We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT [...]
Read More»We’re pleased to announce that Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, launched a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent Accelerators to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises [...]
Read More»It’s nice to get great customer feedback:
This weekend, I wrote a humorous piece entitled “Moses is Departing
Egypt: A Facebook Haggaddah.” Not having easy access to any other
hosting service, I stored it on my Joyent Accelerator account. (I am
very glad that your terms of service permit this, so long as my
Facebook application is being tested.) This [...]
We’re pleased that the Facebook Haggadah is running on a free Joyent Accelerator as part of our program for social network developers. The Haggadah is the telling of the events of Passover and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt as described in the book of Exodus of the Torah. The Haggadah itself is a [...]
Read More»The “Answer Questions about Jason” contest was a success and all the contest winner received a free entry-level Joyent Accelerator. Congratulations. I was proud to give away Accelerators to celebrate the launch of JSBin on Joyent.
Keeping with the free theme, we will be expanding the number of free slots we have open for developers of [...]
JS Bin is a very useful utility offering collaborative JavaScript debugging. From the About section:
JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code – new tabs doesn’t). Once you’re happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review or [...]
Read More»Last night Zeus and Joyent announced the offering of ZXTM inside Zeus accelerators.
There are some interesting things to note about the offering, the relationship and how the Zeus accelerators work. It also marks the beginning of networked “appliances” being offered at Joyent and a new delivery mechanism and model for Zeus.
Zeus, as you may [...]
I’m very excited to announce that Joyent has acquired the Montreal-based Reasonably Smart platform. James Duncan and Bryan Bogensberger, founders of the company and platform, have joined Joyent.
This acquisition comes at an important point in time for Joyent. We’ve just finished our best year, ever. Revenue doubled in 2008 from 2007 even as the economy [...]
It’s with excitement that I announce the newest version of the Joyent Accelerator. The Joyent Technology team deserves a round of applause for their diligent work on this latest version of the Accelerator template. It is a tremendous piece of technology, and I certainly tip my hat to the team and say [...]
Read More»We recently opened a Seattle office as a move to consolidate Joyent’s distributed development efforts with something concentrated in a specific place. You can read more about it here. Ben Black, recently of Microsoft, joins Joyent as VP, Research to help lead the efforts. Jason is moving up to Seattle as well.
Much more could be [...]
