Blogs

With:

• Bigger video
• Best-ever sound
• better organization of conversations
• …

Download your copy today: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/

So, “ask not what open source can do for the government, but what the government can do for open source!”
More info at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3608

Source: http://buytaert.net/obama-using-drupal

Go Drupal !

Email

• 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
• 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
• 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.
• 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

Websites

• 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
• 31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.

Web servers

• 24.4% – The growth of Apache websites in 2008.
• 13.7% – The growth of IIS websites in 2008.
• 22.2% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2008.
• 336.8% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2008.
• 100.3% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2008.

Domain names

• 77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
• 11.8 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2008.
• 7.2 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2008.
• 174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
• 19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.

Internet users

• 1,463,632,361 – The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).

• 578,538,257 – Internet users in Asia.
• 384,633,765 – Internet users in Europe.
  
• 248,241,969 – Internet users in North America.
• 139,009,209 – Internet users in Latin America/Caribbean.
• 51,065,630 – Internet users in Africa.
• 41,939,200 – Internet users in the Middle East.
• 20,204,331 – Internet users in Oceania/Australia.

Blogs

• 133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).
• 900,000 – The number of new blog posts in a day.
• 329 million – The number of blog posts in 2008.

Images

• 10 billion – Photos hosted by Facebook (October 2008).
• 3 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (November 2008).
• 6.2 billion – Photos hosted by Photobucket (October 2008).

Videos

• 12.7 billion – The number of online videos watched by American Internet users in a month (November 2008).
• 87 – The number of online videos viewed per month per Internet user in USA.
• 34% – The increase in viewing of online video in USA compared to 2007.
• 3.1 – The number of minutes of an average online video.

(and for the security aware):

Malicious software

• 1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
• 468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.

So, you might have paid an overvalued price for the iPhone App "I Am Rich?"

Well, Google always does one better: “I Am Richer” will be available for Android and will be available at 1/5 of the price (only USD$ 200).

More info at: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/android_users_c.html

In case you did not know, you can search all blogs:

Check it out at: http://blogsearch.google.com

Then you can apply some sound best practices, like:

• Make interruptions the exception rather than the rule
• Allocate large chunks of time to individual projects
• Don’t take on too many projects
• Reserve time for self-improvement

Source: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/project-management/?p=364

And then you will learn to:

Given the large success and number of hits on the previous entry on AribaWeb…
Here is how to use their IDE to build apps:

Now, are you ready to start coding again (LP)?

What an OS should look and feel like… Watch out Windows, Get out of the way Mac, here comes Elive!

Download your own LiveCD or USB: http://www.elivecd.org/

"...simply delivering a Windows desktop to a PC in a VMware virtual machine. One differentiator for the product is that it will virtualize one desktop application at a time. But even more ambitious is a product due by midyear, called Workspace Profiles, that aims to free employees from being tied to a particular machine and instead provide a portable desktop workspace that appears the same on a desktop PC, a mobile Linux-based netbook, or a BlackBerry smartphone."

Looks like VMWare w/ ThinApp, AppStream, nSuite and a combination of new enhancements to the existing line of products will make Endpoint an actual reality to solve current IT problems. One drawback, for now, Mac (and *nix) compatibility is not expected for another 12 months.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/server_virtualization/showA...

Based on the trac roadmap, Gallery3 should be Final by April 1st 2009 (hoping that it is not an April Fools joke).
More info available at: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/roadmap