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Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler | |
Born | October 7, 1770 Aarau, Switzerland |
Died | November 20, 1843 |
Residence | Switzerland, United States |
Fields | Surveyor |
Institutions | United States Military Academy United States Coast Survey United States Treasury Department |
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Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (October 7, 1770 – November 20, 1843) was a surveyor who worked mostly in the United States and also in Switzerland. He headed the United States Coast Survey and the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Hassler was born in Aarau, Switzerland. He was employed on the trigonometrical survey of Switzerland before he emigrated to the United States in 1805. He was acting professor of mathematics at West Point from 1807 to 1810. He was employed by the federal government of the United States by 1811 in an effort to begin a Coast Survey.[1] An Act of Congress on February 10, 1807 had appropriated $50,000 to pay for the beginning of the work. Afterward, he became the first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey in 1816. Two years later, the United States Congress passed the control of the Coast Survey to the army, principally, where it lingered until 1832.
Hassler became the head of the Bureau of Weights and Measures in the Treasury Department where he carried out the early work of establishing the standards of weights and measures in the United States, with the involvement of fellow Swiss immigrant Albert Gallatin, who in 1827 brought from Europe a troy pound of brass which was made the standard of mass in 1828. Besides several textbooks of science, Hassler produced a publication in 1828 titled System of the Universe in two volumes.
Hassler undertook a complete investigation of the national standards in 1830. Perhaps the most meaningful national standard to be adopted in 1830 was the gallon at 231 cubic inches. In the United States, however, each State retained the rights to employ its own set of standards of weights and measures. Since 1830, a great deal of national legislation has been enacted, with much of it addressing the acceptance or the rejection of the metric system. The United States Bureau of Standards was created by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1901.
As mentioned above, the Coast Survey languished for 14 years from 1818 to 1832. In 1823, 1824, and 1825, the Navy Department tried to establish a hydrographic office. Also, the Survey was a source of discussions in Congress, which finally passed a law on July 10, 1832 that resulted in the removal of the Survey away from the army and the navy. Hassler was appointed the superintendent of the Survey on August 9, 1832, and he served in that post until his death on November 20, 1843. The steamship owned by the Coast Survey was named the Hassler.
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler's granddaughter, Mary Caroline Hassler Newcomb, married the much noted astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb. Simon and Mary Caroline Hassler Newcomb were themselves the grandparents of the also much noted professor of mathematics, Hassler Whitney. Simon and Mary Caroline had three daughters, Anita Newcomb McGee, Josepha and Emily Newcomb Wilson, ( my grand mother). Hassler, was Josepha Newcomb Whitney's son.
See also[edit]
- ^ Philbrick, Nathaniel (2003) Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: the U.S. Exploring Expedition Viking Penguin ISBN 9780142004838 pg 22-23, 26-29
- Cajori, Florian (1980). The chequered career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler. New York: Arno Press. p. 245 p. ISBN 0-405-12535-6.
- Linklater, Andro (2002). Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy. New York: Walker & Co. p. 310 p. ISBN 0-8027-1396-3.
Further reading[edit]
Parr, Albert C. (January–February 2006). "A Tale About the First Weights and Measures Intercomparison in the United States in 1832" (PDF). Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 111 (1): 31–40. doi:10.6028/jres.111.003. ISSN 2165-7254.
External links[edit]
- Hassler's biography at USMA Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Hassler's Dilemma from Discover Lewis and Clarc
- Ferdinand Hassler at surveyhistory.org
- History of NOAA Ocean Exploration: Early years
- F.R. Hassler Exhibition 2007
- "Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892.


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Adrien Broner is nicknamed the Problem, but he had serious problems with Marcos Maidana's power on Saturday night, as the Argentine took a shock win in San Antonio.
I really didn't see the previously undefeated Broner losing to a fighter people were saying was past his best, but you have to give it to Maidana.
The 30-year-old made a really quick start and shocked everyone when he put Broner down in the second round - the first time the American had been floored in 28 fights.
Maidana's power really was the telling factor throughout the contest, too.
Once he got the measure of his opponent, Broner wasn't doing too badly, however, he was dropped again in the eighth and every solid hit from the challenger had the WBA welterweight champ in trouble.
I'm not sure many people feel much pity for Broner; he set himself up as the pantomime villain and if you do that you have to accept the boos when they come.
Maidana got Broner on the back-foot and he didn't like it.
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And Broner certainly won't be able to roll out his 'there's no blueprint for beating me' line, anymore. Maidana has shown the way.
Maidana knew he couldn't out-box Broner but he was physically stronger than him so he roughed him up, shook him out of the smooth pace he likes to operate at and made his opponent uncomfortable. He got Broner on the back-foot and he didn't like it.
