New Photos In The 15 Minutes Album
Added new photos to my 15 Minutes album. 15 minutes is the amount of time I want to spend every day taking photos. That’s it.
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Ooh Rah! (Taken with instagram)
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Time Not Found (Taken with instagram)
5 Things Dropbox Competitors Need
Joe Brockmeier, readwriteweb.comI got all excited this morning when I saw a link on Hacker News to BitPocket, one of the latest so-called “DIY Dropbox” offerings that’s open source. The excitement faded pretty quickly when I hit the GitHub repo and found that it’s jus…
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‘In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.’
Texomatube via Retronaught (Thanks @Atul)
Robert Scoble's iPhone pictures: The Windows Phone Problem In Three Words: Way Too Late.
It’s about the apps. No one talked about WIndows Phone with me this weekend despite having dozens of people at two different events. It’s gonna be a long year for Microsoft. Developers are ignoring its platform (the pro developers who work for VC-funded companies, not the kinds that make…
(Source: parislemon)
Pachter predicts Netflix’s streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion in 2012.
When streaming video was new, Netflix was able to secure contracts with the likes of Warner Bros. Studios and MTV to license big TV and film catalogues for about $5 million to $10 million per year. This time around, Pachter says, those costs could increase more than tenfold.
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Studios are starting to play hardball with Netflix - CNN Money
Told you. Get ready for your Nexflix subscription to start costing what it’s actually worth.
(via chartier)
New Amazon S3 Data Transfer Pricing
This is incredible. The price for transferring data into your S3 account is now FREE! Starting July 1, 2011. And now they have pricing for data storage in the Petabyte range. That just blows my mind.
New inbound data transfer price for all regions (effective July 1, 2011)
- $0.000 - all data transfer in
New data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (effective July 1, 2011)
- $0.000 - first 1 GB / month data transfer out
- $0.120 per GB - up to 10 TB / month data transfer out (10 TB total)
- $0.090 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out (50TB total)
- $0.070 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out (150 TB total)
- $0.050 per GB - next 350 TB / month data transfer out (500 TB total)
- Contact us - next 524 TB / month data transfer out (1PB total)
- Contact us - next 4 PB / month data transfer out (5PB total)
- Contact us - data transfer out / month over 5 PB
Tumblr iPhone 2.0: Now available on the App Store
We’re excited about this one! The app has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to offer you the very best Tumblr experience:
- Brand new interface: Browsing your dashboard, creating a post, managing multiple blogs — the most important features are within reach so you can interact with Tumblr effortlessly while you’re on-the-go.
- Creating a post: Now easier than ever! Sharing photos, videos, links, chats, text, quotes and audio is front and center. Advanced options like saving drafts and queuing posts are one swipe away.
- Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
- Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
- New users: Signing up is now native inside the app.
There are tons more features and details that are awesomely crafted.
New app totally rocks!
Thom Allen Weblog
I read, I write, I code. Talk about Software Craftsmanship, Cloud Computing, Open Source Software and Mobile Development. Conference Speaker. Marine. I also take lot's of pictures. None of them are cats. I'm allergic.
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