Thursday, 30 June 2011
Wikileaks Spoofs Mastercard Ad In Video Plea For Donations [Video]
LinkedIn Is Sending Us Far More Referral Traffic Than Twitter.com Now
If I asked you which of the major social sites you thought sent us the most traffic, you might think it was Twitter. After all, the TechCrunch Twitter account�has over 1.7 million followers. When you compare this to the (just under) 250,000 fans our Facebook TechCrunch page has, it should be no contest, right? Wrong. The truth is that if this were�October of last year, you would have been right in thinking that Twitter was our top referrer in terms of social websites. But since that time, Facebook has far surpassed Twitter in terms of traffic coming our way each month. In fact, Facebook.com is now sends nearly double the traffic that Twitter.com does.�This is probably due to the fact that last November, we added Elin, our excellent community manager, who curates and engages with people from our feed on Facebook. I also suspect it has to do with the rise of the Like button. Ever since it was released last year, Facebook has been steadily referring more readers our way. But this info, while interesting, isn't all that surprising. After all, Facebook is by far the largest social network in the world. With over 750 million active users, it still dwarfs Twitter. The really surprising thing is that Twitter isn't even our number two social referrer in terms of websites anymore. As of this month, that distinction goes to LinkedIn. And it's not even close.
Roku 2 HD struts its stuff in the wild along with a new remote (Update: new comparison pics)
Update: Another anonymous tipster has just sent over this picture of one of the new units next to a Roku XD that gives a good impression of how tiny the new units really are, and another showing the surround sound option. They also noted the new hardware shows improved picture quality, however at this stage the UI isn't different and there aren't any new games available yet.
[Thanks, Geraldine]
Roku 2 HD struts its stuff in the wild along with a new remote (Update: new comparison pics) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Smartphone Sales Beating Dumbphone Sales For the First Time [Phones]
Naturally, the Oldest Eye Ever Found Creeps Me Out [Science]
Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests
Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla's numbers could be significantly wrong -- and if they're not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses to tabulate an add-ons final score should definitely be made more transparent.
In the first set of tests, Palant shows that FlashGot's position in the top 10 is probably due to a fault in Mozilla's testing setup, and that add-ons can perform very differently depending on which operating system they're being tested on. In the second analysis, Palant uncovers an irregularity that doesn't seem to have an obvious cause -- but it could be due to an I/O bottleneck on Mozilla's test machines. Basically, even though performance testing of Read It Later is disabled because of a bug, it still (somehow!) manages to record a 14% slow-down on Windows 7.
Palant concludes both analyses by scolding Mozilla for going public with the performance data before its testing methods had been confirmed accurate. It definitely looks like Mozilla has been more than a little reckless, considering the importance of Firefox's add-on ecosystem.
Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla's new add-on performance tests originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Deal of the Day ? 25% Off Dell UltraSharp 27? 2560 X 1440 (WQHD) LCD Monitor
Today?s LogicBUY deal is the Dell UltraSharp U2711 LCD monitor for $824.25.� Features: WQHD 2560 X 1440 resolution IPS panel, 6ms gray-to-gray response time, 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 8-in-1 card reader, capacitive-touch switches.� 1 USB 2.0 upstream port and 4 USB 2.0 downstream ports, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort, two DVI, component and composite inputs. $1099 ? [...]
Naturally, the Oldest Eye Ever Found Creeps Me Out [Science]
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