Maidana's power won this fight - and that makes me wonder whether the leap to welterweight is too much for Broner.
The American became a three-weight world champion by beating Paulie Malignaggi in New York in June but we have to remember he began his career at super-featherweight, won a world title there and then took the WBC lightweight title in November 2012.
He's put 17lbs on from when he started as a pro, which is a lot. Physically he looks like he can carry it and has strength in his upper body but it may take time for him to grow into the 147lbs division.
He now needs to decide whether he wants to stick with this division and challenge the other world title contenders and seek a rematch with Maidana or move down to light-welterweight, which is an option.
Either way Broner is still the talk of the town, TV companies like him and he can rebuild his reputation.
Maidana, meanwhile, will be an interesting prospect for a lot of fighters, now he has the world title to his name.
Amir Khan seems set for a fight with Floyd Mayweather, but has defeated Maidana before and could see this as a chance to get a major strap back - but I actually think Maidana is the ideal opponent for Kell Brook.
Kell was the mandatory challenger for Devon Alexander's IBF welterweight title until Alexander lost to Shawn Porter, so it would be great to see him up against the man from Argentina instead.
Kell knows he'll be in for a tear-up, because the man can punch, but Maidana can also be out-boxed, as we saw at the back end of the Broner fight.
He's strong and Kell could not afford to make mistakes but it would be a great fight - and I see no reason why it couldn't happen.
There was more welterweight action on Sky Sports on Saturday when Lee Purdy just fell short against Leonard Bundu.
In fairness to Purdy, Bundu was absolutely outstanding! I know he's European champion - but where has Bundu been?
The Italian was brilliant - he can bang, he can fight, he can punch... Purdy showed a lot of bottle and took it to him but you could see him wilting as the fight rolled on.
Bundu smartly changed tactics halfway through the fight; he first tried to fight Purdy but saw the man from Essex was comfortable stood in front of him in that kind of battle, so went on to the back foot, used his jab and that's what beat Purdy.
To have the fitness and brain to do that in the heat of the bout was impressive from Bundu.
Purdy produced an excellent performance but in the championship rounds Bundu proved to be too good for him and now the Englishman has to go back to the domestic ranks.
This loss came on the back of a defeat to Alexander and Purdy needs to get back to winning ways to rebuild his confidence.
One man who isn't short on confidence, though, is Kevin Mitchell, who stopped Karim El Ouazghari on the same bill as Purdy at the ExCel in London.
The Romford fighter was outstanding and impressive in everything he did. He's talking about how he's back in love with boxing and when that passion is there he can produce performances like that.
He now should be looking to take on fighters who have their eyes on world title shots - that's what I'd be doing if I was in his position.
He needs to stay busy and if he can record a couple of big wins against ambitious fighters then his confidence and reckoning will grow and grow.
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I think that Kell would be in for a hell of a night with someone like Maidana, if I was Brook i'd go for someone like Paulie Malgnaggi. Big name in the US and it would sell in both countries. Maybe even Zab Judah. Then you could talk about fighting for a title again. I like Kell and I do believe that he will be a world champion but he needs to show that he's got what it takes to fight out of his comfort zone and dominate an opponent that has been there and done it. For me he needs 3 fights this year, 1 against either of the 2 previously mentioned, 2 against a title holder (hopefully win the belt), and 3 against Amir Khan. That for me would be an extremely successful year for the lad.
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Paolo B says...
Maidana has done more than enough to be considered well above the stepping stone status you are giving him here. He deserves some big fights now and Brook is not a big fight at the moment. Brook needs to gain some international credentials first.
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Tim Mcsweeney says...
Thanks to Johnny Nelson for yet another excellent review. He is the perfect boxing analyst ..... knowledgable, humourous and he has been a World Champion himself!! Well done, Johnny!! By the way, I think Maidana is an excellent fighter. He can bang and has never been stopped. I believe he would knock out, Kell Brook (he was rocked - albeit slightly - in his last fight against a weaker punching opponent than Maidana); but like you I would like to see the fight.
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An advanced PET/CT at the University of Mississippi Medical Center dramatically improves clinical, research and educational capabilities through enhanced imaging.
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Warm Bodies - Trailer
A genre-bending take on the zombie tale, told through the eyes of a zombie who falls for a human girl in a post-apocalyptic world.
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The term ''romantic zombie comedy'' (rom-zom-com for short) was coined after Simon Pegg and Nick Frost faced down an army of the undead in Edgar Wright's droll 2004 breakout hit, Shaun of the Dead. Pegg's unlikely hero was a loveable, bumbling loser, whose weapons of choice were a cricket bat and a Dire Straits record. A subgenre of inspired comedic potential was born.
