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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org — The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of Data Portability …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped: Google Joins DataPortability.org
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org - better late than never
David Utter / WebProBlog: Data portability gains favor from Google, Facebook
Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Individuals from Plaxo, Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org Workgroup — We are proud to announce the inclusion of Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), Brad Fitzpatrick (Google) and Benjamin Ling (Facebook) to the DataPortability Workgroup. — Plaxo, Google and Facebook together represent …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com: DATAPORTABILITY HAS BIG NAMES ON BOARD, BUT A LONG ROAD AHEAD
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Google, Facebook add support for social content portability
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Social Networks Will Be Open: Google, Facebook, and Plaxo Join DataPortability
Mathew Ingram / WebProNews: Facebook Joins Data Portability Group
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise: Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: That was fast — Facebook, Google join data-portability group
Megan McCarthy / Epicenter: DataPortability Workgroup Gains Representatives from Facebook, Google, and Plaxo
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK: Facebook, Google, Plaxo open up to set users free
Theotherthomasotter / Vendorprisey: Facebook, Scoble, Manifestos and European Privacy Law.
Daniela Barbosa / unstruc chitchatting …: Some heavy hitters join Dataportability.org Workgroup: Google, Facebook, Plaxo
Jonathan Greene / atmaspheric: DataPortability - Keeping in perspective for now
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup — After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you've ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before …
Discussion: Irregular Enterprise, Profy.Com, Valleywag, Wikinomics and :Ben Metcalfe Blog
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise: DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com: The Duncan Riley News: Data Portability Goes Prime Time
Derek Pokora / Wikinomics: A new era of data portability?
Charlene Li / Groundswell:
The "open" social graph on the horizon
The "open" social graph on the horizon
Discussion: How To Split An Atom
Steve Spalding / How To Split An Atom: Personal Branding And The Anatomy Of A Blogstorm
Christine Wilhelmy / Apple:
Apple Introduces New Mac Pro — Fastest Mac Ever—Eight Processor Cores Standard — Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor*. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel's …
Discussion: Macworld, Podcasting News, Crave, Salon, ParisLemon, kottke.org, MacRumors, Epicenter, Apple 2.0, The Mac Observer, Webomatica, Electronista, Guardian Unlimited, dailytechrag.com/news …, Intel, The Apple Core, Gadget Lab, I4U News, MacUser, O'Grady's PowerPage, Digital Trends, The Tech Report, Switched, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear, iLounge, PC World, TidBITS, Between the Lines, Cult of Mac, Infinite Loop, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Engadget, Gizmodo, UNEASYsilence and www.gulker.com
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld: Apple releases new Mac Pro with eight processor cores
Farhad Manjoo / Salon: Apple's new machines are "fastest ever," obviously
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: The New $20,000 Mac Pro, No Blu-ray
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter: Apple Pre-Announces Updated Mac Pro Ahead of MacWorld
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Pre-Macworld news: New Mac Pro and Xserve
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Apple almost up to speed with Intel Penryn launch
David Morgenstern / The Apple Core: Bogus hardware test error messages on Mac Pros
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Apple Announces Tower of Power: 45nm Mac Pro
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: New Apple Mac Pro - Fastest Mac Ever with 8 Cores Standard
Aayush Arya / MacUser: Bento upgraded to v1.0 now and is available for purchase
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Apple upgrades Mac Pro with 45nm Xeons
Tim Stevens / Switched: Apple's New, Super-Fast Mac Pro Costs Up to $20,000
Christina Warren / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: New Mac Pros and Xserve
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Apple updates Mac Pro, Xserve: Penryn processors
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: (Please Don't) Mind the Gap
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS: New Mac Pro Goes Eight-Core Before Macworld Expo
Petemortensen / Cult of Mac: Apple Rolls out New Mac Pros, xServes a Week Early
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: Apple busts out new Mac Pros ahead of Macworld '08
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Why is Apple Launching New Gear a Week Before Macworld? The Official No-Answer Reads Like a Zen Koan — I had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, midweek during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them, and it had nothing to do with hardware specs.
Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Hey Apple, you get NEXT week! — Did a quick scan on Techmeme this morning for interesting CES news. Guess what I see? — Apple decided to announce new servers today. I call this a lame move. — Last year, Apple dominated CES without even being there with their iPhone announcements.
