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Sarah Worsham / Apr 27, 2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – Apr 27, 2009

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Why Email Clients Need to Change (GigaOM)
A Cyber-Attack On An American City (Silicon Alley Insider)
Android Growing Fast, But Not as Fast as iPhone (Mashable)
Will Twitter names and accounts become commodities? (Performancing)
Simple SEO Changes to Improve Unexpected Rankings (Traffikd)
Twitter for Business Essentials Archive (Duct Tape Marketing)
Facebook Pages Become the Newest Ad Platform (Mashable)
Yahoo Finally Kills Web 1.0 Relic Geocities (YHOO) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters (ReadWriteWeb)
WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support (ReadWriteWeb)
Latest Twitter Bug: “Misdelivery of Direct Messages” (TechCrunch)
Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover (Mashable)
Heroku to Exit Beta, Start Charging for Cloud Computing (GigaOM)
iMapWeather: Where Social Media Meets Sophisticated Weather Data (Mashable)
Google Labs Cooks Up Two IE Toolbars (ReadWriteWeb)
Facebook Democracy at Work: The First Step (Mashable)
Pick anything–the calculus of change (Seth Godin)
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for March 2009 (Ad Ops Online)
10 Small Business Lead Nurturing Tools (Duct Tape Marketing)
Canada Ranks as a Global Leader in Online Video Viewing (Ad Ops Online)
Beyond #FollowFriday: 24 Daily Twitter Memes (Mashable)

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Sarah Worsham / Apr 24, 2009

Heroku Out of Beta – Fast, Easy & Cheap Ruby Hosting

heroku Heroku, who we previously covered here and here, offers quick and easy Ruby hosting. Today their service came out of beta, with a commercial, paid version of it’s service. Web developers can focus on development, leaving deployment, hosting and scaling of the application to Heroku. Meant to provide affordable services which easily scale, packages start around $36/month. As the popularity of an application increase, Heroku can match demand, allowing developers to start small but scale up on the same platform.

Developers can customize their hosting by choosing database performance and size, http performance, and add-ons. Databases start with 5MB of storage for free and run up to 20 compute units and 2 TB of storage for $1600. Http performance, which Heroku calls dynos, representing one process of an application, and are priced by hour starting at 1 dyno for free and 40 dynos for $1.95/hour. There are recommended amounts of dynos for each type of database, starting at 2 for the smallest, free version. Add-ons include additional backups or crons (some are included), with wildcard domains and delayed jobs in beta, and memcaching, workling, and AMQP planned soon.

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