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Starting a New Business Online? 3 SEO Tips You Cannot Forget – Noobpreneur.com (blog)
Jan 24th
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Starting a New Business Online? 3 SEO Tips You Cannot Forget
Noobpreneur.com (blog) Below are 3 tips to get the best results from SEO: This is the old adage, but it's only becoming more prevalent as Google gets better at identifying spam and highlighting truly quality sites in search results. Don't just create a site which is “Sell, … SEO Company Ajax Union Promotes Low Prices on its Pay-Per-Click Management … Is On Page SEO Dead With Google? Gearing up for SEO, PPC and social search trends in 2012 |
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Starting Your Own Company: My Advice After 6 Years
Sep 14th
I’ve been lucky enough to work at entrepreneurial companies, including forming an agency 6 years ago and selling it earlier this year. Occasionally I’m asked my advice for anybody starting their own business, so here are a few pearls of (what I ho…
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Watch a YouTube Video With Your Friends by Starting a Google+ Hangout
Aug 22nd
YouTube has added a new option when you click the share button underneath a video. It says, “Watch with your friends. Start a Google+ Hangout.”
Now, Hangouts have been around since the day that the Google+ project was announced. On J…
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Facebook to Offer Bug Bounty Program With Rewards Starting at $500
Jul 29th
Facebook today is launching a “bug bounty” program where it will pay researchers who find bugs and vulnerabilities in Facebook and report it to the company to be fixed. Developers who find bugs and report them to Facebook through its “Responsible Disclosure Policy” will be rewarded starting $500 or more, with no cap on how big a bounty developers can harvest.
Facebook follows in the footsteps of Google and Mozilla that also have bug bounty programs. Mozilla offers up to $3,000 for bugs found within its open-source software such as Firefox and Google offers between $500 and $1,337 (a number associated with geek lexicon “leet speak” created in the 1980s). One of the reasons that Facebook became the dominant social network in the Web. 2.0 movement is that it has fostered a developer community that has aggressively built on top of the platform. As such, the bug bounty program is a natural extension of that community.
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To qualify for the bounty, developers must adhere to the Responsible Disclosure Policy and find a bug that “could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data.” That includes cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF) or remote code injection or any other such known hacking methods or vulnerabilities.
Only one bounty will be awarded per specific bug, starting at $500 with the ability to increase based on the type of bug. Bugs in third-party applictions, websites, corporate infrastructure are not eligible nor are denial of service vulnerabilities or social engineering (phishing) or spam techniques. Essentially, they have to be bugs in the Facebook platform itself and not part of some type of extension, app or add-on.
Here is the Responsible Disclosure Policy from the new White Hat information page for security researchers:
“If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you.”
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Link Building by Starting a Market Research Firm
Jul 14th
One successful link building strategy is to start a market research firm for your specific industry. This strategy is so great because it forms a reusable, multi-usable, and specifiable asset that can become its own link building machine. Here&rsq…
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Angry Birds Magic Connects Game to Real World, Starting at Barnes & Noble
Jun 28th
Today, Barnes & Noble has been revealed to be the first-ever location where you can unlock the free Mighty Eagle character in Angry Birds Magic, the new game from franchise creators Rovio. The idea behind Angry Birds Magic is to use technology, like GPS and NFC (near field communication), to connect gamers with their surroundings in order to augment gameplay and unlock special location-based rewards.
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With GPS, when gamers play Angry Birds Magic in certain locations, “magic happens,” explained Ramine Darabiha, Product Manger for the game at ReadWriteWeb’s 2WAY Summit earlier this month. But not every location will be magic, he said, only those that “make sense” for the brand.
That’s why B&N is the first location to be transformed into a “Magic Place,” as these special locations are called. It can promote Angry Birds both on its Nook Color e-reader and within its store, through merchandise displays.
In order to unlock the free Mighty Eagle character, gamers have to play Angry Birds Magic on the Barnes & Noble Nook Color while visiting one of the company’s 700 bookstores across the U.S. The Nook version of the game is available for $2.99 in the Nook’s app store and can be played over B&N’s free in-store Wi-Fi.
In addition, B&N will capitalize on their new partnership by offering Angry Birds-themed games, toys and other merchandise for sale and will offer free stickers and temporary tattoos to Angry Birds fans who visit the store.
More to Come, via NFC
This is just the first of many partnerships for Rovio. Other rewards will be enabled through the use of NFC, a short-range wireless frequency that enables data transfers over short distances. With NFC, you just tap or wave your phone over a sticker, tag, poster, object in order to enable a connection.
