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Twitpic: How A Spare Computer Became A $1.5M+ A Year Success [video]

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How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes

Every day the same dream – brilliant!

OpenX Ad Server "Serve ads quickly. Make money easily"

Geocities closes at the end of the month – another proof that Yahoo! doesn't understand the web (business)

The Billion Dollar Gram

Tyrrells Potato Chips

How a PR firm contracted to Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse

Is China crowing too soon? Private vs state business: It’s quite hard to compete when you’re playing against the referee.

Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others

PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0

simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io

High bandwidth websites lose money in developing countries

Google uncloaks once-secret server

  • Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency. Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or Sun Microsystems. But Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running them part of its core expertise, designs and builds its own. Ben Jai, who designed many of Google's servers, unveiled a modern Google server before the hungry eyes of a technically sophisticated audience. Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers–each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.