If you’re into interesting facts, few companies have as secretive, cool and intriguing histories as Apple and its leader, Steve Jobs. Anything missing? Leave a comment. Apple didn’t have two founders. It had three. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive share the same middle name: “Paul.” Before working at …
Zynga Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler Zynga is a network of gaming applications built off of classic games like Poker, Battleship, and Attack!. The games are found on social networks like Facebook and Bebo. In addition to making their own …
Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo and the data model from Google’s BigTable. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is eventually consistent. Like BigTable, Cassandra provides a ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value systems. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where …
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends …
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimised first.” “Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.” “The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody ! It will destroy you.” “There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is …
Since being wrestled back from Microsoft’s death grip, the web browser has thrived thanks to its openness. All of the popular browsers beyond IE — Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera — are either based on open-source or have a thriving community that helps develop and expand each of them. And it’s relatively easy for a user …
Translating user data into useful information is now the cornerstone of LinkedIn’s product roadmap. For example, the company recently updated company profiles with additional data visualizations such as the most popular schools attended by employees, the segmentation of an employee base by skillset and more. Today, LinkedIn is launching a new data-focused feature, called LinkedIn …
According to several insiders, a widely touted line-up of celebrities that might be the contenders on popular reality show Bigg Boss 4 has emerged. It includes Shiney Ahuja, Bhagyashree (Salman’s co-star in his first hit Maine Pyar Kiya), Sneha Ullal (Sallu’s co-star in Lucky), Shweta Tiwary (her ex-husband Raja Chowdhary was in Bigg Boss last …
‘Ek medal mila, Ma’ Mr.Prasenjit Mund, 25 July 2010, 08:04 PM IST “Going through hell… Keep going,” said a desk graffiti in one of the classrooms at the National Defence Academy. I am sure it’s still there, the etchings deepened by those that came later. Tired fingers trying to find solace in tradition, in the …
All about Myspace After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website, in August 2003. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch.[12] A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, …