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Friday, June 20th, 2008Despite getting off to a slow start yesterday, the official release of the Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times (that’s the unofficial tally as of 11:16 AM PT today). Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a new world record! All right, there was no previous [...]
Comscore May Search Data: Google, Yahoo Up; Microsoft Slides
Friday, June 20th, 2008Click image above for a larger view. Comscore has released its May search market share numbers (prior data through April is here).
Key points: Google and Yahoo edged higher in search share to 61.8% and 20.4%, respectively. That’s the first up month for Yahoo this year.
Microsoft dropped from 9.1% to 8.5% for the month. It’s important [...]
Not So Social: Google And Facebook Face-Off At Supernova
Friday, June 20th, 2008Today at the Supernova conference there was a panel about who owns the social graph. The panelists were Kevin Marks from Google, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. The conversation turned very interesting when moderator Tantek Celik pointed out a post by David Recordon that showed how Facebook is blocking [...]
Update: Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
Friday, June 20th, 2008It is not easy being No.2. As we hinted yesterday, Reddit, the news voting site that was bought by Conde Nast in 2006, is making the code behind its site open source. (The code can be found here). That means anyone can now make their own Digg-like site. Not that there has been any [...]
Twitturly Living Up To Its Potential As Great News Source
Friday, June 20th, 2008I wrote about twitturly in April. The service scans Twitter, looks for links that people are talking about then organizes them by popularity on the home page, and the stories then degrade over time. Anyone who uses Digg, TechMeme, Reddit or other news aggregators will feel at home there.
Right now, for example, the page is [...]
Funambol Raises $12.5 Million Series B: AOL Signs Up As Customer
Friday, June 20th, 2008By taking an open-source approach to mobile mail and contact syncing, Funambol is cracking the problem of creating applications across 850 different mobile handsets. The company raised $12.5million in a series B financing led by Nexit Ventures. Castile Ventures and existing investors Walden International and H.I.G Ventures also participated. Funambol previously raised $5 million in [...]
Create Your Own Flash Games At Sims Carnival
Friday, June 20th, 2008EA has launched Sims Carnival, a collection of Flash-based games that can be played, modified, and shared with friends. Users are free to play pre-designed games, or to create their own. To celebrate the launch, Sims Carnival has also opened a “Galactic Game Challenge” that will award the best designer a cash prize.
The site offers [...]
Adobe Breakthrough! Flash Working on the iPhone . . . In The Labs, On An Emulator, Oh Well
Friday, June 20th, 2008From CrunchGear’s Nicholas Deleon:
Adobe already has a version of Flash for the iPhone running on emulation software, and would, fingers crossed, be able to bring that over to the phone itself if Apple allowed it. That’s what Adobe said yesterday at its Q2 conference call. Or:
We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This [...]
It’s Firefox 3 “World Record” Download Day, But I’m Still Waiting
Friday, June 20th, 2008Today’s the big day for the official, no-longer-beta release of the Firefox 3 browser. There is even a campaign to make today, June 17, Download Day and “set a Guinness World record for most downloads in 24 hours.” They are shooting for 5 million. Although, I’m not sure that there was a previous Guinness record [...]
The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized [...]
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