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Retailer Tackles Duplication & Improves SEO – Actionable Insights
Sep 21st
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Retailer Tackles Duplication & Improves SEO
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Google Improves Webmaster Penalty Notifications For Both Manual & Automated Penalties
Sep 15th
Google announced they have stepped up their webmaster communication for notifying webmasters of both manual and automated penalties. In the past, Google let you submit reconsideration requests and then added that they received those requests. Now, Google may reply if your site was affected by a…
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Amazon Improves S3 Management Console
Sep 2nd
Just in time for the holiday weekend (in the U.S., at least) Amazon has made a few select improvements to its S3 management console. While not Earth-shattering, the features will make using S3 from tablets and behind corporate firewalls a bit easier. Uploading files in bulk just got easier too.
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Here’s the skinny, today Amazon announced that it had gotten rid of the Adobe Flash requirement to use S3. Now you should be able to manage S3 from your iPad without headaches. That includes access when you’re behind a restrictive corporate firewall – as long as you have access to port 80 and 443 (SSL).
That would be nice on its own, but Amazon has a few more tweaks that are of interest. If you have Java, you can use the Advanced Uploader to send entire folders at once – and files larger than 5GB. If you have a lot of data, you might still consider mailing your drive to Amazon instead.
Finally, the latest update also gives you the ability to search for folders or objects by just typing a few letters of the object/folder name.
Again, these are all small enhancements, but they add up to a more pleasant experience when using S3. What else would you like to see Amazon improve with S3?
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VMware Improves View, and Extends Horizon
Aug 30th
Yesterday’s VMware announcements were all about the data center and the global cloud ecosystem. Today the announcements are more end-user focused. Today the company took the wraps off VMware View 5 and updates to VMware Horizon.
Aside from a scenic theme to the announcements, what’s going on with View and Horizon? VMware View lets organizations provide personalized virtual desktops to users as a managed service. Users can get their desktop on a mobile device, laptop, desktop, or thin client.
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Thanks to improvements in View 5, they can get them faster and with less bandwidth. VMware has enhanced its PCoIP delivery so that you can get up to 75% bandwidth improvement. Better compression, client-side caching, and the choice of lossless options. They’ve also added performance optimizations that are supposed to reduce the load on CPUs by 5 to 10%.
View 5 also promises to deliver better graphics overall, by using View 5 with vSphere 5. This means that users that get their desktops via View will have the option of using Windows Aero or other 3D applications that require Direct-X or OpenGL support. And users can have displays that are up to 1900×1200. Two of them, actually.
The real biggie with View 5 is persona management. This preserves the user’s profile between sessions – that includes user-specific desktop settings, application data and settings, and other Windows registry entries configured by applications. This doesn’t look quite as comprehensive as the technology Citrix picked up from RingCube, but should be a big boost for shops that are already invested in VMware View and vSphere. VMware’s Scott Davis has blogged extensively about the “flavors” of persona management.
There’s also an update to the VMware View Client for iPad on the, er, horizon. Pricing for View 5 is $150 per concurrent connection for the enterprise edition and $250 per concurrent user for the premier edition. Both editions include vSphere 5 for desktops, vCenter Server 5 and VMware View Manager 5. Premier adds View Client with Local Mode, ThinApp 4.6, and View Composer and vShield Endpoint.
On the Horizon
In addition to updating View, VMware announced updates to VMware Horizon. Horizon is meant to serve as an “identity-as-a-service” hub to extend user identity from systems like Microsoft Active Directory into the cloud. It consists of Mobile Manager and the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) Mobile Manager is a console for monitoring, updating, and provisioning/de-provisioning virtual workspaces on mobile devices. The MVP is to allow users to run a virtual work environment on their mobile phones that’s separate from their personal environment.
This isn’t entirely new, VMware previewed MVP earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress. The announcement for this week is that MVP now works with LG and Samsung phones. LG was announced earlier this year, Samsung is new to the family of supported devices.
This is good and bad news for users and organizations. Good in that if they have a supported phone, they can use one phone for everything. Bad in that they’re saddled with a limited set of Android devices. And iOS isn’t on the list yet, though Raj Mallempati, director product marketing, enterprise desktop solutions for VMware says it’s “technically possible” to support iOS. It seems to be more a matter of getting Apple’s cooperation. Mallempati says he can’t say whether it’s likely or not that the iOS version will come to market.
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iWeb SEO Tool 2.0 Improves Search Engine Rankings for iWeb Websites – prMac (press release)
Aug 24th
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iWeb SEO Tool 2.0 Improves Search Engine Rankings for iWeb Websites
prMac (press release) [prMac.com] Toronto, Ontario – RAGE Software announced today the immediate availability of iWeb SEO Tool 2.0, a free update to the easy to use utility for iWeb users to quickly optimize their websites for search engines and help users rank higher for … |
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Google Images Improves Relevancy & Quality Algorithm
Aug 11th
This week, several webmasters at WebmasterWorld noticed that the results in Google Images seemed to surface the original source of the images more of the time than it did in the past. I wrote about this at the Search Engine Roundtable as Google Images possibly improving their image source detection…
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Google Docs Improves Collaboration with Comment-Only Permissions
Sep 13th
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In March, commenting in Google Docs got a major upgrade, turning it from a basic, chronological comment thread into a rich conversation system with in-line comments, @ replies, notifications and the ability to mark comments as ‘resolved.’
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This seems like a small change, but it’s part of a larger effort by the Google Docs team to improve the collaborative uses of the browser-based document editor. A mishap following one such tweak brought down the service for a short time last week, but the response from Google Docs was swift, clear and apologetic. Docs has also turned on Google’s clean new interface design, which was introduced when Google Plus launched and came to Gmail as an option shortly thereafter. Improvements to the Google Docs experience are coming in fast.
Lest we forget, Google Docs is free to use. Even expensive office tools like, well, Office, don’t make Web-based collaboration this easy.
How do you use Google Docs in your workflows? Share your tips and tricks in the comments.
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