Pro Blogging, Firefox, Friendster and Flickr
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Quitting the Day Job: Finding the Guts to Pursue Your Dream by Pro Blogging
For those of us who dream of being able to support ourselves by simply blogging each day. This story tells it’s possible, but not overnight.
Mozilla Still Flummoxed by Firefox’ Appetite for Memory
Anyone who uses Firefox on Windows knows the browser has an almost insatiable appetite for memory, and it’s not unheard of for PCs to allocate a half GB or more of memory just to the browser alone.
When Friendster could have bought Facebook
As a side note, a little known fact is that when I was at Friendster, I found a small company out of Harvard that we came very close to acquiring, a startup no one had heard of that time, a company named Thefacebook. I’ve been an admirer of Zuck and the facebook team for a long time now.
Flickr Hits Two Billion Photo Uploads
Two billion photo uploads on Flickr. That’s a lot of f****n’ photos. You’ll be glad to know that Flickr staffers have spent the past weeks placing bets on the exact date and time for passing the milestone, which went down sometime on Sunday.
Is Microsoft Building a Flickr Competitor?
You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting from Microsoft, and …
