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?
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.
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Remember, when streaming your web page over a live webcast, don’t stream yourself streaming yourself, while you are streaming yourself and well, roll the clip…
This services as a hillarious reminder of what not to do when recording a live webcast, that much is for sure. (from makeuseof.com)
There are a lot of WordPress themes out there, but very few are good enough to be considered better than the premium themes you can purchase. However, with that said I have found five themes I would definitely consider better than all the other WordPress themes out there – and they are totally free!
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