How frustrated are you when you have to reboot your PC in the middle of the day? A full shutdown and reboot cycle can take a several minutes - instead of staring at your screen watching the icons flicker to life, the hourglass grind away, etc., why ...
A survey of technical professionals shows a startling level of reliance on Web communities by IT professionals. The report from King Research includes these key findings: (more…)
A few months ago, we began testing the interactive blog rating widget from RateItAll (see Beyond Web 2.0 - Interactive Rating Widget). At the time, this widget was in closed beta. Now, RateItAll is opening things up with a more flexible widget design (more sizes and colors). ...
What happens to communities when they get popular? They get targeted by spammers, malcontents, and vandals. MySpace has done an amazing flip, moving from one of TIME’s 50 Coolest Sites in 2006 to one of their Five Worst in 2007: (more…)
My fellow FutureLab blogger, danah boyd, wrote an interesting and controversial essay about the social network migration of high school students: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. (Boyd blogs at Many-to-Many and Apophenia about social networking and related topics.) She sums up her point: (more…)
Even stupid criminals know how to use Google, according to a report from Colorado Springs: First, the burglars, dressed in black and with their faces covered, tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with WD-40, only to have the lubricant clean the lens, police detective Chuck Ackerman said. ...
The pageview is officially on its way out the door as a web site performance metric - Nielsen is dropping page view measurement in its Web traffic reporting. Instead, they will report the time visitors spend at sites. (more…)
Way back in March, I evaluated an XV6700 smart phone from Verizon. I liked it almost enough to keep it - I liked its screen better than its pancake-style competitors, I was starting to get used to the slideout keyboard, and I was able to get its “unsupported” laptop ...
Facebook is seeing massive traffic growth, according to a press release from Comscore, Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults. Unique visitors hit 26.6 million in May, 2007, up 89% vs. the same month in 2006. Pageviews in the same period hit almost 16 billion, ...
vBulletin users may have been caught off guard by a July4th announcement that Jelsoft Enterprises Limited, the maker of the popular forum software, has been acquired by Internet Brands, Inc. Many of the Web’s largest forum communities, not to mention thousands of smaller ones, rely on vBulletin as their ...
