If you already know why you would want to use Amazon Cloudfront and S3 to deliver your video in your Joomla site, you can skip right down to the tutorial.
Streaming versus Downloading
What happens when you offer a video file for download on your web server? The web server pushes the file to the users browser as fast as it can. When enough data has been downloaded, the player that is inside the users browser will start playing the file. You cannot fast forward to the end of the file, because the download starts at the beginning. Especially when you have a large file, it can take quite some time before the user can view your video. Not good.
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According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy. Yet a recent survey by 123people in the Netherlands (Article in Dutch) shows that almost 90 percent people online ‘worry’ about their privacy. This majority said ‘yes’ to the question whether they think it is highly probable that their personal information, reputation or privacy is in danger on the internet. According to them, One out of ten people has lost their job or was rejected for a job on the basis of information found on their profiles. In Spain this number would even be 1 in 5.
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This -apparently not entirely fictitious- fear does not translate into much action. Maybe the advantages outweigh the perceived dangers. While two thirds of the respondents chooses to mark their profile as private on social networks and tools like Facebook and Twitter when given, almost 30% of these same respondents does not want to lock these profiles off from the outside world or search engines. It’s a classic: We want to be free, but we don’t want to run the risks that inherently come with that freedom.
How to insert Google Adsense into a Joomla/K2 article with JCE Editor
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Stop Pulling Your Hair Out
This one has bugged me for a while. I could not find a way to insert the Javascript that holds Google adsense ads into joomla articles or K2 items. Because each time that I would save the article, the editor would strip out the javascript for security reasons. And so you would then loose your ad, or any other custom javascript.
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What are Web Standards? – And Why You Should Care
Web Standards are the best practices that you can use for your web site to ensure that you web site is the most efficient it can be, and serves the needs of your users best.
When the World Wide Web was created in 1994 by a guy called Sir Tim Berners Lee, people quickly realized that they needed common publishing standards to ensure that they could read each others documents. And they needed to ensure furthermore that everyone got equal access to the content that was then being created on the web.
Solving the paradox of gadget-lust versus sustainability
(And why we don’t need an ‘Economy of Less’ to do it)
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Let me start out with an example. Some time ago the iPhone 3GS was introduced. Now if you, like me, already owned a regular iPhone 3G, you, like me, felt a little sorry for yourself. Suddenly your brand new shiny state of the art GSM, had turned into an ‘old model’. And it’s always like this when we are really happy with something. Eventually a new version gets introduced that outdates the previous one. From being an early adopter and feeling like one is on top of the game, one goes to feeling tired, old, rusty and inadequate.
The whole experience made me wonder why Apple did not make the iPhone 3GS in a way that I could just send in my older 3G and have them replace the old parts with the ones that make the 3GS so much faster. After all, the phones LOOK the same, the housing is as far as I can see the same. And isn’t it common knowledge that chipmakers are able to make faster and faster products that fit into smaller and smaller spaces? Now bear with me here: I am not saying that Apple could have made the iPhone 3G upgradable to the 3GS. Maybe it was just technically impossible. But the issue I want to raise is why nobody is even asking this question. We accept as normal that a company like Apple just cranks out millions of products that will leave its user feel like he is outdated just one or two years later, making these products end up on the recycling belt just so much sooner. I am talking about everyone, consumers and producers, who need to get it into their head that it’s a bad idea to innovate just to be able to sell more products. And that it is a good idea to make sustainable products in view of an economy made to last for future generations. Not one in which gadget lust runs rampant, but one in which products are innovated to use very little energy and last for a very long time.
Ten Steps To Making Your Website More Findable
On Site SEO - What you can do Right Now to your own site to make it more findable
- 1. Add your site to GoogleAnalytics to track its performance.
- 2. Add proper
<title>tags to the pages of your site (this is the title that will show up in the browser bar). Add tags in a short descriptive fashion. (Never more than 12 words.) - 3. Add Meta Descriptions to the site. Like so:
<META “description” content= “Everything you always wanted to know aboutMake a unique Meta Description for EACH page. This should be a between 100 - 160 characters (a space is also a character.)
findability, but were afraid to ask”>
