Monthly Archives: August 2008

Feed Update Protocols and SUP 1

It looks like Friend Feed is proposing a new update protocol for RSS which avoids the thundering herd problem present with RSS polling. When you add a web site like Flickr or Google Reader to FriendFeed, FriendFeed’s servers constantly download your feed from the service to get your updates as quickly as possible. FriendFeed’s user [...]

Categories: RSS,spinn3r,web2.0

Published:
August 27, 2008 – 4:39 pm
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In Defense of REST 0

I’m not sure why REST needs defending but apparently it does… Dare steps in and provides a solid background and Tim follows up… What is really interesting about REST from my perspective (and not everyone will agree) is that since it’s REST you can actually solve real problems without getting permission from a standards board. [...]

Categories: java,open source,REST,RSS,web2.0

Published:
August 18, 2008 – 9:16 am
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Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown 1

I bumped into Toni Schneider today at Crossroads and was reminded that we haven’t yet published our CMS breakdown. We’re going to be publishing live these on spinn3r.com …. This is based on raw posts per hour, with spam removed. Statistics can tend to give you a limited perspective of what’s under the cover. For [...]

Categories: web2.0,wordpress

Published:
August 13, 2008 – 7:46 pm
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John Lennon on Nonviolence 0

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&hl=en&fs=1] “The militant revolutionaries, ask ‘em to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised – militantly. Take Russia, France, Anywhere. What you do is smash the place down then we build it up again – and the people who build it up, hang on to it – and then they [...]

Categories: politics

Published:
August 9, 2008 – 5:27 pm
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Quantcast’s 700 Node KFS Cluster 1

Yesterday I had lunch with Sriram Rao, lead developer of the KFS project and compared notes about distributed databases. KFS is basically a GFS-style clone developed at Kosmix and then released as open source. Basically, a no-BS distributed filesystem implemented from the ground up in C++ to scale and actually get real work done. KFS [...]

Categories: mysql

Published:
August 5, 2008 – 9:44 pm
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