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Daily Archives: July 15, 2011
Poll: What Services Do You Use for In-App Purchases?
In-app purchases for upgrades, virtual goods and more, are an increasingly popular way for developers to monetize mobile applications, as opposed to making the app a paid download. This is especially true for Android, where paid apps don’t perform as well. In addition to the programs provided by platform makers like Apple and Google,...
Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs
Online backup to an off-site service has a lot to recommend it. You don’t have to buy, provision or manage hardware. You only pay for the capacity you use. And if something happens to your computer or premises, you can still get to your data (assuming the online backup hasn’t been impacted by the...
Free Mini Book: Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners is a recent free mini e-book by by Addy Osmani. In addition to covering a several useful JavaScript design patterns, Osmani covers what design patterns are, what makes a good pattern, the structure of a pattern and anti-patterns. This is a great resource for a beginner. Article source:...
Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion.
Yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page dropped some big Google+ numbers during his opening remarks for Google’s earnings call. The biggest one sounded like Google+’s 10 million users were already sharing 1 billion items per day. That sounds insane for a network that is only a couple of weeks old and isn’t yet fully public....
5 years ago today Twitter launched to the public
5 years ago, on July 15th, 2006, Twitter, then called Twittr, opened to the public. Twttr was described as “a new mobile service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS.” The microblogging platform has grown into something founders Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams could never have imagined. At...
Twitter Saw 600K Signups Yesterday, It Took More Than 16 Months To Reach Its First 600K
Twitter is tweeting out milestones for its 5th birthday; So far we’ve got that there were 224 Tweets sent on July 15, 2006 (it’s first day) and that now users send that many Tweets in less than a tenth of a second. Twitter also saw more than 600,000 signups yesterday — for comparison it...
Hotmail Will Force You To Come Up With A Safe Password (MSFT)
Image: Dylan Love See Also: Look At This Beautiful Resume Modeled After Windows Phone 7 This Guy Just Scored A Bunch Of Job Offers From Microsoft Thanks To His Windows Phone 7 Resume Microsoft Is Developing Software That Will Save You Cash On Your Gadgets If your email password is “password,” let’s be honest...
Microsoft now owns Microsoft-Sony.com and Sony-Microsoft.com, say what?
Now this is an interesting development. Apparently as of June 14th, Microsoft now owns the domains Microsoft-Sony.com and Sony-Microsoft.com, reports gaming site Zoknowsgaming. The domain registrations were discovered by a member of the NeoGAF forums, V_Ben, who offered them without comment besides, “who knows. Just, who knows. Probably WP7 phones.” We’ve verified the two...
Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
Tired of shallow conversation? Want to have dinner with someone who’s comfortable discussing time travel and multiple dimensions? Check out Brainiac Dating. On the site, members earn badges for solving puzzles and playing games. Lawrence Chernin, the CEO and founder of Brainiac Dating, who runs the site on his own, says he started the site to...