Der Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter ist nach der Wachstumsdelle im Herbst zurück in der Wachstumsspur. Im Februar stieg die Zahl der Besucher in Deutschland auf Twitter.com um 18 Prozent gegenüber Januar auf 2,55 Millionen an, hat das Marktforschungsunternehmen Nielsen errechnet. Seit Dezember bedeutet dies einen Anstieg um 40 Prozent, seit April 2009 um gut 160 Prozent. Nicht erfasst sind in diesen Zahlen die Anwender, die Applikationen wie Tweetdeck oder Seesmic nutzen....(read more)

Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third party social networks – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, etc., so if you follow a Lifestream user you’ll see all of the c..   show all text

Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often "So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?" We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now! Today we've added biking directions and extensive bike trail data to Google Maps for the U.S. My team has been keeping close tabs on all the public ..   show all text

Eine Facebook Fanpage gehört ja nun schon lange zu den “Must Haves”. Als Onlineshop Betreiber oder auch als Blogger kann man seine Fanpage aber sogar noch ein wenig aufbohren und zwar mit einem kostenlosen Onlineshop. Facebook macht einen richtig guten Job. Permanent kommen neue Funktionen hinzu, das Layout wird optimiert und neue Anwendungen bereichern jede Fanpage. Jetzt ist es sogar schon möglich den eigenen Onlineshop auf Facebook zu betreiben. Alleine das ist für mich schon eine kleine ..   show all text

Every day, thousands of businesses choose the cloud. More than 2 million businesses have adopted Google Apps over the last three years, eliminating the hassles associated with purchasing, installing and maintaining hardware and software themselves. We've found that when businesses begin to experience the benefits of cloud computing, they want more. We're often asked when we'll offer a wider variety of business applications — from accounting and project management to travel planning and human ..   show all text

The social networking site plans to roll out features next month that will give its 400 million users the option of sharing their location with friends as part of their news feeds.

It's all in the preparation. There's nothing worse than running out of power in a place where there is none. The night before I travelled to Rubona, 35km east of the Rwandan capital Kigali, to observe a pilot project aimed at bringing the World Cup to rural Rwanda, I made sure of three things: - Power: I left every bit of kit I planned to use - the Lumix DMC-FX33 digital camera, iPhone, Sony Ericsson Cybershot phone and the iPod - all plugged into the mains overnight. I planned to be out fo..   show all text

After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public.

Citizen journalism, and with it the rise of alternative media voices, is one of the most exciting possibilities for mobile phones in activism. Read More >> read more

Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.” Yesterday, Andreessen was in New York City and we met up. We got to talking about how media companies are handling the digital disruption of the Internet when he brought up the Cortes analogy. In particu..   show all text

A decade after the dot-com bust, the Internet economy in New York is springing back to life.

Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night - New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down. From Hawkes: "The images of New York were shot on Nikons latest camera, the D3S, using three gyro stabilizing mounts and flown using twin star helicopters. (Eurocopter AS355). We flew from heights of just over 500..   show all text

We've been dying to know more about Microsoft's Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered, we just learned some very interesting information from an extremely trusted source. We're told Courier will function as a "digital journal," and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed. That's a lot ..   show all text

Books in the Age of the iPad Print is dead. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. A collections of thoughts on the future of books in the context of the iPad.

Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of the day than to broadcast their own thoughts.

Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan told us today that this could be "the next chapter" for Google. Last Fall we were told by Google's Brett Slatkin, lead developer on the PubSubHubbub (PuSH) real time syndication protocol, that he hoped Google would some day use PuSH for indexing the web instead of the crawling..   show all text

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