Tools for the Trade #ds106 is #4life cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Marshed Must Haves for ds106 Below are things you should have packed and prepared for your ds106 experience. Blog / RSS Feed UMW enrolled students will need to choose their own web domain name, so start looking for one that is available and works for you (we will provide instructions for setting up your domain and site). Suggested platforms include: AvatarAs you are creating numerous accounts for this class we recommend that you use the same image file and username to represent you on all social media sites. The Toolbox For the work we do in visual, audio, and video editing, we do not specify software or tools you must use. Great Guides Jisc Video Production Infokit Multipurpose Tools CloudConvert between more than 100 different audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats. Finding Media Images Image Editing Drawing
Wall Street, Meet Block Chain — Investing 2.0 How exactly do you issue and transfer assets on the block chain? Here’s how it works: Creating digital assets. Digital assets are created by an issuer using a private key that is unique to the asset being issued. The assets are recorded on the block chain in a special metadata field of a bitcoin transaction — which can store 40 bytes of data, enough to encode the asset and point to anything else which is relevant about it (such as associated legal documents). This metadata field is a bit like the memo line on a check.Issuers define the value of the asset. Wait, how is this better than a database? After all, the world already has “digital assets” — the assets just happen to be entries in databases at various financial institutions, processors, and others. Here’s the question we like to ask instead: Under what conditions is the block chain the best solution for managing digital assets in a market? In markets like these, moving assets with a database requires either:
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This Startup Is Making Money off of Your Unused Gift Cards | Inc.com Gift cards are big business. Consumers acquire an estimated $400 billion worth from retailers every year. But annually, about 30 percent of gift-card value goes unspent--in part because it's so easy to forget about that piece of plastic you've tucked away in a drawer. Enter Raise, a Chicago-based company that offers consumers the chance to sell gift cards they don't want and buy others they do at a discount. Big Ideas While Bagging Groceries I became interested in gift cards when I was helping in the family grocery stores after college. I also started exploring ways to generate additional revenue, which led me to the idea of a gift-card program. Around the same time, gift cards were going digital and mobile. Living Room Experiments I thought this was the optimal time to do something new and start my own business. I began by hiring people from Craigslist as contractors, and started the company in my living room. Building a Marketplace How It Works Winning Over Retailers Instant Gift Cards