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The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth?
Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment.
Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history?
Employee: That’s right.

For the tech industry, The Noughties were very nice indeed. Except when they weren't.

During the first decade of the millennium, it goes without saying that computing has changed in a big way, becoming cheaper, easier to use, more mobile, and – in the words of the Mountain View Chocolate Factory – more "webby." But it should also go without saying that the decade included its fair share of spectacular snafus.

It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight.

First part of a series in which Christopher Breen explains how to turn a Mac mini into a media center.

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.

Immersive Media’s key product is the Dodeca 2360, a camera named after the geodesic geometry of the Dodecahedron, on which the patent is based. The twelve-sided camera has eleven lenses which simultaneously record video. The twelfth side is the base of the camera. There is a base unit recording system which inputs the data and records video and other information onto hard drives. The imagery can be paired with metadata, such as time and GPS coordinates. Immersive Media also has a camera called the IM Surrounder, used for security applications, and a mobile digital video recorder (MDVR), used for mobile surveillance. All of the immersive imagery is processed on Immersive Media’s own software.

TechCrunch has confirmed that Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, joins a number of ex-Yahoo’ers at cross-town rival Google. In a phone call Schachter says he hasn’t been assigned to a specific project yet and declined even to state who he’s working for at the Internet giant, but he did confirm that today was his first day on the job at Google.

Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline.

Guide for making your Macintosh laptop's DVD region free (MacBook/MacBookPro/Powerbook)

Lookup IP, Hide IP, Change IP, Trace IP and more…

We've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail. Entering a new task: just click in an empty part of your list and start typing. No buttons to click and it's saved automatically. Hit Return and you've got a new task right there. You can also easily convert emails into tasks: select one or more messages and go to More Actions > Add to Tasks.

Electronic book reader with powerful library organization features. Font sizes and colors, portrait mode or landscape, justification, line spacing, and hyphenation can be customized.

This document describes basic concepts for i18n (internationalization), how to write an internationalized software, and how to modify and internationalize a software. Handling of characters is discussed in detail. There are a few case-studies in which the author internationalized softwares such as TWM.