HighEdWebTech

Amazon Officially Launches Content Delivery Network

Mike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:20:02 -0500

A few weeks ago, Amazon announced they would soon have a content delivery network that worked with S3 to deliver content, despite the fact that a ton of people were already using S3 for content delivery (including me). Today, they launched their CloudFront delivery network. It’s a full blown content delivery network that will serve [...]

RideBoard - making the world a little greener

Mike — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:30:26 -0500

A few years back, my team was approached by a group from our student government who had a problem. Before a renovation in our campus center, there was one of the classic staples of colleges back in the day - the ride board. If you had an extra seat or needed a ride somewhere, you [...]

Facebook on Campus: Applications, Tools & Tips for Your College Audio Conference

Mike — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:00:51 -0500

If you maybe haven’t yet jumped into the Facebook world, I’ll be giving an audio conference on November 18 that will hopefully show you the many opportunities that exist in Facebook for institutions to promote themselves. It’s called Facebook on Campus. Here are some details from Higher Ed Hero: University facebook pages provide many opportunities to expand [...]

International Workshop on Cloud Computing Call for Papers

Mike — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:30:16 -0500

Here’s an interesting conference if you’re up for a bit of travel… The International Workshop on Cloud Computing in conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid has opened its call for papers for its conference May 18-21, 2009 in Beijing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Novel [...]

I’m Shipping Up To Boston

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:57:04 -0500

While a fair number of higher ed web people are heading to Stamats today, I’m heading back to Boston for the 3rd and final session of the Educause and NERCOMP Workshop Series for IT Managers. The series has been really informative and I’ve applied quite a bit of what I’ve learned in my day-to-day work. Tomorrow’s [...]

Vimeo Plus

Mike — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:30:37 -0500

I’ve been a fan of Vimeo’s video hosting site for awhile now - and now they’ve gone and made it even better. They’ve (finally) introduced a pay service, called Vimeo Plus, that gives users additional bandwidth and features. Here’s a video that talks about the new features: Introducing Vimeo Plus! from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo. To recap, [...]

RightScale

Mike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 -0500

I’ve blogged in the past about RightScale when talking about managing your Amazon EC2 instances. They have a nice platform and developers can get a free account with limited services to get your feet wet in the service. I have such an account and have launched a few servers with it. I wasn’t setting my [...]

Wordpress 2.6.3 released

Mike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:44:34 -0500

Wordpress 2.6.3 is now available for download. If you use Wordpress as your blogging software or CMS, you should upgrade. Older versions of Wordpress are often the ones that are hacked, so you should always keep your software up to date. I’d recommend the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. I did the upgrade this morning [...]

New Stuff at EC2

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:25:45 -0500

Dear Amazon, If you need a higher ed evangelist, call me. I will take the job. Yours, Mike Amazon announced some new changes to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) product today. You can read more about there here but I wanted to highlight a few of the things I see as important. 1. EC2 is now out of beta. 2. There [...]

Getting out of your comfort zone

Mike — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:00:09 -0500

I’ve been trying to challenge myself lately to learn new things. It’s easy to get too comfortable and keep doing the same things, stuff like using the same font in a graphic, the same CSS on a site, recycling the same code because it’s easy. It’s hard to make something new or re-design something. It [...]