Archive for June, 2007

230+ Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services

Prepare your fingers, and throw your mouse away: you’re not going to need it. For your weekend reading, we’ve prepared a list of the most useful keyboard shortcuts for our favorite web services. So, if you need a quick reference as to which key does what on what site, this is where you find it. [...]

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Dangers of File Sharing

“The data was grabbed from a Pfizer employee's computer through peer-to-peer file-sharing software that was installed by the employee's spouse.” ~Baseline Security (June 14) Be careful when setting up your peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Make sure you lock out all non-essential…

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Facebook’s Viral Growth Gets a Vaccine

GIGA OM — June 29 — Valleywag today published a letter from an anonymous Facebook platform developer complaining about the abusive limits Facebook is imposing on viral growth. The change limits the ability of people to invite all their friends…

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Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success

We’re getting reports today of extended downtime at Facebook, the social network that reported unprecendented growth in recent weeks. Up until now, it’s been the applications plugging in to Facebook that have buckled under the load: now it seems that Facebook itself is struggling to cope.We ignored the first mail on this, and assumed [...]

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Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

We’re getting reports today of extended downtime at Facebook, the social network that reported unprecendented growth in recent weeks. Up until now, it’s been the applications plugging in to Facebook that have buckled under the load: now it seems that Facebook itself is struggling to cope.We ignored the first mail on this, and assumed [...]

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