How much are we dependent on other’s point of view? My guess is.. a lot! Do we buy a product or service that we never used before based on a recommendation? That of someone we trust, a friend or colleague? Or do we research how people respond to this product or service online?

Do you trust TV ads? I don’t think so. Research showed that only 18% of TV advertising campaigns brining positive ROI; 90% of people would prefer to skip TV ads if they have a chance.

Social media plays huge role in ...

We all belong to one or another social community, by becoming members we all contribute to social media market. Even enemies to the social community concept who describe social networks as the big evil are on these networks to conduct research and back their claims.

I came across social media in a period of my life when i felt lonely. I joined a social network to fill a vacuum I felt for social interaction. Wow, I couldn’t imagine the speed at which this virtual social world could absorb most of my personal life! How ...

One of the things that I find myself needing to do often is clone a repository from our mercurial server. All of our repositories are under a directory on the server that is accessibel through ssh, so I wanted to be able to type in a command on the command line with the name of the remote reposirotry and, optionally, the name of the local clone. If I leave out the second argument, it creates a local clone with the same name.

So I wrote a small function that I put in my .profile (you can add it ...

It was pain to configure everything from scratch to run my Django application on Centos 5. So I thought I would save others' time by writing this blog!

Requirements:

You first need the following packages (use yum package manager for that):

gcc, gcc-c++, zlib, zlib-devel, openssl-devel, mysql, mysql-server, mysql-devel*, httpd, httpd-dev*

Install Python 2.5

Download, unzip, enter its directory, configure, make and install:

$ cd
$ wgethttp://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ tar xvfz Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ cd Python-2.5.4

You need to compile it with zlib support. Therefore, you must first have zlib and zlib-devel installed:

$ ./configure --with-threads --enable-shared –with-zlib=/usr/include

What’s new in technology & media?

Social media is the new game in town. If you haven’t heard of it, don’t worry, you’re probably already using it. Facebook, youtube, twitter, myspace, peoplepress, blogger .. to name a few, are social media sites that you have come across, or use regularly.

What is social media?

Online social media, is a category of New Media. Wikipedia defines social media as information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies that is intended to facilitate communications, influence and interaction with ...