Apple Introduces New Xserve—Most Powerful Apple Server Ever
Apple Introduces New Xserve—Most Powerful Apple Server Ever
Discussion: Business Technology, Gizmodo, O'Grady's PowerPage, Infinite Loop, TidBITS, MacUser, Podcasting News, 9 to 5 Mac, The Mac Observer, Macworld, Engadget and The Apple Blog
Nick Wingfield / Business Technology: More Macs for Businesses — The Macworld conference that starts …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo: Apple Releases New X Serve: Most Powerful Ever
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS: New Xserve Goes Eight-Core Too
Aayush Arya / MacUser: The Apple Store is down! — It's a Tuesday morning …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: New 8 Core Apple Xserves and Mac Pros released today
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld: Apple: New Xserve twice as fast as predecessor
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Apple updates Xserve — "most powerful Apple server ever"
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray Not Coming To Apple's Macs (AAPL)
Blu-ray Not Coming To Apple's Macs (AAPL)
Discussion: Byte of the Apple
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: New Machine, Old Design
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Macworld to Deliver up to Twice the Performance of Its Predecessor
Macworld to Deliver up to Twice the Performance of Its Predecessor
Discussion: Forbes, Computerworld and MacUser
Brian Caulfield / Forbes: Apple's Sneak Attack
Aayush Arya / MacUser: Apple announces the new Mac Pro and Xserve
Paramount Denies Report It Will Drop Toshiba's HD DVD — Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures denied a newspaper report that the studio is poised to follow Time Warner Inc. in abandoning Toshiba Corp.'s HD DVD technology. — "Paramount's current plan is to continue …
Discussion: ParisLemon, Engadget, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider and Game | Life
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Paramount To Support HD-DVD...Until Those Paramount Blu-ray Discs Are Ready To Sell
Susan Arendt / Game | Life: Paramount Denies Rumors It's Switching to Blu-ray
Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
Microsoft: No HD DVD Xbox
Microsoft: No HD DVD Xbox
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft, Electronista and Forbes
Brian Caulfield / Forbes: No Blue Skies For Blu-Ray
Peace is at hand in the pointless DVD war
Peace is at hand in the pointless DVD war
Discussion: Electronista, Xbox 360 Fanboy and Hacking NetFlix
Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
CES: Comcast plans a big, fast future — Roberts gets a little assist from Ryan Seacrest in talking about Comcast's new services — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts became the first cable head to keynote CES and he didn't disappoint. — The leader of the world's largest cable company …
Discussion: Digital Daily, Bit Player, New York Times, Ars Technica, Reuters, Techland, NewTeeVee and A Media Circus
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: CES: Comast CEO Announces 4 MegaBatman-Per-Minute Internet
Dawn Chmielewski / Bit Player: CES: 'Flight of the Conchords' crashes Comcast keynote
Tim Arangoo / New York Times: Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: Comcast at CES: 100Mbps connections coming this year
Stephanie Mehta / Techland: Comcast CEO: Content, content, content
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: CES Day 3: Viacom, Panasonic, Comcast
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
CES 2008: Comcast Now the Fourth Largest Phone Company in the U.S.
CES 2008: Comcast Now the Fourth Largest Phone Company in the U.S.
Discussion: DSLreports and Business Wire
Business Wire:
Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts Announces Project Infinity …
Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts Announces Project Infinity …
Discussion: Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Media Experiences 2 Go, Contentinople, IP Democracy and Silicon Alley Insider
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters: Comcast to launch 4-min HD movie downloads
Mari Silbey / Media Experiences 2 Go: Comcast and Project Infinity
Jeff Baumgartner / Contentinople: Comcast: To 'Project Infinity' & Beyond!
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Comcast is Now Fourth Biggest Home Phone Provider
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Comcast: Dump Fancast, Buy Netflix (NFLX)
Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer — Companies' combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalize on the power of enterprise search. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA …
Discussion: GigaOM, Digital Daily, Wall Street Journal, LiveSide, Tech Tracks, Computerworld, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, CMS Watch Trends and Features, Search Engine Journal, PDA, Insider Chatter, All about Microsoft, Feld Thoughts, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechSpot News, ReadWriteWeb and WebProNews
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Microsoft Searches for Fast Growth With $1.2B Deal
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Fast Times at Redmond High
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide: Microsoft bids $1.2bln to acquire FAST Search and Transfer
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: Microsoft buying business search power for $1.2 billion
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: IBM remains way out in front on information access despite Microsoft's Fast bid
Adriaan Bloem / CMS Watch Trends and Features: That was FAST: Microsoft to acquire Norwegian search vendor
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Microsoft Blasts Google Enterprise with FAST Search Buy
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft bolsters enterprise search with Fast Search
Justin Mann / TechSpot News: Microsoft to acquire Fast Search for $1.2 Billion
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft Announces Takeover Bid for FAST
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Microsoft Making Fast Grab In Norway
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger …
Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 billion; Likely to trigger …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: Microsoft Enters the Fast Search Lane
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: Microsoft gets Fast — hope you're long on enterprise search
Saul Hansell / Bits: A FAST Deal for Microsoft Search
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com: Microsoft Gets Up to Speed on Enterprise Search
Olaf de Senerpont Domis / Tech Confidential: Microsoft to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search specialist Fast Search
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Microsoft to Bid $1.2 Billion for Enterprise Search Co. FAST
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica: Pining for the fjords: Microsoft bids $1.2 billion for Norwegian search company
Sadagopan / Sadagopan's weblog …: Microsoft Set To Acquire FAST Search
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging — Tech bloggers (and I put myself squarely in this group), I am sorry to report that many of us have become lazy - really lazy. So, with this in mind I offer a challenge: in 2008 let's strap back on our thinking caps and get our blog mojo back.
Discussion: ParisLemon and Business Week
Stephen Baker / Business Week: Rubel's advice on revising blog cover
Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
Stopping the Lazysphere? ... Maybe when Pigs Fly
Stopping the Lazysphere? ... Maybe when Pigs Fly
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work
Nik Fletcher / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumour: Fox to include iTunes files with DVDs starting 15th Jan — We heard a while back that Apple and the movie studios were in negotiations over movie rentals, and there were mentions of iPod compatible movie files being shipped with DVDs. Of course, to be able to legitimately import DVDs …
Discussion: Infinite Loop, Webware.com, ParisLemon, iLounge and Insanely Great Mac
David Chartier / Infinite Loop: iTunes movie rental, DVD distribution rumors gain more steam
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: APPLE TO PIGGYBACK ON DVDS TO DISTRIBUTE DIGITAL CONTENT?
Charles Starrett / iLounge: Fox DVD ships with iTunes-compatible digital file
Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? … It is all about programming! Over the last few years we have noticed worrisome trends in CS education. The following represents a summary of those trends: — Mathematics requirements in CS programs are shrinking.
Discussion: The Chronicle
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Undergraduate programming
Undergraduate programming
Discussion: Ryan Stewart and Innovation in Software
Larry Chiang / FoundRead:
9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid — Editor's Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close to $1 million in revenues, VCs will come calling. That's right: they'll come to you. Cash flow positive startups remain hard to come by.
