Summer Fun – Rant Redux #1
It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some new rants thrown in for [...]
Work. Online. (Zoho Employees On the Loose)
Disclaimer:Zoho is CloudAve’s Sponsor. But I can’t help having fun with this vid, originally published @ FakeOffice. Besides, it’s the weekend.
Smugmug Crashes
On a note left on the Smugmug Blog, a critical piece of infrastructure failed on Smugmug this morning leaving everything that was connected to the system pretty much so down. At time of writing logins are not working and the site is in read only. A critical part of our infrastructure failed this morning and [...]
Do Not Copy That Floppy – Version Two Surfaces
One of the hall mark anti-piracy ads from the 1980’s was “Don’t Copy that Floppy” sung by MC Double Def DP (data protection). While copying programs, movies and music has exponentially grown from its humble floppy disk beginnings the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Alliance) has also stated a word of mouth campaign, reintroducing DP [...]
Home – World Premiere, on World Environment Day
I’m receiving congratulatory notes – in the age of Facebook and Plaxo there is no hiding. Oh, well, I’m happy to have reached 21, at least I can get a drink now. But June 5th is a memorable day for other reasons. This year it is the 20th anniversary of the of Tiananmen Square crackdown [...]
A Curmudgeon with a Cause
Image via Wikipedia James Dean famously starred in the 1955 move “A Rebel with a Cause”. I’m no rebel but I do pride myself on being something of a curmudgeon from time to time, always keen to (hopefully) talk some sense amongst the evangelism that seems to typify our industry. Visiting the recent Web 2.0 [...]
Living In The Clouds – Streamincloud.com
Image via Wikipedia In this edition of Living in the Cloud Series, I am going to discuss a way in which video can be streamed using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. We already have services like Youtube and Vimeo for streaming video on Clouds. However, they are more than streaming video and they also serve as [...]
Creating an Attractive Internet Company – It's All About Emotions
How do you create an internet company\product that can get the attention of more than 100 million unique viewers a month? That’s the tough question that Yossi Vardi’s was trying to find an answer to on his panel at this year’s DLD conference – 100,000 Million Uniques (video) – together with Glam’s co-founder Samir Arora, [...]
Interoperability Doesn’t Stop With Technology
Image via CrunchBase I am a strong advocate of interoperability between various Cloud players. In my opinion, it is very important for the very success of Cloud Computing, in general, and SaaS, in particular. Cloud vendors are slowly opening up their services through APIs so that other vendors and third party applications can integrate with [...]
When Your Core Functionality is Dead, What Else Is Left? Youtube Down with Stupid Message
Image via Wikipedia This functionality is not available right now. Please try again later. We are currently performing site maintenance. Be cool – we’ll be back 100% in a bit. This wouldn’t be such a bad error message – except for two things: I It’s on Youtube, and we’ve become so hooked it, some would [...]
Recruiting by Video. Some Get It, Others Just Pretend
Since I just wrote a piece on how your Social Media participation is your new Resume, it’s only appropriate to look at the hiring side, on a lighter note this time. Both myself and Ben picked on a cool video produced as a side-project for Atlassian’s FedEx Day, which I’m sure becomes a perfect recruiting [...]
