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Marketing Can No Longer Rely on the Funnel

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

One of the central concepts of marketing and sales is the funnel through which companies are supposed to systematically move prospects from awareness through consideration to purchase. But consumers are now more informed, connected, and empowered than ever. Does the funnel still work in a digital, social, mobile age? We asked some of the leading marketers in the world – from companies like Google, Intuit, Sephora, SAP, Twitter, and Visa – to assess the relevance of the marketing funnel. What we found says as much about the future of business as it does about the future of marketing. According to these marketers, the primary problem with the funnel is that the buying process is no longer linear. Prospects don’t just enter at the top of …

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Marketing Can No Longer Rely on the Funnel

Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 8:56AM

Our last article on Disqus: How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second And Less Than .2 Seconds Latency, was a little out of date, but the folks at Disqus have been busy implementing, not talking, so we don’t know a lot about what they are doing now, but we do have a short update in C1MM and NGINX by John Watson and an article Trying out this Go thing. So Disqus has grown a bit: 1.3 billion unique visitors 10 billion page views 500 million users engaged in discussions 3 million communities 25 million comments They are still all about realtime, but Go replaced Python in their Realtime system: Original Realtime backend was written in a pretty lightweight Python + gevent. The realtime service is a …

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Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python

Hyper-V Replica to the Rescue!

May 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Power outages are not infrequent where I live (something I find quite confounding – to be honest) and earlier this week we had an extended power outage and my Hyper-V servers were powered off uncleanly. When the power returned I had to sit down and make sure that everything came back correctly. At first glance, everything looked good. My Hyper-V servers powered up happily and started up all the virtual machines. Hyper-V Replica reported that it was in a critical state, but it automatically scheduled resynchronization for all of my virtual machines. But as I was going through the virtual machines, I found a problem. Something had gone wrong with my firewall. I could not figure out what exactly was wrong …

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Hyper-V Replica to the Rescue!

Yamicsoft Windows 8 Manager 2.0.7 Portable

May 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Yamicsoft Windows 8 Manager 2.0.7 Portable | 9.0 MB Windows 8 Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, repair and clean up Windows 8. It will increase your system speed, eliminate system fault, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations. Windows 8 Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, repair and clean up Windows 8. It will increase your system speed, eliminate system fault, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations.Features and Benefits of Windows 8 ManagerInformation: Get detailed system and all hardware information on your system; help you find out the installation key of Windows, Office products; show all detailed information of running processes and threads on your machine; Windows 8 Manager offers 1-clicking Cleaner cleans your system automatically; Repair Center helps you to…

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Yamicsoft Windows 8 Manager 2.0.7 Portable