Amazon Boosts Storage Features In EC2 (24)
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Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the service is public today and available to all customers after a period of alpha testing with some users. Previously EC2 instances were able to access temporary storage as part of the compute instance, or persistent storage only on S3 - ...
Get Ready For A New Platform War. Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft’s Profits. (13)
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Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline access to web applications. You can probably recall the arguments at the time: who needs offline access, connectivity is everywhere anyway, not enough apps will support this etc. It wasn’t until a year later and only a few weeks ago, that Google ...
Amazon Launches EBS - Persistant Storage for EC2 (8)
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Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the service is public today and available to all customers after a period of alpha testing with some users. Previously EC2 instances were able to access temporary storage as part of the compute instance, or persistent storage only on S3 - ...
AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures (30)
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iPhone application development house taptaptap has published sales figures for the first month of sales for their two AppStore applications, bringing further insight into overall sales volume and figures for the online store. The two applications developed by the company are WhereTo, an application that provides a more general GPS interface to the iPhone with location-based services, and Tipulator, a simple tip calculator. WhereTo retails for $2.99 in the store and 24,094 copies were sold ...
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Alex said:
iPhone AppStore can make you tons of money! And by tons I mean a few thousand. This is pretty far down the long-tail.
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Austin said:
Ben Cost has WhereTo on his touch and loves it.
AppStoreのデベロッパTapTapTapが売上を公表 (2)
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iPhone用アプリケーションの開発企業taptaptapが、同社の2つのAppStoreアプリケーションの最初の1か月の売り上げ高を発表した。このオンラインストアの全体的な売り上げの状況が、これらの数値からも推測できる。同社の2つのアプリケーションはWhereToとTipulator。前者はiPhone用のより一般的なGPSインタフェイスを提供する。後者は簡単なチップ計算機だ。 WhereToのストアでの小売価格は2ドル99セント、最初の1か月で24,094本売れた。Appleが取るマージンを引くと、5万ドルを超える収益だ。Tipulatorは99セントで、3168本、収益は2千200ドル強だ。下表に、各アプリケーションの売上額と収益額を示す： taptaptapのAppStoreにおける売り上げと収益額（合衆国内, 初月） WhereTo TipCalculator URL AppStore AppStore 価格 $2.99 $0.99 売上本数 24,094 3,168 総売上 $72,041.06 $3,136.32 純売上（AppStoreマージン差し引き後） $50,597.40 $2,217.60 総売上合計 $75,177.38 純売上合計 $52,815 以上の純益と売り上げの数字は、比較的高度なアプリケーションと、とても単純明快なアプリケーションの計2つで、しかも後者でも月2千ドルの純益だから、小さな企業としては悪くない。つまり、iPhoneのアプリケーション開発は儲かるということ。AppStoreとiPhoneのユーザは、アプリケーションにお金を払う人が多い。iTunesと統合するとユーザはより利用しやすくなるが、デベロッパはアプリケーションをAppleに提出して承認を得なくてはならない。 [原文へ] （翻訳：hiwa） タグ: Apple, appstore, iPhone App Store 【関連記事】 最初の週末で3G iPhoneの売上げは100万台、アプリケーションのダウンロードは1000万件 iPhoneアプリ販売開始1ヵ月で6000万ダウンロード達成、どれも“キラーアプリ”には一歩届かず iPhoneのApp Store、「正式開店」前に$55,000稼ぐ iPhoneでVoIPアプリを試す 企業の評判ランキングでGoogleがアメリカで1位、世界でも2位。Tech Crunchでも調査してみよう
Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To (5)
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After the recent outbreak of a worm that hacked user Facebook accounts and disseminated through users contacts, Facebook responded with a post with advice to users on general tips about web security. Facebook head of security Max Kelly, a former FBI computer forensics examiner, wrote a blog post with advice to Facebook users including: As a Facebook user you can help us protect you by doing the following things: * Report any spam message or ...
Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To (23)
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After the recent outbreak of a worm that hacked user Facebook accounts and disseminated through users contacts, Facebook responded with a post with advice to users on general tips about web security. Facebook head of security Max Kelly, a former FBI computer forensics examiner, wrote a blog post with advice to Facebook users including: As a Facebook user you can help us protect you by doing the following things: * Report any spam message or ...
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...The Facebook security team have stated what is good practice on their blog, perhaps its time for them to direct their energies internally and evangelize support for oAuth and other open data formats as both a more secure and conveniant mechanism for data exchange.
Wordpress Security Issues Lead To Mass Hacking. Is Yours Next? (9)
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Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, Wordpress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other purposes. Recently there have been a spate of automated attacks which take advantage of recently discovered security vulnerabilities in Wordpress. The biggest problem is, Wordpress doesn’t seem to be able to close the holes, or even fully identify them. One such attack ...
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Exactly why I like Drupal :P
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Blogger FTW
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happened to me
One Year Later: FeedBurner Gains Google Server Power (25)
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Over a year has passed since Google completed the acquisition of feed massaging and hosting service Feedburner, and today some users now finally have their feeds hosted on what appears to be Google’s servers and infrastructure. At Techcrunch we have always been big fans of Feedburner, and their widgets and RSS subscriber counts have adorned almost all of our sites since their first days. At some point in the past 12 hours, the feed URL ...
