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Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

If you are a Sony PS3 owner, you have possibly been waiting for the introduction of Home for about a year now. You were waiting for it in 2007 or Early 2008 when it was suppose to first come out, and now you are waiting for it again later this year; assuming it makes that [...]

Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810

Saturday, July 5, 2008

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The badasses over at Unwired View have figured out how to install the Android OS dev image on the Nokia N810 running the Diablo (latest) firmware; effectively replacing the operating system with Android and allowing you to play around with it long before real Android phones and devices will hit the street. The best part, it’s [...]

Gmail Labs - Experimental Gmail Features to Play With

Saturday, June 7, 2008

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Laurence Hartje sent in the heads up that it looks like Google has launched Gmail Labs, an effort to soft-launch experimental (beta) features for Gmail in a sort of sandbox that you can quickly enable or disable depending on if you want that feature or not. The Gmail Labs work represents what I feel are long-requested [...]

LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java

Friday, June 6, 2008

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This is actually pretty awesome for any of the Java devs out there that are concerned that Java is dying and Ruby/Rails/Flavor-of-the-Month is rising up to replace it… it seems that the huge professional social networking site (no, not MySpace) LinkedIn is actually written in 99% Java except for some in-memory C++ caches that they [...]

Amazon is/was Down

Friday, June 6, 2008

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Wow what caused that to happen? Amazon has been down for about 20mins, came back up briefly and is dead again right now around 11:08am PST. S3 and EC2 both seem to be running fine though, so maybe it’s just the store front? I wonder what caused Amazon to go down that wouldn’t/doesn’t effect eBay or [...]

Google Offering (Cachable) AJAX Library Hosting

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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Looks like Google has announced that they will be providing hosting for the following 5 (most popular) AJAX Libraries: jQuery prototype script.aculo.us MooTools dojo in the form of their AJAX Libraries API project, described as: Google works directly with the key stake holders for each library effort and accept the latest stable versions as they are released. Once we host a release [...]

Google Friend Connect - Social Networking for Every Site

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Laurence Hartje sends in some freaking cool news: Google has launched it’s new Friend Connect (Link will go live tonight) social networking service for everyone. This isn’t another Okurt, but rather social networking infrastructure that can seamlessly be integrated into any and all websites, allowing users all visiting the same sites to gab about them [...]

Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]

Google Maps, Street View - Buy Crack!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Marc Chung just sent this in, it’s awesome. Google Maps - Street View looks like it grabbed a great place in town to buy some crack

Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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(Author’s Note: No, using a half topless woman is not a cheap gimmick to get you to read this article… it’s… art… with boobs… so technically, it’s boobs-art. Whatever, you wouldn’t understand, you aren’t as artistic as I am) Grant Gochnauer and Marc Chung sent in a slew of benchmarks for the nightly builds of Firefox [...]

Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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If you remember our article from a few months back about Google taking the last decade to build, link and prepare to offer infrastructure services to the world’s ISPs, then this comes as no surprise: Google has entered into a 6-company consortium to build their own trans-pacific cable between the US and Japan. The cable will [...]

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid (BFF with Google?)

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Jens Eckels sent in news this morning that Yahoo has officially turned down Microsoft’s offer to buy them over the weekend. Yahoo felt the offer undervalued the company, but some have to wonder if this is the result of Google offering to help Yahoo avoid the undervalued buyout by Microsoft? Is anyone else relieved their Yahoo [...]

Google Android to Get Significant Changes

Monday, February 4, 2008

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Jumping out of the gate to a rocky start, Google’s Android was reported as being a “good start” but garnered plenty of complaints from folks that wanted to dive in head first and expected to fine a fully mature product. Most of the complaints centered around the lack of public issue tracking and feedback loop for [...]

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

Monday, January 28, 2008

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Nokia has agreed to purchase Trolltech (creators of the QT cross platform GUI Toolkit that KDE is based on, as well as the Qtopia cell phone platform) for $150 million. This is an interesting move as all the hub-bub surrounding Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance and the new cell platform, Android, was surprisingly devoid [...]

Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free

Saturday, January 19, 2008

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Google, using it’s insane computing infrastructure, has offered to begin hosting terabytes upon terabytes (likely petabytes when done?) of public scientific data so the community has easier/central access to the information. The project is named Palimpsest. Google also purchased the visualization group behind the Gapminder software (see Ted Talk video, very interesting) that was designed to [...]

Using GOOG411 - Free Local Information Service

Monday, January 14, 2008

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-With permission by Danny Sullivan If you don’t have a spiffy PDA phone or have internet access on our celly, you might find yourself calling information for various reasons. Some carriers charge up to $1.25 a call. With Google’s 411 service you can now put a stop to that. Call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and follow the voice [...]

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Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively

Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810

Gmail Labs - Experimental Gmail Features to Play With

LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java

Amazon is/was Down

Google Offering (Cachable) AJAX Library Hosting

Google Friend Connect - Social Networking for Every Site

Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code

Google Maps, Street View - Buy Crack!

Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements

Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid (BFF with Google?)

Google Android to Get Significant Changes

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free

Using GOOG411 - Free Local Information Service

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