Archive for May, 2008



Twitter Scaling Issues

Robert Scoble states: “First of all, Twitter doesn’t store my Tweets 25,000 times. It stores them once and then it remixes them.”
I do not know how Twitter is built. However, “back in the day,” I was the development manager for a real-time, stock quote delivery system, so I do have experience with architectural issues similar […]

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In a surprise announcement at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett informed a keynote audience that the world’s biggest chipmaker would work together with Grameen Bank. The financial institution was started […]

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In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on […]

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…Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs…




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