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Pirates Slowly Killing MediaDefender
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on June 02, 2008
This is not the first time we have reported on MediaDefender’s poor financial situation, now it’s looking like the company has lost the last bit of goodwill they had left.Surprisingly, however, MediaDefender - best known for spreading fake files on BitTorrent - does not blame itself for their losses, but the music labels. In their latest quarterly report the company explains the huge drop in...
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Sunset on Mars
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 02, 2008
Scott Beale says: "As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005." Link
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Brian Aker On the Future of Databases
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 02, 2008
blackbearnh recommends an interview with MySQL Director of Technology Brian Aker that O'Reilly Media is running. Aker talks about the merger of MySQL with Sun, the challenges of designing databases for a SOA world, and what the next decade will bring as far as changes to traditional database architecture. Audio is also available. From the interview: "I think there's two things right now...
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iPhone Apps Worth Jailbreaking For [IPhone]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
Shared by Bwana Well done overview by Lifehacker. This is a definite read if you're on the fence about jailbreaking.By this time next week, major iPhone announcements will probably make jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch unnecessary to run third-party applications—but right now you can get some killer features on your device by unlocking it the unofficial way. We're all excited...
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Delivery
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on June 01, 2008
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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 01, 2008
ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Biggest Under Reported Story: Google's BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon's SimpleDB
via High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. by Todd Hoff on May 30, 2008
... the GAE Meetup and prize winning science fiction author is wondering:It's surprising that the blogosphere hasn't picked up the biggest difference in pricing: Google's datastore is less than a tenth of the price of Amazon's SimpleDB while offering a better API.If money matters to you then the burn rate under GAE could be convincingly lower. Let's compare the numbers:read more
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Every Damn Morning
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
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Developers Are People Too, Don't Forget
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 29, 2008
Sometimes, in the race to declare one service better than another, to be among the first to say one product won't scale, one product will be killed or eclipsed by another, the rush of feeling declarative overlooks the fact that underneath every single one of these services we interact with each day lies people. In almost every case, especially when it comes to the nascent Web 2.0 market, the...
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Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 28, 2008
Today's news on SezWho's acquisition of Tejit stirred up, appropriately, a number of conversations around the Web regarding blog commenting platforms, and comparisons between SezWho and Disqus were common. But while some tried to paint the two products as competition, Disqus founder Daniel Ha publicly looked to open talks with SezWho, while, elsewhere, FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit...
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