You may have noticed that FrankenFeed rarely works. For quite some time it worked fine. We had over 40,000 users merging more than 600,000 RSS feeds. Then someone built a bot to attack the system. Suddenly we were merging several million feeds bogging down the system. We would shut him down and then he would pop back up again from a new IP address. Finally, we stopped trying to stop him, but let the system bog down to a crawl (basically not working). We figured that eventually he would go away when whatever he was trying to do (Google SEO we think) stopped working. He didn’t go away.
Rodrigo began work on a new version that would prevent various types of abuse that we had seen in the first several months of use. He completed his work this summer, but we never got around to bug testing it. Today one of our clients needed the public version functioning for a project and we made the decision to launch the new version (in true alpha) immediately. You will need to recreate your feeds (sorry about that ~ but surely you were not actually using the system since it didn’t work constantly).
We will report here on the blog regularly on the new system and let you know what we are working on. In the meantime, enjoy FrankenFeed 2.0.
Posted by admin | November 30, 2006 - 4:34pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: biggu, biginjapan, frankenfeed, Social Media
We moved the Big in Japan servers to our new data center and during the move PodServe was taken offline. For some reason we failed to get it back online until this afternoon. Sorry for the outage! We hope that our new facilities improved infrastructure will make up for the service interruption.
Posted by admin | November 27, 2006 - 5:22pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: podserve, Social Media
If you were heir to the throne of England and you were bitten by the “blogging bug” this is what your blog might look like: The Prince of Wales.
Prince Charles thinks his site is a blog, and perhaps if you were a prince your blog might look a lot like his. Seems more like a website to me, but alas I am not a prince… [via]
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Posted by amuse | November 25, 2006 - 12:37pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: blog, princecharles, Social Media
Charlie O’Donnell pointed out that Sony had YouTube remove all Casino Royale trailers from their site. I am with Charlie on this one when he says “huh?”
Okay, give YouTube a call if someone posts the actual movie to YouTube, but if someone posts the marketing trailer I would be excited. Right? Is there something I don’t understand? I am sure some lawyer will be able to explain how they “had to” remove it, but I am sure I could figure out how to allow the trailers to remain.
Charlie sums up his feelings better than I can:
If you’re in charge of movie trailers, no matter how big or small your movie is, and you don’t have them uploaded to YouTube, you’re an idiot. That’s it. You’re just an idiot.
YouTube can be a great marketing tool for your business (see uShip video from earlier today) or your television show. Take time to consider how best to incorporate it into your overall social media strategy ~ don’t turn this one over to the legal department, send it over to the marketing department instead.
Posted by admin | November 22, 2006 - 9:02pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: charlieodonnell, jamesbond, Social Media, sony, youtube
Certainly click-to-call has limitations and risks for abuse, but implemented correctly it can offer clear advantaged for certain web service providers. Contrary to some reports, Google’s click-to-call was not pulled (it is still functioning).
Integrated into web based services such as Salesforce.com, Mailroom (woot!), Basecamp ~ our Podcall functionality can offer unique social interactions and services previously difficult to implement and afford.
Yesterday I had an interesting call from a prospective Podcall customer and a feature we had previously not announced came up. While we provide the phone system, network interconnection and API hooks we don’t necessarily have to provide the minutes. If you want to negotiate your own wholesale minute rate we can simply connect to your provider and let you pay them directly. No need for us to markup the dial-tone costs. (our pricing for North America is currently around 2.5 cents per minute)
Posted by admin | November 22, 2006 - 3:47pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: api, basecamp, biggu, biginjapan, mailroom, podcall, salesforce.com, Social Media
You may have noticed that FrankenFeed rarely works. For quite some time it worked fine. We had over 40,000 users merging more than 600,000 RSS feeds. Then someone built a bot to attack the system. Suddenly we were merging several million feeds bogging down the system. We would shut him down and then he would pop back up again from a new IP address. Finally, we stopped trying to stop him, but let the system bog down to a crawl (basically not working). We figured that eventually he would go away when whatever he was trying to do (Google SEO we think) stopped working. He didn’t go away.
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