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lindner

June 13, 2007

PostgreSQL & Hi5 - Users Group Meeting

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We had a great turnout at the latest PostgreSQL users group meetup -- around 35 people showed. (Oh and not the group of stylish "Hi5 folk" you see to the right :)

Ram and I went over the PostgreSQL based DB architecture we use at Hi5 after the obligatory pizza feed. Quite an interesting crowd, some newbies, and some old hands.

My best line of the night was in response to a question asking us when we were going to use a specific feature -- my answer was that there were more people in the room than there were employees at Hi5. :)

The complete presentation is online for the curious.

#hi5 #postgres #postgresql

lindner

June 11, 2007

Privacy International - Fools

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I see that Hi5 made the list of Privacy International as posing a substantial threat to users' privacy. I find that their methodology is extremely suspect. I can't spot any consistency in the way they treat sites.

These guys dinged us because our point of contact for Privacy is our legal counsel. He is, but he's also the guy calling Malaysia at 3AM to get phishing sites shut down. We do a lot around here.

Also, these guys claim they had a pop-up advertisement show up when they clicked on the privacy page. I know for a fact that this is not possible. No advertising code is used on those pages, never has, never will. These idiots must have had some kind of malware installed to cause that to occur.

In any case, we'll let Google and them fight it out. We don't need validation from some poor excuse for a privacy group. We protect our users and give them the tools to protect their privacy.

#hi5 #phishing #privacyinternational #security

lindner

June 5, 2007

Top 10!!!!

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It's been a lot of work, but Hi5 has now broken into the Alexa top 10, only 6 months ago we were treading water in the mid 40s. We're quickly gaining on Orkut with Facebook nipping at our heels.