自从英特尔在2005年推出了第一代双核处理器之后，我们经常会被用户问到这个问题，为什么微处理要从单核转向多核？计算机上不断涌现的新兴使用模式让最终用户对处理器的处理能力——即性能——提出了更高的要求，并且对性能每年提高的幅度还在不断加速，而多核技术是目前行之有效的方法。...

很久以来，我一直以为same difference就是“相同的不同之处”的意思。比如你发现A和B的不同之处，你朋友发现了C和D的不同之处。一对比，你们意识到A与B的不同和C与D的不同是一样的，这就是same difference。 最近看的一本书里接连出现了好几个same difference的例子，但明显不是这种用法。从上下文可以判断出来，same difference就是same thing的意思。摘录其中两个： A: I can’t make a copy of something from an employee’s file and send it on to the police. B: Ex-employee. A: Same difference. A: Her boyfriend came and picked it up. B: Ex-boyfriend. A: Same difference. 查了下资料，找到了满意的答案。推荐阅读全文： The Mavens’ Word of the Day - same difference 最关键部分摘录如下： The literal meaning is easy. The basic meanings of [...]

午睡起来，上来看了一眼，居然看到了Zooomr的登录界面，切换到以前的OpenID登录，敲完密码又回到了这两周很熟悉的Mark III启动的视频界面。回到它的Blog，果然，已经有人留言又下线了。过了几分钟，Kristopher小同学更新说，正在调整流量。刚启动，居然有那么多人上？

过了一会，又登上去了，抓了个图，四处点了几下，然后，又，一次，回到了Kristopher is working...的界面。所以，估计这几天，这种来回切换或者干脆就保持在Working...上的界面将是常态。



Zooomr推出时间不算太长，最大的推广活动应该就是刚启动时说，谁给在Blog上引用它的图片，就给终生Pro的账号──当然这个Pro到底意味着什么他们从来没有明确过，或者我没有找到过。但它到现在已经拥有一批死硬派支持分子，似乎也包括我，从这些天看它的电视那里聊天的结果来看，主要是美国人，其次是英语国家来的和欧洲的，中文用户似乎都没上或者本来不太多吧。

死硬派，也就是die hard分子里，有整夜陪着他们干活的，有开车送他们去数据中心的。另外，可能也是最重要的，Zooomr的拥趸中居然还有Robert Scoble，著名前微软员工，Blogger，他写了个贴子，号召提供帮助，于是乎，Sun公司借了服务器（似乎是存储），Dell公司跑来给他们修机器，ZoHo公司提供了数据中心那一套东西，并且派人和他们一起工作，还有某不具名公司提供了服务器。插一句，Scoble在zoho数据中心那里见到了30个机架的Google机器，每架有40台，但那里不许拍照。总之，让人感觉加州那块地方有点社=会（主-义）的意思啊。

新特性里，刚进去的主界面就是那个Tritter功能的Zipline，这个东西，有点意思，但试了两个Tritter之后感觉不是特别有意思；有一个群组功能，就是个论坛，还能自己建立自己的论坛，长期玩的应该不错；另外这邦家伙真把TV功能放在那里了，不过也就是看他们自己干活吧。和地图结合这个，缺省的也是全球地图了；发掘图片上，分成了近一小时，近一天，近一周的分类，很有用。大概卖照片的服务一时还没有出来。右上角的News那时的时间居然是错的──是第一次准备启动的时间，也就是两周前。

不过抓的图还没有办法上载，等它彻底启动后再说吧──那时似乎又没有必要了。不知道Uploadr这个上传工具还能用不能。

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This past Friday Wetpaint hosted Lunch 2.0, and no, it wasn't user generated food, but rather an informal gathering of Seattle area Web 2.0 companies, and Rand and I were fortunate enough to attend.  It was a nice opportunity to meet and chat with a bunch of really great people and learn what everyone's up to as well as enjoy some awesome food from the Batali family's local deli, Salumi.

We mingled with the 50 or so attendees from such companies as Zillow,  BuddyTV, Level 3, Payscale, TalentSpring and more while having some nosh and getting a live, sneak-peek at ZenZui's awesome forthcoming mobile browser.  After everyone ate and chatted, the presentation portion of the afternoon commenced.

Trevor Foucher from the Google WMC team discussed the basics of crawling and indexing as well as displaying some of the features available through Webmaster Central.  While I'm sure this was solidly informative to many of the people in attendance, as someone in SEO it was a bit remedial (spiders can't see Flash content!). An interesting issue did arise though regarding how WMC handles large UGC sites, which I'll come back to in a minute.

Trevor finished out his presentation and our very own Rand Fishkin took the podium. Rand gave the crowd a choice of presentations: Link Spamming or Link Strategies (of the non-spam variety). The overwhelming consensus was for Link Spamming. Again, never underestimate the powerful allure of the dark side. It was, as is usual with Rand, a fun and informative presentation covering such areas as Keyword Stuffing, Cloaking, Paid Links, Farms, Parasite Hosting, etc. He also briefly mentioned some white hat tactics including his beloved, oft-trumpeted (and insanely effective) badges and widgets strategy. I'd go into detail but you can view the PowerPoint from the presentation here.  Hmm, Rand neglected to tell me where he's hiding the presentation, but he promised we'd have it available, so look for his edit with a functional link at the bottom of the post.

Wetpaint CEO, Ben Elowitz, then took a moment to talk about their UGC wiki network and the phenomenal growth they've seen over the past year. Wetpaint is currently serving 400,000 users and experiencing 50% traffic growth every month: very impressive.  They'll be launching a new homepage soon as well as enhancing options for password protection and site privacy.  He then brought up the problem Wetpaint has experienced with Google WMC: Who is the webmaster of each of the user-created sites on Wetpaint, the site owner (Wetpaint) or the creator (user)?  Currently, Google considers it to be Wetpaint but, while they're happy to set up WMC accounts for their users, they long ago hit Google's 500 site max at WMC.  Trevor indicated that Google is aware of this problem for Wetpaint and other sites with similar structure and they're working to figure out the best solution.

Darren from eyejot gave a brief overview of their very cool browser-resident video messaging technology.  We may do a full review of eyejot in the future as both myself and Rand were impressed by its apparent simplicity, mobile compatibility and ability to realistically facilitate video e-mail.

Overall, Lunch 2.0 was a successful and welcome networking event. There was rumor of making it a monthly occurrence and SEOmoz will definitely continue to be involved as long as the organizers will put up with us.

On the random, six-degrees side of things, I had a couple of interesting encounters at and surrounding Lunch 2.0. First, I was fortunate to meet and talk with Andy Liu of BuddyTV which was a pleasure and interesting because, oddly enough, the writing sample I submitted to SEOmoz as part of my hiring process was a recap of 24 that I'd originally written to pitch myself as a writer for BuddyTV several months earlier (they liked it but things didn't quite pan out). Second, I happened to run into Evan from ZenZui (who I'd just met at Lunch 2.0 earlier in the day) at the Wings Hauser show Friday night. He was there with my good friends Kim and Erin, with whom he's apparently been friends since high school. Strange coincidences, both.

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