Sources Confirm Location of Twitter’s Utah Data Center
It’s pretty much confirmed at the moment. Twitter, according to just about every employee at SEO.com and the people running lines to the building, is building their Salt Lake City-based hosting facility in the old Linux Networks offices right next to SEO.com in Bluffdale. Shortly after my last post about the new job opening in […]
Read more...Twitter Opens Up First Job Opening for its Utah Data Center
Just a few days ago, Twitter announced it was opening a new data center in Salt Lake City, Utah in order to expand its ability to accomodate its ever growing user base. The announcement was still somewhat vague, not specifying much about how many local jobs would be available and where in the Valley the […]
Read more...Texas Proves Once Again Everything is Bigger, Even on Facebook
If you ask which State is biggest on Facebook, at least if you ask a Texan, the winner would be Texas. Today at about 11:30pm Central, the Facebook Page, “I bet Texas can get 1 million fans before any other state.” did just what it set out to do – it became the first Facebook […]
Read more...Buzz Opens the Firehose With New API Features
Just a few minutes ago, on his Buzz update stream, Google employee DeWitt Clinton announced that Google had opened up their real-time stream of information for Buzz. Now, any application can access, in real-time, all updates across the entire service as they come through. This incredible stream of information will serve useful to Data warehousing […]
Read more...To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required
Just the other day a kind Single mother was nice enough to share a story with me about how, as a newly Single mother, one of my books had helped her get off the ground and start her own business. It’s something I never thought of before, and I admit, I was very touched (and […]
Read more...Breaking Down the Signal – The Android, iOS, and WebOS Comparison
There’s no shortage of criticism, complaint, or praise of the various mobile operating systems. The iPhone, Android, the Pre, or even Blackberry and Windows Mobile – no matter which phone you review you’re bound to find someone who either absolutely loves the device they own or completely hates those that do. I tried to make […]
Read more...For the Dads
This is so my life right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog
Read more...LDS Church Launches New, "Social" Mormon.org for Learning About Mormons
Just last night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a newly redesigned Mormon.org to help those that are not members of the LDS Faith to know who their Mormon neighbors are. The site, which takes a more “Social” approach to learn about the Faith, attempts to show you who your Mormon friends […]
Read more...Name a Better Phone
Let’s put all partialities aside. Currently, I own an iPhone, an Evo (which I’m borrowing through work for testing), and a Pre (my work phone). I have been a Windows user most of my life, and spent 2 or 3 years with Linux on my desktop. In the PDA days I ran a Palm Pilot, […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Custom Publishers – Kills 15,000 of My Users Too
What’s a lot for one site may be miniscule for another. Recently, Facebook announced they were removing the ability for developers to write custom Publisher boxes “due to low usage” of the feature on the site. The feature, which enabled any application to customize the publishing experience for users, was a little-known, and little-advertised feature known […]
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