The Repower America Wall is a campaign to raise awareness about Repower America and its efforts to solve the climate crisis. Through a combination of video, image and commentary, the American public now has a platform where it can speak its mind about climate matters.

The campaign launched in November 2009 with tandem efforts online and on television. The television ad campaign was driven by images from the repoweramerica.org/wall.

In the weeks prior to launch, thousands of videos, photos and comments had been gathered by field teams in all states. The video footage and images were then uploaded by volunteers using the Admin Panel developed by SignalFive.

Read the full case study.

Here at SignalFive we deal with in-progress apps a lot. This usually constitutes sending out an Ad Hoc distribution, or a version of the in-progress app, to various people with varying degrees of technical sophistication. Like anyone else, we had to go through this process a number of times before getting it right. There are a number of tutorials out there, such as this one, that offer some pointers. But ours has pictures, and goes through even more of the process. Ready? Let’s begin. (Note: This deals with Macs only..a Windows version might be coming in the future).

Find your UDID

First things first….Your iPhone/iPod Touch has a Unique Device Identifier. There are ways to find it in one click, but let’s go one step further. Most likely, you have to get this UDID number out to a developer who will then send you the Ad Hoc Distribution. So, let’s make your life easier. Download an app called AdHoc (it’s free)

AdHoc Application

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If you are looking to install the latest NVIDIA driver on your Acer Aspire 5739G running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, you will need to do the following:

1. Download the driver

2. Reboot your machine into recovery mode and run

$ sudo sh DRIVER-PACKAGE-NAME.run

3. Reboot, again and run

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

add the line:

Option         “ModeValidation” “NoTotalSizeCheck”

to the “Screen” section

Here is what the Screen section of my xorg.conf now looks like:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "ModeValidation" "NoTotalSizeCheck"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

You should now be able to take full advantage of your graphics card, run Compiz, set up TwinView, etc.

Henrik Berggren was a developer of the growing SoundCloud site (working on the API) and now works at Doberman in Sweden.

Henrik Berggren

SoundCloud

T: One thing everyone wants to know about is SoundCloud..Could you describe your involvement, how you came into the project, how did this project start, who funded the development, how is it doing now?

H: Well I was first involved with it..first of all it’s founded by two Swedish guys, Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung. They are both old schoolmates of mine, we went to the same University and I met them a few years back. They were interested in the web and they have been doing development for the web for some time, and so had I, so it was really a good match from the beginning. We started discussing how frustrated we were with MySpace - I was DJing a lot at the time, Eric is an old producer, and Alex has done a lot of film music and stuff. They had this idea of creating Flickr for music, basically. A place where can share music easily, MySpace was really bad, and there were some other projects but none of them were as good as Flickr is for photos.

SoundCloud

They started the company in Stockholm but after a while they moved to Berlin. At that point I decided to stay in Stockholm because I was a year behind them in school. So I decided to stay on and finish my Computer Science degree but then ended up going down next summer and wound up staying 9 or 10 month instead, working on their API. I lived in Berlin for 9 or 10 months basically and moved back to Stockholm a year ago almost. But interesting stuff has happened since then.

They have grown a lot, they were funded from the beginning by some business angels in Berlin and then I think last spring they raised a big round of funding from a British VC firm called..I can’t remember then name...I think it was 2.5M Euros or something like that. They are doing really really well and I stayed on..I’m not employed with them anymore but I am in close contact with Eric and Alex and another guy named Henrik who is now the chief of their API because I have developed a lot of services on top of their platform. I have always considered their platform to be the most interesting thing about the site because I’m not a musician or DJ anymore, I’m kind of an Internet guy and think there’s a lot of stuff you can do with a musical platform as good as SoundCloud is.

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