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From Wired Top Stories: Intel Sees Exabucks in Supercomputing’s Future

Infiniband, for those who know it and use it, is crazy cool stuff… parallel computing wouldn’t be possible without it!  It beats Gigabit Ethernet hands down!  So Intel buying one of the 2 major companies in that market is huge!

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On Monday, Intel shelled out $125 million to buy Infiniband from Qlogic, a little-known maker of data center networking switches and cards. It seems like an odd move. Infiniband is a networking fabric technology, similar to Ethernet, but not nearly as widely used. So why is Intel paying millions for technology that lost out in the business world? Because supercomputing systems are now turning into big business.

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From Engadget: YouTube hits 4 billion views per day, deals with 60 hours of uploaded content every minute

It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.

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From Lifehacker: Five Best Online Meeting Services

My top pick if I had to choose NOW would be WebEx… but I will have to look into those free ones. 😀

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If you work at a company with employees in offices around the globe, or you work in a small company but want to collaborate with a contractor who works from home or vendor across the country, you need a service that will let you connect with your team, share documents, collaborate on them, and in some cases even share your screen or webcam with them. Here are five of the best services to conduct productive online meetings, based on your nominations. More »

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From Ars Technica: Internet wins: SOPA and PIPA both shelved


Just hours after Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced he was delaying a vote on the PROTECT IP Act, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, followed suit and announced he would be delaying consideration of the companion legislation.

“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”

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From Ars Technica: Hands on: building an HTML5 photo booth with Chrome’s new webcam API


Experimental support for WebRTC has landed in the Chrome developer channel. The feature is available for testing when users launch the browser with the --enable-media-stream flag. We did some hands-on testing and used some of the new JavaScript APIs to make an HTML5 photo booth.

WebRTC is a proposed set of Web standards for real-time communication. It is intended to eventually enable native standards-based audio and video conferencing in Web applications. It is based on technology that Google obtained in its 2010 acquisition of Global IP Solutions and subsequently released under a permissive open source software license.

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ifttt: Loving this service!

It has been a royal pain to get the ‘net to do things for me.  Getting links to share and posting them on my site has been a pain.  That’s why you rarely saw any updates.  ifttt came to the rescue! ifttt stands for “if this then that”.  How simpler can you get?!

If you haven’t heard of them, I am not surprised.  ifttt implies like you would assume.  It allows you to create “if… then…” type of scenarios on big level and scale.  I for example, set up the following:

It calls each of these services “channels”.  So you have to setup the 2 channels, Google Reader and WordPress, which is very simple!  Once you set it up, it allows certain logic to be set.  Best of all, it’s FREE!  :-D   You will see more and more of posts from me sharing stuff that interests me and I think you should know!