Category Archives: web2.0

Spinn3r 3.0: New Features, New Architecture, New APIs – More Goodness 0

I’m proud to announce that we have just released Spinn3r 3.0 after more than a year of development. This has been quite a lot of work based on feedback from our customer base and ships with some really awesome functionality. Most of this time has been spent on architecture but a good deal has been [...]

Categories: crawler,spinn3r,web2.0

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May 19, 2009 – 7:11 am
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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

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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

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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

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August 13, 2008 – 7:46 pm
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Twitter Screws Up Again. 2

Twitter is down again… this time a partial outage due to S3. However, this time it’s their own fault for not using a caching proxy in front of S3. This is just getting to the point where it’s embarrassing.

Categories: startups,web2.0

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July 20, 2008 – 1:21 pm
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Monitor110, Spinn3r, Spam, and Blog Analysis Post Mortem 1

Roger Ehrenberg posted a post mortem of Monitor 110: Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept. That said, without a post mortem, without deep reflection, honesty and introspection, how can we get better and do better the next time? Quite simply, [...]

Categories: spinn3r,startups,web2.0

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July 19, 2008 – 2:47 pm
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More Compromised WordPress Blogs 0

Hopefully, this large WordPress 2.5 release will cause a few people to upgrade. We just found another 200 or so sites that have been compromised today. Not fun.

Categories: startups,web2.0,wordpress

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March 29, 2008 – 7:19 pm
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Highlights from Web Search and Data Mining 2008 0

The signal to noise at WSDM was great. The only conference I’ve been to in a while where I had to do homework after the talks (which is a good thing). There were some really good highlights from WSDM which I wanted to point out. I’m going to sit down with the papers and read [...]

Categories: search,web2.0

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February 15, 2008 – 5:35 pm
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Papers from Web Search and Data Mining 2008 (WSDM 2008) 0

The papers from WSDM 2008 aren’t yet available on the Internet so I took the liberty to upload them. There’s some good stuff here. I’m going to blog my notes for a few of these talks once I have the time to review the official papers. I wonder if I should charge $5 a copy [...]

Categories: clustering,search,web2.0

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February 11, 2008 – 2:57 pm
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Zeus IOPS – Another High Performance SSD 0

It looks like there’s another competitive SSD on the market. The Stec Zeus IOPS. I foolishly dismissed this drive before because I thought they weren’t disclosing their write rate (which all the other vendors are doing to lie about their performance). Turns out they’re claiming 200MB/s with 100MB/s write throughput. If these numbers are accurate [...]

Categories: clustering,linux,mysql,open source,startups,web2.0

Published:
January 26, 2008 – 6:12 pm
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