Category: Technology

Netcraft has been tracking the number of web sites on the internet for many years. Every month, they publish their latest numbers. As of May 2012, their chart shows close to 700 million sites (the blue line is the number of unique domains, the red one is sites with unique HTML which excludes placeholder templates…

Congratulations to Om for breaking the Skype-Microsoft news, which must be among the very biggest tech stories ever broken by a blogger. And as Om told me this morning, this is the kind of day when you are glad to be hosted on WordPress.com (GigaOM is a WordPress VIP and is currently seeing record traffic…

My favorite online video app has launched!

John Battelle articulates what makes mobile apps both great and terrible.

After reading a couple of excellent posts about online identity/privacy by Om Malik and John Battelle, I decided to sign up for Rapleaf to see just what they know and track about me. My reactions: – Their data about my location, jobs, age, etc is accurate – Seeing that someone collects that data about me…

Great post by Clay Shirky about what’s happening to newspapers and publishing as we transition to an increasingly digital world. Some choice quotes: With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. During the wrenching transition to print, experiments were only revealed in…

This is just totally fun:

I wonder how AdSense effectiveness will change with their addition of behavioral targeting. This part is particularly smart: And by visiting the new Ads Preferences Manager, users can see what interest categories we think they fall into, or add and remove categories themselves. The Preferences Manager also allows people to opt out of being behaviorally…

Change.gov is putting IntenseDebate to great use.

Robert Scoble shows how various services are causing online conversations to become more real-time and less permanent.

Yahoo’s new open strategy looks promising.

Is this for real? Sounds too good to be true.

Forget MySpace Music, this is the future of music on the web. From Bandcamp’s FAQ: We’re a publishing platform for bands, or, anthropomorphically/arthropodically-speaking, your fifth, fully geeked-out Beatle — the one who keeps your very own website humming and lets you get back to making great music and building your fan base. Here’s a review…

I’ve driven several thousands of miles across the US in the last 4 weeks, much of it aided by a Dash GPS device. Overall, I’m quite happy with it. It’s certainly made our road trip less stressful. The pros: It’s web connected, the killer feature for me has been to be able to send addresses…

As the debate on data portability rages, I’m learning some interesting things: 1. Marc Canter is painting a fence in his backyard with an open data mural. I love that. What a great reflection of his personality and passion and of Silicon Valley as a place. There’s something cool about the collision of the abstract…