There is no doubt that open source movement is taking over the world, 72% web sites run on open source server Apache, wordpress the open source blogging platform based on PHP/MYSQL is the #1 blogging platform in the world. Major sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google on open source software such as PHP, Python, Ruby and Java.
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Inside Facebook released few days ago its Inside Facebook Gold report, with data about membership and usage across the number 1 social networking site in the world Facebook.
The report reveals the shift of Facebook population of more than 500 million users, from being dominated by US citizens and English speaking people to more of an internation...
Bit.ly the popular link shortening service have posted a blog post about @clickabit saying that "Clickabit is a curated list of some of the surprising and delightful things that are trending in the bit.ly data stream."
So is this Bit.ly's new Twitter account for trending links? If so it would be helpful to see the most popular/trending post...
Internet security company AVG just released a study that looks at the safest and most dangerous places to be hit hit by a malicious computer attack or virus.
According to the study the most dangerous countries for web surfers is Turkey with an average of 1 in every 10 users face a threat to be hit online, followed by Russia 1 in every 15...
The launch of facebook locations has taken lots of buzz, the service allows users to check in using their touch phones into different location, know where their friends are and get information about places and discover new ones. Facebook places competes head to head with startups such as NY based Foursquare, texas based Gowalla and Face2face...
2 allegations hit Whistleblower website Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange in Sweden, the first one involves rape but was dropped only after 6 hours.
Wikileaks got famous after leaking 90,000 documents involves the war in Afghanistan around a month ago, and before that releasing video footage of a U.S army Apache Helicopter killing journalist...
There have been some confusion among some our followers on Twitter and facebook about our tweets since we recently started to share our readers' comments on ArabCrunch English and Arabic.
Yes, we started to tweet our readers’ comments on ArabCrunch via our Twitter account, but that does not mean we necessarily agree with them, it is j...
ComScore the leading company for measuring web stats released today its July 2010 qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.
Americans conducted more than 16.6 billion total core search queries in July with Google Sites leading with 10.3 billion searches growing 1% from June 2010, followed by Yahoo! Sites growing at 8% with 3.4 billion...
WE are big fans of Twitter at ArabCrunch.NET that is one of the reasons that we enabled users to login to ArabCrunch.NET via their Twitter account. We've been using it since may day one of its launch.
Twitter keep advancing and adding features, and just now it released new social context features as Sean Garrett describes them.
The new feature...
Seems Facebook is not stopping in being the number 1 destination of all things social. As blogs are considered part of the social media universe, looks like Facebook wants to have a strong stand in that arena too. leveraging the social graph it has.
After launching facebook Live, today Facebook just announced upgrading Facebook notes with the fo...
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