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Git for Computer Scientists: http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

Peepcode screencast: http://peepcode.com/products/git

GitHub guides: http://github.com/guides/home

Yammer just moved to SF and is looking for some engineers: http://jobs.yammer.com/

If you want to slurp in some more data about the companies already in there, you can use the CrunchBase API: http://groups.google.com/group/crunchbase-api.

OK I checked it out. And by checked it out I mean spent three hours and beat the first four missions. What an awesome game. Smooth gameplay, intuitive UI, etc. Thanks for that.

One idea I have -- cut the demo off after the first two missions. I'm kind of burnt out on the game right now and needing a break; not in the mood to buy the game and play it some more. After two missions I was deep into it and most likely to convert into a sale.

Great title Sumon!

To anyone looking for a summer gig: come and work with Mark and me. We're two Rails dudes and we're having a grand ole time at TC.

What I like most about Omnisio (besides the Ozzie accents) is that they are tackling structured video. It's a hard problem, but creating a system that turns days worth of static conference footage into a highly navigatible (not a word) site is pretty awesome.

I wanted to mention a similar open-source project whose creator I met at SDSH 24: MetaVid.com. It's built on a semantic version of MediaWiki and structures the hell out of the Congressional video record. It's a pretty cool project.

AIM Away Messages for Geeks.

why_ is really one of those dudes who needs to be funded by the community to work full-time on his awesome, wild projects. He is le-git.

Just to keep the conversation going: what do you think Twitter's main issues are ? (Or do you think their downtime is not worth mentioning?)

Yeah I think your question is a fair one.

But I don't think it's ridiculous to assume that the stability and operational functionality of a website is primarily dependent on the web framework the website uses. The data center is probably the second to blame, but I don't think that Twitter's problems are related to continual issues with their hosting (though i'm sure some are). I doubt the blame lies on Debian, or whatever their using.

For what it's worth, I contributed to the article and I call myself a programmer.

One thing we (CrunchBase) offer is search engine rankings. We rank pretty high on startup keywords (try 'facebook' or 'scribd'), and so we find it's worth 5 minutes a month to keep the data relevant.

StartupIndex has some good stuff going on, particularly the geography features.

mark mcgranaghan defines the word transparency. however, as soon as he leaves his desk we're going to hijack his browser and make interesting google searches.

Pretty sweet. Question: is it possible for an embed not to immediately start playing when a person hits my blog?

you've found the fatal flaw in our design.

ok I should probably clarify that. thanks

The availability zones do guarantee EC2 placement within specific data centers, but from what I've heard, do not guarantee S3 placement. Because so many web services are tightly coupled with EC2 and S3, this presents a dilemma. If I'm wrong though, please correct.

I actually think this is a task better suited as a layer for the interim. As per their new features last week, Amazon is clearly focused on the really hard stuff. What they should probably be announcing next is a guarantee of S3 and EC2 placement within a specific data center. Then things get really interesting. Maybe Amazon could integrate this project in their services at some point... but for now, it seems best on its own.

nope, no video from the event. i have some pictures i'll post at a point yet to be determined.

"Google Drive killer coming from MIT Startup"... awesome. Top in all topics on digg at the moment.

Update: Top of digg, top of news.yc... SECOND on reddit... can they complete the trifecta?

Couple of thoughts: one, just because they've raised 11 million, doesn't mean that they've actually used all of it. Granted, having 40+ employees (according to their About Us page), is a significant drain on their cashflow, but I haven't seen what their earnings are. It's possible that they haven't used up their funding completely (or at all).

Two, I'm totally with you on the value to founders between taking lots of funding and getting a massive exit vs. taking a little bit of funding and having a lower exit. It may not translate into two radically different paydays. If anyone has any more insight into this, I'd be interested to know.

According to a Google Group forum post by a Google Employee, the 50,000 limit refers to the webpage, not the person who visits the site: http://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api/msg/b53c39a5...?

checked out the API, seemed pretty solid. Not that I know much about APIs, but in that I could get a hello world (aka, find my location) within 20 minutes.

After spending many long nights in a lab with aibos, I for one can stipulate.

The new iPaper has ridiculously smooth scrolling. They apparently built it from scratch, and are off Flash Paper, Adobe's product. It's quite an upgrade. Props to Trip and co.

FuzzWich. They've got style.

twitter was seemingly fast after the switch, and nearly all day. Now it's crawling.

Have they really chosen Level3? I hear Verio, according to ARIN records (resolves to NTT, which owns Verio).

TripIt is on my mind today. First Joel, then I get a TripIt nalgene left over from TechCrunch 40. You've got a hold on me, TripIt.