Nice tips for twitter newbies.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Facebook Chat Escapes the Walled Garden
Nonetheless Digsby, a multiprotocol desktop client like Trillian and Adium but with more social network integrations, has figured out a way to incorporate Facebook Chat. Digsby users can now chat with their Facebook friends alongside their AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber contacts. And they don’t even have to visit Facebook to do so.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB
Scalr - Scalable Web Sites with EC2
Intridea released Scalr in an open-source form. Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing, self-hosting EC2 environment.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Official Gmail Blog: Arrow indicators reveal who actually sent you email
When enabled, "personal level indicators" put arrows next to messages in your inbox so you can tell if an email was addressed to you, a group, or a mailing list that you're on.
Google Calendar Sync for Outlook
Google yesterday released Google Calendar Sync, a small Windows program that allows users to “Sync Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook calendar.” You can choose how to sync your calendars with the program, whether 2-way syncing, which will sync both Google Calendar and the Outlook calendar with each other, or 1-way syncing in which you can choose to sync from Google Calendar to Outlook calendar, and vice versa.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The War of the Brains
Personally, I believe there’s a difference between being respected by the company you work for and believing they “owe” you something. When I worked with the younger, newly graduated peeps in my past corporate jobs, I saw something amazing: many of them felt they were owed something.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Mozilla Messaging
Today we’ve announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I’ve been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it’s a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Why S3 failed
It was not a hardware failure. Rather, the service's authentication system, which verifies the identity of a user, became overloaded with user requests. As one person explained to me, it amounted to a kind of accidental DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, and Amazon didn't have enough capacity in place in one of its data centers to handle the surge.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek
With over four million downloads since January 2007, innotek's open source VirtualBox product has been quickly established as one of the leading developer desktop virtualization platforms. Now, as part of the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun's global development community, field resources and partners to make VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving greater adoption across a broad set of communities. VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side, switching between them with just a click of the mouse.
Lights Out for all of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Lights Out for all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Outage Shutters Twitter and Thousands of Other Websites.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent
The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent.
Ex-Googlers Launch Instructional Video Site Howcast
A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video and YouTube before they left eight months ago. They actually are going for a little more polish than YouTube, trying to bring some production values to the world of Web video.
Friday, January 25, 2008
InfoQ: Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns
Kent Beck is interviewed about his new book, "Implementation patterns", the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Simple way of persisting MySql data in Amazon S3 and EC2
Last week I was playing with Amazon web services, namely S3 and EC2. It is not very cheap for an individual to keep instances open all the time. But when you close your instance any data gets lost. Bundling an AMI every time you make a change is also not very practical.
So I modified MySql's init scripts to persist the data directory to S3. This reduces the amount of times that you need the re-bundle your AMI. Here is what I did:
- First you need to get the s3-bash utility. I installed it at /root/bin/.
- Store your AWS secret access key in /root/.aws_secret_key
- In your MySql init script (probably /etc/init.d/mysql), locate "start" part and place the below code before the command that starts the daemon.
/root/bin/s3-get -k <your_aws_access_key_id> -s /root/.aws_secret_key /<your_bucket_path>/mysql_data.tgz > /tmp/mysql_data.tgz
tar zxfP /tmp/mysql_data.tgz
rm -rf /tmp/mysql_data.tgz - Locate "stop" part and place the below code after the command that stops the daemon.
tar cfzP /tmp/mysql_data.tgz /var/lib/mysql
s3-put -k <your_aws_access_key_id> -s /root/.aws_secret_key -T /tmp/mysql_data.tgz /<your_bucket_path>/mysql_data.tgz
rm -rf /tmp/mysql_data.tgz
Don't forget to re-bundle your image after you make changes. Because of my laziness there is no parameterization in these commands. Well, it works for me.
Never keep your emotions bottled up
Second, it's absurd that when a customer asks for pricing, you won't give it to them. Instead, you answer the question with a question. I'm not even the slightest bit interested in telling you about our application and how we plan to use (product name deleted) for development. I just want to know your pricing and your license terms.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Twitter is burning down
Steve Jobs' keynote in Macworld 2008 is about to begin and twitter went down several times already. We will not be able to follow the event from twitter I guess. I will stick to http://www.macrumorslive.com.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Allow your work to age with you
Hugh MacLeod of the clan MacLeod:
There's a famous old quip: "A lot of people in business say they have twenty years experience, when in fact all they really have is one year's experience, repeated twenty times."
