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Where the Boys Are (Reading Tech Blogs, Apparently)
Men outnumber women in the tech industry. This isn't particularly newsworthy, although it continues to be quite disheartening.
Figures released today from web monitoring company Royal Pingdom highlight another repercussion of the skewed gender representation in tech - namely, the overwhelming predominance of male visitors to technology blogs.
Royal Pingdom looked a number of popular tech blogs, including ReadWriteWeb, and examined the ratio of male to female site visitors by using demographics data from Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner.
Major Internet Incidents and Outages of 2010
We do our best to cope with Internet and website outages, which can be incredibly frustrating when they take out major communication channels. When a service goes down, Twitter usually lights up with complaints and questions - well, unless it's Twitter that's down, of course.
So to cap off a year that seemed to have its fair share of major meltdowns, the website monitoring company Royal Pingdom has posted its list of this year's major Internet incidents.
Where in the World is Mobile Web Usage Highest
The future of the web is mobile. However, the web analysts at Royal Pingdom have found that mobile web usage currently is spread unevenly across the world. The geographical areas that are accessing the web via mobile phones at the highest rates today actually aren't Europe or North America.
Based on data from StatCounter for October 2010, Asia and Africa have the highest share of mobile web usage. And as Royal Pingdom quips, "It is a bit ironic that mobile web usage, is relatively speaking, lower in Europe and North America than in much of Asia and Africa. At least when you consider all the attention that Android, iPhone, and smart-phones in general are getting over here."
How Does Your Internet Connection Speed Compare to Users' Worldwide?
With the increasing amount of bandwidth we're all sucking down these days, it's no surprise that we often feel like our Internet speeds just aren't fast enough. But how fast are our connections? And how does one country stack up against another? Royal Pingdom has released some data today, based on information from the CDN provider Akamai that compares connections speeds internationally. The report looks at the "real world speeds" (not just what service providers advertise) for people in the 50 countries with the most Internet users - all told 1.8 billion Internet users.
Report: Google Analytics May Go Dark for Thousands of Sites (Updated)
Royal Pingdom, a site narrowly focused on tracking and providing solutions for server uptime-related issues, released a survey report today, claiming that a full 40% of top sites using Google Analytics are using a javascript tracking module (urchin.js) that might simply stop working later this year. According to the report, 50% of these top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics, and almost half of those are still using the old tracking code.
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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