Hey everyone,
So now that February is over, we’re looking at things to start picking up a little bit in March! We’re still recording every chance that we get but if you haven’t heard, Reilly has left the band due to some personal issues. His musical talents will be greatly missed. However, Brennan Jung has taken up the challenge of playing bass and just finished his second practice with us today!
In the next few weeks, we have a few shows coming up! Next Saturday, March 6th, we will be playing at The Grind Coffeehouse with Griffin’s old band “The Shivas”. It’s going to be a great acoustic show so feel free to come on out, drink some coffee, and listen to some amazing music!
I mentioned it in our last post but on Wednesday, March 10th, we will be playing a benefit concert for the Trey Foote Foundation with “If All Else Fails” and “Search & Rescue” at Skyview High School. The cover charge is $3 and tickets are available through either Griffin or myself! This will be our first show as a full band so hold onto your socks for they will be getting rocked!
Finally, we’ve been saying this a lot lately but we just finished recording “Layter 1″ about a week ago so go to either our MySpace (Which now has a new layout!!!) or our PureVolume page (We also have a FREE DOWNLOAD of “Lit Up” available!) to check it out!
Thanks for all your support and please share us with all your friends!
FdS
Paul Ryan, was not the only member of the Republican Congress that came with facts and figures, to show the Americans watching what an entire fraud the plan is. To his credit, Obama appeared engaged and listened to him. Will that change anything, doubtful. This was designed as a major photo op for Obama and the democrats. Suffice to say it blue up in their faces. Any American that listened to the back and fourth, could only conclude the republicans had spent more time in effort on this bill and knew more about it than the supposed writers. The seven point which the Republicans brought to the table were agreed upon by both sides, would have resulted in a major overhaul in the private sector and correct the wrong with the current system needing righting.
Sadly, when it comes to all things Obama and the far left, it’s all about power, creating a vastly bigger Federal Government, with resultant more unionized Federal workers, ie. Democratic voters.
Paul Ryan Eats Liberals and Obama for Lunch
Nancy Pelosi’s assertions during her wrap up that there was no government funding for abortion, was just another Pelosi lie. Ditto for her claim that this bell must be passed immediately, It will create, 4 million, or 4 hundred new jobs. Link below on over all take on summit shoes this to be a lie as well. Random thoughts why more people aren’t ready to vote these frauds out as I’m in the upcoming November elections, JC.
Feb 25th 2010, Braintree,Ma. LevelStock.com is pleased to announce to all of its members and investors information on Max Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MXMI). The Company released news as follows:
Max Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MXMI), announced today that it has entered into and closed on an agreement to acquire original video content and future distribution rights from two video producers; RockHard Entertainment Urban Outreach Inc. (aka The Ladies Hood Journal) and Perk TV. The deal includes acquisition of original video content and online distribution, as well as license agreements for future additional content. The Company intends to use the content for the site www.babelation.com, the targeted social media news and information site the Company is in process of acquiring.
James Grady, Chairman of Max Media Group, Inc. stated, “We have set out to create a whole new way of doing business in the online sector by acquiring and partnering with social media content providers. The deal with RockHard Entertainment and Perk TV is a significant step in that direction. The Babelation website and lucrative niche market of ‘News and Information’ continues to grow. With these two producers we will easily add 300 to 500 new videos to our portfolio.”
Grady continued, “We will continue to seek additional content to acquire and content producers to partner with through equity investments.”
Perk TV content on the other hand will consist of a blend of medical and “How To” videos that have built up a vast established following on YouTube and various other distribution platforms.
Glen Perkins, Perk TV founder, stated, “Babelation is a wonderful source for compelling videos, without all of the distracting, useless, poor quality videos found on other sites. I look forward to continuing our relationship far into the future.”
RockHard Entertainment content will consist of real-life hard-hitting first person coverage of issues that affect the inner city urban community. The Company expects content covering everything from homelessness, job outlook, Art, Entertainment and Politics.
Babelation senior editor and director of business development Ted Flowers stated, “Quality content that builds strong audience participation is the driving force in the growth of online social media news markets. These acquisitions do exactly that. We will set a new precedence in the social media news and info market by acquiring and purchasing content from producers as well as partnering with social media digital content producers in ongoing continuous production of digital content. “
About Ladies Hood Journal
Ladies Hood Journal creator is a well-known urban reporter and former superstar CNN Ireporter known for her down to earth urban production style.
