Archive for April, 2008
Where Are All The Google Data Centers?
Google’s data infrastructure is massive and spread across the world. All that Web crawling, indexing, and searching takes enormous amounts of computing power, not to mention everyone pounding away at Gmail, Google Apps, Blogger, Google Reader, and every other project dreamed up at the Googleplex. But where are all of these data centers [...]
5 Reasons to Say Yes to Macs, When Your Company Says No
Sometimes, IT leaders are told that the company runs Windows, period. But that doesn’t stop them from wishing for the forbidden fruit: One CIO explains why he’d like to bring Apple to his enterprise.read more | digg story
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Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin
Deimos, the administrator of Demonoid has announced that he is stepping down for good due to his preoccupation with ‘real-life’ issues. For those tearing their hair out with dismay, you can stop now. The site will be resurrected under a trusted new admin and Deimos is asking the community to give him support.read more | [...]
The Best Sources of Content for WordPress Users
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, and I know many Daily Blog Tips readers use WordPress to power their own blogs. As a WordPress user, I enjoy reading about the platform and staying up-to-date with news from the WordPress community. The great thing about WordPress is the endless possibilities that it allows, and by [...]
Apple Rumors: Thinner 3G iPhones, All Aluminum MacBooks
A few rumors for WWDC have cropped up this week, with nothing but faith to back ‘em up. Most of the facts are obvious progressions and externalizations of the fanboy-tasies, or things known before, but here are some particulars I thought worth passing on:
• TG Daily reports that the 3G iPhone will be in 8, [...]
Ustream.TV Takes $11.1 Million Series A
Ustream.TV has taken $11.1 million Series A in a round that included Doll Capital Management and existing investor The Band of Angels.
Ustream.TV was in the first wave of live broadcast sites that launched in 2007 along with Justin.TV, BlogTV and Mogulus. Ustream.TV took $2 million in angel funding in December and appointed General [...]
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT they’re launching Google App Engine (link dead until launch time) an ambitious new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform consisting of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data [...]
