What’s up with this? This makes me crazy Google releases the Android Open Accessory API but fails to ship ANT+ support? ONLY USB and no Bluetooth for now. This is amazingly LAME. Sony can ship ANT+ for Android but Google can’t? The demo they gave on the screen, with an Android game monitoring the pace [...]
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This is pretty nice. Google released Zippy as Open Source: Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster [...]
Tagged: bigtable, compression, gfs, google, mapreduce, opensource, spinn3r
There is definitely a war in Silicon Valley (and SF) for top talent. Todd McKinnon, the co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco software start-up Okta Inc., calls the competition for top talent “a war.” His company, which this year raised $10 million in Series A funding from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors, [...]
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We have a number of other pending announcements of researchers building cool applications with Spinn3r but this one was just too awesome to hold back. Researchers at Cornell have developed a new memetracker (cleverly named MemeTracker) powered by Spinn3r. Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom and Jon Kleinberg (author of the HITS algorithm, among other things) built [...]
A few months ago, when I was heads down finalizing the distributed database in Spinn3r, I was exceedingly curious about what other DBs are using for compression. GZip seems to be the obvious choice but its compression speed isn’t very good when compared to LZO. Your disks are almost certainly going to be bottlenecked on [...]
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Google is showing Feedburner redirect URLs in their search results. They’re using the link: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/topoftheticket/~3/408704356/palin-couric.html which is a Feedburner redirect URL which they use in RSS feeds to help in tracking. Google owns Feedburner so it’s a bit embarrassing that they’re making such an obvious mistake. This might be distorting the stats for the LA [...]
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Looks like Cuil might be hitting websites too hard with their crawler: “I don’t know what spawned it, but when Cuil attempts to index a site, it does so by completely hammering it with traffic,” the tipster wrote. “So much, that it completely brings the site down. We’re 24 hours into this “index” of the [...]
Ha….. this is what I get if I try to share an item. I guess they’re using AHAH?
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This press release on Mtron’s sites is interesting: In the second half of 2008, Intel will release both high-performance SSDs for use in servers and storage, and exclusive SSD models for consumer electronics; the industry is thus watching whether Google will introduce SSD systems. Google reportedly will be supplied with Intel’s SSD-embedded storage devices at [...]