This latest comedy offering of the undead treads a similar path, with About a Boy's Nicholas Hoult, now all grown up, as R - a flesh-eating teen whose devouring of one victim leads him to his prey's tortured partner, Juliet (Australia's Teresa Palmer).
Despite R's actions, Juliet takes a shine to the pallid one, after he saves her life from his ravenous friends. A romantic romp of forbidden love (hence the nod to Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet) swiftly follows. The premise behind this latest effort from Sundance favourite Jonathan Levine (The Wackness in 2008, 50/50 in 2011) is that zombies assume the memories of their victims, before their bodies degenerate into skeletal abominations. So R takes a shine to Juliet, after munching on her beau. Why he hasn't ingested his other victims' memories isn't made clear.
''Don't be a creep,'' R tells himself, as he stares vacantly at her, in an ode to that other tale of yearning, Twilight. Hoult is made to look as pale and gormless as his undead character should. Palmer looks suitably alluring on screen, as ever. John Malkovich is a hoot as her barmy dad, leader of the people's army out to fight the wretched zombies 'til the last stiff drops, well, down dead.
Yet for an audience now accustomed to the smarts of TV's The Walking Dead as much as they are the yawnsome fawnings of Twilight, Warm Bodies might feel too lightweight to merit any lasting impact.
Still, it provides a vehicle for Hoult as a young adult seeking leading-man status. Palmer has already made a strong impression Stateside, thanks to turns in I Am Number Four, Take Me Home Tonight and, more recently, Wish You Were Here (which has just been released in the US). Malkovich is a wizened old master with such stuff.


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5 Ideas for Amazon AWS
Although the number of solutions Amazon AWS is offering has become very large, here are 5 ideas of what Amazon could be adding next.
API Marketplaces
There are thousands of APIs out there. However what is missing is an easy way for companies to control their costs. In line with other marketplaces Amazon runs, there could be an API marketplace. An API marketplace would allow third-party API providers to let Amazon do the charging. Companies would be able to pay one bill to Amazon AWS and use thousands of APIs. Also third-party API providers would be winning because they often can not charge small amounts to a large set of developers. Amazon already sends you a bill or charges your credit card, hence adding some dollar/euro cents for external API usage would be easy to do. The third-party API provider would avoid having to lock-in users in large monthly usage fees to offset credit card and management charges. Amazon of course would be the big winner because they could get a revenue share on these thousands of APIs. End-users would also be winning because they can easily compare different APIs and get community feedback from other developers and pick those APIs with the best reputation. The typical advantages of any online marketplace. Also cross-selling, advertisement, etc. and other areas can be reused by Amazon. A final advantage would even be to have Amazon be in the middle and offer a standard interface with third-parties offering competing implementations. This would allow developers to easily switch providers.
Language APIs
A lot of applications would be helped if they could use language APIs that are paid per request. Language APIs is a group name for text-to-speech, speech recognition, natural language processing, even mood analysis APIs. These are all APIs that are available individually but there is a clear economies of scale effect. The more speech you transcribe or text documents you process, the better your algorithms become. Also there is an over-supply of English language APIs but an under-supply of any other language in the world, except for Spanish, French and German perhaps. Another problem with existing APIs is that a high monthly volume is needed in the even the most basic subscription plan. Examples are Acapela VaaS pricing that costs a minimum of €1500. Very few applications will use this amount of voice.
M2M APIs and Services
Amazon is already working hard on Big Data solutions. M2M sensors can generate large volumes of data pretty quickly. S3 or DynamoDB would be ideal to store this data. However what is missing is an easy way to connect and manage large number of sensors and devices and their accompanying applications. There are few standards but with examples like Pachube, Amazon should be able to get inspired. Especially the end-to-end service management, provisioning, SLA management, etc. could use a big boost from a disruptive innovator like Amazon. Also M2M sensor intelligence could be offered from Amazon, see my other article about this subject.
Mobile APIs and Solutions
With billions of phones out there, mobilizing the Web will be the next challenge. Securely exposing company data, applications and processes towards mobile devices is a challenge today. BYOD, bring-your-own-device, is a headache for CIOs. We do not all have a MAC so we can not sign iPhone apps and launch them on the App Store. Ideally there would be a technical solution for enterprises to manage private app stores, deploy apps on different devices and be able to send notification to all or subsets of their employees. Also functionality like Usergrid in which developers would not have to focus on the backoffice logic would be of interest. Also tools to develop front-end for different devices would be appreciated, examples like Tiggzi come to mind. There are a lot of island solutions but few really integrated total solutions.
