Twitter has acquired Smallthought Systems, makers of Dabble DB and Trendly, an analytics dashboard that appears to have inspired the acquisition.
With the acquisition, Twitter (Twitter) will bring the Smallthought team in-house to integrate Trendly concepts into Twitter.
The news is also featured on Dabble DB’s website. The company writes that this is not the end of Dabble DB and that operation and technical support will continue as usual for existing users, although new sign-ups will not be allowed and no new features will be released.
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Adobe Flash 10.1 Now Available for Download
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After the much face off between apple and adobe with use of flash technology in the mac and ipad, Adobe announces the Adobe Flash 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.
According to a blog post from Adobe’s Flash team, the new Flash Player 10.1 features improved performance, power management and video features. The player has also been given new multi-touch and private browsing functionality. The overall viewing experience for Mac users has been fine-tuned as well.
The new Flash player should deliver an altogether smoother, higher-quality experience for web video, with better buffering, peer-to-peer video and online streaming video.
According to a blog post from Adobe’s Flash team, the new Flash Player 10.1 features improved performance, power management and video features. The player has also been given new multi-touch and private browsing functionality. The overall viewing experience for Mac users has been fine-tuned as well.
The new Flash player should deliver an altogether smoother, higher-quality experience for web video, with better buffering, peer-to-peer video and online streaming video.
WordPress.com and its millions of blogs goes down for unknown reason.
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One of the popular blog hosting site WordPress.com and the millions of blogs hosted by it have gone down for currently unknown reasons.
Not only are blogs hosted on WordPress.com down, but WordPress VIP blogs are out of commission as well.
All it currently says on WordPress-hosted blogs is the following:
“WordPress.com will be back in a minute!”
WordPress.com also experienced extended downtime back in February.
Not only are blogs hosted on WordPress.com down, but WordPress VIP blogs are out of commission as well.
All it currently says on WordPress-hosted blogs is the following:
“WordPress.com will be back in a minute!”
WordPress.com also experienced extended downtime back in February.
Twitter blames crashes on 'networking equipment'.
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Twitter user, had probably noticed that the microblogging site has been crashing repeatedly this week.
Twitter says on its Status Blog that these "site availability issues" were caused by a problem with networking equipment.
"This networking error prevented us from serving at full capacity," Twitter said Wednesday afternoon.
The problems continued Thursday. About 9:40 a.m. ET, the company posted an update:
"The site is returning an elevated rate of errors and timelines are sporadically backing up and recovering," the company's blog says. "Teams are responding to this incident."
Twitter says on its Status Blog that these "site availability issues" were caused by a problem with networking equipment.
"This networking error prevented us from serving at full capacity," Twitter said Wednesday afternoon.
The problems continued Thursday. About 9:40 a.m. ET, the company posted an update:
"The site is returning an elevated rate of errors and timelines are sporadically backing up and recovering," the company's blog says. "Teams are responding to this incident."
Software to measure emotions of Internet users.
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Aude Dufresne, professor at the University of Montreal (UofM) Department Of Communications, led a team of researchers that are designing a new software to evaluate the biological responses of Internet users.
Simply put, the new software measures everything in web users from body heat to eye movements to facial expressions and analyses how they relate to online activities.
The technology is now being tested at the newly opened Bell User Experience Centre, which is located at the telecom giant's Nun's Island campus.
Bell will use the University of Montreal technology to investigate how people react to websites. Such studies will provide companies with facts on how they can improve online experiences.
"With e-commerce and the multiplication of retail websites, it has become crucial for companies to consider the emotions of web users," says Dufresne, according to an UofM release.
Simply put, the new software measures everything in web users from body heat to eye movements to facial expressions and analyses how they relate to online activities.
The technology is now being tested at the newly opened Bell User Experience Centre, which is located at the telecom giant's Nun's Island campus.
Bell will use the University of Montreal technology to investigate how people react to websites. Such studies will provide companies with facts on how they can improve online experiences.
"With e-commerce and the multiplication of retail websites, it has become crucial for companies to consider the emotions of web users," says Dufresne, according to an UofM release.
Google asks US, EU to press China on censorship
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Google Inc's top lawyer has said that the world's leading search engine is asking the US and European governments to press China to lift Internet censorship, describing it as an unfair barrier to free trade.
David Drummond on Wednesday told reporters that western states should defend the free trade in information with the same kind of rules that they use to complain of China's below-cost sale of products.
He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested."
