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Cloud Testing in Japan
Cloud Testing is launching in Japan soon. The service, which is in private beta at the moment extends the current service allowing subscribers to functionally test their websites using multiple real browsers. Cloud Testing Japan is at http://www.cloudtesting.jp
What happens when you post a link on Twitter?
When a link is put into a Twitter posting, the link gets crawled very quickly by the following agents: @hourlypress Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; abby/1.0; +http://www.ellerdale.com/crawler.html) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 [...]
OneRiot Beta
For those of you who have recently started seeing the OneRiot user agent string appear and wondered what it was, here is the answer: Here is an example of searching for a recent posting we had done via Twitter, which showed up instantly (well just after we’d posted and then the bot had been in [...]
