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December 2009
*NEW!* Google Video Marketing: How to Use Video To Generate Traffic From The Biggest Search Engine On The Internet Today by Liz Tomey - Master Resale Rights - Download eBooks
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Daring Fireball Linked List: Google's 'Meaning of Open'
Google senior vice president Jonathan Rosenberg published a long memo “about the meaning of ‘open’ as it relates to the Internet, Google, and [Google’s] users.”
It’s the biggest pile of horseshit I’ve ever seen from Google.
colectiva » Retrofuturs
This series of 10 posters by Stéphane Massa-Bidal (aka Hulk4598 / Rétrofuturs) of the biggest social networking sites is very retro groovy and very fresh.
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November 2009
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook
The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.
Faces of the crisis | stories of the housing collapse in north carolina
The Berg: The biggest artificial mountain in the world | ArchDaily
October 2009
Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever - The Picture Show Blog : NPR
National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you've ever photographed in a forest, you'll understand the challenge this presented. There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net set for 'language shake-up'
Google LatLong: Evolving the look of Google Maps
Today the Google Maps team is rolling out a number of refinements to the look and feel of our maps, the biggest such changes since we first launched about 4.7 years ago. In that time we've been steadily adding details like walkways, address labels, bus stops, new country coverage, and improved satellite imagery, but the look of the map hasn't changed much.
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September 2009
Derek Powazek - How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in.
The Art of zen-coding: Bringing Snippets to a New Level - Monday By Noon
The biggest calling point for zen-coding for me is its implementation of HTML selectors as snippet triggers. zen-coding includes an entirely new angle to writing markup, and it facilitates the feature by letting you write HTML based on CSS selectors
Exists for a wide range of editors, if you like snippets.
Monopoly City Streets
My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform | Lifestream Blog
August 2009
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!: Bingoo! | The Economist
Mobile phone users and email | 世論 What Japan Thinks
One of the biggest differences in standard mobile phone usage between Japan and the West is that almost every phone here supports full internet email by default, with for at least the last three or four years support for HTML graphic email, and even now simple Flash authoring, and older handsets even have a fall-back mode to allow them to view graphic mail online. On the other hand, the West is still wedded to SMS. With that in mind, let’s have a look at a recent survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into computer usage of mobile phone users.
July 2009
World's Biggest Bauhaus Retrospective: The House That Mies and Walter Built - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
As it turns out, there's a good reason for holding the largest Bauhaus exhibition ever this year. "It is because this is also the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall," says one of the exhibition's curators, Klaus Weber, of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. Weber explains that there are three archives for Bauhaus memorabilia and documentation around Germany, one in each city where one of the schools was located: Berlin, Dessau and Weimar. "The three institutions used to cooperate even before 1989 -- but it was a little bit complicated," Weber admits. "So if it German reunification had not happened, then the three institutions would never have been able to work together like this."
June 2009
Video Search Engine Optimization - VSEO
May 2009
Articles de Engineering @ Facebook | Facebook
The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.
March 2009
February 2009
20 Steps to Better Wireframing | Think Vitamin
Possibly the biggest mistake in any development project is failure to plan.
Hell yes!