Support APIs and Services
Amazon is becoming more and more important in the global IT infrastructure business. This means that solutions will move more and more to the Cloud and sometimes be hybrid cloud. With these complex solution scenarios in which third-parties, Amazon and on-site enterprise services have to be combined, risks of things going wrong are high. Support services both from a technical point of view:
- detect failures and to automatically try to solve them
- manage support ticket distributions between different partners
- measure SLAs
- etc.
as well as from a functional point of view:
- dynamic call centers with temporary agents
- 3rd party certification programs in case small partners do not have local resources
- 3rd party support marketplace to offer more competition and compare reputations
- etc.
are all areas in which global solutions could disrupt local and island solutions that are currently in place.
How to be part of the mobile revolution?
There are more phones sold than PCs. In the near future there will be many, many, many more phones sold than PCs. Also most of these phones will be smartphones. Tablets are also going to surpass PC sales in the coming years.
With so many mobile phones and tablets how can the telecom industry generate new revenues?
The first thing to understand is what are people doing on their mobile. Any other industry would need to start doing surveys. However the telecom industry just needs to check their networks. This is the first possible new revenue stream. Big Data business intelligence about what mobile users are doing. Are they buying apps? From where? Are they using apps? Which ones? Are they browsing the web? Where? The data volumes are massive but the value is extremely high. Machine learning could be used to cluster different types of users. As soon as these clusters are big enough then it is possible to sell the data. The more precise the clustering, the higher the value.
If you know what customers do, then help them to do it better
Via opt-in it would be possible to actively help users. Recommendation based on similarity is possible: other users have "bought this app", "looked at this page", "subscribed to this service", etc. If successful then advertisement will generate revenues.
Enable others to accelerate the mobile revolution
What would an entrepreneur need to start a mobile business? Likely 80-90% of the needs are the same:
- Find capital
- Register a company
- Find employees
- Design a winning product strategy
- Set-up a mobile presence (mobile portal, news, blog, etc.)
- Develop mobile application or SaaS (user management, single sign-on, reporting, analytics, code versioning, etc.)
- Test mobile application or SaaS
- Deploy mobile application or SaaS to different stores.
- Charge for in-app or content
- Advertisement
- Sales & campaign management
- Accounting
- etc.
Be the restaurant, tool shop and hotel, next to the gold mine. Do not try to look for gold. Try to make money from the gold diggers. Provide enablement services.
What would an enterprise need to manage the mobile revolution?
Everybody brings their own smartphone and tablet to work. This can save the company millions in purchasing equipment but on the other hand costs a lot more money in management.
- Enabling new devices to connect to enterprise resources.
- Securing access (storage encryption, single sign-on, etc.).
- Monitoring usage.
- Mobilizing business processes.
- Helpdesk support.
- etc.
Bring your own device (BYODaaS) and mobile business processes as a service (MBPaaS) are areas to focus on.
What would consumers need from the mobile revolution?
Lots of things. Unfortunately consumers are already heavily catered for by Apple, Facebook and Google. Operators are likely to fail if they go in direct competition with over-the-top players. However operators also have a history of being difficult to work with, slow and greedy. There is no killer app. There are only some assets operators have that are still valuable:
- Who calls who? (On iPhones and Androids this asset is becoming less valuable)
- Free call forwarding (Lots of business models do not survive paid call forwarding, e.g. Voicemail in the Cloud, PBX for consumers, etc.)
- Quality of Service (every day seems more like location. A big promise but at the end somebody else found a workaround.)
- Micro-payments and micro-subscriptions (Visa, Google Wallet, Paypal & Square are heavily attacking this one.)
- Identity (MSIDN is globally unique but OpenID/oAuth and other innovations are allowing Facebook and others to offer almost global identity)
- etc.
The number of unique assets is shrinking. It is now or never to make money with them.
10 ways telecom can make money in the future a.k.a. telecom revenue 2.0
LTE roll-outs are taking place in America and Europe. Over-the-top-players are likely to start offering large-scale and free HD mobile VoIP over the next 6-18 months. Steeply declining ARPU will be the result. The telecom industry needs new revenue: telecom revenue 2.0. How can they do it?
1. Become a Telecom Venture Capitalist
Buying the number 2 o 3 player in a new market or creating a copy-cat solution has not worked. Think about Terra/Lycos/Vivendi portals, Keteque, etc. So the better option is to make sure innovative startups get partly funded by telecom operators. This assures that operators will be able to launch innovative solutions in the future. Just being a VC will not be enough. Also investment in quickly launching the new startup services and incorporating them into the existing product catalog are necessary.
2. SaaSification & Monetization
SaaS monetization is not reselling SaaS and keeping a 30-50% revenue share. SaaS monetization means offering others the development/hosting tools, sales channels, support facilities, etc. to quickly launch new SaaS solutions that are targeted at new niche or long tail segments. SaaSification means that existing license-based on-site applications can be quickly converted into subscription-based SaaS offerings. The operator is a SaaS enabler and brings together SaaS creators with SaaS customers.
