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Social media’s story is far from over as Amazon acquires Goodreads

There are stories showing up now saying that social media is a trend that is becoming played out and on the downside of its hype cycle. I would argue...

0 replies - 694 views - 03/30/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Daily Dose: Microsoft Awarding $250,000 for New Security

Microsoft announced today that they will be awarding a total of $250,000 in prize money in a competition to create new security technologies for preventing...

0 replies - 20727 views - 08/04/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: JavaFX: The Resurrection (Java FX 2.0 Released)

This afternoon, the Java FX 2.0 release was made available in public beta format, signifying another big step in Oracle's plan to make JavaFX a premier rich...

0 replies - 27862 views - 05/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: The Voices in Torvalds' head say "Jump to Linux 3.0 "

The Linux kernel developer mailing list featured a message from Linus Torvalds which suggested that he will most likely complete merging major changes for...

0 replies - 23486 views - 05/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - On April 4th, Co-Founder Larry Page Will Become CEO of Google

A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO. And who will take the...

0 replies - 14392 views - 01/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Amazon Adds DNS to its Long List of Services

AWS announced that they are now providing a highly available Domain Name System service called "Route 53." The new service is aimed at developers...

0 replies - 15363 views - 12/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - AWS Releases Java SDK for EC2, S3, and More

Amazon announced an update for its Eclipse toolkit at EclipseCon along with a new Java SDK. The development kit is a single JAR that helps developers manage...

1 replies - 20668 views - 03/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle's Eclipse Package Gets an Upgrade

Oracle's Eclipse Package Gets an Upgrade Oracles's set of free Eclipse plugins for Java EE development on Oracle Fusion Middleware just got a new version...

0 replies - 14963 views - 02/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection

Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection The GNU Compiler Collection Steering committee says it will support Google Go in GCC 4.5 or later. Google's Ian...

0 replies - 21785 views - 01/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 8142 views - 07/22/08 by William Vambenepe in News