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Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?
Posted 14 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Metrics, Online Advertising, oview, Performance, Platform, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Widget

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven't bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn't surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. + Read more

SUN T2000/T5000 and Alfresco - not a good combination
Posted 01 Oct 2008 by Optaros Tags: Alfresco, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise solutions, Performance, Recommendations

A recent analysis reports that several Alfresco installations have had performance issues using SUN T2000 infrastructure environment. The conclusion and recommendation of this analysis is to use UltraSPARC Vx, Intel or AMD processors infrastructure instead. T2000 and T5000 are from the same family. The T2000 has been designed for being highly performant in the treatment of parallel tasks but its processor (UltraSPARC T1) is very slow, especially for treating sequential tasks. + Read more

Selective Cache Invalidation
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by Bobby BeckmannTags: Architecture, Performance

A common issue in a high traffic dynamic site is keeping the content fresh, but still utilizing a content cache to serve pages up quickly. When you're able to keep close track of which pages serve up a specific chunk of data, it's pretty easy to just invalidate those pages, but when you have a site where small chunks of data may be impacting several pages, you need a way to group related objects together in a "cache class". This decouples the cache keys from the actual object that is changing and allows you to easily manage how your content is invalidated. + Read more