3. Enterprise Mobilization, BPaaS and BYOD
There are millions of small, medium and large enterprises that have employees which bring smartphones and tablets to work [a.k.a. BYOD – bring-your-own-device]. Managing these solutions (security, provisioning, etc.) as well as mobilizing applications and internal processes [a.k.a. BPaaS – business processes as a service] will be a big opportunity. Corporate mobile app and mobile SaaS stores will be an important starting point. Solutions to quickly mobilize existing solutions, ideally without programming should come next.
4. M2M Monetization Solutions
At the moment M2M is not having big industry standards yet. Operators are ideally positioned to bring standards to quickly connect millions of devices and sensors to value added services. Most of these solutions will not be SIM-based so a pure-SIM strategy is likely to fail. Operators should think about enabling others to take advantage of the M2M revolution instead of building services themselves. Be the restaurant, tool shop and clothing store and not the gold digger during a gold rush.
5. Big Data and Data Intelligence as a Service
Operators are used to manage peta-bytes of data. However converting this data into information and knowledge is the next step towards monetizing data. At the moment big data solutions focus on storing, manipulating and reporting large volume of data. However the Big Data revolution is only just starting. We need big data apps, big data app stores, "big datafication" tools, etc.
6. All-you-can-eat HD Video-on-Demand
Global content distribution can be better done with the help of operators then without. Exporting Netflix-like business models to Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin-America, etc. is urgently necessary if Hollywood wants to avoid the next generation believing "content = free". All-you-can-eat movies, series and music for €15/month is what should be aimed for.
7. NFC, micro-subscriptions, nano-payments, anonymous digital cash, etc.
Payment solutions are hot. Look at Paypal, Square, Dwolla, etc. Operators could play it nice and ask Visa, Mastercard, etc. how they can assist. However going a more disruptive route and helping Square and Dwolla serve a global marketplace are probably more lucrative. Except for NFC solutions also micro-subscriptions (e.g. €0.05/month) or nano-payments (e.g. €0.001/transaction) should be looked at.
Don't forget that people will still want to buy things in a digital world which they do not want others to know about or from people or companies they do not trust. Anonymous digital cash solutions are needed when physical cash is no longer available. Unless of course you expect people to buy books about getting a divorce with the family's credit card…
8. Build your own VAS for consumers and enterprises – iVAS.
Conference calls, PBX, etc. were the most advanced communication solutions offered by operators until recently. However creating visual drag-and-drop environments in which non-technical users can combine telecom and web assets to create new value-added-services can result in a new generation of VAS: iVAS. The VAS in which personal solutions are resolved by the people who suffer them. Especially in emerging countries where wide-spread smartphones and LTE are still some years off, iVAS can still have some good 3-5 years ahead. Examples would be personalized numbering schemas for my family & friends, distorting voices when I call somebody, etc. Let consumers and small enterprises be the creators by offering them visual do-it-yourself tools. Combine solutions like Invox, OpenVBX, Google's App Inventor, etc.
9. Software-defined networking solutions & Network as a Service
Networks are changing from hardware to software. This means network virtualization, outsourcing of network solutions (e.g. virtualized firewalls), etc. Operators are in a good position to offer a new generation of complex network solutions that can be very easily managed via a browser. Enterprises could substitute expensive on-site hardware for cheap monthly subscriptions of virtualized network solutions.
10. Long-Tail Solutions
Operators could be offering a large catalog of long-tail solutions that are targeted at specific industries or problem domains. Thousands of companies are building multi-device solutions. Mobile & SmartTV virtualization and automated testing solutions would be of interest to them. Low-latency solutions could be of interest to the financial sector, e.g. automated trading. Call center and customer support services on-demand and via a subscription model. Many possible services in the collective intelligence, crowd-sourcing, gamification, computer vision, natural language processing, etc. domains.
Basically operators should create new departments that are financially and structurally independent from the main business and that look at new disruptive technologies/business ideas and how either directly or via partners new revenue can be generated with them.
What not to do?
Waste any more time. Do not focus on small or late-to-market solutions, e.g. reselling Microsoft 365, RCS like Joyn, etc. Focus on industry-changers, disruptive innovations, etc.
