful clam beaches provide a paradise for water sports enthusiasts and those seeking tranquility at the same time
Other Activities: boating, canoeing, swimming, running
Golf: Cape Coral and the surrounding area has some of the most challenging golf courses in Florida. Players of all handicaps will enjoy challenging rounds of golf on 'top rated championship courses'.
Cape Coral has 3 golf courses (Royal Tee Country Club at Cape Royal 27 (holes), Coral Oaks Golf Club and Burnt Store Marina & Golf (27 holes) as well as 50 more of all levels in the immediate vicinity!
In Cape Coral: Coral Oaks Golf Course, 1800 NW 28th Ave, Cape Coral, FL 33993, (239) 573-3100, public, 18 hole, 6056 yard, par 72, CR-71st 7, S-123 Cape Coral Executive Golf Course, 1006 SE 4th Pl, Cape Coral, FL 33990, (239) 574-4454, semi-private, 9 hole, 3228 yard, par 60, CR-56th 4, S-85 Royal Tee Country Club King / Prince Course, 11460 Royal Tee Circle, Cape Coral, FL 33991, (239) 283-5522, semi-private, 18 hole, 6159 yard, par 72, CR-71st 5, S-126 Prince / Queen Course, 11460 Royal Tee Circle, Cape Coral, FL 33991, (239) 283-5522, semi-private, 18 hole, 5547 yard, par 72, CR-71st 3, S-126 Queen / King Course, 11460 Royal Tee Circle, Cape Coral, FL 33991, (239) 283-5522, semi-private, 18 hole, 6011 yard, par 72, CR-71st 4, S-128 Palmetto-Pine Country Club, 1940 SW 9th Ct, Cape Coral, FL 33991, (239) 574-2141, private, 18-hole, 6148 yard, par 72, CR-72. 1, S-126.
The places you should call if you are interested for information on green fees and tee times to reconcile. Cape Coral is a paradise for golfers .. unbeatable.
Ski: Information for boaters: There is the possibility of separate boat rental (minimum age 21 years). A boat license is not required in Florida! Board a motorboat your holiday perfect. Ask us. Motorsport boats (18 'to 28') can be reserved or rented through us. If necessary, a reservation is recommended. Rental rates per week of $ 750 to $ 1,700 plus admission ($ 125), final cleaning ($ 25) and deposit ($ 500). For the holidays, such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas, the landlord reserve a surcharge. All the above prices are subject to 6% Florida Tax (VAT). The deposit must be lodged with our administrator at hiring.
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Wir haben ein Herz für Kinder - 2 Kinder bis 6 Jahre wohnen kostenfrei, 2 Kinder bis 12 Jahre bekommen 50% Rabatt.
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Trash artist Shinique Smith's secret garden. Participants listen to stories about colors and clothing, and then make their own fabric rainbow baton to parade in Shinique's giant maze.
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just the Round-Up - The week in drinks
By Olly Wehring | 25 October 2013
The week in drinks
The top ten stories published on just-drinks this week:
Vinexpo has yet to give the final go-ahead for its new Tokyo show, it has emerged, days after the wine fair organisers confirmed it has had to cancel its inaugural Beijing event.
Heineken has declined to comment on fresh reports that it is in talks to raise its stake in India's United Breweries.
Stock Spirits has set an offer price of GBP2.35 per share for its initial public offering (IPO) in London, valuing the company at around GBP470m (US$757.9m).
MillerCoors has announced a shake-up of its workforce which will include 200 workers leaving the group.
Anadolu Efes has promoted the CEO of its Coca-Cola Icecek unit to be its next leader.
Heineken has flagged that it expects its full-year profits to come in down on 2012, as the brewer's net profits slipped in Q3.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) has seen a return to net profits growth in its year-to-date, but warned that the market remains "extremely challenging".
Pernod Ricard has blamed a slowdown in China and emerging markets for a Q1 sales drop, but has maintained that FY organic profits should still come in positive.
Coca-Cola Enterprises saw volume growth return in its third quarter, but year-to-date profits are down and on-going market challenges persist.
Carlsberg is aiming to make M&A opportunities easier to pursue with proposed changes to its ownership structure.
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Stormy Peters announced on her OpenLogic blog that she accepted the Executive Director position with the GNOME Foundation. Stormy has a long history with the GNOME community and was one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board in 2000. On her blog, Stormy says, "I found the GNOME community extremely welcoming and passionate about their project. They got me hooked on open source and I've been spreading the word ever since." Stormy is continuing with OpenLogic in an advisory role.comments powered by Disqus
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When people legitimately challenged Andrew's point of view - providing him with logic, evidence and counter-argument - Andrew did what any Ukip-loving coward does - he hid behind a paranoid and imagined claim of persecution to avoid responding to the challenges leveled his way.
