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And it will still probably be on google image search, and then the wayback machine. In short: You can't close the door after the horse has bolted: If any digital content gets published there is very little you can do to take it away.

That said, they must be wasting a huge amount of CDN storage on these old photos!

I should imagine the decision about how much protection is applied to the system is made long before the device is accepted on various carriers. Ok, this is a 'made for T-mobile' device, but its likely it will appear in almost the same form on other carriers under another name and HTC branding. So, it would be easier to build in the protection other networks want at this this early stage.

Exactly. Phone manufactures are in the pocket of the carriers (as google proved with the Nexus one, you can't sell phones without carrier relations) and carriers don't like rooting as it limited their options to block certain software and services (e.g. VOIP / tethering).

Or you could install Ganglia for free.

Thats pretty awesome. Cute logo as well.

It would be great to add some more locations around the world.

If you add monitoring and alerts I would probably pay. Not that much as its already a corwded space, but I think a cheap alternative could get traction.

I wonder if its possible to have a business model of only charging when it alerts you to a site being down? E.g. we just alerted you to a site being down. Donate and we will do it again! Dont donate and I will delay my alerts by 1 hour next time!

No. Social networks are only useful when you can access a critical mass of your friends in one network. Thus, fragmentation of social networks reduces their utility for most people.

Uber geeks may want to try something else, but for most people facebook works and thats what counts.

The thing that would allow growth of some networks would be an open id style profile API so that I can interact with users from social network X from within social network Y. But why would any leading social network adopt such an API?

That is pretty cool.

Perhaps the most exciting use of WebGL will be novel interfaces on platforms like TVs and tablets, where smooth and intuitive interaction is key. I just hope WebGL makes it to these devices quickly!

Google is failing its users. Google is a machine, its does not have human intelligence. Google falls for simple SEO techniques, so that the first results for a query represent those site owners who best play the SEO game.

This is not a dig at Google, indeed its much better than it used to be, its just that its a machine with defined rules and will therefore fall foul of tricks (even if the tricks keep changing).

This is why Goole need to be scared of Facebook, as Facebook looks likely to be the first business to successfully implement a human recommendation level into search.

The core argument in that article is that Twitter somehow competes with Facebook in a 'social network space'. Twitter is a very different beast to Facebook, with different use cases and user profiles.

Facebook is a great 'social tool' that helps people stay connected with real 'meat-space' friends. Twitter is for following celebrities and geek friends.

Twitter is no magic bullet to compete with Facebook.

Cool. Its a promising tool.

I know from experience that image delivery times are significantly reduced using the get_serving_url method, so it could be a killer feature.

The hard bit will be that the cdn distributed URLs are not guessable, so you would need to communicate the cdn URL back to the app.

Not as far as I am aware.

If only the author would implement the proper google app engine image caching (via the get_serving_url) method. This is a true cdn (in that content is held close to the user) and allows dynamic image sizing by changing the URL!

We will have to see how much of a draw the Chrome web app store is when its ready. App availability will be a deciding factor, although google will have lots of work to do to get even with Apple.

Just to clarify: I do think videos have a place, its just that place is further down the line (e.g. I want to know more) rather than the 'initial introduction'.

Wow. There must be a big market for instant porn search. Anyone?

Does it work ok in IE (all the way back to 6). I cant find any 'browser compatibility' list on the site.

Yes. Does anyone else automatically hit the back button when you see a video and not a nice, concise, article?

Awesome. Good work!

Awesome. Now someone needs to combine it with websockets/node.js (or similar) so I can see the other players on the same page!

This is a pretty nice service. It also mitigates the need for a paid DNS service, as they host your DNS records using a redundant AnyCast network.

I think they are going to struggle to explain how to install it to small site owners. In my experience small site owners run a mile at the prospect of editing a DNS or nameserver record.

Cool, but there are similar projects out there. E.g. http://cdn-cloud.appspot.com/

Not sure that response times from app engine are that nippy compared to a 'proper' CDN.

What would be cool would automatically distributing images via google's image serving CDN. You can use the get_serving_url method in app engine to return a CDN enabled url for any image in the blobstore. Its super fast and allows dynamic image resizing.

Or "Marketing your blog"

Yes, because cornflour blue would be, well, white.

Any good examples of boobs in flash?

Yes. I have that. Its very annoying.

Cool. Would be better if it had a list of thumbnails to choose a different video.

Hmmmm.... The 1 MB limit in and out of the image service could be a problem.

Thats very interesting. Thanks!

Sounds very similar to what we have here, except we are storing the original files on S3 to avoid replication / redundancy issues.

I guess getting the pricing right is key to working out demand.

Cool hack. Of course, running GZIP on your server renders it all useless.