We have finally reached the 5000 entries mark on SlashGear US. It hit 4000 entries mark in early May this year. I want to thank my dedicated editor team, our sponsors, and our readers for supporting SlashGear. SlashGear Japan has also hit its milestone with 1000 entries. “Logitech MX Air Mouse Videos” is the 5000th [...]
For the past couple days, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can keep our flagship sites up during sudden spikes of incoming traffic. We have moved to LiteSpeed Web Server two months ago and it does help; however the bottleneck is back to MySQL. So recently I enabled slow-queries log on MySQL server [...]
Okay guys, WWDC is around the corner so I spent the whole weekend preparing for the event. I developed and put up a Webcast system where our Editor will be able to bring you live coverage of events such as WWDC. Check out SlashGear’s new section called SlashGear Live and MY iTablet Live Webcast. Both [...]
Well, it was previously reported by Sam Sethi that Google is trying to acquired Feedburner, and today the deal has been confirmed. Google spend $100 millions on this acquisition and I personally think it’s one of the best purchase Google made. Not much information other than this being reported as everything is sealed until the [...]
As I previously posted, SlashGear got digged again. Usually Digg will brings us around 15-20k visits on entry that goes into popular pool. However, yesterday was a different one. We did not only get dugg, but also increases in linked in traffic from other blogs. As a result, we have a big traffic increase from [...]
One of our story in SlashGear was dugg and it send a lot of readers to SlashGear for the whole day as it made the top 10 story of the day in Digg’s site. We weren’t entirely down, but some users are experiencing slow down on the site. Aside from http, everything feels like normal. [...]
Named after a tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, WordPress 2.2 is finally released. After some delay, the 2.2 packed in some quite interesting new features. WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by [...]
Bao posted this parody earlier on today on SlashPhone. It’s a video of Microsoft oFone, the master plan of MS against Apple’s iPhone. It is really funny and should give you a little chuckle…..or more. [via slashphone]
