[messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html - how does antispam currently work at large email providers - how would widespread E2E crypto affect this - what are the options for moving things to the client (and pros, cons) - is this feasible for email? - How do things change when moving from email to other sorts of async messaging (e.g. text messaging) or new protocols - i.e. are there unique aspects of existing email protocols, or are these general problems? // I worked at Google for about 7.5 years. For about 4.5 of those I worked on the Gmail abuse team, which is very tightly linked with the spam team (they use the same software, share the same on-call rotations etc). // ...

By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/ some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)

By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/ some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)

ImperialViolet - False Start's Failure

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/04/11/falsestart.html Google describes problems with their attempt to modify SSL handling in chrome that speeds up SSL handshake by 30% on avg.

ImperialViolet - False Start's Failure

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/04/11/falsestart.html Google describes problems with their attempt to modify SSL handling in chrome that speeds up SSL handshake by 30% on avg.

ImperialViolet - False Start's Failure

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/04/11/falsestart.html Google describes problems with their attempt to modify SSL handling in chrome that speeds up SSL handshake by 30% on avg.

Google over IPv6

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/ Read here if you have IPv6 connectivity, you can have google services served via IPv6 (i.e., google will reply with AAAA records on queries made from your DNS server)

ImperialViolet - Overclocking SSL

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html Notes from google ppl about their optimizations for SSL connections.

The Real Life Social Network v2

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2 A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)

Top 1000 sites[on the internet] - [from google's] DoubleClick Ad Planner [statitics]

http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/ Top 1000 by google