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AWS Outage Cheat Sheet

<div id="LC3" Amazon Status Translation Sheet</div <div id="LC4" ===============================</div <div id="LC5" </div <div id="LC6" Single Availability Zone : All Zones in a region</div <div id="LC7" Degraded Performance : Total service disruption</div <div id="LC8" Elevated Error Rates : No one can connect</div <div id="LC9" </div <div id="LC10" Green Tick : Up</div <div id="LC11" Green Tick with (i) : Total Service Outage</div <div id="LC12" Yellow Notice Symbol : Total Service Outage</div <div id="LC13" Red Tick : The guy who selects this for reporting statuses of any kind will get fired.</div <div id="LC14" </div <div

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Mitt Romney Style (Gangnam Style Parody)

Gangnam Style is such an unexplainable phenomenon, but I can't seem to get tired of finding new parodies. This one on Mitt Romney Style is just too funny. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yTCRwi71 ns?rel=0" fram

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So much to share, so little time

So I've been working on experience innovation, emerging technologies, R&amp;D, and a bunch of amazing fortune 500 clients. Among the new things I will start sharing tons of new Amazon hosting tips and tricks, performance

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Leaked iPhone 5 Video

No matter how much you try to deny it, Apple knows that 86.3% of what you do on your iPhone involves snapping food photos, filtering food photos and sharing food photos. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uIRBxRls

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Global Brands vs Global Celebrities: Who's the Smarter Marketer?

SapientNitro's 2012 Cannes Lions presentation on Global Brands vs Global Celebrities, by my good friend Freddie Laker, who moderated a debate beween Daz McColl and Omar Epps. <iframe style="border: 1px solid CCC; border width: 1px 1px 0; margin bottom: 5px;" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed code/13731710?rel=0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="597" height="486" </iframe <div style="margin bottom: 5px;" Global Brands vs Global Celebs: Who's the Smarter Marketer? from Freddie Laker </div <div style="margin bottom: 5px;"

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Viral Video Friday: Gymkhana Five - San Francisco

DC Shoes' Ken Block Gymkhana series has been amazingly successful. With Gymkhana Three stacking 45M views, Gymkhana Two has 35M, Gymkhana Four 19M, One 12M, and now Gymkhana Five, released only days ago already has 13M views. This one was filmed in San Francisco an has some amazing shots! Great job by Ken Block and DC Shoes to bring this to life.

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WordPress Hacked: Spam BackLinks

As you may recall, I switched my WordPress theme two months ago, and installed a new theme called PixelPower. If you read my previous post, I had disabled W3 Total Cache Minify and replaced with Better WordPress Minify.

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iPhone infographic: The iPhone turns 5

iPhone infographic: The iPhone turns 5

Brilliant iPhone Infographic showing the history of the iPhone since it was released 5 years ago. Early adopters ogled its touchscreen interface and poked at little icons. Today, the smartphone and touchscreen concept is totally mainstream thanks in large part to the iPhone’s overwhelming success and iconic design. Arguably, the iPhone was the beginning of the mobile revolution. The device revolutionized Apple itself. iPhone sales were a tiny slice of Apple pie in 2007\. In 2012, it accounts for 58% of the company’s revenue (which, overall, has skyrocketed, thanks to a culture of iTunes and apps propagated by the iPhone) check out Apple by the Numbers. Sales of the iPhone (and its related services and accessories) even trump the revenue of entire companies like Microsoft and Disney. It’s no wonder that Apple is consistently a front runner for the most valuable company in the world by market cap.

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