Firefox 3 Officially Coming Out Today
The wait is almost over. Firefox 3 stable will officially be out today, June 17th. And with the official release it is supposed to be a world record breaking day where fans of the popular web browser will have to download it on the release day. The Firefox Download Day web event has been organized [...]
Google App Engine Crash Lands
Well it didn’t take long for Google’s App Engine to experience its first outage. Today the service went down several times and came up again, and the cause of these outages are not known as Google have not yet released a fully detailed explanation than one on Google App Engine Group page:
We’ve experienced several outages [...]
Twitter Teams Up With Summize to Cover WWDC ‘08
Twitter has teamed up with Summize to cover the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) thats taking place today. With Twitter anticipating huge traffic surges during the conference and their downtime problems, who else can help them carry the load? Summize will track live all twitter posts that relate to the WWDC that is ones having [...]
Twitter On Life Support; Gets Ready for Apple WWDC
Well Twitter has gotten itself on a life support machine as it gets ready for the inevitable traffic surge during the most anticipated Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference which kicks off tomorrow. Twitter, which is widely known for its downtime issues than what is is actually good for, says it has done some tweaking, fixed and [...]
YouTube Add Video Annotation Feature
YouTube have just made videos on the site more interactive by introducing a new feature that add annotations to videos. Called Video Annotations, will enable video producers to add interactive commentary to videos such as some background information, a small narration or add links to other YouTube videos, channel, or search results page from any [...]
Robert Scoble: Most Overlooked Power Player of the Web?
Robert Scoble. Is he the most unsung heroes of the web? Most overlooked power players the web has ever seen? Most of you guys, especially those of you who follow tech, you must have crossed paths with him before and you might not have known it. Robert Scoble is everywhere in the social web. Like [...]
Ars Technica Acquired by CondeNast (Wired)
Ars Technica, one of the most popular technology blogs, has been acquired by CondeNast a media company that also owns Wired Digital. In a breaking story from TechCrunch, Michael Arrington reports that the deal is around the $25 million mark.
It is expected that Ars Technica will now be running under the Wired [...]
