
Using Route 53 in Amazon Web Services
Sometimes you just need a little DNS to get you through your day. This is an 18 minute video that goes through the configuration of Route 53 both at Dreamhost (my service provider) and Amazon Web Services. The setup is fairly straight forward with little to no hitches when setting up the system. The main […]

In a world where everyone knows everything about you
Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to Ashley Madison? Google already knows this information if you searched for it on Google, or if there was a Google Ad on Ashley Madison. Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to FetLife (NSFW), if you searched for it on Google (or Bing or Yahoo […]
The Constrained Future of Social Computing
Jud Valeski of Gnip (defrag sponsor) has a wonderful blog post up that every single “social media expert” out there needs to read (and understand). In the post, Jud lays out why it is that the IP address, which has become the “canonical access regulator” for cloud-based web apps that call on APIs are now […]