Image: Michael Seto Our IGNITION: Future Of Media conference is now two weeks away. It’s at the Time Warner Center in New York on November 30-December 1. We have a whole bunch of awesome speakers, including a few who just signed on this week. For example: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO Mark Cuban, owner, NBA...
Dan Frommer Why Apple’s iPhone market share actually matters iPhone 4 and 3GS were best-selling U.S. phones in Q3, despite age and slowdown How Sony lost its way, starting with software This post originally appeared at SplatF. For more like it, follow @SplatF on Twitter. While Google Android’s share of the smartphone market soars,...
Speaking at the Techonomy conference today, Sean Parker warns about the downside of the explosion of seed-stage startups.”Little startups are ridiculously overfunded,” he say. “The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.” The problem in...
Twitter was recently successful in obtaining the domain name Twiter.com after filing a dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and has apparently grown an appetite for more. Last week, the company filed a complaint for the transfer of Twittter.com (with a extra ‘t’) and now we’ve noticed that they’re also gunning for...
In a study released today, Edgerank discovered new insights into the value of Facebook comments and likes. Every time a post gets liked, it receives approximately 3.1 clicks. For every comment, a post will receive 14.678 clicks, which is 4.73 times or almost 5 times as many clicks as a like. Edgerank also examined...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. Red Hat’s PaaS, OpenShift, is getting an upgrade that...
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In the opinion of some, Amazon is slowly earning a place at the High Table of Technology, right next to Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Its hardware is selling at rates that were unimaginable just a few years ago, and its AWS product powers more of the Internet than you might expect. A recent Wired...
Foursquare’s website has just undergone a whole host of improvements designed to make discovering content easier. The new redesign will hopefully allow it to “expand and launch new user-facing features more easily and quickly”, and is slated to go live over the next couple of days. Foursquare Redesign Highlights A new and large map...
While Apple’s iPad falls into the mobile device category, “mobile” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s being used while on the go. In fact, new research conducted by McKinsey Company found that most iPads never leave their owner’s house, and are used most in the living room, for many of the things previously done on a...
Trey Ratcliff is best known for his widely renowned photography work — his blog Stuck in Customs is massively popular (every day the site’s photos receive more than 150,000 views) and and the HDR (high dynamic range) photo techniques he helped to popularize are now practically ubiquitous. Ratcliff is now setting his sights on...