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E-Commerce Spending Reaches Record Breaking Levels in 2011
Feb 7th
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the fourth quarter of 2011 achieved strong year-over-year growth in online retail spending. The recent report, which was released by the leading online market researcher comScore, indicated a 14% increase in sales compared to the fourth quarter in 2010. Online retailers raked in an impressive $49.7 billion in sales. Also, [...]
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Infographic: ShutterStock Reaches 200 Million Image Downloads
Feb 7th
Shutterstock.com claims it is the first such venture to reach a total of 200 million downloads of licensed images of stock photography, vector graphics and other illustrations. “Searching the word ‘networking’ used to return images of handshakes and business contacts; now it’s all about online social networking,” says Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO of the company.
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Yes, images about cats lead the way, no surprise with over 400,000 downloads, surpassing “only” 79,000 downloads of last year’s Royal Wedding. But what is interesting is that vector graphic downloads are on the increase, and vintage images are also up. Who knew the Internets could be so nostalgic?
Shutterstock has been providing licensed images to businesses, agencies and media organizations since 2004 and has more than 17 million images online.
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Ajax Union Search Engine Agency Reaches Out to Business Owners with Upcoming … – PR Web (press release)
Jan 22nd
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Ajax Union Search Engine Agency Reaches Out to Business Owners with Upcoming …
PR Web (press release) Ajax Union, an SEO company based in Brooklyn, NY, just announced an upcoming webinar about online reputation management, hosted by Ajax staff members Sarah Mogin and Tierney Oberhammer. Small business owners are invited to sign up at http://www. … |
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Appliance Repair Service in Brooklyn Reaches Out to More Homeowners via SEO – PR.com (press release)
Jan 7th
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Appliance Repair Service in Brooklyn Reaches Out to More Homeowners via SEO
PR.com (press release) Using the search engine optimization services (SEO) of Prospect Genius, a leader in local advertising online, Precision Appliance Services is working toward the goal of helping more area residents resolve their appliance repair and installation … |
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Appliance Repair/Installation Service in Hartford, CT, Reaches Customers … – PR.com (press release)
Dec 4th
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Appliance Repair/Installation Service in Hartford, CT, Reaches Customers …
PR.com (press release) By using this focused SEO strategy, Mr. Appliance of Central Connecticut can help local residents locate them faster when performing an Internet search for services, including dishwasher repair and oven repair. Mike Albano, owner of Mr. Appliance of … Appliance Repair Service in Merrillville, IN, Works with SEO Firm to Reach … |
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Google Flight Search Reaches Cruising Altitude
Dec 3rd
Yesterday, Google added flight information to Web search results. It launched Google Flight Search in September for select U.S. cities. Google Flight Search is powered by technology and expertise from Google’s acquisition of ITA Software in 2010, a service that boasted a list of clients including airline websites and booking services like Orbitz and Kayak.
Google recently launched the first version of Google Maps for Android that adds complete building maps inside airports, so now Google can take you all the way from booking the flight to shutting off your phone when the flight attendant asks you to without using any other Web service.
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This is another step in Google’s efforts to be the end-to-end provider of our Web services from the desktop, through our mobile devices, to wherever we’re going. If you can Google for flights and book them right there, why go anywhere else?
One brave Hipmunk stands in Google’s way, offering a friendly travel search interface and mobile apps that rank flights by “agony.” These days, air travel is kind of like being cattle, so an “agony” search is a killer app.
But Google wants to be the default starting place for the Web. As it prunes off excess products and streamlines its services, Google.com becomes an increasingly all-powerful destination. And don’t call it Shirley.
What Web services do you use to book your flights?
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New “Save To Foursquare” Button Reaches Into The Real World
Nov 30th
Publishers and developers: are you ready for another button (or buttons I should say)? Joining the Facebook, Twitter, +1 and StumbleUpon button family are new “save to Foursquare” and “follow Foursquare” buttons. Users who click “save to Foursquare” (next to…
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ThinkUp Reaches 1.0: Own Your Social Network Data
Nov 15th
ThinkUp, the social media management tool that matters most, hits version 1.0 today. It lets you store all your social activity from networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ in a database you control and search, sort and analyze it. If you have a Web server that can run a PHP application, you can take control of your social network data. Ever wanted to search for a tweet more than a couple days old? Don’t bother with Twitter search. ThinkUp is the only way.
ThinkUp lets you archive all your social network activity. It’s free and open-source, so it’s a totally extensible platform with a growing community of developers. You can search, browse, publish, analyze and visualize your content and data in all kinds of ways. Under the terms of service of your social networks, they can delete everything you’ve created without warning. ThinkUp lets you own your content. This isn’t a review; this is a public service announcement. Go get it.
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ThinkUp began in 2009 as a labor of love by Gina Trapani, developer, tech writer and media mogul. She’s now a project director at Expert Labs, which leads ThinkUp’s development. Expert Labs is a nonprofit that helps the government harness the power of the social Web. Expert Labs’ director of engagement is Clay Johnson, formerly the director of Sunlight Labs. He’s helping bring agencies on board to use ThinkUp, promoting this open and transparent way to help the government listen to its citizens.
Expert Labs is founded and directed by Anil Dash. Dash brought ThinkUp to Washington, D.C., partnering with the Obama Administration, which now uses ThinkUp to manage its social media efforts.
