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Google Widgets for web pages

Paul Westbrook | 03 October, 2006 20:48

This is pretty cool.  Google has made it possible to embed Google Widgets into web pages.  So now you can easilly add automatically updating content to a static web page.  Here the Bejewled widget:

I am still not sure how these will be used, except for the novelty factor.

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protecting against slashdot/digg effect

Paul Westbrook | 03 October, 2006 00:49

This post describes a way to protect a web site against the slashdot/digg effect.  Essentially it redirects all request that come from one of the sites that can cause large spikes in traffic to the proxy at nyud.net.

This tip doesn't work if you use the Bad Behavior plugin.  When this plugin is installed, all requests that come through this proxy get rejected with a 403 status code.

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