Yes LTE roll-out is important but without any solutions for telecom revenue 2.0, LTE will just kill ARPU. So action is required now. Action needs to be quick [forget about RFQs], agile [forget about standards – the iPhone / AppStore is a proprietary solution], well subsidized [no supplier will invest big R&D budgets to get a 15% revenue share] and independent [of red tape and corporate control so risk taking is rewarded, unless of course you predicted 5 years ago that Facebook and Angry Bird would be changing industries]…
Usergrid – An impressive open source Mobile PaaS example
Apigee bought Usergrid. Usergrid is the type of Mobile PaaS that you would expect mobile operators to be launching. Usergrid is open source as well as available as a hosted service. Usergrid allows mobile developers to focus on mobile apps and not on the server. Everything from storing users, groups, roles, single sign-on authentication, social aspects (e.g. likes), feeds, queries, connections between users and objects (e.g. which friends of user X like restaurant Y), etc. is dealt with via an incredibly easy REST API. Usergrid also comes with toolkits for easy iOS and Android development.
Usergrid is impressive both as an idea as well as in how easy it is to build complex mobile applications, e.g. collective voting during a conference, etc. without back-end developement.
What is next?
Combining Usergrid with one of the many visual drag-and-drop mobile app development tools would allow users to create complete mobile apps without coding.
Being able to integrate other API based services into the same visual drag-and-drop development tool would allow even more complex applications: e.g. look at programmableweb for a list of thousands of public APIs. However ideally also private APIs (e.g. towards enterprise back-office systems) could be incorporated.
Finally being able to monetize these new mobile apps via in-app advertisement, enterprise mobile app stores, etc. would motivate developers to build millions of useful mobile apps.
Mobile PaaS is a very exciting domain and operators should be very actively investing in it…
What comes after SaaSification?
Fujitsu just presented SaaSification on Cebit. Existing applications can be easily brought to the Cloud and sold via App Stores and SaaS marketplaces. IBM is also working on SaaSification and even adds multi-tenancy.
What is next?
Everybody wants to have a full App Store or SaaS Marketplace, so SaaSification is the next step after launching your store. However converting a client/server application to the Cloud is only step 1. Step 2 is creating new services that are specifically built for the Cloud.
What does Built-for-the-Cloud means?
Application design is changing. Traditional Web applications are built on a LAMP architecture. New Cloud-Ready applications should be Big Data ready and should be looking at SMAQ architectures.
Cloud-Ready applications should also accept the new reality of APIs. Both for exposure as well as consumption. This means that applications need to be redesigned according to application slices.
So if SaaSification wants to be successful then it needs to add quick enablers for multi-tenancy, big data, integration with external APIs as well as API exposure, etc. This integration concept can be called iPaaS or integration platform-as-a-Service. iPaaS should not only focus on exposing or integrating APIs but on providing complex services by integration multiple SaaS solutions together.
Other enablers should be added as well. Basically 80% of a SaaS solution consists out of the same elements or tries to solve the same problems. These could all be provided via a SaaSification PaaS:
- Blog – to describe the newest ideas.
- Forum – for people to get answers from the community.
- IT PaaS – where you run the actual business logic and UI. Data storage is assumed to be provided by the Big Data elements.
- Portal and Mobile Portal – allows to quickly define the "static" content for the web and mobile site.
- Deployment management – ideally continuous deployment or integration tools that allow fast feature by feature deployment.
- A/B testing – allow new features to be deployed to subsets of users and check which version of a feature has the highest impact on the bottom-line. A/B testing was made popular by Amazon.
- Automated testing – lots of testing can be automated but especially end-to-end and performance testing are the harder tests that should be focused on.
- Configuration management – manage the version control of the code.
- Metering and billing – be able to meter the resource usage by users, companies or any other element you want to meter and be able to bill users both for subscriptions as well as for usage, ideally with advanced set-up with overage, etc.
- Marketplace listing and provisioning – automate the listing of products on the marketplace as well as the provisioning of new services.
- Single sign-on & identity management – allow companies to use their own user credentials (e.g. SAML), authorization for third-parties (e.g. oAuth), etc.
- Reporting and data warehousing – this can be part of the big data stack but especially being able to create ad-hoc reports for instance for A/B testing . Of course regular business reporting needs to be included as well.
- ERP – accounting, resource management, etc.
- CRM – sales and lead management
- Operations & Maintenance – automation of back-ups, monitoring both for the performance and fault management but as well business monitoring.
- Support – helpdesk, ticketing system, SLA management, etc.
- Social integration – tools to add social aspects like Facebook apps, Twitter feeds, etc.
- etc.
The idea is not that a SaaSification PaaS offers all these solutions by custom development. Instead the SaaSification PaaS should allow startups to assemble an ideal architecture by combining different solutions from different providers. For example you would be able to select the support solution you prefer, e.g. desk.com, zendesk.com, etc. and this solution would be completely integrated into the overall stack, e.g. CRM integration with help desk and fault management together with sign sign-on.
