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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).See our previous coverage here and here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause...
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Sony verdreifacht Gewinn
via Golem.de by Golem.de on May 14, 2008
Auch wegen verringerter Verluste im Geschäft mit der Playstation 3 kann Sony sowohl Gewinn wie Umsatz kräftig steigern - im letzten Geschäftsjahr verdiente die Firma aus Tokio rund 369,44 Milliarden Yen, etwa 2,4 Milliarden Euro. Einer der Gründe: Die Playstation 3 verkauft sich immer besser - im Berichtszeitraum konnte Sony weltweit rund 9,24 Millionen Geräte verkaufen. (Sony, PS3)
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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woop
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
(author unknown) via Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics shared by 5 people"woop"
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Cleaning Your Display and Keyboard
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Let's say, just as a hypothetical, you're sitting at your computer, casually chatting up a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight some particular part of the code. Perhaps you move the cursor invitingly over the area to bring it to their attention, or gesture towards it with your hand.What happens...
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Architecture astronauts take over
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on May 01, 2008
... on the net, on Microsoft's cloud, and you would log onto everything with Windows Passport and all your stuff would be up there. It turns out: nobody needed this place for all their stuff. And nobody trusted Microsoft with all their stuff. And Hailstorm went away.I tried to coin a term for the kind of people who invented Hailstorm: architecture astronauts. "That's one sure tip-off to t...
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I Am a Google Reader Shared Links Ninja
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 06, 2008
On March 3rd of 2007, I made a list of 10 suggestions to the Google Reader team on how they could make the world's most popular feed reader even better. The tenth option was a simple one, which I titled as "Customization Everywhere", where I said "there's zero options to customize a shared link blog." As of today, only 14 months later, we now have the first user customizable options to...
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The Cuckoo Clock Speech
via The Jason Calacanis Weblog by Jason Calacanis on April 30, 2008
Just got reminded of a favorite quote of mine... (last 30 seconds of this clip)"After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that...
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The Emerging Main Street Web
via ReadWriteWeb by Bernard Lunn on April 29, 2008
This is the second in a 3-part series, by Bernard Lunn, on the new Web. Part 1 was The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition.Recessions change consumer behavior, drive weak businesses and models to the wall and enable new businesses and models to thrive. This recession is likely to have a greater impact on Web ventures than past recessions for two reasons:This is the first recession...
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