Pre-Facebook IPO All-Night Hacking Tournament
Many people think that at Facebook HQ in California, all of the Facebook coworkers and interns work hard and stay focused around the clock to make sure your favorite social network has all the functionality, uptime, and credibility it needs. This is a very true statement; however, sometimes, some good crazy camaraderie is healthy for the productivity of the business work flow.
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Pre-Facebook IPO All-Night Hacking Tournament
Comcast Ditches Data Caps For Broadband Customers
Comcast has announced that they are doing away with the 250GB per month data cap formerly imposed on their broadband customers. Citing changes in the way people use the internet – particularly as regards video streaming – since the policy was instituted several years go, the company announced its intention to begin exploring “improved data usage management approaches.” In other words, you shouldn’t get too excited just yet
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Comcast Ditches Data Caps For Broadband Customers
Is Googlebot Getting More Human-Like?
Google may be getting better at crawling javascript and Ajax. In a Tumblr post, developer Alex Pankratov wrote this week about spotting an “ajax request issued from document.ready() callback of one website’s pages.” “This means that the bot now executes the Javascript on the pages it crawls,” Pankratov wrote. “The IP of 66.249.67.106 is crawl-66-249-67-106.googlebot.com and the A record is a match, so this is in fact a Google Bot.” He then shows a line, which he says “is fetched via Ajax by a Javascript function in response to the menu item click,” and adds, “Also, note the x argument – it is dynamically added and only by that specific function.
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Is Googlebot Getting More Human-Like?
