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Why Meerkat will live where video phones died
Tags: Twitter, Meerkat, Communication

Note: the concept is still there as periscope.tv/Facebook live but Meerkat the app is dead

From the day signals where transferable over the wire, people had been envisioning of audio/video and data to be the killer applications. In communications, audio over wire found phones as the killer application and data transfer over the wire found fax/data modems as solutions, but the real killer app the personal video communications application never became a reality.

When internet was born, there was a mad rush to implement the grainy video chat communication applications to the high end multi-screen HD versions…but still something is missing why it has not become mainstream?

But then why is Meerkat a personal video application catching the imagination of video communications.

Though Meerkat brings the personal video platform to the common man, its success is because it is a video broadcast platform (1 direction) like television or ham radio. Its integration with twitter (the text based broadcast platform) proves its broadcast nature to make it killer app for twitter users.

Twitter appears to be a group discussion forum for common man, but in reality, it’s a loud town hall, not a personal coffee table chat place. Unlike facebook, where your voice is heard only to the ears of your friends at the table, Twitter is the town hall where you make your loud voice heard to whoever wishes to hear. The inherent twitter broadcasters are not the common man, they are the people who have taken public town hall appearance as their choice .

Thus the genius of Meerkat is integrating to the public broadcasting platform Twitter.

Twitter broadcasting platform gave all the already active loud speakers of the twitter town hall a new tool for broadcasting visually in a new medium.

So still the search for the killer app for personal video platform is still open. My gut feeling says, common man don’t like to visually communicate every time. Unlike text and voice which common man has embraced, video medium makes them more aware of their looks, appearance etc which society cares a lot.

Thus video communications are best suited for the public figures or the wannabe loud speakers of the society. To conclude, Meerkat is a broadcasting platform inline with twitters vision for building the public loud speakers for the modern day town halls.

ggonweb

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Cómo ser más resiliente cuando las cosas se ponen difíciles
By: Evelyn Wittig
Tags: Liderazgo, Negocios, Traducciones, Emprendimiento, Español

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United Arab Emirates came a long way in economic and social development in the last 40 years , say`s H.E. Ambassador Yacoub Yousef AlHosani of United Arab Emirates
By: International Relations
Tags: Ecology, Foreign Policy, Blackseanews Agency, News, Economy

IRICE is dedicated to promote the international relations of Romania and to develop the economic, cultural and diplomatic relations with nations of the world.

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How to Create a Draggable Card in SwiftUI
Tags: Mobile, Xcode, Swift, Swiftui, Programming

DragGesture

Because we want to utilize the GeometryReader values, avoid declaring a variable for the DragGesture before the GeometryReader , like in the code below:

Instead, have the gesture below:

Inside .onChanged , assign the offset height to the gesture translation height. This will allow our card to be dragged up and down and not to the sides:

self.offset.height = gesture.translation.height

Inside .onEnd , check if the gesture translation is at the bottom 50% of the view or the top 50% of the view using the GeometryReader proxy values. If the gesture is at the bottom 50%, then offset the card to cover 85% of the view by multiplying the geometry size height by 0.15. Otherwise, return the view to the bottom by multiplying the geometry size height by 0.9 to make the view once again cover only 10%.

if $0.translation.height < geometry.size.height * 0.5 { self.offset.height = geometry.size.height * 0.15 } else { self.offset.height = geometry.size.height * 0.9 }

The final code for the ContentView is below:

Code example with the card starting position at the bottom 20%

You can adjust the offset and translation height values we are playing with to be suited for different shapes.

To change our CardView to a circular shape, we can use .clipShape(Circle()) :

This will make our CardView disappear because of our offset. Adjust the offset variable height to make the view at the bottom 40% instead of 10%:

@State private var offset = CGSize(width: 0, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.height * 0.6)

Now, we need to adjust the conditions inside .onEnd to place our card at the bottom of our view. You can play around with the values I have below to make the view capable of reaching the top 50% of our view.

Code example — circular card

All done! Thanks for reading!
10 Simple Ways to Make Someone Feel Loved and Appreciated
By: Omar Itani
Tags: Self Improvement, Communication, Life Lessons, Relationships, Love

Philosopher William James once wrote that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

We all want to feel appreciated because it elicits the idea that our existence matters to someone else. It makes us feel valued and cherished because being appreciated is how we recognize that we’re important to others and that our presence does make a difference in someone’s life.

