5. Snapchat
• Photo & video messaging app
• Founded 2011 by 3 Stanford students
• Most popular social app among millennials
• 100 million active users / day
• 8,796 photos shared / second
• 7 billion video views / day
• Valuation $10 - $20 billion
11. Cloud Computing
• On demand access to computing resources
• Networks, servers, storage, etc...
• Provisioned and released rapidly (Elasticity)
• No upfront investment
• Anything as a Service
• Pay per use (Utility Billing)
12. Where the Cloud Lives
Source: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/
18. Thank You
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Any Questions?
Hinweis der Redaktion
Startup, product/service launch, migration
content = video, text, images, etc…
promote a blog, product, a service, a brand
traffic, conversions, etc...
Social media is a key ingredient of our everyday life from Facebook and Twitter to Groupon, Living Social, blogging, and more.
This infographic examines the social media effect and flows through some common social media paths. - See more at: http://visual.ly/social-media-effect#sthash.HnLOE21l.dpuf
Two decades ago an essay by Bill Gates in 1996 “Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting.”
http://www.craigbailey.net/content-is-king-by-bill-gates/
Users know good content when they see it and will likely want to direct other users to it. This could be through blog posts, social media services, email, forums, or other means.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.co.uk/en/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
If Content is King then Context is Queen
They say seeing is believing, this is a small proof of concept for me
Organic or word-of-mouth buzz is what helps build your site
145 visits 30th Nov
400 visits 28th Dec
600 visits 18th Jan - Is my blog coping? do I need to move it to the cloud?
On average used to get about 10 users per day!
Takeaways:
Content is well and truly king
Timing matters
Title matters
Simplified content appeal to a wider audience
The power of social & the social effect is real, although on a smaller scale
Do I need to scale up? may be move to the cloud?
Datacentres, piggyback, if Google goes down, must be really big
Cloud Service Models, PaaS is what Snapchat & Khan Academy use.
Google AppEngine, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku
Provider sends in minions to scale up the service
Complains about vendor lock-in. Managed VM solves the problem