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Google Flight Search Goes Mobile
Feb 21st
Google has expanded its new flight search results to the mobile Web. Last year, Google added a new category of in-house search results for flights to Google.com on the desktop. They’re now available on mobile as well. It will take you all the way to checkout, but you can’t buy tickets directly through Google. Yet.
Google acquired ITA Software, a flight info software company, for $700 million in 2010. ITA powered airline websites as well as booking services like Orbitz and Kayak. Google keeps buying up experts in different search verticals, just like it did with Zagat for restaurant reviews, to keep users on Google for online transactions from end to end.
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When you first enter a query in Google’s mobile Web search that sounds like a flight, like “flights from Chicago to Daytona Beach,” it shows promoted results from airlines and booking companies as well as new Google results formatted specifically for flights. Clicking through into Flight Search, or visiting google.com/flights, shows full-width fields for “From,” “To” and the date range, and it offers filters for price and duration.
It lets you use your location to make searches faster. There’s also a map-based interface for quickly trying alternate routes.
This will be a nice complement to Google’s new interior maps of airports, which are available on Google Maps for Android now and presumably elsewhere soon. Google is now an all-in-one mobile Web app for the airport. It still doesn’t get to process your ticket purchase, but it can collect valuable data and show plenty of ads along the way.
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BitNami Goes Beyond AWS Cloud with Application Library
Feb 14th
BitNami announced today that they’re going to be offering ready-to-run images of popular open source stacks for a wider range of public and private clouds. Previously, BitNami’s cloud images were only available for Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the company is now providing images for Eucalyptus, OpenStack, VMware vCloud and others.
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For those not familiar with BitNami, the company provides ready-to-run packages of popular open source applications or development environments. For instance, SugarCRM, Drupal, Alfresco and Liferay are available as pre-configured images for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The company also provides pre-configured stacks of Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. BitNami also provides virtual machine images for running on VMware.
BitNami moved into cloud hosting with AWS last February. Now they’re offering public cloud and private cloud offerings that give “one-click” deployable images and integration into other cloud platforms.
Pricing depends on the type of customer. BitNami CEO says that cloud hosting providers would have a volume-based pricing with a “minimum commitment.” Private cloud customers would have an annual subscription. The subscriptions include updates for the software as well as configuration support (for the images, not the applications).
I’m a bit surprised that more companies aren’t offering this sort of service. Are you looking at BitNami, or have tried it? Would love your thoughts.
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Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
Feb 7th
Wolfram|Alpha (W|A) is launching a new fee-based service named Wolfram|Alpha Pro. In today’s highly competitive environment, you may wonder why a W|A would ask people to pay for what many think should be free. Read on: you may decide to willingly open your wallet when you…
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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.
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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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