Email is still the number one tool for managing events and communicating with attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Social network is definitely the future of the event communication, but until then email rules.
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Sending out call for papers, speaker, exhibitor, attendee invitations and other emails around a conference can require a well oiled email infrastructure to make sure emails get into the inbox.
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I was reminded today that nothing is permanent in the cloud. I accidentally terminated my primary database instance running on Amazon EC2. 319 databases, 100 GB of data running on SQL Server 2008.
I was removing 2 decommissioned server instances, I selected both of them and clicked terminate. About 60 seconds later I started getting alerts that my web sites are down. I refreshed my Amazon Console and saw that my primary database instance was terminating.
5 hours later I have e...
I was just talking with Google I/O events team about keeping events sessions up to date on the conference and event sessions page. Sessions change rapidly and updates are needed by multiple teams in real-time.
Web-site(s), support personnel, marketing, etc all need updated information. There are multiple digital and human sources that need the updates.
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I am looking around my Google Account Ecosystem and playing. Since the addition of Google Buzz I spend more time looking at my profile page.
My buzzs' come up more in searches so I tend to stumble on my kinlane-productions2ore.
I have used iGoogle as my home page since...I can't remember. Its been yea...
I've been paying attention to the Google Cloud Print project at Google Code. With Google Cloud Print you can:
Register any printer to be accessible via the Internet for printing by authorized users
Allow authorized users to print to this device with multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile phone)
Seem like as a business owner I would be able to temporarily open up my printer for a ...
Everyone is talking about cloud computing these days in the tech industry. I just stopped doing some more work on a comprehensive list of cloud computing service providers.
One of the key components of cloud computing is scalable, pay for what you use computing utilities.
When are we going...
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Definition of Open Technology:
Developed in the open with full transparency
Open process for anyone to participate freely
Everyone is free to implement
Decisions are made based on technical merit
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I was re-reading a blog post I had starred called The Situationally Aware Business. Great post about a companies awareness of their brand, customers and world around them in real-time.
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I have been in the Amazon Console all night scaling down infrastructure after 3 months of events and conferences. This year our Amazon spend was double during the event season. Last year I pushed what my budget would allow to achieve better performance, it paid off. This year I got the thumbs up to push eve...
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I was reviewing the Google Sites API today. I have a Google Site / Wiki that I was maintaining last year about cloud computing. Like other side projects of mine that don't directly have funding it fell to the wayside, however I've been still bookmarking and gathering relevant data that still applies to this
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Having fun playing with Google Sites API today. Audrey is setting up Wikis for different research areas to support her new Hack Education site. I am reviving my cloud computing research wiki. I am looking for new ways to keep sections of the wiki alive programatically. A couple ways I've brainstormed:
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Data is the center of my world. I enjoy that there are finally great places on the Internet get open large data sets such as Factual and Google Fusion Tables. However much of the data I want for different purposes is not neatly organized into an easily accessible data set or available on the Internet.
XAuth is a standard that is going to help make the social web smarter and more relevant. The goal of XAuth is to create a more relevant social experience across the web, and it is truly exciting that all of our partners are united on this front.
It includes a light-weight XAuth JavaScript library that will allow service providers like Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo! to extend authe...
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I have been answering a lot of questions on LinkedIn and Quora lately about where the best place to store data in the clouds. There are a lot of answers to this question.
Cloud storage comes in many shapes, sizes, and prices. Business class, personal usage, storage APIs and much more.
I store my:
Amazon EC2 machine images in
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ATT decided to stop offering unlimited data plans to new customers today. I'm going to ride the Anti ATT sentiment for a bit.
I have several complaints about AT&T that I need to explore here on my blog.
I have had the phone number 541-913-2328 on the AT&T network since January 1999. It was my primary business line for ...
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While working with the Google API tonight I registered my primary research and development domain with them so that I could make oAuth calls to Google API.
You need to go to: https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains
You need to register your application with Google. Using this page, you can identify your web domain(s) . Once you've successfully registered your domain, you will be able to programmatically access G...
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Using oAuth I've pulled my email from my Gmail Inbox. Then using AuthSub I pulled my Google Contacts. I will replicate what I've done and pull mail and contacts from my kinlane.com Google Apps domain.
I'm putting all this information into a MySQL database on my server and creating a sort of CRM. Then I will build hooks that publish data back to my FREE ...
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I am working with several Google APIs this evening. I am pulling my Gmail Messages using Oauth. In the Google Code samples they use Zend Framework.
When I had my web development company I made the transition from ASP to PHP I used the Zend framework as a backbone to my platform. So I am familiar.
Looking through the libraries I think its definitely time to rediscover the
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The Internet is an important tool in our every day life. We can't support businesses who don't respect the Internet as an open community and respects its users privacy.
There are many networks and service providers who do.
Facebook has long been a thorn in my side when it came to social application development. They just haven't played nice with the other kids on the playground. They cause extra work for us developers, but we have to do it....because that is where your users are. It is very much like Microsoft play in the browser game for the last 10 years.
I gave into Microsofts game for a while, and same with Facebook. However I convert every person I can to
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I've seen several post by Google that the speed of your web site now matters a great deal in the relevance of your site.
Using site speed in web search ranking
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One of the reasons I blog is to provide a focus to my research and learning. I use this research to help me revisit many of the technologies that I stay in tune with. With many of the top cloud providers I like to step back and look at what they offer from time to time to see if I have missed anything or may see things in a different light.
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Its been a while since I made any changes to my blog. I haven't given my blog much love at all lately.
I could easily blame work and say I don't have time. I do not think that is it.
I just started feeling like I wasn't saying much at all, there was no organization to my approach.
To change thi...
Hosting a web site for an event or conference can be costly. Traffic to the web site spikes around email campaigns, call for papers, registration opening, before and during the event.
Hosting providers that can handle the volume of traffic around events and conferences can be expensive. The 
