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A Peek into Google’s Data Centers

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.

Google Data Centers
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 hyper secure – vehicles can’t enter without authorization, and iris scanners are used at some locations.
  • Google rigorously tracks all hard drives that come into the facility.

 

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Video Captures Eyeballs

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 views.

Other notable statistics include:

  • 178 million U.S. Internet users watched video during the month, representing 83.5% of all U.S. Internet users.
  • The average YouTube viewer watched 96 videos.
  • The average Hulu viewer watched 24.7 videos… at an average of 2.5 hours per viewer.
  • The average duration of videos watched was 4.4 minutes. That’s still a pretty short amount of time, but it’s almost double the time from previous years.
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Quick Screen Capture

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 store it online at Screencast.com. Screencast.com is TechSmith’s media hosting solution that Jing uses to securely host your content. It’s perfect for the kind of images and videos you’ll want to make with Jing. You can use Screencast.com to ensure everyone has access to a free, secure hosting option. You can upload or save your content in many other places, too! A free Screencast.com account provides you with 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth per month.

You can download a copy of Jing at www.techsmith.com.

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Easily Send Video Emails

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 and sending a v-mail is as easy as clicking “record” and speaking to the camera. The actual video is stored on Eyejot servers and an e-mail is sent to the recipient. The recipient clicks on a link in the e-mail to play the video message. The sender is then alerted when his or her video message has been viewed.

Consider using Eyejot in your agency to communicate with clients. If you like it, the PRO Plus version is worth the $100 per year price. With the PRO version, messages can be five minutes in length, you can upload pre-recorded video, you get extended message storage time, the video won’t contain advertising, and you have the ability to attach and send documents. You can also brand several Eyejot notification elements with your agency logo and color scheme.