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Keeping your Netflix running: Boundary is doing clever things in the cloud

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by on July 2, 2014 at 11:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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There’s an element of fear that organizations have to overcome when moving their Web services off-premise and into the public cloud, especially for companies like Netflix that handle such a large chunk of the world’s traffic. After all, switching to a third-party infrastructure means relinquishing full control over your stack. To counter the fog of war that the cloud brings, a growing number of companies have turned to Boundary for insight into their network performance. Boundary makes one of the only real-time virtual monitoring tools that re-introduces deep visibility to off-site cloud operations like AWS. Back in May, Boundary announced a…

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You can now use Sculpteo for 3D printing straight from Photoshop

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by on July 2, 2014 at 11:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Adobe Photoshop CC now supports Sculpteo, a cloud-based 3D print service that lets you upload designs for creating 3D objects. Users can now access Sculpteo printer profiles to use within Photoshop. The app supports the full range of materials available on Sculpteo, such as ceramics, metals and more. Sculpteo support comes in conjunction with Adobe’s recent 3D initiative for Photoshop CC, which expands the ability of Creative Cloud subscribers to build, refine, preview and print 3D designs. 3D interface in Photoshop CC In addition, Photoshop can now estimate the price of a design based on materials available via Sculpteo, without users having to leave the program. Photoshop’s automated mesh repair…

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4 pieces of advice about accepting advice

Jul02
by on July 2, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Kevin George is the co-founder of HireCanvas. This post is part of the Lessons Learned series featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and the lessons learned along the way. As a Summer Launchpad participant and co-founder of HireCanvas, I, along with my co-founder and peers in the Summer Launchpad, spend a lot of my day seeking advice. But talking with advisors, mentors, coaches, peers, family, etc., is about a lot more than just listening; it’s about accepting what was said. Scott Holand and I set out on our journey to improve campus recruiting for universities, corporate recruiters and students in the fall…

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Yahoo putting People Search, Yahoo Voices, Xobni and other products out to pasture to further its focus

Jul02
by on July 2, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, yahoo

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It’s summer time in Silicon Valley. Time to throw out all the stuff no one uses anymore. That’s what Yahoo is doing. Today the company announced it was shutting down some less-used services. In a Tumblr post, SVP of the Cloud Platform Group, Jay Rossiter announced the company’s progress on focusing on its core mission: “making the world’s daily habits more inspiring and entertaining.” Part of that mission involves sunsetting products to focus on its core. Here’s what’s on Yahoo’s chopping block today: People Search: As a user, you want one place to find everything you need. You can use Yahoo Search…

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Google’s first 100 Ara beta testers will get the phone for free

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by on July 2, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Project Ara might not be ready for actual use, but that hasn’t stopped Google from announcing the first 100 beta testers of the device. The kicker, they’re getting the modular phone for free. On its dscout site, Google says that over 90,000 people signed up to be “scouts.” Of those, the company selected the top 100 most active scouts to receive the phone. A statement in the announcement says that “over the next 8 months, Google will continue to refine the Ara prototype.” That puts the release of the device sometime in March 2015. Not surprising considering that the ATAP…

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