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Dropbox Plans Developer Conference to Push API
By Jennifer Goforth Gregory Most likely, you’ve uploaded one of the more than 1 billion files shared through Dropbox each day. Despite those kinds of numbers, Dropbox isn’t content to just be the most used files sharing program around. It wants IT professionals to use Dropbox in a different way – to build applications on top of its data layer platform. As part of the development of the Dropbox API, the company is holding its first developer conference to educate… continue…
Google Continues to Show Kansas That Google Fiber Love
Google Continues to Show Kansas That Google Fiber Love (via slashdot) Google hearts Kansas. The search-engine giant announced May 2 that Shawnee, Kansas will become the next city to receive Google Fiber. Google already has plans to install the high-speed broadband network in nearby Kansas City and Olathe, Kansas. “We’ve also been impressed by Shawnee’s vision to…
Obama Administration Confirms Secret Cybersecurity Policy
Obama Administration Confirms Secret Cybersecurity Policy (via slashdot) The Obama Administration has confirmed Presidential Policy Directive 20, which will create a classified national policy for handling attacks on the country’s national computing infrastructure. Details of the policy remain scant; the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced April 22… continue…
CenturyLink to Provide DoD’s Internet2
CenturyLink to Provide DoD’s Internet2 (via slashdot) Network provider CenturyLink has won a $750 million contract from the Department of Defense to network the latter’s sites together as part of the military equivalent of Internet2. The contract calls for CenturyLink to connect as many as 150 DoD locations nationwide with a dedicated high-speed fiber… continue…
Netflix: ‘Arrested Development’ Won’t Crash Our Service
Netflix: “Arrested Development” Won’t Crash Our Service (via slashdot) No, the latest season of “Arrested Development” won’t fatally crash Netflix, despite comedian David Cross’s tongue-in-cheek comment that the series will melt down the company’s servers on its first weekend of streaming availability. “No one piece of content can have that kind of impact… continue…
How to Be One of Go Daddy’s 300 New Hires
Domain registrar Go Daddy is hiring as it sets up an engineering hub in Seattle’s eastern suburbs, and it’s looking for new people to work at its other sites as well. CEO Blake Irving says the Seattle outpost will employ 50 to 65 people, out of a total of about 300 open positions company-wide. They include everything from senior engineers to Internet consultants to customer support staffers, located in its Scottsdale, Ariz., headquarters, Sunnyvale, Calif., Denver and other locations. Go Daddy… continue…
‘Future Perfect’ Sees Progress Through Peer Networks
Long celebrated as one of the Internet’s deepest philosophical thinkers, Steven Johnson uses the publication of his eighth book, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, to make the case that a new model of political change is emerging, transforming every aspect of modern life along its way. Johnson is a huge fan of networks of all kinds, but especially distributed networks, the kind of decentralized peer-to-peer connections that pretty much define what the Internet is all about.… continue…
Netflix Could Pay You $10,000 to Improve Its Cloud
Netflix is awarding $100,000 in prize money for help in making their open-source cloud computing projects better. Contest submissions will be judged by a panel of experts, and anyone can enter. The Netflix Cloud Prize is divided into 10 categories that each offer a $10,000 prize. The judges include: Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels Thoughtworks Chief Scientist Martin Fowler Strategist Simon Wardley Telx Senior Vice President and author of Cloudonomics Joe Weinman University of Aarhus Developer Training Expert Aino… continue…
Has Kickstarter Peaked?
Has Kickstarter Peaked? (via slashdot) Kickstarter has taken off in the last year, raising big money for a wide variety of projects. Look at some of their stats: in June 2012, only seven projects raised more than a million dollars apiece; in the past nine months, another 16 projects have passed that threshold. Since the site began operations… continue…
Google Offers Better Web Compression—at a CPU Price
Google Offers Better Web Compression—at a CPU Price (via slashdot) Google’s new Zopfli compression algorithm promises to compress Web pages further than the commonly-used gzip algorithm, but with a correspondingly higher computational load. Thanks to those attributes, Google is recommending the new algorithm for compressing static and highly-trafficked data such… continue…
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