Thank you for all those whove sacrificed your time to read this.World Forest Day is celebrated today March 21 incase u dont know.People all round the world will plant trees to commemorate this day,some due to the love for the environment others just to mark this day.What am saying we are experiencing Global Warming the balance of fresh air and polluted air and our console is trees but are we ready to take care of them.We a policy as a world to excersice green energy GOD gave us authority over animals and protect his creation are we doing it ? Yet we still cutting trees and marking trees day annually its time we go back to the drawing table and think twice of our action. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

how to make cloud work for your business

The cloud -- shorthand for "cloud computing" -- is appropriate for many things but not for everything. "It depends" is often the correct answer: Different companies with different strategies at different times may have different perspectives on where and why to use the cloud. Here are a few examples of how the cloud can benefit a small business.
Add competencies. The cloud may offer a competency that you don't have: tax-preparation algorithms embedded in an online tax service; information on flight schedules, prices and expected delays; stock-market data; and algorithms for finding matches between people and movies, and between people and people.
Build conversations, connections and communities. A series of communications between two participants is a conversation. Conversations create persistent connections. Conversations and connections among those with shared interests, values and goals create communities.
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Communities are no longer based solely on geography: Where you were born once defined who you were. Now global networks help forge bonds between geographically disparate people.
Sometimes online communities reflect real-world relationships. For example, Classmates.com creates a virtual community driven by which school you went to. In other cases, the real world reflects connections created in cyberspace: I've met many people in person after first "meeting" them on Twitter. The cloud helps discover communities, discover members of those communities and maintain connections through directories and ongoing conversations.
Allow collaboration, competition and crowdsourcing. Competition is closely related to collaboration: Participants communicate with each other and share spaces with transient and permanent artifacts. In collaboration, goals are aligned; in competition, they are opposed. Multiplayer online games are a blend of both: Participants collaborate with each other to best other teams in games such as World of Warcraft.
Competition isn't restricted to wizards and space wars. Kaggle "is an arena where you can match your data science skills against a global cadre of experts." Teams of Ph.D.s solve problems by designing algorithms that crunch large data sets. EdisonNation.com offers contests to design retail products, such as beach furniture. A cloud approach can provide competitive incentives that can match unique problems with the handful of people globally who might be able to solve them.
Netflix did something similar with the Netflix Prize, which was based on an open competition to design the best movie-recommendation algorithm. If you liked The Matrix but also The Notebook, would you enjoy The Shining or The Big Chill more? Improving the quality of movie recommendations is important, since watching a stream of enjoyable movies helps ensure customers remain with the service. In other contexts, better recommendations increase upsell revenues.
Enable commerce and clearing. Markets that bring buyers and sellers together avoid the explosion of connections that would otherwise be required. In the 1700s, banks would settle accounts by having "walk clerks" from each bank travel to each other's bank in turn. As University of Warwick professor Martin Campbell-Kelly put it, "walking through the City of London with a large bag of money, was, to say the least, unwise." The clerks eventually agreed to meet at a single location at a regular time, and the London Banker's Clearing House became a hub for bank settlements early in 1800.
Related: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Storage Apps for Business
The concept of money itself -- whether rice in ancient Japan, or salt in the Roman Empire -- facilitates transactions between those holding goods that they would like to exchange and would otherwise have to barter. In concept, it acts as a hub. Money enabled the first markets and market economies.
In ancient Greece, the agora served as a meeting place and market. Today, the physical market has been partly supplanted by online auctions, the physical clearinghouse by financial payments and settlements networks, and the physical agora by the "ideagora," online marketplaces of ideas that help foster innovation.
"Markets" and matching are very general concepts: OpenTable.com matches prospective diners with open tables in restaurants. Kickstarter and Kiva match entrepreneurs needing funding with those with cash. ZocDoc matches patients with open doctors' appointments. TaskRabbit matches people with skills, time and a desire to earn some money with errands or tasks, like picking up dry cleaning or painting the front door.
Improve cash flow. For cash-strapped start-ups, small and midsize businesses, and even larger enterprises that are trying to conserve cash, the cash-flow benefits of the cloud can be substantial. Newline Products' chief financial officer Bill Bowers, formerly of Motorola, said that in evaluating do-it-yourself versus cloud services, "maybe from a payback analysis it's a toss-up . . . [but] in the cash-flow world, cloud is the way to go."

Expand capacity. Computing, network, memory and storage capacity is available on a pay-per-use, on-demand basis. Cloud capacity can also complement existing capacity. In the same way that access to a hotel can prove useful when guests suddenly arrive from out of town, cloud capacity can provide a perfect mix of flexibility at minimum cost.
Improve customer experience. Clouds generally are geographically dispersed, enabling content and applications to be deployed closer to end-users. In the same way that having a Starbucks on every corner reduces the time needed to grab a cup of coffee, having a content delivery or application delivery on every corner reduces the time required to interact with an application or retrieve content. Reduced time equals improved customer experience.

Graph search FB'S new search engine

Well we're talking about a search engine. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says they don't want to let people search the web, they want to help people search the social graph ... And that graph is huge.
The challenge of graph search is that every piece of info has different privacy controls.
The screen behind Zuck says "You can only search content that has been shared with you."
Facebook is trying to address how its content is different from the broad web and make that unique content searchable.
Zuckerberg is explaining how this announcement is different than web search. Instead of delivering links with answers, this is just delivering straight-up-answers ... Like "which of my friends live in San Francisco?"
"Results are ranked by people you care the most about, rest are sorted by mutual friends and other signals in Facebook system."
"In order to get really the power of Graph Search you have to see it for yourself."
Zuckerberg says that the company has spent a long time working on this. He gets a big laugh from saying that what distinguishes Graph Search is filters.
Right now graph search just focuses on people, photos, interests and places -- but there will be more later.

