Filed under: Internet, Google, Microsoft
To some of you, this might be a shock. To the rest of you that prey on poor, unsuspecting girls with webcams... not so surprised. Apparently 14.5% of all online time is spent on MSN Live Messenger -- 14.5% of 27 billion total hours. To put it into perspective, the next biggest service is Facebook at at 5.2% with YouTube coming in third at 4.4% (and Google's biggest slice of the online pie.) One has to wonder if people with Messenger logged in in the background counts towards the total -- I imagine it does. So the totals are probably somewhat skewed -- but in either case, you can find all of the data on the original comScore report. Full story...
Filed under: Utilities
Here's a Windows tip for you, in case you didn't already know it: If you open up an Explorer window and start typing up the first few letters of a folder or filename, selection will immediately jump there.
Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
We've already seen some photo mockups showing a few of the changes that could appear in Firefox 4.
Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps.
Filed under: Photo, Commercial, Imaging Tips, iPhone
Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched.
Filed under: Business, P2P
Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of.
Filed under: Business, News, Microsoft, Social Software
Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for two and a half years now, with Microsoft selling display ads on the social network.
Filed under: News, Adobe, Apple, Analysis
I almost (not quite, but almost) feel bad for Adobe right now.
Filed under: Utilities, Features, Web services
Do you need to know about a new product release the minute it happens? Are you watching Amazon price changes like a hawk? Is your F5 key worn out from overuse? You might want to look into some automatic ways to monitor website changes.
Filed under: Audio, Google, Freeware, Android
Google Listen is a podcast application for Google Android.
Filed under: Google, Mobile
Google already offers a tool that lets you translate text from one language to another and technology that can convert spoken language to text.