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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today’s announcement reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

MySQL’s open source database is the “M” in LAMP - the software platform comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl often viewed as the foundation of the Internet. Sun is committed to enhancing and optimizing the LAMP stack on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows along with OpenSolaris and MAC OS X. The database from MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish, together with Sun’s Java platform and NetBeans communities, will create a powerful Web application platform across a wide range of customers shifting their applications to the Web.

Source: Sun to Acquire MySQL

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du -hs /var/www/

You may omit the directory path if you’d like to find out the size of the current directory that you are in.
du -hs

I have always wondered what the stats are like for well-known websites like google.com, yahoo.com, flickr.com and digg.com and today I found exactly what I wanted to know.

Some 3 months ago, complete.com posted a blog post on Top-50 Websites - Ranked by Unique Visitors.

First on the list is yahoo.com, standing at 130,078,549, followed by google.com at 124,544,834. There are quite a few big names web 2.0 sites which made it to the list; for example: youtube.com, flickr.com, facebook.com, digg.com and smarter.com. There are also a couple of sites in the list which I have not heard of.

Have a look at the chart below and see for yourself, while I take some time off to check out all the websites in the list.

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Now facebook is not the only social networking site (I know) with funky widgets and applications. Friendster, the #1 social network in Asia and the third largest branded social network in the world, realised the popularity of applications and widgets among social network users today and introduced widgets and application to the site in December 2007. With this introduction of widgets and applications, friendster also made Friendster Developers Platform available to developers.

The official Press Release says:

Friendster, Inc. (www.friendster.com) today launched a directory of over 180 applications, enabling its more than 56 million global users to easily discover, add and use applications on and off the Friendster.com website. These applications, called “widgets” throughout the industry, have been integrated into the Friendster user experience by developers leveraging Friendster’s Developer Program, released as a pilot program on October 25, 2007 and now fully deployed at http://www.friendster.com/developer.

And here’s an interesting bit: “Freedom to Monetize Applications - Developers can monetize their applications using virtually any model for monetization, and no revenue share with Friendster is required. Unlike other social networks, ads and monetization will be allowed anywhere in the application and are not restricted to rarely-used detail or configuration pages.”

I wonder if it is against Google Adsense Policy to integrate adsense into widgets that you develop. The policy stated that “No AdSense code may be integrated into a software application.”, but I couldn’t find any information on integration adsense into widgets and such. Does anyone know the answer?

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