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41) Ebay
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xii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Want to know the best way to get rid of some of that clutter laying around the house and make some cash? Or sell that beautiful jewelry you made recently? It might be time to take a quick trip to a market with more than 175 million buyers and start a global bidding war. eBay remains the easiest way to sell to hungry consumers worldwide and to uncover incredible bargains and unique items for yourself in the process. Marsha Collier, longtime eBay business...
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280 pages ; 24 cm
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Old media is over. The internet reigns. And in today's attention economy, influencers are kings. But who are they... and how do you become one? "Break the Internet" takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such as Tumblr to today's world in which YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok dominate. Examining the new media landscape that the rise of online celebrity has created, it is an insider...
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viii, 319 pages ; 25 cm
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"The internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now. From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet now has direct effects on the physical world. While this computerized future, often called the Internet of Things, carries enormous potential, best-selling author Bruce Schneier...
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The hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling -- and limiting -- the information we consume. In 2009, Google began customizing its search results. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, this change is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years -- the rise...
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104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm
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"The days of only being able to search for items on computers using text searches are long gone: voice search is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways to find content on computing devices and the web. One of the leaders in this area is the Amazon Echo : a high-quality speaker which uses Alexa : (a voice-controlled digital personal assistant) to perform a range of tasks: from playing music and making calls to smartphones, to answering questions...
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When Alex first began posting, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight, it seemed she'd amassed a huge following and could no longer manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC. When one controversial post goes viral, AC goes missing. She has access to all Alex's personal information and knows the pressure points in her marriage and family life -- and now the police are looking to Alex and her husband for answers --...
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Nancy Clancy volume 5
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"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
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xiii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices--which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace--Enchanted Objects....
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Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets
Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings-which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.
Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are sets of Russian...
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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In one hundred glimpses of the pre-internet world, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, presents a captivating record, enlivened with illustrations, of the world before cyberspace--from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to civility...This book is at once an evocative swan song for a disappearing era and, perhaps, a guide to reclaiming just a little bit more of the world IRL" --
"The acclaimed editor of The New York Times...
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From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand. Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released...
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Quillen's essentials of genealogy volume 1
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143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"The revised fifth edition of Mastering Online Genealogy covers the use of computers and the Internet to successfully do your own genealogical research. Quillen shows readers how to use the Internet as an effective genealogical research tool ..."--Page 4 of cover.
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216 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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If you can't make friends, make followers! This is the hilarious story of a teenage girl's journey from geeky nobody to online superstar -- sort of. Fourteen-year-old Olivia Warren hasn't made one friend since she started her new school. She's tried, but it's tough having just come out of a year of homeschooling. She doesn't have any of the essential skills trying to choose her favourite coffee just gave her the shakes and rank breath, no-make-up...
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