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Lead SEO at Agency Central “Goes it alone” – Boosh Articles (press release)
Jan 22nd
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Lead SEO at Agency Central "Goes it alone"
Boosh Articles (press release) For many years, Andy Drinkwater has been helping and leading Agency Central, the UK's leading recruitment agency directory, achieve amazing results in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, but an increasing demand for his SEO services in the recruitment marketplace … |
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Red Hat Goes After VMware Hard with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
Jan 18th
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 has been in the works for some time. Today Red Hat took the wraps off the release. Red Hat boasts more than 1,000 new features with RHEV 3.0, including a new user portal for self-provisioning, local storage and converting the management application to a Java application that runs on JBoss. With RHEV 3.0, Red Hat is going straight after VMware for customers.
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RHEV 3.0 has been in beta since last August, and an open beta since September of last year to anyone with a Red Hat Network account.
If you look at many of the major features in RHEV 3.0, you’ll see many come directly from improvements to the Linux kernel and KVM. RHEV 3.0 now has support for up to 160 logical CPUs and 2TB of RAM. The KVM networking stack has moved into the Linux kernel itself and out of userspace for better performance. RHEV 3.0 now supports memory overcommitment, which allows allocation of more RAM to VMs than is present to physical host.
Red Hat has also beefed up its scheduler, live migration, desktop management, storage management, reports and migration tools. But where Red Hat is really getting aggressive is pricing and messaging targeted at VMware’s vSphere Enterprise and VMware View.
RHEV Pricing
Red Hat offers pricing guides for its RHEV for Servers and RHEV for Desktops that compare the pricing between RHEV and VMwares products. According to Red Hat’s guides, its pricing scenario for 100 virtual guests, using six servers (each with two sockets and 400GB of RAM) will cost nearly $50,000 the first year for VMware vSphere Enterprise Edition. The same setup for RHEV 3.0 for Servers runs just less than $9,000.
The big difference in pricing, of course, is licensing. Red Hat doesn’t charge for licensing – it charges for annual subscriptions and support. The licensing cost for VMware vSphere is nearly $40,000. The annual support/subscription costs for Red Hat and VMware are fairly close: $8,988 for Red Hat, and $9,877 for VMware. Red Hat’s still cheaper than VMware on that, but not by much.
Another scenario with 11 servers for 250 guests is priced at $16,478 (Red Hat) versus $189,742 (VMware) for the first year. Red Hat continues to close the gap in features between RHEV and vSphere, but has a very wide gap in price. The question is, who’s buying? Is RHEV good enough to start displacing VMware vSphere and VMware View?
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Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say “I Got This”
Jan 18th
Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, Mozilla, and many other vital websites have gone dark today to protest SOPA and PIPA, the twin online piracy bills Congress is working on. The blackout is certainly attracting attention, but it’s also causing frustration, especially for unaware Wikipedia users.
The Washington Post, the Guardian and NPR are collaborating on an experiment to see if they can fill the knowledge void left by Wikipedia’s blackout. Using the Twitter hashtag #altwiki, these news outlets want to answer factual questions for Web users who can’t get to Wikipedia. The Washington Post calls it “a single-day Band-Aid” for the missing encyclopedia.
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If Wikipedia disappears for forever there’s no way I’m getting through college..
— Haley Spicer (@haleyspicer) January 18, 2012
The blackout campaign is having no trouble attracting attention, but as the Twitter account @herperpedia has been valiantly demonstrating since midnight last night, many users aren’t getting past the “WTF WIKIPEDIA” stage of grief. A convenient, trusted source of knowledge is missing, and some users don’t know what to do.
why oh why have they shut down wikipedia?:(
— Beth Lamb (@_bethanne_) January 18, 2012
Yesterday, the Washington Post proposed to step in and help those Wikipedia users in distress. “Ask a question on Twitter with the hashtag #altwiki,” the Post’s David Beard wrote, “and we’ll ask our readers to help provide an answer. We’ll answer a few ourselves – and likely blog about that tomorrow.”
The Post is documenting the process today, highlighting a few choice answers on its blog. It offers a few important disclaimers: “#AltWiki, of course, doesn’t seek to replace Wikipedia, or indicate that The Post is taking a stand against the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). It does, however, tell us quite a bit about how much 477 million people a month rely on Wikipedia.”
The Washington Post has taken to Twitter to promote the idea, but there’s a lot of trolling going on in the hashtag without many answers.
#altwiki why do i have a defective brain
— ETPC1 (@ETPC1) January 18, 2012
Offering to field the world’s Wikipedia questions on Twitter is pretty ambitious. The Post and NPR say it’s all in “fun.” The #altwiki experiment is not a stand for or against SOPA/PIPA, but the Washington Post is taking the opportunity to present the facts about these bills. The decision by mainstream sites to go dark today has brought the issue to the fore, and maybe even the slightest glimmer of awareness is worth one weird day on the Internet.
Congress pissed off wikipedia and google. wtf?
— Juliet Adams (@xjulietadamsx) January 18, 2012
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Traffic for Google+ Goes Positive Along with User Count
Jan 5th
Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town. Initially, traffic on Google+ saw a rapid rate of growth, [...]
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In the Real Fourth Reich, You’ll Be the First to Go: Anonymous Goes After Neo-Nazis
Jan 3rd
Der Spiegel reports the hacktivist collective Anonymous is actively targeting neo-Nazis in Germany in a campaign called Operation Blitzkrieg.
The group has launched a WikiLeaks-style website, Nazi-Leaks, to support the operation. They are publishing materials hacked from Germany’s extreme right-wing party, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP).