I suspect most of us want to see an effective international aid programme. But only by addressing some of the institutional processes by which money is awarded and projects assessed are we likely to feel as confident as we ought that British international aid is making the difference it should, and difference it could.
Are these slogan tops actually helping gender equality progress? Or is feminism just being lost in a pile of t-shirts and squabbling politicians? Women need to see policies for gender inequality being addressed pronto. What we don't need is politicians squabbling over a bloody feminism t-shirt.
You actually called yourself a Feminist the other day and I couldn't have been more surprised or prouder. I asked you if you'd refer to yourself as a Feminist and you said "Yes I'm a Feminist- unreservedly. As a proselytising libertarian, I believe in freedom, equality and the rights of all men, which includes women". I thought- wow, that's my dad. The Feminist. My hero.
As a strategy, it's not only heartless, but ineffective. Building barriers will not stop people attempting to scale them, not when they are fleeing for their lives. The UK should be pressing for a Europe-wide system which allows people to access protection safely; and in the meantime, contributing to a rescue operation that saves lives, instead of justifying leaving people to drown.
It's really easy to write a tweet, a status update or a blog about something that annoys you. The blogs I've written so far have mostly been reaction pieces to news and, reading back, I've found they're not necessarily upbeat.
The system isn't yet perfect and there is always more that can be done. Once we have reached true equality, then women's magazines will stop asking the Prime Minister to wear t-shirts to try and publicise the cause. But until then, I'll be wearing one on his behalf.
While it may be more comforting to consider these men but lone wolves acting upon their own deranged ideas, that no longer seems to be the case. In this age of social media and easily accessible information in which we live, it is no longer necessary for contact to be made for a message to be passed on.
The mess over the budget demands is simply a stage in that process and should be recognised as such but understanding its nature won't be much help. It has all gone too far now and it is way beyond the reforming zeal of Mr Cameron and his friends to put right. If we want to realise the original dream we will have to burn the tree down and start again.
Politicians in the UK are gearing up for next year's general election. Certain issues are already dividing the battleground, with one issue being proposed as a vote winner by the party in power, the Conservatives. That issue is the scrapping of the loved and loathed Human Rights Act (HRA)...
On Thursday and Friday of this week, Prime Minister, David Cameron, will join his counterparts from across Europe at the EU Energy Council. Their task - to decide upon the level of ambition Europe will set itself for reducing carbon emissions by 2030.
The ominous thud as the energy bill lands on the doormat remains the single biggest financial worry for Britons, confirmed by research out last week, which showed that concern about energy costs continues to outpace our worries about mortgages, food or fuel bills.
For many it never really went away but the political agenda is currently being dominated by the issues, politicians and parties of the right.
Today two children will deliver a 20,000 signature petition to number ten Downing Street. Sinead Bourne, aged 10, and six-year old Khadijah Jahan, will also hand over a large pile of letters from school children across the country asking David Cameron to make their walk to school safer and easier.
Farage is endlessly indulged by most UK journalists, notably the increasingly Eurosceptic BBC. He will survive this latest manifestation of how rickety his political edifice really is. But for those who place hopes in the European Parliament as an institution of prestige and democratic importance, this latest comedy is not encouraging.
This government is presiding over the unravelling of the fabric of nature. On our small part of the planet our approach to pollinators is a local example of what is a growing, global 'biodiversity crisis'. Sir David Attenborough has talked about this crisis leading not only to great physical impoverishment but to great spiritual impoverishment as well. It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.


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Opryland USA and Group W Satellite Communications have completed their purchase of Country Music Television. David Hall has been named president and Robert H. Baker its director of operations.
Under the new plan, CMT, which has 12.5 million subs, will be managed by a six-member board of directors headed by Tom Griscom, sr. v.p., broadcasting, Opryland USA.
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County teams compete in district robotics
Four Allegan County schools participated in the Gull Lake FIRST Robotics District Competition March 12-14, in an effort to compete with the 40 teams attending the event.
Four Allegan County schools participated in the Gull Lake FIRST Robotics District Competition March 12-14, in an effort to compete with the 40 teams attending the event.
The city of Wayland is hosting an open house input session Thursday, March 19, to collect ideas for a new police facility and renovation of the fire department.
Seventeen percent of children in Allegan County are living in poverty, a 32-percent increase over six years, according to the Kids Count in Michigan Data Book 2015.