Discussion: TechCrunch UK, Venture Chronicles and Blogcosm
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-001 - Critical — Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (941644) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This critical security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities …
Discussion: eWEEK.com, The Register, Zero Day, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Donna's SecurityFlash, TechSpot News and Security Watch
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com: Critical TCP/IP Worm Hole Dings Windows Vista
Dan Goodin / The Register: Microsoft plugs 'critical' hole in Vista
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Microsoft starts '08 by patching 3 bugs
Justin Mann / TechSpot News: Microsoft addresses critical security flaw
Larry Seltzer / Security Watch: Critical TCP/IP Hole in Windows Fixed
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google's search juggernaut continues — Google just keeps getting more popular for search. — The latest figures from Hitwise, which monitors search market share, show Google with a record 66 percent share of Web searches in the United States for the month of December 2007.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews and All about Microsoft
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Google Continues March to 80%+ Search Share
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Google Close To Two-Thirds Of Search Market
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search help
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership — When CBS Interactive announced on Tuesday that its CBSNews.com property had entered a content partnership with Digg, there wasn't a whole lot of information released other than the fact that election-related headlines from Digg would appear …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Mashable!
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: CBS' Quincy Smith: Truth-teller
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: CBS Wants in on Politics Web 2.0. Partners with Digg.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Guess What? WSJ May Not Go Free — If there's one written-in-stone consensus among the digerati—SAI's included—it's that the Wall Street Journal Online will soon be free. But guess what? It might not be. — True, Mr. Murdoch's original instinct was to nuke the pay-wall, and there's a lot to be said for that.
CES could be leaving Las Vegas — Organizers blame rising cost of hotels, food and beverage — LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas' 31st International Consumer Electronics Show could be one of its last, organizers said Monday, saying they believe they can get a cheaper deal elsewhere.
Discussion: Gizmodo, bub.blicio.us and Lost Remote
Benny Goldman / Gizmodo: Is CES Leaving Las Vegas?
Briansolis / bub.blicio.us: Is CES Leaving Las Vegas?
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: CES could be leaving Las Vegas


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Fairfield Theatre Company celebrates the New Year with '90s Alternative Post-Grunge bands The Gin Blossoms, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, and Sixpence None the Richer, at StageOne.
Fairfield, CT (PRWEB) January 04, 2013
Did the holidays get you down? Are you ready to rock the New Year finally? Come down to Fairfield Theatre Company this January and February as FTC welcome '90s iconic post-grunge, alternative bands The Gin Blossoms, Ed Kowlczyk (lead singer of Live), and Sixpence None the Richer, for three legendary shows that cannot be missed.
More than two decades after making the crossover from college radio idols to multi-platinum album sellers, the Gin Blossoms are still one of the top pop, rock, post-grunge, alternative bands heard on the radio and on the Billboard charts today. Best known for their mega hits including "Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You, "Til I Hear It From You," and "Allison Road" the Gin Blossoms depict the '90's in an unforgettable way. After their hugely celebrated 34 cities Summerland Tour in 2012, the Gin Blossoms look forward to entertaining audiences around the world in 2013 with a stop at the intimate StageOne to introduce the audience to material from a new album coming out next summer.
In addition to the Gin Blossoms, Ed Kowalczyk, widely known as the former lead singer and songwriter for the rock band LIVE, invites you to join him as he opens the next chapter of his already illustrious career with an acoustic intimate evening at StageOne. Touring in support of his latest EP The Garden, which features 5 new original tracks and remixes, fans of the band Live are in for a treat, as the night will consist of Ed performing countless songs from the entire Live catalog as well as songs from his first solo album, Alive, released in 2010.
Closing out this throwback of post grunge alternative '90's bands will be the Austin based band Sixpence the Richer, who had several hit singles including "Kiss Me", "There She Goes", "Don't Dream It's Over", and "Breathe Your Name". Their Grammy nominated songs have appeared on countless soundtracks worldwide and now come to StageOne to shake things up in support of their newest album Lost in Transition. The album is a reminder of the struggles and uncertainty the band has had endured over the past few years after disbanding, before they ultimately found their way back together again. As Matt Slocum says, "It's about things that have happened in our lives recently, really big events on a personal and musical level that we had to transition through."
Ed Kowalczyk:
Sat 1/19 7:30 pm
Concert Tickets: $27 Advance, $31 Door, Members Save $3
Gin Blossoms Acoustic:
Sun 1/20 7:30 pm
Concert Tickets: $68 Advance, $73 Door, No Member Discount
Sixpence None the Richer:
Tue 2/5 7:30 pm
Concert Tickets: $25 Advance, $29 Door, Member Discount $3
Check out the FTC website or call the box office for details!
Buy online: http://www.fairfieldtheatre.org
Box Office: (203) 259 - 1036
About the company:
Fairfield Theatre Company is a highly-acclaimed nonprofit performing arts organization located in the heart of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. FTC presents nearly 200 performances and concerts each year featuring outstanding national talent on FTC's StageOne in Fairfield and at The Klein Auditorium in Bridgeport. FTC's intimate 200-seat StageOne venue is widely recognized as being one of the best places to see a live entertainment and music in the region. FTC is dedicated to providing the highest quality arts, entertainment, and educational experiences to the communities we serve in Fairfield County.
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Florida: Treasure Coast (Boca Raton-Vero Beach)
99 Coastal Destinations Rated: Facing Trouble
Score: 54
This stretch of Florida's southern Atlantic coast is still less built up than super-developed Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but it is hardly pristine wilderness. "Pockets of preservation" and well-managed state and county parks occasionally interrupt a "wall of concrete that faces the beach almost everywhere."
Here is a representative sampling of additional anonymous comments from the panelists. They are not necessarily the views of the National Geographic Society:
"Area is overdeveloped and has begun to lose its historical appeal. The environment is under great stress, and water issues are likely to get worse."
