Craig Andrews 24 connections

Facebook Went Down – Did You?

Yesterday, Facebook went down for about 2.5 hours. Thousands of sites across the web, seemingly unconnected to Facebook, went down with it.
Facebook hosts thousands of "apps," including games such as Farmville, Celtics 3 Point Play, and the Bruins Face Off. For 2.5 hours, all of those apps were... more »

Microblogging inside the Firewall

Cross posted to Molecular Voices. Please comment there.
Little strings of text are big business – both publicly and inside the corporate firewall. As we all know, Twitter is pretty big – TV and radio ads for major companies mention their Twitter sites and even business cards reference... more »

Microblogging inside the Firewall

Little strings of text are big business – both publicly and inside the corporate firewall. As we all know, Twitter is pretty big – TV and radio ads for major companies mention their Twitter sites and even business cards reference Twitter URLs nowadays. But Twitter cannot be used with... more »

Running Ubuntu in VMWare

VMWare is a leading (if not the leading) virtualization solution. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary software, which means that distributions tend not to care too much about it (and in my opinion, rightfully so!).
My employer is one such company that uses VMWare, and it recently instituted a... more »

oEmbed

oEmbed is a relatively simple concept, which can be basically thought of as hyperlinking to the next level. According to oembed.com: “oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as... more »

oEmbed

oEmbed is a relatively simple concept, which can be basically thought of as hyperlinking to the next level. According to oembed.com: “oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as... more »