(UPDATED) No serious injuries were reported after two cars collided Friday, March 20, at approximately 7:30 a.m. on M-89 west of Otsego.
Otsego senior Chris Pearl hadn't been feeling quite like himself for a few days. More like 371 days, really.
Fennville High School band recently received a first division rating at the MSBOA District 10 Band and Orchestra Festival, the first Division I rating for the school since 1998.
An assessment roll to repay $315,000 in costs to replace a dam at Miner Lake was approved by county commissioners at the Thursday, March 12, meeting.
Plainwell High School offered a new teen leadership class this year and it is a big hit among students, according to presenters at the Monday, March 2, school board worksession.
An ad hoc committee formed by the Plainwell School Board following a negative report on the district's culture, reported to the board at its Monday, March 2, work session.
County commissioners voted 4 to 3 to focus on adding 93 new parking spaces in the footprint of the former county jail when it is demolished later this year.
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You won't hear Microsoft say this out loud, but secretly they are celebrating Google's contribution of the Android mobile phone platform to the Open Handset Alliance. At least they ought to be. Android is perhaps the best thing to happen to Microsoft since they won the browser wars in the 1990s.
And given Verizon's announcement yesterday that they will be opening up their network to any device and operating system that meets a "minimum technical standard" it seems that Android may have legs even if Google doesn't secure the 700 MHz spectrum.
Microsoft's biggest competitor in the software development industry has been, for the past 12 years, Sun Microsystems' Java Platform. Starting in the mid to late 1990s Java began to gain mind share among developers in every area in which Microsoft has an interest. Today, with over 6 million developers (according to Sun) Java clearly dominates the software development industry. Point in fact, Microsoft had to completely revamp their software development platform in 2000 to mimic the Java platform in order to complete; enter Microsoft .NET. While Microsoft .NET has been extremely successful at winning back a portion of the developer community from the Java platform, Java has remained the darling of the enterprise and perhaps the most successful software development platform in the history of computing. Microsoft really doesn't like the Java platform very much. Java is Microsoft's biggest competitor and is arguably the platform to beat.
The Java platform and its standardization process is not perfect. A series of missteps by Sun Microsystems and the Java Community Process (JCP) have contributed to the growing success of Microsoft .NET. The JCP which defines the Java standards has allowed the enterprise platform, Java EE, to become unbearably complex and has created an ecosystem for its mobile platform, Java ME, that is terribly fragmented despite its overwhelming penetration (8 out of 10 phones ship with Java). The foundational platform, Java SE, however has remained a strong competitor and has given up very little ground to Microsoft, but all that is about to change with the introduction of Google's Android mobile platform.
To put it bluntly, Android as it is currently defined is a fork of the Java ME platform. Android is similar to the Java ME, but it's a non-conformant implementation. Android is not compliant with Java ME nor is it compliant with Java SE. In fact, it's not really Java. Although it uses the Java programming language, the core APIs and the virtual machine are not consistent with the Java ME or SE platform - its a fork. This was first pointed out by Stefano Mazzocchi in his November 12th Blog entry entitled "Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME". Stefano missed the fact that Android does not properly implement the CDC or CLDC Java ME APIs ( a minimum requirement for Java ME conformance) - but kudos to him for being the first to report on the fork. The fork has since been picked up in the blogsphere by others here, here and elsewhere.
The forking of Java is good news for Microsoft for a couple of reasons. First, from a marketing perspective the Java platform's greatest strength is standardization and multi-vendor (e.g. IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc.) support. In comparison, Microsoft .NET is a portrayed as a proprietary platform that locks-in organizations to the Microsoft platform. That's the marketing message which has been used by Java proponents for a decade and it has been extremely successful. But now, with the introduction of Android, the solidarity around the Java platform could crumble. If Android, as it's currently defined, is successful then Java will no longer be consistently implemented at a fundamental level.
Microsoft offers an excellent mobile platform of its own, Windows Mobile and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. It's proprietary, that's true, but it's consistently implemented and extremely powerful platform for developing Rich Mobile Applications (RMAs). In comparison, Java ME is a standard that has a wealth of functionality and is supported by dozens of vendors, but its implemented inconsistently across mobile devices making it extremely difficult to develop applications that will "write once, run anywhere". If Android succeeds (time will tell) then Java on mobile devices will loose its hold on the market. Android may win, but Java ME will loose. If I was on the Windows Mobile and .NET CF marketing department I would be popping the cork on a huge bottle of
OK, so if the Java mobile platform will falter because of the introduction Android, how does that impact Java SE? After all, Java SE is used for desktop and server-side development. How is that threatened by a mobile platform? Good question. Here's why: Sun has been moving toward unifying the Java ME and Java SE platforms for a while now. This was pointed out in an excellent analysis by Caroline Gabriel of Rethink Research. As part of the evidence for her argument Caroline references a quote from James Gosling the "father" in a CNET interview just last month.
