Well after the creaking and straining, Digg v3, is now up and live and appears to be coping with the early rush.
(5:00AM PST): Digg temporarily down while we switch over to Digg v3.0.
(6:10AM PST): Digg v3 is live.
(6:20AM PST): Demand is so high we’re adding more machines.
(7:50AM PST): We are making a run to bestbuy to pick up some more servers (kidding). Seriously though: We are seeing much higher activity than we normally do, so bear with us as we turn on additional machines and tweak the site throughout the day.
“It’s the event of the year for anyone interested in learning about and discussing the latest approaches to web design with some of the world’s most highly respected experts.”
With sessions on IE7, bug hunting, microformats, the future of web apps and much more this years @media looks amazing. To be held in London tomorrow and Friday (15th-16th June), the line up is awesome with the whose who of web design including Andy Budd, Dave Shea, Veerle Pieters, John Hicks with far too many more to mention.
Gutted I can’t go (its sold out now) but hopefully they will make the some of the sessions into podcasts for download afterwards. Pretty please?
Flock, the browser based on Firefox that encompasses all that’s great about the web, has gone beta and is available for download. They have gradually been improving the browser with regular new builds over the last few months and have finally released a beta that is much more stable and feature packed.
Along with the fanfare of the release they have had the website overhauled from what could be described as simple and functional to a site that really does the browser justice. I reviewed one of the early releases here but the changes here make it a worthwhile download again. Watch out for an updated review soon.
Michael over at Techcrunch gives a good write up on Yahoo Video, another video hosting site gunning for YouTube. In what’s turning into a crowded market place, Yahoo’s chances look good with the resources and personnel available to them since the Flickr acquisition. Interestingly Yahoo video is based around Microsoft’s Windows Media format and doesn’t just offer their own but aggregates video from other sites (just presumably not YouTube’s).
It’s a sensible move from Yahoo, establishing itself in the video market which will potentially become another form of revenue through advertising and paid video. Further as bandwidth becomes bigger the growth in this market will be immense as high quality video on demand becomes reality.
Delicious, the social bookmarking site, have a new layout on their homepage, reorganising what’s hot on the web. Personally I preferred the original one and maybe added this as a hot list page, but hey, at least they are innovating or at least changing things and keeping Delicious fresh. Maybe I am just stuck in my ways…..
