Google Launches “Google Public DNS”
A bit like OpenDNS but more Googly?
Link: Google Public DNS.
Update: OpenDNS gives their perspective: http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Building 3D Models on the Fly Using a Webcam
Cant wait for this to hit the main stream
Building 3D Models on the Fly Using a Webcam « SciTe Daily.
YouTube Rolling Out 1080p HD Video Next Week
If you've been uploading really high-resolution stuff to YouTube, you'll see a real payoff next week. That's when the video sharing service starts streaming videos in 1080p, wide-screen-TV-friendly, high-definition video
via YouTube Rolling Out 1080p HD Video Next Week – YouTube – Lifehacker.
Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta Brings Hardware Acceleration to Web Videos
Yes, you read right—only Windows gets the graphics-card-powered HD acceleration for now. Even though that matches up nicely with YouTube's expected 1080p HD roll-out, it's a shame that Mac and Linux users get left out in the wilds of jerky video. All platforms get support for multi-touch, however, and tweaks that presumably make Flash a tad bit less of a resource hog.
via Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta Brings Hardware Acceleration to Web Videos – Flash – Lifehacker.
Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol
So Google is developing a new protocol, dubbed SPDY pronounced speedy. SPDY is designed, from the ground up, to handle modern Web apps that transfer several smaller files. Without getting too technical, SPDY is able to handle multiple streams of data at once and prioritize on the fly. This means that if the background image of a site takes a long time to load, it doesnt stall the rest of the content from being fed to the browser. SPDY also compresses request and response data which asks for specific content and tells a browser what to display so that multiple requests can be sent at once using less bandwidth
via Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol.
Introducing Google “Go”: A New Open-Source Programming Language
Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++
via Google Go: An Open-Source Programming Language – Reviews by PC Magazine.
Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push – igvita.com
Turn your Nginx server into a fully functional Comet server with the nginx_http_push_module plugin.
Instead of using a custom framework, Leo's plugin exposes two endpoints on your Nginx server: one for the subscribers, and one for the publisher. The clients open long-polling connections to a channel on the Nginx server and start waiting for data. Meanwhile, the publisher simply POST's the data to Nginx and the plugin then does all the heavy lifting for you by distributing the data to the waiting clients. This means that the publisher never actually serves the data directly, it is simply an event generator! It is hard to make it any simpler then that.
via Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push – igvita.com.
A Look Behind The Curtain At Facebook’s Optimization Efforts – TechCrunch
Earlier this week Facebook’s Engineering team posted a note written by intern Zizhuang Yang, who has spent the summer researching how changes in things like load time can affect users. Yang writes about three main experiments he conducted over the last few months, including one involving overall site speed and two in the way pages load, and the results are quite interesting.
via A Look Behind The Curtain At Facebook’s Optimization Efforts.
