At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I took some time out to speak with Michael Scherotter about the Layered Technologies grid computing technology.

Grid computing is a system whereby many computers are assembled together to create one large computing system with vast amounts of processor power, RAM, and storage.

For those of you who might recall, this is the exact platform we’ve chosen to deploy Woopra on, and if you watch the video now you’ll know why!
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Folks, for a long time now I’ve held a virtual monopoly on the blogging scene. One Man’s Blog has been the ONLY Man’s blog. But now a new contender has arisen to challenge my dominance. Aaron Phillips has foolishly taken up the gauntlet by launching Another Man’s Blog! Silly mortal.

What’s more, in his latest delusional posting he’s taken to comparing One Man to Another Man. And to make matters worse, he’s even created Battle Cards for us!

I’d just like to say that these Battle Cards are completely F@$%ing off the mark! Clearly my “F-bomb” ability has been massively F@$%ing understated! I demand a F@$%ing recount! I’ll pay anyone $10 to do it!

I’m launching the first ever (un)official Woopra Live users contest. If you’ve got Woopra, and you click on the Live tab up on the top right, you can see the number of current users on your site at any give time. I’m kicking it off with the current record. So, lets see who can beat 1,352 simultaneous users!!!

The prize for beating me will be one crisp new US Dollar. Good luck!

Capitalism is alive and kicking. I was wondering how long it would take before someone actually began selling the invite codes on eBay. Now we know!

edalechick is now offering some presumably real invite codes that I handed out at some point in the past on this eBay auction.

Frankly, I can’t wait to see how much they’ll go for!

So for the 500 people last week who wrote me asking if they could get approved, here is your chance for fame and tracking.

Folks, I went to Las Vegas last week for business meetings, but during the evening I did take a little break from working on Layered Technologies and Woopra stuff for a few hours to go have dinner at the Bellagio Buffet, and then do a little gambling after dinner.

Had such a great time that I thought I’d share it with you guys.
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I downloaded this completely cool desktop wallpaper that makes your LCD look like it has been broken, and a bunch of people at work keep asking me what happened to my monitor. Awesome!

I had the honor and privilege of moderating a power packed panel at WordCamp Dallas comprised of Matt Mullenweg, Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss and Aaron Brazell on the topic “The Business of Blogging”.

The panelists discussed how businesses of any size might better incorporate blogging and other forms of new media into their marketing and product development plans.
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Folks, our friend Johny has uploaded a Woopra overview video which is so comprehensive it even taught me a couple of things about how the application works!

If you’re using Woopra currently, I recommend that you spend 10 minutes with the video and pick up at least a few new tricks. If not, you can see what all the buzz is about, and what you’ll soon be able to get access to.

For those of you who can’t wait till the closed beta ends to get started, there are two opportunities to get your invite now:
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For my long time readers I think we’re going to find out if the YouTube curse is real or not with this post. Here are two videos that summarize the “Best of Office Space”. They have been up on YouTube since November 12, 2007, so if they disappear soon after I post them, we know YouTube is monitoring my posts! Hopefully it won’t happen though…

Warning. These clips have bad language in them, and adult situations.
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Have you got a presentation to do? Need some tips? Well, here is a great Presentation that no only tells you what to to, but leads by example. In fact, you know it’s a good presentation when you don’t need anyone to give it… its completely self explanatory!
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Day 2 of WordCamp Dallas started out with a live taping of The WordPress Podcast, featuring hosts Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey with guests Mark Jaquith, Mark Ghosh and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.

In case I forgot to mention it lately, we want to thank our generous sponsors without whom this event simply wouldn’t have been possible (please spread the link love):

• Layered Technologies
• Find My Host
• 3Tera
• Automattic
• B5Media

And also to Tom Kraemer, the City of Frisco’s AV Manager who worked tirelessly all weekend to record all of the WordCamp videos.
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Breaking news folks. This story has been reported by Forbes, MorningStar, Yahoo Finance, BusinessWire, Security Sales & Integration, and God knows who else. The amazing thing is… the news was only released less than two hours ago.

By the way, Elie, Jad and I are extremely grateful to Layered Technologies and 3Tera for their very quick reaction to our need to scale Woopra, and appreciative of the pledge of this absolutely massive quantity of Grid computing power. Thank you very much team!

April 02, 2008 04:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Layered Technologies and 3Tera to Provide 100 Grid-Servers to Woopra

Rapid Growth of Real-Time Web Analytics Service Powered by Cloud Computing Platform

PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of “on demand” IT infrastructure, and 3Tera, Inc., the leading innovator of grid computing technology and utility computing services for Web applications, today announce support for Woopra, the real-time Web analytics platform. The companies will provide 100 grid-based servers in order to assist Woopra as it experiences a huge market demand prior to official launch.

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