The digital platform is designed for The Urban Voice. The Ladies Hood Journal is a Power Blogger, “Satire Artiste’” Hometown Filmmaker, and Producer. Ladies Hood is popular on many book-marking sites such as Twitter, CNN and Digg
About Perk TV
Perk TV is a producer and editor of a large video catalog of “How To” and educational videos. From medical questions to how to make jewelry, Perk TV produces quality, informative and sometimes just funny video.
About Max Media’s, Babelation: News by You4You
Babelation.com is a Leading User-Generated News and Information distribution portal focused on the aggregation of content from authors, bloggers, expert reporters, students, news junkies and everyday people. It is “News by You4You”.
Babelation’s business model differentiates itself by including revenue sharing cash payments to content providers, who historically have submitted their content to social networks like YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and others without receiving compensation. Basically working for free.
To the contrary, Babelation pays content producers and is a pioneer in the revenue sharing content market. Babelation pays a varying monthly rate of 10 – 25% to content producers. Babelation’s portal enables the general public to create and organize their own news and information; anyone, anywhere, can upload breaking news stories by text, photo, or video, through cell phones, mobile devices, or Internet connection posted on the Babelation platform.
The Company expects is previously announced intent to acquire Babelation to be completed shortly, without any dilution to the current shareholders.
The Company currently has 75,098,804 shares issued and outstanding.
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You are now listening to Excision. Or, at least you were—had you been wise enough to scoop over to the Loft last Saturday night for an evening full of true mayhem; a dubstep maelstrom of cataclysmic proportion. If you weren’t in house, you missed the most genocidal dubstep/drum and bass warpath ever blazed through Minnesota, an attempt to wrest Sherman of his legend, an offensive annihilating ear drums of the party faithful, a punishing sentence of non-stop dance which by the end of the show caused one kid to completely flop to the floor (remember to drink water, kiddies).
Supreme props to TCdubstep, as usual, for bringing the BC dubstep sensei to Minneapolis. Mark the seventh of May on your calendar as Excision’s comrade-in-bass, Datsik, is set to rage the Loft. Another aural apocalypse not to be missed…
Links:
Excision on Myspace
Excision on Twitter
Excision on Soundcloud
More footage of Excision to come this week, as well as footage of openers Vaski and Smilodon later this week!
Current college seniors, myself included, are being given the difficult task of securing post-graduate employment during the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Family, friends, professors, the media and online groups recommend the utilization of networking to aid in the daunting task. However, even with our natural ability to build communities on Facebook and MySpace with our peers, reaching out to an unknown or lesser-known potential employer remains an intimidating endeavor.
Career-fairs, dinners and other networking opportunities are continuously pushed on students. Needless to say, the majority of attendees leave such events feeling as if little forward progress was made towards landing a job. The mere exchange of contact information and no promise of job security in the future does not usually warrant a feeling of accomplishment. The absence of a quantifiable gain from the time spent mingling is little motivation to attend another similar event.
A personal brand can be built using one, or a combination of, the many online channels. These include, but are not limited to: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, FriendFeed, Delicious, Foursquare, Loopt, Flickr and the recently released Google Buzz. With so many avenues to connect and voice a personal opinion, how do students know which resource will be most beneficial towards reaching his or her goal?
Networking used to require face-to-face interaction and the building of trust through reliability, sincerity and the test of time. While these online tools enable students to network with potential employers, the same tools are available to allow employers to pass judgment on their applicants. Students should be wary of the transparency created by having public profiles on various online communities. It is just as important to have a consistent representation on each site, as it is to only post appropriate content.
While I attempt to maintain a similar user name, profile picture and demeanor on all of the online channels I participate in, I truly do not feel that reading material on the Internet can provide a potential employer with enough direction to deduct an informed judgment about me.
So, I pose a question: How do college students create meaningful relationships with our ever-expanding web of contacts?
Social networking is a concept that is fairly new, but is growing at a rapid pace. It appeals to people of all ages, regardless of being old or young. Examples of the most popular types of social networking devices are Twitter, FaceBook, and MySpace.
A video of the basics of social networking is as follows:
It has become so popular that social networking has expanded into political campaigns. Barack Obama was the pioneer of this as his campaign used social networking to expand his political views to people of all ages. All you had to do was click on his page, and you will be easily exposed to all of his ideals that he wanted to be posted on the website.
