Category: Technology

Eamonn points to the rather good Carling iPhone app:

I had a mess around with it today, a colleague in work got one. Hmm. It is rather nice, not much different to its predecessor. Would be handy for blogging, among other things. Should I, or shouldn’t I?

The Colbert bump is real. Firefox proved it. …we looked at downloads of Firefox 3 by users within the U.S. – and then we drilled down to a minute-by-minute view to see what, if anything, could be detected. At minute 23 of the broadcast, Colbert said, “Firefox 3 just got the Colbert Bump.” What happened…

Annoying music… anyways… So is this Google entering the virtual world Second Life market? Will it work? Will they do an Orkut/Google Video on it? *Big Brother tone* You Decide.

Er. What exactly is the newly relaunched Ireland.com supposed to tell me, exactly? It’s still in Beta apparently. It’s a nice site and all that, but why will I be visiting it in the future? I can’t think of a reason. No RSS feeds that I can see either.

An amateur astronomer took this picture and asked: What’s the blue blob? The Economist this week covers the story of Galaxy Zoo, the collaborative web project for astronomers that found the blob. Their blog is here. Earlier projects in distributed computing, such as SETI@home, which searched for extraterrestrial life, have used the power of millions…

Jason Sobel the manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, gave a presentation at Stanford recently. He explains how Facebook efficiently stores ~6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totalling 30 billion files, and a total of 540TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak. You can look at the presentation here. If…

The Atlantic’s cover story by Nicholas Carr this month is really very good. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store…

The iPhone App store opens next month… social applications like this will likely feature prominently. And I for one welcome our new 3G iPhone overlords.