This is why Nelson Mandela famously said:

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

From a similar standpoint, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl developed an approach to psychotherapy that he called logotherapy. It was built upon the premise that human beings are motivated by a “will to meaning.” In his view, meaning gives us purpose and purpose presents us with the endurance to carry onward through difficult times.

So if we connect the above ideas of all three great thinkers, we can conclude the following: We search for meaning in order to feel appreciated. While ‘meaning’ motivates us, it’s ‘appreciation’ that transcends us.

And how do we express appreciation for others, and in turn, receive more of it ourselves? We tap into the incredible bottomless well of power within us called kindness. Because if we learn how to freely give as little as an ounce of it, once per day, kindness can really spread more love and appreciation around us.

Through the practice of kindness, we demonstrate appreciation, and through kindness and appreciation, we create meaning for everyone involved.

An authentic smile, a hand in solidarity and support, a willingness to listen when someone wants to speak. All these little acts of kindness trigger the release of oxytocin in our brains, “the love hormone.” Hence why the very act of selfless giving is rooted in us feeling good as well.

Here are ten simple ways how, through the use of words, you can make someone feel loved and appreciated. They’re drawn from personal experiences I’ve had and shared with others.
6 Things my conservative dad taught me to make me woke AF
By: Marjorie Steele
Tags: Fathers Day, Parenting, Life Lessons, Death

6 Things my conservative dad taught me to make me woke AF

On recycling, loving the land, and loving myself

I don’t really *do* Hallmark holidays. I don’t like the consumerism, I don’t like the obligatory nature of it, and yes — as a mother (but an introvert first), I would happily eradicate all Mothers/Fathers Day type activities from the calendar.

But. I can’t escape the fact that tomorrow (as I write this) is Father’s day, which gets me to thinking about my dad.

The truth is that if he were still alive today, I’d be baking a black forest torte and grilling some steaks — no card, no gift, other than my time and love. I certainly wouldn’t be writing a holiday-themed essay (which I hate) about fathers, for Father’s Day. We’d debate some political nuance, and I’d bait him into taking a hit of my medical marijuana, and he’d tell me his army stories for the 249th time. We’d laugh, and yell, and solve the meaning of the Universe.

But he’s not here. He died from melonoma over ten years ago now, and while the world celebrates dads, I can’t not think of mine.

So, in place of a black forest torte and a good rousing political debate, I’m ruminating here, with you, about my dad, and what he taught me.

Because honestly, I consider myself damn lucky. A lot of women are running around out there with daddy issues because they never felt their dad’s approval, or because he was never there, or never paid attention to them. But I’m not one of them, which I consider one of the greatest gifts the Universe has given me.

1: How to laugh at the haters, and those who misunderstand you
Improve Your ML Models Training
By: Fabiana Clemente
Tags: Deep Learning, Software Development, Data Science, TensorFlow, Machine Learning

Improve Your ML Models Training

Cycling learning rates in Tensorflow 2.0

Deep learning has found its way into all kinds of research areas in the present times and has also become an integral part of our lives. The words of Andrew Ng help us to sum it up really well,

“Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity.”

However, with any great technical breakthroughs come a large number of challenges too. From Alexa to Google Photos to your Netflix recommendations, everything at its core is just deep learning, but it comes with a few hurdles of its own:

Availability of huge amounts of data

Availability of suitable hardware for high performance

Overfitting on available data

Lack of transparency

Optimization of hyperparameters

This article will help you solve one of these hurdles, which is optimization.

The problem with the typical approach:

A deep neural network usually learns by using stochastic gradient descent and the parameters θ (or weights ω) are updated as follows:

Stochastic gradient descent

where L is a loss function and α is the learning rate.

We know that if we set the learning rate too small, the algorithm will take too much time to converge fully, and if it’s too large, the algorithm will diverge instead of converging. Hence, it is important to experiment with a variety of learning rates and schedules to see what works best for our model.

