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MozyPro Supports New Mobile App
Jun 22nd
Online Backup vendor Mozy has come out with a new update to its mobile app that will add support for MozyPro users and support for multiple languages.
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When we wrote about Mozy’s new iPad app earlier this year, it wasn’t yet available for the business Pro accounts. Now both the Android and iOS apps are available for business accounts. This means through the MozyPro Admin Console (which you can see here), IT folks can control those employees who can access, view and share files that have been backed-up to Mozy’s cloud service. MozyPro costs $4/mo per desktop with 50 cents per GB per mo of data backed up. Servers cost an extra $3/mo. You can download the app on Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
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Google Now Supports “Author” Tag
Jun 7th
Google announced support of the authorship markup, enabling content sites to help identify their authors on the site and across the web. The markup links up authors to content, for example, this content would be linked up to my name and can be used to find all the stories I’ve written here…
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Catch’s New Annotations API Supports Structured Data, Lets Apps Talk to Each Other
May 31st
Catch is often thought of as an Evernote competitor, thanks to the company’s simple, note-taking applications for iOS and Android. But more recently, the company’s APIs were found integrated into a high-profile mobile application: Google’s official app for its I/O developer conference. In the Google I/O app, Catch was used to help attendees create and manage conference notes using the Catch service.
As it turns out, there are today over 40 apps using Catch’s APIs, including those from the BBC and TED, plus recipes and horoscopes apps and others. And now, with Catch’s newly launched annotations API and its support for structured data, Catch can enable different mobile apps to talk to each other.
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Prior to the release of Catch’s annotations API, the service supported only text, location, photos and voice in its notes. But sometimes, explains Catch CTO Andreas Schobel, you want to add structured data, too.
Developers can now do just that by registering new annotation types with Catch. For now, this is done by sending emails to developer@catch.com. Soon, a self-service registration page will be available to make the process even easier.
According to the Catch developer site, the annotations types currently have the following properties:
- namespace: A grouping for common annotations, generally relates to the application that uses them (health tracker).
- key: The key for the particular annotation.
- id: The id of the annotation type is composed of the namespace and key as namespace:key. The id is used for manipulating annotations in the Notes API.
- unique: Whether the annotation can have multiple values per note.
- processor: The method by which annotation values are processed. Built in processors are string, boolean, and number. Numbers have built in unit conversion.
So how does this annotations API allow apps to talk to each other? Well, for example, instead of having a note field in an app where you recorded your weight daily as text, that information could be saved as data. Then a second app could read that data. In the weight-tracking example, the second app could translate pounds to kilograms, for instance, or it could correlate your weight with your daily blood pressure readings, which the second app provided.
Another basic example of annotations are the starred notes Catch implemented into its own note-taking apps recently, which allows users to save their favorite notes.
These are very simple examples, of course, but the possibilities of annotations made available via API are interesting, especially in terms of sharing data between different applications – even those from different developers.
Catch provides three different ways to leverage its service – via an HTTPS REST API, open-source libraries or through Android Intents. Interested developers can learn more about Catch at developer.catch.com.
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Google Chief Economist Supports Retiring Position Preference And Most Advertisers Should Too
Apr 7th
As of now the Google AdWords API does not support Position Preference and the option will be retired completely by early May, Inside Adwords reported. And Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, said people are too focused on position when they should be tracking conversion.
“What matters is how the keyword performs in terms of clicks and cost, not where it ends up on the page,” he noted, and that most people thought the position reported was on page position when in fact it was auction position and bid amount influenced if it was at top or to the left.
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OpenStack Now Supports VMware vSphere
Mar 25th
The talk about OpenStack’s openness should not cloud out what is really happening. And that’s the fact that there is a whole lot of innovation coming from this growing group of engineers and developers.
Simon Crosby of Citrix puts this in perspective today in a post about OpenStack’s support for vSphere that Citrix played a large part in helping make happen.
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The vSphere support now brings to seven the total OpenStack compute options available: vSphere, XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform, Xen, Hyper-V, KVM, QEMU, and UML.
Why did Citrix, a huge VMware foe, decide to embark upon the effort to support the VMware hypervisor in the OpenStack community? Crosby puts it this way:
We in the OpenStack community believe that you ought to have a choice. We don’t think you need to throw out ESX or even vSphere. You made a rational decision to use (err, buy) it. But you ought to have a choice as to whether your cloud implementation will lock you into a single vendor model forever, with a limited set of expensive value-added services. We think there’s another way, that permits innovation in cloud services and solutions, that scales massively, and that is wholly free. The answer is OpenStack Compute – a massively scalable cloud orchestration system developed by over 50 vendors, hundreds of engineers and put in production by the world’s largest cloud service providers.
Wardey is one of the better bloggers out in the cloud world. He pulls no punches. But his points are quite valid.
OpenStack is innovating, showing its importance as an organization. Adding vSphere opens up the possibilities for customers.
And that’s a good thing.
