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Now on Twitter, too


2009
06.16

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Just really a matter of generating random rubbish on the net. Let’s see what the fuss/hype is all about :) Twitter is now using the OAuth method for new registration of applications (either desktop client or browser); some good implementations and code examples are over at http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/50-Using-pecloauth-to-post-to-Twitter.html and http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2009/03/31/how-to-quickly-integrate-with-twitters-oauth-api-using-php/ Still — really…

OK, so there are some benefits to a quick comms tool: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5izPPeM-vxCZ3iW6Qi0-N7E-0qe-Q (Google’s hosting  AFP!? But then again, so is Yahoo with a different take http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/iranvotetelecomfacebookyoutube) for example because of restrictive networks (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/15/web-users-in-iran-reach-overseas-for-proxies/)

I guess there’s value in this kind of communications mechanism. But that’s why we made http://smoobi.net / http://smoobi.com is, as well as http://www.mymojo.net, created back in 2003 by http://synch.cc It’s all about identifying the market gap :)

Seems there’s a link between bit.ly and twitter in short URLs… Odd…

Anyways.

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Create a new certificate for Ubuntu the easy way (but you knew that already)


2009
06.14

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For the self-signed certificate:

sudo a2enmod ssl

wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7477840/apache2-ssl.tar.gz

tar -zxvf apache2-ssl.tar.gz

sudo cp apache2-ssl-certificate /usr/sbin/

sudo cp ssleay.cnf /usr/share/apache2/

sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl

cd /etc/apache2/ssl

sudo apache2-ssl-certificate -days 365

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ssl

Modify the ssl site-available:

NameVirtualHost *:443

<virtualhost *:443>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

SSLEngine On

# the following lines are links to the certs

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem

DocumentRoot /var/www/

Everything else stays the same.

Now all that remains is to restart your server:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

All done!

Found this online :)

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Over a trillion unique URLs in Google (but you knew that already)


2008
07.26

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On the Google Blog, they’ve been going on about the size of the Google index that’s grown at such great speed over the time of Google

The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Now, the whole thing about unique URLs they go on to qualify later, going on about a potential infinate quantity of links on the web, like ‘next month’ links and the like. Sure. But what abou the specifically google-tailored and subdomain cross-linked ‘SEO’ domains? I’m sure we can take out a margin of errors of 30% – 35% of auto-generated pages, links and domains.

But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what’s a useful page, and there is no exact answer.

So they don’t index every page. Real content vs google-specific content…

I think it may be safe to simply agree that the index is big. Very big. With lots of lots of pages. There’s not much point in going on about the number.