In practice, there are a few more problems which arise due to this method:
Crypto Airdrops May 12
By: Atnet, Airdrops, Trading
Tags: Primedice, Airdrop, Crypto Airdrop

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What 40 Yard Dash Times Produce The Best Running Backs
By: Christopher Zita
Tags: Sports, NFL, Football, Data Science, Sports Analytics

From the data obtained the above table displays the percentage that an athlete who ran a specific time will be in the top 10% for career yards. For example, if a running back runs a time between 4.50-4.59 they have only a 6.6% of being in the top 10% for yards.

Best and Worst 40 Yard Dash Times

As we get a look at a more broad view of the top athletes in yards we saw that running backs in other time intervals start to appear on the list, and we get a different view of each time interval.

Using the data that was found and from each analysis, I’m going to give my opinion of the best and worst 40 yard dash times.

Best: 4:40–4:49

Running backs who run a time between 4.40-4.49 appear to have the most success in the NFL. It may appear that those who run in the 4.20's are better but since there’s only 1 athlete in that time the sample space is too small to be sure, while 4.40–4.49 have multiple running backs as evidence.

Adrian Peterson (above) ran a 4.40 and has the most career yards over the last 20 years

These running backs have the highest chance to be one of the top running backs in yards, play in the NFL for one of the longest times, and have 6 running backs in the top 10 rushers in yards over the last 20 years. Also if we viewed the times where there are more than 5 running backs they average the most in yards per attempt at 4.14 yards.

Worst: 4:60–4.69

If a running back runs in the 4.60's statistically they are already at a disadvantage to be a top running back.

Arain Foster (above) ran a 4.69 and is currently out fo the NFL due to a long list of injuries

These running backs typically don’t last in the NFL for that long only averaging 4.6 seasons. This results in them obtaining less yards during their tenure in the NFL. They are also the second worst time in yards per attempt, and in the bottom half of ranking of running backs in the top 10%. There’s a debate that running backs who run in the 4.80’s are worse but since the sample size is too small compared to 4.60–4.69, there’s more confidence that the stats for the 4.60’s are more accurate and closer to the actual result.

Conclusion

The 40 yard dash is the most popular event in the NFL combine and by doing simple analysis we got a better view at which running backs may have the best chance to have the best careers. This obviously isn’t 100% accurate, but by using even more stats from the combine we may have better confidence at what running backs will be successful in the NFL even before they take their first snap.
Market Overview: 19–25 March
By: Alexandra Petrova
Tags: Bitcoin, Market, Investors, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Last week Bitcoin trading started at the point below $8000. For 10 days already Bitcoin has been found in the range between support and resistance levels, $7200 and $8000 respectively.

Despite the new optimism inspired by the measured tone of financial regulators’ speeches at the G20 meeting, major cryptocurrencies didn’t manage to develop a strong upward trend. For the moment, $8500 — is the Bitcoin’s attractor, the price passed this point more than 35 times per week. Thus, the current state of the market can be called ‘flat’.

Bitcoin dominance index fluctuates consistently around 44%. It means that the altcoin market is also hesitating.

Since the beginning of the year trading volumes have been decreasing systematically. In the second half of March they leveled out at a range of 13–18 billion dollars per 24 hours. The decrease of trading volumes and volatility often means the upcoming high market activity. How can we identify where this activity will lead to?

Firstly, we should look at the climate of the futures market. Major speculators have decreased the Bitcoin contracts sale net position up to 1,37 thousand. This is the minimal value since December 19.

Secondly, margin positions at crypto exchanges. According to Bitfinex, the volumes of short positions focused on price drop gradually diminish. While the volumes of long positions are slowly growing.

Both factors mentioned above could be a sign of ‘bull’ moods among major speculators. But sudden events and fake news can change investors’ mood at any moment. Investors, in their turn, have become more cautious commenting on various statements. For example, the new chairman of Chinese National bank in one of gis twits called Bitcoin a currency that gives freedom to anyone who makes use of it. The market didn’t react at all to this statement.

To start the upward trend the Bitcoin price should solidify at least above $9000.

— tokenbox.io
What is SwiftUI’s @EnvironmentObject?
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Mobile, iOS, Swift, Swiftui, Programming

How to Use @EnvironmentObject

With @EnvironmentObject , SwiftUI allows you to share across all the views in your app. It sounds a lot like a singleton to me, but it isn't.

A more practical use of @EnvironmentObject is where a user moves from View A to View B, then to View C, and then View D, with information passed from screen to screen. Instead of passing from screen to screen, View A could just pass the data to the environment, and then you could then retrieve the data from the environment in View D. Your code will look even tidier this way.

