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Networks
- Applications for Y Combinator’s Summer 2007 funding cycle comes to a close on 2 April. They usually fund $5k per founder, plus $5K, in return for a 1-10% stake in the company.
- Google has launched Google Apps Premier Edition, a $50 per user per year subscription package of their hosted business applications. Once again, the dreaded user charging model is applied. Does a web host charge according to the number of unique visitors a site gets, or how many people build a web application. No. It’s the data that counts, so charge on that basis. 37signals understand this fundamental concept, so why can’t everyone else? What’s worse is that despite the subscription, there are still limits to how much e-mail can be stored.
- The new default for session storage in Ruby on Rails is… cookies. Which will surely be great for those Ajax applications. Fortunately, you can still use other mechanisms.
- ActiveMerchant 1.0.0 is now released. Hear those footsteps? That’s the sound of million Shopify clones coming your way.
- Netvibes has announced that their upcoming ‘Coriander’ release will allow their widgets to run cross-platform, using the Universal Widget API. No doubt the creaking institution that is the W3C will get their Widgets 1.0 specification out sometime.
- Monocle launches. But isn’t it just an in-flight magazine? Or do I just really hate in-flight magazines?
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