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Report: 71% of Internet Users Run Latest Version of Their Browsers. Do You?
Web apps that rely on features that only modern browsers can offer are becoming a standard feature on the Internet. Sadly, though, the fact that a lot of users don't regularly upgrade their browsers (or that their IT departments don't allow them to upgrade) complicates matters greatly for those developers who want to use the latest and greatest features of modern browser technologies like HTML5. The latest data from Pingdom and StatCounter, however, notes that a surprisingly large number of users (71%) already run the latest official versions of their browser.
Pingdom Now Offers Free Website Monitoring
Over the last few years, Pingdom has established itself as a well-regarded uptime monitoring service, but until now, its services were only available to paying customers. Today, however, Pingdom launched a free version of its service. The free service offers all the features of Pingdom's paid accounts, though users are limited to monitoring just one website or server. This free account also comes with up to 20 SMS alerts per months, which is a nice perk, given that you probably want to know that your site or server is down as soon as possible.
Social Network Downtime in 2008: LinkedIn Up - Twitter Down
According to a new report (PDF) from uptime monitoring service Pingdom, Facebook and MySpace, the two largest players in the social networking market, had very little downtime in 2008. Twitter, whose iconic Fail Whale adorned the service far too often at the beginning of the year, got its act together and was only down for 12 minutes in December. LinkedIn, on the other hand, saw an increased rate of outages in the course of the year.
Two-Way Web joins Web 2.0 Workgroup - spicy noodles celebration follows
The Web 2.0 Workgroup has expanded to 4 blogs (and more to come!), with the addition of Dave Winer's Two-Way Web blog. This is awesome news, because the Two-Way Web site was a defining influence on me when I first started blogging.
Dave was around at the TechCrunch house later in the day and then we all went out for spicy noodles, a famous Scripting News dinner. And boy were those spicy noodles nice! My Silicon Valley initiation is now complete :-) Here's a picture of all the Web 2.0 Workgroup members, plus Gabe from memeorandum, at Jing Jing:
From left to right: Gabe, Dave, me, Mike, Fred
Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity?
I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock is only useful to the blog crowd and doesn't have a viable business model. Bart from Flock disagrees, saying in the comments that they do have a plan to make money and the market will decide. Then I went and read Kevin Burton's post, entitled Dot Bomb All Over Again?. Kevin blames "tech reliance on Venture Capital" for what he thinks is too much hype and too little value. Om Malik specifically references YouTube, a video-sharing service that got $5 million in funding, and says the "Web 2.0 funding frenzy is in full effect."
Ben Barren (in between subtle mocking of my paper-based millionaire status) calls all of this an "emerging land of absurdity where a live prototype that can be replicated in 90 days, that has no business model or revenue is considered a business."
So what's my opinion on all this? Well I'm right in the middle of Silicon Valley as I write this post. I've had a great time over here and I've felt lots of energy and enthusiasm from all the Web people I've met here. I've seen a Flock employee sleeping on the floor of the garage-office Flock occupies in Palo Alto, in mid-afternoon, due to overwork no doubt. People are putting in a lot of effort to build new Web-based businesses. It's OK to be slightly skeptical about the long-term value, but I have to say I still think it's a land of opportunity rather than absurdity. Admittedly I'm a pretty naive person when it comes down to it - or maybe just happy (as the Nirvana song goes).
OK so there's a lot of hype. So the VCs are throwing money around. So get to work. Build something Web-based that mainstream people will need and want. Now's the time to do it.
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