Sitemeter Kills Thousands Of Sites For IE Users (14)
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In yet another case of widgets going crazy and causing havoc, a bug in Sitemeter has caused a large number of websites and blogs using the free web analytics tool to fail loading for users of Internet Explorer. Users of Google’s Blogger were amongst the first to report experiencing problems with sites running Sitemeter at 6pm pacific time on Friday. The problem has since been partially rectified, although some 16 hours later and without a ...
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So......Internet Explorer doesn't work too well and has bugs, this is hardly news. Love your web developers, use FireFox!
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Woopsie. Guess this is another reason to use Firefox ...
Microsoft Acquires Datallegro (3)
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Microsoft announced today that they have acquired data warehousing application provider Datallegro for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition was run out of the Data and Storage Platform division at Microsoft, with an intention to integrate the Datallegro application into Microsoft SQL Server and the data application suite. Microsoft are rapidly building out their data services offerings and have made a number of acquisitions as part of their strategy to compete in the enterprise market. Microsoft ...
Atlassian Announce JIRA Studio Hosted With Contegix (6)
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Atlassian has announced the availability of their JIRA Studio suite as a hosted Saas service. JIRA Studio is a hosted integration of popular Atlassian products starting with the JIRA issue tracker and Confluence, their wiki and knowledge management product. Atlassian has partnered with Contegix to provide the hosting for the new suite of applications. The JIRA Studio solution includes issue tracking, wiki software, SVN repository management, a single-sign on server and continuous integration. The solution ...
Open Web Foundation Officially Launches (30)
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This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon of Six Apart will announce on stage the formation of the Open Web Foundation. The new foundation is about providing a home for the development and ratification of web-related standards efforts. The foundation will be focused on developing the technical specifications of protocols used for communication and inter-operability between applications on the web. The foundation will also set out the legal terms and best practices for the ...
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Our efforts are supported by a number of companies and organizations including:* BBC* Facebook* Google* MySpace* O'Reilly* Plaxo* Six Apart* Sourceforge* Vidoop* Yahoo!
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If they can actually manage to make things happen, this could be huge.
Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division (12)
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Microsoft has just announced a major reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division. It will now be split into two groups (Windows/Windows Live and Online Services) which will both report to Steve Ballmer. That’s right. Steve Ballmer will now personally be running Windows. Kevin Johnson, who used to head the Platforms & Services Division, will soon be leaving the company to become the CEO of Juniper Networks. Steven Sinofsky, Jon DeVaan and Bill Veghte will ...
Facebook Connect Coming To iPhone This Fall (69)
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Today at the f8 conference Benjamin Ling revealed that Facebook will be releasing a Cocoa framework for the iPhone that will allow application developers to integrate with Facebook Connect. The framework is expected to be released sometime in the fall, and will take the form of an SDK that can be used by developers of iPhone applications. Facebook Connect allows applications to integrate the facebook platform and the identity of users into their own applications. ...
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facebook connect logo = septa
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Ben is kind of crazy, huh. Nevermind that it's not innovative. It'll be well-executed, at least in theory.
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Facebook Connect me parece una buena movida y meterlo en el SDK del iphone me parece una movida magistral. En vez de que los usuarios se lleven sus datos y amigos a otras redes, vamos a crear los "marcos" para que los desarrolladores produzcan alrededor de facebook, esto hará que facebook siempre sea imprescindible.
New MySQL Fork Turns Back The Clock (12)
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Drizzle is a newly announced fork of the open source MySQL project. The developers of the project are taking MySQL back to its roots as a light-weight web application database by removing many of the features introduced in MySQL 5. The fifth version of MySQL was in development for years as some users demanded features such as views, stored procedures, transaction handling, clustering and more. The early releases were bulkier and not as stable as ...
New MySQL Fork Turns Back The Clock (3)
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Drizzle is a newly announced fork of the open source MySQL project. The developers of the project are taking MySQL back to its roots as a light-weight web application database by removing many of the features introduced in MySQL 5. The fifth version of MySQL was in development for years as some users demanded features such as views, stored procedures, transaction handling, clustering and more. The early releases were bulkier and not as stable as ...
New Open Data Foundation To Set Out Data Formats (5)
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Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others. The goal of the new foundation is to set out the actual data specifications, legal structures around data portability and in helping to evangelize set formats. Saad says that the initiative is different to the Data Portability project in that it is details oriented around specific ...
What Role Did The Web Play In Capturing Karadzic? (8)
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News broke out across the world yesterday that Bosnian Serb war-time leader Radovan Karadzic had been captured after 12 years on the run. Karadzic had adorned the top of the Interpol most wanted list for over a decade, commanding a reward as large as that offered for Al Quaeda terrorists such as Usama Bin Laden. What was most surprising about the arrest was that Karadzic had been living in Belgrade amongst the public, even working ...
Yet Another Open Data Foundation? (5)
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Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others. The goal of the new foundation is to set out the actual data specifications, legal structures around data portability and in helping to evangelize set formats. Saad says that the initiative is different to the Data Portability project in that it is details oriented around specific ...