Thursday, January 10, 2008
NewsGator Sets RSS Readers Free
NewsGator, which offers the most complete end-to-end suite of RSS reader tools on the market and possibly the most widely used offline readers (NetNewsWire and FeedDemon), today announced that its most popular products would be set free. As in beer.
Via ReadWriteWeb.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Study: Height Gains Taper Off for Dutch
(AP) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Dutch, thought to be the world’s tallest people, seem to have stopped growing. Average heights have increased scarcely or not at all since 2001, the Central Bureau for Statistics said Monday in a new study.
Still, I look like a hobbit among them.
New Webmaster Help Groups from Google
One of the ways in which we continuously work to improve our service for users everywhere is to localize and adjust our tools for different regions. In November, we had a chance to introduce our international Webmaster Help Group Team and its guides from Dublin. Today I'm very happy to announce that we've launched three more Google monitored groups in Hebrew, Turkish and Hungarian.
Volitan - Flying Fish
Volitan is a 1st prize winner in both Nautical/Boats sub-category and Transportation main category in iDA. She is a new lightweight and futuristic concept boat for circumnavigating the rivers and seas, using solid-sails and only wind power and solar energy designed by Hakan Gürsu of Middle East Technical University.
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 - where users can take their data from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere and where vendors can leverage safe cross-site data exchange for a whole new level of innovation.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Google Talk Translation Bot
Google Talk launched two dozen of translation bots yesterday that you add to your Google Talk contact list and use them to translate between languages on the fly.
Haochi suggests language identifier for the service. And I would like to see someone combine this feature with twitter to be able to read foreign posts.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Pixar In-Jokes
Jim Hill’s extensive, illustrated list of in-jokes and cross-movie references in Pixar’s films. (Via DF)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Warning sounded over 'flirting robots'
The artificial intelligence of CyberLover's automated chats is good enough that victims have a tough time distinguishing the "bot" from a real potential suitor, PC Tools said. The software can work quickly too, establishing up to 10 relationships in 30 minutes, PC Tools said. It compiles a report on every person it meets complete with name, contact information, and photos.
Via blog.pmarca.com
Linux group moves ahead with Android alternative
The Linux Phone Standards Forum, or LiPS, has released the first specification of a new cellular software platform. Like Google's Android, the LiPS software contains APIs for dialing, messaging, and various other user interfaces; it is not however a complete OS, instead being a means of ensuring that programs made for one phone will also work on another, even if certain key components are changed.
LiPS is composed of major European corporations such as Access, Orange, and France Telecom.
Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft
A discussion coming up Wednesday in the parliament of The Netherlands that could result in mandated use of Open Document Format at government agencies there.
Ask Lets You Delete Your Search History
When enabled by the user, AskEraser completely deletes all future search queries and associated cookie information from Ask.com servers, including IP address, User ID, Session ID, and the complete text of their queries.
Friday, December 7, 2007
FeedSync
An interesting effort from Microsoft for unified data synchronization across different devices and platforms:
Everyone has data that they want to share: contact lists, calendar entries, blog postings, and so on. This data must be up-to-date, real-time, across any of the programs, services, or devices you choose to use and share with.
Too often today data is “locked up” in proprietary applications and services or on various devices. As an open extension to RSS and Atom, FeedSync enables you to “unlock” your data—making it easy to synchronize the data you choose to any other authorized FeedSync-enabled service, computer, or mobile device.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
MTV To Give South Park Episodes For Free
MTV Networks will make every episode of South Park available for free online next year.
Mobile Google Maps gets My Location feature
And it works without GPS, using the location of the GSM Base Station that you are connected to.
Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat
The new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two additions to Gmail's built-in chat capabilities: group chat and enhanced emoticons.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Freeware of the Moment- Camtasia Studio 3
TechSmith, makers of Camtasia, realize that some folks don't need the latest bells and whistles and have made version 3 available for free download.
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives -- such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on with a password, and share them online with friends. It could be released as early as a few months from now, one of the people said.
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