Calling virtualization "the yellow brick road to the cloud," Staten recommends companies assess their own technological maturity and their adoption of virtualization in order to ascertain whether private cloud environments are the right move right now.

According to Staten, you're ready for the private cloud if you meet the following criteria:

1. You have standardized most commonly repeated operating procedures.
2. You have fully automated deployment and management.
3. You provide self-service access for users.
4. Your business units are ready to share the same infrastructure.

Staten notes that preparing your IT operations for Stage 4 will take many years, but says that moving to the cloud doesn't have to wait until then. Rather than a whole-scale switch, he recommends moving smaller projects and investments, such as development and testing, into the cloud. He also recommends outsourcing the internal cloud to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud provider - preferably one that will offer some training.

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

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GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions. When installed properly, GodBlock will test each page that your child visits before it is loaded, looking for passages from holy texts, names of religious figures, and other signs of religious propaganda. If none are found, then your child is allowed to browse freely.

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In the last century, the United States has seen a resurgence of fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalist Evangelicals, Mormons, Baptists, and Jews have held back progress in science, human rights, civil rights, and protecting our environment. How can we reverse this trend and join the rest of the world in the gradual secularization of society and government?

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Meteor has built an analytics solution that tracks how content is shared. It dynamically creates a social graph that uses first-party tracking tags in the URL of hosted content. When a person copies and pastes that URL into some vehicle, and someone clicks on it, Meteor captures that activity and creates a new node. If one of those people then copies and pastes the link, it creates another node.

This is a very simple mechanism that takes advantage of standard behavior. When an article, video, game, ad, or any other content is tracked this way, the content owner can understand how that content was disseminated from a root source (such as a publisher site, corporate site, or even a UGC sharing site) and where it ended up.