Update: Texty

Texty (previous post here) has just released a couple of new features, which should help make it more versatile, especially for high traffic blogs. Here are some of the new features:

Search Indexing:

In each Texty edit object under "Advanced Secret Options" you can now input the URL where you plan to post your Texty. Our indexing technique will assure your content is indexed and drive incoming clicks back to your site!

If you are concerned about privacy and wish your Texty not to be indexed, simply click the "Private" function.

This feature should help to drive even more traffic to your website. The other feature is a digg button:

In addition - we also just released our digg function - it allows you to add a digg it function to any of your Texty's. The control is under our Advanced Options tab!

Metal nanocrystals promise to double flash memory capacity - Engadget

Here is an interesting story from Engadget. A little while ago, someone in Jaiku posted a link to a blog post that talked so much about these kinds of technology, but only spoke of it, without giving anything substantial. As soon as I saw this, I knew I had to what I could to share it.

Metal nanocrystals promise to double flash memory capacity - Engadget

From Engadget:

There's certainly no shortage of folks trying to create bigger, better flash memory, but upstart Nanosys seems to think it's found a winning formula, and it's apparently already got some big names on board. Key to its solution are so-called "self-assembled metal nanocrystals" which, when added to the flash manufacturing process, supposedly doubles the capacity of conventional chips. According to MIT's Technology Review, the crystals themselves are "grown" in a liquid solution and then spun onto silicon wafers -- not an entirely new process, but Nanosys has apparently come up with a chemical process that produces crystals that are more uniform in size and spacing than previous attempts by others. That's apparently been enough to attract the interest of Intel and Micron, who Nanosys says could be putting the technology to use as soon as 2009.

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