You are building an app where you would like to know if the dark mode is toggled or not. You first create an ObservableObject :

class DeviceSetting: ObservableObject {

@Published var isDarkMode = false

}

Next, inside SceneDelegate , initialise DeviceSetting :

var deviceSetting = DeviceSetting()

And connect it with your ContentView as follows:

let contentView = ContentView().environmentObject(deviceSetting)

The first screen that you will be working on is ContentView . This is kind of like your home page.

Here you will be able to toggle the dark mode to your desire.

The next screen is the detail screen, where you will be able to set the state of the dark mode.

@EnvironmentObject var deviceSetting: DeviceSetting var body: some View {

HStack {

Text("Dark Mode is")

self.deviceSetting.isDarkMode ? Text("Enabled") : Text("Disabled")

}.navigationTitle("Setting Screen")

}

See how this is being done:
New: A SignInWithAppleButton in SwiftUI
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Mobile, iOS, Swift, Swiftui, Programming

SignInWithAppleButton

You may indicate if you would like to be a signup or a sign-in. Here, you will be doing a sign-in:

The request scope is where you can specify what kind of information you would like to collect from the user. Currently, you are only collecting the full name and email address. Authentication is successful. Here, you will be able to get the credentials and information to store in your database. If the authentication fails, you will be able to identify the error with the provided description.

In case you would like to have a signup, just change .signIn to .signUp and run the project:

There is also .continue :

Thanks for reading!
A conversation
By: Urvi Karani
Tags: Conversations, Love, Life, Nnamdi Kanu, Poetry

Photo by Bundo Kim on Unsplash

The sun asks the earth,

“Why do you always revolve around me?”

The earth swirls and replies,

“To give reason to your light.”
Les Filles Mortes
By: Zach J. Payne
Tags: Grief, Death, Life, Poetry, Hope

i.

plastic tubes bind

tighter than dungeon irons

around a maiden fair.

astriferous, she soars

beyond cancer’s arms

never returning.

ii.

she sleeps

where daisies flourish,

weaving through her hair.

feasting

as meat and bones

become stardust.
How To: Install Fabcoin Core Wallet in Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS
By: Fab Info
Tags: Blockchain, Mac, Windows, Bitcoin Wallet, Updates

Instruction videos to help you install your wallet to trade Fabcoin

If you are looking to download a Fabcoin Core wallet, we have released these videos specifically to help you through the process.

Overall Fabcoin wallets are easy to install for a regular everyday person, but we have these video guides to assist you. Keep in mind, we also have a wide range of print instruction manuals that you can use instead of these videos at https://fa.biz, and each individual software download comes with a READ ME.txt file with instructions on set up as well.

For system requirements, visit fabcoin.pro/runtime.html.
Childhood Legends and Changing the World
By: Faisal Amjad
Tags: Childhood, Changing The World, Roald Dahl, Inspiration, Tupac Shakur

It’s quite an interesting day today, from a childhood legends perspective.

Not only is it the 104th birthday of Roald Dahl — whose books I was glued to for most of my upbringing, it is also the 24th anniversary of 2Pac’s death.

For me, both of these very different characters are hugely inspiring — for different reasons but the same reason also.

Let me explain.

Roald Dahl made me want to write and inspired that creative (and sometimes silly) spark we all need. His books are witty, timeless and can be enjoyed by anyone of any age.

With Tupac, it’s not the fact I was a fanboy (although I was!) or because of his rap skills, as good as they were. It was actually because he was a huge, huge advocate for social justice and saw things clearly and simply, and articulated himself refreshingly truthfully. His interviews are awesome and I still enjoy watching them — especially in a world where very few people speak up.

“Everytime I speak, I want the truth to come out…” — Tupac Shakur

I genuinely believe he was of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X ilk — cut from the same cloth as them — but had much less time in the world to say his piece and make his full impact.

So, what do an old British-Norwegian children’s author and a gangsta rapper who talked about the thug life have in common?

They both believed hugely in inspiring others to dream big and go off and change the world — to not limit ourselves or be constrained by society or other people’s limitations.

