According to customer experience analytics company ForeSee, e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail after taking the top spot in 2010. However, Netflix, which had a dismal year, plummeted in customer satisfaction. For the past seven years, Netflix and Amazon have been competing for first place in Foresee’s Index, but...
We’ve written about Asia’s vast tech potential many times, most recently in our review of 2011, and the continent’s scope for growth across mobile, Internet and ecommerce is unprecedented. We Are Social Singapore has released a series of informative presentations which provide a snapshot of the tech and web scene across the region. The...
Almost out of the blue, authorities in Thailand announced that they will introduce free public WiFi to the country’s capital city Bangkok today, according to a report from the Bangkok Post. The surprise introduction marks the start of an roll-out, which is being carried out by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which the government...
That’s a good thing because Google+ missed the starting gun. And its ”invite only” launch strategy saw all its disconnect users flailing independently. But in the long run that might not matter much, because Google+ doesn’t need a critical mass or tons of engagement. It needs signups so it can get its identity layer under...
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Google+ now has more than 62 million users, according to Paul Allen, Ancestry.com founder and unofficial traffic analyst for Google’s social network. That’s not 62 million active users, though — a point that everyone covering these numbers seems to have missed. It’s just the number of total users. And specifically, it’s the number of...
One of my major problems while using the web is having too many browser tabs open. At the end of the day I’ll have 10 tabs open on Google Chrome and an additional 5-10 on Firefox. Not only does this slow my machine down, it’s annoying to keep track of. Why do I keep...
Rapid price spikes are affecting buyers on the Amazon Web Services Spot Instances market, where users are now bidding extremely high prices for scarce compute capacity. These price spikes are new, and they call into question assumptions that many users have made about how the auctioning of computing resources works. The first report of...
Eric Bidelman, an engineer on Google’s Chrome team, has released a JavaScript wrapper library for the HTML5 Filesystem API. Called filer.js, the library is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License. If Bidelman’s name is familiar, it’s because he wrote the book on the HTML5 Filesystem API, literally. Bidelman also worked on the...
Geekli.st, the social network for developers and engineers, has launched a cool integration with code repository site GitHub. The new feature allows users to send a new achievement to the Geekli.st site along with the superstar code that you just checked in. If you’ve pushed something awesome, it’s worth telling people about. This integration makes...