Daily Archives: July 6, 2011

Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004

July 6, 2011
Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004

SoundScan, Nielsen’s report that tracks point-of-purchase music sales across real and digital sources, was released today, and at long last contains a few rays of hope for the beleaguered music industry. The midyear sales data shows that, among other things, for the first time since 2004, album sales actually increased in the first half...

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Hacker Poll: What’s Most Important In a PaaS?

July 6, 2011
Hacker Poll: What’s Most Important In a PaaS?

We asked you recently whether you want to use a platform-as-a-service, and it turns out most of you either want to or already do. But outside of ReadWriteWeb,

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Facebook will build more data centers

July 6, 2011
Facebook will build more data centers

If you think people are over-sharing on the Internet today, brace yourself. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, we haven’t seen anything yet. As the sharing booms, so will the online data. In order to make sense of that data, one would need a lot more computational power. And Facebook plans to build more...

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Google+ for Business coming “later this year,” shutting down non-user profiles

July 6, 2011

Nick Gar Nick, we have confirmation from Google that existing profiles belonging to companies will be removed, whether or not they get into the experiment. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/JlEDDvfVdak/

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Twitter Engineer Talks About the Company’s Migration from Ruby to Scala and Java

July 6, 2011

Peter Biddle, Intel, explains the recent announcements around MeeGo, pointing to the new MeeGo SDK now available and the specific focus on developing for tablet PCs. He talks about the sales opportunities for developers and refers to 15 store partnerships due to be announced soon. He references the work that has taken place that...

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Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Google+ Won’t Beat Facebook (Yet) (GOOG)

July 6, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Google+ Won’t Beat Facebook (Yet) (GOOG)

Image: Screenshot See Also: Google+ Hangouts Will Be Hard For Facebook To Top Next For Facebook And Skype: Calls To Outside Phones Steve Ballmer Was As Excited About Facebook-Skype As Anyone At today’s introduction of Facebook video chat, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t want to appear too cocky about Google+, the search giant’s recently launched competitor....

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Google Plus Accepting Accounts Again (Sometimes)

July 6, 2011
Google Plus Accepting Accounts Again (Sometimes)

It may not stay this way for long, we can’t say, but if you visit Google.com/plus right now you should be able to create an account on Google’s new social network if you haven’t yet. I just created a second one. Several members of our team were able to, with multiple test accounts. You...

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Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Law Of Social Sharing [Video]

July 6, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Law Of Social Sharing [Video]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg punctuated his “awesome” announcement today by revealing that users are now publicly sharing around 4 billion “things” (status updates, images, etc) on Facebook a day. Zuckerberg explained that in accordance with Facebook’s data, social sharing functions exponentially, so that the amount of stuff you shared today is twice the amount...

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Finding Videos on connected TVs is personal

July 6, 2011
Finding Videos on connected TVs is personal

The number of content sources between linear TV, video-on-demand, DVR and streaming video services is increasing, but as choice grows, finding, browsing and navigating video is becoming a big problem on connected TVs. As a result of this, consumer electronics manufacturers are seeking ways to break down silos and create universal search applications that...

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TimeSpan for iPhone is a beautiful way to count down to milestones

July 6, 2011
TimeSpan for iPhone is a beautiful way to count down to milestones

Somewhere between ToDo lists and calendar appointments lies TimeSpan. You can think of it as a way to keep track of important periods of time, reminders with a tail, whatever, but basically the app allows you to mark off segments of time when the beginning and end are important. A common use for this...

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