April 21, 2008

April 18, 2008

  • Five Wrong Ways to Pitch RWW and One Great Way
    I like the use of RSS and Yahoo Pipes
  • Open Season at Yahoo?
    "Yahoo has been accelerating its open activities of late..."
  • April 17, 2008

  • The Great Email Burndown of 2008
    this reminds me of my diet plan...
  • CrashPlan
    Automatic Offsite Backup
  • Flickr Code
    a flickr site for developers
  • April 16, 2008

  • Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes
    good to hear how well baked this appears to be
  • Storage Space, The Final Frontier
    looks pretty straightforward
  • Procrastinate much?
    "Americans watched more than 10 billion online videos in February" Yikes!
  • Free Analytics Suite Coming From Yahoo!
    This is an important development for the analytics industry, but also for Yahoo! If Yahoo! can successfully attract web publishers to their free service
  • April 14, 2008

  • The end of Mowser
    "...I don't actually believe in the "Mobile Web" anymore, and therefore am less inclined to spend time and effort in a market I think is limited at best, and dying at worst."
  • Awesome: apt-get install movabletype-opensource
    HOLY SHIT! I'm so close to upgrading now... (Hi, Anil!)
  • Backups Moved To Amazon S3
    this is a common trend
  • April 12, 2008

  • HSCALE 0.1 released - Partitioning Using MySQL Proxy
    "a MySQL Proxy Lua module that transparently splits up tables into multiple partitions and rewriting all queries to go to the right partition"
  • April 11, 2008

  • Scalr - Scalable Web Sites with EC2
    forgot to note this earlier--very cool
  • scalr - Google Code
    "Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2."
  • How to use a notebook: 7 quick tips
    some goof tips from matt
  • The Death of Read Replication
    some food for thought...
  • Replication, caching, and partitioning
    greg mostly agrees wit brian but not completely
  • Zoombak GPS
    "Auto & Vehicle Tracker, Dog & Pet Tracking, Car Security Device"
  • nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation
    "nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines."
  • Dear Google Maps: Your public transportation options mock me
    I love how it’s all, “WALK THERE, YOU FAT FUCKER.”
  • April 10, 2008

  • Yahoo's largest investor doubles down
    "Capital World Investors increased its Yahoo stake to 10.1 percent, when it bumped up its ownership to 135,542,600 shares, as of March 31." Hmmm...
  • Scream Real Loud!!! on Flickr
    a video of what flickr will do if sold to microsoft
  • April 09, 2008

  • Yahoo Pitches the Lazy Developer
    '...give them tools, share your expertise, build a community, let them have fun," Zawodny said...''
  • Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A.
    "Former Yahoo senior vice president Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server startup..."
  • April 08, 2008

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