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Morning News Update, November 4 2010
Nov 4th
- Google released an Apache module that auto tunes performance
Google has announced that they are launching a module for the Apache HTTP server called mod_pagespeed, that will automatically tune several properties to optimize page load speed. I haven’t tried it out yet, but will definitely do so.
Amongst other things, mod_pagespeed will:- recompress images
- modify cache lifetime for static elements
- make changes to pages built by CMS
I don’t know if I’ll see a great performance on this server, as I already took care of a lot of speed improvements myself, but this module is a great way to implement common best-practices without having to dig into Apache’s configuration too much.
Read more and download the module on the Page Speed Google Code website. - Facebook Mobile Announcements
Just a short summary of what Facebook announced yesterday, there’s already tons of coverage out there:
- Facebook for iPhone updated (as I hoped in my tweet just minutes before the event started).
- Facebook for Android updated.
- Single Sign-On for mobile platforms.
So you don’t have to deal with entering your password in every app that uses Facebook connect. - Facebook Places API Update. Full read and write access for third parties.
- Deals. This sounds kind of like Groupon mixed with Foursquare.
Could be very interesting, once it reaches the critical mass of user adoption. - No dedicated iPad App in the near future.
Although I’ve read about speculations of a HTML5 based website/app that could offer the same experience on multiple tablet based platforms.
Optimizing HTML Page load time
Oct 31st
Google engineer Aaron Hopkins has written an interesting analysis of optimizing page load time.
A very interesting read! Especially the fact that most users asymmetrical upload bandwidth “bottlenecks” page loading times is logical but never occurred to me before.
read more | digg story
