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Election coverage sets Web record; Facebook releases data

updated: Facebook releases Election Night traffic data. see below Right around the time that Barack Obama was being declared the winner of Tuesday's historic election, an Internet usage record was being broken. At the peak, there were more than 8.5 million visitors per minute visiting news sites...

Tags: Web, Facebook, Election Day, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Just what's on Michael Phelps' iPod anyway?

Just what's on Michael Phelps' iPod anyway?Just what's on Michael Phelps' iPod anyway?That is just sad that people would obsess over whats on his iPod. If I was him I'd say "porn, lots and lots of porn". You'd think he would actually listen to some good music.Already endorsed...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Michael Phelps, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

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Resumes in a Web 2.0 world

Resumes in a Web 2.0 worldRE: Resumes in a Web 2.0 worldYeah so great idea to have your Resume include the "social networking" component...2 things I see wrong here: 1: Most companies put a block on all social networking/blog websites. (yes most IT Admi'sn can un-block them, but why?) 2:...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Channel management, Blogging, Social Sites, Craig, contract comment, Web 2.0 World, Facebook, Web 2.0, job, Web

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Everyone has a secret life but will Google find it?

Everyone has a secret life but will Google find it?Better still ?"I have even better advice: be very active on the Internet ? anything bad will be diluted into the long tail of you."I should prefer "never do anything bad and publish only high quality items online" ...... especially good...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., secret life

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

48 hours with a Dell Mini 9 netbook (the keyboard and battery)

48 hours with a Dell Mini 9 netbook the keyboard and batteryHow will you install OS X on itis that not.... illegal? (You had better hope Apple's lawyers do not read your blog)Shift KeyI have an ASUS Eee PC, and the right shift key looks to be in the same...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Mini 9 Netbook, Dell Mini 9, tech blogger, netbook, keyboard, battery

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail storesWhat's Microsoft going to sell?Windows 7. Office. Anything else? Oh. Mice. Anything else?Well.....by the time they set up displays of their eleventeen versions of Windows, there won't be much room left for anything else, will there?Maybe they could use one...

Tags: Retail, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., own family, retail company

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre device

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre devicewow, good for Palmcan't wait to check one out. About time they got back in the game. Stereo bluetooth? Flash? How's the web browsing?Resolution is a showstopper for me320 * 480 is inexcusable in an age where HTC...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Palm Inc., mobile, operating system, game

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Facebook usage skyrockets from election activity

While I still maintain that "Obama won the election - not social media," Facebook has just reported in some its usage statistics for leading up to and through election day. According to Facebook: Preliminary data shows an increase of more than 20 percent in activity on the...

Tags: Facebook, John McCain, Election Day, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Oracle OpenWorld: Looking for some excitement.

If you're going to kick off a conference these days - that is, when the economy is tanking and people are wondering if the doom-and-gloom is headed for the tech sector - it's probably best to give folks something to buzz about. At Oracle OpenWorld, company president...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Research & Development, Java Development Tools, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Investment, Finance, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Let's meet at Oracle OpenWorld!

I'm in San Francisco attending Oracle OpenWorld, the company's annual user conference. I'd love to meet readers of this blog to discuss your experiences with IT projects. Shoot me an email or get in touch with Twitter. With 43,000 attendees, this event is a big deal indeed....

Tags: Tent, Oracle Open World, Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-09-22

What's on Obama's iPod?

On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...

Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

How the world watched the Olympics online

How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...

Tags: CBC, Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall

The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age. Can...

Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Video, Athlete, Camera, Wall, Sport, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Fifteen most buzzed-about athletes

Athlete Sport Country 1.Michael Phelps Swimming United States 2.Yao Ming Basketball China 3.Kobe Bryant Basketball United States 4.LeBron James Basketball United States 5.Dara Torres Swimming United States 6.Shawn Johnson Gymnastics United States 7.Laure Manaudou Swimming France...

Tags: Athlete, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?Yes! Use tax dollars to slow them down with litigation!Clearly, the creative and now well known way to compete with Intel is to slow them down. The tick tock treadmill combine with their process technology might is arguably insurmountable going toe to toe...

Tags: Government, Taxes, Free trade, Litigation, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?By itself, the HTC will not kill much of anything, but, we might see thesame effect that limited the Mac to an niche. Android phones will be available from lots of different vendors, and carriers.RE: Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?[i]Do...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone-killer, Apple iPhone, killer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?

Sure, we've heard about our share of iPhone killers including the Blackberry Thunder, Bold/9000, Samsung Instinct, Verizon Voyager, the list goes on. There are so many of them that I created a special category for them here at The Apple Core. If anything has a chance at catching the iPhone...

Tags: FCC, Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Federal Government, Cellular Phones, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-18

News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai’s thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...

Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Just what's on Michael Phelps' iPod anyway?

I don't know about you but I've been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week. One thing that piqued my interested was the world's greatest athlete's choice in music player. In practically every shot of him at the pool...

Tags: Summer Olympics, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-15