Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn’t helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we’re seeing the proliferation of the “tl;dr” (too...
Daily Archives: July 15, 2011
… On Twitter
Philosophically there is no more arbitrary milestone then the passage of time, each year we celebrate the passing of another year, see what I mean? That’s why Twitter’s second five-year anniversary milestones of 350 billion tweets delivered and 600K users signing up daily fall little flat (Twitter celebrated its first five year anniversary —...
Poll: Did VMware Screw-Up With Its New Pricing Model?
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. One of the various announcements coming out of VMware this week is change...
LinkedIn outbox like a broken record? Tout has an app for that
Whether we like it our not, email takes up a significant portion of every workday. Most email outboxes take after the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray’s character wakes up day after day to find it is February 2nd all over again. In the same way, many white-collar workers end up sending slight...
Trimit lets you cram large bits of text easily into status updates
Trimit is a clever app for the iPhone, and soon a bookmarklet for your browser, that allows you to take large bits of text that you write or import from a link and shrink them down to fit into a social network update. The concept is clear and applies across the board to many...
Google testing layout with infinite scrolling, new ‘site preview’
They’ve been doing this with image searches for a while. Also been doing the fixed position with the Gmail button bar for a couple weeks now. I guess they’re slowly testing things out across their services. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/DkkCNjxaSZc/
Las Vegas: Home to Carrot Top and the ‘world’s greenest’ data center?
Initially, I was excited to see that someone else sees Las Vegas as the green data center hotspot it should be. Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge reported Friday that a company called pair Networks is building a new data center in Las Vegas that runs entirely off the grid thanks to natural gas,...
Why video chat? Why not?
Last weekend, I finally had my eureka moment around mobile video chat. It’s gonna be big, perhaps as big as 29.6 billion video calls made in 2015 as one of our analysts reported last year (sub req’d) and perhaps even bigger. So to all the naysayers who think video chat is uncomfortable, hear me...
Microsoft Might Dump Twitter From Bing Search Results (MSFT, GOOG)
See Also: Larry Page Sounded Like A True CEO Today Where Is Google Apps On Larry Page’s Priority List? Coming Soon: Special Facebook Editions Of News Sites Google canceled its real-time search feature earlier this month after failing to renew its deal with Twitter to include feed data in search results. Now, Microsoft may...
Google+: One Hell Of A Trojan Horse
There’s no shortage of Google+ in the air these days. Overeager pundits and soothsayers are hoping to be among the most visible voices on the net saying which service or company it’s going to topple, why it’s going to fail or succeed, and why it should or shouldn’t be more like this or that....