Looks like the news is official - Feedburner has been acquired by Google. Congrats to Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt and Brad Feld.
MessageCast was part of the Mobius group of RSS-related companies (Feedburner, Newsgator and others) I met Dick and Eric on multiple occasions - great guys with a great outcome!
Great news for Brad also - his RSS investments are looking quite prescient right about now
Tags: Feedburner, MessageCast, Mobius
Two years ago today, we became employees of Microsoft via the acquisition of MessageCast.
In that time, much has transpired - lots of travel to Redmond, data center moves, Windows Live and more. It wasn't always easy, but the MessageCast team stuck together, brought on additional team members (even some old iPrint-ers) and have moved the ball forward.
Thanks guys, we did it!
Tags: iPrint, MessageCast, Microsoft
Two interesting presentations from this years' MySQL Conference
- Capacity Planning for LAMP - John Allspaw the Engineering Manager at flickr talks about how they use Ganglia (pdf).
My favorite excerpt:
Accept the observer effect
* measurement is a necessity
* it's not optional
- Wikipedia: Site Internals, Configuration and Code Examples, and Management Issues - Domas Mituzas (MySQL and Wikimedia) talks about the internals of scaling a large site like Wikipedia (pdf). There is a good section on caching with memcached, although it applies to caching in general.
After the first day of the Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone West, I read Steve Rubel's post "Irrational Exuberance 2.0". I don't know that he is correct, but it was in the back of my mind all day today.
... Web 2.0 Expo feels eerily like Internet World circa 1999
Food for thought (or at least something to think about while one is sitting on 101 trying to get to SF)
Highlights on Day 2
* Eric Schmidt with John Battelle - Battelle is a great interview, so much better than the Tim O'Reilly/Jeff Bezos infomercial from Day 1
* James Hamilton on Commodity Data Center Design. I learned a lot about something I thought I already knew a lot about (wrong!). Really impressive.
* Owen Byrne from Digg - Owen talked about the early days of Digg and how he built the prototype for Kevin Rose for $2k. Interesting to hear how a LAMP stack, memcached and 100 servers run a website that just passed the 1 million user mark.
* Dave McClure - on-stage, getting the crowd to do some viral marketing via "The Wave". Way to go Dave!
Lowlights on Day 2
* Wi-fi still sucks and still no power cords in the vast majority of rooms. I don't get it, for $1200, you think this stuff would have been worked out. I don't have these problems at Gnomedex. Maybe Chris Pirillo or Ponzi should be in charge?
* Too many people - the sheer number of people is overwhelming. It is difficult to engage the speaker for more than 1 question.
Tags: Digg, Web 2.0 Expo
Sourceforge is looking into monetizing
Dear SourceForge.net community member, As an active participant in the Open Source community, you may be excited to learn about a new feature that we will add to SourceForge.net in late spring/early summer. This feature will allow you to buy or sell services for Open Source software on SourceForge.net. Interested? Follow the link below and we'll keep you updated as we move towards the official launch of this feature: https://ostg.wufoo.com/forms/marketplace-interest-list/ Thank you for your continued support, The SourceForge.net Team
I'm sure there will be members of the Open Source community who don't like this move, but personally, I think it is the way to go. Sourceforge provides a great service to the community and figuring out ways to keep them in business and grow benefits everyone. I don't have any insight into what they are thinking, but I would guess they are planning on becoming a services marketplace ala Salesforce.com's AppExchange.
Something to watch as they roll it out.
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I'm a long-time customer of Speakeasy - sure they cost a little more than SBC and others, but their service is great. I've had an account with them since 1998 with no complaints.
This morning, Bruce Chatterly, the CEO, sent an email to the Speakeasy customer base with the following news:
I am pleased to announce that Speakeasy has been acquired by Best Buy, an innovative and growing Fortune 100 company and the top consumer electronics retailer in North America. This is a significant milestone for our company as our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the No. 1 provider of voice and data solutions to small businesses. It is important to note that though Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, we will continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle.
The DSL/ISP space isn't one I watch closely, but this one sure seems like it is from left field. Best Buy in the ISP business?
Here's hoping that this remains true:
How will this change affect my service?
There will be no change or interruption to your existing service or level of customer support. All aspects of your service will continue to be managed by Speakeasy.
Reuters link
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MetaCafe support has now been added to Media Metrics. (Note that support for MetaCafe comment feeds is coming soon)
In case you missed the previous entries on media metrics: Part One, Part Two: APIs and Part Three: RSS
Here's a quick rundown of what is available for each service.
| Number of Views |
Number of Comments |
Number Favorited |
Number of Ratings |
Average Rating |
Comment Feed |
Chart Feed |
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| YouTube | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Revver | • | • | |||||
| Grouper | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| MetaCafe | • | • | • | • | • |
Tags: API, Grouper, MetaCafe, metrics, Revver, RSS, video, YouTube
Victor Solanoy just posted his photos of the day the original iPrint neon sign was posted on Highway 101 in Redwood City. (Thanks Victor!)
(It's a bit hazy, but I think this was 1998.)
So many things had to happen for us to get to that point ... hmmm, maybe I should write a book.
Tags: iPrint
Tonight I attended the February SDForum Java SIG in Palo Alto - specifically to hear and meet the Project Lead of JBoss Messaging, Ovidiu Feoderov.
I've been happily using JBoss MQ for about 3 years now, doing an astounding number of transactions on a regular basis. Getting durable messaging to work reliably took a bit of time, but it performed well once we got it up and running (this book was quite helpful)
The main reason I attended was to get a better idea of one of the main features in the new JBoss Messaging product, which has replaced JBoss MQ. Ovidiu had a great presentation about the latest rev (v1.2) which is supposed to hit GA at the end of this month. From the looks of it, v1.2 will be a significant improvement for High Availability (HA). The team has put quite a bit of effort into providing seamless/transparent failover for clients. JBoss MQ has the concept of HA via a heartbeat and a shared relational store, but v1.2 looks to really move the ball forward. Also of interest - the performance is supposed to be markedly improved.
Here's a post detailing the features in 1.2 by Tim Fox
1.2.0Beta2 link
I can't wait to give it a whirl