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Acre - Freebase's Application Hosting Platform

Acre is an application hosting platform designed to minimize the effort required by the Freebase community to build web applications that make use of the data contained by Freebase and create mashups with web services provided by others.

Its features include:

• zero install: all you need is a modern browser and a Freebase account and you can create, debug, deploy and manage your web applications that will be run directly by the Freebase server infrastructure.

• Javascript based: every web developer has stumbled upon Javascript one way or another; with Acre, event if you're not a Javascript pro, you can use your existing knowledge to build web applications that use Javascript both on the client and on the server.

• rich API: from URL fetching to OAuth support, from convenient Freebase API wrappers to native JSON parsing and serialization, from HTML parsing to jQuery-style selectors, Acre provides its applications with a rich set of APIs to work with.

• view-source ecosystem: we believe that the ability of viewing the source of other people's HTML on the web was a big part of its success. We have designed Acre to replicate the same dynamics. Acre makes it easy to look at existing source code and allows you to clone existing app and use it as a starting point for your own.

• advanced debugging: as Javascript developers, we are big fans of Firebug and we watched with awe how much having a great debugging tool helped in simplifying development. In Acre, we tried to replicate the same console functionality (and API) that Firebug uses to allow you to easily access the 'debug channel' of your hosted apps. Moreover, Acre supports the FirePHP protocol, so that you can use FirePHP to debug even complicated HTTP flows like in Ajax applications.

• advanced editing environment: the Acre App Editor acts as your IDE for Acre development and provides you with advanced functionality like code-completion for scripts and templates, plus a special query editor that guides you thru the maze of Freebase schemas and IDs to help find the data your app needs.

• code search: looking at other people's source code is very useful... but finding it might become hard if there are thousands of apps to choose from. This is why Acre provides a 'code search' functionality, specifically tuned for Acre scripts, templates and queries that allows you to search the entire collection of Acre apps and look for examples that you can use or clone.

• extensive documentation: viewing the source of existing apps is a great help, but sometimes it's not enough to understand everything that's going on. Right here on the left sidebar you have access to the Acre documentation; the tutorials show you step by step how to build different kinds of applications; the Cookbook contains 'recipes' (think of them as tricks or tips) that experience acre developers share; then a reference for the Acre APIs (with built-in hooks to the code search, so that you can see how the API is used in real life), for the template language that Acre uses and a handy Javascript reference that shows you the standard Javascript API.

When the web was initially introduced, it was called web 1.0 which means it was a very simple, the read-only web. Here, advertisers had to highly depend on the advertising agencies to change or edit the content (if needed).

Then the web 2.0 arrived which is a social web. The web 2.0 brought various features along with it such as Content Management System (CMS), RSS feeds, blogs etc. this means now the advertisers can themselves edit or change any content. Also, they can generate a lot of information on their blogs on everyday basis. It’s all about networking.

But, the web developers are always in search of something new. And thus, the invention of the next generation web i.e. web 3.0 is by far the biggest discovery.

The web 3.0 is basically an extension to the existing Web 2.0. Compared to Web 2.0 which was basically a social networking web, Web 3.0 is semantic web which is considered to be more intelligent web. A semantic web helps the computer to read and use the web. Now, one can read, write and execute the web. The semantic web is all about the meaning of the data.

By intelligent web all I mean is that in the Web 3.0 information/the web content is presented in a language that software can understand. The content is written in specific programming language like OWL etc.

The application design in Web 3.0 is placed in a more systematized manner. Some of the very important traits can be:-

• Comparatively, the applications are small
• the data is in the cloud
• The applications can run on any device like- mobile phones etc.

For example: - If you type a complex sentence- I want to buy good clothes and watch soccer match. Ask for the different alternatives. Now, this smarter web will look out for the various options and will present the best results. The more frequent the user will use the web; it understands the profile of its user, analyze the search interests and will present specific result to its user. Hence, the Web 3.0 gives more refined results.

You must be wondering that why this a smarter web? Well, this can really help you to boost your web presence.

• Precise information
  Web 3.0 has a software that analyze the type of information surfed by you and draws conclusions automatically. This means that Web 3.0 gives more user-specific information.

