According to StatCounter‘s measurements, StumbleUpon has just surpassed Facebook and now delivers more than half of all social media referral traffic in the U.S. StumbleUpon founder and CEO Garrett Camp tweeted the news this afternoon. Facebook achieved this goal in April of 2010, but StumbleUpon was already well on its way. At that time,...
The Next Web Sessions returns with a look at the top headlines from the past week. We’ll also tell you about what apps or sites we’ve found that we can’t live without. We’ll talk about what happens when HP gets out of the hardare business right as Google steps its foot into it. Then...
If you know anything about computers and web browsing, you probably know that websites place small data files called “cookies” on your PC so that they can remember you when you return. Most of us have gotten pretty used to this, but a new strain of cookies has appeared over the past couple of...
Microsoft, in a move to court developers away from the train wreck that is now webOS, is offering a bundle of goodies to any published webOS developer who will now code for the Windows Phone platform. The company had this to say: Brandon Watson, one of the more public members of the Windows Phone...
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. Here’s a take on a cloud-based service you might not have considered (something...
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. Marten Mickos CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, formerly CEO of MySQL AB, echoed a...
Every once in a while you see an invention that seems a long time coming. The Tacit, a hand-mounted system that pings surroundings and transmits distance information to the user, is one of those. While the reliable white cane and occasional accommodations for the blind and vision impaired ameliorate the difficulty of navigating the...
Anyone who’s spent a late night hour or three browsing movie trailers on trailers.apple.com will understand the utility of the Can’t Wait iPhone app. Co-founders Eric Florenzano and Eric Maguire tell me that the app’s closest competitor is trailers.apple.com itself — and that the only way to track the updates on that site is via its...
It is Friday, dear readers, and that means that it’s time to sit down and take a look at the last seven days. This post, which is written every week, is also up for tweaking, so please do send in your comments. We read all of them. As always, we are going to restrict...
One of the most insidious ways that malware scammers infect users’ computers is through fake anti-virus programs. For years Internet denizens have seen pop-ups in their browsers claiming that “your computer is infected, click here to get rid of this virus.” If users clicked, they would download a virus that the scammers would offer...