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Pras Sarkar blogs about web technology, music, social networks, digital identities and other random things.

Y Combinator

Y Combinator has been gaining some considerable airtime at your friendly techie blogs with their slew of new startups. Here's a couple that are interesting to note: Jamglue - "Remixing for the masses" is their slogan, which is great except that the 'masses' produce shitty whizh-swosh-pop-gurgle infused beats that they uploaded from their cellphones. Though the idea is very neat (read mad props), one must think about whether remixing ...

How to load your site faster: HTTP Compression

In this series, we take a look at how to reduce load times across your site. The first part of the series tackles one of the most important techniques which usually proves to drastically reduce your load times. Usually it's not enough to use HTTP Compression alone (best results when coupled with smart caching), but I've seen anywhere between 40%-80% speed increases.

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