"Destruction of mangroves on the beach has lead to the disappearance of offshore reefs. The dunes are also in serious trouble. Many of the small communities are falling into general shabbiness. Few vestiges of Old Florida remain."
"Wall-to-wall development."
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Twelve Apostles
The Twelve Apostles or The Twelve Disciples were the twelve followers of Jesus while He walked the earth. Jesus called each of them to Him at the start of His earthly ministry and they followed Him during the three years of his teaching. While making many gaffes and having difficulty understanding all that Jesus was, after His crucifixion and Resurrection and the imparting of the Holy Spirit, they became men of great valor and the forefathers of Christianity. The four initial Apostles were Peter, Andrew, James and John.
Two of the Apostles authored Gospels: John and Matthew. The other two Gospel authors were the outsider eyewitness Mark and the historian Luke, both of whom knew the Apostles and Mark was unflattering towards them in his Gospel.
They are Saints in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions except for Judas Iscariot, the traitor of Jesus.[1] The Apostles were:
- Saint Peter
- John the Apostle
- James the Apostle
- Saint James the Less
- Thomas the Apostle
- Saint Andrew
- Bartholomew the Apostle
- Saint Philip
- Jude the Apostle
- Simon the Apostle
- Saint Matthew
- Judas Iscariot
After the death of Judas (Matt 27:5), his place was taken by:
- Matthias the Apostle (Matthias was chosen as an apostle by prayer and lot.)
While not one of the Twelve, an Apostle is considered
- Saint Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles (Years later)
Remembering the Apostles
The Apostles' names can easily be remembered through the use of the following mnemonic poem:
This is the way the disciples run
Peter, Andrew, James and John
Phillip and Bartholemew
Thomas next and Matthew, too.
James the less and Judas the greater
Simon the zealot and Judas the traitor.
See also
- First Century Aramaic Jewish Christian Gospel and poetry
- Christian Saints Gallery
- Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
External links
- The Twelve Apostles Daily Bible Study.
- Apostles. The Catholic Encyclopedia.


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Amazon.com had an outage for 49 minutes on Jan. 31, and it cost big -- more than $4 million in lost sales. I'm sure many in the cloud computing community where thinking, "Now you know how it feels."
According to Network World's Brandon Butler, "Amazon officials have said that the biggest customer of the company's cloud division -- AWS (Amazon Web Services) -- is Amazon.com. AWS has experienced a variety of outages during the past three years, but usually the Amazon.com retail site is not impacted." For example, an EBS (Amazon Elastic Block Storage) outage in October 2012 affected such customers as Reddit. Moreover, an outage on Christmas Eve 2012 brought down Netflix, but not the video steaming service that Amazon.com provides. In the Jan. 31 case, Amazon.com appears to the affected party.
[ For the full scoop on the state of the cloud in the enterprise, check out InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ]
What does this cost? Butler makes a valid case in his article: "Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour." For every hour it is not up and running, Amazon.com takes a hit of almost $5 million.
These calculations demonstrate that you should understand the true cost of cloud outages as you move more of your processes and data to public cloud services. I've found that businesses either overestimate or underestimate the cost of outages. You need to understand the true cost to create effective SLAs or to determine the correct amount of investment that should be made in cloud services.
For example, if you run a trading system, the cost of downtime is typically significant -- in many instances, $1 million an hour when the trading systems are not available. That cost should be factored into your legal agreements with a public cloud provider, as well as having management understand the likely costs you'll incur when outages do occur.
Keep in mind you'll have to deal with outages no matter if your servers are on a public cloud provider or in a local data center. I find it amusing there's so much angst around cloud outages when internal system outages are so commonplace.
In any event, you should approach the use of cloud-based platforms -- or any new platforms -- with a clear understanding as to how much outages will cost the business. Use this figure to determine the cost of risk, as well as the proper amount to spend on failover services, whether in the cloud or on premises.
It always comes down to dollars and cents.
This article, "Calculating the true cost of cloud outages," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of David Linthicum's Cloud Computing blog and track the latest developments in cloud computing at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Crate Training Problems (First time owner)
I have a eight month old Pomeranian, she is the first dog I have ever owned on my own and I am having trouble with training her. When we first got her, she was fine with going into her kennel to sleep at night. I wanted her kennel to be in our room so if there was an emergency I could get her out safely.
But after awhile it seemed as if she was getting claustrophobic or something in there when ever we brought her in to sleep for the night. I had checked to make sure it was big enough for her size, which it was, that it was clean and comfortable, which it was again. But she still was unhappy. I even tried putting it in a different room to see if she just preferred a different space. She would sleep in it if it was in her play pen no problem, but the door was open and she could come and go out of it as she pleased while we were at work.
After the first two months of it being in our room, she would start screaming bloody murder, we tried taking her for a pee, she didn't have to pee, she wanted to play and run around. So we put her back to bed. She'd cry again. We tried giving her special treats she only was aloud in her bed, having a small amount of food and water in case she got thirsty. Having quiet toys in with her in case she was bored. We tried taking her on long walks and playing with her till she was super tired. But everything we have tried so far hasn't helped, she will still cry till she is horse, and even then will keep crying.
And I did my best to introduce her to it when we first got her. I followed all the steps to the best of my ability, used a special treat, tried to get her to go in and out on her own. (Don't know if this is could be why, but we did have to fly her over to us. She didn't go under, she was in the cabin with us in a soft crate and did very well. Very calm. Maybe the plane scared her?)
I know I must have made mistakes, but I want to learn from them and make it better so she can enjoy her bed and feel safe in it. Not jump when something taps the door, or avoid it when a toy falls to close to it.
Is your dog home alone all day , she might need to get more attention and exercise during the day. You could try leaving your t shirt in the crate , she can take naps on it and it may help her feel safer .