However, many see social networking as an invasion of privacy. Although there are privacy settings you can enact so that you are in control of who sees your site, there are ways of hacking so that you are able to see whatever you please.
Although this is a common flaw of social networking, it has made it so that it is very easy to keep in contact with old friends, family, and relatives, and is a concept that will continue to grow throughout years ahead.
As ethereal as the terms “web services” and “cloud computing” sound, there’s nothing lightweight about the power and cooling required to make the Internet run. It takes data centers, plain and simple — each running 24/7 and housing thousands of servers and data storage systems – to satisfy our growing appetite to tweet all day long, watch the Olympics streamed online, and Skype our friends across the globe. If you’re thinking it’s a recipe for sky-high power bills and added greenhouse emissions, well, then you’re right. Let’s take a look at how some of the biggest web firms are handling IT infrastructure growth while bringing technology and innovative data center design principles to bear on lowering energy costs and reducing carbon emissions.
Google (s GOOG)
While the company fiercely guard its tech secrets of success, it has peeled back enough of the curtain to reveal how it tackles energy efficiency in the data center. It started with the surprise announcement that the company uses custom servers with built-in batteries, helping to eliminate energy loss caused by uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and it has become in recent months a virtual blueprint for operating a green data center.
Part of this blueprint involves “containerized” data centers. Rather than organizing server racks like rows of dominoes, servers are packed into shipping containers that are easier to cool and maintain than a large enclosed space. Other environmentally-friendly methods include air-side economizers (free cooling) and re-using or recycling 100 percent of its servers. For an extreme example of Google’s approach, look no further than its completely chiller-less facility in Belgium. During the week or so that temperatures rise above the safe zone, work is offloaded to Google’s other data centers and the servers are shut down.
Facebook
Facebook is breaking away from leased data center space as an IT growth strategy and is now building its own computing facility in Prineville, Oregon. Expected to reach completion in 2011, the new data center will rely on free-cooling, evaporative cooling and a proprietary UPS to help Facebook reach its goal of a super-low 1.15 PUE rating (the industry average hovers around the 2.0 mark).
In a novel cost saving twist, it will also recapture server waste heat and use it warm up offices when the weather turns cold. Also like Google, Facebook is pursuing custom, energy efficient servers that are specifically tailored to the computing task at hand and avoid the power-sapping overhead of industry standard servers.
MySpace
Because it is part of News Corp, it’s difficult to disentangle MySpace’s IT infrastructure from that of its parent company. But nonetheless, some intriguing details have emerged. MySpace has also invested in solid-state storage from Fusion-io, helping the company boost performance and save $120,000 in energy costs a year. It’s a move that eliminates a lot of power and cooling costs associated with running some of its hard drive-based systems — 99 percent in fact — and helped the company massively downsize its server footprint.
Yahoo (s YHOO)
Chicken coops sound as far removed from cutting-edge data centers as you can get, but Yahoo is banking on elements of this low-tech design to maximize its free-cooling potential in Lockport, NY and reach a PUE of 1.1. Situated near Buffalo, the $150 million complex will draw from the region’s hydroelectric sources to power its servers.
It’s a combo that attracted the U.S. Department of Energy’s attention and helped Yahoo capture a nice chunk of stimulus funds meant to spur advancements in data center energy efficiency (subscription required). Apart from its new build, Yahoo has emerged as a proponent of cold-air containment and containers in recent years.
Microsoft (s MSFT)
Microsoft is adding data center capacity at a brisk pace as it ramps up its Web- and cloud-based services. In Northlake, Ill. near Chicago, the software giant employs shipping containers in conjunction with a more traditional data center design and uses hot/cold air containment to lower cooling costs. In Dublin, Ireland, the site of another Live Services and Azure cloud computing center, Microsoft is using the region’s climate to forego powering up its cooling systems up to 95 percent of the time.
Related GigaOMPro Research:
Report: Green Data Center Design Strategies
Report: The Future of Data Center Storage
Facebook, Apple Building New Data Centers, But Why?
Image is an artists rendering of Facebook’s datacenter.