The company sparred with Chinese leaders earlier this year when it stopped self-censoring its search results in line with Chinese rules after it said Chinese hackers had tried to plunder its software coding and hijack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
David Drummond on Wednesday told reporters that western states should defend the free trade in information with the same kind of rules that they use to complain of China's below-cost sale of products.
He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested."
The company sparred with Chinese leaders earlier this year when it stopped self-censoring its search results in line with Chinese rules after it said Chinese hackers had tried to plunder its software coding and hijack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
What is HMTL5??
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HTML5 is like just other html i.e., .html we generally use for our web pages.HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web.
So you might be thinking what the big deal in the html5 and why steve jobs i mean apple is supporting it ???
Because, It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.
Twitter Hits 2 Billion Tweets Per Month.
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According to Twitter CTO Dick Costolo, about 65 million tweets are sent on Twitter each day. This equates to roughly 1.96 billion tweets per month, a stat that’s corroborated by Pingdom’s estimate of 2 billion tweets per month.
Just over a week ago, we reported that Twitter hit the 15 billion tweet mark. The service announced its ten billionth tweet just a few months before that, and hit the one billion tweet milestone back in the fall of 2008.
Costolo also stated that the service sees around 135,000 new registrations each day.
Gmail Gets a New and Improved Chat Window.
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Even if you don’t have the plugins required for video chat, you’ll see an icon that will install the required plugin, after which you can carry on with the chat.
Google says it expects the number of people using the video, group and voice chat features to rise dramatically after this improvement.
What is Yottabyte ?
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A yottabyte is one septillion bytes. To save all those bytes you need a data center as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. It doesn't seem like much, until they tell you the price tag: $100 trillion.
Stephen Fry crowned the most beautiful tweet.
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The most beautiful tweet ever tweeted has been announced by broadcaster Stephen Fry.
Fry, whose musings on micro-blogging site Twitter have attracted 1.5 million followers, announced the winner at the Hay Festival.
The winning tweet read: "I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it."
Marc MacKenzie, 41, from Canada, said he was "pleasantly surprised" to win.
"The recognition and knowing Fry picked my tweet is a huge honour."
Fry, whose musings on micro-blogging site Twitter have attracted 1.5 million followers, announced the winner at the Hay Festival.
The winning tweet read: "I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it."
Marc MacKenzie, 41, from Canada, said he was "pleasantly surprised" to win.
"The recognition and knowing Fry picked my tweet is a huge honour."
US mom finds missing kids using Facebook.
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San Bernardino: A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook.
San Bernardino Deputy District Attorney Kurt Rowley says Faustino Utrera, the father of the boy and girl, took off with them in 1995 when they were ages 2 and 3.
Rowley says recently the mother typed one of the children's names into Facebook and a listing for her daughter, now a teenager, came up.
The mom contacted authorities, who tracked the Facebook profile to Orlando, Florida.
Utrera was arrested and charged with kidnapping and violating child custody orders. The Florida Department of Children & Families says themom is trying to build a new relationship with the children.
San Bernardino Deputy District Attorney Kurt Rowley says Faustino Utrera, the father of the boy and girl, took off with them in 1995 when they were ages 2 and 3.
Rowley says recently the mother typed one of the children's names into Facebook and a listing for her daughter, now a teenager, came up.
The mom contacted authorities, who tracked the Facebook profile to Orlando, Florida.
Utrera was arrested and charged with kidnapping and violating child custody orders. The Florida Department of Children & Families says themom is trying to build a new relationship with the children.
Facebook Beats Yahoo, Wikipedia in Pageviews.
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Google's DoubleClick reports that Facebook has defeated 999 other web-related opponents on Google's list of top 1,000 sites. In the midst of all this success, Facebook's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg says he's "not making decisions to maximize the amount of money" that he's making and that one of the most transformative things to build in the world is "something that helps people share information and stay connected."
According to Google's Doubleclick, Facebook receives 570 billion pageviews per month, which is eight times as many pageviews as Yahoo, 15 times as many pageviews as MSN, and 72 times as many pageviews as Wikipedia.
According to Google's Doubleclick, Facebook receives 570 billion pageviews per month, which is eight times as many pageviews as Yahoo, 15 times as many pageviews as MSN, and 72 times as many pageviews as Wikipedia.
Legal notices can be sent via Facebook, rules judge.
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Online social networking site Facebook can also be used to serve legal notices on those evading court hearing, an Australian judge has ruled.
