mobile Report on Mobile Web Use Displays Apple/Android Usability Issues, Successes According to a report released today from mobile advertising company AdMob, smartphones accounted for nearly three times more use than their relative market share last month. The report also found that relative use of both mobile-specific websites and HTML sites was highest on Apple and Android devices. Results were based on user-generated… Mobile Jolie O'Dell View comments
Real World Obama Inauguration: Check Out These Real-Time Visualizations The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, but they also aim to answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama's Inauguration Day, when did they arrive, where did… Richard MacManus View comments
Cloud Computing G.ho.st Virtual Computing Adds API for Web-Based Apps A fabulous, ambitious virtual operating system, G.ho.st launched at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco two years ago. The browser-based computers allow users to leave their desktop, files, and applications in the Amazon-hosted cloud and access them from just about any place or device with an internet connection. G.ho.st, which already implements… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Apple Apple to Increase Online Activity with Southeastern Server Farm According to a recent post from Data Center Knowledge, Apple is rumored to be planning a massive server facility costing as much as $1 billion. Both North Carolina and Virginia have or are hurrying to instate tax incentives for projects such as this one, which will cost around twice as much as what Google or Microsoft would typically invest in a… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Twitter Filtering Twitter's Noise with Mixero As many of us know, the usefulness of Twitter lies in the user's ability to find, refine, and engage with a network. Most of the invalid complaints about the service revolve around signal-to-noise ratios; of course you, Naysayer #583, don't want to know what I ate for breakfast. Neither does anyone else. This is called "noise," and it's what… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments