Monthly Archives: March 2007

GrabPERF: Blog Performance Monitoring “GrabPERF, it is a free resource for performance monitoring” (tags: performance architecture reference Service) Zoli’s Blog :: How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail “The final solution comes from Google themselves: now that they … Continue reading →

Wachovia’s steps to SOA success | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-13 | By David L. Margulius “Wachovia Bank’s goal was vastly more ambitious: to transform its organization with a flexible new SOA infrastructure. Here’s the step-by-step plan.” (tags: architecture SOA … Continue reading →

S3 Firefox Organizer This firefox extension(browser plugin) provides an user friendly interface for Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) . Its interface is very much similar to the FTP interface that lists local folders in the left panel and S3 buckets/files/folders … Continue reading →

Ajaxian: Slingshot: Desktop Apps via Rails “Slingshot looks like it wraps up a Rails app and packages it in such a way that the user is opening up a Site Specific Browser that accesses your world” (tags: ruby rails RoR … Continue reading →

Video: Is it time to throw away your servers? | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com “simple math to show how a small business can save some serious money if it can figure out how to move from a physical hosting service … Continue reading →

Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year The audience for podcasts has grown 18% in the last year, according to an upcoming report from Edison Media Research. Awareness of podcasting has grown even more, jumping from 22% in 2006 to … Continue reading →

The Ups and Downs of Socializing Your Content : SEO Book.com Post about the value add and costs of adding a user generated content section to your site. (tags: SEO socialsoftware Search UGC community) Listen + Learn Brad has put … Continue reading →

Pay-Per-Action – Adwords – Google Google Launches Affiliate Network in Beta of course. (tags: Google Advertising Business marketing Service)

O’Reilly Radar: The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived “I expect GrandCentral to become one of the premier Web 2.0 and social networking platforms overnight, and it’s squarely aimed at the heart of the communications device used by more … Continue reading →

TagSoup home page a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for … Continue reading →

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. (tags: architecture programming caching database DB framework … Continue reading →

Users rethink Amazon S3 after performance issues “…some Web 2.0 companies said the service has room for improvement when it comes to retrieving stored items fast enough for e-business and maintaining reliability.” (tags: Amazon S3 storage performance caching) What is … Continue reading →

fring – Mobile VoIP application for cellular handsets “fring uses your mobile internet connection to make peer-to-peer VoIP calls, send instant messages and talk with VoIP applications such as Skype, Google Talk and MSN Messenger at no extra cost.” (tags: … Continue reading →

Verizon FiOS Fone: Sexy Multimedia Picturephone from the Future Is Coming – Gizmodo FiOS Fone, which it calls “the phone that pretty much does it all.” (tags: FiOS VOIP phone gadgets) Ruby for the REST of Us: Using Ruby and … Continue reading →

Amazon’s Series of Fortunate Events Exactly… “As a result, each company can focus on their distinctiveness and bring it to market as quickly as possible, without worrying so much about infrastructure.” (tags: Amazon S3 ec2 services ondemand SOA IT architecture)