Monday, March 8th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
We know that Avatar was a lot of Computer Generated animation, but how about the iPad commercial during the Oscars last night? I was excited to see the commercial, but immediately noticed that I was looking at a perfectly square iPad instead of a rectangular shaped device that we’ve already seen pictures of. Wait, no it is a rectangular shape. Wait, now it is a square again. What’s going on here? Is anything we see in that commercial real?
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
You gotta love the ability to use Twitter to monitor the status of various web sites and services. Wondering if Facebook is up or down? Wondering if GoToMeeting is up or down? Just do a search on Twitter!
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Monday, February 15th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
Four years ago, an IBM study predicted that the amount of "digital information" would double every 11 hours by the year 2010. Then in 2008, IDC issued their own prediction that was a bit more measured - predicting that the amount of digital information in 2011 would be 10 times the size it was in 2006. No matter which is true, the amount of information online is growing at a staggering rate, and for most of us that means a great deal of difficulty in sorting out the relevant information from the noise. Going forward, it seems likely that both businesses and individuals will require automated search agents that search the Internet, or subscribe to certain types of information feeds, filter for relevance, and present back to their user only the information that the user really needs !
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
We have always supported email publishing, but as of today we are now allowing: * Photo attachments to a post * Multiple Photo attachments to a post We will be adding many new email publishing features in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
Testing a video post with a SWF file in S3!
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
Finally got around to trying to upgrade from the Release Candidate of Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional. Wasn’t everyone on WIndows 7 Ultimate at the RC level?
Guess what - you cant install Windows 7 Professional at all because it isn’t an update.
So what if it’s not an upgrade? Has Microsoft ever heard of a downgrade?
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 from Jeff Hagins
The ability to use a custom domain name on your CloudProfile is almost here, so I thought I’d describe how they are going to work for everyone interested.
Custom domain names in CloudProfile will allow you to Purchase a new domain name to use on your profile, or to BYOD (Bring Your Own Domain), meaning that you can use a domain name that you already own.
In order to use a custom domain name on CloudProfile, you will visit the MyDomains option within the MyAccount page of your profile (when we release it). Once there, you will be able to Manage the domain names that your profile will respond to. Your will be able to Add domains, Remove domains, and change which domain is designated the "primary" domain for your profile.
Only ONE of your domains can be designated as the primary, since that is the domain that your profile will actual show in the browser when you visit your site. All of the other domains will be "secondary" and will automatically issue a 301 re-direct to your primary domain name. So no matter what someone types into the browser (e.g. your primary domain name or a secondary domain name), they will always see the primary domain name in the browser window when the site displays.
Customer who BYOD will need to configure the DNS for that domain and have CloudProfile "Verify" the proper DNS configuration before the site will respond to the new domain name.
The DNS configuration involved is simply to configure a DNS Alias (CNAME record) that points to our high availability load balancer as follows:
- CNAME "<YourCustomDomain.com>" points to "domain.cloudprofile.com"
Pay attention to the instructions that are displayed in the "My Domains" are of your profile, since the domain name you need to point TO (in the above example ‘domain.cloudprofile.com’) may be different based on whether you subscribed to CloudProfile through one of our channel partners.
You can setup the DNS record before you add the domain using "My Domains" and CloudProfile will verify it at the same time you add it. If the domain cannot be verified at the same time it is added to your profile, you will need to configure the DNS correctly and then come back later to request validation of the new domain name.
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