The answer may, or may not, surprise you. Let’s just say the U.S. average Internet speed doesn’t even rank in the top ten - ouch! Which country does it best, and more, in the infographic below.
The home page of your website is like a first interview for a new job, except you’re dealing with potential customers. Making a good first impression is imperative, but if you say too much — or not enough — then you’ve potentially ruined a business relationship, as people often visit websites before visiting, calling or e-mailing. If your home page is confusing, they aren’t likely to peruse further. They might even believe your entire business operates in a confusing, disordered way.
File this under very cool. Digg, a content consumption website akin to the early days of the web, that eventually fell apart and failed while similar sites like Reddit took off, is offering up a better solution to the Google Reader massive fail today.
Pictured inset is my Google Reader account. I have many many subscriptions, and thousands of updates daily for Reader. I can’t tell you how much I love, enjoy, and utilize Google Reader every day. That is why I am so disappointed, saddened, upset and every negative emotion I can think of, that Google is shutting down Reader.
I am sure most are familiar with VH1 Roc Docs, which is a series of documentaries that show on the VH1 channel. And I can’t wait for Downloaded, which is a documentary on the rise, and fall, of Napster.
Just a few days ago Code.org released a video with several world famous people, who all code or have coded in the past such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas), Chris Bosh (Miami Heat) promoting Code.org’s initiative that everyone should have the chance to learn how to code.
Well, that didn’t take long. Thank you Internet, you are truly the best thing ever. In case you missed it, there was a big-ass meteor that struck Earth earlier today in Russia. It’s a big deal. But leave it up to the Internet to make fun of it. Kudos.
Did you know that every minute of every day Facebook users share over 684 thousand pieces of content, or that Google has over 2 million search queries? That is a s-load of data being generated and shuffled about on the web. The data ins’t slowing either, and as Internet becomes the staple of society and social media continuing to fuel data consumption, there are no signs that data generation will slow anytime soon.
I came across a post earlier that is way cool. With a simple insert of the text/html Data URI into the browser address bar, you can turn the Chrome browser into a full-on text editor with bells and whistles. The best parts are that you can save it as a bookmarklet, so anytime in the future you want to turn your browser into a text editor, you can with one click.
Over the weekend Twitter revealed that last week they were hacked, and that only a “very small percentage” of users were affected by this hack. Well, I don’t call 250,000 users very small, but since the user base is so large to Twitter this was a good spin to make it seem insignificant.
Sometimes when I get the itch to, I like to create things on the Internet. Sometimes they are useless, useful, serves a purpose only for me, or can be for everyone. Most recently, I worked on a new project using Tumblr to hack together a site that tracks the up and down time of all your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others.
A popular function on the Tumblr Dashboard, or on many websites now for that matter, is a Back to Top button that you can click after scrolling down that will smoothly take you back up to the top of the page. If you want this for your Tumblr (or website), this is how you do it.
Are you on Twitter? If you are, please follow @davidshares if you’re interested in anything Tech or Internet related with a mix of other fun stuff too. Don’t worry, #teamfollowback is in full effect.
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It’s been a minute since I have talked about Google+. Not much since summer has been going on with Google’s social network. They are making minor changes here and there, but as time has gone on I have seen less and less from the network. Activity such as re-shares have gone down, comments have gone down, and the amount of people that have “circled” me has slowed down.
On the web there has always been one constant that drives content: Photos. Images are one of the largest and most important components to the web, dating back to the early days of scanning photos you have taken with your camera so you can upload it to the web to share.
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