For NFC work, it has to either be built into the phone itself, or added on afterwards, via a case or microSD card. However, for its use with Angry Birds, it’s possible that you could simply place an NFC sticker on your phone to let the “magic” to happen.
Rovio previously said that the NFC features would be limited at first to Nokia’s devices, but would roll out to all other NFC-enabled phones soon. Currently, this is a short list, including Google’s Nexus S, some variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II and the upcoming BlackBerry Bold phones (9900/9930), among others.
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Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist and Questions Unfold
Apr 22nd
Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now in a second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored.
Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking with their customers while others such as Twilio were able to show how they avoided outages.
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The latest update from AWS came late Thursday night:
10:58 PM PDT Just a short note to let you know that the team continues to be all-hands on deck trying to add capacity to the affected Availability Zone to re-mirror stuck volumes. It’s taking us longer than we anticipated to add capacity to this fleet. When we have an updated ETA or meaningful new update, we will make sure to post it here. But, we can assure you that the team is working this hard and will do so as long as it takes to get this resolved.
AWS kept its status page updated throughout the day. By early afternoon, all but one availability zone had been restored:
12:30 PM PDT We have observed successful new launches of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) backed instances for the past 15 minutes in all but one of the availability zones in the US-EAST-1 Region. The team is continuing to work to recover the unavailable EBS volumes as quickly as possible.
Data Center Knowledge wrote that the issue is specifically about EBS. You may recall that EBS has been something Reddit has struggled with for some time. We wrote about the issue in March.
AWS briefly explained what happened in an update yesterday morning:
8:54 AM PDT We’d like to provide additional color on what were working on right now (please note that we always know more and understand issues better after we fully recover and dive deep into the post mortem). A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it’s difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and working to restore the control plane issue. We’re starting to see progress on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates when we have them.
The AWS region that went down is out of Northern Virginia. It has four availability zones. Customers have learned to use multiple availability zones within a region to avoid outages. And that’s what puzzling. How did this all happen? It may come down to how AWS defines availability zones.
The founder of FathomDB reviewed that question himself in a post on the topic:
AWS has two concepts that relate to availability – Regions and Availability Zones. They have five Regions – two in the US (one east coast, one west coast), one in Europe (Ireland), and two in Asia (Tokyo, Singapore). Each region has within it multiple “Availability Zones” (AZs), which are supposed to be isolated so that they have no single point of failure less than a natural disaster or something of that magnitude. AWS says that by “launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location”. It’s not clear whether ‘location’ means separate datacenters or separate floors/areas of a single datacenter, but it doesn’t really matter – the point is that AZs should fail independently until a catastrophic failure occurs. [Update below: it seems likely that they are in fact separate datacenters]
The post goes on to state that AWS, not customers are to blame:
This morning, multiple availability zones failed in the us-east region. AWS broke their promises on the failure scenarios for Availability Zones. It means that AWS have a common single point of failure (assuming it wasn’t a winning-the-lottery-while-being-hit-by-a-meteor-odds coincidence). The sites that are down were correctly designing to the ‘contract’; the problem is that AWS didn’t follow their own specifications. Whether that happened through incompetence or dishonesty or something a lot more forgivable entirely, we simply don’t know at this point. But the engineers at quora, foursquare and reddit are very competent, and it’s wrong to point the blame in that direction.
BigDoor CEO Keith Smith wrote in a blog post that he and his colleagues spent the day in crisis control. Amazon is historically pretty quiet about its problems. Smith said that has made it more difficult to respond to customers:
We aren’t just sitting around waiting for systems to recover. We are actively moving instances to areas within the AWS cloud that are actually functioning. If Amazon had been more forthcoming with what they are experiencing, we would have been able to restore our systems sooner.
But Twilio delighted in the outage as it gave it a chance to tout its architecture. Twilio has instituted a set of architectural design principles that minimizes the impact of occasional, but inevitable issues in underlying infrastructure. A post on the new Twilio engineering blog outlines the company’s approach.
The AWS outage will pass but there are some things that need to be explained. In particular how it treats availability zones. Customers need that clarification to better prepare for future outages that may occur.
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The Engadget Team Is Starting A New Tech Blog Under SB Nation – The Business Insider
Apr 3rd
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The Engadget Team Is Starting A New Tech Blog Under SB Nation
The Business Insider Topolsky says he's joining SB Nation because it, "believes in real, independent journalism and the potential for new media to serve as an answer and antidote to big publishing houses and SEO spam — a point we couldn't be more aligned on. … |
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