Head over to Yes Yes Yall to get a delicious little taste of underground beat assembler Mushen with ‘Jitter Mittens’, and if you’re picking up what he’s throwing down, head over to his Myspace to check out some more tracks or download his album Subsurface Flowers for free. If there’s even a shred of justice in this goddamn world, this won’t be the last you hear of Mushen, not by a long shot.
It has been many years since I did not spend Valentine’s Day alone. I am looking forward to being with Kelly tomorrow, though I do not, as of yet, have a plan in place as to what we will be doing, I know that it will be a good time. It has been so good to re-connect with her after all these years. The ease at which our conversation seems to come is rare to say the least. There have only been a couple times in my life that it has been like that. I am looking forward to seeing just where this path takes me, the view, so far, is great!
I will likely post another blog late tonight or early tomorrow morning, but, I must leave you with this short one for now. I have much to complete here at home in order to be free of responsibility tomorrow. Please everyone, just take a moment, when you step outside next, just stop and look up. I find, most people don’t look up anymore. It is amazing the beauty that is right in front of us, and above, that we just take for granted…
Thanks to all of you for your continued love and support.
As always, take care and remember…
Acum cîteva zile Google a lansat produsul Google Buzz. Am aflat din mass-media (adică de pe internet, în cazul ăsta), dar, mai ales, am aflat atunci cînd am accesat contul de gmail. Nu m-am grăbit nici să-l activez şi nici să scriu despre el. Acum nu am nici cea mai mică intenţie să-l mai activez. Nu mă arunc niciodată cu capul înainte… aştept mai întîi criticile negative. De cele mai multe dăţi primele versiuni ale programelor au erori (asta mi-o spune experienţa ca programator şi de problemele pe care le-am avut cu diverse programe făcute sau începute de alţii). Din ce-am citit pe pagina lui Zoso (aici) cineva a dat deja peste o asemenea eroare.
Google Buzz nu reprezintă decît unul dintre aspectele “coliziunilor” dintre tehnologiilor folosite de cîţiva dintre jucătorii cunoscuţi de pe piaţă (internetul este, prin definiţie, o imensă piaţă de desfacere de produse). Facebook va intra în domeniul serviciilor de mesagerie electronică (email), sau cel puţin aşa am auzit, iar Google intră în sfera reţelelor de socializare (gen Facebook, hi5, MySpace, etc). Adică prin Buzz-ul ăsta. Ce vrea Google să facă este să agrege programele şi serviciile deja realizate de ei, astfel că Buzz este integrat deja în Gmail, utilizatorii pot să facă schimb de mesaje, imagini şi filmuleţe sau să le pună pe Picasa, Flickr sau Youtube. Se poate conecta şi cu Twitter. Serviciul Buzz va dispune şi de o variantă pentru telefoanele cu sistemul Android realizat tot de le Google iar mesajele vor fi localizate cu ajutorul lui Google Maps.
Bun, şi cu securitatea cum rămîne? Adică securitatea datelor personale, a vieţii private. Nu am reuşit să aflu foarte bune despre asta căutînd informaţiile pe internet, cel puţin în legătură cu Google Buzz. Doar eroarea menţionată mai devreme. De apărut e sigur că vor apărea şi alte probleme. Din punctul meu de vedere probleme de securitate sînt cele mai importante şi de aceea, cel puţin pe moment, nu pot susţine că Google Buzz este un succes.
“What are the rules regarding free speech for GIs on Facebook? Two are being brought up on charges for saying that Navy sucks.”
This from a GI Rights Hotline list I’m on. That threat both seems to belie and kind of explains why Facebook is permitted but MySpace banned on bases, at least according to this NYRB piece:
One of the most notable examples of class distinction…came from the US military, which permitted soldiers to use Facebook but banned MySpace in 2007:
Facebook is extremely popular in the military, but it’s not the [social network] of choice for 18-year-old soldiers, a group that is primarily from poorer, less educated communities. They are using MySpace. The officers, many of whom have already received college training, are using Facebook.
MySpace remains banned within the military to this day, while Facebook, despite security concerns, is still available to American troops.
My theory? The officers are on already on Facebook, chatting with their college buddies and juggling its news feeds; and they can use it to check on their soldiers. Whereas braving MySpace, with its relentless music and layout worthy of Kandinsky, takes effort.
Thus, using your real name and posting NAVY SUCKS does sound like you’re testing something. I’ll try to keep you posted about what happens next, unless it would violate confidentiality in some way. In the meantime, I suggest a new Facebook ID, with an upside-down flag in case of a photo.
