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Business, Web 14 Feb 2011
Facebook

Update to Facebook's new Business Pages

Since Facebook introduced their new Facebook profile page layout a few months ago (to the upset outcry of many), it has been just a matter of when they were going to update the pages as well. Since a few days ago, Page administrators have been able to preview their Facebook pages with the new design (which will be applied automatically in early March).

I typically go ahead and update when Facebook lets me because I know that I eventually will be updated anyway. I see no point in trying to put that day off as far as I can but instead go and try to make the most of the update. This was also the case with the new profiles.

Pages Are Social

The new pages do offer new features which are very lucrative in terms of communicating. First of all you can now browse Facebook as your page. This means that a page will act pretty much like a profile, everywhere else on Facebook which it previously couldn’t. With this you can leave a comment or like something as your page instead of as your personal profile.

Interacting as your page not only gives you the added advantage of better branding, but it is now easier to separate your page with your personal profile, should you want to. For many of my friends, this will be very helpful and should end the complaints about the new personal profiles being less business friendly since they now do not need to be.

As an additional feature, your fans will be able to see the connection between “You and *Page Name*”: How many friends you have in common, Pages you both like, etc. I think this could be a good addition to help build pages into an even better place to interact with fans/customers/potential customers.

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Business 07 Feb 2011

Infinity

Following the Mozy price increase last week, I began thinking about one of the areas that I have always tried to tell people researching web hosting providers about. It’s the same “issue” that we are always faced with. Nothing is ever unlimited.

Mozy have realized that it is an unviable business solution to offer unlimited amount of storage for as little as $4.95 a month. To that I would really like to say, well done. Finally it is proven that this actually is not viable to do. We are probably going to see more companies following the same path relatively shortly.

They also put it very well, why they are unable to keep up an unlimited plan. As they say, it is a minority of their users who “destroy” for the rest by using up a lot of space and transferring a lot of space. I would like to spin it around saying that these people do not “destroy” for the rest because a) the rest have no need for the “unlimited” and b) they are just using what they signed up for. Unlimited storage and transfer.

It’s the same deal in the hosting industry though I hope will take a beating some day too. Nothing is unlimited, there are just other limits being imposed to make sure you can never reach unlimited, if someone by all means should be going for it anyway.

Image by sachyn from sxc.hu.

Technology 01 Feb 2011

MozyFor the past two years I have been using Mozy online backup and have been recommending it to both friends and family as a way that has been working great to keep a backup of your files online and offsite. Let me be clear from the start that I am still perfectly satisfied with the service that Mozy provides me. There is however one important change to Mozy that makes me say goodbye to their service.

As of recently, they have changed their pricing. I found out about this today through a tweet but have no real grasp of when this change actually happened. Being a customer, I would have thought that I would be one of the first to be informed of this new change (I did check my spam folder too), especially as I have a renewal coming up in just a couple of weeks.

Logging in now to my Mozy account it tells me the following:

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Design 29 Jan 2011

Energy Core Spectrum Wallpaper

I’ve been playing around a lot lately with wallpaper effects and especially color spectrum effects, mainly because I think the color spectrum is very pleasing to the eye and makes for some very cool effects. I am also very fascinated by the patterns and effects that you get by experimenting in real-life with a spectrum. Plus, these effects make for very good Photoshop tutorials.

The wallpaper above is available for free download (just click on it to get the full resolution). If you would rather take a stab at doing it yourself, I’ll have a video tutorial online over at Bernskiold Learning on Monday to show you just how to pull it off!

Web 26 Jan 2011

TwitterI wrote a couple of entries ago about starting to use Bit.ly Pro for custom URL shortening for Bernskiold Media (bmedia.co). Starting the the good things first, it has been nothing short of an excellent experience with Bit.ly Pro and it is cool to use your own shortener. The only gripe I have with it is that it is just an alias and not a pure custom shortener. This means that you cannot reuse hashes that has been used with the regular bit.ly. What a shame!

Anyhow, the single biggest dislike that I have is not with Bit.ly Pro itself but with my Twitter application of choice: Twitter for Mac. A few weeks ago, Tweetie for Mac was updated and released as Twitter for Mac (following being bought by Twitter). The update is 99% positive for me, except that the app now automatically shortens links.

For most users, this is a behavior that might be positive, but it gets ridiculous when it starts shortening my already shortened links. It’s not just my custom ones either, but every short link is replaced by their own t.co shortener.

The solution is simple of course. Post links from the web interface or just switch application. The latter is something that I don’t want to do because, as I said, I like 99% of Twitter for Mac. Using the web interface is just a pain with multiple accounts because, hey! That’s part of what I use the app for in the first place.

End of rant.