Monthly Archives: March 2008

Joyeur Bytes: Issue 5

March 31, 2008 – 10:48 pm

In this issue, we announce the partnership with Hi5, our love the the Free Software Foundation, our recently launched Partner Program and Player’s Club, the newest members of the Joyent team, some of our customers doing cool things, tips on how to check resources on your Accelerator, where we will be over the next couple [...]

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Joyent Mentioned in Forbes.com

March 28, 2008 – 8:46 pm

Andy Greenberg just wrote a piece called Tiny Firms Offer Big Computing Services in which Joyent gets a little shout out. The word ‘tiny’ in the title makes me giggle a bit as I guess five (5) billion page views a month on our infrastructure is considered tiny to some folks. Has me wondering how [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure, Media Coverage | Comments (1)

Apple Needs to Innovate

March 27, 2008 – 5:17 am

I’m in the market for an ultra-portable laptop. I carry a 15 inch MacBook Pro. I also have a Nokia N810. A bit too small. I tried to buy an Asus Eee. But they couldn’t ship. Then I saw this: HP Laptop Wow. Honestly. For me, I’m an IMAP and text guy. The OS doesn’t [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (14)

Joyent Supports Free Software

March 26, 2008 – 10:20 pm

Joyent recently became a patron of the Free Software Foundation joining the likes of Google, IBM, Sun, Nokia, HP, EMC. Joyent believes that in the coming cloud computing world the long-term value of software, as a fungible asset, goes to zero (quickly). Joyent provides value by providing working infrastructure for our software. And that’s what [...]

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Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social

March 13, 2008 – 3:02 pm

Joyent will be providing free Accelerators, optimized for Open Social at this coming Saturday’s (March 15th) bi-national hack-a-thon. The day-long hi5 hackathon will bring together over 200 commercial, independent and student developers, who will code new hi5 applications, socialize and share their work from two locations in the U.S. and Mexico: the Google Campus in [...]

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Light Engineering

March 10, 2008 – 10:24 pm

How fast can your company move? How quickly can you innovate? How do you take your company’s best ideas and make them real? One of the surest ways to generate a constant stream of above average profits is to generate a constant stream of great new products. An innovative new product, such as the iPod [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Industry | Leave a Comment

Joyent Players' Club

March 10, 2008 – 10:00 pm

Today at the Facebook Developer Garage in Austin, TX (one of the side events at the South by Southwest Interactive conference) we introduced Joyent’s Players’ Club. Players’ Club allows developers on social networking platforms the ability to scale very large without having to spend any money with Joyent. Joyent’s Players’ Club is by invitation only. [...]

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