As Roald Dahl said in Matilda: “Somewhere inside all of us, is the power to change the world’. “I’m not going to say I’m going to change the world, but I guarantee I will spark the brain of the person who does…” — Tupac Shakur

Both of these guys definitely sparked my brain… now it’s just the pesky bit about changing the world I’ve gotta go do…
He knows if you’ve been cyber-bad or cyber-good
By: Phil Johnson
Tags: Humor, Technology, Comics, Cartoon, Cybersecurity

As you know, the Big Guy will soon be delivering presents, so time’s running out to get on his good side. Just a friendly reminder to be cyber-good, for goodness sake. Good luck!
如何給出有價值的設計反饋
By: Edison Chen
Tags: Product Design, UX Design, 設計, 用戶體驗, UX

Product Designer at The Walt Disney Company. Nerd. Lover of jazz, hip-hop, food, and bad jokes.

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The State of Crypto in Nigeria
Tags: Nigeria, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Updates

What does Nigeria know about cryptocurrency?

Regarding the awareness of cryptocurrency in Nigeria today, Israel believes that it’s mostly millennials and Gen Xers between the ages of 18–40 who are most interested in crypto.

“It’s mostly the younger generation today. Usually when I have a friend who’s interested, I tell them to read up on BitCoin Talk. Once they do that, I can start introducing them to trading. But I always tell them how important it is to do their research.”

BitCoin Talk continues to serve as a hub for crypto interest since its 2009 inception, especially as the use of crypto continues to expand across the globe.

Bitcoin Talk users avidly discuss the potential of Bitcoin in Nigeria

A quick search on the site brings up hundreds of threads about the future of Bitcoin in Nigera, covering everything from adoption potential, to trading tips.

Bitcoin itself dominantes as the most used cryptocurrency in Nigeria with ether still lagging behind. Other ERC20 tokens are virtually unheard of.

“Stablecoins are still not widely used or well known. Other ERC20 tokens aren’t either. The main problem is that the Naira isn’t accepted on any major exchanges where you can get ERC20 tokens, and in turn the peer-to-peer trade interest is very low. People know about Bitcoin and know they can make money trading. There’s little interest to save it, and there’s really nowhere to spend it in Nigeria.”

As mentioned before in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ingenuitive: what it is really like to buy and sell cryptocurrency across the globe,” many Nigerians first became aware of cryptocurrency after the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox Ponzi scheme that implicated many Nigerians in 2016. Despite this shaky first impression, the country has become very interested in Bitcoin, and began to see cryptocurrency as the future of finance in Nigeria.

According to Israel, most Nigerians use Bitcoin (and on a lesser scale, ether) as a means of making additional revenue as a crypto trader. But without major exchanges to trade on, how are they trading?
73 Powerful Law of Attraction Journal Prompts
Tags: Spirituality, Personal Development, Law Of Attraction, Life, Spiritual Growth

Kickstart 2021 With

73 Powerful Law of Attraction Journal Prompts

Manifest Your Dream Life

Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash

Have you heard Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs or any President owe their success to the law of attraction? No right? Absolutely anyone with common sense would not do it. . . But.

A huge BUT.

All these high achievers I listed above had one thing in common — a vision. And that is all you need for a successful law of attraction.

The Law of attraction is not forceful practice or a conscious decision, as you do it anyway.

Yes, you do attract whatever you repeatedly think. We do normally attract unmindfully and that is what makes the whole lot difference in the level of success we achieve throughout. Let’s look at this happening. . .

Mr.Grinch was enthusiastically anticipating a great evening at a rock concert. He eyed the front seats just, as some kid stares a melting ice cream in someone else’s hand. While waiting in the queue, he began visualizing the front rail. He visualized the feeling of its smooth texture and the cool touch. At 4 pm, the doors opened, the crowd surged and . . . Mr. Grinch manifested the front row even when the overwhelming number suggested that he stood no chance!

So whether you want to manifest some event passes, a warm blanket, free coffee, or a huge mansion . . . the process is the same! The effort is the same — mindful law of attraction.

Several techniques are deployed to achieve such mindfulness and one of such is through prompts. Let’s dive into some vitals when using a manifestation journal.
Less is More
Tags: Humor, Politics, Comics, Trump, Funny

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
The Establishment Favorite George W. Bush Leveraged Foreign Aid to Escape War Crimes Prosecution
By: Rich Samartino
Tags: America, Wikileaks, Politics, Impeachment, George W Bush

These men were never prosecuted for war crimes. Public Domain.

