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Sat Apr 27 16:11:17 PDT 2013

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:03:03 -0700
From: "Marsee Henon & Jon Johns" <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
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Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly

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The Strata Conference call for speakers is open; in New York the 
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Available for Review

The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books& videos.
Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or
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Graph Databases
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Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition 
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Getting Started with BeagleBone 
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Programming Grails   
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Microsoft Excel 2013 Inside Out
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Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby 
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Agile User Experience Design
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AnDevCon Spring

The technical conference for software developers building or selling 
Android apps is coming to Boston May 28-31. It will offer one day of 
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Leveraging Lean Analytics with Social Media Monitoring

It turns out the old adage “if you build it, they will come,” shouldn’t 
always apply to starting a business, “It should be ‘if they come, you 
will build it,’” or at least that’s what entrepreneur Alistair Croll 
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video shot at this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival. Learn more and
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Every leader has their “how I got here” story
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We need you and your stories to educate analytics practitioners in 
particular, and improve the field as a whole, we need to show people 
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A Game World You Explore Using your Programming Skills

Checkio is hosting its first global competition. Complete tasks for
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Are you an innovator? Head to the O’Reilly Land on CheckiO to prove it.

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Strata Online Conference: Mobility, Data, and Analytics  

Presented by: Alistair Croll

Duration: Approx. 90 min.

Cost: Free

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 9AM PT, San Francisco

In this Strata Online event, we'll look at some of the ways the rise of
the always-on world is feeding the hungry engines of Big Data. From new
approaches to interface design, to the Internet of Everything, to the
lifeline of a single SMS, our mobile phones are fast becoming a
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