Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Answer to amazon Web services: fully integrated hosted Python development stack:
“build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications”
“500MB of persistent storage, enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views”
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uses Twitter JSON api to find friends of friends and suggests following those:
GET /statuses/user_timeline.json?callback=tellTwubble HTTP/1.1
“Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and finds people to follow. ”
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“provide enough information so the other party reaches a certain level of confidence, but stop once you reach that level” Study on situations in which power comes from controlling the flow of public info as opposed to the possession of private information
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“Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence,” Vinge wrote at the beginning of his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. “Shortly after, the human era will be end
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“OpenID by itself can’t prevent spam. All it does is provide a globally unique identifier for any given user on the planet. This is where a [reputation] tool like Mollom comes in … maintaining an internal reputation for each OpenID account we encounter”
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“about the UI and how it affects the security and privacy… Usability is one of those very important things that the security world tends to forget. So let’s learn from FireEagle’s example.”
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Software libraries for XRDS implementations.
(by Chris Messina and Eran Hammer-Lahav)
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4 steps:
Getting your site off-line and return a 503 status code
Damage Assessment
Recovery: reinstall, patch, change pswd’s
Restoring your online presence
(from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog)
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