Botego olarak Dogal Dil Isleme (Natural Language Processing – NLP) teknolojileri uzerine zayif yapay zeka (Weak AI) tabanli ticari bot yazilimlari gelistiren firmamiza PHP Yazilim Gelistirici ariyoruz. Isyeri Besiktas-Istanbul’da olup part time veya full timecalismak mumkundur.

Genel Nitelikler:

*PHP’de nesneye yonelik yazilim gelistirebilen,

*Yeni versiyonunu gelistirmekte oldugumuz yazilimin mevcut kodlarini okuyabilecek,

*Yazdigi kodu dokumante edebilecek,

*Calisir bir seyler cikarmak ugruna gunu kurtaran cozumler uretmek yerine planli programli calismayi tercih eden,

*Surum kontrol ve hata raporlama araclari kullanan,

*Active Directory, Single-SignOn, Eventlogs gibi isletim sistemi mekanizmalarina PHP entegrasyonu yapabilecek veya ogrenebilecek,

*MySQL, MSSQL Server ve Oracle gibi farkli veritabanlari arasinda guvenli veri alisverisi ve database entegrasyonu yapabilecek,

*Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Last.fm gibi sosyal medya platformlarinin API’lerini kullanarak yazilimin bu ve benzeri platformlara entegrasyonunu saglayabilecek veya ogrenebilecek kadar teknik bilgiye sahip olan,

Diledigi zaman ust kati PS3 turnuvalarina ayrilmis ofisin sicak dostluk ortaminda, diledigi zaman evinin konforunda calismayi isteyen, yapay zeka fenomenine ve chatter botlara ilgi duyan PHP yazilim gelistirici arkadaslari aramizda gormekten mutluluk duyariz.

Not: Dogal dil isleme alaninda bilgi birikimi olmasi yonunde bir beklentimiz yoktur ama olursa da fena olmaz.

Basvurular icin: ik@botego.com

ilan ile ilgili teknik konulardaki sorulariniz icin: mustafa.atik@botego.com

basic privacy issues

So why was Google Buzz pushed out the door too soon? I have three interrelated theories:

1. Google still wants to buy Twitter, and putting Buzz into Gmail might be enough of a threat to bring Twitter back to the table.  Buzz did not launch in some Google Labs backwater.  It is placed front and center in Gmail.  Buzz is Google’s strongest effort yet to enter the stream.  If Buzz can gain traction it would certainly help Google’s negotiating position with Twitter.
2. Independent of any pressure it may place on Twitter, Google needs to have its own realtime micro-messaging communications system.  The micro-message bus is just a more efficient way to communicate than email for many types of messages so it makes sense to add it as a layer to Gmail: broadcast your public messages via Buzz, and keep private ones on email or chat, all from the same place.
3. The other reason Google needed to establish its own social stream pronto is that links passed through social sharing are beginning to rival search as a primary driver of traffic for many sites.  Part of Google’s prowess stems from the fact that it is the largest referrer of traffic to many other Websites. It doesn’t want to lose that status to social sharing streams such as Facebook or Twitter.  Already, Buzz is helping to boost sharing through Google Reader.  While Google doesn’t benefit directly from that traffic (yet), simply knowing what links people are sharing and clicking on is valuable data which can help it improve its search results.

Google needed to get into this game as fast as it could, even if there were bumps along the way.  The question now is whether Buzz can keep building.

The Agency operates in three strategic areas:

• Culture and Arts

• Urban applications and protection of cultural heritage

• Tourism and publicity

Projects for urban applications and protection of cultural heritage are carried out by the Directorate of Urban Applications, the Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums, and the Directorate of Urban Projects Coordination.

Istanbul 2010 ECOC projects for culture and arts are produced, shaped and conducted by the Departments of Visual Arts, Music and Opera, Urban Culture, Literature, Cinema and Documentary, Stage and Performing Acts, and Traditional Arts. A main goal is for all projects and activities to be sustainable, continuing well after 2010.

What is a European Capital of Culture?
The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and development. A number of European cities have used the City of Culture year to transform their cultural base and, in doing so, the way in which they are viewed internationally.

The European Capital of Culture program was initially called the European City of Culture and was conceived in 1983 by Melina Mercouri, then serving as Greek Minister of Culture. Mercouri believed that at the time, culture was not given the same attention as politics and economics and a project for promoting European cultures within the member states should be pursued.

The European City of Culture program was launched in the summer of 1985 with Athens being the first title-holder. During the German Presidency of 1999, the European City of Culture program was renamed the European Capital of Culture.

Following the EU Resolution in 1999 enlarging the ECOC Project to include non-member countries, a group of civil society volunteers in Turkey arranged a meeting on 7 July 2000 in order to establish an “Enterprise Group” that would take the required steps for Istanbul to be a candidate for European Capital of Culture.

After long processes and endeavors of many civil society members, Istanbul was found ready on 11 April 2006 for being the 2010 European Capital of Culture, along with Pecs (Hungary) and Essen (Germany).

Conceding the view of the European Parliament and approval by the Council of Cultural Ministers of the European Union on 13 November 2006 Istanbul was finally announced to be the European Capital of Culture for 2010.

Why Istanbul?
Istanbul maintains a distinguished position among world metropolises with its unique geographical location and cultural heritage spanning thousands of years. As one of the most energetic cities in the world, Istanbul continually grows as a center of attraction.

Through Istanbul being the European Capital of Culture in 2010, Europe will re-discover the roots of its own culture and will take a giant step for mutual understanding. Istanbul’s success as European Capital of Culture will depend on Istanbul residents’ embracing and supporting this project through extensive participation.

