Twitter is Open Sourcing MySQL Enhancements
Twitter has announced that it is open sourcing the work it has done to improve MySQL in its production systems. The microblogging and social networking platform is a major user of MySQL.
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Battle of the Search Engines
In the continuous battle for search engine supremacy the winner is always being determined by the number of users that are using the search engine. During the early days of search engines, Yahoo!
Google's New Privacy Policy and the World
Even before Google launched its new privacy policy in the early March 2012, consolidating separate privacy policies for more than 60 applications, legal issues had surfaced.
Social Network Statistics
Social network is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people. A social network service consists of a representation of each user, his/her social links, and a variety of other additional services.
When Internet Meets Politics
Although the Web may have miles to go before it starts to seriously influence voter registration — millions of younger people who can’t yet vote but have grown up with the Web — it is already having an significant effect on how candidates relate to the voters.
Online News Domination
Time and trends are changing rapidly. Apparently more people now get their news online instead of from newspapers. And that half of online news readers are mobile.
Facebook Infrastructure
Facebook is one example of social networking media site that succeed in scaling their system. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers is to keep the site up and running smoothly inspite of handling more than half a billion active users.
Google and Microsoft in the Clouds
Software has been purchased in a box, or through a download, or businesses purchasing license packs. Just about all this software runs on desktops and on-site servers. These happens until very recently.
Google and Apple: The Two Technology Thoughts
Google and Apple may look similar when people see them at a glance, judging them from the surface. Both are certainly companies that move through the same industry that creates many fans and products that had changed the world as we know it.
Facebook Overtakes Mixi, and Targets Japanese Advertising Market
The social giant Facebook, along with the search titan Google, have dominated the advertising market worldwide. But Facebook has another strategy in the making.