“Automated alerts are useful in all kinds of more serious use-cases and why use polling to monitor changed conditions when you can use an open source protocol that can make presence and real time communication scalable?”

…for “Super Tuesday” (February 5) Google is doing something somewhat more ambitious over at YouTube — call it “Super Tubesday.”…

“Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce”

WordPress performance tips

“The Nielsen Company today announced the launch of Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new service that reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage.”

“A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess,” says the Rules of Thumb site. “It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark.”