by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 27, 2009
On our internet business podcast we are constantly talking about using TubeMogule as a content outpost publishing mechanism. It allows you to publish videos to many networks and provides a central location for analytics data for your videos across platforms. Today they are announcing the launch of TubeMogul 2.0 – “including analytics capabilities unparalleled in the industry”. Well, needless to say for an analytics junkie who already uses the service this is great news.
So what are these revolutionary analytics?
What’s truly revolutionary about this launch is that rich tracking from our own InPlay technology will now be available from 15 of the Web’s top video sites.
What does that mean? Within seconds, users (i.e. you) can view cross-site data on audience engagement, referral sites/search terms, audience geography and much more.
Pretty cool stuff… And it’s the best price – FREE!
Check out the video for more…
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 26, 2009
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of FriendFeed and I find more value with it than Twitter.
That being said I am very excited about the release of FeedStats from my fellow Iowans over at Microblink…
From their release…
Today we’d like to announce our second public project, FeedStats. FeedStats exists for the purpose of visualizing FriendFeed users’ data to see how they interact not only with the service, but with other users. It’s a quick way to find what services they’re using, when they post, and who interacts with their content the most.
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 22, 2009
by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 22, 2009
In the wake of Google’s downtime we have decided at 48Web to develop a Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan for our business. Once completed we’ll be providing it to anyone interested in using it to model their own disaster recovery plan for “the cloud”.
What’s a disaster recovery plan for? In the event something bad happens – ie: servers go down – a disaster recovery plan is a set of processes that you have at hand to address the situation without hesitation. Generally these are reserved for larger companies or data centers. But as a small business whose entire IT infrastructure lives in the cloud – we thought it necessary to have a plan in place.
Here are the problems at hand and potential solutions. We want to use this blog post to crowd source ideas and conversations around cloud disaster recovery to better develop our outline and plan. Please, chime in!
Communications
Our entire communications infrastructure is in the cloud. We use Skype and Google Talk for voice communications. We use Google Apps to host our email. Down the list we also use Twitter, FriendFeed, and our blog for communication to clients and prospects.
If Google Apps goes down (as it did last week) and we are unable to receive email our new process is to write a blog post alerting our community that we are unable to receive email. This will be sent out to our email newsletter subscribers and customers (via aWeber). We’ll also send out a tweet from our personal and company accounts. We’ll be using our pre-defined content outposts and distribution system to communicate the message.
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 20, 2009
Prepping Students for real-world information assurance… At my alma-mater Iowa State University!!!
Thirty-seven teams of Iowa high school students protected their computer networks in the world’s largest cyber defense competition, part of the IT-Olympics at Iowa State University.
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