Bottom line: instead of having to search the Internet, people can search THEIR internet ... their personal online archives (which are their Facebook friends)
Who does this compete with? Google, and the failed Google+ endeavor, which was itself a social graph.

java flaw a thret to computers

It is reported that JAVA owned by ORACLE is a threat to people who have add it as an add on on their browser.Computer hackers have used java to hack into people and also send viruses which later crash computers.

On Tuesday, security researchers at the Polish firm Security Explorations revealed another critical security flaw in Java that affects users of every browser that runs the plugin, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer, allowing a malicious hackers to gain complete control of a victim’s machine through a rigged website. And unlike the bug in Java 7 that was actively exploited by hackers to install malware on users’ machines until it was patched at the end of last month–also first spotted by Security Explorations four months earlier–this security flaw also affects older versions of Java including Java 5 and Java 6. That means more than a billion users are affected, according to Oracle’s count of desktop computers running the software.
Oracle’s security issues are piling up: Though Oracle released a fix for the most critical vulnerabilities reported by Security Explorations on August 30th, the security firm quickly found another flaw in that fix that would allow a hacker to bypass the patch. That bug in Oracle’s patch still hasn’t been patched, leaving users vulnerable to both the new flaw and the previous attack.

Adam Gowdiak, a researcher with Security Explorations, wrote in an email to me that the flaw’s ability to give an attacker access to a user’s entire machine and the fact it applies to all recent versions of the software makes it the most critical of the 50 vulnerabilities the company has found in Java. Given that Macs run Java 6 by default, this latest flaw affects Apple users to a much greater degree than the previous Java imbroglio, Gowdiak says. After all, hackers used a similar flaw in Java to infect more than 600,000 Macs with the Flashback malware earlier this year.
“We hope that news about one billion users of Oracle Java SE software being vulnerable to yet another security flaw is not gonna spoil the taste of Larry Ellison’s morning Java,” Gowdiak wrote in a note to the BugTraq mailing list.
When attacks against Java began appearing last month, security researchers advised users to disable the program until the flaw was patched. Security blogger Brian Krebs has posted step-by-step instructions about how to disable Java in major browsers here.
Now, with the latest critical bug appearing even before that last mess has even been cleaned up, it may be time to ditch Java for good.

Am sure you all witnessed and saw in the news with the new controvercy of the mp payrise.Yestardy mps concluded their term by awarding themselves goodies that would cost kenyans Sh 2.m billion this month.They also passed a Bill that guarantees them life-long security with bodyguards, diplomatic passports and a funeral paid for by the government. I f the President assents to the bill mastermined by Finance Minister Njeru Githae, each MP will get Sh 9.3 million when their term expires on Tuesday.The proposed law also guarantees MPs and their spouses unlimited access to the executive lounge for Very Important Persons at all the airports within the country.Besides that, all 42 Cabinate ministers and their 55 deputies will leave office with a driver paid for by the taxpayer.The lawmakers, in the night deal, quietly amended the law to be paid gratuity at 31 per cent to me this is insane and pliz Mr.President don't sign the bill.Thank you for reading. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @jaymezkiama

Technology at a pace!

Hi, and Happy New year.Welcome to 2013 this a year which technology will take over love it or hate it you cant run away from it. Kenya has about 12 million who access internet 99 % actualy access through mobile phones so what does this actualy mean ? Shooting the bullet straight almost 2 million kenyans are in facebook and twitter so this means we are embracing technology.Talking about tech aren't you tired of strolling up to town in supermarkets and shops,travelling long distances to go to urban town just to buy your desired product let me introduce to you to the world of e-commerce where buyers meet sellers and shop there for your products if you are not shopping on (OLX) then u are definitely doing a deservice to yourself in there you can buy properties,cars,phones and many more and then pay through mpesa or you may meet with the seller to verify if the product is actually the one and security is highly assured. Lets move to another world of entertainment are you fed up with thd digital switch off log on to google and search (Buni.tv) and experience world class movies,unique tv shows that you will not find on your Tv screen and to also add series of different genres. Gadgets do you love them i do with samsung focused on making their Galaxy S4 their note is hitting big and their court rivalry with Apple is something to admire,but curiously are that innovative even after late steve jobs died he said that thea cant be an ipad mini but the people in his company proved him wrong and produced one.And more is to come all you have to be is wide awake!!!.Thanks.

Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.
There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.
Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.
Commissions are often a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion.
Conversions are generally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that enables the advertiser to track where conversions come from (usually by cookies). Other times an advertiser might give a publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps to track conversions.
   
                 

• Advertisers often prefer affiliate marketing as a way to promote their products because they know they’ll only need to pay for the advertising when there’s a conversion. I knew when I started this affiliate program that while I’d earn less for each sale that having a network of affiliates promoting it would almost certainly increase overall sales levels.
• Publishers often prefer affiliate marketing because if they find a product that is relevant to their niche that earnings can go well in excess of any cost per click or cost per impression advertising campaign.