Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic Web is +30%/month
There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down. We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic. Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number ...
Boycott Microsoft Bing
Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that cr...
A Friend's Tweet Could Be an Ad
Tuesday was another typical day for John Chow, blogger and Internet entrepreneur in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Chow treated his 50,000 Twitter followers to a photograph of his lunch (barbecued ...
Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Tried Google Wave.
“Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” - Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.
WordPress and Windows Azure
This week I had a unique opportunity to appear at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, to demo four open source technologies — WordPress, Apache, MySQL, PHP — running on Micro...
AP Scans Sarah Palin Book Without Permission; Look Out Google Book Search
Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin's book w...
Apple to release iPod Touch with camera this Spring?
We have heard from an inside source who claims the camera version of the iPod Touch 3G will be released this Spring. The source confirms to us that the iPod Touch 3G with camera had actually been pla...
Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up
Tweeting no more? — First, spectacular growth. Then a summertime slowdown. And now, in fall 2009, US traffic to Twitter.com is declining. — According to data provided to eMarketer by Nielsen, tr...
Firefox: Heat and the CPU usage problem
Firefox has a CPU usage issue and, consequently, can cause overheating problems in some laptops, particularly ultraportables. That's what I've found over the last couple of years. — But don't take ...
Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle
One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don't think either even bothers trying to serve as one...
Facebook's iPhone App Is Broken. Who Will Fix It?
10 days ago, Facebook developer Joe Hewitt rocked the iPhone development world when he announced that he would stop making iPhone apps because he was fed up with the way Apple is running the App Store...
The Story Behind the FAA Flight-Plan System Crash
Table of Contents: — When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to whe...
Examining Windows 7's fast start
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got lots of attention yesterday when he announced that the company has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 as it did any previous version of the operating system in its ...