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Thanks, twitter followers.

John Adams — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:54:44 +0000

Oh man, can you believe this?

So many followers, so quickly. Thanks for the love!

Snarkatron slides up.

John Adams — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:47 +0000

The kind people who run Ignite finally got around to posting my Snarkatron slides, which are now available on slideshare (with audio, thanks to DNA’s webcast.)

Slideshare link for snarkatron slides

I apologize for talking so fast; I only had five minutes!

Zvents – the Little Google That Could

John Adams — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:40:07 +0000

Around here at the PornJob, we do a fair amount of research into building very large, very scalable systems to deliver lots of media content to thousands of users. We’re always trying to solve the same problem, over and over, though:

How do we store hundreds of thousands of movies in a redundant, distributed fashion across many data centers, and bring users to that content quickly?

There’s lots of ways to do this. Rsync, automated copies, directory analysis, usage pattern analysis, etc. Most of them have the same problem: Moving data takes time.

But have you looked at zvents? Their recent work on hypertable shows that they can make things happen, and that their strength lies in their engineering and not their domain name.

Web 2.0 parties

John Adams — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:24:37 +0000

Courtesy of juhani, here’s a listing of parties during next week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Original posting from http://www.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540

I’m attending the Mashable/Chi.mp party, but that’s it so far.

List is duplicated below…

What: Pownce Brunch
Where: Dottie’s True Blue (522 Jones St)
When: Monday, April 21, 11:00AM -
Info: pownce.com/DigitalKNK/notes/1817275/

What: Pre-Web 2.0 meet-up with Flickr, Moo
Where: Kate O’Brien’s (579 Howard St)
When: Monday, April 21, 5:00PM – 8:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/469348

What: GAB and Blogtropolis launch party
Where: Gray Area Gallery (1515 Folsom St)
When: Tuesday, April 22, 6:00PM – 11:00PM
Info: www.grayareagallery.org/

What: Official Digg Meet-up
Where: Mighty (119 Utah St)
When: Tuesday, April 22, 6:30PM – 11:30PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/471398/

What: Ignite Web 2.0 Expo SF II
Where: DNA Lounge (375 11th St)
When: Tuesday, April 22, 7:00PM-
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467652/

What: Web2Open Takeout Dinner
Where: Yerba Buena Gardens (4th/Mission)
When: Wednesday, April 23, 6:00PM-
Info: www.eu.socialtext.net/web2open/index.cgi?schedule

What: Evolve – Chi.mp and Mashable’s Web 2.0 After Party
Where: Mighty (119 Utah St)
When: Wednesday, April 23, 7:00PM – 10:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467885/

What: The Big Open Y! Party
Where: Yahoo! Brickhouse (500 3rd St)
When: Wednesday, April 23, 7:00PM – 10:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/469035/

What: South Park Crawl
Where: South Park (Brannan / Bryant / 3rd / 2nd St)
When: Wednesday, April 23, 7:00PM – 10:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/454850/

What: Web2Open
Where: Moscone West
When: Wednesday, April 23, 8:00PM – 11:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467423/

What: Booth Crawl
Where: Moscone West
When: Thursday, April 24, 4:30PM – 6:00PM
Info: en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/detail/3484

What: After Hours Event
Where: Marriott (55 4th St)
When: Thursday, April 24, 6:00PM – 12:00AM
Info: en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/detail/4238

What: Web2Open
Where: Moscone West
When: Thursday, April 24, 8:00PM – 11:00PM
Info: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467423/

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