Filed under: Business, Developer, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software, web 2.0

Everyone adores Flickr, right? Love Flickr or not, they’ve some sharp minds working hard to bring you a (mostly) rock solid web application. Adding features to an application with such an enormous userbase can be tricky. At Future of Web Apps 2008, Flickr’s Cal Henderson is presenting on “The Application of New Features to an Established Application.” Enjoy it live, or come back to it later.

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Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Web services, Social Software

Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka. Pownce is a “social messaging” service which grants you to share updates, files, links and more with your friends, and (now) provides a robust API to work with your data. Here are the rough cut of our notes from her presentation at FOWA 2008.

Continue reading From FOWA : Leah Culver of Pownce, The Future of Web Services

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Filed under: Business, Developer, Blogging

Couldn’t make it to Future of Web Apps in Miami? No problem, we’ve got you covered. Wordpress.com’s Matt Mullenweg just left the stage after dropping mad science on what it takes to scale a major league web application.

There’s no way we could summarize everything Matt stated on the how and why behind scaling Wordpress.com but, here are a few (rough) notes:

• Do the simple things first. For example, before throwing more hardware at your application, try building a proxy wall with Squid.
• Wp-Cache can do quite a bit for mid-scale blogs. (We recommended WP-Cache on The Squadcast in episode 11)
• Really big scale applications can’t live without Memcached.

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Filed under: Deals, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)

Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) sure does seem to have a massive head on its shoulders these days. After Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) stated its intention to by Yahoo! almost a month ago, the shots started flying. At first, Yahoo! seemed to be considering the bid. Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) started crying foul, claiming that this combination would limit world wide web innovation.

Yahoo! then rebuffed the offer from Microsoft, stating that the $44 billion offer was too low. For a company that’s ran a decent business in the last few years — but has been sideswiped by Google in every possible way — what did Yahoo! anticipate? A $75 billion buyout package? Rumor has it that current CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang loathed the idea of being part of Microsoft. Personal distaste, though, should never get in the way of what’s best for Yahoo!’s shareholders, right?

Yahoo! has looked a some partnerships in February that would keep it from Microsoft’s clutches, but is now stating that the software maker’s attempt to buy it is distracting its own workforce. Bull. Yahoo!’s workforce apparently is already highly distracted if it can’t seem to find a business model that would sustain innovation and profitable growth. Yahoo! states the bid is making it harder to hire and retain “key employees and hire new talent.”

Are you serious, Yahoo!? The company may be thinking too highly of itself, and if so, it needs to put its ego on the shelf and find a way to partner with somebody — anybody — to help it compete against Google. There is no way it can do this itself, as it’s been shown for years now. Until then, distractions from the Microsoft bid are the order of the day. Get used to it, Yahoo! — and don’t give a lame excuse of “distracting the company” while it happens. Shareholders know better.

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