Sulia Now Driving 6-Digit Traffic to Publishers, on Track to Hit 15-20 Million Uniques This Year / Danielle Morrill / May 24 / Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, cat photos and rants from angry aunts appear in the same feeds as shared recipes and world news. Sulia is changing that by introducing subject-based “channels” where users can consume media about a single topic like technology, politics, or food. Moving away from a single crowded feed towards multiple [...]
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Maintenance Window: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:00 AM CDT – 5:00 AM CDT / Pagely / May 24 / Our primary datacenter provider Firehost is performing scheduled maintenance on: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:00 AM CDT – 5:00 AM CDT. Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:00 AM CDT – 5:00 AM CDT Impact: We anticipate up to 10-20 minutes of total downtime and connectivity may be intermittent during this total 5 hour timeframe. We will be restarting primary... Read It
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Google Penguin 2.0: Are You Nervously Watching Your Traffic Stats? / WPMU.org / May 24 / If you don't compulsively hit refresh on your site's traffic stats, you might want to go and take a look. Google has released the latest update to its anti-spam algorithm, Penguin 2.0. WordPress users could be forgiven for welcoming the news with trepidation. After the last major update a year ago many sites took a massive hit in traffic, including WPMU.org
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SpotRight Raises $2.8M for Social Customer Intelligence / Danielle Morrill / May 24 / According to a regulatory filing Boulder-based startup SpotRight has raised $2,870,889. The company previously raised $1M in funding in July 2012 from Grotech Ventures, Access Venture Partners and FFP Holdings, and also raised a $1.4M Series A from the same investors under its original name Giveo in January 2011. SpotRight was originally launched as part [...]
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Open Call with CentUp, Flattr, and Patreon / Gittip Blog / May 24 / Chad Whitacre, founder of Gittip, will participate in a public video conference call together with:
Len Kendall, founder of CentUp
Linus Olsson, CEO and co-founder of Flattr
Jack Conte, founder of Patreon
The call will take place on Thursday, May 30 at 11:00 AM (US/Pacific - translate to your timezone). The link to view the live-stream of the call on YouTube via Google Hangouts on Air will be posted on the Gittip Twitter account.
This call is interesting because CentUp, Flattr, Gittip and Patreon are generally viewed as competitors, each building a platform for sustainable crowd-funding. Gittip is participating in this call because we recognize these companies as kindred spirits in the search for new funding models to su
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One experience that really shaped my thinking / Simon Black / May 24 / May 24, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Years ago as a young intelligence officer, I served a stint in Saudi Arabia running a team of counter-terrorism analysts and agents. We used to have regular “threat working groups,” a fancy way of saying we would get together at the US Embassy for meetings with the embassy staff, [...]
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Finely Tuned Consultant – Nick Davis / WP Engine / May 24 / Today I’m hanging out with Nick Davis, the man of mystery “somewhere in Italy” behind eSanctuary, the design and development firm that also has an awesome set of video tutorials for WordPress. Nick has created an unofficial (but quality) set of tutorials and how-to’s for WordPress, AND for WP Engine’s User Portal and developer tools [...]
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Changes to Terms of Service / Majestic SEO / May 24 / Majestic is growing and with that comes a more mature approach to our contractual obligations to you. We recently instructed our legal team to review and update our Terms of Service to make sure they were still relevant and meaningful. We remain committed to your protection and privacy. The current terms of service are effective [...]The post Changes to Terms of Service appeared first on Majestic SEO Blog.
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What To Expect In WordPress 4.0 / WPMU.org / May 24 / Here at WPMU.ORG we are waiting in excited anticipation for the release of WordPress 4.0. It doesn't matter that 3.6 is just around the corner - 4.0 just can’t come soon enough! So to help calm our nerves we’ve been speculating about what it will include and what we hope to see in this future version of WordPress.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 24, 2013 / High Scalability / May 24 / Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Scaling the Mighty Redwood photograph by Michael Nichols for NatGEO)
~20K : Netflix AWS instances; 100 million hours per minute: Youtube video upload;
Quotable Quotes:
@sw17ch: Computer Science is thinking about thinking. Software Engineering is thinking about how to avoid thinking.
@neha: I am starting a distributed systems reading group at MIT. Suggestions on papers to read? Current list here.
John Sheehan: Services are the new pro
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Automattic After-Market / Matt Mullenweg / May 24 / One of the most striking shifts in entrepreneurship when I started Automattic seven years ago was the rise of the Founder Friendly VCs. The standard operating procedure at the time for VC-backed companies consistent of bringing in “adult supervision,” founders often taking largely-ceremonial roles like “chief architect” after the business had scaled to a certain […]
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The Power Of 1000 True Fans / Pagely / May 24 / One of the scariest things about writing in any medium is the fear of being disliked. Too many of us make writing decisions based on fear, instead of making those same decisions based on interestingness, shareability, and plain ol’ informativeness. While this approach may attract a few corporate copywriting jobs, it certainly will not be... Read It
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Pinterest Introduces Rich Pins: Good or Bad for Food Bloggers? / Savvy Blogging / May 24 / It will also send the "right" traffic to your site. If readers look at a pin and realize they have all the ingredients in a recipe they are probably more likely to click over to your site and stay on your site, giving you a lower bounce rate.
