February 2008
15 posts
IAB - Rich Internet Application Guidelines →
Venture Capital Wear →
WatchWhat will Microsoft do with these guys?
Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File... →
Sounds crazy but I got and unavoidable curiosity to look at these documents.
“sprmCPicLocation (opcode 0x6A03) is used ONLY IN CHPX FKPs. This sprm moves the 4-byte operand of the sprm into the chp.fcPic field. It simultaneously sets chp.fSpec to 1. This sprm is also used when the chp.lTagObj field that is unioned with chp.fcPic is to be set for OLE objects.”
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Inside MySpace.com →
Really interesting inside view on how MySpace’s infrastructure and architecture evolved over the years. To scale this huge beast is a hard task as Jim Benedetto, MySpace’s vice president of technology says, “It’s kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, where every time you finish, it’s time to start over again.”
Building the case for Email Apnea →
Email apnea - a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email.
Do you stop breathing when reading an email?
That’s probably why I can’t read any email longer than 5 or 6 lines without closing it after the first paragraph.
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Frozen Grand Central on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
MapReduce at Rackspace →
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NewsGang: The 5th Guy →
“It’s good for Google. Two elephants mating are always good for confusing...”
– Paul Kedrosky: Microsoft/Yahoo: The Shorter Version