News Twitter Embraces Its Role in TV That social media is having an impact on television is hardly breaking news at this point. For a few years, Twitter and other social networks have served as a sort of digital, real-time water cooler where viewers convene and discuss TV shows as they're broadcast. This behavior has emerged more or less organically. Just as with major sporting… Social John Paul Titlow View comments
Analysis Who Are The Top Tech Lobbying Firms? An article in USA Today this week got me interested in how much the tech firms are paying to lobby Congress. There are a few places you can easily research this information, and to no surprise the usual suspects rise to the top in terms of annual lobbying expenditures. Enterprise David Strom View comments
Business Spain Smartphone Usage According to the Google-sponsored research site ourmobileplanet.com, Spain is leading the way on smartphone adoption in Europe. Spanish smartphone penetration has reached 33%, outpacing Great Britain with 30% and France with 27%. Spaniards are big multi-taskers, too. 50% of Spanish smartphone users actively browse the Web while listening to music… Mobile Jon Mitchell View comments
Interviews Scala: Java Scaled Up The inherent problem with procedural programming languages is that they're not designed for parallel processing. A common language's typical approach to multithreading is to bolt on an asynchronous library, and have developers use it to write individual callback functions that may run concurrently and signal back when they're done. You might have… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Analysis CPAN Turns Sweet 0x10: How it Changed the World It seems like the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has been around forever. Nope, just for 0x10, er, 16 years. Today marks the 16th anniversary of the announcement to comp.lang.perl.announce, which was the culmination of about two years of work by a number of Perl contributors like Jarkko Hietaniemi, Tom Christiansen, Randal Schwartz… Hack Joe Brockmeier View comments