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A great talk on Go concurrency patterns / Xaprb / May 24 / This 35-minute video from the recent Google I/O conference explains how to use Go’s concurrency primitives — goroutines, channels, and the select statement — to do things elegantly, correctly, and safely in a few lines of Go, which would otherwise turn your brain into a pretzel in most programming languages. My favorite thing about Go [...]
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The Power Of The Mastermind Group – Dismiss This At Your Own Risk / David Risley / May 24 / One of the absolute most important help mechanisms available today is the mastermind group. If you’re not a member of one, then I want you to drop everything right now and read this post. OK, everything dropped? Do I have your attention? OK, then. Let’s move forward… The idea of a mastermind group was first [...]The post The Power Of The Mastermind Group – Dismiss This At Your Own Risk appeared first on Blog Marketing Academy.
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Issues with Managing a Brand in the Age of New Media / SteamFeed / May 24 / It is no longer all fun and games. A few years back it used to be a lot easier to build and manage a social following or maintain a brand’s online presence. A good old portfolio website and a Facebook brand page with a few hundred fans was all you needed. Now, you need a [...]Author informationDavid SchwartzOwner at Brand Education Services, llc. David is a Brand Strategist focused on building relevant brands, while creating valuable consumer relationships to promote engagement. By utilizing the popularity of digital and mobile media, along with the social web he helps companies understand the power of controlling their content. David started his career working for MTV in New York, he then proceeded to Atlanta to work with the likes of Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A and the Home Depot. From his time working with companies of all sizes he has learned that a strong brand is the key to long term success by turning customers into
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Video SEO: 10 Steps to Optimizing Your Video for Search Engines – Part 2 / SteamFeed / May 24 / This is Part 2 of a three-part series on Video SEO. See Part 1. YouTube Video Annotations Video Annotations are text commentary that you add to your videos. You can use them to add background information, link to related videos, create an interactive element, or add call-to-action to your videos. Strictly speaking, Annotations are NOT [...]Author informationBrent CarnduffPresident at Echelon SEOI am an Search Engine Marketing specialist and speaker, former teacher and basketball coach, married with 2 children (Daniel & Ashley), a wanna be author, avid reader, an out of shape cyclist, and a Canadian ex-pat.
I hope to add a voice of reason, understanding, and professionalism to the SEO industry.TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedInThe post Video SEO: 10 Steps to Optimizing Your Video for Search Engines – Part 2 app
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New Help Center Launches / Flite Ads / May 24 /
Flite's product documentation now has a new home. We've updated help docs for Ad Studio 3 (for building, flighting, and measuring display ads) and Touch Ad Studio (for building, flighting, and measuring mobile ads), including thorough descriptions and information about settings options and metrics for all standard components.
We've also released a PDF manual for Report Studio that covers the interface, how to create basic reports, and how to use labels and label sets.
Finally, we've developed some preliminary documentation that covers the essentials of Component Studio. We'll be adding additional treatment on layer structures soon.
We will also be u
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New Help Center Launches! / Flite Ads / May 24 /
Flite's product documentation now has a new home. We've updated help docs for Ad Studio 3 (for building, flighting, and measuring display ads) and Touch Ad Studio (for building, flighting, and measuring mobile ads), including thorough descriptions and information about settings options and metrics for all standard components.
We've also released a PDF manual for Report Studio that covers the interface, how to perform basic reports, and how to use labels and label sets.
Finally, we've developed some preliminary documentation that covers the essentials of Component Studio. We'll be adding additional treatment on layer structures soon.
We will also be updating Console Help, as well as the product help docs as new components and functionality are added.
As always, please let your Media Services Manager or Customer Success Manager know if there's anything in particular you'd like for us to flesh out in the Help Cen
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BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratory / Derrick Harris / May 23 / University of Illinois researchers have created an app and a sensor-filled cradle that turn an iPhone into a mobile spectrophotometer. The combination of that mobile lab data and metadata such as location might prove very valuable.
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Class of 2013: Write Your Eulogy, Then Live the Life You Want / Redpoint Ventures / May 23 / There’s always so much encouragement for graduating classes. “You are the generation.” “You will change the world.” I’m sure you are and you will, but how? How will you make a difference? I’m not going to tell you how to change the world; that’s up to you. What I am going to give you is my advice [...]
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Big data at work: 12 stories about reinvention / Derrick Harris / May 23 / Big data is cool and all, but is it really changing the way companies function? Yes. Here are 10 stories that show that transformation.
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Google Wants Your WordPress Site / WPMU.org / May 23 / The biggest web company in the world has finally announced its support for the most widely used programming language - and in turn, WordPress. At its I/O developer event this week, Google announced PHP is now supported in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine.
