Category Archives: work

Video SEO Sitemap Standards and Documentation get a Refresh from Google and Partners

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me more excited than video SEO! (Well, at least it’s a close second after racing cars, driving taxis, and public transportation, but none of those pay the bills at the moment.) By the … Continue reading →

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10 Tips for Building Effective Play Pages (aka Video Landing Pages) for Video SEO Optimization

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

If you are building a website with a large amount of video content (what I call a “video website” or “video site”), a core component is to create unique video landing pages, increasingly referred to as “Play Pages”, for each … Continue reading →

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The sky is not falling

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

I am writing to share some reactions to Claire Cain Miller’s piece in the New York Times, “Silicon Valley Booms but Worries About a New Bust.” I met Claire at the Founder Showcase event she mentions in her article and … Continue reading →

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Python Multithreaded S3 Bucket-to-Bucket Copy (on Amazon Web Services)

Posted on November 6, 2010 by

For both backup and staging purposes, we regularly need to backup an entire S3 bucket to another bucket. AWS has no built-in function to do this, nor does the boto Python library. We started off with a simple for key … Continue reading →

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Take Me to Chinatown

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

I drove Thursday this week, a day after the SF Giant’s World Series Parade attracted record crowds. The morning was spent driving to and from the airport — I had 4 trips to SFO before noon. In the afternoon I … Continue reading →

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Avenue Street

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

I answered a lot of phone calls last night at the taxi company. Around 3am a girl called demanding a cab at “320 Avenue.” That didn’t make any sense. “320 Avenue? That doesn’t make any sense. What’s the street name?” … Continue reading →

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Fetch OAuth Authenticated YouTube API Version 2.0 Requests with GData-Python-Client, Including Insight

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

We’ve been using Google’s GData-Python-Client library to connect our VidCaster client accounts to YouTube, which allows for neat operations like importing* and exporting of video. A key component of VidCaster is to provide simple aggregated video analytics to our users, … Continue reading →

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