• 3D Web
  Web 3.0 use a three dimensional model and transform it into a series of 3D spaces. Personalized avatars are a common feature of the 3D web. So, you as an advertiser can expect more user traffic on your site leading to more frequent clicks.

• Easy access
  All Web 3.0 applications can run on even on mobile phones. Applications are very fast, giving the users required freedom to roam freely from database to database and from program to program. Hence, it becomes easy for you to reach out to the customers or potential customers with an ease.

  Let’s understand some of the basic features of the web 3.0:-

• Artificially intelligent web
  You can add voice/speech tool to your website so that when a user visits your site, he/she can read the site in your own voice.

• Personalized data
  You can save your bookmarks and tags on the personal space provided by the browser.

• Remote control
  You can access your PC from a distant location.

• Internet radio
  The web 3.0 is equipped with digital sound quality and can play a number of radio stations for its users.

Therefore, Web 3.0 gives an edge to the advertisers by providing a personalized experience to all its users.

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An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new enterprise,venture or idea, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. He or she is an ambitious leader who combines land, labor, and capital to often create and market new goods or services. ... ^[1] The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome. Jean-Baptiste Say, a French economist, believed to have coined the word Entrepreneur first in about at 1800. He said an entrepreneur is "one who undertakes an enterprise, especially a contractor, acting as intermediatory between capital and labour".^[2]

Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, resulting in many new ventures failing. The word entrepreneur is often synonymous with founder. Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or service, by carving out a niche in the market that may not exist currently. Entrepreneurs tend to identify a market opportunity and exploit it by organizing their resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions within a given sector.

Observers see them as being willing to accept a high level of personal, professional or financial risk to pursue opportunity.

Business entrepreneurs are viewed as fundamentally important in the capitalistic society. Some distinguish business entrepreneurs as either "political entrepreneurs" or "market entrepreneurs," while social entrepreneurs' principal objectives include the creation of a social and/or environmental benefit.

[edit] Entrepreneur as a leader

Scholar Robert. B. Reich considers leadership, management ability, and team-building as essential qualities of an entrepreneur. This concept has its origins in the work of Richard Cantillon in his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (1755) and Jean-Baptiste Say (1803 or 1834)^[3] in his Treatise on Political Economy.

A more generally held theory is that entrepreneurs emerge from the population on demand, from the combination of opportunities and people well-positioned to take advantage of them. An entrepreneur may perceive that they are among the few to recognize or be able to solve a problem. In this view, one studies on one side the distribution of information available to would-be entrepreneurs (see Austrian School economics) and on the other, how environmental factors (access to capital, competition, etc.) change the rate of a society's production of entrepreneurs.^{[citation needed]}

A prominent theorist of the Austrian School in this regard is Joseph Schumpeter, who saw the entrepreneur as innovators and popularized the uses of the phrase creative destruction to describe his view of the role of entrepreneurs in changing business norms. Creative destruction dealt with the changes entrepreneurial activity makes every time a new process, product or company enters the market.

[edit] See also

Look up entrepreneur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Entrepreneurship education
• Factors of production
• Infopreneur
• Leadership

[edit] References

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1. ^ Sullivan, arthur; Steven M. Sheffrin (2003). Economics: Principles in action. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458: Pearson Prentice Hall. pp. 6. ISBN 0-13-063085-3. http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZ3R9&PMDbSiteId=2781&PMDbSolutionId=6724&PMDbCategoryId=&PMDbProgramId=12881&level=4. 
2. ^ Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus, Tim Hindle, The Economist, page 77,
3. ^ See WILLIAM J. BAUMOL, ROBERT E. LITAN & CARL J. SCHRAMM, GOOD CAPITALISM, BAD CAPITALISM, AND THE ECONOMICS OF GROWTH AND PROSPERITY 3 (2007) (citing generally PETER F. DRUCKER, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (1985) (attributing coining and defining of “entrepreneur” to JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY, A TREATISE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY (1834)); but see Robert H. Brockhaus, Sr., The Psychology of the Entrepreneur, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP 40 (Calvin A. Kent, et al. eds. 1982) (citing J.S. MILL, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY WITH SOME OF THEIR APPLICATIONS TO SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (1848). Note that, despite Baumol et al.'s citation, the Drucker book was published in 1986.

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