"We're trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. Cell phones and TV set-top boxes are growing up," Gosling said at a Java media event here Wednesday. "That convergence is going to take years."
But don't take James Gosling's word for just take a look at JavaFX Mobile, which Sun Microsystems announced earlier this year. It's based on the full Java SE platform, not Java ME. In a nutshell Sun Microsystems isn't betting on Java ME for the long-hall, they are betting on Java SE. After all, Java ME was developed for "constrained devices" with limited memory and processing power. However, as technology advances that label no longer applies to mobile phones in general. Smartphones are becoming powerful, if smaller, computers with complete operating systems, lots of processing power and plenty of memory. The era when mobile phones are simple appliances is coming to an end - mobile phones are becoming a complete computing platform.
The reason a phase out of Java ME and the extension of Java SE to mobile is so important to Sun Microsystems, is that it meets Sun's original goal for Java. It establishes a single platform for all computing devices. It makes excellent sense and improves the argument that Java is a standard consistently implemented across computing platforms. Sadly, however, by the time that happens Android may have already Balkanized the mobile Java community into Java ME and Android camps. The "one platform to bind them all" party may be over before it gets started.
Assuming the demise of Java ME as a standard platform for mobile development is nearing and that Java SE will take its place, the question of a consistent platform across all computing devices becomes even more important. How do you sell people on Java? You tell them that it's a standard used across mobile, desktop, and server applications. You tell people that the skills your enterprise developers gain writing desktop and server-side applications will translate directly to the mobile platform.
Unfortunately Android undoes that. It tells the industry that Java is not consistent across computing platforms and that using the Java language, but not the APIs or virtual machine is just fine as long as the end result is a workable solution. That leads us to the assumption that if it works for the mobile industry than why not the desktop or the server-side? Why can't other vendors introduce platforms that use the Java programming language and some of the Java APIs, but is otherwise inconsistent with the Java platform? What's the harm of IBM or Oracle having their own version of Java as long as it works? You'll find the answer to that question in historical records when when Sun Microsystems successfully stopped Microsoft from adding proprietary extensions to the Java platform in the 1990's. As pointed out by Maureen O'Gara there is some irony here.
"The sweet irony is that this greatest threat to Java since Microsoft should come from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the guy who originally led Java development at Sun and signed the contract with Microsoft, leading to the Java wars."
Java's greatest strength today is uniformity and ubiquity. Take away uniformity and you end up with many different kinds of Java and so there is no real ubiquity. Take away ubiquity and there is very little incentive to choose the Java platform over other options like Microsoft .NET. In fact, Microsoft .NET starts looking a lot more attractive because it is consistently implemented; not Balkanized. If .NET is just as powerful as Java, why choose a solution such as Java that is inconsistently implemented across vendors? The strongest marketing asset that Java has today, "write once, run anywhere" standardization, is effectively lost.
|derk 05/28/08 12:09:35 AM EDT
"I would be popping the cork on a huge bottle of Champaign the day Android is released."
What if Android also has WinMobile and .Net compact beaten altogether? How would you celebrate? Google has enough influence that they can simply build a language out for Android and make it standard to develop everything. Their followers will move in and make it popular. I don't think Google need to bother on standard that much.
|tmc 12/04/07 02:49:31 PM EST
I don't see this as "gloom and doom" for Java. ME has been the party that everyone was invited to but nobody attended.
No doubt Google has what it takes to define an architecture for the mobile space, and frankly, that's what Java on mobile platforms has needed.
I see this development a win for Java, Sun, and mobile platform developers - and a loss for Microsoft.
|dr 11/30/07 10:28:46 AM EST
Android is described in the article as a non-confirming version of Java. Doesn't that mean its not Java? And, how does a non-Java Android illustrate that Java is no longer ubiquitous? JDJ seems to promote the demise of Java at every opportunity, and this is just one more example.
|Miguel 11/29/07 07:52:12 AM EST
Your comment about Google's branch of Java undermining SE is a stretch. I've been building trading systems for more than a decade and working with Java since 1.2. My view is that Wall Street uses Java because it is a solid, productive platform that runs on a variety of data center class hardware. Microsoft does not compete at all in this space, and therefore .NET will fail to capture the server side.
SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors.
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust I...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to "Bridge the Gap" between Personal and Professional Social, Mobile and Cloud user experiences, our solutions help large and medium-sized organizations dr...
