Last year, Facebook announced plans to build its second data center in the north of Sweden. The cold air means that Facebook won’t have to spend as much money on cooling, which reduces overall energy costs — by far the biggest expense in running a data center. Yesterday, the Green Data Center Blog noticed...
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Ever wondered if there’s a site to find the s%#t _____ say? Here you go
Unless you haven’t used in the Internet in the past two months, you’re most certainly aware of the mega-meme “Shit that _____ says”. For me it’s sitting somewhere between “make it stop” and “ok, that was funny”. If you’d like to keep track of the shit that everyone (and everything) says, then Buzzfeed has...
HP wins a battle, but war with Oracle rages on
Hewlett-Packard won a tactical battle last night when a judge hearing the bitter dispute it is waging with Oracle tossed out an Oracle fraud claim. But it also lost one — when the judge unsealed previously redacted documents that showed just how desperate HP was to keep Oracle working on software for HP’s Itanium...
This site mocks 37 Signals after it attacked a YC startup for stealing code
Over the weekend, Y-Combinator graduate Curebit was caught stealing code and designs from the very well-known 37 Signals. Essentially, code was directly lifted and Curebit was called out on it rather aggressively via Twitter. The Sharebooster site is serving even more images straight off the Highrise server:yfrog.com/oddh4zoj . Fucking scumbags. — DHH (@dhh) January 28, 2012 Developers...
Look, tablets are PCs, get over it.
Yesterday, some new numbers were released by analytics firm Canalys which placed Apple in the top position of all PC manufacturers worldwide. This move in position was largely due to the 15 million iPads Apple sold in Q4 of 2011. These numbers have sparked some talk from those defending traditional manufacturers like HP, and...
The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs
Incubators take pride in how exclusive they are and how many “deals” they “reject.” Angels and VCs, of course, discard most of their “deal flow.” And entrepreneurs? They seem to have confused the definition of entrepreneurship altogether. Entrepreneurship, they mistakenly believe, equals financing! This is wrong. There are numerous stories of successful businesses that...
Boxee officially pulls the plug on PC client
Want to run Boxee on your PC or Mac? Then hurry up: Boxee is removing all copies of its PC-based app from its servers by the end of Tuesday to fully concentrate on the Boxee Box. The company had announced that move late last year, and Boxee’s VP of marketing Andrew Kippen confirmed Monday...
This Trick Will Actually Make You Like Facebook’s New Timeline
See Also Here’s How To See Who Unfriends You On Facebook Twitter, Google+, Foursquare, Facebook, Path…ARE ANY OF THEM WORTH YOUR TIME? The First 12 Apps You Need To Check Out For Facebook Timeline Facebook just debuted Timeline Movie Maker, a site that turns everything you’ve ever posted on Facebook into an exciting montage...
As Facebook ‘Kicks Off The Social Era,’ Here’s What You Need To Know About Social Commerce
Samir Hussein/Getty Images Shopping! See Also INSIDE LOOK: Here’s How To Invest In Social Commerce Hey, Look Who’s Reinventing Retail Are We Trying to Reunite TechCrunch? Not Quite. Facebook’s expected IPO will kick off the era of “social computing,” BI’s Matt Rosoff declared yesterday. And within social computing, a lucrative sub-field is unfolding: social...
Amazon Sets Sights on Support in the Cloud
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. Need support for Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows...