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JavaScript Passes Java in Popularity in Open Source Knowledge Base
Apr 5th
Programming language adoption is tough to determine, but always of interest. We’ve looked at a couple attempts to measure it before: a Github language survey and the TIOBE Index. Now RedMonk has published some data from code management vendor Black Duck.
Black Duck has a knowledge base containing a huge amount of open source code. It gave RedMonk data regarding how many lines of each programming language can be found in its knowledge base. It’s not a perfect representation of language usage, but it provides some insight into what open source developers are doing.
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JavaScript saw big growth in 2010, unsurprisingly. In fact, it surpassed Java, which dropped off. C is still the most popular, and actually had a small bump between 2009 and 2010.
RedMonk’s Stephen O’Grady concludes:
With the caveat, then, that the above data is simply what’s measurable by Black Duck and cannot therefore be considered representative in a strict statistical sense of developers worldwide, it may be time for you to look at JavaScript. And maybe node.js, while you’re at it.
You can find our collection of resources for learning JavaScript here and for learning Node.js here.
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‘Google Offers’ Launched As LivingSocial Passes Groupon
Jan 24th
Last week was a hectic one for the popular coupon sites. Google announced their clone of Groupon – Google Offers – and LivingSocial passed Groupon as the most visited site in the niche.
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Facebook Passes Yahoo in Unique Visitors
Dec 27th
We’ve all known that Facebook is on the rise; it’s status as the site with the most page views has had it dubbed by some as “Ruler of the Internet.” While this must be tempered with the fact that Google is second only if you’re counting visits exclusively to the main page, Facebook remains a site with explosive growth. It’s not precisely shocking to learn, then, that Facebook has surpassed Yahoo! as the site with the third largest amount of unique visitors.
As reported by Geek.com, Yahoo! has slid from the number three to number four position according to comScore’s most recent study. The study put November 2010 numbers at 630 million unique visitors for Yahoo! and 648 million for Facebook. There’s still quite a way to go to beat Microsoft, who sits at 869 million, and Google, who got about 970 million in November.
It should be noted that what’s being evaluated here is “unique visitors” — or unique instances of a site being opened, as judged by the time and IP addresses accessing the Facebook/Yahoo! sites. When looking at “page views,” or total number of pages opened, regardless of the visitor who opened them, Facebook surpassed Yahoo! long ago.
Some analysts are siting this as an effect of the layoff of over 600 Yahoo! employees earlier in the month, but that’s not actually the case. Rather, what these figures show is the motivation for a restructuring of company focus: Yahoo! needs to shed the dead weight so it can compete on all fronts.
This time also saw Facebook passing two additional benchmarks. As of the end of 2010, Facebook is the largest provider of video traffic for YouTube and other Google outlets; and Facebook has bloomed to $41.2 billion in enterprise value, moving it up on the internet food chain, past both Yahoo! and eBay.
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Venezuela Passes Anti-Free Speech Law: This Week in Online Tyranny
Dec 24th
Venezuela makes online speech a minefield. Since the time of the Romans, the transition from republic to one-man rule has always been eased with the co-option of laws.
On December 20, the Hugo Chávez-controlled Venezuelan congress passed, and he signed, a law that devolves all power over online content to the executive. The congress coming in soon is much less agreeable to Chávez, hence the speed at which this was hurried through.
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Mozambique requires mobile phone users to register SIM cards. In the wake of protests over elections in September (organized by text messages), the government issued a “Ministerial decree” that required everyone to register their mobile phones within a month. Only a small percentage of users have done so, so the deadline has been extended to January 7.
UK culture minister to ask for power to block porno. Like every spasm of filtering, this too is justified in the immortal words of Reverend Lovejoy’s wife Helen, “Won’t someone please think about the children?!” As long as they don’t think about Orwell.
Over 50% of apps steal user info. A Wall Street Journal investigation of “101 popular smartphone apps…showed that 56 transmitted the phone’s unique device ID to other companies without users’ awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone’s location in some way. Five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders.”
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If the spirit of Christ is real in any palpable way, and I don’t imagine that it is, it’s in the souls and the blood of the thousands of people trying to keep faith in some hellish pit somewhere, confined for speaking up, speaking out or mouthing off. Try to find a shred of fellow feeling for them some time between your celebrations and your eructations. Or whatever. Shut up.
Merry Christmas to all my monsters.
SIM card photo by Warrenski | queen photo by Andrew Stawarz | scam photo by Jean Poirrier
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Santa Claus Passes Everest, Reindeer Show No Sign of Tiring According to NORAD Santa Tracker
Dec 24th
Santa is almost halfway round the world and just passed one of the coolest parts of his journey, according to NORAD Tracks Santa, a high tech aerospace project created 55 years ago.
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FCC Passes Net Neutrality, Everyone Delighted
Dec 21st
If, as some say, a deal can only be called successful when everyone involved leaves the table unsatisfied, then the net neutrality rules approved at a meeting this morning by the Federal Communications Commission may be a success.
Under the rules, two years in the making, no provider may block another company’s traffic, however, it may offer “faster” access to companies willing to pay more.
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Here are the “six key principles” powering the order.
1) Transparency. Consumers and innovators have a right to know the basic performance characteristics of their Internet access and how their network is being managed.
2) No Blocking. A right to send and receive lawful traffic. This prohibits blocking of lawful content, apps, services, and the connection of non-harmful devices to the network
3) Level Playing Field. A right to a level playing field. A ban on unreasonable discrimination. No approval for so-called “pay for priority” arrangements involving fast lanes for some companies but not others.
4) Network Management. An allowance for broadband providers to engage in reasonable network management. These rules don’t forbid providers from offering subscribers tiers of service or charging based on bandwidth consumed.
5) Mobile. Broadly applicable rules requiring transparency for mobile broadband providers, and prohibiting them from blocking websites and certain competitive applications.
6) Vigilance. Creation of an Open Internet Advisory Committee to assist the Commission in monitoring the state of Internet openness and the effects of our rules.
Politico notes the new rules ensure that “(t)raditional wired broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate against any lawful traffic, though no such rule will be put in place for wireless providers.”
On the one hand, those who believe companies have a right to govern how they offer their products to consumers may find this freedom to have been abridged by a government too eager to make new rules. On the other hand are those who see the two-tiered pricing structure as a defacto way to block unwanted traffic by increasing the efficiency of its competitors or simply by making it so slow in relationship to “premium” traffic that it cannot stay in business.
Both the concept of unreasonableness and the wireless exception may be seen by some as loopholes big enough to drive a truck through.
In April a lower court put aside an FCC ruling based on an “informal” attempt to promote net neutrality. It was hoped by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (and the Democratic commissioners who voted with him) that this would be a light touch, net neutral for the most part and enforceable.
Regardless, it seems unlikely that a minute will pass after the first FCC action on this order before either the access or the content people file their first motions.
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FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules, Many Object
Dec 21st
The FCC passed its Net Neutrality regulations today and have already been met with protest and threats of legally challenging them have started, Mashable reported.
“While the Open Internet Order does prevent fixed broadband providers from blocking access to sites and applications, the rules are different for wireless providers and not as clear as advocates would like,” Mashable stated.
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Google Seeing Red Star Fade In China: Alibaba Passes It For Ad Share
Dec 10th
Google’s ambivalence about China seems to be taking its toll on the company’s market share and revenues. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that part-Yahoo-owned online marketplace Alibaba now occupies the number two position in the country in terms of advertising revenue share: In a…
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Other Coupon/Local Deal Sites Bought, Groupon Passes On Google Historic $6 Billion Offer
Dec 6th
The interest by Google has seen a scramble of people entering the space and other companies in the general space being acquired; what TheStreet is calling the Groupon Halo Effect.
“On the heels of the announcement that Amazon(AMZN_) is investing $175 million in Groupon’s #2, LivingSocial.com, and that eBay(EBAY_) is buying Milo.com, local advertising stocks were red hot Friday. Google, Amazon and eBay are stoking the interest in companies that focus on marketing small businesses,” TheStreet reported.
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