If you are a guitar lover and also a lefty somebody, then you will love this article. It was in the early 1970s that guitar manufacturing was started in an industrial scale. With the growing population of guitar players, the question of left handed guitars arose. many try playing right handed guitars using their left hand, largely because they do not have access to well-made left handed guitars. But as you can figure out (or try out yourself) playing a regular guitar as a lefty, is slow. You tend to mix up the notes and end up producing confused music rather than the enjoyable tunes that guitars are so popular for, unless you practise actually hard.

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Regardless of whether it is acoustic or electric, choices available for left handed guitarists is quite limited If you are fortunate, you can find a couple of left handed guitars tucked away in music shops. You cannot blame salesman for this, because in a average community, a customer looking for a left handed guitar will turn up only once in a blue moon.

Several try reversing the strings of right handed guitars, but that affects the tone of the music straightaway. There are indeed 2 choices, one is to watch out for one of those left handed guitars or else, order a left handed version of a right-handed guitar. The second is more practical of course, but it has its share of pitfalls. Even 2 right handed guitars of the same model can differ slightly. Thus, a tailor made left handed guitar may not have the same quality of the tone as you may expect.

An particularly made left handed guitar can cost up to $4000, and hence, the risk attached to it is huge. You sure can t cancel an order after a maker makes a special guitar for you.

The next question is where to find the left handed guitars. The list of organizations designated below are well-renowned manufacturers and vendors of great left handed guitars.

- Instrument Pro International
- Woodwind and Brasswind International
- Musician s Friend USA
- ZZounds International

Finding a teacher to assist you with left handed guitar playing is almost as difficult as it is to find an instrument. Once you have the guitar with you, you can begin the fundamentals by your own through a well-written book or via the internet. After all, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Tony Lommi went through all that difficulty and managed to outshine even right handed guitar players.

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There are actually many P2P file sharing sites that let you obtain full movies for free. Even so, you might encounter a few difficulties should you download from some of these sites. There are additional issues that are not so apparent.

A few free download sites are very poor P2P sites that are badly maintained and limited in server resources. Motion picture data files are memory hogs, and if you’ve downloaded files from the internet before, you know that it can be rather slow. Anticipate download speeds at snail pace at these websites when you download complete movies.

Be sure to read the conditions and terms of these sites and see if they have obtained approval of the movie studios to permit downloading of their film data files. File sharing is not illegal in its own, as it continues to be widely accepted as a typical platform for anyone who desires to share data files they own. It could be amateurs who’ve uploaded their videos or movie producers who give you the clips as a sneak preview to promote brand new movies. Whatever the case, as a customer, it will always be better for you to take a look.

Employ extreme caution when you use totally free P2P client programs in order to download complete movies on the internet. Free lunches are rare nowadays. In such cases, many of these P2P programs are actually bundled up software that could secretly set up adware, as well as spyware on your pc.

These malware basically flash aggravating ads and pop ups anytime you use the client applications to download movies. They diminish your computer resources and broadband internet bandwidth whilst running in the background. Consequently, you’d realize that browsing online becomes substantially slower and so is film downloading. It is also very hard to remove these malware using standard uninstall procedures and adware as well as spyware remover may be required.

In spite of this, there are others which work on a pretty good network that creates very little problems. Recently, there are brand new download products and services that allow you to download movies inside a safe and secured community. It is also apparent that these companies see the need to invest into their network resources and software to ensure quicker download speeds and expert customer support for their customers. Therefore for a one-off charge, you can receive limitless access to download full movies on the internet without having to worry about poor download speeds as well as malware vulnerability.

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Many companies have launched API programs, and many more will in 2011. Some have used their API to become unstoppable market forces by empowering a new indirect channel. Others have seen minimal API adoption, and are unclear on why they haven’t succeeded. Even more are in the “mushy middle” between success and failure.

At Apigee, we observe common patterns in API programs that succeed – in planning, management, and organization. Those that fail hit common pitfalls in these categories as well. So we have developed a nine-box model for API program management that helps track how both strategy and execution must come together to build a successful API effort.

Strategy: Know your market segment and channel partners (developers)

1. Market segment. An API should be something that extends or accelerates the existing core business into a new part of the market. This may have been a segment that was previously unaddressable, or it may be a segment that is under attack. Without a clear picture of the market result that the company wants to produce, the API program will not only be unfocused, but immeasurable in the company’s standard key performance indicators.
Takeaway: Specify the segment(s) to target and the standard key performance indicators the API program should change.
2. Channel model. An API program should incent third parties to adopt the API. The strongest reason to adopt an API is to make money. Given the segment targeted in the first step, what drives the developers that are your channel partners? If developers are building an app, their model may be app sales (including in-app purchases). If the developers will drive revenue for your company, then their model should be affiliate royalties. If the developers’ model is advertising then take some of the money you would have spent on web advertising and pay developers directly for promoting your brand in their app. If the developers already have a strong model but need more market awareness, then use your properties (advertising, branding, and PR) to extend your developers’ reach. Takeaway: Understand the business model of the targeted channel and ensure that the API program can contribute to it.
3. Industry goal. An API should have a clear industry-level goal of either being a true platform or of serving existing partners. Building a dominant platform such as Amazon Web Services, Twitter, or eBay requires tradeoffs in favor of openness, interoperability, and onboarding. When your goal is tens or hundreds of thousands of developers, you must cover a broad set of functions, use security models that are easy to understand, and deliver world-class self-service (from sign-up to documentation to support). Building a partner channel requires completeness in specific use cases, partner support, and business process. Partner channels typically have only hundreds to thousands of developers so security can be more customized and support can be hands-on. However, these developers won’t work to fill in gaps in your API and you must therefore expose entire processes (i.e. order-to-cash, trouble-to-resolution).
Takeaway: Decide whether you are targeting the platform or the partner model, and be consistent with that choice.

Execution: Plan, Manage, Organize

1. Planning. Determine and document what will be accomplished for the segment, channel, or industry. Define requirements at the business, partner and technical levels.
2. Management. Establish measurable dimensions of execution, rhythm of reporting, and key actions. Establish a common dashboard across the project including the key performance indicators and component metrics, executive reviews, and executive sponsor.
3. Organization. A strategy area without a leader will fail. Grant yours the authority, support, and appropriate staffing to win.

This results in the following nine-box model for executing an API program. This assumes that the channel is developers but should be modified to match the way that your business needs to define the channel.

The top-left box should pull all of the others. And API programs’ key performance indicators should align with existing corporate business key performance indicators. With this framework in mind, the most common pitfalls in API programs we observe are a lack of a business goal and a lack of a channel leader.

Without a business goal and attendant core performance indicators the program will fail – because it’s not seen as a business or an ongoing program, but as a side project, solely led by engineering. But APIs are in fact lines of business in their own right – and companies have to manage them as such. Without this alignment – the team will get pulled in different directions, or company focus, funding, and commitment will falter.

Similarly, the lack of a channel leader ensures that the program will fail – because the channel itself is not understood. An effective leader for the developer channel understands both developers and business and is a full peer to the engineering and business leader. In many cases the de facto leader for a developer channel is a community manager, developer advocate, or API evangelist. Sometimes this person doesn’t exist as a full-time role, and in other failure cases the position is not granted the right level of authority. We will see this role become more understood in the coming year – especially among companies that have successful API programs.

Good luck in your API program, and let me know in the comments if you have questions based on the model above, or want to suggest further articles on API strategy and execution.

Sam Ramji is Vice President of Strategy at Apigee, a company that manages APIs. Prior to Apigee, Ramji led open source strategy across Microsoft.

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