Archive for February, 2008

Sometimes you get to serve your customers and at the same time serve humanity. As part of our security effort for user registration we are implementing reCaptcha from Carnegie Mellon University.

This is a commonly seen test for being a human, where you type in some text from a graphic that cannot be read by spam software looking for victims.It is not the only service available that does this, but what makes reCaptcha notable, aside from being a free service, is that each time it is used, it helps to digitize the text of books. As in archiving human knowledge. Now that’s cool.

For more information, check out the reCaptcha site.

This week YomoMedia was succesfully installed and is up and running on Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2).We are testing it the rest of this week and if it continues to be as fast and stable as it appears now, we will point our DNS to this as our production environment. We’ll use either DynDNS or NoIP to manage that.We have been debating issues around performance and scalability. This will hopefully take care of immediate needs and allow us to adapt to changes.Kudos to our intrepid Chris K. for making this happen.

YomoMedia is the best way to get the Internet on your desktop or a mobile phone. It’s free and available now. Go to the YomoMedia home page to read more, or just give it a Test Drive right now.YomoMedia is a free service, including a desktop RSS feed reader/manager and mobile phone playback sofware.

With our web-based reader you can read the latest headlines on any internet-connected computer. It works great on its own, and a smartphone is not required. If you have a smartphone, you can get all your headlines on your phone —wirelessly, over the air. It’s a built-in feature of the YomoMedia service. It’s easy and free.

• Find, Organize & Read your favorite news online
• Download content to your phone
• Find new content shared by other users
• Publish your own feeds
• Import your feeds from other readers