Microsoft Photosynth was released yesterday to the public, and the servers were quickly overloaded. This technology has some limitations out of the gate: all synths are public and only Windows. However, according to the blog and the Get Satisfaction page they realize those two major shortcomings and appearantly will get thos taken care of. In [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
How to make Twitter more business friendly
So I was reading Rachel Reuben’s guest post on .eduGuru (nice paper by the way, you should check it out) and the part about Twitter got me thinking about real world use for Twitter-like applications. Rachel’s paper gears toward the ‘Marketing and Communications’ side of the university, and it is hard to disagree with her [...]
UTHSC July 2008 Analytics
I thought I would start sharing some of the analytics we are gathering from the main page over at work.
These are for the month of July 2008.
Total visits: 267,285 visits (49,833 unique) - these numbers include on-campus
83% of visits are IE and of those 63% are v7 and 37% are v6 (update your machines people!!)
93% [...]
Office 2007 MIME types and Apache
It was recently brought to my attention that our web server was prompting users to download Office 2007 files as a zip file, but only in IE. (Clicking on the file in Firefox opened everything correctly, go figure.) At first I didn’t think it was the MIME types since things seemed to work in [...]