It’s not exactly a new concept for game companies to raise money for charities, but it seems that now more than ever with the attention social games and MMOs, some game companies are pushing to get donation and charity drives on the front burner. They are realizing that the gaming community is larger than ever and using social networking to get as many people involved as possible is working.
There is a passionate and networked community out there of “grownup gamers.” In truth, we’re still gaming and never did give it up as our parents suggested. Obviously, not all of us are your “typical gamer.” We’re parents, teachers, engineers, and college students. We are young and old, male and female. One thing is for sure: we’re showing the world that gamers care about people, animals, and the environment with out donation dollars.
There are many ways games can be used to raise money for charities. One way is from offering in-game items with special abilities (cuteness being one of those abilities).
Some companies don’t actually make games or sell virtual items, but raise awareness about a charity through gaming conventions and comics about games.
Penny Arcade is doing just that with their charity, Child’s Play. They were able to raise almost 2 million dollars last year for stocking children’s hospitals with video games and toys. Nothing is worse than being sick and having nothing fun to do. You can learn more about this charity and donate by visiting their site here: http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
CCP, creators of the popular sci-fi themed MMO Eve, is offering a virtual item that adds 30 days of game time to your paid subscription. This item will be available until February 15th. Once you purchase this item, all of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More on that here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=726
Social games developer Zynga raised a stunning 1.5 million in 5 days for the recent earthquake disaster in Haiti by selling virtual goods in 4 of their most successful games: FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars, and Zynga Poker. This is a huge accomplishment and it shows that their tagline “Transforming the world through games” might be becoming more of a reality. Zynga also helps animals in need by donating to the San Francisco SPCA to the tune of over $90,000 by selling virtual tabby cats and bull dogs in Yoville. You can find out more here: http://zynga.org/
Merscom has plans in the works to offer special virtual items in their social games which will help raise money for non-profits and charity organizations. Keep an eye on http://www.mercom.com for upcoming information on what you can expect to see soon!
For brevity’s sake, here is a list of some other game companies and publishers who are generously sharing their space: Sony Online Entertainment, Free-to-play MMO publisher Outspark, London-based developer Tall Trees, Runes of Magic publisher Frogster, Xbox and Activision.
With the number of large game companies following this trend, it’s safe to say if you play online games there is a good chance that you’ll be seeing a charity tie in soon.
If I missed a great charity or cause, which is related in some way to gaming, I’d like to hear about it.
Also, would you buy one virtual item over another if you knew it was for a good cause? Have you donated to charities through games before? What was your experience like?
In 2003, the site myspace.com made history. With it’s astounding idiology that social networking on the web could be possible, it was one of the pioneering sites to offer custom profiles, open source development, record deals to many artists and much, much more. However, was it always this way? Is it still this way? Many theories are uncertain, but we know for certain that MySpace has been experiencing some lag in the past two years. From a murder and mutalation of a woman back in 2008 in Baltimore, to competition from rivals such as twitter and facebook, to the increased amount of spam mail, to ads popping up everywhere, and of course, lastly, viruses. Of course, this isn’t the fault entirely of MySpace. After all, they were trying to make it open for anyone. However, MySpace claims to be a secure web site. Tell me then, why everytime somjeone enters the realm of MySpace do they start to see spyware ad-ons trying to take hold of their computers. Why does Norton, Microsoft Security Essentials, Avast and other virus programs detect viruses contaminating the wonderful world of MySpace? I ask this same question myself, and therefore I have made a vow to no longer use MySpace. So, naturally, you won’t find the blog on MySpace. However, you can easily find it on facebook or wordpress.
If you’re a MySpace user, and you are reading this and have experienced none of the above with the MySpace interface, then the best of congrats to ya! However, Gary will be retreating from the MySpace world for now.
At the enclosure of this blog is list of viral infections I have discovered while browsing the MySpace site, including editing my profile, customization, sending instant messages, email messages and adding profile songs.
File sharing:
File sharing was first invented so that computers could share open source programs that were free for development. Utorrent and sites like this were great because they offered a place where files could be downloaded and obtained quickly and ifficiently. However, at around the early part of the millenium, someone got the idea that they could take albums and songs and illegally share them on torrents.
