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Google is normally very secretive about its data centers. They recently posted a new video on its enterprise blog that gives a glimpse into the inner workings of its facilities. The video emphasizes security and environmental best practices. Some highlights from the video: Google builds its own customer servers. Google uses its own custom, stripped down version of Linux. It uses only a minimum set of packages. The facilities are … [Read more...]
comScore has released the latest online video statistics as of April 2010. YouTube continues to be the largest provider of video, garnering 40% of all online video views. That’s what happens when 26 hours of videos are uploaded to a site every minute. Other services continue to try to chip away at YouTube’s lead. A new site, Vevo.com, did make a splash. Started in December 2009, the music video site received about 25% of all Web video … [Read more...]
Jing (by TechSmith) is a free service that allows you to instantly share images and video from your desktop. Once installed, Jing sits unobtrusively on the top of your screen waiting to capture an image of your desktop. Hover your mouse over the logo, and with one click you can activate the screen capture utility. After you select the screen area you wish to capture, you can save it to the clipboard, e-mail it, store it as a local file, or … [Read more...]
Based on an editorial I wrote in The Anderson Agency Report called The New Sales Manager I was asked to do a short presentation at a recent AUGIE meeting. A video of that presentation is below. It is 20 minutes long. What do you think? Does the marketing and sales process need to change? If so, how? If not, why? … [Read more...]
Getting your message through to clients and prospects takes creativity. Anything you can do to make your message stand out in overloaded Outlook inboxes is a good thing. Eyejot is a Web-based service that allows you to quickly and easily send video e-mail (v-mail) to anyone. All you need is a Webcam and an Eyejot account. The best part is that the basic service is free (at least for now). Once you have a Webcam and an Eyejot account, creating … [Read more...]
