Arrington, Are You A Fuckin' Idiot Or Something? (9)
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"[Google] Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows."-Michael Arrington, TechCrunchhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/meet-chrome-googles-windows-killer/Why do people continue to take news from a person who fundamentally does not understand how computers work? Because he has new content for people to read, every day. People will read what you tell them to read, as long as you keep telling them to read it.
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aaron said:
ted stole my material. Fucker.
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MikePearce said:
Holy crap, I'm glad I got put onto this blog, this guy is a genius.
Are analytic DBMS vendors overcomplicating their interconnect architectures? (1)
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I don’t usually spend a lot of time researching Ethernet switches. But I do think a lot about high-end data warehousing, and as I noted back in July, networking performance is a big challenge there. Among the very-large-scale MPP data warehouse software vendors, Greenplum is unusual in that its interconnect of choice is (sufficiently many) cheap 1 gigabit Ethernet switches. A recent Network World story suggested that Greenplum wasn’t alone in this preference; other people ...
Online Advertising: What MySpace gets about advertising that Facebook doesn't (5)
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Both top social networks Facebook and MySpace redesigned their sites this summer, but while we prefer the look and feel of Facebook — isn't that nice? — so far only MySpace's redesign has actually earned its company more cash. ComScore reports MySpace served the most ad views on the Web last month and analyst Rich Greenfield says MySpace was able to charge major brands like Sprint, Verizon and Wendy's more than it used to for ...
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Eban_C said:
For all the whining about Myspace being so substandard, they get profit and business. Also, it is the best place, still, to interact with real people and not the "echo chamber" crowd. Myspace is more important to promoting my shows than any of the "cool" services.
Feed Update Protocols and SUP (6)
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It looks like Friend Feed is proposing a new update protocol for RSS which avoids the thundering herd problem present with RSS polling. When you add a web site like Flickr or Google Reader to FriendFeed, FriendFeed’s servers constantly download your feed from the service to get your updates as quickly as possible. FriendFeed’s user base has grown quite a bit since launch, and our servers now download millions of feeds from over 43 services ...
UNetbootin Creates USB-Bootable Linux the Easy Way (37)
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Windows and Linux only: Free bootable image creator UNetbootin automates the downloading, imaging, and installing of Linux distributions onto USB thumb drives, creating a persistent, boot-anywhere...
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jbussoli said:
This app is a great way to simplify the various ways to install a bootable usb linux distro. Nice to save time when you need linux quick.
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Peter said:
Convenient, really.
BeejiveIM (JiveTalk) coming to the iPhone? Sounds Good, Looks Better (4)
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If you’ve never played around with BeeJive’s JiveTalk, boy, you don’t know what you’re missing! Even though third party apps such as AIM and Palringo are available, I still prefer the look and feel of the JiveTalk WEB APP. I’m sure Crackberry Addicts can attest to JiveTalk’s IM supremacy. And you know what? BeejiveIM (formerly JiveTalk) is coming to the iPhone and from the looks of it, seems to better than ever. It’s planned for ...
iPower Backup Battery for iPhone Has Built-in Speaker too [Iphone Ipower] (7)
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Brando's new extra-juice supply for the iPhone (both gens) sets itself apart from all the others by having a built-in speaker, making it its own speaker-dock. Though it's a clunkily large beast, this is because it's got a 2400mAh battery inside, which can give your iPhone three hours of life and speaker action—probably handy if you're into movie-watching on the device. It's got an extending grip arm to secure the phone inside, a power on-off ...
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Jesse said:
Awesome, this thing is just begging me to hook it up to my bicycle's generator!
Can Cheap Switches Remake the Data Center? (1)
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Could low-end switches drive a similar shift in data center networking, currently the domain of expensive brand-name switches? Read more at our web site
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? (43)
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I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of twitter's minimalism) and am followed by thousands, on Goodreads, I follow and am followed by a small circle of friends and people whose taste in books I trust. As someone who loves books, ...
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Eric said:
I miss AllConsuming.
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Amen.
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Eric said:
I like the people behind the LibraryThing company and subscribe to their business blog, but I don't use their service. Shelfari is a rip off of LibraryThing, but now has the weight of Amazon behind so it becomes more interesting to me. I buy most of my books from Chapters Indigo and I've poked around the community portion of their website, but wasn't impressed. What I do use is the Visual Bookshelf application in Facebook and I wish Chapters and others would stop trying to re-invent social components and plug-in to the Facebook platform.
In-Database MapReduce Functions: Not Your Granddaddy’s UDF (1)
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Pardon the tongue-in-cheek analogy to Oldsmobile when describing user-defined functions (UDFs), but I want to draw out some distinctions between this new class of functions that In-Database MapReduce enables. While similar on the surface, in practice there are stark differences between Aster In-Database MapReduce and traditional UDF’s. MapReduce is a framework that parallelizes procedural programs to offload traditional cluster programming. UDF’s are simple database functions and while there are some syntactic similarities, that’s where the ...
Google Will Now Manage Your Website’s Ads (64)
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Last March, Google began inviting a select number of publishers within its AdSense network to test a new hosted advertisement management tool called Google Ad Manager. The search company has now announced that the tool is out of beta and available to all publishers with AdSense accounts. Since its unveiling, Google Ad Manager has been seen as a direct threat to OpenX, an on-premise software solution (known previously as OpenAds and phpAdsNew) for managing the ...
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Eduo said:
Cualquier cosa que haga de la publicidad (un mal necesario) algo más manejable y relevante tiene que ser bueno.
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lkratz said:
on remplace openX ?
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etlund said:
This looks like it might be a free, hosted alternative to ABMXE. Apparently allow us to serve our own ads along with ads from other networks.
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YuSuPh said:
ne kadar reklamlarınızı yönetin vizyonuyla yaklaşsa da aslında analiz ederek bizler sayesinde daha çok şey öğrenmeyi hedefliyor.
Google Will Now Manage Your Website’s Ads (60)
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Last March, Google began inviting a select number of publishers within its AdSense network to test a new hosted advertisement management tool called Google Ad Manager. The search company has now announced that the tool is out of beta and available to all publishers with AdSense accounts. Since its unveiling, Google Ad Manager has been seen as a direct threat to OpenX, an on-premise software solution (known previously as OpenAds and phpAdsNew) for managing the ...
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etlund said:
This looks like it might be a free, hosted alternative to ABMXE. Apparently allow us to serve our own ads along with ads from other networks.
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lkratz said:
on remplace openX ?
Known applications of MapReduce (5)
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Most of the actual MapReduce applications I’ve heard of fall into a few areas: Text tokenization, indexing, and search Creation of other kinds of data structures (e.g., graphs) Data mining and machine learning That covers all MapReduce apps I recall hearing about via commercial companies and users, and also includes most of what’s in the two big sources I found online. To wit: 1. In a slide presentation, Google offers the following applications of MapReduce: ...
Why MapReduce matters to SQL data warehousing (2)
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Greenplum and Aster Data have both just announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL MPP data warehouse products. So why do I think this could be a big deal? The short answer is “Because MapReduce offers dramatic performance gains in analytic application areas that still need great performance speed-up.” The long answer goes something like this. The core ideas of MapReduce are: For large problems, parallel computing is much more cost effective and/or feasible ...
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Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.