Ubuntu Classroom Blog

Day 2 is over and what a fantastic day it was! Without further ado here’s the summary of day 2:

• Introduction to Quickly – Michael Terry rocked it. As he is one of the maintainers of Quickly it was easy for him to give a nice overview of our favourite app development tool and answer all questions which came up.
• Getting help to start with Ubuntu Development The developer advisory team and beyond – As member of the MOTU team and the Developer Advisory Team, Bhavani Shankar knows what kind of questions and concerns new contributors have. He did a great job explaining how the DAT tries to help newcomers and explain what to watch out for when getting involved with Ubuntu Development.
• Fixing small bugs and forwarding the patches upstream – Stefano Rivera filled multiple pages with content during his session and explained very nicely where to find easy…

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New jury rules target Google+, MySpace, more

Gigaom

Tired of juries screwing up cases through social media, the federal courts have issued new instructions to rein in the use of Facebook, Twitter and more.

The new “model jury instructions” issued last week suggest judges are becoming more aware of social media. The instructions provide judges with text to read to jurors, including:

You may not communicate with anyone about the case on your cell phone, through e-mail, Blackberry, iPhone, text messaging, or on Twitter, through any blog or website, including Facebook (s fb), Google+ (s goog), My Space, LinkedIn (s lnkd), or YouTube.

Judge Julie A. Robinson, who helped prepare the instructions, told the U.S. Court system that judges should remind jurors “frequently” about the social media ban.

The instructions also tell jurors to tell the judge if they hear or see someone else breaking the rules.

The cautions may seem excessive but a growing number of trials have been…

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How An Affiliate Lead Can Be Your ‘Bread and Butter’…

Talking Odours

Obtaining a good quality affiliate lead takes a lot of work and practice. Like anything worth having, it will take some planning, time and effort to get there. If you want to obtain a great affiliate lead, you’re going to need to focus and perfect the basics. Then you expand and improve and what’s working for you. These skills are the foundation of building working marketing campaigns and thus, making money.

We first go back to the very heart of being an affiliate, which is first understanding what your goals are. Your job, aside from furthering the goals of your own site, is to get people to click on that ever so lovely affiliate link or have them sign up to be on your newsletter. Once they sign up for your list or click over to the site you’re promoting through your affiliate link, they are officially a lead. These…

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