Squidoo Backs Down On 'Brand Campaign' As Many Are 'Not so Happy' About It
Squidoo founder and author Seth Godin has backed down on creating company pages by default as part of their new ‘Brands In Public’ service that launched a few days ago. The idea behind the new service...
View ArticleTwitter Should Decentralize (And Make Money) Via Twitter Server
The background debate about whether or not Twitter can actually scale has intensified. More than a year ago I asked “Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?” Today Twitter is far, far bigger. And the uptime...
View ArticleOn The Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not In The USA
A large number of web services are geographically restricted, such as Hulu, Pandora and Spotify. The reasons are usually to do with content licensing restrictions, or because US visitors (or visitors...
View ArticleGoogle Forces Web Standards Issue Using Sexy Buttons
Google made a very minor but significant change to their search homepage earlier this week. While everybody else was distracted by the barcode logo, a few Chrome and Safari users may have noticed that...
View ArticleLetting Data Die A Natural Death
The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Danger is the company noted for the T-Mobile Sidekick, the revolution in cloud...
View ArticleRelevance Over Time
When email was first created in 1965 it was used as a method to communicate between time-shared mainframe computers. Email has rapidly evolved since then, with the evolution of rich desktop clients,...
View ArticleYammer Extended Outage. Update: It's Back!
Update: Yammer is back! In a blog post the company explains that the issue was with a master switch. Yammer, the Twitter-like short messaging service for business users, has been experiencing a...
View ArticleTwitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability
We received a number of tips early this morning that the majority of web servers at Twitter was exposing server and load-balancer status information to the public. The status page, which are an (often...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Hosted MySQL Database Cloud Service
Amazon has launched a hosted relational database service, Amazon RDS, as part of the suite of services available at AWS. The new service is a hosted MySQL database instance with the full capabilities...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Hosted MySQL Database Cloud Service
Amazon has launched a hosted relational database service, Amazon RDS, as part of the suite of services available at AWS. The new service is a hosted MySQL database instance with the full capabilities...
View ArticleNeo Technology Commercializes Next Generation Graph Based Database
A new generation of database products and companies is beginning to emerge, and one of the more interesting examples is Swedish-based Neo Technology, the developer and vendor of the neo4j graph based...
View Article(Updated) Downtime At Rackspace Cloud
A large number of customers of Rackspace Cloud, including Techcrunch, have been experiencing sporadic downtime for the past hour or so. The status blog reports that the service was degraded, and other...
View ArticlePHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Leaves Yahoo
PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf has left his long-held position at Yahoo, according to his Twitter account. Lerdorf joined Yahoo in 2002 and has worked for the company as an engineer since. Lerdorf is most...
View ArticleFacebook: Please Back Developers vs iPhone
In July of last year, I wrote about The New Apple Walled Garden. The post was about the irony of developers and advocates who were otherwise open standards and open source champions being absolutely...
View ArticleTextbook Rental Market Heats Up: BookRenter Raises $6M Series A
Earlier this month college textbook rental company Chegg raised $112M as part of a combined Series D and debt round, bringing the total raised by the company to a massive $144M. Competitor BookRenter...
View ArticleappendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library
jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig, and immediately gained a...
View ArticleRockYou Hack: From Bad To Worse
Earlier today news spread that social application site RockYou had suffered a data breached that resulted in the exposure of over 32 Million user accounts. To compound the severity of the security...
View ArticleBarnes and Noble Nook e-Book Reader Rooted
The recently released e-book reader from Barnes & Noble, the Nook, has been rooted by the community of enthusiasts at nookdevs.com. The complete instructions for hacking the device and obtaining...
View ArticleTwitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy
Late last night the popular micro-messaging service Twitter was attacked and had its website defaced by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The Twitter homepage and the main application...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of The Twitter Attack: Part II
During and after Twittergate, when a hacker broke into a few hosted email accounts and obtained a number of internal documents, I had an opportunity to spend hours speaking to the actual attacker and...
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