Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
29 Apr 2009While 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 people who blindly do what [...]
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
17 Apr 2009In the previous installment in this series, I looked at the browser share in North America. Across the water in Europe, the browser distribution metrics show the unique flavor that this continent brings to this fluid arena.
In Europe, MSIE7 and Firefox 3 are effectively tied for the lead as the most dominant browser, followed distantly [...]
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
13 Apr 2009Tracking browser penetration and market share has become a new obsession with me. With 2009 shaping up to be the year of the browser container, the choices that people make will affect the development of Web technologies for the next few years.
So far, the only new player to come out of the gate as a [...]
In: Life| Skype| Technology
13 Dec 2006Ok Skype hounds, this is is. Skype, in a move to get us North Americans (sorry Mexico) to use more Skype, is offering us unlimited calling to Canadian and American numbers (landlines and mobile) for all of 2007 for the ridiculously low price of $14.95 (offer valid until January 31, 2007).
Get it! Like you need [...]
My Google Alerts today picked up a post from a former colleague of mine, commenting on another post from the Yahoo! Interface blog.
I had some problems following the stream in the Performance Matters post, so I thought I would this post to clear up my thoughts.
A technical note up front: Using a waterfall chart that [...]
Here in North America, we have a little over a month left in our free Skype-2-North America phone service. (here)
I’m addicted. I will pay whatever they want me to so I can keep calling US phone numbers from one application.
And I can’t figure out why more people in the US and Canada still don’t use [...]
Since August of this year, I have been exploring the insides of my mind in greater detail. If you read this blog regularly, you are pretty likely aware of the fluctuations in my mood, and the rationality of my behaviour.
If you get the chance, find and watch The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive hosted [...]
This makes me sad.
A South Caroline businessman is making an attempt to purchase the Hudson’s Bay Company. [here]
The company, lovingly referred to as the Bay, was incorporated in 1670 and once owned more real estate in North America, in fact “all the land in the Hudson Bay watershed – a mass that amounts to about [...]
In: GrabPERF
11 Oct 2005The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:
Level3/Cogent Peering Dispute affected all results this week
Week of October 04-10, 2005
TEST RESULT SUCCESS [...]
In: smp
3 Oct 2005The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:
Findory blog search added to index
Google standard search takes top spot with 100% availability
Week of September 26 – October 03, 2005
TEST [...]