It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion . You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge.
Just what is Yahoo buying? The business acumen of the deal is not something I can judge, but if you are doing due diligence on the technology then Tumblr would probably get a big thumbs up. To see why, please keep on reading...
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You know more women use Facebook, but did you know that more women use Twitter, tweet more and have more followers than men? [ 9 ]
Senior women age 50 and older control net worth of $ 19 trillion and own more than three-fourths of the nation's financial wealth [ 10 ].
Women have been starting businesses at a higher rate than men for the last 20 years [ 11 ].
Nearly 104 million businesses are majority owned by women. They provide 12 million jobs …
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Deeper integration for third-party services beyond just Twitter and Facebook.
The return of Google Maps.
A Q&A session with Tim Cook at the conclusion of the Keynote where he answers questions from anyone not named Robert Scoble.
The ability to update apps in the background without weird geofencing hacks to accomplish it.
A new App Store app that isn't a complete turd.
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This was attributed to Mark Callaghan from Facebook by Alexey Yurchenko from Codership at his conference talk . Henceforth this will be known as " Callaghan's law" in Galera circles forever, though he didn't immediately recall saying it.
Applied to a standalone Innodb instance
Let's break it down a bit. Our unit of locking in Innodb is a single row (well, the PRIMARY KEY index entry for that row). This means typically …
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It's been two months since I uninstalled all Twitter (and Facebook) applications from all my devices. I still tweet occasionally (using iOS/ Mac's Notification Center), but I make a point not to check the Twitter feed. I re-enabled email notifications for mentions and only log in to the web interface to reply to mentions/messages.
I love it. I want this to stick.
[1] Prismatic is a pretty great way of countering this. It usually cuts through the noise and gives …
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…For example, I believe there is no way a closed-source software product will ever be deployed in a Facebook data center.
No service provider lock-in. Customers should be able to choose who provides services for your product.
Independent expertise. Customers like to get trustworthy information that does not come from the vendor of the product.
A wide user base and community around your product.
Growing public knowledge: discussions on blogs, forums, social networks.
Well, of course, some …
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Finally, let's take a look at Facebook's recent experiment with WebP, as summarized by ArsTechnica : It turns out that Facebook users routinely do things like copy image URLs and save images locally... As a result, users were left with unusable URLs and files; files they couldn't open locally, and URLs that didn't work in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.
URL sharing is not an issue if Accept negotiation is configured correctly - see instructions …
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Opscode Commercial Customer Base Doubles in Past 12 Months with Half of Private Chef™ Customers in Fortune 500
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In the past 5-10 years, Facebook, Google and Amazon set the precedent for using scale-out compute infrastructure to more rapidly deliver goods and services. This is now a critical undertaking for enterprise businesses. To do so, it takes more than just coding your infrastructure. To truly keep pace in the digital economy, you must code your business . Only then will you have the speed to successfully compete.
So where do we fit in?
We - Opscode and the Chef Community - are the foundation …
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Deploying our Facebook apps live to the Heroku cloud in the EU was pain-free and as easy as staging. We're delighted to see an average of 11% improvement in page load times since making the switch. Consumers don't tolerate waiting, particularly on mobile devices, so Heroku's EU contribution to a snappy user experience is a big boost for Betapond and our customers.
Safe Harbor Compliance is Coming Soon
Heroku is not yet a registered participant in the Safe Harbor…
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