Treat your geek on Valentine’s Day (competition)
With Valentine’s Day approaching – it’s happening February 14, you know – we want to give everyone the opportunity to be a little extra lovie-dovie and cheesy to the geek in their life. Now we know that many of you will flock to ThinkGeek or some other geeky store to pick up some more or less well thought-out Valentine’s gifts, but that’s not good enough for us. With just a simple tweet, you can win a gift certificate to be spent on flowers and chocolates for your geek this Valentine.
Weekend must-read articles #1
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h This week we bring you a collection of articles on JavaScript performance, use of Node.js, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and more. This week’s suggested reading JavaScript Performance : An article by Steve Souder about his speech at the San Francisco JavaScript Meetup, which focused on script loading and async snippets
Apple celebrates iPad’s second birthday
On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs took to the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
New era in supercomputing is born – China’s homegrown Sunway Bluelight is operational
China has come a long way fast in the world of supercomputers and now occupies the number two and number four spots on the Top 500 list . Now the country has taken another major step forward by being only the third country in the world, after Japan and the USA, to launch a supercomputer made out of processors made in the country. Just a few days ago, the Sunway Bluelight, a supercomputer that uses processors designed and built in China, was put into operation
Pingdom Podcast #4
Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff. In this show we covered the following topics: Start 0:10 Welcome Updates on the progress of the Carbon Twitter app for Windows Phone . It was rejected for the fourth time but they are now getting some help from Microsoft
Is social login the answer to annoying and disruptive user registrations?
When you arrive at a site that asks you to register for an account before you can access certain content or functionality, does that drive you away? A recent research report shows that a site that requires users to register does just that, drives users away
The burger and the QR code – a tale of lunch and disappointment
Have you ever scanned a QR code? If you have, did you get a discount on something? Did it reveal some cool information?
What if smartphones were as popular in China as they are in the USA?
We have pointed out China’s amazing potential before on this blog, and we have also made detailed comparisons between China and the USA. But with over 1.3 billion people, China has “only” 77 million smartphones, which, per capita, is far behind many other countries around the world, including the USA