Today something new happened though. It wasn’t a PR firm we went to battle with, it was a press release distributor – prMac. I know these guys well, because for the last year and a half they’ve sent me an average of 15 emails a day, sometimes far more. Each email contains a useless press release that someone paid them to spam out to the media. As far as I know, not one of these emails has ever turned into a story.

Most PR emails come from a human, and it’s easy to just reply and tell them to stop if it becomes annoying. The more streamlined operations that spam stuff out at least give us an opt out to get off their dreaded mailing list. But not prMac – none of their emails have an opt out.

Today was the day I decided to take a stand against the onslaught of prMac emails. Some small step in my hope to regain human dignity, I guess. Since there was no opt out, I simply sent out a Tweet, saying “prMac really needs to chill out on the unsolicited press spam, and give an unsubscribe link.” I followed up with a link to a single day’s emails from the company.

If I were prMac, I would have seen this and either kept on spamming, or quietly taken techcrunch emails off their list. But that didn’t happen. Instead, they got angry. Really pissed off, actually.

First came a comment to that image of the spam, saying “Claims it’s spam, but OPTED IN to the service. The reason for the duplicates is TechCrunch provided two email addresses.”

Then a barrage of emails (sort of ironic). One said in part, and I’m not kidding, “prMac is an OPT IN service for the media. We’re not spammers. We set up your account for you, only for your convenience and under your behalf…”

Yep, they followed a statement that they are opt in only and that they aren’t spammers with an admission that they set up our account for us “only for your convenience” (and certainly not at our request).

Unpleasant words were exchanged over the course of ten or so more emails. prMac forwarded an email from 2008 where they cajoled a CrunchBase staffer into giving up our emails to start the whole process. I noted that I had no way of stopping the barrage, and kept pointing out that a simple opt out in each email would have been so…legal of them.

But by far the most perfectly absurd comment came from prMac in one of their last emails, where they said to me “…you seriously need to take some diplomacy lessons my friend. The smart ass remarks aren’t assuaging me one iota, and only making a situation worse than it didn’t even have to be.”

Indeed. And since I want to become a better person, I’ve enrolled myself in a course on how to be diplomatic with spammers who don’t want to let go. Hopefully, I’ll handle the situation with more finesse next time.

In the meantime, though, the whole PR profession really needs to get a grip. We aren’t here to do their bidding. We serve our readers. At least, the readers we like. And our community. If they want to be part of that community, they need to lose the sense of entitlement and chill out on the aggressive marketing a little bit.

I would have been quite happy just venting on Twitter earlier today and eventually setting up an email filter to remove anything that came from them. But we’re only human. And this tirade of angry emails (just now yet another one from them popped into my inbox – “If your receiving distributions from us were such a problem, when didn’t you bring this up long before?? It’s not like we started doing this yesterday.”) was a little too aggressive and a little too much. So now I’ve vented more fully.

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A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based.

There does seem to be some shifts on where the money is going. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

But it’s when you look between the survey of VCs and the survey of private businesses that things start to get ugly. The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Meanwhile, the VCs surveyed indicated that their firms are only doing a few deals every six months and go through one hundred business plans to close one deal. Clearly, the rate of acceptance isn’t anything like 41%, says researcher John K. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance.

A few more stats make that picture look worse. Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. And investors aren’t necessarily keen on their prospects. Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Ouch.

Add to this that 72.7% of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better.

Of course life isn’t that much better for the VCs: Sixty percent of them say their own prospects for raising new funds have declined over the last six months and 41% said they aren’t planning on even attempting it in 2010.

Long term, shake-outs are good for the industry, Paglia notes. Once valuations finish falling, worthless companies are closed or sold at a loss and venture firms that can’t raise another fund hang it up, venture capital will be a much healthier industry on the rise. The big question is just how long that reset takes.

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Henry Blodget

crazy

Well, not everyone on Twitter—68 percent, according to a recent reading I took on Twitter Sentiment. Roughly two thirds of Tweets about the NBC Olympics are negative. Some examples of the venting occurring on Twitter about NBC’s delayed Olympics coverage:

NBC sucks. Why the hell is the Olympics not live

Watching the #Olympics on #NBC since I love watching hours old tape of events I know the results of.

What’s the point of watching the women’s downhill super combined when you already know that Lindsey Vonn crashed because half the people you follow on Twitter decided to spoil the race earlier in the day when it actually happened? Sports need to be shown live because half the drama is in the outcome. The excitement just kind of fizzles otherwise.

Everything else is realtime, NBC can’t expect the country to just wait for Bob Costas to start rolling tape.

The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend.

It's not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a number of efforts underway. But it's the lack of any unified strategy that is most notable.

"They have been exploring the cloud," said Ray Wang of the Altimeter Group. "It's how quickly they have responded is the question of contention."

PlayFirst

Earlier this year, the startup inked a major deal with Big Fish Games and today it has announced that social game industry executive Mitali Pattnaik has joined PlayFirst as General Manager, Social Games.

Pattnaik started her career at Microsoft at the beginning of the millennium, and joined Electronic Arts as Marketing Manager after a four-year stint at the software company. She didn’t stick around for long: she was hired by Yahoo in September 2005 to fill the role of Senior Marketing Manager, where she oversaw worldwide marketing for Yahoo! Search.

Most recently, she led the marketing and monetization efforts for social gaming at Electronic Arts, where she returned as Online Marketing Manager and later, Head of Marketing, in April 2008 before leaving the company for the second time around late last year. In her new role at PlayFirst, she will lead all company’s social gaming initiatives, including the development and publishing of games for Facebook and other social platforms.

PlayFirst’s chief executive, on a sidenote, is also a woman. The company is led by Mari Baker, former Executive in Residence at Kleiner Perkins and founding CEO of KPCB/Sequoia-backed Navigenics.