Technically Speaking

  • Posted: March 21st 2010

    Real-time Web

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    On average, 600 messages are posted to Twitter per second. Thousands of video feeds are streamed live using sites like Qik or Ustream every hour. In the year since its launch, people have checked in their current location on FourSquare over 15.5 million times. With Smartphone sales and social network usage continuing to rise, the amount of current data being pumped into the web is going to increase exponentially over the next few years. There’s no question that real-time is the future of the w...

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  • Posted: March 16th 2010

    Android OS

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    Slick touchscreen smartphones are undeniably the cool gadget du jour and for a while the only real option for us Americans was to get an iPhone. Recently however a number of competitors have sprung up, directly targeting the few gripes users have with the Apples juggernaut, including a whole line of phones featuring Google's Android operating system....

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  • Posted: February 10th 2010

    Google Buzz: Twitter 2.0?

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    Yesterday Google launched a new service called Google Buzz. On the surface, it seems to be made using the same recipe as other twitter competitors: mix short status updates and a timeline view with advanced features like picture uploading & geo-location. Integrate with Twitter so that posts on your service can by synched with them, and make a big announcement like you just reinvented the internet. While Buzz certainly has some cool features, it fails to capture the simplicity that made twitt...

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  • Posted: February 5th 2010

    3D HDTV

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    With the enormous success of Avatar in theaters, 3D entertainment is on everyone's mind. Last week at the Consumer...

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