Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery Network. Do you remember, years ago, when hosting was expensive, domain names were the province of the rich, and you hosted your web pages on Geocities? It seems odd to me now that there was a time when each and every geek didn’t have his own top-level domain and super hosting setup. But as the parts became more and more affordable a man could become an outcast if he didn’t have his own slightly surreal-sounding TLD.
And so it will be in the future when people realise with surprise there was a time before affordable content delivery networks. A content delivery network, or CDN, is a system of servers spread around the world, serving files from the nearest physical location. There’s a service out there ready for you to use as your very own CDN.
In this article you’ll find out how to set up a CDN on Google App Engine. Creating your first Google App Engine project Before we do anything else, you’ll need to download the Google App Engine software development kit (SDK). Done that? Testing your project. Getting Started. Social media has many stands – Here are the 5 main trends in 2011. I was asked yesterday to give a training day to college lecturers and it was all fairly run of the mill stuff like showing them advanced features on Facebook and Youtube and some of the upcoming trends. These were lecturers from the hospitality industry who wanted to empower their students with social media knowledge to send them out in to the big bad commercial world with.
Towards the end one person asked me a simple enough question that caught me off guard "If you only had one hour to teach students about social media what 5 things would you tell about? " Put on the spot I didn't really have the concise answer that I wanted to give but it was a good enough question that I thought it well worth turning in to blog post. I write about trends and new services every single day here but looking at the industry from a higher level here are the 5 most important things happening in social media at the moment… Everything Shifting Towards Local Mobile At The Heart Of Everything. FBML Tutorial Videos. We have been asked lots of questions about FBML and developing custom tabs for Facebook Pages. Often they are the same basic questions and we are happy to answer them…But sometimes telling you how to do things is not nearly as effective as showing you!
PLEASE NOTE: Having answered the same questions about embedding YouTube videos and Flash in Static FBML custom tabs and using FBML many many times, I’m closing comments on this article and have posted a comprehensive Static FBML Troubleshooting Guide which addresses all the issues that cause users problems when implementing FBML on their custom tabs. Please refer to this article for help, as I’ve closed comments on this post. The troubleshooting article, combined with this tutorial and the many user comments, should address your issues and get you sorted out. Cheers! Here are some videos that show you set-by-step instructions for optimizing your Facebook page and custom FBML tabs with video, music, photos and more: How to embed MP3s in FBML. Samples & How-Tos. Schmittify. The 100 social media blog posts from 2011 you need to bookmark.
I bookmark a huge amount of content and rather than keeping it all for myself I thought I would split down some of the best stuff in to 10 categories relating to social media and share the best 100 posts in 2011 so far. You are never going to be able to get through all of these in one go but they do all come from the best people in the business and there is a great mixture of inspiration, practical tips and ways of generally expanding your knowledge of social media. There is something to suit everybody here from twitter and Facebook to how to improve your own blog and also larger resources that you can digest in greater detail. Here is your full list of social media blog posts from early 2011... Blogging The Simple 5-Step Formula for Effective Online Content Growing a blog to 10,000 subscribers in one year ; The stats Build Your Community Before You Need Them 5 Steps to Captivating Readers with Your Secret Message It Takes A Village To Grow A Blog .. 17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog.