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Google Now Hosts Open Source Libraries

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Are you using Ajax in your web application? If so, then you're probably using an open source JavaScript library, as well. Google announced earlier today that several popular JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and Dojo, will be freely available for web applications to incorporate in their HTML pages. By using Google's Ajax API, applications will be able to benefit from Google's fast content delivery network, as well as from the fact that browsers cache JavaScript files. So if any other application uses Google's copy of Prototype, your application will be able to used the cached version, saving time and bandwidth.


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Yahoo Tries to Become the Cool Kid -- By Being More Open

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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to purchase Yahoo for $44 billion in cash and stock. Now, Yahoo has announced its intention to become a fully open, platformizable company, letting developers mix and match its services and data in new and different ways. How much of this is designed to make Yahoo more profitable, and how much is simply a reaction to Microsoft's acquisition attempt? Will openness bring Yahoo more revenues, or simply make it a cooler company in developers' eyes?


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Summer Is Almost Here, and So Is the Summer of Code

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This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code. But this turned out to be another joke of sorts; Google has extended the deadline to April 7th, giving students several more days to apply.

Google is well known for their many April Fool's Day jokes. I still remember when Gmail was launched; the notion of 1GB of free e-mail storage space was considered so ridiculous that it had to be a joke. Except, of course, that Gmail was serious. This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code.


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What Does Hadoop Mean to You?

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MapReduce is Google's secret weapon: A way of breaking complicated problems apart, and spreading them across many computers. Hadoop is an open source implementation of MapReduce that you can use on your own computers, in the same way.

How does Hadoop work, and how might you best use it? Especially if you were interested in the recent news involving Yahoo and Hadoop, or if you're interested in cloud computing, it's worth finding out.



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