bLaugh - The (un)Official Comic of (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
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eighteensixtyfive (Free subscription) | 19/05/2009
Niall Kennedy has just released a new eBook (in PDF/Adobe Acrobat format) detailing the early history of the FA Cup. Including our 1898 3-1 victory of the sheep botherers. As Niall says: First published in 1902 in the auspicious Strand magazine, The Teams that Won the World’s Greatest Football Competition 1871 - 1901 is a classic [...]
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
New posts about the Open Enterprise 2009 Study on the Enterpries 2.0 blog today. Last week OLiver Marks and I led a session at the Web 2.0 conference on the Open Enterprise project. I have posted a torrent of tweets...
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Facebook's photo storage system holds 850 million photos and costs a lot of dough. Niall Kennedy has a nice overview of what Facebook is doing to minimize its storage costs. Facebook's system, dubbed Haystack, is custom-built but relies on content delivery networks and NetApp. Facebook is trying to minimize the custom stuff and use commodity hardware. Kennedy does a nice job of synthesizing Facebook's...
Ben Werdmuller (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Niall Kennedy has written an interesting post about Facebook’s data storage. They’ve written a proprietary filesystem to store photos in order to cut costs (up to now they’ve apparently been adding a $2 million NetApp storage system every week). It turns out they’ve decided they don’t need all the features you’d find in a traditional file [...]
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 15/03/2009
Cloud computing is changing the way we provision hardware and software for on-demand capacity fulfillment. Lately I have been thinking about the ways on-demand servers, storage, and CDNs are changing the way we develop web applications and make business decisions. In this post I will provide an overview of the cloud hosting landscape with a particular focus on cloud utilization by web companies. I...
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 13/02/2009
Google released App Engine 1.1.9 this week, including new capacity ceilings for developers and better compatibility with existing Python code. The new App Engine supports standard HTTP libraries, larger files, triples the response deadline, and removes limitations on CPU-intensive processes.
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 28/01/2009
Micro-blogging service Twitter will celebrate its third birthday in March and may have a revenue model to support the company over the long-term. Last month Twitter CEO Evan Williams told Kevin Maney of Porfolio.com the company will kick off new revenue streams by March 2009 to avoid raising another round of venture capital funding. Twitter's deeply engaged community would love to see a sustainable...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Google confirms a Reader API is perhaps only a month away from a public release. Web technologist and blogger Niall Kennedy , recently posted on his site several details surrounding the previously undocumented Google Reader API. Although not official at this point, Kennedy has received confirmation from Google that his documentation about Google's online feed aggregator is, in fact, very accurate....
Creattica Daily (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
Web technologist Niall Kennedy undertook the big job of rewriting twitter.com to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices. You can check out the whole project here. The new web front-end on TwitterFE.com features localized templates, expressive markup, distinct URL structures, integrated site search, geo-distributed dynamic and static servers, and more available features than Twitter.com....
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
I have decided to once again seek full-time corporate employment. I miss being surrounded by smart people every day and the new synapses that light up in such an engaging environment. I have started talking to a few companies about working on difficult Web problems full-time as they strengthen their online business. What else is out there?
Compiler (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make Twitter better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.” That’s the speech I imagine Niall Kennedy giving himself recently when he decided to rewrite Twitter’s front end using web best practices. The result is a read only Twitter that’s a little less pretty, but [...]
Neville Hobson (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Web technologist Niall Kennedy has done something very interesting with Twitter – he created TwitterFE. […] a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best practices anyone can integrate into their web presence. The new web front-end on TwitterFE.com features localized templates, [...]
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Last week I decided to rewrite the Twitter.com front-end on Google App Engine to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices, exceptional performance, and establish a solid platform for further development. TwitterFE.com is a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best practices anyone can...
Open Social How To (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Widgets Shall Inherit the Web Widget Summit 2008 San Francisco, CA November 4, 2008 Download PPT (7.1MB) For the second year in a row, I gave a talk at Niall Kennedy’s Widget Summit in San Francisco. My my, what a difference a year makes! Last year, I was [...]
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