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19 links, first saved August 26, 2005, latest July 6, 2011.
- How Does Dropbox's Terms of Service Compare to Those of Other Companies?
Last Friday, just before a holiday weekend in the U.S., Dropbox made a change to its Terms of Service. Part of the updated ToS gives Dropbox a license to use your data in ways…
- Google Responds to Android Malware with Remote App Removal
Last Tuesday, news broke that over 50 applications in the Android Market were found to contain malware that could be exploited to gain root control over a phone and steal…
- Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers
- Many Huffington Post Readers Hate Site's New Facebook-Powered Recommendation Engine
The giant online publisher and aggregator Huffington Post began experimenting with a new content recommendation engine today, powered by Facebook and built by AdaptiveSemantics,…
- Video: CouchDB, MongoDB, RavenDB and SimpleDB Compared
Jesse Wolgamott presented at Lone Star Ruby Conference on four major NoSQL databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, RavenDB and SimpleDB. We've covered various comparisons before, such as one…
- How Twitter Uses NoSQL
InfoQ has released a video of Twitter's Kevin Weil speaking at Strange Loop earlier this year on how the company uses NoSQL. Weil is quick to point out that Twitter is heavily…
- Chaos Monkey: How Netflix Uses Random Failure to Ensure Success
Brilliant.
- Facebook Makes Big New Move to Capture More User Data
- Nodejitsu Now Offering CouchDB Hosting
- CouchOne's J Chris Anderson On Decentralizing Twitter - And the Rest Of the Web
- Why Developers Should Pay Attention to Node.js
- PayPal Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations
In the latest in a series of blows to Wikileaks, PayPal says it will no longer support money transfers to the whistleblower site.
- Your Income, Home Ownership & Parenthood Status Now Available as an API
Personal information aggregation service Rapleaf announced to its developers today that it now offers "lifestyle" information like home ownership status, occupation and income…
- How to Migrate from TextMate to VIM
- Twitter User Ranking Company Klout Hires Product Hot-Shot
Klout, a high-profile startup offering technology to rank the influence of Twitter users, announced tonight that it has hired Philip Hotchkiss as the company's Chief Product…
- Mint Data Shows Online Retail Rebounding
Last night we wrote about Forrester's prediction that online holiday retail sales will grow 8% this year to $44.7 billion. comScore had similar numbers about the growth of online…
- What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is…
- Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams
Dorthy.com, a site we've been hearing about since late last year, has just raised $4 million from angel investors for their "new agey" concept of a search engine for dreams.…
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