She usually isn't alone, I work mornings but come home to walk her and play with her. The walks are pretty long too. And my boyfriend works nights mostly. So someone is always there. And we have tried the t-shirt thing, didn't phase her.
I would make your first trip to the vet. Often sudden problems are related to a health problem. It could just be gas problems, her teeth coming through, or another common issue for a fast growing puppy.
Since it seems like your doing everything else right, I would try and wait it out. My dogs used to squeal in their crates but once they figured out that it wasn't going to get them anywhere they quit. Unless it's a health problem I wouldn't give in. Otherwise you'll teach her that she can control you, a big problem with those adorable toy dogs(I have two toy spaniels)Trust me, it's much easier to train them now then when they enter their "teenage" years in a few months. Also, did you try the warm bottle and clock thing. Dogs thrive on close contact, especially puppies, and in the wild they would usually sleep with their moms. She may just feel isolated and scared all alone.
She has been to the vet before, has had all her shots done and the vet didn't notice anything wrong. The usual check was clean, but I have to take her to the vet for her chip anyway so I will ask when we get there, cause it might explain it and if not, then maybe the vet can give me some advice or tips. And I haven't tried that one, I might have too. Maybe it'll work and she can find comfort in it. In some ways I am wondering if she just misses her brothers and sisters, cause she is a very social puppy, loves people, loves meeting new dogs. My boyfriends mom got a puppy around the same time we got her and they became instant friends, so maybe we need another dog so they can play and comfort each other. We have the two cats, but they are older (14 and 9) and don't want ANYTHING to do with her, they swat at her most of the time.
I was wondering if maybe switching her kennel would make a difference. Going from her plastic kennel to a wire one meaning, see if its the closed in thing that she doesn't like. Then again I did try making a make shift play pen in our room to see if she wanted just the freedom to be able to walk out and go pee. But she sat there and cried at me while I was reading my book on the bed.
So how is the crate training going? Tough it out, she's set out to beat you at this and she should not be allowed to win. Only let her out when she is quiet, not when she is screaming.
When we were crate training our Malamutes I used to sleep with old t-shirts tucked into the bed and then put those shirts that smelled like us into the crates with them at night. Worked like a charm. They'd curl up with a shirt that smelled like mommy and were content. Just make sure it's an old shirt (or towel) or something you don't mind them chewing and tearing up if she does that.
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The NARRATIVE of what was done on SATUR-
Matt. xxvi. 6-13. Mark xiv. 3-9. John xii. 1-8.
days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. There they made him a supper in the house of Simon the leper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat at table with Him. There came Mary unto him, having an alabaster box with a pound of ointment of spikenard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair. Afterward she brake the box and poured it (entirely) on his head, as he sat at meat; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. And some of the other disciples had also indignation, and said: To what purpose is this waste? and they murmured
against her.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, "Let her alone, why trouble ye her? "she hath wrought a good work on me.. For ye "have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good: but me ye have "not always. She hath done what she could; in "that she hath kept this ointment, and poured it on my body, she hath done it to anoint me afore"hand to my burying. Verily I say unto you, "wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the "whole world, this also that she hath done, shall "be spoken of for a memorial of her."
John xii. 9-11.
Much people of the Jews therefore knew that He was there and they came, not for Jesus sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests consulted, that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
Matt. xxi. 1-11. 14-17. Mark xi. 1-11. Luke xix. 29-46. John xii. 12-19.
ON the next day, when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and where come to Bethphage, at the mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying unto them: "Go your way into the village over against you; and as soon as ye be entered "into it, ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with "her, whereon yet never man sat, loose them, "and bring them to me. And if any man say "unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The Lord "hath need of them; and straightway he will "send them hither."
Much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet him.
But the disciples went and found the colt (with the ass) tied by the door without, in a place where two ways met. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? And they said, The Lord hath need of him; and they let them go. And they brought the ass and the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on the colt; and he sat upon him. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
And as he went, a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; and others cut down branches off the trees, and strewed them in the way. And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had seen. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David, blessed is he, a king, that cometh in the name of the Lord! blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
The people that was with him, when he called Lazarus out of the grave, and raised him from the


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Woodwardia areolata
Woodwardia areolata (L.) T. Moore
Netted Chainfern, Chain Fern, Netted Chain Fern
Blechnaceae (Chain fern Family)
Synonym(s): Lorinseria areolata
USDA Symbol: woar
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
Netted chain fern is a deciduous, colony-forming, waxy green fern which stands 1-2 ft. high and has fronds 4-8 in. wide. The sterile fronds are deeply lobed, and the veins in the leaf form a net-like pattern. The fertile fronds are similar but reduced in width. The entire plant maintains a neat, compact form. Fiddleheads are bronzy and appear in early spring.
Netted chain fern is a well-mannered fern, providing a ground cover for wet, shady places. It colonizes by shallow, slender, brown rhizomes.
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Plant CharacteristicsDuration: Perennial
Habit: Fern
Leaf Retention: Deciduous
Size Notes: 12 to 30 inches high
Leaf: Of two types: sterile leaves deeply pinnatifid or once-pinnate, up to 2 feet long, on purplish brown stalks, with each segment coarsely toothed or pinnatifid, smooth, pointed at the tip; fertile leaves erect, much narrower, on purplish brown stalks.
Flower: Sori elongated, narrow, in parallel rows, one row on each side of the midvein.
Bloom InformationBloom Color: Not Applicable
Bloom Notes: Non-flowering, sporulating plant. Sporulates Jul - Oct.
DistributionUSA: AL , AR , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IL , IN , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MO , MS , NC , NH , NJ , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , TN , TX , VA , WV
Canada: NS
Native Distribution: N.S. through MI & s. IL to MO, s. to FL & TX, Zones 5 to 9
Native Habitat: Swamps, Marshes, Still water edges, Moist woods, Floodplains
Growing ConditionsWater Use: Medium , High
Light Requirement: Part Shade , Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist , Wet
Soil pH: Acidic (pH<6.8)
Soil Description: Wet, acid soils. Acid-based, Calcareous, Sandy, Sandy Loam, Medium Loam, Clay Loam, Clay. Tolerates brackish soils.