An Adelaide court ordered that Facebook be used for sending legal documents on an elusive alleged father involved in a child support dispute.
The federal magistrate, Stewart Brown, said the case was unusual but "demonstrative of social movements and the currency of the times".
The accused, Howard, had a brief relationship with a woman who later gave birth. The father's name was not mentioned in the birth certificate and the mother's child support application was rejected for lack of legal proof of paternity.
An Adelaide court ordered that Facebook be used for sending legal documents on an elusive alleged father involved in a child support dispute.
The federal magistrate, Stewart Brown, said the case was unusual but "demonstrative of social movements and the currency of the times".
The accused, Howard, had a brief relationship with a woman who later gave birth. The father's name was not mentioned in the birth certificate and the mother's child support application was rejected for lack of legal proof of paternity.
Facebook Privacy Now Has an Official Fan Page.
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Facebook’s newly launches Facebook and Privacy Page.
The social networking site announced on its blog that it has created a page all about everyone’s favorite topic: Facebook privacy.
This page has been created because of severe backlash from the users and as well as media agencies. Time magazine even put privacy on its cover. Finally, Facebook launched new, simplified privacy settings in an attempt to make good.
Src: [blog.facebook]
The social networking site announced on its blog that it has created a page all about everyone’s favorite topic: Facebook privacy.
This page has been created because of severe backlash from the users and as well as media agencies. Time magazine even put privacy on its cover. Finally, Facebook launched new, simplified privacy settings in an attempt to make good.
Src: [blog.facebook]
Twitter Testing New “You Both Follow” Feature.
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Twitter is testing a new feature that helps you figure out how you know — or if you want to follow — a given account.
If you catch a glimpse of this feature in the wild, you’ll see a slim strip of avatars on a user’s profile right above the grid of people that user follows. The headline above this reads, “You both follow.”
This new feature is a quick reference tool that shows deeper connections in the social media grid, and it’s a simple addition that makes Twitter seem less like a one-way communication tool and more like a robust, legitimate social network.
This new feature is a quick reference tool that shows deeper connections in the social media grid, and it’s a simple addition that makes Twitter seem less like a one-way communication tool and more like a robust, legitimate social network.
Facebook and Google Maps Dominate Smartphone App Usage.
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U.S. Nielsen’s study shows that 21% of American wireless subscribers have smartphones.
the average number of installed apps based on smartphone OS looks like this:
- BlackBerry: 10
- iPhone: 37
- Android : 22
- Palm: 14
- Windows Mobile: 13
Nielsen’s survey indicates that the average number of apps that a feature phone user has on his or her device is 10, while the average number of apps a smartphone user has is 22.
This survey also show that Myspace is still popular among teens and LinkedIn is strong in the 25-44 demographic.
Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through “Likes”.
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A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the “Like” feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking to make it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.
The messages that are being used in the link text include, “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE,” “This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!,” “The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School” and “This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana , Check It Out!”
The messages that are being used in the link text include, “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE,” “This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!,” “The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School” and “This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana , Check It Out!”
Facebook to Undergo Judiciary Committee Probe.
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Despite recent efforts to changes to its personal privacy settings interface, Facebook is still under fire for past privacy-related mistakes. This time, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is getting involved.
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, committee chair John Conyers wrote, “We would appreciate a detailed explanation of the information about Facebook users that your company has provided to third parties without the knowledge of the account holders — particularly in circumstances in which the users did not expressly opt for this kind of information sharing.”
Src: [mashable]
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, committee chair John Conyers wrote, “We would appreciate a detailed explanation of the information about Facebook users that your company has provided to third parties without the knowledge of the account holders — particularly in circumstances in which the users did not expressly opt for this kind of information sharing.”
Src: [mashable]
Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is being rapidly phased out.
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According to web analytics company StatCounter, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 is now truly a relic of the past with less than 5% of market share in the U.S. and Europe.
IE 6 was seems to be unfriendly to the many of the developers which led them to find the other alternative.
Now, based on an analysis of 15 billion page views in May 2010, StatCounter’s numbers indicate that IE6 usage in the U.S. has fallen to 4.7% from 11.5% in the last 12 months.
IE 6 was seems to be unfriendly to the many of the developers which led them to find the other alternative.
Now, based on an analysis of 15 billion page views in May 2010, StatCounter’s numbers indicate that IE6 usage in the U.S. has fallen to 4.7% from 11.5% in the last 12 months.
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