Alongside Trapani, ThinkUp development is managed by Andy Baio, the Internet renaissance man who brought us the likes of Kickstarter and the 8-bit Miles Davis tribute Kind of Bloop. He joined Expert Labs in 2010 to hack on ThinkUp. “I’m particularly excited to tackle ThinkUp’s ability to separate signal from noise, making it easier to derive meaning from hundreds or thousands of responses, using visualization, clustering, sentiment analysis, and robotic hamsters,” he said at the time.
Now, after 20 months in development, ThinkUp has reached 1.0. It’s features and documentation are complete, it’s secure, and it’s “reasonably bug-free.” Here’s what it can do for you:
Analyze and Visualize Your Social Networks
From tracking retweets and replies, to watching new followers, to identifying the client apps used by your friends and followers, ThinkUp lets you analyze and visualize your data in countless ways. You can even plot responses on a map of the world.
Archive, Search and Export Your Content
Ever tried to search Twitter for something specific you said a year ago? Forget about it. ThinkUp lets you archive and search all your social network content back to day one.
The data is all yours. Even if Facebook or Google+ tries to delete it in the dead of night, it will still be on your server. Using ThinkUp, you can always export your data as an Excel spreadsheet.
Publish and Browse Conversations
On top of all that, you can also use ThinkUp to publish and embed social content on a blog or website. You can also browse and review the things shared on your network.
You Have To See It To Believe It
ThinkUp is a powerful application for agencies or organizations, publishers and regular old power users alike. The best way to see if it will help you is to try it out. You can see the tool in action on the White House’s live, working instance of ThinkUp, which will allow you to dive right in and see what you can do with it. If you’d prefer, you can also check out the ThinkUps of Gina Trapani or technopundit Leo Laporte.
For the grand tour, visit thinkupapp.com. If you’re ready to jump in, ThinkUp’s source code is under the GNU General Public Licens, and you can download it from GitHub.
What do you think of ThinkUp? Could you use it? What for? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Cassandra Reaches 1.0: What’s Next?
Oct 18th
One of the leading NoSQL databases has reached the coveted 1.0 release. Apache announced Cassandra 1.0 today, just two years after entering the Apache Incubator. Originally developed at Facebook, Cassandra has come a long way in a short time.
What’s new in this release? Cassandra has better performance, better disk space management and data compression on a per-ColumnFamily basis, among other things.
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Cassandra also adds a Windows service in this release, so users can set it up as a managed service rather than running it from a bat file.
I spoke briefly today to Jonathan Ellis, vice president of Apache Cassandra and CTO of DataStax on the 1.0 release, and what’s after the 1.0 release. Ellis says that they did a poll of Cassandra users two years ago to see what they’d want in Cassandra. That produced a wishlist of features that the developers “kept in the back of their minds.” Ellis says that with 1.0 “we looked at that, and we got all of those done. Not all in 1.0 specifically, but in the two years since the survey, we’ve nailed all of those.”
We, in this case, is not just DataStax. Ellis says that DataStax employs “the majority” of people who work on Cassandra, but that it’s a “long tail” project with lots of contributors. Ellis also says that Twitter and Netflix are major contributors, as well as Rackspace “historically.” Then he says there’s a long list of users who contribute minor patches to fix issues that affect them directly, but aren’t involved in core contribution.
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Cassandra may be young, but it’s got the industry’s attention. According to Apache’s release, it’s in production use by Twitter, Netflix, Urban Airship, Constant Contact and Google. It’s being used for barcode scanning and geospatial databases. The largest known production cluster exceeds 300 terabytes. It is, in short, a project that has commercial potential. Naturally that’s attracted the big guns in the database industry.
Say what you will about Oracle (I do), but the company certainly has the muscle to make an impact when it decides it wants to get involved with a technology. That’s doubly true when it comes to the database market. So how’s Ellis feeling about Oracle’s decision to get into the noSQL game?
First, Ellis says that Oracle’s entry actually helps validate the noSQL market. “Living in the echo chamber the way we do on the cutting edge of technology, it’s easy to lose sight of how new this is for a majority of companies out there. This is hugely validating for us.”
Validation of a business market isn’t of much consolation if you’re getting squeezed out, though. But Ellis says he’s not worried about Oracle. “Time and again, big companies have proved it’s really difficult for them to come out with a new product in a timely fashion.”
It’s also hard to judge right now exactly what Oracle’s offering. Ellis says the company has put out very little technical detail. But from what he’s seen, Ellis says that Oracle’s offering is more like Cassandra than competing noSQL databases like MongoDB. “So I think they’re on the right track.”
Next with Cassandra
Ellis says that he’s just starting to think about the post-1.0 world for Cassandra. Two features do come to mind, though, that missed the boat for 1.0 that were on a lot of wishlists. The first is triggers.
Database triggers let you define rules in the database, such as updating table X when table Y is updated. Ellis says that triggers will be necessary for Cassandra at it grows in popularity. “As more tools use it, that’s something more users are going to be asking for.”
Another feature that Ellis sees making its way into Cassandra is entity groups. Ellis says that this is for data that shares a primary key. For example, if you’re storing email in Cassandra you can ensure that attachments and body of an email are not saved independently. (This would be bad, for instance, if you saved a draft email with updated body but an old version of an attachment.)
Currently, Cassandra is on a four-month release cycle. At some point, Ellis says that it might make sense to move to a six-month cycle as it matures. But for now, expect the next release of Cassandra in early 2012.
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