Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg

Tech Crunch is reporting that Google is in final negotiations to acquire Digg for around $200 million dollars. Full details are at: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/22/google-in-final-negotiations-to-acquire-digg-for-around-200-million/

Rules for startups by successful business man Mark Cuban

I came across a very interesting article written by Mark Cuban regarding company startups. It provides some valuable information and everyone thinking about starting a company should read this article first: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/03/09/my-rules-for-startups/

The part I agree with most is:

“1. Don’t start a company unless its an obsession and something you love.”

What is Link Juice?

Search Engine Optimization has opened up newer varieties of terms, which are applicable to different websites to help them become popular and therefore increase the number of hits. One of them is Link Juice. Greg Boser in his site Web Guerilla coined the term.

The trendy name attracted a lot of people. The scientific term is actually known as ‘pass through ratio’. But (more…)

CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.2 i386 Live CD is released

The CentOS development team released the CentOS 5.2 i386 live cd. The cd can be used for a work station or a rescue disk.

It includes the following packages:

Workstation Packages

openoffice.org 2.3.0
firefox 3.0
thunderbird 2.0.0
pidgin 2.3.1
scribus 1.3.3.2
xchat 2.6.6
k3b 0.12.17
gimp 2.2.13

Rescue CD Packages

memtest86+-1.65
Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools
QTParted
Nmap and NMapFE
traceroute
samba-3.0.28 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares
System Log Viewer
GUI Hardware Device Manager

It is available at: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/

Firefox 3.0.1 has been released

Firefox 3.0.1 has been released. The new release fixes a few glitches and and three security advisories:

Crash with malformed GIF file on Mac OS X
Command-line URLs launch multiple tabs when Firefox not running
Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter

If your Firefox hasn’t automatically updated yet, you can update your browser by clicking “Check for Updates” in the “Help” menu.