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While not quite mainstream yet, WebRTC is starting to gain ground with Carriers, Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) alike. WebRTC makes it easy for developers to add audio and video communications into their applications by using Web browsers as their platform. But like any market, every customer engagement has unique requirements, as well as constraints. And of course, one size does not fit all. In her session at WebRTC Summit, Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President, Head of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at GENBAND, will explore what is needed to take a real time communications ...
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The world's leading Cloud event, Cloud Expo has launched Microservices Journal on the SYS-CON.com portal, featuring over 19,000 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. Microservices Journal offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. Follow new article posts on Twitter at @MicroservicesE
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Litmus Automation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Litmus Automation's vision is to provide a solution for companies that are in a rush to embrace the disruptive Internet of Things technology and leverage it for real business challenges. Litmus Automation simplifies the complexity of connected devices applications with Loop, a secure and scalable cloud platform.
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SYS-CON Events announced today the IoT Bootcamp – Jumpstart Your IoT Strategy, being held June 9–10, 2015, in conjunction with 16th Cloud Expo and Internet of @ThingsExpo at the Javits Center in New York City. This is your chance to jumpstart your IoT strategy. Combined with real-world scenarios and use cases, the IoT Bootcamp is not just based on presentations but includes hands-on demos and walkthroughs. We will introduce you to a variety of Do-It-Yourself IoT platforms including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark and Intel Edison. You will also get an overview of cloud technologies s...
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Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities. Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 16th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York June 9-11 will find fresh new content in a new track called PaaS | Containers & Microservices Containers are not being considered for the first time by the cloud community, but a current era of re-consideration has pushed them to the top of the cloud agenda. With the launch of Docker's initial release in March of 2013, interest was revved up several notches. Then late last...
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The WebRTC Summit 2015 New York, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 16th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit.
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SOA Software has changed its name to Akana. With roots in Web Services and SOA Governance, Akana has established itself as a leader in API Management and is expanding into cloud integration as an alternative to the traditional heavyweight enterprise service bus (ESB). The company recently announced that it achieved more than 90% year-over-year growth. As Akana, the company now addresses the evolution and diversification of SOA, unifying security, management, and DevOps across SOA, APIs, microservices, and more.
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company's previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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The list of 'new paradigm' technologies that now surrounds us appears to be at an all time high. From cloud computing and Big Data analytics to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today we have to deal with what the industry likes to call 'paradigm shifts' at every level of IT. This is disruption; of course, we understand that – change is almost always disruptive.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SafeLogic has been named "Bag Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. SafeLogic provides security products for applications in mobile and server/appliance environments. SafeLogic's flagship product CryptoComply is a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic engine designed to secure data on servers, workstations, appliances, mobile devices, and in the Cloud.
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GENBAND has announced that SageNet is leveraging the Nuvia platform to deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to its large base of retail and enterprise customers. Nuvia's cloud-based solution provides SageNet's customers with a full suite of business communications and collaboration tools. Two large national SageNet retail customers have recently signed up to deploy the Nuvia platform and the company will continue to sell the service to new and existing customers. Nuvia's capabilities include HD voice, video, multimedia messaging, mobility, conferencing, Web collaboration, deskt...
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SYS-CON Media announced today that @WebRTCSummit Blog, the largest WebRTC resource in the world, has been launched. @WebRTCSummit Blog offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. @WebRTCSummit Blog can be bookmarked ▸ Here @WebRTCSummit conference site can be bookmarked ▸ Here
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the...
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Temasys has announced senior management additions to its team. Joining are David Holloway as Vice President of Commercial and Nadine Yap as Vice President of Product. Over the past 12 months Temasys has doubled in size as it adds new customers and expands the development of its Skylink platform. Skylink leads the charge to move WebRTC, traditionally seen as a desktop, browser based technology, to become a ubiquitous web communications technology on web and mobile, as well as Internet of Things compatible devices.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Vitria Technology, Inc. will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Vitria will showcase the company's new IoT Analytics Platform through live demonstrations at booth #330. Vitria's IoT Analytics Platform, fully integrated and powered by an operational intelligence engine, enables customers to rapidly build and operationalize advanced analytics to deliver timely business outcomes for use cases across the industrial, enterprise, and consumer segments.
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Can't wait... Probably gonna b my last pair of Kobe 8... Price I heard is 150
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Yea... Probably a quick strike and/or limited release... I'm jus surprised they comin to da states to bein wit.. Usually shit like dis is China or euro exclusives.
@212TP @bungaorightnow @Da_Real_Big_Infinite priced at 150?
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