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Sun acquires MySQL!

Remember when I said Sun was a company that listened? They sure do. Maybe MySQL will finally start fixing all the performance/concurrency issues with InnoDB (basically, InnoDB’s threading and...

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More on MySQL & Sun

Laura Thomson has an interesting post about the MySQL acquisition. And I think it really highlights a fundamental disconnect that some companies built on providing open source applications for...

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Thoughts on the new IE compatibility switch

Over on IEBlog and A List Apart, they detail a new flag for the upcoming IE8 that would enable you to “lock” the browser down to older versions should you be expecting older broken behavior from IE6 or...

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SmugMug & DataPortability.org

I’ve been getting a little flack for not joining DataPortability.org and want to set the record straight: SmugMug has believed since the beginning that your photos and metatdata are yours to do with...

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My conference schedule for the rest of 2008

A few of you have been asking when/where I’ll be this year, conference-wise. Since Audrey was born, I’ve tried to keep my travel and speaking gigs to a bare minimum so I could help with my three kids...

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Freetards ruining the web?

photo by: Kirk Tanner Hardly. Hank Williams over at Silicon Alley Insider has a guest post up about how VCs are ruining the online tech economy by fueling free services, wrecking it for small and/or...

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Thoughts on Google App Engine

First:  Very cool. Next:  I think it’s interesting that Google has basically taken a sniper scope out and aimed it at a specific cloud computing target.  App Engine is only for web applications.  No...

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I demand video to be awesome.

  Sam “Shizam” Nichols, creator of the video player, donning his SmugMug Hero persona. See it in HD. The state of video codecs online has been a mess and there’s been no clear choice, making it very...

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Nominations open for The Crunchies 2008

SmugMug wins Best Design at The Crunchies 2007 by Luca Filigheddu Photography I loved the idea behind The Crunchies even before we won for Best Design last year so I’m glad to see their triumphant...

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Yahoo adds SmugMug support!

Yahoo! in cloud OR Hadoop? (Яху в облаках) by Alexander & Natalie tl;dr: Yahoo adds SmugMug support to Profiles. Windows Live coming. Lots of other services, too. Wow, what a pleasant surprise!...

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