Posts Tagged ‘GigaOm

In the GigaOm blog today, Allen Leinwand puts up a monstrous wake-up call to all the hip and cool Web 2.0 companies out there: Your apps run across the Internet [here].
I have spent 9 years investigating, diagnosing, and validating the Web performance issues of companies. I can tear the Web performance data of a site [...]

This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]

I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]

Google Hacked

In: smp

7 May 2005

Wondered why I couldn’t get my GMail for a while…
Om Malik reports on the Google Domain Hijacking.

Om has heard from Google and it looks like they were doing some DNS work. This is one the oldest parts of the working Internet, and it is the most complex and devious thing to get right. Entire companies [...]

Uh oh! Serious issues are starting to appear with the Google Accelerator, including security/authentication issues.
More here and here and here
C|Net’s take.
geeked’s take.
Geek News Central
Om Malik hits for six by declaring: So What? [here]
Radar has a learned discussion on the GWA’s impact on my other fave whipping post: 37 Signals BackPack. [here]
Tim Yang brings on more [...]

I don’t get the blog fuss that is being raised over Backpack.
Seth is likely bouncing off walls watching this IdeaVirus lift off. This has got early adopter pid IdeaVirus bzzzzzz-agent written all over it.
People…it’s a freakin’ to do list. Get a Hipster PDA and be done with it.
For what it’s worth…more on BackPack here and [...]

Om Malik points out a potential threat to blogs: OSX 10.4 “Tiger”. The new Safari that ships with this OS comes with the RSS reader turned on by default!
That upgrade while great for the consumers, could come as a big shocker for those blogs whose feeds are included as part of SafariÂ’s default starter package. [...]

Juniper just went nuts and made two really key purchases: Peribit Networks and Redline Networks. [here]
Redline is one of those really cool companies that helps companies balance their load, terminate their SSL traffic and intelligently compress content, all in a single appliance. We have a couple of these at work and the Operations team has [...]

Kottke has a great summary of the links for the Adobomedia/Macrodobe story here.

In my opinion, this quote sums up what is wrong with this merger.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools – and the complementary [...]

Om Malik is bouncing this idea around. [here]
As I said to a colleague, the deal can only go ahead if NorTel shows its “Get Out Of Jail Free” card.


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