BenefitUse Ornamental: Water garden, bog, or pond area
Use Wildlife: Provides shelter for frogs, toads, newts.
Interesting Foliage: yes
PropagationPropagation Material: Root Division
Description: Propagate by spores or rhizome division.
Commercially Avail: yes
National Wetland Indicator Status
From the National Organizations DirectoryAccording to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:
Crosby Arboretum - Picayune, MS
Mt. Cuba Center - Hockessin, DE
BibliographyBibref 1620 - Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Reprint Edition) (2009) Wasowski, S. with A. Wasowski
Bibref 318 - Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (2002) Wasowski, S. & A. Wasowski
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As part of our focus on innovation, CNN is honoring 10 emerging ideas in technology and related fields. These are concepts with big potential to change the world: to make us healthier, to keep us safer on the highways, to protect the coastline during storms, to help our computers think for themselves, to literally reinvent the wheel.
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There are many skills that go into being a great product manager, and one of the most underrated is communication, as these Silicon Valley product leaders emphasize:
"As a product manager, it is imperative that you understand the company's overall goals and objectives and exactly how your team fits in to the broader vision." – Josh Elman
"We lead by example. We succeed by making others successful. We listen first and make certain that others feel that they've been heard. We pursue diverse opinions. We rally our teams behind a vision that yields passion and commitment. We value and foster strong team relationships." – Satya Patel
"Good product managers communicate crisply to engineering in writing as well as verbally. Good product managers don't give direction informally. Good product managers gather information informally." – Ben Horowitz
You can be the best former engineer or designer, but if you can't communicate, not only with your product team, but the broader company, you'll struggle.
Great Product Managers communicate beyond their teams.
While it's important to develop great written communication skills, informal, verbal communication skills are just as valuable.
When you are working with other departments to either gather customer insights or share with them a new feature launch, you're exercising crucial communication skills.
Now, you could just blast off an email, internal survey, or update a wiki page and consider your work done. However, you're missing out on crucial relationship building and major learning opportunities. Every moment of contact with another team in your company is a leadership and learning opportunity for product managers.
The Secret, Winning Habit of Great PMs
When you're a product manager you have to influence people, because you have limited power on your own. You need to get buy in to accomplish anything.
And to be a product manager people enjoy working with instead of loathe, you want to be a trusted, respected colleague, not a politician or Machiavellian monster.
And the best way to build that trust and respect? Peer 1 on 1s.
What's a Peer 1 on 1?
Peer 1 on 1s are a secret weapon for many great companies. They help fellow managers commiserate and support one another, and teams that interact regularly work together better. Usually, these meetings happen every 4-12 weeks, depending on what the two people involved feel is the best frequency.
As a product manager, having semi-regular check-ins with key members of teams you work or interact with can be priceless. It gives you a chance to give and receive feedback, hear new perspectives, gather customer data from new sources, answer product questions, and build rapport with them.
It can also ensure that people understand how you approach product decisions. You may be crushing it as a PM, but that doesn't mean everyone else sees it that way. Product people have some of the greatest visibility across an organization, which can make it easy to forget that not everyone knows everything you do.
Who should product managers have peer 1 on 1s with?
The culture of your company and the nature of your product can make this vary, so use your best judgment when you apply this to your job. For me, I was leading product at a 20-30 person SaaS startup, and so I will share what I found worked there based on the advice I received.
1) Your Product Team
Your engineers have an entire engineering org that decides their compensation, job title, and work. All you can do is influence what is worked on next and collaborate with them on making the best (not just good enough) solution. The same goes for designers.
When your team is small, meeting once every month or two with everyone can help ensure you stay on the same page and fix problems. Identifying a bottleneck, something frustrating, or a blind spot can save your team hours, days, or even weeks of lost time from infighting, inefficiency, or poor decisions.
You may also find opportunities to help them understand how you make decisions. This can reduce resistance to changes you propose and open up constructive feedback to communicating with them and their colleagues.
Everyone?!? At first, yes.
When you're small (7 or fewer designers + engineers), meeting with each person can ensure your processes are working well and ensure everyone feels heard.
As you grow, focusing on the team leads who you work with most can help you scale. They can be a voice for their team. Assuming the design and engineering team leads have one on ones with their teams, they can raise with you any concerns they hear from their teams. (Note: it can help to remind the lead in advance to ask their team before you meet.)
Peer one on ones are a great way to take the temperature of your product team. If when you meet with them, they clam up, refuse the meeting, or seem combative, that's a major signal you have work to do to improve your teamwork.
Having a good relationship with the product teams you work with is table stakes as a Product Manager. Yet, many PMs mess this up. Good peer one on ones are a good option to improve the relationships no matter your situation with your team.
2) Customer Facing Departments
As a PM, one of your most important jobs is to understand your customer better than anyone. There are only so many hours in the day, so even if you're awesome and talk to multiple customers every day, you should still look for ways to get additional perspectives. And the best place to get those are others at your company.
Ask yourself: who else regularly interacts with customers?
- Customer Success / Support
- Sales
- Account management
In many orgs those three departments are off in a different area of the company reporting to a different C Level leader than you. They may literally be on a different floor or in an entirely different office. Because of this, it's easy for sales and product to develop different cultures and even some animosity.
Break down the silos with communication.
Product managers are the perfect people to break down those barriers. You're probably already working with them more than you realize.
Product people often get pulled into sales calls on the biggest deals, and help launch new features that success teams must document and support. They're also driving the roadmap that ambitious sales people may use to excite prospects.
