[SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Jeromy Evans
Guys, thanks for the reference to pingdom.com. It's great. New Relic RPM supports Ruby and Java (inc Rails, Tomcat, Glassfish etc). Looks really. I'm going to look more into this. Woopra looks like a great replacement for GA tracking code. Woopra code sends the data to their servers, which can t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Joz Ong
Being able to accurately find "connectors" would be highly important to the market research industry. In the old days, the same techniques would be achieved through hundreds of hours of market research and focus groups to find information like what are "cool" kids wearing these days..., and what

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Elias Bizannes
> > #4. Our current goal is to help people to find "influencers" and > > "connectors" within a community. ( The Tipping Point, anyone? ) The > > whole internet could be one community, this google group could be one, > > a 300-employee company or a 150,000-people corporation all can be > > treated

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Dylan Jay
On 05/01/2010, at 4:45 PM, Alex Dong wrote: >> so who needs to find "connectors" and how badly do they need it? > Spot on, Dylan. This is exactly what we're hoping to learn from > silicon beach community. well we wouldn't mind finding the key influencers within our target corportations/organi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Jeromy Evans
Here's a real example on the enterprise side. My business shares an office with a law firm that has about 30 lawyers on staff across a few sites. Almost every day there are broadcast emails of the like "has anyone has cause to research XYZ in regard to MNO" (where XYZ and MNO are some topic in le

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Dong
> so who needs to find "connectors" and how badly do they need it? Spot on, Dylan. This is exactly what we're hoping to learn from silicon beach community. Alex On Jan 5, 4:08 pm, Dylan Jay wrote: > On 05/01/2010, at 2:54 PM, Alex Dong wrote: > > > > > #4. Our current goal is to help people to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Dylan Jay
On 05/01/2010, at 2:54 PM, Alex Dong wrote: > > > #4. Our current goal is to help people to find "influencers" and > "connectors" within a community. ( The Tipping Point, anyone? ) The > whole internet could be one community, this google group could be one, > a 300-employee company or a 150,000-p

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Dong
Great conversation. Thought I might be able to provide some background of what we're doing. Let's forget about twitter for the moment. I'd prefer to leave it to historians to make a judgement on whether twitter is providing value or not. As Tim has mentioned, we're using twitter as a data source

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Bull
Thanks for the feedback all, (and the kind words) much appreciated. My instinct says you're right Hendro - that the Enterprise problem is much more monetisable. Twendly is helping us solve a few issues however that make it a worthwhile distraction: 1. Give us a live demo without Enterprise needi

Re: [SiliconBeach] Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Hendro Wijaya
Hey Tim, This is just my thought and I might be wrong. 1. Twitter is half-fad. I can't see how Twitter will grow through the same trajectory like Facebook. They won't die, but, won't be as mainstream and active in the consumer space. The most sustainable use cases I see people using Twitter are

Re: [SiliconBeach] Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Mike Casey
+1 I also met Tim down in Melbourne. The guy is good value. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Elias Bizannes wrote: > But aha - you get completely different results when you concatenate the > words http://twendly.com/?q=siliconbeach :) > > As a sidenote, I want to personal vouch Tim as one of Aust

Re: [SiliconBeach] Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Elias Bizannes
But aha - you get completely different results when you concatenate the words http://twendly.com/?q=siliconbeach :) As a sidenote, I want to personal vouch Tim as one of Australia's leading enterprise technology thinkers. I've worked very closely with him at PwC and know him well. Tim is also an

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Mike Casey
We use Woopra, and its pretty awesome On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Andrew J wrote: > Our monitoring is a combination of both a local monitoring package for > capacity management and troubleshooting that operates in near-real > time, and periodic availability monitoring from a multihomed 3rd p

[SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Andrew J
Our monitoring is a combination of both a local monitoring package for capacity management and troubleshooting that operates in near-real time, and periodic availability monitoring from a multihomed 3rd party service for alerting on outages or unacceptable latency. The reasoning beign remote monito

[SiliconBeach] Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Bull
Hi All, Thought I'd re-introduce myself - I've been a long time lurker in this community (I was one of the early sign ups when Elias launched it). Recently, I quite my job of 15 years at PwC and co-founded http://www.binaryplex.com with Alex Dong - we are focussed on the problem of expertise loca

[SiliconBeach] Re: Enterprise Entrepreneurs Meetup

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Bull
We are Melbourne based, but I'd love to get a similar group off the ground here - any interest from Melbourne Entrepreneurs on networking around the Enterprise space? Tim Bull http://www.binaryplex.com On Dec 10 2009, 8:34 am, Mark Kofahl wrote: > Geoff & Enterprisers > > I should be now able to

[SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread PatrickCollins12
Pingdom for uptime and response time. Nagios for custom monitors and deep site inspection. On Jan 3, 11:15 pm, Jeromy Evans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can any of you recommend a real-time / continuous monitoring tool you > currently use for your site?  I'm mainly interested in monitoring the > num

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Melbourne Drinks

2010-01-04 Thread Aleksey Gureiev
Thanks Casey, I think I'll grab another friend of mine too. Hope to see you soon guys! - Aleks On Jan 4, 2010, at 22:49 , Casey Butler wrote: > Hi Aleks, > > It would be awesome to see you there on Wednesday. Definitely a > legitimate question- we are usually in the "front room" which is to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Melbourne Drinks

2010-01-04 Thread Casey Butler
Hi Aleks, It would be awesome to see you there on Wednesday. Definitely a legitimate question- we are usually in the "front room" which is to your left as you walk into Little Creatures. If you can't find us you can call me on 0412375740. Otherwise, just look for the people having the best

[SiliconBeach] Re: Melbourne Drinks

2010-01-04 Thread alg
Hi Guys, Just moved to Melbourne from the Eastern Europe (Ukraine) three weeks ago. Hope to be there at Little Creatures on Jan 6 at 6pm, even though it's light years away from my home office (Carrum). One question though, how do I find the right crowd there? Is it even a legitimate question? :)

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Aleksey Gureiev
Jeromy, It it's Rails app / site, I can suggest New Relic (http://www.newrelic.com/ ). Even on the basic free plan you get enough info to troubleshoot many problems. Not sure if it's applicable to your case. Aleksey On Jan 4, 2010, at 20:14 , Jeromy Evans wrote: > Thanks Casey. > > We have a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Dylan Jay
We use munin with some log analysis plugins to measure frontend and backend response times. Munin by default is every 5 min so not exactly real time Since log analysis is a little expensive you'd want to remote log if you want to do it more often. Dylan Jay Technical solution manager PretaW

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread David Jones
We use pingdom and nagios as well. Gomez may be of interest? On Jan 4, 2010 8:14 PM, "Jeromy Evans" wrote: Thanks Casey. We have a remote nagios host that does uptime and host monitoring well, albeit not user friendly to setup or use (http:// www.nagios.org/) I'm seeking something that monitor

[SiliconBeach] Re: real-time/continuous site monitoring

2010-01-04 Thread Jeromy Evans
Thanks Casey. We have a remote nagios host that does uptime and host monitoring well, albeit not user friendly to setup or use (http:// www.nagios.org/) I'm seeking something that monitors the response time for real user requests served (its logged, so it's possible), with a user interface as use