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These are the most recent articles mentioning "google" LAMP -&gt; Posted 03/27/08, 14:57 ... ent.The above also focuses the attention on Amazon, when really it is about meeting a need. It just so happens that Amazon at this point has the lead.Google is skipping the service business and building applications at this point (aka value add).Why just store data when you could instead turn it int... Google Apps, Thus Far Posted 03/31/08, 23:34 So I have moved @tangent.org to Google Apps.Thus far?It looks like email is working. I went cheap and didn't pay for the "migrate my stuff" plan.Instead?Dragged and dropped all my email from one server to the other.IM for Jabber seems to be working (so update to my email address if yo... iPhone, Android Posted 03/14/08, 00:47 Speaking as someone who buys a lot of Apple technology.If Google can get Android out,... and it is close to being on par with iPhone... and it comes out as a 3G device with no vendor lock-in... before Apple's June date for their 3G,... or close to it...The decision of "which phone to get n... Ebay Memory Engine Posted 04/18/08, 21:27 Just as a note the Ebay memory engine has been released:http://code.google.com/p/mysql-heap-dynamic-rows/This is awesome to see open sourced. It is an extension to the current Memory engine that has the engine using less memory (aka it really implements variable size character types). phone to get n... Wikibooks, Open Source Books Posted 06/24/08, 16:17 ... Hosted Find a hosted solution that I do not have to maintain. Maintaining software takes valuable time from me. I only keep hosting mailing lists but Google Apps lacks this feature. For a Wiki? Someone else can do it. The solution needs to be non-onerous though.Exportable. Sometimes you want a book ... Ebay, Memory Engine, In The House Posted 08/05/08, 07:08 ... and thanks go to Harrison Fisk of the MySQL support organization who completed the port of the Ebay + Google patches advanced Memory engine for Drizzle.This is one of the patches I have been hoping someone would get to quickly since it is a big win for databases.For those playing at home this is... Drizzle, Google Protocol Buffers, Low Hanging Fruit Posted 08/12/08, 08:09 ... orse?Few of the formats are upgradable. You end up with all sorts of incompatibilities that over time have become a real PIA to deal with.Introducing Google's Protocol Buffers:http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/In short, this buys us an upgradable format and a lot less code. It also ma... Addictions, Think Amazon, not Google Posted 09/24/08, 14:49 Last week there was a Chinese article about my quote concerning Amazon being of more interest then Google that I made at OSCON.I find Amazon more interesting because they are exposing the plumbing required to do sites in mass.Google's AppEngine is much closer to the world of "Digital Share... Engines, On the State of Posted 10/13/08, 16:31 ... rk with them. This means we have to shoulder most of the work, though the Innodb team has been responsive to questions.We have the Innodb produced by Google. It is of the standard design, but has been modified with performance patches. These are widely believed, and often show, performance increases... << back