Monthly Archives: April 2008

Top 3 Keys to Viral Apps on Facebook

April 17, 2008 – 5:27 am

We see thousands of Facebook applications. Over 4,000 developers run their Facebook apps on Joyent Facebook Accelerators. We have seen people grow from 10 users to 10,000,000. And, we have seen great apps go nowhere. Tonight, I was talking with SocialMedia’s Nick Gonzalez. Nick said that the Facebook app space is a microcosm of the [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (5)

Buy Denim, Save on Accelerators

April 15, 2008 – 4:15 pm

Now when you buy high-quality denim and other clothing at August (in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland), you can save on Joyent Accelerators. Your purchase of US$200 or more at August and will earn a discount of 10% off your Accelerator charges for one month.

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (5)

Want to be part of the Microsoft Cloud Team?

April 9, 2008 – 4:25 pm

Things are heating up. Here’s the ad for a position on Microsoft’s team. I especially like the claim: The Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) team is responsible for creating the Microsoft Utility Computing Platform, also known by its early codename Red Dog (RD). This platform is one of the lowest levels of the services software/hardware stack [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry | Comments (4)

Joyent's Garden of Eden for Python Web Applications

April 9, 2008 – 12:09 am

Joyent is pleased to announce our “Garden of Eden” program offering free infrastructure for high-volume python web applications. If your python web application has 25,000 or more unique visitors every month, Joyent’s “Garden of Eden” program provides you, the python application developer, with unlimited on-demand compute, storage, memory, bandwidth for your python application (besides the [...]

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Let my People Have Root

April 8, 2008 – 11:22 pm

First Salesforce, now Google. When will these companies get it through their heads that proprietary, single-source platforms are ridiculous? I mean, why in the world would I lock myself into one software platform AND one hosting provider when I there are so many high-quality, low-cost, portable alternatives out there? Silly. — Charlie Wood As we [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry | Comments (37)

Reminder: Joyent IRC Channel

April 8, 2008 – 2:27 pm

Many of us at Joyent hang out in an open IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (#joyent). Anyone is welcome to come by and chat.

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (1)

30% Plan to add Facebook as Marketing Channel

April 7, 2008 – 7:46 pm

We recently sent out a survey to all Joyent users. One of the questions we asked was “What are your plans to leverage Joyent’s peering with Facebook ?” 30% of respondents answered “We are not yet driving traffic through a Facebook app, but plan to in the future”.

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (7)

Free Accelerators for OpenSocial Developers

April 2, 2008 – 6:36 pm

Joyent is pleased to announce 1024 free Accelerators for OpenSocial developers. The first OpenSocial participating social network we are supporting is hi5. We will be supporting additional OpenSocial social networks in the coming weeks and months. We will also expand the program in the coming weeks to keep up with demand. Unfortunately, demand sometimes outruns [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (2)
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