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

Posted in Business, Code, Hosting, News & Notes, tagged , , , , , , on Friday, Apr 24, 2009 | Comments Off

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 [...]

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Web Ads – AdJuggler

Posted in Hosting, Reviews, Tips, internet advertising, tagged , , , on Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Continuing the web advertising thread, we are going to look at an Ad Hosting service provider.
ThruPort Technologies, the company behind the AdJuggler ad hosting service, was started in 1999 by Bruce Waldack of digitalNation fame. Bruce founded digitalNation in ‘91, which was early enough in the dedicated server space to gain market share and [...]

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Web Stats – Who do you trust?

Posted in Analytics, Hosting, Tips, internet advertising, tagged , , , , , , on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | Comments Off

No subject is more controversial to a group of web professionals than Web Statistics. The advertising industry is still a little sore with us after we promised early on that Web Stats would give them all that invaluable information they could never get from TV, Radio or Print. This was not a lie, [...]

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Does your business website need buzz?

Posted in B2B, B2C, Business, Code, Content, Design, Hosting, Reviews, Tips on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008 | Comments Off

What do RoR, APIs, Interactive Media, Mashups, and Product Communities all have in common? Well other than they all make up the bottom row of this year’s Buzzword Bingo card, all five are technologies that you aren’t using but should be.
Here’s a truism – Really good websites create buzz about your product or service. [...]

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B2B CDN Review – LimeLight

Posted in B2B, Content, Hosting, Reviews, tagged on Monday, Apr 7, 2008 | Comments Off

I will be wrapping up the CDN segment today with a look at LimeLight Networks. Limelight’s technology is similar to other CDN’s available on the market. A bit too similar, as they just lost a big patent violation case filed by Akamai. Shares are down since the announcement, and things are looking [...]

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B2B CDN Revivew – CacheFly

Posted in Analytics, B2B, Content, Hosting, Reviews, tagged on Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »

In previous posts here and here I have discussed Content Delivery Networks in general. Today, I want to dig a bit deeper.
CacheFly is a price-point based Content Deliver Network provider that has positioned itself as the CDN of first consideration for small businesses and first time adopters. Their business strategy seems to reflect [...]

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Using CDNs for your critical B2B content

Posted in B2B, Content, Hosting, tagged on Wednesday, Mar 26, 2008 | Comments Off

Your customers are becoming impatient. The purchasing manager for CrowCo wants to see your newly updated online presentation, so she hits the ‘play’ button on the video viewer embedded in your demo site. At first nothing happens. A small graphic spins in the lower corner of the screen to stall for [...]

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B2B Tagging

Posted in B2B, Content, Hosting, SEO on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 | Comments Off

You’ve seen the tags that you can add to your Flickr pictures, YouTube videos, blog posts, submissions to Digg, etc. These are important because they change how we can find and use information:
Why is tagging important? Because you no longer to have to “file” information in one “folder.” Information can be tagged with multiple [...]

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