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How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails.
Here’s how you run a highly concurrent website on a shoe-string budget:
The first [...]

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Monetization or Cannibalization – The State of Social Gaming Marketing

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Mike Arrington is a genius. Main-stream journalists sit up, knees together, back straight and start taking notes because this is a master at work. His recent blog entry titled Scamville calls out the most focused on and buzz-worthy companies in the valley for making money from advertising scams and accuses Facebook of encouraging a vile [...]

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An ode to the end of Facebook

Monday, July 30, 2007

I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted.
With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates.
Our love of Facebook is duly recanted.
We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.

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Facebook’s getting out of hand

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Once upon a time I was a Facebook addict. It was an awesome way to reach out to people I haven’t been in contact with for years, share photos, update your status 80 times a day, etc. But Facebook apps are getting a little out of hand…

…and I’ve always hated that friend detail feature. </end [...]

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Rob Malda vs Alexa vs Slashdot vs Digg

Monday, July 23, 2007

Rob Malda (aka cmdrtaco), the founder of Slashdot.org has written a rather schizophrenic piece on Slashdot about Alexa. He spends most of the article beating up Alexa, but is sure to include 5 links to the website in the article – two of them specifically asking people to install the Alexa toolbar.
A while ago Digg [...]

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