Engineers also have a sense of humour!!

Source: http://support.ultrawebsitehosting.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase &_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=158 Outlook: Your POP3 Server Has Not Responded or TCP/IP Error

Solution

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When you attempt to connect to a Post Office Protocol (POP3)or Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) you may receive one or more of the following error messages:

Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds. Would you like to wait another 60 seconds for the server to respond?
-or-

A TCP/IP error occurred while trying to connect to server... Protocol:
POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC15

CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you connect to your Internet mail server using a SOCKS proxy server, even though you can successfully connect to the Internet using a SOCKS proxy server.

Contact the administrator of your proxy server.

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Notes on the Andrew Tomkins Presentation

Topic: Web search and online communities

content quality
now we are getting better contents such as flickr

content growth
professional content
Personal content
total web growth: 1-3 M/day
published: 3-4GB/day
professional web: 2 GB
social web ~5-10 GB
private text: 2TB
upper bound: 140TB

fragmentation
content ownership is fragmenting
yahoo share of web content >10% of web

metcalfe law
The community value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users increase.

social media challenges
find it: find the right data which is original and worth-indexing
combine it: combining various type of data and media.

coping with scale
upper bound: 140 tb/day

me: its a simplistic way of calculating the data. data increase is not a linear function.

storage: 52pb/yr
cost: 25 million dollor/yr

key things in generating data and owning a part of internet
gathering contents
making deals
working with users

understanding the content
crawler: lucene zettair lemur

new in web search
class specific QP
vertical alignment
inlined content from 3rd parties
new interfaces as in msn web search
user contributed structures
integrated UGC- user generated content
simple structured queries
query correction
local search
structured content

where research has mostly done:
core search
local search

where not done
effectively using desktop real estate
providing integrated content to users
integrating social networking to search.


Questions:
how to monetize ajax based websites
how the search engines crawl graphic and ajax sites

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