Adsense Is Down

Published by team December 2nd, 2006 in Uncategorized, adsense, google and google downtime. 2 Comments

Amazon Wants Customers to Start Their Sunday Really Early

Published by team December 2nd, 2006 in amazon deal and amazon. 1 Comment

This time around, it’s a Axion Portable DVD player for $25, discounted from $99.99. Not as hot as the Xbox 360, both in terms of discount or gadget-appeal. Also, this time, the deal opens on a Sunday at 8am PST! What the heck is Amazon trying to do? Trying to make it as hard as possible to get the deal? Are they weeding out the west coast geeks who would go to sleep at 3am the night before and probably wouldn’t bother waking up early on a Sunday? I guess a committee got together at Amazon and brainstormed on how to avoid another PR disaster, like the one a week ago. It wouldn’t be too hard to come up with another system (other than a mad dash) that satisfies 1000 customers and pisses off many times that.

MySpace Going to China

Published by team December 1st, 2006 in myspace and china. 0 Comments

I guess it’s a matter of time before MySpace tries to get into the China market. It’ll be quite a while before they can saturate that market.

Michael Richards on Jesse Jackson’s Radio Show

Published by team November 26th, 2006 in Uncategorized, michael richards, kramer, jesse jackson and richards apology mp3. 5 Comments

Michael Richards of Kramer fame appeard on Jesse Jackson’s radio show this morning. Here are links to audio of the radio show (Click to download or listen):

(Audio courtesy of Premiere Radio Networks)

What do you think?

$100 Xbox 360 Sold Out Within 8 mins

Published by team November 23rd, 2006 in amazon deal, amazon ec2, xbox 360 and game console. 61 Comments

Amazon.com got pounded hard this morning at 11am, when it started offering the Xbox 360 at $100. I was one of the ones who actually prepped for this event. I had like 6 browser windows opened at several Amazon URLs. 8 mins of loading until it came back with a page that said that it was sold out.

Now, I know that Amazon has been claiming infinite scalability for their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) offering, which is supposed to help deal with exactly this sort of traffic spike. I’m pretty sure their main site probably has a lot more server capacity than their EC2 offering, which is still in limited beta. I guess this Xbox experience might be a good case study for their EC2 team. They should have tested their capacity with a less popular deal, like a $5 DVD or something like that and then move on to hot game consoles. Haven’t they been reading the news about the Wii and PS3 insanity?

Masi Oka (star of Heroes) on cover of Time in 1987

Published by team November 21st, 2006 in interesting, heroes, masi oka, whiz kids and ilm. 6 Comments

Probably a little known fact, but Masi Oka, one of the popular stars of the hit show Heroes,was on the cover of Time magazine in 1987 as an Asian-American ‘whiz kid’. (See below: He’s the kid on the left wearing the dark blue shirt.) This was mentioned on the Conan O’Brien’s show last night when Masi mentioned how it all happened.
Apparently, he is still a whiz kid of sorts, splitting his time between acting and creating CGI effects for movies at ILM. Quite impressive for a geek!

A Touch of Elegance for MySpace

Published by team November 17th, 2006 in Announcements, myspace, myspace layout, web themes and profile customization. 3 Comments

When we started participating in the Myspace phenomenon, we couldn’t find
a layout that is simple and nice (and doesn’t flash a lot). Inspired by Mike Davidson’s attempt at a ‘more tasteful MySpace’, we set out to customize a profile that is simple, clean and elegant. We thought that we could share our creations with everyone who might be looking for the same thing. Maybe, just maybe, we can help prevent profiles like this, if only people can have a few simple but clean layouts to choose from. And so, that’s how ElegantProfiles.com came to be. Everything’s free and we encourage you to send us requests or even contribute your creations. Enjoy!

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