links for 2007-11-27

• Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
  The study added that “the worst performing sites on Black Friday were showing as much as a 400 percent slowdown,” which White said “will lead to consumers abandoning a product search or checkout.”
  (tags: thanksgiving ecommerce performance)
• What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
  Along the lines of if Microsoft had created the iPod, here is a look at what Microsoft would do with Gmail. Funny.
  (tags: email fun funny gmail google microsoft parody ui usability webdesign)
• mySQL DBA: Unorthodox approach to database design Part 2:Friendster
  Interesting article on data sharding.
  (tags: architecture database databases design distributed)
• Quiet Riot’s Kevin DuBrow Found Dead – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
  MTV news article on death of Kevin Dubrow. What a shock. Not much older than we are.
  (tags: music metal bands deaths)

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