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Searchmetrics Connect Supports Global SEO Campaigns – MediaPost Publications
Feb 24th
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Searchmetrics Connect Supports Global SEO Campaigns
MediaPost Publications Searchmetrics launched a new program this week based on capabilities in its Searchmetrics Suite of applications that aggregates global search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns. Dubbed Searchmetrics Connect … |
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Google’s Postini Now Supports Microsoft Exchange 2010
Feb 22nd
Last December Google announced a new service from its Postini acquisition called Google Message Continuity. The service allows administrators to backup their on-premise Exchange servers to Gmail, so that in the event of an Exchange outage users can still access their e-mail. Today, Google announced the service is now available for Exchange 2010 servers as well.
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Illustration of how Google Message Continuity works
In the announcement, Google once again cites research indicating that Exchange servers face more downtime than Gmail. By Google’s own approximation, its service offers 99.984%. Google recently altered its service level agreement for Google Apps to compensate users for planned downtime and downtime less than 10 minutes.
Source: The Radicati Group, 2010. “Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2010-2011.
Exchange administrators: what do you think of Google Message Continuity? Is this a service you would actually want? I can’t shake the feeling that this is actually more of a marketing ploy for Google to highlight Gmail’s availability than a service the company expects people to actually use.
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With Storage on the Line, Google Supports Copyright Lawsuit
Jan 25th
Google recently joined a lawsuit as a friend of MP3tunes, a service that will face off on Friday against EMI, the giant record label that seems to be in continual financial distress.
The lawsuit will unfold in a New York federal courtroom, with a band of lawyers from EMI squaring off against an online service that provides storage in the cloud for media.
According to MP3tunes Founder Michael Robertson, at stake in this case is whether a corporation can store digital assets for a consumer to access later. Google is supporting MP3tunes as its services depend on the ability for its users to store document, media files and associated data.
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MP3tunes’ service is not that different from services offered by Google, Dropbox, Hewlett-Packard and the multitude of other service providers that provide customers with the space to keep their files.
In its support briefing, Google points to the sheer volume of data it processes through its online services:
- On Blogger, 270,000 words are written each minute.
- In total, this includes 380 million words written each day.
- On these services, there are thousands of links to music or as Google states, sound recordings, posted by music fans.
- YouTube customers post more than 35 hours of video every minute.
Google cites its protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions as why its services can work freely for users. Users are mostly free to store and transmit media files. But if a media company can prove that the service provider is liable then there’s the potential Google could be hampered in what services it offers.
The DMCA also benefits the copyright owners. Under the DMCA they can ask the courts for considerable fines and closure of a service that is violating its copyright.
That’s the other aspect of the DMCA that gets online music services shut down all the time. The media company can ask for immediate shut down. And it works. Limewire is just the latest to be closed for allowing people to download music from its service. It’s a stifling environment but yet we continue to notice any variety of innovative music technologies emerging to provide a new way to explore and create.
Google maintains in its briefing that innovation could be slowed considerably due to concerns about litigation:
If Plaintiffs’ views are allowed to prevail, many companies undoubtedly will conclude that the risk of litigation under unpredictable state common law principles warrants diverting resources away from the user-focused collaborative models that today are giving users unprecedented power and choice, and that are currently driving innovation and investment. The burden of this legal uncertainty will fall especially heavily on new start-up innovators–stripped of the legal certainty provided by the DMCA’s safe harbors, the next innovation like YouTube might never get off the ground in the first place.
That’s the heart of it. The major music labels will continue to join forces to quiet services like MP3Tune. These services have a lot to potentially lose in face of lawsuits over copyright issues.
In its defense, the labels have its own cadre of supporters, including the RIAA.
This case represents what will come to be a continuous friction with the media companies. It will affect all aspects of the technology market. Consumer online services, SaaS providers and any variety of online content offerings have been able to operate freely, making them popular with millions of people. But if the law shifts for the media companies then the outlook changes.
The largest market growth will be in the amount of storage that it is possible for people to transmit. Google is expected to be the leader in the tablet market by 2015. It will continue to offer gigabytes of storage as does Hewlett-Packard with its new tablet offerings. This data storage service will amount to a substantial amount of revenues in the years ahead.
It’s un-gated now by protection under the DMCA. And the entire online services industry wants to keep it that way.
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Banckle File Sharing Now Supports Search Engine Friendly File URLs – PR.com (press release)
Dec 24th
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Banckle File Sharing Now Supports Search Engine Friendly File URLs
PR.com (press release) But Banckle File Sharing embeds the file name within the file URL to makes it search engine (SEO) friendly. Palo Alto, CA, December 24, 2010 –(PR.com)– … |
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Google Docs Editor Now Supports the Android and the iPad
Nov 18th
Google Docs is now available for editing in a mobile browser with support for the Android and the iPad.
The support is part of the new editor for Google Docs that was announced earlier this year.
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Edits that are made in a Google Doc from a mobile device will also appear to someone collaborating on the document from a browser on a laptop or desktop.
One of the cooler features is the ability to enter text using your voice as demonstrated in this overview:
To get started: visit docs.google.com in a browser on a supported device and select the document you want to edit. Press the Edit button to switch to the mobile editor.
A Google spokesperson says the mobile editor will roll out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. Support for other languages will be added soon.
We reported on the new Google Docs features earlier this year. At the time, Google said it would be providing support for mobile editing.
The new Google Docs provide a set of capabilities that show the level of advancement in Web-based and mobile editing capabilities. These features will only get more sophisticated as Microsoft also steps up its efforts in bringing its products online.
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