The best Royal Pingdom posts of 2011
Now that 2011 is coming to an end and the new year is looming, we thought it would be a good time for a quick recap of some of the most interesting posts we’ve put out this year. You may very well have missed some of them, especially if you’re not a regular reader.
The invasion continues – Facebook adoption in top 10 countries
Facebook currently has more than 800 million active users.
Visualizing Internet penetration per country 1991-2010 (animation)
With an estimated 2 billion Internet users as of March 2011, about a third of the world’s population is online. That still leaves almost 5 billion people around the world that are not connected. In other words, there’s a huge potential to get more people connected in the coming years.
Single-page websites may be a dying breed
When visiting a website we usually expect it to have multiple pages. But haven’t you also come across websites with just a single page? In other words, there’s just a homepage and nothing else to click on to.
Alternative Christmas trees for geeks (pictures)
It’s a tradition that some say predates celebrating Christmas. Bringing a real miniature pine tree in to your home at this time of year and putting all kinds of shiny decorations on it, is something that happens in millions of homes around the world.
Disqus crushes other comment systems in Technorati Top 100
Comments from readers is an important part of most blogs out there, and our own is no exception. We still run the default WordPress comment functionality but have been thinking for a while now about installing some kind of third-party comment system. Something like Disqus , Facebook Comments , Livefyre , or IntenseDebate would allow us greater functionality, spam management, moderation capabilities, and more. But which system should we go for?
Apple’s App Store generates 6x the revenue of Android Market in the US
There are presumably more Android phones and devices out there now than there are iPhones (and iPod Touches). However, it seems Android users keep holding their wallets much closer to their chests than iPhone users and iOS users in general. Case in point, according to a new report from Distimo , the App Store for iPhone generates almost 4x as much revenue as Google’s Android Market in the US.
Would you pay $7,260 for a 3 TB drive? Charting HDD and SSD prices over time
HDD or SSD, that is the question.
