http://newestindustry.org Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:56:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en June is one of my favorite months. The sun returns (although in the Boston area there are concerned that it has been replaced by clouds and humidity), the kids get out of school (and get sent to camp), and the outdoor pool opens (and I actually swim in it). In the ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/07/01/browser-wars-june-was-an-interesting-month/ I will have been in the US for a decade as of July 27 2009. The first move saw me take my family 1,000 miles south to the Bay Area and then 3,500 miles east to the Boston area. When I left Canada, I always assumed that my stay in the ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/06/30/canada-home-what-happened-while-i-was-out-of-town/ This week marks a momentous time in the history of the Internet. In the United States, StatCounter reports that for the first three days of the work week (Monday - Friday), Internet Explorer 8 usage is equal to Internet Explorer 6 usage. Tie this to the trend of decreasing Internet Explorer ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/06/17/browser-wars-internet-explorer-8-usage-in-us-now-tied-with-internet-explorer-6/ I have been monitoring this trend for a couple of weeks to see if it remained constant, and it appears to be a real thing. Since the end of May 2009, Internet Explorer 7's browser share in the US has collapsed, with a requisite increase in the use of Firefox ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/06/11/browser-wars-internet-explorer-7-use-collapses-in-the-us/ There will be GrabPERF downtime on May 29-30 2009 as Technorati completes its colocation relocation process. [here] There is no set time for the outage or its length, as the machines have to be physically relocated to the new datacenter, and then integrated into the new network configuration. I will be ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/05/29/grabperf-downtime-may-29-30-2009/ Last Tuesday, I created a Windows 7 RC virtual machine for VMWare Fusion. As a fairly technical user of operating systems and the like, our internal IT department figured that I would be the right person to put this new OS through its paces. Unlike a lot of people who are ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/05/20/a-week-with-windows-7-rc/ Since its GA release on March 19 and its addition to Windows Update in late April, Internet Explorer 8 has been gradually increasing its market share in the US. Based on the current growth pattern in StatCounter's GlobalStats data, it appears that Internet Explorer 8 will overtake Internet Explorer 6 ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/05/11/browser-wars-the-slow-rise-of-internet-explorer-8/ At CNet News today, the article What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6 nicely sums all the reasons that Internet Explorer 6 is still in use in enterprise environments. The dominance of Internet Explorer 6 in the workplace is something I discussed a few days ago, supported by ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/05/02/browser-wars-why-internet-explorer-6-still-exists/ While I was performing my standard Windows Update on my work virtual machine this morning, I wondered if the promised Internet Explorer 8.0 release to Windows Update had been dropped. I switched to my test-bed, vanilla Windows XP virtual machine, ran Windows Update, and PING! Up it came. The masses of ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/04/29/browser-wars-internet-explorer-80-released-on-windows-update/ Internet Explorer 6.0, that infamous dinosaur from the dark ages of 2001, is still with us. And on occasion, I have hinted that this is the result of the biblically-slow pace of change in large corporate IT departments. Well, now I have proof of this. Using data from our good friends at ... http://newestindustry.org/2009/04/27/browser-wars-the-unique-pattern-of-msie-60/