Edwin Aoki - Chief Architect AOL Where it all began. * Commnuity was a a key promise of the web Webmail is the leading driver of page views. Email 9.32% of all page views Chat and IM take to the web. All the sucessful sites Mike mentioned are based around…
The future of startups and web companies The Magic formula Mike Arrington I'm scared of addressing brits due to TC uk, I want to say sorry for that. I want to talk about the difficulties European start-ups have. What's the right formula for a web start-up…
So I'm here at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. It's a pretty full house and the hall is packed out. There are some noticeable differences to this year's event. First I spent about 10 mins trying to figure out where the…
If you're reading this the DNS has successfully propagated. At the same time as updating the site I took the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 2.1. Aside from needing to change the blogroll categories and update the function in the template all went fairly well. The blogroll…
Using single quotes in BASH ensures that the shell doesn't expand the contents of the quoted string and this is useful most of the time. However if you want to use single quotes within a single quoted string things don't work out as you might expect.…
I've been following with interest the progress of Media Temple Grid Server [http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/], as I am certainly interested in a hosting supplier that can give some level of redundancy and thus provide a seamless continuity of service should specific servers experience a hardware…
I first saw this tip a while back on the Ubuntu Blog [http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/] and it's a useful way of using SSH to set-up private web surfing. Not to mention I've come across several public wifi installs that leave port…
MacFUSE [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/] is a implementation of FUSE (File-system in USErspace) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace] that is provided via a kernel extension. So what is FUSE? FUSE provides a easy way for anyone to create their own filesystem through providing hooks into…