What is a torrent? A torrent file is a small file that points to the exact location of the file that you wish to download. Any files such as software, games, music and movies or any other content that has to be licenses, distributed or paid for is illegal to download. I no longer support torrents and MySpace for these reasons. Torrents are free and great to get ahold of, but there is a lot more that you may not want that comes along with that as well.
So, without further adue, a sample list of viruses that you may get by doing these things.
trojans
trojan downloaders
attempts to run spyware ad-ons as active exe controls
definitions:
trojan: A large file which contains a program that executes a command from an attacker on another PC, using a remote access method.
Basically, you use your PC and someone else controls your computer in the background, installing malicious software, and trojan downloaders.
Trojan downloaders: Files that download trojans and display deceptive product messages. For exampel, you may see:
10117.exe is requesting your permission to make changes to your computer. Do you wish to continue?
Click yes, and it’s easy for the hacker to obtain your information if you are not careful, such as email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
That’s why it’s always good to do routine virus scans, clear cookies when exiting the net, and schedule system cleanups.
Note: I made this blog for all the other users that take advantage of these services. Viruses are dangerous and harmful to your computer. I had to do a whole system recovery and reformat my disc.
Is there another way to download legal music?
Yes. Try the amazon mp3 downloader at amazon.com, or ITunes.
If You’re Feeling Sinister is the album that made me really interested in Belle & Sebastian and twee. They are really cynical and sarcastic and good for if you want feel life is not worth living but to silly to end it. The music does not say anything like that but the soft and gentle touch of the vocals and the swishy guitar is polite and feminine but the lyrics are bitter and jaded like the winds of Scotland and England where these chaps are from. I did not like this album at first and did not understand the liking of Belle & Sebastian from the cools. It must have taken me many times of a suffering of a listen to get real intention of this music. I have to say if your not already jaded don’t even pick up this band because it’s like a schooling in the life of the misused and unappreciated. Real emo is this, and this hard to make any harder or brutal. Metal might be angry and violent but this twee is some of a different kind of monster. The characters are bookworms too afraid to speak or trendy pretty boys who use and lie for fun or women who are too pretty for their own good and others you might know. “When your legs are black and blue it’s time to take a holiday, it’s not as if they are paying you”
…considering that I view blogging as narcissistic? Sadly, all of the web is narcissistic to some extent. “LOOK AT ME! I’M IMPORTANT!”
To me, Twitter is the epitome of web narcissism. If the sky was falling, millions of chicken littles would simultaneouly tweet “The sky is falling! #skyfalling”. I find it annoying, yet I have a Twitter account. However, 140 characters are extremely limiting, as I often want to say much more.
Such was the case a few days ago. While researching something of interest, I came across numerous forum threads from years ago, which seems often the case. I wished to contribute, but knew the threads were long dead. Plus, forums tend to be more about opinion than information exchange. What does that leave me?
There’s always my website, www.djrcreative.com, but that’s a lot of work. Sure, I could use a web-authoring program, but I pride myself on hand-coding. Actually, I miss MySpace. I still have my account, but am embarrassed to use it, as it’s become passé within my demographic. To date, I have avoided Facebook, for reasons which will get their own post.
Indeed, I find myself with more and more on my mind lately, yet no way of sufficiently expressing these thoughts. In addition, during the course of a day, my curiosity results in a lot of “research”. Ultimately, I’d like to think that my efforts could benefit other people. If for no one else, this would at least be a record for myself. In the end, I suppose blogging fits my needs.
Excision on Myspace
Excision on Twitter
Excision on Soundcloud
As ethereal as the terms “web services” and “cloud computing” sound, there’s nothing lightweight about the power and cooling required to make the Internet run. It takes data centers, plain and simple — each running 24/7 and housing thousands of servers and data storage systems – to satisfy our growing appetite to tweet all day long, watch the Olympics streamed online, and Skype our friends across the globe. If you’re thinking it’s a recipe for sky-high power bills and added greenhouse emissions, well, then you’re right. Let’s take a look at how some of the biggest web firms are handling IT infrastructure growth while bringing technology and innovative data center design principles to bear on lowering energy costs and reducing carbon emissions.
“What are the rules regarding free speech for GIs on Facebook? Two are being brought up on charges for saying that Navy sucks.”
MySpace remains banned within the military to this day, while Facebook, despite security concerns, is still available to American troops.