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adCenter Increases Ad Text Limit to 71; Adds Budget Overview, Mobile Targeting
Feb 9th
To simplify importing ads for AdWords to adCenter and align with industry standards, adCenter has changed the allotted character count in ad descriptions from 70 to 71. Here’s a quick look at all the latest changes to Microsoft adCenter.
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Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings
Feb 8th
According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was “the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month” by picking up 0.27 percentage points. Good news for the upstart Web server, just as the brand-new company behind Nginx takes the wraps off its commercial packages.
Nginx has had quite the growth spurt over the past year. In February of last year Nginx had 7.57% of the market, or about 21 million domains hosted with Nginx. Microsoft had 20.04%, or about 57 million. Apache was at 60.10%, with more than 171 million domains.
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Fast-forward to this February, and Nginx has grown to 9.89% of the market surveyed by Netcraft. The overall market has grown considerably, as well – Nginx now has about 60 million domains. Microsoft has dropped to 14.38% of the overall market, with just over 88 million domains, and Apache has reclaimed some of the market and sits at 64.92% or more than 397 million domains. To put that another way, in the last year (according to Netcraft) Nginx has picked up nearly 40 million domains, while IIS has picked up about 31 million.
From the Netcraft February 2012 Web Server Survey
That’s not too shabby for a project that has a tiny developer team and a mere $3 million in funding so far
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The first set of commercial offerings from Nginx are three support tiers that range from $1,100 a month to more than $6,600 a month. The starter package, Essential, includes support for up to 10 servers and covers two incidents per month with a resolution time of 96 hours (or less). It includes no phone support, optimization assistance, or feature development options.
For companies that are depending on Nginx, there’s the big daddy package that starts at $6,600 a month or $70,000 a year. It has 24×7 support, covers an unlimited number of servers and an 8-hour response time for “severe” issues. Customers also get 12 hours of support calls per year, optimization assistance and can even get developer time to implement features (at an extra fee, of course).
All plans come with emergency bug fixes, updates, software updates and security fixes.
So far, the commercial entity hasn’t diverged from the open source Nginx offering. It will be interesting to see if the company also starts offering proprietary add-ons for Nginx or if they stick with a support-only model. Given the rapid adoption of Nginx, it seems likely that the company will be hearing from quite a few businesses that want a support contract.
If you’re using Nginx, I’d be curious to hear how smoothly your deployments have gone and if you’ve run into any major issues that would have benefited from support.
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Google Docs Adds Offline Support for Android Devices
Feb 4th
Google Docs now enabes users with Android smartphones and tablets to access their files offline. Google is adding the feature to help users access documents in their online Google Docs account at times when they may not have an Internet connection.
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Microsoft adCenter Increases Ad Description, Adds Budget Widget & More Mobile Targeting Options
Feb 2nd
Microsoft announced their January 2012 adCenter release update. The update includes three major additions to adCenter: (1) adCenter increased the ad description length by one additional character from 70 to 71. They did this to help with import issues from other advertising products. (2) There is a…
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Flurry Adds HTML5 to Mobile Analytics Platform
Feb 1st
Mobile analytics and monetization platform Flurry is adding a new vertical to it platform offering today. Recognizing the coming growth of mobile Web apps, Flurry will begin tracking HTML5 mobile Web apps starting with a beta software developer kit today.
Flurry supports five other mobile platforms. That includes BlackBerry, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and J2ME. Flurry notes a recent survey by Kony that says that 74% of Fortune 500 companies were planning on some type of HTML5 integration. That does not mean those companies will replace their native apps though, with only 7% saying that HTML5 would supplant native applications. In an ecosystem that is becoming increasingly diverse, Flurry is making sure it can be everything to everybody.
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Flurry is one of the companies that is directly benefiting from the explosive growth of the mobile app ecosystem. Since launching in 2008 the sessions that Flurry tracks have doubled every six months. At the end of 2011, the company had tracked more than 240 billion sessions.
“It took Flurry a full two years, from August 2008 to August 2010, to track one hundred million daily sessions,” said Flurry CEO Simon Khalaf in a release. “Now we’re adding another hundred million daily sessions every three weeks.”
Flurry is now used by 60,000 developers with 150,000 apps in its publisher network. Overall, that works to about 15% of all apps published to the variety of platforms. Flurry’s VP of marketing Peter Farango said in an email that the company predicts that Flurry analytics is embedded in one out of every three downloads from the Android Market, Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore etc.
“We are officially a very big, big data company,” Farango said.
Flurry’s growth threatens to overshadow some of the other players in the mobile analytics field like Kontagent, Localytics and Apsalar. Flurry has a head start and has become a popular free offering for many developers looking for an SDK to track analytics in their apps. That is not to say that Flurry is a one-stop shop for all of your analytics needs, but the company has a forward looking approach that can fit well for many developers.
What is your view on Flurry? Do you use them for analytics or monetization purposes? How does the company stack up to the competition in overall quality of service? Let us know your experience in the comments.
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Google Maps Adds Emergency Alerts
Jan 27th
If a major storm is headed you way, Google wants to be your information guide. The Google Crisis Response team is looking to be your go to information source on when a storm will strike, how bad will it be, and what resources are available to help.
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Yandex Adds Face Recognition Technology
Jan 26th
Russian search giant Yandex has added facial recognition technology to its photo hosting service, Yandex.Fotki. Yandex is leveraging Face.com’s facial recognition technology to create a “smart” photo tagging service that lets users tag other people.
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Mozy Adds File Sync Services
Jan 24th
Online backup vendor Mozy, part of EMC, announces this week the addition of file synchronization services called Stash to its lineup. The idea is to have agents on various endpoints that will automatically sync your files everywhere you have Mozy running, to make it easier to grab your files when you are away from your main desktop. The endpoints initially supported include all Windows from XP SP3 and Macs from OS 10.5 and iOS and Android phones, including the Kindle Fire.
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After you install the Stash agent on your computer, it links a local folder with the Stash central repository. Any files copied to that folder will be copied to your other Mozy devices. Initially, you can upload photos and videos from your phones to Stash; eventually you will be able to upload other kinds of files too. Stash also sends these updates in real time, while the original Mozy client does its backups on a fixed schedule. It also shares the amount of your file storage allotment with the regular Mozy backups. It will only work with Mozy Home accounts initially, but eventually will work with the Pro accounts later this year. If you have a subscription with one of the earlier Home Unlimited accounts, you will need to set up a new account if you want to try out Stash. During the beta, you can have up to five different endpoints connected to Stash.
Mozy has always had a Web-based client, so your files are always available for downloading via that method Stash makes the sync nearly instantaneous, and puts Mozy on par with a number of other file sync services such as SugarSync, Syncplicity, Microsoft’s Live Mesh and numerous others.
You can sign up for the private beta here. Those who are accepted into the program before April 15 will have Stash added free to their existing Mozy accounts.
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Useful Download Options
Jan 20th
Google webmaster tools data is helpful stuff, but has been somewhat tough to download and use. Last month, Google made things a bit easier by providing a Python script for downloading search query data (as this report isn’t available as of yet through the API). Now, they’ve added new…
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Google Protest Adds 4.5 Million SOPA Opponents
Jan 19th
By blacking out its logo and urging its users to “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!” Google yesterday added 4.5 million names to a petition opposing controversial anti-piracy bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
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