Geeky Things

You know? When Amazon started its’ elastic hosting services (EC2, S3 and SimpleDB), the world of web development have changed.
AND NOW, GOOGLE WANT TO CHANGE IT MORE DRAMATICALLY!
Google App Engine, is a full stack of web application development environment based on Google Infrastructure, so basically you’re deploying your application as reliable as google’s one.
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So excited to see this: Checkin 3457 of Internet Explorer at Branch (LONGHORN_IE8), finally passed the ACID2 test! So if no one in Microsoft screw up the work, we will finally have a real browser in Windows - IE8, and let the nightmare of IE6 and the disappointment at IE7 be history….
And BTW, where is […]

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Recently, everyone seems focused on facebook…
Beside beacon’s privacy issue, Facebook’s collaboration with ABC News had stirred up a lot of discussion and demonstrated a new model of news reporting through social network. ABC News started this trial by having it’s political reporters setup facebook accounts, so that readers can follow their coverage on political news […]

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Somebody got into trouble by pulling statistic data from facebook, and techcrunch have a coverage on it.
One interesting thing is, from the demographic data, one can found that the ratio of male and female user is 36.12 to 63.88. That breaks the normal perception (at least at my age of Internet) of Internet is geeky and most of the players […]

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I believe the world is changing, but had our education changed? And I really like that one — with all these changes, we still have so many people making less then 1 USD everyday, and the computer we are using cost more than many people’s annual income.

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