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Amazon S3 Down for 7 Hours; S3 Clients Looking for Exit

July 21, 2008

Lukas Biewald lays bare his frustrations with Amazon’s S3 service, particularly after the recent S3 service outtage that left his FaceStat business offline for more than 7 hours recently.  Actually, Lukas has double posted on this issue - he has a much more scathing criticism of S3 over on his own blog:  “Amazon S3 Screws […]

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Google Promos Radiohead House of Cards Video

July 14, 2008

Radiohead has released a video for its “House of Cards” song that has the peculiar distinction of being a live-action video filmed without cameras.  According to the Google Blog post ”No Camera, No Lights, Just Data“, the imagery was created using 3D scanning lasers and detectors.
The video, hosted online by Google, is visually interesting, but the novelty is […]

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WordPress.com Adding Gears Support

July 4, 2008

WordPress.com, the commercial blog hosting company that uses blog software from WordPress.org, is adding Google Gears support to their hosted blog service. Initially, this will only speed up use of the blog administration pages by caching the scripts and images locally. 
This isn’t really the best use of Gears, since the browser will cache content as it’ is accessed, […]

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Google Employee Records Stolen in Colt Break-In

July 1, 2008

I’ve just received a letter from Google that personal data of Google employees hired prior to December 31, 2005 may have been stolen in the May 26 burglary of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.  No credit card numbers were in the stolen data, just names, addresses, SSNs - all the info needed for a thief to […]

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Between the Lines

June 30, 2008

There has been a bit of pot-stirring on the blogs this weekend. Dare Obasanjo reflects on recent migrations of Google engineers to Microsoft, using the “e” word (exodus). Dion Almaer fires back, pointing out that people move between companies all the time, hardly justification for the “exodus”.
Both are right, and both are wrong.
First off, I […]

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PicLens 1.6.1 Adds Search

January 29, 2008

We’ve just pushed out a PicLens 1.6 update that adds web search to the immersive 3D PicLens media experience.  This release runs in Firefox Mac and Firefox Windows.

While zooming around in images on the 3D wall, hit Tab to select the Search box in the top right corner of the screen (or mouse click on it).  […]

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OpenSocial APIs - More Detail

November 5, 2007

Although Google’s recently announced OpenSocial APIs are described as presenting a unified API for developers to tap into a variety of disparate social networks, the truth is the only unification is that the different vendors use a similar set of function verbs and response schemas.
OpenSocial is a pattern that a social network vendor can follow […]

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Google OpenSocial APIs - First Blush

November 2, 2007

Here are a few observations from my first 10 minutes of surfing around in the Google OpenSocial API docs.
Google OpenSocial has two sets of APIs: JavaScript for web pages, and ATOM / REST style APIs for server apps or “installed client” (non-browser, presumably native code) apps.
The ATOM/REST APIs are collectively called the OpenSocial Data […]

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Google OpenSocial

November 1, 2007

TechCrunch reports that Google is set to announce and reveal a new web API called OpenSocial today, Nov 1. This API is supposed to enable developers to build applications that can leverage an end user’s social network, but without requiring the developer to choose which of the many silo’d social networks to support.
The OpenSocial URL […]

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