Do you want to know if you should break up or not? Take the test and Bjorn Borg can even send the text message for you…

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Today, both Mac and Windows users can scarf up a beta copy of Safari 4, with many new and desirable features. Here’s a download link for those who are ready to go.

The new browser features:

• Cover Flow — You can browse through your site history or bookmarks the same way you browse album covers in iTunes
• Top Sites — look at renderings of your favorite sites, and open any one of them with a single click
• Full History Search — A clever way to visit sites you have been to in the past. You can type a word or phrase into the history search field and you’ll get a cover flow view of sites that match your criteria
• Nitro Engine — Apple claims JavaScript now executes 30 times faster than IE7 and 3 times faster than Firefox
• Tabs on Top — Allows Safari to have multiple pages open at the same time in a single browser window, and to switch back and forth with a click. The new Safari beta gives you more room at the top of the sceen when in tabbed mode.
• Windows Native Look and Feel — The Windows Safari 4 beta more closely matches the look of other Windows applications and gives access to standard Windows fonts; Apple claims the same performance boost on Windows as in the Mac version

Other features include Full Page Zoom, a ’smart’ address field, a ’smart’ search field, and more robust phishing and malware protection.

Safari 4 beta also includes some improved developer tools. Details on those options can be found here.

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“One year in 40 seconds” is the title of the video below. Eirik Solheim took several pictures with his camera from the same spot for one year. Here is the amazing result..

Read more here

Yes.. Tonight we had our annual pillow fight in San Francisco.. Whoever had his/her Valentine could come and celebrate.. Whoever didn’t have his/her Valentine could come and find a new one! The weather was great and thousands of people came at the event!

Take a look on the video

Google search stats:
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source)

2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily (source)

$110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (source)

24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)

68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source:  keyword tool)

$39.96 - the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords (source:  keyword tool)

1,430,000 - the number of Google results for “Robert Scoble”

136,000 - the number of Google results for “Admiral Ackbar”

Wikipedia stats
2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia

684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year

75,000 - the number of active contributors to Wikipedia

10,000,000 – the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all languages

260 – the number of languages articles have been written in on Wikipedia

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YouTube stats
70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube  (March 2008)

200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)

100,000,000 – number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat from 2006 is the most recent I could locate)

112,486,327 – number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)

2 minutes 46.17 seconds – average length of video

412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)

26.57 - average age of uploader

13 hours – amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

US $1.65 billion in Google stock – amount Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006

$1,000,000 – YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day

Blogosphere stats
133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002

346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)

900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period

1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)

77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs

55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)

81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere

59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years

source

Twitter stats

1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)

3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)

165,414 - number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active

86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)

63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)

Facebook stats
150,000,000 – number of active users

170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook

35 - number of different languages used on Facebook

2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily

100 – number of friends the average user has

700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly

52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook

140 - number of new applications added per day

source

We were expecting something like this.. The WordPress.tv is On Air for all the WP bloggers. Instead of visiting the forum (support) website or reading the hundrends of pages of tutorial, bloggers can now visit the WordPress Tv and watch the videos. For instance, if you want to know how you will create a static front page you can watch this video !

Enjoy!

Yesterday at Macworld Expo, Phill Schiller announced that availability of iLife ‘09. Not a huge surprise, as a few of us guessed we’d see an iLife update today, but it does offer some cool new features.

iPhoto

iPhoto has been updated with two features called “Faces” and “Places.” Faces, as you may have guessed, lets you tag photos by subjects’ faces, similar to what Facebook and Picasa have done. iPhoto makes its best guess as to the identity of a subject based on previous tags and asks for confirmation. Of course, Phil called it “..the best technology we’ve found for face detection.”

Places allows for geotagging of photos. Some cameras and the 3G iPhone will use GPS information to tag photos on longitude and latitude. iPhoto then organizes those photos by location, or “place.” Also, Flickr and Facebook support are built-in. Those without GPS access can retro-tag photos by hand.

Other iPhoto features include enhanced slideshows and travel books.

Source: TUAW

This is a very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired.

This presentation gives a great overview of the company’s overall strategy and the reasons it has become what it is today.

While the majority of our day-to-day searches are easily handled by our favorite search engine, there are always those intensive searches that have you jumping from site to site – or opening a series of tabs – to find a good cross-section of information on a given topic. Even once you’ve established a preferred workflow for this kind of comprehensive searching, it can be time consuming to run through the process.

Wouldn’t it be easier if you could simply enter one query and have it run through a bunch of search sites?

Of course it would. And that’s what makes Search.io so appealing. It’s a meta search engine that searches a variety of sites – grouped by topic – and displays them as tabs to help you find information more quickly and easily.

To use Search.io, simply enter your search term and select your specific area of interest. Topics range from the default “search engines” to “blogs” to “torrents.” There’s even a search for popular “Web 2.0″ sites. And for the more voyeuristic types, there’s a listing of the latest searches.

While some of the tab sets seem to be stretching it a bit – I’m pretty sure the last time I cared about finding information in Alta Vista or Lycos was some time in the last century – the concept has a great deal of potential.

In fact, I’ve already added a couple of the search options to my toolbar – like the people and social bookmarks searches – and I’m going to keep using them to see if they speed my searches. I’m sure that once I’ve been using the service for a while, I’ll find some ways to employ creative queries that will streamline my searching even further.

To test drive tabbed search for yourself, visit Search.io.

Source: ReadWriteWeb

This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. The possible results are two. YES or NO! Check it..

Tomorrow in San Francisco we will not need an umbrella!!!