When I was running product at KISSmetrics I met with all those groups. And in each case I had two goals:
- Find out any lessons I should take back to the product team about customers.
- Answer their questions and concerns they have about product today and in the future.
So I set up regular peer 1 on 1s with people from sales, customers success, and account management.
Here's some of the kinds of questions I'd ask to make the most of the meetings:
Customer Success / Support:
- What are you sick of answering over and over for customers?
- What bugs do you find you have to help users work around most often?
- How can I make your life easier when we launch new features or make changes in the product?
These questions help improve our process around launching new features, updating FAQs, and identifying existing problems in the product we should fix. Few things make success team members stuck on the hamster wheel of never ending tickets feel better than having things that drive them crazy in the product fixed.
- What are common product-related issues that are causing us to lose deals?
- What features get leads most excited about our product?
- Are there any areas of the product that are unclear to you that I can help you understand better or fall flat in your demos?
These questions often required me to do a little 5 why's to dig deeper to really understand and get them out of their sales mindset. Yet, with a little effort, I often found gold when I did. It also helped me better understand how my conversations with customers compared to those by sales. There's a lot of great customer problem knowledge trapped in your head as a PM. Transferring it to sales team members can drive revenue for your company.
Account Management:
- What features do you find you have to explain to customers the most? What's most confusing?
- Where in onboarding do users tend to get stuck most? How do you help them?
- What could product do to make your job easier/better?
The people that help customers get activated will know many of the pain points that are affecting your onboarding funnel. Much like Customer Success team members, removing friction they deal with every day can really make their day, and help your customers.
Peer 1 on 1s are a privilege, not a right.
I worked hard to ask lots of questions and be helpful in these meetings. After the first meeting, I expected they would be prepared as well. I only continued meeting with people that truly brought good data, ideas, and/or concrete feedback. Otherwise the 30-60 minutes we would meet could be better spent elsewhere.
This was a challenge, especially in sales. Not all sales people really get to know their customers, but the best ones did. The best could coherently explain why we lost a deal versus just trying to ask me for every feature a competitor had.
The same was sometimes true in success; I didn't want to know what happened that they remembered today. I wanted numbers so I knew how big a problem it was.
This then helped me make the business case when trying to decide between building something new we could sell and fixing what we had. When you can prove someone that costs $35 per hour is wasting 10 hours a week on something and it affects customers X, Y, and Z, it's much easier to justify a change.
Build a Customer Driven Culture
When I set out to have these meetings, I was just trying to get more data and feedback to do my job as a PM better. A great byproduct of the meetings ended up being that everyone in the company became more customer driven.
As I met with people more regularly, and they saw me take action on their feedback, it created a positive feedback loop. The more I listened and demonstrated I heard them, the more they wanted to provide more valuable insights and contribute. That led to more discussions about approaches they could use in their job to get me better data and good questions to ask customers.
Patterns converge
What was particularly fascinating to me was that quite often, I would hear similar things from the majority of people I would talk to; often an issue in product would impact everyone in different ways, whether it made a sale harder, increased support tickets, or changed how account managers taught our product.
By empowering all of them to share with me what they were experiencing and teaching them how to best do so, they helped me better triangulate customer needs and calculate fully their impact. With everything else on everyone's plates, this would never have happened without regularly scheduled meetings to talk about it.
There's always more work to be done than time for a product manager. Taking the time to have peer 1 on 1s with key members of teams you work with can be an invaluable part of your processes as a product leader.
Want to work with a product person that lives this customer driven approach every day?
If you're an engineer in San Francisco interested in joining a fast growing, early stage startup, I'd love to talk to you about how my startup, Lighthouse, can be a great opportunity for you. Send me an email at jason at getlighthouse dot com and tell me a bit about yourself.


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Your Own Photo Booth – Running a photo booth shouldn't be complicated or expensive. Run dslrBooth photo booth software on your pc or mac, hook up your Canon, Nikon, Sony dslr, or Webcam and you have a professional photo booth.
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– Compatible with PC and Mac.
– Triggers camera to take several photos and creates a print.
– Complete control over look and feel of final print including your own graphics, logos, and text. Includes a powerful Template Editor in Windows Edition.
– Stores all pictures and prints.
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"Please don't put your fork in your eye!"
No, seriously, I actually said that this week, to both my husband and my son… Yep. My husband was sitting at the dinner table playing peekaboo with our 20 month old toddler, hiding his eyes behind his fork. It was a fun game, until our son decided he'd like to play, and started pressing his fork into his eyes. Thankfully, he was eating with a plastic toddler fork, and we were able to quickly redirect his attention to something else. But, we're there — in the toddler monkey see, monkey do stage.
As a newborn and infant, while you know your child is watching you, I think a lot of parents continue to act like they would relaxing at home, maybe a bit less socially appropriate or child appropriate than you would be in public.
I know personally that I have a penchant for rap music and as in the past my son was still too small to understand, there were certainly a few times when I had an inappropriate song playing where he was able to hear. When they are so little, you relax a little and some let loose the occasional — or not so occasional — swear word at times. I found myself thinking that as a little baby he didn't understand yet, and I'd change my habits when he did begin to get it.
Now he gets it.
It's a whole different stage of parenting when your child now imitates everything that you do in public and in private. While it is 100 percent part of the learning process, and how they learn to interact with their environment, as a parent, you need to be on your best behavior. At all times. Which is sort of exhausting.
Not only do you have to put your completely socially appropriate self forward while in social situations to teach your child acceptable pragmatic skills, now you have to continue that at home when your child is watching. It makes me tired just thinking about it.
I know that there will be certainly some slip-ups on my and my husband's part in the future, because really, who can be perfect all of the time? But hopefully we'll teach our son to keep his fork out of his eyes… and other social graces.
What's the funniest thing your child has done to imitate you?
