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How I Exercise My Mind

April 23, 2008

Because I’m constantly connected to real people as well as the Internet it can be difficult sometimes to keep your mind sharp and on focus. I’m not perfect in that regard, that’s for sure. But I do try to keep a fairly clean calendar with important events and conversations. 
In addition to my email and calendar [...]

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Introducing Google AppEngine

April 7, 2008

It’s Google’s first foray into application stack support and infrastructure and I for one am very excited to give it a try. I was planning to go to bed early tonight and get an early start to tomorrow but now I feel the need to wait until 9 PST to signup and be one of [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-18

March 18, 2008

Good Morning Twitterville, it’s still raining here and it’s kinda depressing. #
I really like the new Safari "Develop" menu for quick switching between user-agents, etc. #
I am now Twittering using Ping.fm! #
Hello World! This is my first post from Ping.fm, I’m testing out their service this morning. #
Time for my post-lunch laptop battery recharge period… [...]

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Why Your Business Needs To Focus On Relationships More and On Money Less – Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com -

March 4, 2008

Why Your Business Needs To Focus On Relationships More and On Money Less – Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com -: “”
(Via dmiracle.)

I’ve blogged many times before about the lack of effective monetization for news organizations on the web. It’s not just news orgs that need better ads and monetization strategies, believe me, I’ve been there.

Many of [...]

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Recent Facebook Application Launches

February 28, 2008

I recently launched several Facebook applications and thought I’d share them with you. All of them are essentially the same application with different content, they parse RSS feeds from blogs and newsrooms that I work with.

While these aren’t examples of huge viral applications, they have been gaining viewers and interactions day by day. (I might [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Comparing Current Offerings

February 21, 2008

Comparing Current Offerings
Amazon:

Very Inexpensive (+1)
Very powerful (+1)
Recently had its first major downtime event (-1)
Very flexible in terms of OS, applications, etc (+1)
S3 storage service provides a good platform for archive storage (+1)
Bring your own Machine Image is a good thing, use what you’re familiar with (+1)
You cannot upload and download files using FTP/SFTP as with [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Where Mosso Has it Right and Wrong

February 20, 2008

Where Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud Wins and Looses
Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud promises to offer all of the stability, uptime, and processing power of competing grid/cluster products without the management headache.

This is in distinct contrast to Amazon’s cloud computing services, they provide the machines and that’s about it. It’s up to the user to provide the [...]

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Pie In the Sky – A Blog Series Examining the Future of Web Hosting

February 17, 2008

This week marks a major series of blog posts. All week I’ll be posting about my vision for the future of web hosting and the Internet itself. The series couldn’t come at a better time, web startups are everywhere again, personal computing and communication has been revolutionized, and creating connections between people, machines, and the [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-12

February 12, 2008

Just upgraded my site to fix the WP security hole, 5 minutes down isn’t too bad is it? #
I can’t get my iTunes to purchase a ringtone I want #
The interwebs are broken again #
The Interwebs are still down, talk about a productivity killer! #
I’m on a blogging roll, at least [...]

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