Ahold goes Google: International food retailer moves 55,000 employees to Google Apps

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There were discussions with Microsoft about purchasing the cloud service BPOS. "We then had a session of two hours with Ahold’s management here in our office. This has changed a lot" says the Dutch Google Country Manager Erik de Muinck Keizer.

Source here (in Dutch).

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Look @ http://gs.statcounter.com for your competitive information

Somebody pointed out http://gs.statcounter.com to me today. Maybe it is all old news to you, but this website shows the relative market share of :

  • Web Browsers
  • Browser Versions
  • Mobile Browsers
  • Mobile OS
  • Search Engine
  • Mobile Search
  • Mobile vs. Desktop
  • Social Media

All this with the possibility to look at specific regions and/or specific time intervals.

Pretty interesting stuff.

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Website monitoring status – Public API Status

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In line with a previous post, I came across http://api-status.com (powered by watchmouse). This website monitors the availability and uptime of 25+ public API’s and cloud services (for example Google Search, Apps, Bing, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter). The website calls the API and if a response is not received within a few seconds, the API is registered as ‘not available’. The availability percentage is measured against the amount of errors. By clicking the name of the API, you get more detailed information. I hope they add an RSS feed soon. (for more info on available internet API’s, I suggest www.programmableweb.com).

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