The other day I was perusing my FriendFeed and musing over the very sparse response I tend to receive over my feed items. I wondered who were the people who were the most interested in my postings. My first thought was that the FF Like Compatibility Calculator would tell me, but I realized that was [...]

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Wow, I just got this in my mailbox this morning, Amazon is in beta right now with a Content Delivery Service (CDS). They’ll be competing with the likes of CDS giant Akamai in putting content closer to the end user. (CDS’s take your web content, like images or video or whatever, put them in datacenters [...]

Categories: amazon · hosting · web service

I know, the big news on scaling (or the lack thereof) has been Twitter. More internet agitation on a given service, I have rarely seen. (oddly in the avalanche of complains, the one I like best is Winer’s where he suggests, rightly, that there is no replacement for Twitter, its energy is just evaporating). We’ll [...]

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Include:
Poster?
Commenters?
My Comments?

Thanks for playing! Wouldn’t you like to subscribe to my RSS feed? I’ve got a couple more FF projects in the works and I’ll be posting them here.

And that’s all for now, feel free to grab the javascript if you’re so inclined. :)
UPDATE Tue Jun 3 13:38:20 EDT 2008: [...]

Categories: friendfeed · web service

Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]

Categories: amazon · google · hosting · web service · yahoo

During those dark days when my blog was down Microsoft launched the tech preview of their Live Mesh platform. Much blogging ensued. Scott said, and to a pretty good point I agree, that Mesh embodied everything that is wrong with Microsoft. By taking an idea, and building and building and building it into some overly [...]

Categories: microsoft · web service

There comes a time in every web2.0ers life where corners must be rounded. In an old GeekFindr we discussed CurvyCorners which allows you to round your divs (more or less) very easily if not incredibly efficiently. Now comes RoundPic which helps you round your images.
It’s a super simple tool that allows you to upload an [...]

Categories: design · geekfindr · web service · web2.0

Anyone here use CoComment? I’m testing it out here - basically it’s a service that people can use to track their comments, so they can go to the cocomment site and see all the comments they’ve made and if there are new ones. I kinda like the idea - some sites offer to email you [...]

Categories: navel gazing · web service · web2.0