From the monthly archives: June 2008

The blist community keeps growing and becoming richer and more interesting every day – both on and off site. We just started a blist friends Facebook group – please go join and we can all get to know each other better. More interestingly – there are getting to be a lot of interesting blists out [...]

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There’s much in the press these last few weeks about the end of the BillG era at Microsoft. If you haven’t seen it, I found this pictorial narrated by Gates to be one that portrayed him in a very different light. The transcript of this internal memo and this one also provided some clues into [...]

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Our friends at Wetpaint make it really easy for anyone to create a free website about anything, share it with other people and even include other content contributors. Wetpaint is most often classified as a wiki company, but when reduced to first principles – and from a user-facing perspective – Wetpaint is about letting people [...]

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A day or two ago we deployed some new features in blist that many of you might find useful. In addition to a number of bug fixes, we introduced the following new capabilities or features: Try blist Without an Account The first change we made is less a feature and more a philosophy. Now you [...]

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I haven’t posted this on our careers page yet nor have I posted it on any job boards. You saw it here first. blist is looking for its first software design engineer in test – SDET. In case you aren’t an SDET but think you might know of one, let me describe what an SDET [...]

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Today a new software engineer joins the blist team. Like a couple of other recent hires Matt joins us from Amazon. But more interestingly Matt is a graduate of Harvey Mudd College in southern California. Three of our software engineers are Mudders. The school of just 700 students has only 9 majors and produces only [...]

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With all this gray weather in Seattle, it’s good to look forward to good talks and events indoors. Two events coming up this Friday and Saturday look to be good if you’re into database internals and/or Internet scale computing. On Friday the 13th at 11:30 the Northwest Database Society will be hosting a talk by [...]

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A lot of the most interesting new developments in online advertising center around new inventory in Adobe Flash. The most obvious and mature inventory in SWFs is of course in-video advertising. Interesting discussions weighing the merits of pre-, mid-, or post-roll and border frames began a couple of years ago. More recently, the really interesting [...]

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