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Google App Engine: Just Like Amazon; Now with More Outages!
via Profy.Com by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira on June 18, 2008
First came the Tweets: is such-and-such down? Can anyone else get into Google App Engine? Then came the blog posts and the endless discussion of "giving up your app to the cloud."The simple fact is that web sites will go down. All web sites will fail to work at some point, because 100% uptime just doesn't exist. Software will be buggy. Hardware will fail. And the best anyone can hope for is...
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Quick News from Around the Net
via scribkin by J. Phil on June 18, 2008
SwurlI’m playing with a site called swurl. Signing up is free, so I made my own site. So far, it smacks a lot like Tumblr, but it seems to handle aggregation of high-volume sites better, but the tradeoff is that there is little in the way of customization of the theme. You can specify a logo image, logo text, background image.. and that’s about it. But the theme does allow the content you...
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Command and Control: The Clash of Keyboards
via Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat by Stephen on June 18, 2008
The lowly computer keyboard is so ubiquitous that it can seem unchanging, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is one of the most important components of any system, and has survived all assaults by new technologies from the mouse to the pen to the microphone, yet its evolution is marked by legacy functions and terminology that can leave computer users scratching their heads. Today...
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Reaching milestones are a good boost
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on June 18, 2008
Sure Technorati may not be all that important these days or at least not as important as it once was but it’s still nice to make it through one of their milestones for bloggers.Just like breaking into the Top 10K which apparently WinExtra has now done. Granted that could all change with the next refresh but once you made it this far it’s only upward from that point on. A big thanks to my...
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Fav.or.it Finally Opens Beta To Take RSS And Commenting Mainstream
via TechCrunch by Mike Butcher on June 18, 2008
Feeds and commenting aggregator fav.or.it has finally come out of the door into public beta, reports TechCrunch UK. It has a large number of new features aimed at simplifying interaction with news sites and blogs. Founder Nick Halstead has now focused on the core goal of making feed reading and commenting as mass market friendly as humanly possible. Despite praise from the likes of Robert Scoble,...
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OurSignal News Mashup Launches
via CenterNetworks - by Allen Stern on June 18, 2008
Launching this morning is OurSignal. OurSignal is a mashup of Digg, Reddit, Y Combinator Hacker News and delicious stories. We've seen these type of mashups before. If the background color of the story is darker, the story is on the rise. If the background color is lighter, the story is on the decline. The larger the box, the more votes the story has relative to the other stories on the...
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When Did Splogging Become a Business Model? Fav.or.it
via The Inquisitr by Duncan Riley on June 18, 2008
First Keith Teare, now Fav.or.it. The long in beta service Fav.or.it has launched and despite word that it was suppose to be an advanced feed reader, Fav.or.it has launched with a portal that reprints content from other sites then tries to build conversations around that content, as well as offering a feed reader.I wasn’t happy with Shyftr for trying to do something similar, but Fav.or.it makes...
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Reddit Goes Open Source With Their Code
via www.centernetworks.com by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
Social news aggregator Reddit is making a big announcement today. They have decided to open source the Reddit code. I spoke with Steve Huffman to learn more about the announcement and grab some of the latest stats from Reddit. The open source license
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Where’s the Firefox for Search?
via Mark Evans by Mark Evans on June 18, 2008
Aside from the kvetching and grumbling yesterday about Mozilla’s servers struggling under the strain, one thing that struck me about yesterday’s Firefox download frenzy was how Firefox has emerged from an interesting open-source project to 20% of the browser market.When Firefox started, Internet Explorer had emasculated Netscape - leaving it with 90%+ of the market and little competition....
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Quick Guide To Social Media
via Regular Geek by admin on June 18, 2008
There have been several recent posts where people list the blogs that they are reading. It is an interesting idea, but what about someone new to the social media scene? What sites should they visit, what blogs should they read and why is everyone complaining so much? So, I figured I should highlight what some popular sites are, what some popular blogs are and what people have been talking about....
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