As the the impeachment inquiry rolls on, I was reminded about a historical fact that shows just how biased and political establishment media and politicians are in their quest to impeach President Trump over improper use of foreign aid.

While they assert Trump used military aid to induce Ukraine to investigate the Bidens (this assertion does not hold up in testimony), they embrace a president who used a variety of humanitarian and military aid to escape prosecution for war crimes. This is documented by diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

Yes, I’m talking about George W. Bush, the man who dances and relaxes with mainstream figures like Ellen DeGeneres.

Bush worked hard in the early years of his presidency to eliminate the chance that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would prosecute Americans for war crimes. He unsigned the Rome Statute, immunizing Americans against ICC prosecution unless crimes occurred within a country signed onto the Statute. To further pressure these countries, Bush banned their military (and sometimes economic) aid, which could be restored by signing a bilateral immunity agreement with the U.S., further protecting Americans against ICC prosecution.

You can read the article by Green Left, or check out the book The WikiLeaks Files for more, but basically the U.S. used economic intimidation to coerce smaller countries into signing these immunity agreements, including withholding money that Lesotho requested to fight an AIDS epidemic. And though the media might fantasize about Trump’s quid pro quo, the connection between denying Lesotho’s aid and their non-signing of the immunity agreement was explicitly stated by U.S. government officials and documented in diplomatic cables.
Emotional Touch
By: Diane Tilley
Tags: Intimacy, Passion, Words, Touch Prompt, Poetry

Some may yearn

for the physical touch

whereas I — I yearn

for the emotional touch

where your soft words

leave my senses reeling

from the way your whispers

glide like silk

through the inner folds

of my mind

leaving me wanting, needing

more of your

oral intimacy
Pyramid Schemes: Building lies on hopes and dreams
By: Eric Vanderburg
Tags: Cons, Scheme, Pyramid Scheme, Cybercrime, Plot

There are many new threats on the Internet, but that doesn’t mean criminals don’t try the tried and true methods as well. Enter the pyramid scheme, stage left. A pyramid scheme is much like the old chain letters people received when the post office was the en vogue form of communication.

The way this scheme works is simple and very identifiable. One person begins at the top of the pyramid and recruits a few other people to “invest” some amount of money, say $100, into the initial investor. These new recruits go out and recruit more people, who recruit more people thus promulgating the scam further. The fraud comes in when people close to the bottom of the pyramid cannot recruit enough people to pay off those who are a level above them, thus losing money.

Pyramid schemes do not have to be about money either. One neighborhood friend sent us a letter asking us to send out letters to six friends who would all send her child books, then those six would send out letters to their friends to send our child a book so that we would get 36 books but only send out one to the person who sent the letter to her. We, of course, did not participate.

There are many types of pyramid schemes that have similar motives and results: invest in order to see a profit, but there is nothing tangible to invest in. Other similar schemes are called, Ponzi schemes, chain letters, and multilevel marketing.

Beware of offers that seem too good to be true or those that require you to earn your money from those you recruit. Eventually, those at the top will run off with everyone else’s money and leave you holding an empty bag.
Product Backlog — Assessment and Recommendation
By: Harsh Vardhan
Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Agile, Technology, Product Management

Product Backlog — Assessment and Recommendation

Simple model to quickly assess your backlog maturity level. Use it often to improve and make your backlog special.

Original meaning of the word “backlog” is— a large log placed at the back of a fire to keep the blaze going. We groom/prepare the log using various techniques. Similarly, an agile product development team uses a backlog to blaze/inspire and a grooming technique to charge/fire.

In my previous article “Product Roadmap — Five Key Points to Keep in Mind”, I mentioned some points to consider while building a product roadmap. I also provided a high level preview of a product backlog and demonstrated how a product backlog aligns to a product roadmap. To summarize — a product roadmap is a strategic plan and product backlog is a tactical execution plan. In a typical lean-agile setting, product manager is accountable for the product roadmap and product owner is accountable for the product backlog.

Every item on a product roadmap should align to the product vision through product strategy. If any roadmap item doesn’t help us get any closer to the product vision, strategy says — NO. Product strategy rule #3 in my article “Top Five Rules of Product Strategy” demonstrates this in detail.

