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Pythian Group Blog » Scaling MySpace: Treading Water in a Tsunami (This time it’s SQL Server!)

Pythian Group Blog » Stability, Agility, Scalability, and Cost: The eBay Example

Dell Compares RAC and Non-RAC Performance and Cost « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases

The Long Tail: Everything is miscellaneous

LiveLeak.com - Big Speed Bump in Dubai ( U.A.E)

Look at how young they all look!

Richard Yoo’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Rackspace Founded

Check out the photos of that beached cargo ship in the UK. Someone salvaged a brand new BMW motorcycle from one of the containers…

Beached - a photoset on Flickr

Bill Boebel wrote a nice article about the help Rackspace has provided his company as they’ve grown and scaled…

Bill Boebel: Host with an expert

Great minds think alike… Unfortunately, some are a bit greater than others…

Right after my lame post on LinkedIn, Guy Kawasaki goes and writes a great article on the top ten (really 11) ways to use LinkedIn…

Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn

If you use Linked In and you’d like to link to me, my profile is here

and you can use the email address jengates (at) gmail (dot) com to connect.

I admit it. I am addicted to Linked in. It’s like crack. It sucks you in and makes you want to keep expanding your network. As soon as you connect with someone it opens up a whole new group of potential connections. When I create a new connection, I immediately go and see who that person knows and which contacts we have in common. It’s like a scavenger hunt. I have spent way too much time on linked in… I’m just lucky it’s free.

Good things about linked in:

I have reconnected with lots of old colleagues and friends.
I have a database of contact info that’s constantly updated and mostly accurate.

(Potentially) Bad things about linked in:

I have given away a goldmine of information to anyone who cares to look (all my contacts). The people who run linked-in are sitting on one of the most up-to-date and active databases of job candidates in the world.

How will this thing be used against me?

LinkedIn: Relationships Matter