Posted by Admin on March 17th, 2010
Facebook is beating Google in the US? Say it ain’t so! According to many Web news source out there today, this happened for the very first time last week.
Here is a little more about the upset:
Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed.
Facebook’s homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.
The "important milestone," as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 percent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009.
Check out more here. So is this the first shot fired across the social networking/web site popularity wars?
Posted by Admin on March 15th, 2010
The web development world can learn a lesson here about keeping developers happy with their platform. On the flip side of the development world, many people are unhappy with Apple and the iPhone development. Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system.
Bray is the co-inventor of the XML Web standard, and most recently worked at Sun Microsystems. In a blog post, he explains that he is drawn to Google in part because he hates the iPhone, or at least its closed and controlling environment from a developer’s perspective.
Read the rest of the story here. It is an interesting insight on what you need to do to keep a developer of any kind, happy.
Posted by Admin on February 2nd, 2010
Looking for a simple way to check your web site’s loading times? By doing so, you might be able to tell if your speed problem is a connection issue, or one caused by your design. If you need a good tool to diagnose your page loading woes, look no further than Pingdom.
How does Pingdom’s page tests work? The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.
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