August 2007 Archives

Yahoo! invests in open source project hadoop:

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2173262,00.asp

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph is an interesting paper from a person who understands social networking - the creator of LiveJournal.  Brad Fitzpatrick has looked at key interoperability issues and user requirements that are becoming harder and harder to address as more and more social networks and social-network-look-alikes are popping up.  With him being at Google now, I think this paper shows that he's up to something big.

Hmmm...  You gotta love this one baby!

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9760051-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Also on a separate subject, finally somebody was brave enough to say that the mobile social networking market is still too nascent...

I do not have the chance to do this kind of stuff these days, but I still like the subject:

Anatomy of the Linux Networking Stack

Amazon has made a strategic move to leverage some 60 million paying accounts they have in their system in their bigger picture of web services:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342430011

For a good review of the history of Amazon's web services, see Ka-Ching! from Amazon Web Services Blog.