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Here is an Interview with Craig Allen and Eric Kallman of Wieden + Kennedy to find out how Old Spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" was made. The final clip was made in one shot after a three day session. It's amazing how they solved all the transitions without almost no CGI !

Nowdays NoSql is on everybodys blogs and it seems that it is the salvation to all the worlds problems including world hunger and quakes. I read a lot about it with great interest to prepare myself for future scalability challenges. Here is a list of interesting articles:

The "NoSQL" Discussion has Nothing to Do With SQL
A sober comparison between SQL and NoSQL, and how SQL can be optimized.

Notes from a production MongoDB deployment
Some thoughts and numbers 8 months after a MySQL to MongoDB migration.

Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL
Just because Mongo, TC, or Couch are 'document-oriented' or 'schema-free' does not mean they are necessarily better for your application.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnGarRsKnA
Brian Aker gives a lightning talk (10 minutes) about NoSQL during the Nov 2009 OpenSQLCamp

Great video from PyCon where Jonathan Ellis who is behind Cassandra, talks about how to scale databases and different cache optimizations.

Coding related articles that  I like right now:

Seeking a Database that doesn't suck
Quick recap of databases that suck - or at least, suck for my purposes - and some that I'm still investigating.

Lucandra, a Cassandra based Lucene backend
For most users, the trickiest part of deploying a Lucene based solution is managing and scaling storage, reads, writes and index optimization.

Twitters plan to analyze 10 Billion Tweets
Twitter has only 10% of the expected 100 billion tweets now, but a good brain always plans ahead. Kevin gave a talk, Hadoop and Protocol Buffers at Twitter, at the Hadoop Meetup, explaining how Twitter plans to use all that data to an answer key business questions.

Video: JavaScript - From Birth to Closure by Robert Nyman
Great video that describes both well knows things and lesser known spices in JavaScript

Hot HTML5 + CSS3 samples
The new specifications has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup.

Did you know that there is a universal password that works for any account on Facebook? Also that FB staff have been fired for abusing that password?

Rumors say that Facebook have 200 to 220 million active users spread around four datacenters around the world, hosted on 8.000 servers.

FB is also the largest photo distributor in the world with roughly SIX TRILLION images.

All this and more comes from an anonymous insider at Facebook.

You might argue if this is fake or not, but read the full story at: The Rumpus

Kevin Mitnick, the world famous Hacker, has the greatest business card. A Lock Picking set! :)

Read more at flickr

David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company. "There is too little talk among startups about making money"

Everybody is chasing the big buyout lottery. He talks about having a price on your product, which is the obvious solutions to create a profitable company, but yet easily forgotten in the web startup scene.

Marc Andreessen, a true legend, Founder of Ning, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his good advice for startups.

He's talking about, among other things, the biography of Steve Martin where he describes how to be successful, and says, "be so good that they can't ignore you", which Marc translates to "have an idea that is so good that they can't ignore you".

Marc also explains how to attract a great team, and how the "law of crappy people" works. Great video.

Norm Meyrowitz of NKM Advisors talks about 20 questions for startup success. "It's easier than you think to get VC money. It's much harder to create a successful company" He is not the best talker, but it's definitely worth to watch!

I just installed Chrome for Mac to try it out for my websites. When I launched browser it could not import settings from FireFox. After it opened it showed this screen:

First it's quite annoying showing the Swedish Google Search, since I have English OS and always use English Search. And whats up with the Google Chrome Install button? Can't it tell that I have Chrome?!

Live streaming from Le Web 2009

Video:

Wish I could be there IRL :)

Here are three really good viral campaigns going on right now. The videos are measured on a True Reach basis, which includes viewership of both brand-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social video placements. 

By the way, the rollin' babies are cool but also a bit scary :P

1. Sexy Pilgrim

2. Tony Hawk Ride

3. Live Young

Go to Visible Measures for top 10