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From Der Spiegel:
“The website currently features lists of alleged donors to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), internal NPD emails, a contacts list from the right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and customer data from neo-Nazi online stores, among other information”
Germany’s The Local says the group claims to have shut down 15 Nazi-loving websites so far. Although work on the campaign seems to have been going on for several months, it came to the public’s attention on Monday.
The identities of alleged fascist party members and customers include at least one well-known journalist, said the publication.
“People listed on the portal as having written for the Junge Freiheit newspaper included Peter Scholl-Latour, according to the Frankfurter Rundschau. He is a respected journalist and Afghanistan expert who has written for, among other publications, the Stern magazines.”
Although fascist nutjobs are a perennial problem in Germany, and a frequent target of that country’s hackers, their profiles have been raised by the recent discovery of a seven-year murder spree and the arrest of its perpetrators. From 2000 to 2006, a trio of neo-Nazi killers, the so-called Zwickau Cell, killed 8 Turks and one Greek, most of whom owned or worked in food stands.
The op seems to follow on a similar anti-Nazi attack, OpValkomaa, against Finnish fascists late last year.
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SEOPartner Goes To Texas – SEO Dallas Now Open For Business – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 3rd
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SEOPartner Goes To Texas – SEO Dallas Now Open For Business
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO Partner chief James Schramko further extends his company's area of operation, targeting major US cities with geo-specific search engine optimization. The latest expansion takes the Sydney-based SEO provider to Dallas, Texas. The SEO Dallas service … |
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GitHub’s Janky Goes Open Source
Dec 20th
With little fanfare, GitHub has released Janky under the MIT license. Janky is a continuous integration (CI) server that runs on top of Jenkins and Hubot, designed to work with projects hosted on GitHub.
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Janky, at least as published yesterday by GitHub, is set up to run on top of Heroku. The Heroku app files are stored in a Gist, and can be deployed to Heroku in just a few commands. Naturally, you’ll need a Jenkins install as well.
Once deployed, Janky is controlled with GitHub’s Hubot. It looks like Campfire (the collaboration/chat solution from 37Signals) is required to use Janky at the moment, but if Janky takes off I’d expect to see an IRC option as well.
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Box Enterprise Goes to Unlimited Storage
Dec 16th
If there was any doubt that Box.net has become a solid enterprise cloud provider, today’s announcement of various security features, coupled with a boost to unlimited storage for all of its Enterprise accounts, should dispel them. Starting today, all Box Enterprise accounts will have unlimited storage for unlimited number of users. The Box Business accounts will double in size to a 1TB limit.
Box will also work with Intel’s Expressway Cloud Access 360 single sign-on service for better user authentication, provisioning and policy management of their accounts. This integration will also provide two-factor authentication with one-time passwords before a user can login to their Box account. Box will also sync with Active Directory so that groups and users can be automatically populated inside the Box account. This makes it easier on admins as well as makes the Box system more secure: admins can eliminate terminated users’ accounts quickly.
But wait, there is more. Two other security features will be rolled out in the next week that include smart shared links and improved trusted access. The former makes it easier to limit access to who can view a file to users inside a company domain, giving it more granularity (something that Box’ competitors have had already). The latter expands trusted access to track logins from mobile devices and custom apps that are connecting via the Box API. IT admins can limit the number of devices that an employee can access from the same ID.
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Above is a screenshot of the expanded access roles available in the updated version.
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Facebook Timeline Goes Live On Android, Mobile Site But Not iOS App
Dec 15th
Today Facebook launched the much anticipated Timeline and Timeline mobile for Android and its HTML5 mobile site m.facebook.com. But Timeline mobile for the Facebook iOS app is nowhere to be found. Timeline on the iPhone will be available in a future update of the Facebook iOS app, a Facebook spokesperson tells us. For now, iPhone and iPad users will have to use Facebook Timeline through the mobile site.
There’s no doubt that Facebook Timeline will eventually go live for iOS apps. But for now, Facebook seems to be mostly focused on its HTML5 web app project. The fact that Timeline mobile isn’t going live for iOS anytime soon is proof of that.
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Much like on the web version, Timeline mobile users can drop in a cover photo, browse photo albums and scroll through previous posts. These posts are horizontally swipeable so it’s possible to look at multiple photos without leaving Timeline.
Why Has Facebook Delayed Timeline For iOS?
At f8, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that all of Facebook’s features, including Timeline, would work on the mobile web. Facebook updated its Android app last week, and it features a UI that looks a lot like Facebook’s iPad app. Facebook will continue shifting to HTML5, converging its platform into a single UI. Indeed, Facebook Timeline does work on the mobile web.
Besides, Facebook and Apple have a history of bad blood that dates back to Apple Ping days. Facebook was supposed to integrate Ping, but it never did. Then Facebook integrated social music service, Spotify. When Apple released the iPhone4S, it baked Twitter, not Facebook, into iOS5.
Given this history, there’s no reason for Facebook to rush the Timeline update to its iOS apps. But will this situation echo the long wait for the Facebook iPad app?
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Amazon Goes South: New Region in Sao Paulo
Dec 15th
We’re still waiting on a South Pole region for AWS, but it might be a while before Amazon sets up shop in Antarctica. However, the company announced today that they’ve got South America covered. Amazon has opened its South America (Sao Paulo) region in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This will be useful for organizations in South and Central America that want to use AWS services with low latency. Amazon is also working to reach customers in the new region with blogs in Spanish and Brasil.
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Amazon is kicking off the new region with a hefty list of services. EC2 and its related offerings like Elastic Block Store (EBS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and VM import. Naturally they’ve also got S3 from day one, plus CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SimpleDB, Simple Queue Service, and Elastic MapReduce.
This follows a launch of the edge location in Sao Paulo for CloudFront and Route 53 in September.
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