links for 2008-01-26
- Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? – ReadWriteWeb: “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?” (tags: jabber, Networking, XMPP, XML, IM, web2.0)
- YouTube Readies For “Super Tuesday” With Mapping Site: …for “Super Tuesday” (February 5) Google is doing something somewhat more ambitious over at YouTube — call it “Super Tubesday.”… (tags: Google, youtube, News, Politics, government, elections, 2008)
- Google’s MapReduce Explained: “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” (tags: Google, database, Search, architecture, Technology, development, mapreduce)
- Put Together Quickly » Optimizing performance for WordPress: WordPress performance tips (tags: optimization, performance, WordPress, development, scalability)
- Podcasting News: Nielsen Moving Intros Real-Time Video-On-Demand Audience Reporting: “The Nielsen Company today announced the launch of Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new service that reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage.” (tags: video, ondemand, media, analytics)
- Web Site Attempts to Collect Every Rule of Thumb – ReadWriteWeb: “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.” (tags: information, HOWTO, Service)
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