SaaSification 2.0 should focus on making sure that 2-5 people can start a new dotcom solution and focus on creating a killer service and not on building up yet another stack of solutions for configuration management, support, billing, etc. If a SaaSification PaaS can shorten the time to launch with months and reduce the needs to operate the solution with several people then startups will see the value. Instead of SaaSification PaaS a good term could be Incubation PaaS, to incubate SaaS solutions. Once the business model and solution is proven, there will be money to move to a custom-build stack but during incubation and crossing-the-chasm enterpreneurs should be able to focus on delivering value to their customers and not on re-inventing the startup wheel.
Social Niche Marketplaces and SaaSification
Google App Marketplace was the first marketplace for SaaS. However there has lately been an explosion of SaaS marketplaces. Unfortunately most of them are eCommerce sites that support subscriptions and resell Microsoft 365, some cloud backup and 3 to 5 things more.
Operators that are considering such a me-too marketplace should try harder
There is nothing like an average enterprise customer. Each customer is looking for a unique mix of services. You have innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards. You have self-employed, micro, small, medium and large companies. You have industries. Users are working on different functions within a company (finance, operations, sales, etc.).
However never has it been easier to personalize product portfolios according to market segments, industries, adoption likelihood, usage, etc. Operators should not set-up one marketplace but instead set-up intelligent personalized niche marketplaces. Users can tell you which industry they belong to, what their company size is, what their function is and if they are more eager to use the latest and greatest or if they want a full eco-system with a market leading product. This means that a highly personalized portfolio can be shown instead of a bunch of generalist products.
Why sell different products via different channels?
If you have customers segmented, then ideally all relevant products are presented in one personalized marketplace. Ranging from phones, tablets, mobile apps, SaaS, on-site equipment, advanced consultancy services, support, etc.
Bringing in intelligence and social commerce
The next step is to increase the likelihood of selling a product and cross-selling products. Users like product reviews and ratings. However users love product reviews and ratings from people they trust. What if each product in addition to a general section on product reviews and ratings also has a social review section. The social review section would be like:
- these contacts from my linkedin network have bought this service
- these contacts have bought these alternative services
- their ratings are
- in addition they also bought these services
How to go from 0 to 1.000.000 products?
Many operators offer services for "the average customer". The product catalog is relatively small. Few have more than a couple of niche products per industry. Setting up a social niche marketplace is no good if you do not have a large catalog of personalized services to sell.
SaaSification to the rescue. Every industry has a lot of small companies that have build niche products. Most of these products require on-site installations. This means a lot of CAPEX. Often more is spend on buying the hardware, base software, services to maintain the data center, support services, etc. than on the actual software. By offering these small companies a SaaSification solution whereby they can migrate their on-site solution to an operator-hosted SaaS solution, the product catalog can be quickly extended with thousands of niche products. Offering tools to make single-tenant solutions multi-tenant and to make web solutions mobile-enabled, will substantially improve your chances to attrack ISVs.
New SaaS will move from the innovators towards the early adopters, early majority, etc. Early majority products will be niche market leaders, have strict SLAs, a support eco-system, etc. Leading products can be identified by the market. Operators can spot those niche market leading products and offer special deals, even co-branding. This strategy will allow a personalized long tail strategy without the long tail costs…


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Rotherham manager Andy Scott has already turned his attention to recruiting new players.
Scott is set to overhaul his current squad in the summer, with upto 10 players out of contract, while Nicky Law and Ryan Taylor look set to reject new deals.
The former Brentford manager, who was appointed into the Don Valley hotseat in April, believes his squad is unbalanced and short on numbers and has already set the wheels in motion to bring new players in.
"I have had ideas from before I came here on players that would be suited to this level and that hasn't changed," he said. "I have been speaking to a lot of agents to see who is available and who isn't available and whether they fit into our framework.
"It's every position, we haven't got enough strength in depth.
"We've got loan players returning to their parent clubs, players out of contract who will leave, players out of contract who will be offered new deals but might not sign them. So we have to cover every area really."


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The clinics here are simple, even handsome. Instead of constructing hermetic shields in the form of airtight, inflexible hospital buildings, the architects took advantage of Haiti's Caribbean environment, exploiting island cross breezes to heal patients and aid caregivers.
It's not clear yet how well the clinics will work. [...] If they turn out right, they could serve as relatively light-footed models for other struggling countries that lack resources for high-end Western-style hospitals.
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Design concepts for portable, rapidly deployable Ebola virus treatment clinics created by Texas A&M Master of Architecture students will be unveiled at a 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24 presentation on the fourth floor of the Langford Architecture Center's Building A on the Texas A&M campus. — one.arch.tamu.edu
The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) claims its annual Liveability Survey could be used to "assign a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages," among other things.
But that needn't apply to those in Melbourne, which for the fourth year running has been declared the best city in the world to live.
