Web Technology - Web 2.0
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:30:56 GMT
by Stowe Boyd, 156 South Park, San Francisco As many know, I wrote a blog for several years at Corante called Get Real, which is, sadly, still live...
by Stowe Boyd, 156 South Park, San Francisco As many know, I wrote a blog for several years at Corante called Get Real, which is, sadly, still live there. I say 'sadly' because the blog looks like an abandoned building...
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Stowe Boyd
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:29:19 GMT
Nope, this is not the title of a children's book (though it would be great as that!). Quote Google: Chubby is a fault-tolerant system at Google that...
Nope, this is not the title of a children's book (though it would be great as that!). Quote Google: Chubby is a fault-tolerant system at Google that provides a distributed locking mechanism and stores small files. Typically there is one Chubby instance, or "cell", per data center. Several Google systems -- such as the Google Filesystem (GFS) and Bigtable -- use Chubby for...
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Philipp Lenssen
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:26:21 GMT
by Stowe Boyd, 156 South Park, San Francisco Every once and a while I dust off my master's degree in computer science, and pontificate about the...
by Stowe Boyd, 156 South Park, San Francisco Every once and a while I dust off my master's degree in computer science, and pontificate about the deeper implications of the social architecture we are composing on the web. A lot...
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Stowe Boyd
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:59:20 GMT
I'm always leary of everyone's "Top" lists (tho of course I thrill to be included on them), but there's a joy, range and sassiness in Orli's latest...
I'm always leary of everyone's "Top" lists (tho of course I thrill to be included on them), but there's a joy, range and sassiness in Orli's latest list of 50 powerful women bloggers that makes me want to to share it,. (Okay, the list also makes me want to dance to it--she's got 80s disco as the soundtrack for a slide show.) Some of the bloggers new to me that I will be...
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:34 GMT
Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article's outgoing links will be "nofollowed." The nofollow...
Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article's outgoing links will be "nofollowed." The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link is sending to another site. So while you can link to Knol pages to give them more authority in the eyes of Googlebot and others, Knol pages do not pass this authority measure back...
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Philipp Lenssen
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:14:34 GMT
Google's new publishing platform Knol has an interesting feature to offer: authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per...
Google's new publishing platform Knol has an interesting feature to offer: authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per article*. The New Yorker started in the mid-1920s and collectively there's lots of cartoon content. I'm not sure where Google's partnership with the magazine puts republications of articles using the Creative Commons license (as the...
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Philipp Lenssen
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:10:37 GMT
Earlier this week, I received a greetings card from someone called Shelia who was using "Orkut Greetings" (supposedly a service offered by Orkut,...
Earlier this week, I received a greetings card from someone called Shelia who was using "Orkut Greetings" (supposedly a service offered by Orkut, Google's social network). Or at least that's what the sender of this email wanted me to believe: Those extra details are usually hidden by default, but I expanded them to verify that the email genuinely came from Google. It appears to...
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Tony Ruscoe
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:11:44 GMT
A month or so ago I sat down for a strategy briefing from Kevin Johnson, the then-president of Microsoft responsible for Windows and online services....
A month or so ago I sat down for a strategy briefing from Kevin Johnson, the then-president of Microsoft responsible for Windows and online services. I never did get around to writing what I thought of that meeting, partially due to a request from Microsoft PR that the session...
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:37:00 GMT
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redbarren
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT
Google App Engine: A Glimpse of Things to Come Mashable: "The Google App Engine (GAE), which is still in preview release, offers a free hosting...
Google App Engine: A Glimpse of Things to Come Mashable: "The Google App Engine (GAE), which is still in preview release, offers a free hosting quota that’s enough to serve approximately 5 million pages a month. Dave had to call a Google product manager at 3:00AM to ask for a much needed quota incre Interview: Andrew Paulson, CEO, Sup: Russia’s Web Revolution, Making LiveJournal...
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:29:52 GMT
Its good to be back in Portland for my favorite geek convention: O'Reilly's Open Source Conference. The overcast sky in Portland is making it a...
Its good to be back in Portland for my favorite geek convention: O'Reilly's Open Source Conference. The overcast sky in Portland is making it a little easier this year to focus on the plethora of excellent speakers and sessions. The first session to really grip and and speak to me was Rabble and Kellan's "Beyond REST? Building Data Services...
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Robert Kaye
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:44:25 GMT
Since we're in the deep middle of trying to get a product out the door, define our core purpose and value, and get the business partners, go to...
Since we're in the deep middle of trying to get a product out the door, define our core purpose and value, and get the business partners, go to market plan and so on all ready to go, a post by a VC I admire about a company he's committed to has to catch my eye. And of course when it's a company( meetup.com )that Brad says is using technology to solve real world problems, I...
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:36:10 GMT
Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subject. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had...
Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subject. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though there are many differences as well. You may also...
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Philipp Lenssen
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:46:46 GMT
The Google App Engine currently supports Python, but now Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal Brad Fitzpatrick posts this...
The Google App Engine currently supports Python, but now Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal Brad Fitzpatrick posts this bit: I'm happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine. To be clear: I'm not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine...
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Philipp Lenssen
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:03:56 GMT
Photo Credit: Kaia Gets Caught! by marcus_in_ny Kaia, the cat in the photo above (no, she's not mine), is symbolic. If she looks like an LOLcat...
Photo Credit: Kaia Gets Caught! by marcus_in_ny Kaia, the cat in the photo above (no, she's not mine), is symbolic. If she looks like an LOLcat that's my intention. Kaia represents consumer social networks and free collaboration tools like Twitter,...
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Steve Rubel
