Web Business by Ken Burbary

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Entries from February 2008

The computing cloud just got bigger

February 23rd, 2008 · Comments · Web Hosting, Web Services

I’ve already written about cloud computing and some of the reasons why I think it is a game changer, forever altering how we look and utilize web hosting (for the better). It looks like Rackspace believes the same, as evidenced by their annoucement yesterday that Mosso, a Rackspace subsidiary, will now offer cloud computing [...]

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The POST method to Social Media Strategy

February 21st, 2008 · Comments · Social Networking

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Web Scalability

February 20th, 2008 · Comments · Web Hosting, Web Services

I read a presentation today that covered the challenges businesses face when scaling their web properties as they become more successful. It was originally written and presented by John Engates, Chief Technology Officer at Rackspace IT Hosting. It’s a good explanation of the various stages of growth that online businesses go through and the associated [...]

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Can you trust user-supplied data?

February 20th, 2008 · Comments · Social Networking

I’ve been recently involved in helping some people within our company on Social Media/Networking projects for clients. The focus has primarly been on Facebook, both implementing social ads and Facebook Platform applications. One of the goals is to target a specific demographic among the Facebook user community. No one questioned whether or not the demographic [...]

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Twitter Stats

February 18th, 2008 · Comments · Blogging, Social Networking

I just found an interesting Twitter site called Tweet Stats, that will report on a Twitter username’s stats and graph them in the following categories:

Tweets per hour
Tweets per month
Tweet timeline

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