Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
We are always on the hunt for web technologies that add functionality and decrease development time. We have been tracking The Yahoo! User Interface Libraries (YUI) for a while and are finally ready to slap on the Deft Labs seal of approval :-)
photo credit: V.P.Tz.
Paradigm Shift
For more than a ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
We are pleased to announce the latest release of Xaddress. Xaddress is a simple service that enables you to lookup Geo data based on an IP address. We created the service for our internal applications; however, we thought others would like the new JSON and XML APIs.
http://xaddress.com
A special thanks to ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
After the recent Amazon S3 outage we decided to investigate why people use S3 to serve content. On the surface it seems like a good deal but if you actually investigate the bandwidth costs, geographic locations, reporting and fault-tolerance, you'll see it may not be the best deal out there ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
In line with our 2008 social predictions we've moved our public site from Google's Blogger to Automattic's WordPress. We were clinging on to Blogger, hoping they would release a mind blowing update but, they didn't and we couldn't wait any longer. Working with Blogger is painful and ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Disclaimer
The views expressed here are opinions and guesstimates for research purposes. There are insights that can be made about Internet systems; however, without inside information, it is impossible to determine the exact implementation of a system. Our goal in this post is to research the litigious ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
In what will undoubtedly be the largest tech deal of 2008, Microsoft has announced that they would like to get closer to Yahoo!, a lot closer. Microsoft is in acquisition talks with Yahoo! for the mind-blowing sum of $ 44.6 billion.
Forced Hand
Yahoo! has been under intense investor pressure for the ...
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