Sleep well, someone is monitoring your servers

Friday, April 18th, 2008

To most of us this will sound obvious, but I've been running into quite a few startups that were neglecting this essential aspect of their infrastructure. If your worst nightmare is getting an email or a call from one of your friendly user saying "I haven't been able to login for ...

Amazon EC2 with persistent storage in Private Beta

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Last week Google, in an attempt to enter the Clound computing market, launched Google App Engine and, just this morning, a major integration with Salesforce in order to penetrate the enterprise market. In the shadow of these big news, Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels has quietly announced this morning that EC2 ...

Unfuddle single sign-on using OpenID

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A few days ago, Unfuddle released an update that introduced OpenID. The interesting part is that if you are using multiple accounts on unfuddle (foo.unfuddle.com, bar.unfuddle.com) you will be able to login only once. No more multiple users to remember for each account. On another note for this same update, although ...

LinkedIn’s rss now with description

Monday, April 7th, 2008

If you were happy when LinkedIn added an rss feed to monitor your network updates, you may have realized that the link provided in each post was going to the general Contacts page. Very annoying especially when you browse large numbers of contacts. The good news is, since this morning, ...

Please, ô please, no passwords in my emails

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Why are web2.0 services still sending passwords by email? I stay amazed day in and day out at the number of services that, just after signing up, will send me an email confirmation containing my password. As if you don’t remember what I just entered seconds before. And as everyone knows, our ...