In less than 24 hrs Google's Story of Send video reaches 149,713 views

Yesterday I posted on Google's Story of Send post.  And, my specific metric to see how well the video did was that when I looked at the video it had 301 views.  Well less than 24hrs later the views have hit 149,713.

A Google Search for "the story of send" has 2,810,000 results

With my post at least for now in position #9

Part of the high video traffic was the media picking up on the release.

The Google Data Center team has got to be ecstatic with the coverage.  For those who think blogs are dead and Twitter is the answer.  Try to tell this story in 140 characters.  Now you may get more Twitter Traffic if you are Ashton Kutcher, but is the media going to cover your story.

Four reasons why a speaker is presenting at a conference

Now the following may sound obvious, but I don't think people lay this out as simply.  Why is this speaker presenting at this conference?

#1 The person is selling you their company, product, or service.

#2 The person is looking for a new job and getting their name out there and what they do gets them known in the industry.

#3 The person is passionate about the topic and wants to tell the world.

#4 The person has done a great job and as part of the reward gets to speak on the achievements made.

In general as most industry conferences, I would say 80% of the talks out there are category #1.  That leaves 20% for #2, 3, 4.  And out of the 20% maybe 25% are good talks.  So there are 5% of the talks worth seeing.  Huh, maybe that's why I get so bored attending most conferences, and spend most of my time in the hallways networking.

Google's Green Email Story: The Story of Send

Google has just released its environmentally sensitive post on the story of gmail.

Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send

5/15/12 | 8:08:00 AM

Labels: Energy + Environment

(cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

If you’re anything like me, you send and receive a lot of emails every day. But have you ever wondered where your message goes after you hit “send?” How does an email travel from your computer to your friend’s smartphone across the country or around the world?

We’re answering those questions with Story of Send, a new site that gives you a behind-the-scenes look into how all that virtual information makes its journey through the real world—from your Internet service provider to our data centers and beyond. Along the way, you’ll discover everything from where we filter for spam and scan for viruses to how we’re minimizing our impact on the environment through energy efficiency and renewable power.

A video is here.

With the home page for the story here http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend/desktop/.  One of the things I am curious is how viral this video will be.  It currently has 301 views.

Here are some of the environmental messages in the story.

Here are some pictures of the green servers.

Downtime Data Center Social for planned maintenance, connecting the Thought Leaders

I like working in the Data Center Industry because of the people.  Throughout my career I have worked in specialized knowledge areas like packaging engineering & logistics, OEM product development, fonts, publishing and many others.  

Apple and Microsoft unified efforts to fight Adobe with TrueType in a font wars.  Which then led to the font groups in Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe fighting a war, but the industry was suffering.  Font wars are stupid as the end user simply wants something to work. So I spent time ending the font wars between Microsoft and Adobe creating OpenType.

Thank god I left fonts behind me in 1994 and have moved on to a bunch of other technologies.  But, it does remind that wars are many times destructive to both sides and users can be the casualties of the battles.

Luckily in the data center world companies are not fighting a war of their standards like TrueType vs. Type 1.  Well maybe the vendors are fighting battles, but the data center industry is no longer dominated by the vendors.  It is dominated by the companies who are designing, building, and running the biggest data center capacities around the world.  People who want to do the right thing and get the industry being more efficient, greener in its use of resources and energy.

One year ago we had the idea for a data center social and Mike Manos said Dave take a picture when else are you going to get this group of people together.  I didn't take a picture then.  Last night we got an even better group of people together.  Double the crowd.  And, I did take a picture.

Of the venue without the people. :-)

With some of the top data center thought leaders connecting on a regular basis it is much easier for the industry to work together.  And not be at war.

The Downtime Data Center Social is in its second year, and a third one is going to be easy to do. Last night we discussed a Fall event possibly in the Pacific Northwest.  In the fall of 2011 a group of us went to NYC financials, and these companies are asking when we'll get together again.  We'll see if the Fall 2012 social works.  At a minimum we'll have a spring 2013 Downtime Data Social.

AOL's Uptime Symposium presentation without Mike Manos

Mike Manos posts on his AOL team attending Uptime.

Uptime, Cowgirls, and Success in California

May 14, 2012 by mmanos

This week my teams have descended upon the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara.  The moment is extremely bittersweet for me as this is the first Symposium in quite sometime I have been unable to attend.  With my responsibilities expanding at AOL beginning this week there was simply too much going on for me to make the trip out.  It’s a down right shame too.  Why?

My first Uptime Symposium I got to tag along with Mike and learned the ropes.  This was back when Uptime was in Orlando, and there were definitely some memories that we all laugh about as the night went late into karaoke.

Mike is bringing key members of his AOL team to Uptime and reaches out to get to know his staff.

If you happen to be attending Symposium this year feel free to stop by and say hello to these amazing individuals.   I am incredibly proud of the work that they have driven within the company.

As many of my loyal readers have pointed out my controversial post on why I am not attending Uptime Symposium stirred things up  a bit.  Now, you could say look at the AOL people I miss meeting with learning the work they have done.  The easiest way to address this is to reach out to Mike and meet all of his team at a pub.  I'll see what kind of post comes out from drinking a few beers vs. sitting in a presentation. :-)