Link roundup for 3/21/08

By Ben Gross
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YouTube Offline, Pakistan Telecom Blamed: A few weeks ago, YouTube was temporarily inaccessible to much of the world due routing tables changes from an ISP in Pakistan made at the government’s behest. Data Center Knowledge has an interesting write up about the conditions that allowed a country specific ISP to propagate routing table changes to a regional ISP and then to much of the rest of the world and how the situation was resolved.

A Great Online Document Viewer Gets Even Better The Google Operating System weblog writes about Scribd’s recent release of iPaper, which is a competitor to Adobe’s now discontinued FlashPaper, that allows end users to embed PDF documents in web sites that can be viewed via Flash in a browser without a PDF viewer application. iPaper also supports most Microsoft Office documents, ODF documents, plain text, RTF, PostScript, and OpenOffice documents.

AOL Opens AIM Some More: AOL recently announce it’s Open AIM 2.0, which allows developers to create clients with instant messaging functionality that are interoperable with AOL’s AIM network. One important addition is that SSL is now available to third party developers to secure connections to the AIM servers. AOL does place some restrictions on the interoperability. Developers must implement at least two of AOLs five add on features to AIM in order to use the API.

Published March 21, 2008