In recent years, URL shortening and URL redirection services have started popping up everywhere like mushrooms after the rain. Their main purpose is to shorten the typically long web addresses to make sharing by email or Twitter easier. Considering the URLs generated by sites like Google Maps can often be over 200 characters in length, [...]
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Lately, I’ve been meeting tons of great owners of small businesses with fantastic ideas, boundless enthusiasm and passion for their work. What struck me...
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Last night, I gave a talk at Cambridge Mobile Apps Group (yeah, it’s a mouthful, I know!) about marketing your own app with no budget. When I arrived at...
Amazon EC2 4-day downtime debacle: Keeping your users in the dark is naughty
A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the...