| How People Share Photos On Twitter Today [Study] Twitter is getting into the photo-sharing business. This is a natural extension to the Twitter product and its stated goal of giving users a consistent user experience across all of its clients. But, how will this affect other photo sharing services that have dominated the space in the Twitter ecosystem? Social media research company Sysomos looked at all the tweets from May 30th to see what services people were using. Of all tweets that day, 14.9% contained a link. Sysomos found that 1.25% of tweets contained a link to a photo sharing service, or about 1/12th of all links shared. That translates into 2.125 million tweets were pictures from third party services. It is just one day of Twitter day, but probably pretty indicative of day-to-day trends. What third party services were the most popular?
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.CO Domains Hit the One Million Milestone Domain registration operator .CO Internet announced today that the company has registered the one millionth .CO domain name, less than a year after launching in July 2010. .CO Internet thanks Overstock, Amazon and Twitter (among others) for the rapid growth. Overstock internationally rebranded its operation O.CO and the domain name has been featured across Web and Internet advertising, giving the .CO domain great visibility. The millionth .CO domain was registered at GoDaddy, which .CO Internet says is the largest retailer of .CO domain names globally.
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Microsoft Brings Touchscreen to PCs & Laptops to Challenge Apple - But Will it Work? Today at the D9 conference, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its Windows operating system. Code-named Windows 8, in a surprise move Microsoft is incorporating touchscreen technology into the Windows UI. Windows 8 will be used across a wide range of computing devices - PCs, laptops, tablets and more. One OS for all of those devices. This runs counter to Apple's philosophy, which has separate OS's for its desktop / laptops (Mac OS X) and tablets / mobile phones (iOS).
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TechCrunch is Wrong About Mobile Startup Quipster A mobile location startup called Quipster launched today and TechCrunch panned it. In fact, author Leena Rao may have panned an entire sector, starting out her review with the sentence "Do we really need another mobile check-in app?" Rao went on to criticize Quipster for a shortage of differentiation. I think she's wrong about that; I think Quipster is a very interesting product with some important differentiation that points toward the future of mobile social media. What Quipster deserves to be slammed for is having a terrible launch marketing strategy.
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InVision Looks Like a Web Designer's Dream Come True Creation of an attractive and compelling web app prototype is no small task, but a new startup called InVision offers a framework to do so that looks easy, fast and like a real pleasure to use. The service lets designers drop image files into its web interface, then create clickable hot-spots on each page. The next page each spot links-to is chosen from a drop down menu of images uploaded and the end result is a stitched-together series of pages that can be shared publicly with a single URL and commented on. It looks really nice and is priced from free for a single small project through $75 per month for up to 25 simultaneous projects with unlimited collaborators. I saw one error in the account creation flow (which the company has now fixed), but otherwise the service appears to work well as promised.
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iSwifter Enables iPad Users to Play Flash-Based Games Despite numerous pronouncements about the death of Flash, there are still plenty of games and videos that require it, much to the frustration of anyone using an iOS device to try to access those websites. But with the release of a new app available today, iSwifter will bring Flash to the iPad so that users can play Flash-based social games and MMOs. The app itself is free, and after a 7-day free trial, will require a monthly subscription fee of $4.99.
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Report on Mideast Pro-Gov Hackers: This Week in Online Tyranny Report on the "Syrian Electronic Army." Helmi Norman, a research at Citizen Lab and Research Affiliate at the Berkman Center, has released a report entitled, "The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army." The report covers the "increased contestation in cyberspace among regime sympathizers, governments, and opposition movements" during the ongoing Arab Spring. It uses Syria, one of the countries where protests are ongoing, as a case study.
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Google Apps to Only Support the Latest Versions of Major Browsers Starting August 1, Google Apps will only support functionality for the newest versions of the major Web browsers. Google says that such as desktop Gmail notifications and drag-and-drop file upload in Google Docs "require advanced browsers that support HTML5." The move fits within Google's plan to bring all computer-based functionality to the Web, with its Chrome browser and operating system the tip of the spear.
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Twitter Announces Better Search, Photo Sharing Twitter has just announced some photo news, as rumors circulating over the Memorial Day holiday weekend hinted it would. The big reveal isn't exactly a new photo-sharing or photo-storage service - Twitter will not be hosting the photos you Tweet now. But that doesn't mean that today's announcement is irrelevant or unimportant. Today's announcement actually has two part: one dealing with search and one dealing with photos. It also involves two new partners for the company: Firefox and Photobucket.
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Oracle Donates OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation Oracle announced today that it will contribute the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation, where the free office productivity suite will become part of Apache's incubator program. The announcement comes after a rocky year for OpenOffice, which was largely abandoned by Oracle and turned over to the community, many of whom in turn forked the project to LibreOffice and created The Document Foundation.
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