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11.04.10Google’s Obsession With Speed Comes to the Web ServerGoogle has been obsessed with speeding up the web for quite a while now. The company's most recent efforts towards this goal include Google Instant for speeding up search, the Page Speed tool for developers and webmasters and the more low-level SPDY protocol which augments the HTTP standard. Today, Google is also introducing mod_pagespeed, a newmodule for Apache, the open-source Web server that runs most of the world's websites. This new module includes more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that can reduce page load times by up to 50%. Sponsor While most small businesses and Internet users with personal sites don't have access to ...
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08.03.10Twitter Sees Its 20 Billionth Tweet20 billion Tweets later, here we are, people. A Japanese graphic designer who likes baseball and The Doors published the 20 billionth message on Twitter this weekend, according to the number that appeared in the URL for his message. The Guardian's David Batty caught sight of the landmark message, which read, translated into English: "So that means the barrage might come back later all at once." That message was posted on Saturday. More than 160 million more messages have already been Tweeted since then. Sponsor The author of the Tweet with the magical number was quickly told by others that ...
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07.29.10Google Plans To Make $10 Billion A Year From Mobile, One Android User At A TimeWhen a company releases its software for free, how does it plan to make money? If that particular company is Google, the answer is a familar one, advertising. Industry executives and Wall Street analysts are criticising Google for being short-sighted and focusing too intently on online advertising, accusing the search giant of being a “one trick pony”. Google doesn’t have a problem with that label however, even its CEO Eric Schmidt agrees, stating “I think that’s probably true”. Speaking in a recent interview, Schmidt added: “If you’ve got a one-trick pony, you want the one we have. We’re in the ad business, and ...
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07.23.10Foursquare’s iPhone app gets sticky for iOS 4.Earlier this week Foursquare celebrated their 100 millionth check in and moved into new offices. Today if you search for updates to apps on your iPhone, you’ll find Foursquare at the top of the list, adding a whole host of new features aimed at keeping you using Foursquare and never leaving the app. The most notable update is the ability to SMS and email messages to your Foursquare friends without ever having to leave the app. Simply tap on a friend and an email and/or SMS messaging icon will alert you as to what type of message you can send your ...
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07.22.10The coolest video you’ll see today: The State of the InternetVia Jess3 Original title and link for this post: The coolest video you’ll see today: The State of the Internet
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07.22.10Fred Wilson Talks At Geoloco ConferenceFred Wilson is giving the keynote at the Geoloco conference in San Francisco. His fund, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Twitter and Foursquare. He is speaking about the hottest topics in geo, local, and hyper local. Here are my notes: When Fred was a kid, he would sit shotgun with a map and be the navigator – position of power, everyone else sat in the back seat. That experience started his fascination with location and obsession with maps. Now the maps have gone away, and it’s smartphones and gps systems. Profound shift. The data gets exchanged back and forth between mobile device and cloud. Maps are now ...
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12.24.09Siri Co-Founder Gruber Talks Big Think, Small ScreenSiri co-founder and CTO Tom Gruber is excited about the “big think small screen” concept, and he expects to translate that excitement to others when he gives a keynote address at WebMediaBrands’ Web 3.0 conference next month. So, what exactly is the idea about? Roughly, it amounts to a combination of semantic web technology, more bandwidth, and big servers that—thanks to the cloud computing surge—together enable an increasing amount of intelligence in the hands of consumers, and literally so through mobile devices. continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
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12.09.09Gen Y’s Why The Customer Experience Needs Semantic TechnologyGeneration Y is socially fluid, highly connected, mentally fickle, creative and emotionally searching for identities. How’s the enterprise supposed to interact with these individuals – and maybe even oldsters as younger people's attitudes and actions become more mainstream? Maybe semantic and related technologies can help. “GenY is a different beast and you will have to change the ways you interact with them to meet their needs and communicate in a way that resonates with them,” Bruce Temkin, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research, recently commented on a webinar focused on how these millennials are changing the face of customer ...
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11.16.09Voice-twitter: the next killer app?It’s the weekend and I’ve had a couple of days to reflect on my week’s reading. I find myself thinking of an article published in last week’s issue of The Sunday Times about Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs. Something the author mentioned in the article just kept nagging at me and I know I’m on to something, though it’s so laughable I worry that if I don’t articulate it well enough I will forever be known as the Techie Village Idiot. I’m a sucker for a challenge though, so I’ll just throw caution to the wind and risk being ostrasized by ...
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09.23.09Twitter’s Location Aware Platform Going Live “Any Day Now”We’re here at the 140TC Twitter Conference in Los Angeles, and in a developer track session Twitter’s platform lead Alex Payne just indicated that the upcoming Twitter Local functionality will be going live in the API “any day now.” All the hard work is now done, and the platform team is simply waiting for the final go ahead to ship it live. Since developers will need time to actually make use of the new functionality, which allows the passing of latitude and longitude data with a tweet, we might not see services and apps making use of it immediately on day ...
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