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7 Memorable Quotes from Gigaom Structure

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Kirby Prickett

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June 23, 2014

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend Gigaom Structure, an event self-described as an opportunity to “meet the innovators and thinkers who are building infrastructure to run the applications of the next decade.” The 2 day conference in The Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco (yes, that’s where WordCamp San Francisco will be held!) offered a packed schedule of impressive speakers. So it’s not surprising that some of them came out with some memorable quotes. Here are my top 7 (please excuse minor transcription errors): “Friends don’t let friends build data centers.” – Jamie Miller — SVP and CIO, […]

Popups or No Popups? That Is the Question. . .

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Jonathan John

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Community

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June 23, 2014

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One of the long-time feuds in Internet marketing, and more specifically, email marketing, is the dispute on whether or not you should use popups on a website to get people to perform a certain action (usually to sign up for a mailing list). As with almost all controversies, there is no right or wrong answer to this question. There are two sides to the popup story, and before you decide where you and your website stand, you need to understand both the advantages and disadvantages that come with popups. Advantages Let’s start off on a positive note by taking a […]

Crowdfunding Part 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Emma Zwirko

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June 20, 2014

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Crowdfunding may be a great idea to gain support and funding for your project, however, creating a respected and successful crowdfunding project isn’t an easy task. As discussed in crowdfunding: part one, many hours of work go into not only planning out every piece of your crowdfunding page but also keeping up with marketing it as much as possible. Throughout the seemingly simple process of crowdfunding, there are some underlying struggles and controversies. Before launching your own project, it’s important to be aware of some of the caveats and stories of crowdfunding campaigns gone awry. The Good In a perfect situation, […]

Open-source Announcements Keep Coming In

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Marie Dodson

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June 19, 2014

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Technology companies are embracing open source as a commercial advantage, as demonstrated by 2 of the announcements made at Gigaom Structure in San Francisco. Back in January 2013, Rackspace announced its decision to design and build its own servers. And following in the steps Facebook and Google, Rackspace made plans to do so using the Open Compute project format. Today, Rackspace announced its new OnMetal servers, which will be soon be available in the Rackspace Northern Virginia region. The new single-tentant servers are geared towards addressing the noisy neighbor problem that occurs in multitenant servers, according to Jonathan Vanian. Multitenant servers […]

DradCast Episode 049: Hookrs and Hookahs

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Marie Dodson

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Community

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June 19, 2014

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Shownotes Host David Henzel is from Wiesbaden, Germany. He is an entrepreneur, engineer, and marketing professional, and has launched several successful technology companies. His past ventures specialized in system and network management services and e-commerce. Upon moving to Los Angeles, David co-founded MaxCDN, a company focused on Content Delivery Networks. You can find David on Twitter @DavidHenzel, or on his website. Sippin’ On Brad – Captain Morgan Private Stock Dre – Tecate David – Coffee Pressing Topics VersionPress VersionPress has adopted the GPL Software License. The Community Summit The Community Summit is back at WordCamp San Francisco this year! PressNomics 3 PressNomics 3, the economics of […]

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