A new kind of freemium: Give away the whole, sell the pieces
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Om Malik is not sad
Why I am not sad. Because I have no reason to be! - 16 comments Earlier this weekend, someone used the Alexa web stats service and compared the daily reach of GigaOM with that of my friends at Techcrunch and that on Mashable, and wondered if I was sad. Now I could have easily answered this ques
A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular.
Do you really need more speed? I've heard the argument "you don't need a compiler, since PHP is rarely the bottleneck" for many years. I think its complete bollox. But I wrote a compiler for PHP, so I would say that. Unless your PHP server is sitting there idling (which is probably the case for
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A couple of weeks ago, technology blog Techcrunch was hacked . At the time of the hacking they were using the Rackspace Cloud Sites service as their hosting provider. Today I noticed that everything on Techcrunch is now pointing to Wordpress.com. If you run a traceroute of the techcrunch.com domai
How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month
So, their web 2.0 strategy is to run off the users drive and resources as much as possible and cut down net traffic. Wow. I would have never considered that to be 2.0, since all 0.1 games ran locally and MMRPG is relatively new, but what do I know. In other news, 75M people need jobs, apparently. I
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Mon, Feb 8 12:35 PM Melbourne, Feb 8 (ANI): Boredom can actually kill you, a new study has revealed. To reach the conclusion, researchers at University College London looked at data from 7524 civil servants, aged between 35 and 55, interviewed between 1985 and 1988 about their levels of boredom.
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We Love xkcd Feb 06 2010 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? PRODUCED BY ELAINE DOYLE & OLGA NUNES FEATURING THE AWESOMENESS OF: Neil Gaiman , Wil Wheaton , Cory Doctorow Lawrence Lessig , Bruce Schneier , Jason Kottke Google Zurich , Hank Green , MC Frontalot , Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden , Mr. Toast
Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? The diamond invention?the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem?is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few ri
Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
BY JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Google Inc. is taking a swipe at Facebook Inc. with a new feature that makes it easier for users of Gmail to view media and status updates shared online by their friends. Google could announce the new Gmail feature as soon as this week, said people familiar with the matt
Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)
Education is Ignorance by Noam Chomsky "Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for
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