links for 2008-03-08

• Vodkatrain
  i don’t even like vodka, and this looks cool
  (tags: vodkatrain travel rail train russia mongolia vietnam china)
• FireEagle Officially Launched :: High Earth Orbit
  best take i’ve read yet on fire eagle
  (tags: fireeagle andrewturner location gps)
• Official Google Data APIs Blog: 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
  the official (and long awaited) Google Contact API
  (tags: api contacts gdata atom google addressbook)
• snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Contact!
  and a reaction to that API
  (tags: atom contacts jamessnell gdata google api)
• nanocr.eu » Blog Archive » iPhone SDK
  an iPhone SDK reaction
  (tags: iphone sdk dvdjon)
• Open Parenthesis » Automated Import to Dopplr from TripIt
  the trick to making this work is not creating the trips in Dopplr first, because it will refuse to import a Trip from TripIt that already exists in Dopplr
  (tags: dopplr tripit integration travel socialnetworking)
• iPhone SDK comparison chart – Engadget
  very useful matrix comparing a few of the popular mobile platforms
  (tags: iphone apple sdk mobile programming matrix engadget)
• Zoho Blogs » On Mobile Phones and Server Farms
  points for novelty, if nothing else
  (tags: mobile devices clustering powermanagement datacenters)
• eigenclass – A better backup system based on Git
  interesting. don’t think i’m moving to it just yet, but interesting.
  (tags: backups git sysadmin linux howto via:joshua)
• n.tecs Blog – ZFS vs. HammerFS
  a filesystem comparison
  (tags: zfs hammerfs filesystems linux hammer clustering distributed)
• The stupidity of metrics at Churbuck.com
  yup
  (tags: metrics focus tunnelvision davidchurbuck)
• A better hypervisor than a hypervisor? Andrea Arcangeli
  interesting interview discussing KVM
  (tags: kvm virtualization andreaarcangeli donmarti hypervisor)

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