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February, 2008 Archive

Snipplr’s Popularity Continues to Grow With Over 7,000 Registered Users

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the website. 4,559 users have registered within the last year. Those users have also contributed over 4,000 code snippets.
Snipplr is a Web application that makes it [...]

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How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville
Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup [...]

Posted in Amazon, Content Management Systems (CMS), Firefox, How To, Open Source | 2 Comments »

Hammock T-shirt+Photo=Laptop Equals Very Cool

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Nashville’s Hammock Publishing has a 16-year-old annual tradition: giving T-shirts to the people they work with throughout the year. This year they added a new twist to that tradition: T-shirt+Photo=Laptop.
If you received a T-shirt, Hammock asked you to add a photo to a world map on their website. For every five photos added to the [...]

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Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs [...]

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Lights Out for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Outage Shutters Twitter and Thousands of Other Websites

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Update 1: It’s being reported that all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down.
Update 2: AWS appears to be back online as of 9:00AM CST. The outage lasted about 1-2 hours this morning.
Friday morning (February 15, 2008) Amazon Web Services experienced a system-wide outage of their Simple Storage Service (S3). This outage has affected thousands [...]

Posted in Amazon, Tech Industry | 12 Comments »

Sitening Launches Raven SEO Tools and Companion Firefox Toolbar

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

After several months of testing and tweaking, we’re excited to announce the release of Raven — The Essential Toolset for Search Engine Optimization.
The success of Sitening’s free SEO Tools prompted the creation of Raven. We literally had thousands of registered users requesting more advanced tools and features, and the most glaring problem with our original [...]

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TechCrunch Releases New Version of CrunchBase

Monday, February 11th, 2008

If there’s anything important or interesting going on in technology, then you’ll probably find it on TechCrunch. TechCrunch has become the source for technology industry news and they spend much of their time obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. They’ve actually taken that one step further with the (re)introduction of CrunchBase. [...]

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Sitening Hosts Students for Junior Achievement’s Job Shadow Day

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Sitening is pleased to host four students from the John Early Middle School for Junior Achievement’s Job Shadow Day. Students will have an opportunity to meet with Sitening’s design, development, search engine optimization, and management teams.
Students will spend time interviewing Sitening’s staff and learning about the work-readiness skills required. Sitening will end the job shadow [...]

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MyBlogLog WordPress Plugin

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Skip all the talk and get the plugin!
Here at Sitening, we have had the privilege of being granted access to the new MyBlogLog API while in its beta stage. As a developer primarily working with PHP, I first created a PHP wrapper class to implement all of the API calls. This made it a [...]

Posted in Content Management Systems (CMS), Programming | 10 Comments »

February is “International Tumblr Month”

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Tumblr is a fun new site for posting little tidbits of information, including text, photos, audio, video, quotes and chat transcripts. It’s designed as a low overhead blog, similar to Twitter in a lot of respects, but its multimedia support and richer feature set make it far more useful. The subdomains they assign [...]

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