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Apr
15

Facebook and MySpace what lies beneath the profile

I think most of us dabble with Myspace.com or Facebook.com to satisfy our social needs of communication.

I watched some presentations on the inner workings of Facebook.com and Myspace.com that are hosted on a cool site called infoq.com.

Myspace.com presentation by Dan Farino

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/MySpace-Dan-Farino

Facebook.com presentation by Aditya Agarwal

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack

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Mar
29

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is Restricted! (Steam Ubisoft Sales)

If you’ve been following the steam store at all this week, you probably have noticed that there has been an Ubisoft sale going on. Each day a new game has been put on sale (Monday Assassin’s Creed, Tuesday Prince of Persia 4 (? the latest one), Wednesday was Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, and Thursday saw a good deal on Far Cry 2. All of them were exceptionally good deals and I want to play all of them (except I already played through Assassin’s Creed) – I probably will when I get back to the states. However, the weekend deal was the greatest one, in my opinion: four Ubisoft games – Beyond Good & Evil, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, Far Cry, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic – for $10! Supposedly.
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Mar
11

Hacker News Scalability

OK, this is pretty funny. I’ve been reading hacker news since I read Jeff Atwood’s post where he advocated it. Today, I clicked on the bookmark icon for it and the following popped up:

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