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The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running on Drupal. Hosting it on Azure provides a scalable, public cloud environment for SAG team. They can tune up or down the compute and storage requirements according to expected website loads, thereby getting a more scalable, manageable and cost-effective solution for running their site. SAG also gets the benefits of PaaS – no need to manage the operating system patches, virtual machine images, network topology etc. This is particularly useful for SAG as the site has stable traffic for nine months, but which spikes for the three months from when award nominations open to the night of the event itself.
Yes, You Can do Open Source on Windows Phone - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft
A long time ago, in an office far far away...Opera released a custom build showing an implementation of a 3D canvas context . Now, more than 3 years later, we are releasing the first public build with a standards-based 3D canvas implementation using WebGL for Windows. WebGL is a standard developed by the Khronos group , where Opera is an active member participating in the standardization process. We have been working on a WebGL implementation since early 2009, when the standardization process started.
Core Concerns - WebGL and Hardware Acceleration
So you still think the internet is free...
Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming.
How does open source affect company culture? | opensource.com
An open source company is naturally a company that produces open source code for others to consume. But how does the notion of producing software code in the open affect company culture? I believe that an organization cannot produce open source code if it is not generally open itself. By this I mean having culture of transparency and of openly sharing information and ideas.
Peter C. Horan is the executive chairman of Halogen Media and is the former CEO of About.com, AllBusiness.com, and IAC Search and Media. He has also taught in the Schools of Business at Seattle University and San Francisco State University. Jeffrey F. Rayport is an Operating Partner at Castanea Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on retail, information, and marketing services, and was formerly a faculty member at Harvard Business School.
Who Rules the Web Now? - Peter C. Horan and Jeffrey F. Rayport - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Explore museums from around the world! | MakeMagic
LONDON, Tuesday 1st February. Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen - Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum. The results of this partnership, which can be explored at www.googleartproject.com involved taking a selection of super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than a thousand other images into one place.Firefox 4 T-shirt Design Challenge Design Challenge - Mozilla Creative Collective
The goal of this challenge is to create a unique design that captures the essence of Firefox 4. The winning design will be printed as the official Firefox 4 launch t-shirt, a limited edition item featured in the Mozilla store and distributed to thousands of fans and contributors around the world. It will also be highlighted across key web properties like mozilla.com, the Creative Collective homepage, the Mozilla blog, our Facebook page, and more.
Lately, I discovered that I am logging-in logging-out twitter just to update news on my personal and fmag ( www.fmag.gr ) accounts. I have all the known browsers installed. Two different browsers can give me a relative solution, or two different Firefox sessions (Firefox profiles). I wanted something simpler than this, and because synchronous multiple account management wasn’t a Twitter website functionality, I googled for the well known TweetDeck. Somehow I ended up using Seesmic Desktop 2.
Social Networks - desktop clients | MakeMagic
Underheard in New York was created as a thirty day initiative to give the homeless population of NYC a voice. You listened- so many people listened. We received a lot of messages asking about the future of the project and if Danny , Derrick , Carlos and Albert will keep tweeting. We think they will- regardless of whether it’s with We’ve read the inspirational messages and encouragement you’ve sent their way, and so have they- Albert mentioned on Thursday that he now has “a little smile sometimes.”
Underheard in New York | Fighting homelessness 140 characters at a time
Image via Wikipedia The increased potential for generating surprise is a crucial difference between the kind of technology that most of us rely on every day and the sort that has arisen in the era of Web 2.0 and social networking. The more surprises a technology can produce, the greater its potential value.
IBM’s Strategy to Manufacture Social Networking Surprises - CIO Central - CIO Network - Forbes
Social media users grapple with information overload - USATODAY.com
Frank Franklin II, AP An iPhone user accesses his Twitter account. As social media toys such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube open more lines of communication, more people might find themselves overwhelmed by all the information. Toggling between Facebook , Google , Twitter and a handful of other online communities, he found it hard to keep up with a constant barrage of tweets, texts and instant messages. "There are so many things coming at you," says Huitron, 29, owner of HUB 81, a social-media consultancy in Santa Maria, Calif.Peartrees - is the social curation community | MakeMagic
Use Pearltrees to keep the stuff you like on the web at hand, to discover new things in your areas of interest and to share them with your friends. You don't have to create an account to read pearltrees. But only registered users can create pearls, team up with other users or follow some pearltrees. Pearltrees’ CEO introduces the cool new UI to web http://www.youtube.com/watch?Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More Disney has just acquired Togetherville, a social network for kids 10 years of age or younger, we’ve confirmed with the company. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed at the moment.In 2006, Lancaster University Professor Tony McEnery did a study suggesting U.K. teens had a vocabulary of 12,600 words, compared with the 21,400 word vocabulary of the average 24-35 year old. The study concluded this was the result of something dubbed “technology isolation syndrome,” a result of teens spending too much time online and playing video games without actually having conversations. If this is to believed, George Orwell’s 1984 predicted this in 1949. The book’s fictitious totalitarian regime created Newspeak to eliminate unnecessary words and adjectives with the goal of eliminating the ability to articulate thought. While there’s no suggestion of subversive intent in McEnery’s study, the outcome certainly sounds the same on the surface. I’m skeptical there’s any connection between the decline in vocabulary and a rise in technology use.
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