The Australian culture hub was buoyed by superlative healthcare, infrastructure and education as well as a murder rate of 3.1 per 100,000 people, half the global average of 6.2.
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While three Canadian cities made the ranking's top 10 (again), U.S. cities keep failing to score high.The world's top cities for liveability are:1. Melbourne, Australia2. Vienna, Austria3. Vancouver, Canada4. Toronto, Canada=5. Adelaide, Australia=5. Calgary, Canada7. Sydney, Australia... View full entry »
No matter what country you live in, everyone deserves access to safe and secure healthcare. Re-emphasizing this global issue is Building Trust International's Moved to Care competition, which sought feasible design solutions for a portable healthcare facility for high-demand regions in Southeast Asia. — bustler.net
Out of over 200 registered entrants, a U.S. multidisciplinary team consisting of Patrick Morgan, Jhanéa Williams, and Simon Morgan won the Professional category. The jury also selected nine honorable mentions from around the world.For the Student category, 'REFLEX' by Christopher Knitt... View full entry »
Though abortion and the legal disputes that often surround it are visible media topics, abortion clinics are often pushed to the fringes of communities where access is the most crucial. But what if they were integrated into the mainstream of our everyday space: clinics in malls, clinics on military bases, clinics on high school campuses, and open access to preventative care? — thedailybeast.com
Lori Brown explores this topic in her book Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals and delves into politics and architecture and how they manufacture landscapes with regard to reproductive healthcare access. Brown, an architect herself, will be giving a public... View full entry »
Mark Dery, reflecting on his recent life as a self-described 'career patient', implores hospital architects to collaborate with interior designers, psychologists and neuroscientists in order to eradicate forever the pain of 'medical incarceration'. — australiandesignreview.com
This 34,000-square-foot regional health facility located in an under-served neighborhood in southwest Atlanta combines under one roof a primary care clinic, a behavioral health clinic, childcare facilities, a dental clinic and a workforce community center. In doing so, it projects a holistic idea... View full entry »
... the enthusiasm in Cape Town for architecture that excites and enlightens people about health is especially rewarding. "We've never seen anything like this anywhere," Farrow says, about the notion of wellness being trumpeted so loudly through architecture. — theglobeandmail.com
Danish practice Henning Larsen Architects and the consortium consisting of the architecture companies Friis & Moltke and Brunsgaard & Laursen, the engineering companies NNE Pharmaplan and Orbicon Leif Hansen, the consulting company Norconsult and landscape architects SLA have won the competition for the extension of Herlev Hospital, just outside of Copenhagen. — Bustler


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Hi guys. I've seen some of you are doing colour control and item edit compositions in projects so users have all controls in one composition. Is it worth it? I mean yeah, for beginners this feature is OK, but for PRO users? I think it just stands in a way of customising and taking a project apart.
Any ways, I tried to make a project control panel as well for my last project Drop Hello. Mind taking a look? What do you think?
hi. i do think we authors to tend to over do it sometimes. i like to keep some simple colour controls in a comp … but i try not to give to many customisation solutions. it tend to back fire with more emails for the buyers . And to tell the truth , if its beginner , these panels are not going to help . if its an experienced AE worker . these panels are not really necessary.
I like to give choices but not to many that will make it complicated. Nad if they reeeeaaaly want to change something … they will contact you
thats my opinion. good luck
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Rank: Lieutenant
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Company: Strategic Technical Directorate Assitance Team
Division: U.S. Army Support Command
Born: 14 January 1944, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Place / Date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972


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dc.contributor.author | Daka, J.S.J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-02-24T13:37:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-02-24T13:37:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Daka, J. (2008) Information system based implementation of Semester-to-Semester progression at University of Botswana, International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (online), Vol.4, no. 3, Available at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=555. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1814 0556 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10311/470 | |
dc.description.abstract | In August 2002, the University of Botswana changed from a yearlong to a semester based academic system. However, the progression regulations were not be fully implemented on the information system mainly due to problems of interpretation. Due to this, a manual system was used. The manual system could not cope in making recommendations for all students leading to some regulations not being applied. To address this, a revision of the regulations was undertaken in 2007. These regulations require implementation on the information system. This paper discusses the main aspects of the 2007 regulations and their implementation via a computer program. The paper shows that a complete implementation of the regulations is possible using a computer program. The program was applied to sample students' academic results to provide progression recommendations that were found to agree with expected results. The paper concludes that an information system based implementation ensures uniform application of regulations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=555. | en_US |
dc.subject | semester-to-semester progression | en_US |
dc.subject | academic regulations | en_US |
dc.subject | academic warning | en_US |
dc.title | Information system based implementation of Semester-to-Semester progression at University of Botswana | en_US |
dc.type | Published Article | en_US |


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