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How to Dynamically Update Your Display Ads / Flite Ads / May 23 /
The idea of dynamically updating anything is pretty exciting. See what works or doesn't, fix it on the fly, and reap the rewards of your savviness? Sign me up.
But just because the technology is available to dynamically update ads, doesn't mean that you should jump in without preparation.
You can improve the likelihood of success by having a clear strategy for your campaigns, so that when they go live, the cross-functional team is on the same page about how and when to update ads in real-time. Here, we'll focus on dynamically updati
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A culture of fear and intimidation / Simon Black / May 23 / May 23, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Last week when I arrived to Bangladesh, the immigration officials there were positively ecstatic to see a foreign tourist entering the country. I’ve also been to places in Africa and the South Pacific where you’re greeted upon arrival by dancing tribespeople singing songs of welcome. It’s not quite the [...]
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Kindle Publishing – how to promote your book / Savvy Blogging / May 23 / Some people can write a book in just a few hours (short information book), publish it and wonder why they are not getting hits and downloads. The truth is that the information market is highly saturated and you have to accept that you are not the only one trying to make a money with Kindle Publishing. Therefore, there is a need for advanced marketing techniques, attracting reviewers and getting the word out there about your new publication.
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Paper: Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems / High Scalability / May 23 /
Distributed transactions are costly because they use agreement protocols. Calvin says, surprisingly, that using a deterministic database allows you to avoid the use of agreement protocols. The approach is to use a deterministic transaction layer that does all the hard work before acquiring locks and the beginning of transaction execution.
Overview:
Many distributed storage systems achieve high data access throughput via partitioning and replication, each system with its own advantages and tradeoffs. In order to achieve high scalability, however, today’s systems generally reduce transactional support, disallowing single transactions from spanning multiple partitions. Calvin is a practical transaction scheduling and data replication layer th
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Is Your WordPress 404 Page Killing Traffic & Drinking Your SEO Juice? / WPMU.org / May 23 / “Not Found” pages on your site are more than just a nuisance. They may be losing you both visitors and valuable SEO points.
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Agile project management tools / Xaprb / May 23 / Wow, talk about an industry that’s overcrowded with look-alike me-too products. Online agile project management tools are a dime a dozen, which makes me think that they are probably all very similar and probably don’t solve most people’s needs. I’ve observed that when this is true, nearly-indistinguishable tools get reinvented, until the burden of evaluating [...]
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Link Building And Your Content Marketing Strategy / SteamFeed / May 23 / Content marketing has become a popular strategy for businesses that want to increase their online presences. Author informationMartin JonesMartin Jones is Social Media Marketing Manager with the corporate Cox Communications social media team where he assists in leading strategy, campaign ideation and marketing execution across each of the company’s social media platforms. Today, over 500k fans engage with Cox Communications content, campaigns and Customer Care on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, You Tube and Google+. His career has been characterized by his ability to work with groups, individuals and businesses to uncover, optimize and implement digital marketing strategies and tactics that propel them past their competition. Thoughts expressed here are his own.TwitterGoogle+Linked
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WibiData gets $15M to help it become the Hadoop application company / Derrick Harris / May 23 / Startup WibiData has raised another $15 million and wants to turn the lessons it has learned in the field into generic software that can let anyone build predictive applications on Hadoop.
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Be The Change You Want To See – In Social Media / SteamFeed / May 23 / It seems that almost every week, there is a new social media “scandal.” And boy are we ever quick to lynch the poor sap who made the mistake that created the said scandal in the first place… Thanks to my friend Sam Fiorella (@samfiorella) for posting the following on Facebook: “Our social community or social [...]Author informationStephanie MontreuilThe post Be The Change You Want To See – In Social Media appeared first on SteamFeed.
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Investing in the Consumer Web is Dead / Redpoint Ventures / May 22 / Reading through the tech press since the Facebook IPO, you might get the impression venture capitalists are still reeling from that apocalyptic offering, believe no further successes can be had in the consumer web and so are fleeing the consumer web in droves to pursue enterprise investments. That’s because in the past year or so [...]
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The WordPress Planet Has Been Replaced / WPMU.org / May 22 / Want real WordPress news? Then you need to replace the WordPress planet widget in your dashboards with the new A Better Planet plugin.
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Concurrent is building a Hadoop assembly line in open source / Derrick Harris / May 22 / Cascading creator Concurrent has developed a new open source tool called Pattern for running machine learning models on Hadoop clusters. When combined with its SQL tool called Lingual, users can move data from one stage to another easily.
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12 Example Formats for Content-Rich Advertising / Flite Ads / May 22 / Last month I shared 8 ideas for content-rich ads, and I’d like to apologize. I shared some tips on what to do without giving any indication on how to do it.
The concept behind content-rich advertising is that by providing entertaining and informative content right in your ads, you can interact with your audience directly on the page they are on, without forcing a click through.
One of the big challenges is how to fit content into the small real-estate of a display ad.
For instance, a lot of
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