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Instagram Engineering Team Slipstreams Web 2.0 Technologies

One of the world’s most popular Smartphone photo sharing apps on the iPhone is Instagram. With over 15 million downloads , this free app is highly addictive and is features even faster start-up times under Version 2.0.6. Since we offer highly affordable web hosting on Linux servers we are always interested in the behind-the-scenes engineering [...]
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Tumblr popularity shoots upwards!

“Call us at 1-866-584-6757 and record an audio post for your blog” ~ Tumblr The above is just one piece of functionality indigenous to the Tumblr blogging site that is taking the web by storm.  PC Mag reports that that Tumblr now has over 40 million blogs worldwide. “Tumblr use has skyrocketed in the last [...]
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StumbleUpon Takes The Road Less Travelled in Internet Search

Since divorcing itself from EBAY StumbleUpon has grown  from 6 million to 20 million users, signaling subtle shifts in how people are using search technology outside of Google and Bing. The idea behind StumbleUpon, started in 2001, is offering a way to discover sites you did not know existed. It is often compared to Digg [...]
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SOPA DeathStar crippled; but still intact

Thank you for protecting Wikipedia. We’re not done yet~ Wikipedia Wikipedia showed all of us the monumental power of using the Internet to illustrate a philosophical (and political) position in the face of tremendous pressure from big government. By going dark for 24 hours, it sucked a vortex of users and media commentators into the [...]
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