Today Priocept launched www.quitmasters.com.my, the latest release of GlaxoSmithKline’s smoking cessation Behavioural Support Programme (BSP) including major new community and social media features implemented on the Gigya platform.

The Twitter Engineering team (@twittereng) has just achieved an impressive 3x performance improvement for Twitter search queries, largely, it seems, by replacing Ruby-on-Rails web applications with new applications built on Java, coupled with a switch from MySQL to Lucene for the data store.