I was curious who is indexing the links that people tweet on Twitter. It’s obvious someone does since links get ‘clicks’ almost immediately after submission. To do this presumably they are tapping into the xmpp firehose. Lets take a...

John Gruber among others note that Google DNS service is not tied to Google Accounts. That’s not just wording in their privacy statement, it’s technically impossible for them to do otherwise, at least with reasonable accuracy. Your computer is...

I just noticed that Google is now serving it’s homepage with an HTML5 doctype: < !doctype html> I suspect this might have changed when they launched that new fade effect. I also noticed they are doing so when using the new YouTube “Feather” beta. ...

Google’s new Public DNS is interesting. They want to lower DNS latency in hopes of speeding up the web. Awesome IP Address This is the most interesting thing to me. I view IP addresses similar to the way Steve Wozniak views phone numbers, though...

I’m amazed how quickly this stuff can get around the web. I’m pretty sure this is what Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had in mind when working on TCP/IP.