IP addresses depleted – but Get a Bird’s Eye view, and do the Twitter bug

Bing Maps Enhanced Bird’s Eye Goes International with 194,000 square kilometres of imagery and doesn’t limit the user’s perspective, so you can explore a location from all 4 cardinal points. ‘Scuse me while I check to see if my town’s on there…

Internet approaches addressing limit – Legacy from the 70’s (or is that me…?) means only 7% of 4 billion IP addresses are left to allocate. You’ll need to brush up on persuasion techniques to get one in the near future…

Microsoft post downplays virtual desktop benefits: “Overall… VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is generally 9 -11 percent more expensive than the corresponding PC environment,” says Gavriella Schuster, senior director of the Windows commercial product management group.

Were you caught out by the Twitter bug (hmm sounds like a dance…)? In an egocentric panic I thought I’d somehow wiped everyone’s followers off Twitter. What a relief to find it wasn’t me at all, but designed by Twitter to remove a bug. *Sigh*.