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To master product photography, you need to understand how light works. This is especially true when it comes to photographing materials that don't always play nicely with light like glass, metal, and jewelry.
Don't settle for product images with light spots or reflections. With the proper lighting setup, you can easily take great photos of clear and colored glass, watches, sunglasses, metallic objects, and even jewelry.
"Proper" doesn't have to mean expensive either, you can build a functional photo studio right in the comfort of your own home. First, take a look at the basics for building a DIY home photo studio.
After you've figured out your home studio setup, check out these three inexpensive DIY lighting setups and choose one that's right for your product.
1. Box Backlighting for Glass
Backlighting is ideal for shooting clear or colored glass like bottles, wine glasses, or decorative glassware. It's a simple technique that uses the translucency of glass to create a crystal clear appearance while still showing off a flattering shape.
For instance, this glass jar was shot with box backlighting:
Like the name suggests, in a backlit setup, you will be placing your light source directly behind your product. Position your light source so that the brightest part of your light shines through the glass, emphasizing the natural curves and outer lines of your product. Level your product and light source so that they're on the same plane.
You can use continuous or strobe lighting, but you must diffuse your light. Ideally, you should have a lighting umbrella, but thin white fabric or layers of rolled paper can work in a pinch.
Put your light diffuser between the light and your product, and then place a white foam board under and on both sides of your product. Place another foam board or more paper across the top.
The idea here is that soft light will be reflected back onto your product from all sides, wrapping around it evenly. The white spots and reflections that can sometimes show up in photos of glass result mostly from the bounce of harsh direct light, so you can avoid those unsightly blemishes by softening your light source and making use of indirect light.
For more defined outer edges, you can use black foam boards instead of white. This increases saturation and creates bolder outlines and colors. Watch how the outer lines of our vase below become darker as we add and adjust foam boards.
Here's a glass vase shot with no boards.
Here's the same vase shot with white boards.
Now, with black boards.
And, finally, with black boards moved in closer.
2. Side Lighting for Detail
Side lighting works well for detailed glassy products like sunglasses and watches. A box backlighting setup won't work with more detailed products because it's used, in part, to overexpose detail.
To side light a small product, you're going to need a large table, a continuous or strobe light, an umbrella, foam boards, and a roll of seamless white paper. Position the light, diffused by an umbrella, directly to the left of your product.
In some instances, like when shooting a watch, you may need to move from direct side lighting to 45-degree side lighting in order to effectively illuminate the face without glare.
This watch, for example, was shot with 45-degree side lighting.
Your camera should be on a tripod and raised so that you are shooting slightly down at your product. Elevation in this setup will help to minimize reflections, but don't go so high that you can't get a flattering angle of your product.
Hang the white rolled paper so that it sweeps down and underneath your product, which you set on the table. "Sweeping" the paper means that it curves in such a way that there are no defined lines, eliminating shadows caused by creases. Connect the end of the sweep to the bottom of your camera lens to prevent foreground reflections.
Position two pieces of white foam board directly opposite to the light source, taped together to form a "V." The "V" will funnel reflected light back onto your product. Check out the results below.
These sunglasses were shot with direct side lighting.
3. Double Overhead Lighting For Metal
Metal is the most challenging surface to shoot because of how highly reflective it is. It's difficult, there's no denying - but it's not impossible.
You can minimize or even eliminate reflections by using a double overhead lighting setup for shooting small metallic products like jewelry, pots and pans, and cutlery.
You're going to need a table, two lights with umbrellas, and a white paper sweep. No foam board this time because we've got two lights and they're going to be diffused by the umbrellas. With the other two setups it doesn't particularly matter whether you use strobe or continuous lighting, but this time we recommend strobe lighting for increased control.
Position a light on each side of your product and diffuse each of them with umbrellas. Angle your lights down at the product and set each to the same power.
Position your camera on a tripod so that it faces the product and is angled slightly down. Sweep the white paper down under your product and fasten it to your camera lens to minimize fall off reflections.
If your product has been cleaned and prepped and you get the lighting right, you will end up with reflection-free photographs just like the one below.
A Word On Camera Settings
Ensure your white balance, aperture, and ISO settings are optimized for your lighting setup.
Make sure your camera settings take full advantage of your lighting setup, or all your effort may go to waste. This isn't the place for an in-depth tutorial on camera settings, but we'll give you a quick rundown.
Adjust your white balance according to your light source, like the flash setting if you're using a strobe. If you're not sure, auto white balance is generally trustworthy. Choose a defined part of your object to focus on like a watch face or the outer edge of clear glassware.
Shoot in manual mode and set your aperture to at least f/11, but preferably higher (like f/16). Use the lowest ISO possible, like ISO 100, to capture the most detail.
For the backlit setup, you will probably need to slow your shutter speed down a couple stops below your light meter's recommendation in order to overexpose the image. For side lighting and overhead lighting, you can follow your light meter's recommendation.
Finish the Job in Post-Production
If spots, smudges, or even one of those pesky reflections snuck its way into your photo, clean it up in post-production processing.
Clone out imperfections and check color accuracy. Heal defects you were unable to repair, like scratches or scuffs. Cut your product out from its background and place it on pure white to ensure consistency and minimize file size.
If you're selling on marketplaces like eBay or Amazon, ensure your images are compliant or your listing may be removed.
Now Get Shooting
Don't be afraid of reflections! Try out the recommended lighting setups and see if they work for you.
Do you know of any other good lighting setups for reflective objects? Are there other types of products you need lighting recommendations for? Let us know in the comments below!
About The Author
Thomas Kragelund is the CEO and founder of Pixelz, a leading product image solutions partner for internet retailers, bloggers, designers, photographers and webmasters worldwide. He has been working in ecommerce for the last 15 years. Sign up today and get 3 product images edited for free.


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