Monthly Archives: March 2009
AWS Configuration: AMI and Host Start Up
We have a custom AMI image we use for our servers based on the Ubuntu Server 8.04 image distributed by Alestic. We’ve added the packages needed for most of our servers, java, postfix, mysql, ruby, gems, apache, rails, and many … Continue reading
AWS Configuration: Admin Server
This is the second post in a series designed to describe our Amazon EC2 environment. Our environment uses a server, called the admin server, to provide NFS mounts. This server is a critical component in the architecture and does pose … Continue reading
AWS Configuration: Security Groups
This is the first post in a series designed to describe our Amazon EC2 environment. The first installment will cover our use of security groups. Security groups, or groups, are used to allow access to a server from a source. … Continue reading
How to Handle Negativity in Social Media
Quite often I am asked if a company should engage a person who is disparaging their brand or products. The answer is, “Absolutely, yes!” My response comes in two flavors: If someone wrote something that was not based on factual … Continue reading
4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business
I just read Gartner’s report on using micro-blogging (Twitter) in the enterprise and I can’t imagine the authors of the report have much experience with Twitter. The statement, “it is not imperative for every corporation to be actively participating at … Continue reading
Mashing Social Networks
I created the following diagram showing how my data flows from one social network to another. The gray lines show how the content from other networks is republished to Twitter via FriendFeed. This configuration also allows me to maintain my … Continue reading
Twitter as a Platform
I recently noticed a few companies using Twitter as a platform instead of a messaging system. For example, Alaska Airlines was experimenting with giving users the ability to get flight information when they tweeted their flight number. IM systems have … Continue reading
I’m on Friendfeed
Actually, I’ve been on for a while, but have not gotten around to using it. Feel free to subscribe: http://friendfeed.com/dshimy Thanks!
How to get Twitter followers fast
Once or twice a day I find a spammer that started to follow me. After a few hours Twitter finds them and their account is terminated. You can generally identify these users with a low number of updates, and a … Continue reading
Twitter Followers
I understand the twittequette where if you follow me, I’ll follow you. Is there any other requirement for following someone? Does everyone need to get something out of a follow relationship? I wonder what denversnowdude’s 839 followers are getting out … Continue reading
