knoxos

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   by knoxos 16y ago

   Depends on your use case. For desktop use, ubuntu is really good because of actual drivers. If you want to use a stable linux distribution on a server, i can also recommend CentOS (open source RedHat Clone) or ubuntu LTS versions (long term
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   I had good experience with twitter and facebook (if it is a B2C product) in the past. Press release is also important, but in the past most of related big internet sites ignored our press releases - I think you need to figure out who (respo
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   Joe, thank you for your offer - sounds very interesting. I'll drop you an email for further details.
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   Thank you for your nice offer! Will drop you an email.
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   I look at universities for design students (graduated). I had general good experiences with that way. Another possibility might be to look in eastern europe for offshore design agencies.
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   As mentioned already, one possibility is to take part in events... For me personal, I've been looking within my network and business contacts. Services as linkedin or xing are worth to look at.
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   If you're looking for a paid analytics service then Webtrends service might be a solution for you: http://www.webtrends.com/
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   I can recommend the open source pendant http://piwik.org/ . You can install and operate it on your own servers easily and all data is stored on your machines.
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   by knoxos 16y ago

   Agree to fgblanch. On the first view AWS services seem to be cheap. But be aware of additional costs, for traffic, requests (no, that is not in the traffic included, e.g. SOAP requests), IP addresses, persistent storage or snapshots for you
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    by knoxos 16y ago

    nice pointer - thanks! I wondered myself, why google is not more focusing on further crowdsourcing services - with google baraza they might place another successful service on the market...
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    by knoxos 16y ago

    I want to mention at this point http://www.opscode.com and http://eucalyptus.com/ > they are both successful with open source (of course they are not anymore early stage startups)
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    by knoxos 16y ago

    I'm using S3, EC2 for mostly all test-servers, and some EC2 instances also for production modus (resources were allocated when we need them). But as already mentioned, you have to be aware of the costs - so, I combine AWS with dedicated hos
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    by knoxos 16y ago

    From my point it depends mostly on your role and your responsibility. If you're responsible for the architecture, design and concept, and beside you also other resources in your company are available - you're right, that you won't spend the