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It has been 30 months since we started SlashGear and today we've posted our 10000th entry. Vincent and I would like to thank our readers, staffs (Chris Davies, Chris Barr, Abby McVay, and Daniel Lim), and our sponsor Quartics for the support and hard work.

The anticipation for Street Fighter 4 is on the rise, and I was surfing the net looking for its news update - accidentally stumble on this cool Sumo wrestling video. Well, I won't go into detail - just watch it :).

You know friendster, myspace, facebook, multiply, bebo, flixter, fotolog and many others. What are these sites have in common? They are all social networks in where you can gain a lot of friends and you can communicate with people that have interests similar to you. Ask people specially the youth and they surely own an account to at least one of those above-mentioned sites. Well, this is what’s hot to ...

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 entry posted on SlashGear US. We are giving a lot of cool gadgets and stuff ...

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 to get started on query optimization. I found some wordpress plugins (recent comment, featured entry) ...