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Control Yourself

July 2, 2009 – 2:47 pm

We’re pleased to announce that Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, launched a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent Accelerators to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises and [...]

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Customer Feedback

April 1, 2009 – 5:13 pm

It’s nice to get great customer feedback: This weekend, I wrote a humorous piece entitled “Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggaddah.” Not having easy access to any other hosting service, I stored it on my Joyent Accelerator account. (I am very glad that your terms of service permit this, so long as my Facebook [...]

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Facebook Haggadah on Joyent

March 31, 2009 – 2:29 pm

We’re pleased that the Facebook Haggadah is running on a free Joyent Accelerator as part of our program for social network developers. The Haggadah is the telling of the events of Passover and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt as described in the book of Exodus of the Torah. The Haggadah itself is a [...]

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Contestant Winners, Free Social Apps Infrastructure, Upcoming Events

March 17, 2009 – 6:48 pm

The “Answer Questions about Jason” contest was a success and all the contest winner received a free entry-level Joyent Accelerator. Congratulations. I was proud to give away Accelerators to celebrate the launch of JSBin on Joyent. Keeping with the free theme, we will be expanding the number of free slots we have open for developers [...]

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Try Out Aptana Cloud for Free

March 12, 2009 – 9:44 pm

Joyent has been working with the folks at Aptana for some time and we’re excited to mention that Aptana is now offering free trials of Aptana Cloud built on top of Joyent Accelerators. Aptana Cloud is an excellent service that makes development, deployment and scaling of PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails applications as automagic [...]

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Why Joyent Banned all Employees from Attending South-by-Southwest Interactive This Year

March 12, 2009 – 7:22 pm

We have been asked a number of times whether Joyent is going to the South-by-Southwest Interactive (aka SXSW) festival this year. The answer is “no”. All Joyent employees are, in fact, banned from SXSW for the following lucky seven reasons: 1) Drinking. There is lots and lots of drinking of alcoholic beverages. I think this [...]

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Light-weight, Collaborative Javascript Debugging: JS Bin on Joyent Accelerators

March 11, 2009 – 9:17 pm

JS Bin is a very useful utility offering collaborative JavaScript debugging. From the About section: JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code – new tabs doesn’t). Once you’re happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review [...]

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Google App Engine Misfit Toys: Come to Jill

February 24, 2009 – 11:11 pm

Huh? You’ve got to be kidding (from today’s O’Reilly Radar): Google released App Engine less than a year ago (Radar post). It was the first chance for external developers to use the power of Google’s servers. The powerful platform supported Python and was free (within limits). It now supports 45,000 apps and those apps get [...]

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The Dark Star Is Born

January 19, 2009 – 10:43 pm

With Cisco’s announcement that the company is getting into the server business (news here), it is easily seen that all infrastructure businesses are collapsing into vertically integrated entities. This, in my opinion, is especially true/possible in the cloud. Why not offer all the primitives: compute, networking, storage? Why not offer cloud management software? Why offer [...]

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Joyent Acquires Reasonably Smart

January 14, 2009 – 4:03 pm

I’m very excited to announce that Joyent has acquired the Montreal-based Reasonably Smart platform. James Duncan and Bryan Bogensberger, founders of the company and platform, have joined Joyent. This acquisition comes at an important point in time for Joyent. We’ve just finished our best year, ever. Revenue doubled in 2008 from 2007 even as the [...]

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