Advertising on Facebook

Facebook makes most of its money through ads-here's a quick example to show you how it works.

1. A business creates an ad. Let's say a gym opens in your neighborhood. The owner creates an ad to get people to come in for a free workout.
2. Facebook gets paid to deliver the ad. The owner sends the ad to Facebook and describes who should see it: people who live nearby and like running.
3. The right people see the ad. Facebook only shows you the ad if you live in town and like to run. That's how advertisers reach you without knowing who you are.
   

Reference: Facebook Advertising

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Stanford University Offers Online and Free Courses

Stanford University offered their most popular computer science courses to the public this fall, online for free. The courses were so popular that Stanford’s doing it again in January. Open to everyone, just enter your name and email address to sign up.
Each course comprises downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts.

This time they’re offering 7 computer science courses:

Machine Learning (Andrew Ng - January 2012)
Human-Computer Interaction(Scott Klemmer - January 2012)
Game Theory(Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham - January 2012)
Probabilistic Graphical ModelsDaphne Koller - January 2012
Cryptography(Dan Boneh - January 2012)
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I (Tim Roughgarden - January 2012)
Natural Language Processing(Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky - January 23rd 2012)
Computer Science 101 (Nick Parlante – February 2012)
Software Engineering for Software as a Service (Armando Fox and David Patterson - February 2012)


Two entrepreneurship courses:
Technology Entrepreneurship (Chuck Eesley - January 2012)
The Lean Launchpad (Steve Blank - February 2012)


Medicine
Anatomy(Sakti Srivastava - January 2012)


Civil Engineering
Making Green Buildings(Martin Fischer - January 2012)


Electrical Engr.
Information Theory (Tsachy Weissman - March 2012)

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ReMo - Mozilla Reps

One part of the sfd this year was the introduction for ReMO or the Mozilla Representative.
As a fresh grad of BS Computer Engineering, I'm interested in joining as ReMo.
I'm a Volunteer Student Assistant in our school, EARIST during college days, I'm willing to pursue my journey to contribute to my school and community.
I'm sure being a ReMO helps me a lot when organizing events.
I love to be a ReMo hopefully someday.

Anybody there who is interested can apply online at ReMo Wiki Page


ReMO - Overview
Source: ReMo Wiki Page


The program, also known by its codename ReMo, aims to empower and support volunteer Mozillians who want to become official representatives of Mozilla in their region/locale and wherever they go.

Community is the backbone of the Mozilla project. As the Mozilla project grows in scope and scale, community needs to be strengthened and empowered accordingly. This is the central aim of the Mozilla Reps program: to empower and to help push responsibility to the edges in order to help the Mozilla contributor base grow.

The Mozilla Reps program provides a simple framework and specific tools to help volunteer Mozillians become official representatives of Mozilla in their region. Anyone who is passionate and knowledgeable about Mozilla and who is ready to dive deeper into the project can sign-up to the program. The Mozilla Reps program helps push responsibility and authority further outwards, to more Mozillians, making it much easier for volunteers organize and/or attend events, recruit and mentor new contributors, and support their local communities better.

A Mozilla Rep agrees to take on the following responsibilities:

represent Mozilla in their country/region
promote the Mozilla Project and our mission
build on and support existing/future local community efforts and programs
inspire, recruit and support new contributors
support and mentor future Mozilla Reps
document clearly all his/her activities

An "open" and "structured" program

The Mozilla Reps program is open to anyone who is:

passionate about the Mozilla Project
knowledgeable of the Mozilla organization, its mission, its products and its community
willing to communicate to as many people as possible and keen to inspire people to contribute to Mozilla

Although anyone can sign-up to become a Mozilla Rep, that doesn't mean you automatically become a Mozilla Rep after submitting your application. Because Mozilla Reps are entrusted with new responsibilities and special tools to manage budgets, events and swag, each application is carefully reviewed by the Mozilla Rep council and each applicant, if shortlisted, must pass a short a short interview before officially becoming a Mozilla Rep.