ADrive is yet another startup offering it’s users 50GB of free online “Cloud” Based storage.

Ubuntu has long been the darling of the media, or at least the small number of people who actually cover Linux and related technologies. And I haven’t read anything but good things about it … until recently. Has Ubuntu lost it’s charm as the “Linux for human beings” ? Are there other contenders for the human linux title now ?

A small but growing number of users are being vocal about the fact that even after more than 5 years in the market, Ubuntu has still not been able to fulfill their promise of a Linux system which normal human beings can use.

Today’s big news of the day is that Shelfari, the social network for book addicts, has been acquired by Amazon.

which one do you prefer ?

iterasi is an interesting service. It is something of a cross between del.icio.us and the Internet wayback machine. iterasi lets the user bookmark a web page but instead of saving just the web page’s address, it saves the whole page.
The advantage that iterasi brings for its users is that even if the original website is down, the user can still view the information since iterasi saves the complete web page intact with all formatting.
Another very interesting feature is that you can schedule iterasi to save a copy of a web …

Move over Box.net, Mozy and Xdrive, Wuala is here ! Those were exactly the words in my mind when I first heard about Wua.la a couple of months back. Back then, it was in a closed beta and I couldn’t try the service. Well, Wua.la is open to the public now and, boy, am I glad !
Wua.la is basically an online storage service. In that sense, it is no different than Box.net, Mozy or Xdrive. What makes it different is the social aspect of it.
Wuala is storage based on p2p …

Darren over at Problogger has a guest post by technosailor on  optimising web pages for faster load time post on some of the points to take care of when optimising your blog.
Most bloggers start with a small site hosted on a shared server and as most shared servers can’t handle the kind of traffic a good blogger is likely to see, it is generally a good idea to optimise your blog and carefully monitor the response times.
The post covers the use (or minimal use of) images,  avoiding third party scripts, caching and (surprise, surprise …

[tablet] Michael Arrington from TechCrunch recently posted about a tablet PC that he wanted built. And I have to admit that the mock up looks very cool.

So, Google launched Google Knol today and the whole blogosphere is talking about it. That’s understandable. It’s not everyday that Google releases a new product which gets its own sub domain. But, what I don’t understand is: why is everyone, including reputed blogs like Lifehacker, Problogger and others calling it a wikipedia killer ?
I think that this is just another way for Google to display adsense advertisements on the internet. And the real competitors are sites like hubpages.com which work on almost exactly the same model, that Google Knol is …

WordPress for Iphone which we talked about earlier is live on the iTunes store now. Download it here and start blogging. The source is still not available and the documentation is sparse, but all that will be fixed within the next few days.
Matt’s announcement is here.