Similarly, every item on a product backlog (tactical execution plan) should link to an item on the product roadmap. If you are not able to find that connection, say “no” to that piece of work.

Below is a comprehensive visual representation (including summary roll ups and linkages) of the alignment/connection between various product terminologies described above.
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Tags: Toplum, Birey

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Words from theWoods. Pictures and reflections in nature
By: Upen Singh
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Poem, Love, Life

Sometimes treasure cannot be seen, they must be felt through our senses.

This was my experience in a two-day camping trip I just did with my partner at a National Park in Northern Thailand.

Thanks to COVID, this year, out of options, we have traveled to a few places in Thailand. Normally we travel across countries. It has been a new experience being able to find beauty close to our own place of residence.

All these pictures were taken by my partner, Aboo. She is a gifted photographer, and I am more of a storyteller.

So here I am telling you stories of this camping trip with our pictures and some words —
9 Pieces of Wicked Wisdom
By: Donn K. Harris
Tags: Dichos, Sociology, Wisdom, Uncommon Sense, Critical Thinking

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is not king — he’s a heretic, a lunatic, and he will be jailed and isolated. A team will be put together to refute anything he is saying. (my riff on the ‘Biblical Paraphrases’ from Erasmus, Dutch Catholic scholar in the Renaissance, 16th century, original in the Old Testament, Book of Genesis: ‘In the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is the Guiding Light.’ H.G. Wells reimagined the concept in his 1904 short story, ‘In the Country of the Blind.’)
DEx.top Bi-Weekly Report (10.13–10.27)
Tags: Blockchain, Progress Reports, Ethereum, Interoperability, Dex

DEx.top Bi-Weekly Report (10.13–10.27)

1. External Partnerships

DEx.top & iBitcome’s Partner Release of Cross-Chain Protocol OFGP

2. Listings

Wrapped Bitcoin Cash (WBCH)

WBCH (Wrapped BCH) is an ERC-20 Token that facilitates the transfer of value between the BCH and Ethereum blockchains. Based on the OFGP cross-chain protocol, WBCH’s value is pegged to that of BCH in a 1:1 ratio and serves as a BCH proxy tradeable against Ethereum-based tokens.

Activities:

a. During the event if you register on DEx.top website, verify your wallet address, join our official Telegram group and follow our Twitter, and upload a screenshot of you joining our Telegram group; you may be eligible to win 0.005 WBCH as a reward. This reward is limited to the first 300 new users who complete the requirements. We will also randomly pick 5 users to receive a custom DEx.top ledger.

b. During the event period, users who net deposits (net deposit = deposit — withdrawal) over 0.05 WBCH, will be airdropped 0.005 WBCH, first come first serve! Limited to the first 100 users. We will select randomly from the winners 5 users who will receive a custom DEx.top ledger.

c. Users who participate in WBCH trading will be ranked based on trading volume (buy+sell, wash trading not included) over 5 ETH, top 20 ranked users will get to split the prize of over 4 WBCH and the top 10 will receive a custom DEx.top ledger!

d. Exchange BCH to WBCH to receive an airdrop of 0.005 WBCH!

e. Download and register on BTC.com, submit your registered account to receive an airdrop of 0.003WBCH!

Link: https://support.dex.top/hc/en-us/articles/360010921334

3. Delisting

DEx.top to delist the tokens SNTR, DAG

Announcement: https://support.dex.top/hc/en-us/articles/360010265574

DEx.top is a decentralized Ethereum-token exchange platform based on the smart contract. It introduces the innovative ROC (Replayed On Chain) trading mechanism that leverages the synchronized off-chain and on-chain ledgers to enable instant trading while making traders’ assets safe. DEx.top is committed to providing the most secure, instant, and low-cost trading experience to end users at all levels.

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Don’t let me go for now,

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I know it all ends too soon,

That all things pass,

But for the moment,

The sun is just an idea to the mountains,

Just the grey that halos their peaks.

We don’t have to think about ends.

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I am home.

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Fred Wilson:

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New York, New York — For Immediate Release

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Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Poetry On Medium, Scrittura, Love

Home

Poem

Photo by Nick Collins on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/@nickcollins

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meld our lips with the power

of splitting atoms,

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